New Jersey Nightly News; New Jersey Nightly News Episode from 08/23/1978 6:30 pm

Oh. New Jersey night with Rebecca Schauble in Trenton and Clayton Vaughn Good evening. In the news tonight the two former Jersey City officials remain mom on a missing minion and will stay in jail as a result. So New Jersey papers are trying to cash in on the New York newspaper strike. And we'll show you what a typical shoplifter looks like and why she does it like getting her back up. And sports Babalon reports on the group that wants the football Giants to change their name. And on a closer look we'll go diving on a sunken wreck off the Jersey coast. Two former Jersey City politicians got their prison time cut down today but they may not get out from behind

bars until they explain the matter of the missing million dollars. One time Jersey City Mayor Thomas Whalen and former City Council President Thomas Flaherty got their 15 year prison terms for shaking down contractors and they've done more than seven years on that went on in Florida are trying to get paroled now. And today a judge reduced their sentences to 10 years. But the government wants what's left of the one point two million maybe more that they got an extortion money. They say they've spent it spent it all on lawyers fees and family support but the government says there may be more. Now it's up to the parole board. Still no decision today on whether the New York Times will be let off the legal hook in Bergen County Times staff Attorney Ross Lewis says the material the Times has turned over to the court. Is everything the newspaper had in its files on the Dr. axe murder case. The lawyer handling the contempt charge Floyd Abrams asked of the court now drop the contempt of court charges that still stand. But Supreme Court judges that are trying to wind up the matter under advisement. The Times attorneys hope to get a decision later this week. Defense attorneys for Dr. Murray just got out of

it are asking the court to continued all the times in contempt for refusing to order reporter Martin Farber to turn over his notes on the case. Talks were officially suspended this afternoon in the two week old New York newspaper strike. A federal mediator says there has been no movement whatsoever. That news is good news however for publishers or a New Jersey for the most part those publishers are making money because of the strike. They hope to boost ad rates of the strike drags on for so long that their circulation goes up. Jeffrey all reports thanks the presses are working overtime but many New Jersey dailies Well most of the papers we surveyed are trying to make any inroads in New York. They've increased circulation in New Jersey to satisfy residents. We really. Restructure your day. The Bergen Record the Morristown Daily Record and the Asbury Park Press reports circulation of at least 10 percent advertising sales overall So we agree most of the New Jersey dailies have reported similar circulation.

Advertising again a New York newspaper strike began. New Jersey's largest paper the Newark Star-Ledger doesn't report any increase in circulation and had no comment on its rejoice or sales. I put the ledger and all the other New Jersey papers whole permanently. Jerseyites regularly review. Paper. But could it happen. Will people go back to reading your posts to see your stance. I don't know. You're a legend. In Newark. I'm Jeffrey hole. A woman convicted of assaulting her daughter's high school gym teacher has been sentenced to four years in jail by a county judge Judge her even though it was the woman's first offense to set an example so that similar school violence incidents don't happen. The beating occurred when the woman summoned to the school to discuss her daughter's have attacked the gym teacher hitting her in the head. The teacher had

been trying to subdue the daughter who at one point during the conversation apparently punched the vice principal. The woman plans to appeal her sentence. There are a few were high school graduates in New Jersey this year but more of them are going on to college. The department of labor and industry reports that lower birth rates now mean there are fewer 17 and 18 year olds in the state. The department also reports that of those who do graduate more than half 62 percent go on to higher education. Shoplifting in New Jersey supermarkets is on the increase according to a survey released this week by an industry trade magazine. The average shoplifter in a New Jersey supermarket is a woman in the middle income bracket. How does shoplifters do it and why. Reporter Michael Norman found out. What you're seeing is the classic rip off stage for us by employees of the New Jersey Food Council. The supermarkets Association 56 percent of all shoplifters in supermarkets are women. Their target health and beauty products. Most of these

people aren't professional crocs. They simply give them to a momentary impulse for larceny. Like many supermarkets This one has an elaborate security system. Cameras two way mirrors and warning signs. But this system really catches a crook. It's designed more as a deterrent. The supermarket magazine also reported that the FBI checkout clerks is up interest rate creation. The clerk works the rip off in concert with a friend. She rings up the cheap items in slow stride expensive once a clerk and helps steal $80 worth of groceries for about $30. Just going. What's the effect of shoplifting and worker rip offs the federal responsible for example for the loss of just 22 hours a week. 52 weeks a year. That could well be enough to cost an average supermarket in New Jersey. One week's net profits the store just has to make it up somewhere and has it make it up. It's only through changes in prices and changes in price structures higher

prices all die off. The majority of shoplifters are never caught so they don't pay the price for their crimes. You do. In Ewing Township I'm Michael Norman Port Authority officials and lawmakers today toured a 250 acres site and Elizabeth the local officials hope will be turned into an industrial park. Governor burn tomorrow is to sign into law a bill which permits the authority to build industrial parks. Originally the bill authorized development of the parks only in Newark and Jersey City but it was amended in the legislature to include any urban aid city in the port district. And there are 11 such cities including Elizabeth the amendment's sponsor Assemblyman Thomas Devereux and claims Elizabeth will be the first site chosen. The site is already in the possession of the authority and the reverend says it would be ideal for an auto assembly plant. However authority Industrial Development Director New York Montanas says site selection will have to wait for a master plan which will analyze all potential locations have a master plan.

Then we can get specific such as someone suggest the development of this property when we get specific. That's when we have to come back to the municipality and no shovel of Earth has turned on a service agreement between the municipality and the port authority on exactly what the arrangement is between us and. The potential tenant. Now despite the bid by Elizabeth officials of New York and Jersey City believe that they are still first in line. It may soon be possible to fly from New York to the west coast for $99 one way nonstop no frills. The Civil Aeronautics Board law judge today recommended that World Airways a California based charter airline be allowed to provide scheduled service between Newark or Baltimore and Los Angeles or Oakland for $99. Current one way fares are about 220. There is a 30 day waiting period now for others to comment on the judge's recommendation before the CAIB itself can act on. There's still a problem about the licensing of cocktail waitresses to work at Atlantic City casinos. It surfaced again this week when more than a dozen out-of-work and unlicensed waitresses complained to a legislative committee that the situation is so bad that

some women are moving to the Atlantic City area and then have to go on the welfare rolls. They didn't get any immediate relief but casino law enforcement officials indicated they're considering loosening up on the regulations. Rebecca. The assembly Oversight Committee which oversees programs of other administrative agencies says students aren't getting their fair share from the Department of higher education. Specifically the committee says the department failed to let thousands of veterans know of a tuition aid program. The program was designed for 20000 veterans but only half that number apply for the money. The committee also says the 25 New Jersey students attending the Pennsylvania College of Optometry did not get the hundred thousand dollars in special funds promised them by the legislature. The committee says they want some answers from the Higher Education Department. The State Board of Medical Examiners met with New Jersey nurse midwives again today to try once again to agree on rules governing the practice of midwifery. They didn't succeed Mariama Rosso has a report from that meeting.

More than 200 babies have been born in the single would cliffs birthing clinic since it first opened two years ago. Most of them were delivered by nurse midwives. The popularity of this clinic reflects the growing interest in it with her in New Jersey. But as that interest has grown so was the demand for rules to regulate a midwife's practice. The right of Medical Examiners first proposed regulations for nurse midwives in April. Those controversial rules have been redrafted three times since then and midwives still aren't happy. For one thing the rules which shut down birthing clinics like this one because nurse midwives would be far from delivering babies outside of hospitals. Midwives also object to a provision requiring women to undergo a doctor's exam in the beginning and near the end of their pregnancies even if a midwife finds nothing abnormal. At today's post of Medical Examiners meeting the nurse midwife said the doctors on the board are treating them like second class medical practitioners.

I do not feel good second rate care and it is any less care. I think that medication is normal and I examined her and I determine her as normal. She's normal and I don't find physicians finding any abnormalities in one decision when I call them you will know when I'm home will really go through. The real thing. The medical examiners and the midwives don't seem to be anywhere near agreement on the regulations and the midwives say if they don't get satisfaction they may take their case to court. In Newark I Mariama Rosso. A Greek oil tanker loaded with 11 and a half million gallons of crude oil ran again ground off the coast of Cape May this morning. The tanker was unloaded of its cargo without any spillage and when high tide came this afternoon the tanker was were floated like a fine of the going about going to other drive capturing rescuing that baby beluga whales off the Jersey Shore far from its home which is the Arctic. Oil was first spotted a couple of weeks ago and attempts were made

then to get it into a net in an aquarium where it could be protected from things like boat motors killer whales sharks and thrill seeking hard boners. Scientists are understandably worried about the whale survival to the point that they're not saying where it is. When they tried to net it the first time the whale slipped away after they got a noose over its head and now it's staying away from the boat. Now if they can just teach it to stay away from sharks. A name change for the football Giants. That and the rest of the Garden State Sports News next when the New Jersey nightly news continues. Here's the weather forecast for New Jersey. It will be fair tonight with temperatures from 62 to 65 degrees in the south and from 65 to 68 degrees in the north. Tomorrow some clouds and a chance of rain in the north. High temperatures from 78 to 82 degrees it'll remain fair and warm in the south with highs from 87 to 90 degrees. So much cooler at the shore with highs from 78 to 82 degrees. Ocean temperature will be about 73

degrees with visibility five miles or more. The outlook for Friday cloudy and cool with a chance of rain clouds in as Ford brings the latest I want to go. Happening right in your living room every Monday evening at 8:00. Sorry afternoon for David's interviews with sports personalities. We got that if you want to learn how to play sports. We can show you what you want to know the latest development is in sports medicine we can tell you was provide you with provocative sports information you'll find nowhere else. I declare I was. Join me on that CNN Sports Mondays at 8:00 Saturdays at 4:00 here on the New Jersey Public Television. Good evening. The Giants have only one exhibition game remaining before the regular season begins that final tune up come Saturday night at Giants Stadium against San Diego this afternoon at the stadium Giants coach John McVeigh met the press to talk about that upcoming game with San Diego and about last week's game against Pittsburgh. In that one the Giants beat the Steelers 5:47 largely on the strength of the 78 yard

touchdown play. The Giants are now 2 and 1 in the preseason and according to coach McVeigh the team is right on schedule. Well I think you had a. Good pre-season. Camp way come along well I think we've been proved in two areas that we felt we had to have real strong proven off of line our defensive secondary. I think we've had a decent camp and I think we're on schedule. We're anxious to play. We're anxious to get at it I think our guys are looking forward to the season and I know I am in that final preseason game with San Diego is coming up Saturday night and well Coach McVeigh was holding court in Giants Stadium this afternoon a group called Con George was holding its annual meeting in West Orange Conn. George is the committee of New Jerseyites to officially rename the team. Conn. George would like to see the Giants and for that matter the Cosmo's preface their nicknames with two words. New Jersey Conn. George is especially trying to convince Giants owner Wellington Merritt to change the name of his team Tony Zarella was the president of con Georget.

The Giants are going to join with us and promote the positive image in New Jersey. I think that it's going to take some time for America to understand and recognize that New Jersey does have the economic base to support this team and that once that realization comes about I think that you're going to see the New York City the New York teams that are now called New York join with us and recognize New Jersey and be identified as New Jersey. The Giants are still officially known as The New York football Giants. They claim heritage and tradition as reasons for not becoming the New Jersey Giants. Terry Bledsoe is the team's assistant director of operations. Are. Fans dating back to the Yankee Stadium days have been very faithful to us but of course you know that. We come to jersey we we have a great many more seats than we owe you for. And New Jersey has been very good. We want to be good in New Jersey too which maybe is all the more reason to be the New Jersey joins because I'm going to.

Well if you if you ignore the heritage sure perhaps but we don't think you should as a real low end Bledsoe were interviewed by New Jersey public television sports director Dick Landis who emceed today's conjurers luncheon tonight at Giants Stadium the cosmos and the Portland Timbers play game number two of their playoff series on Friday night in Portland the cosmos won Game 1 of that series one to nothing. The only goal coming off the foot of Dennis tour very early in the second half. A win tonight in the cosmos will advance the league championship game on Sunday. It will be in Giants Stadium against the American Conference champion either Tampa Bay or Fort Lauderdale should the cosmos lose tonight's game that will be even the series at one game apiece. The 30 minute sudden death overtime would then be immediately played to the side a win or lose money or sell out of close to 70000 are expected tonight. The Cosmos by the way are just about injury free Jack Graham will be starting in the cosmos gold will be trying to shut out Portland once again. And of course tomorrow night we'll have full highlights of tonight's cosmos Portland game. And that's sports

for tonight Rebecca. When journalistic principles and personal financial gain both lead a reporter to defy a court it's not simply a case of freedom of the press. That's the subject of our Sound Off commentary tonight from John McLaughlin columnist with The New Jersey edition of The New York Daily News and a contributing reporter for us. Myron Farber the New York Times reporter whose stories resulted in the murder indictment of Dr. Mariano to salvation is in jail. As probably where you ought to be if there is one basic rule in the newspaper business is this. Once you agree to protect the identity of a source you keep that pledge. Jail or no jail. The trial judge one of every note every file every scrap of paper the farmer had on the case and I say to me the former and its eyes were right in not agreeing to go along with that kind of fishing expedition. The recent hearing in the works Federal Judge Frederick P. Lacy laws into what tirade. It was our race he said because he found out the farmer was working on a book deal even before just

some of it was indicted and it to be for is already part of the thirty seven thousand dollars in advance. As a former the author is a different animal than Farmer the reporter. He says farmers protecting not only sources but potential world that is a very very harsh charge. But you would have to say the farmer as Fort Hood after all waited until the trial was over before he started hustling as fuck. That way all the fire statements he's been making about standing up for the rights of the people will run a little truer. She went overboard in asking for for touching the First Amendment with dirty hands. That's a presumption. The judge doesn't know whether his hands dirty. But all things considered I think it's fair to say that farmer does have an embarrassing case of ring around the collar. John McLaughlin. Join the celebration on festival 78

from Tennessee. The Grand Old Opry the greatest country music attraction for the first time on national TV. The brand the country music and I think this is a sellout. But you got the best seat in the house. Watch it Saturday at 8:00. The Jersey Public Television. The fates of Jacques Cousteau and other undersea explorers have brought home to millions the adventures and constant discoveries to be made on the ocean floor. When the average person uses such excursions and comfort in front of his television set he usually thinks of the waters of the Caribbean BGN or those exotic reefs but Clayton recently found there are opportunities for adventurous New Jerseyans much closer to home in a day's outing with a hearty band of divers off our shores just like this report. The timeless tracks off New Jersey's 137 mile coastline. Hard to imagine.

But the bottom one of these normally placid waters is littered with the remains of an estimated three to four thousand shipwrecks there over the centuries by storm privateers miscalculations of the wrecks many as yet visited by modern scuba divers remain an irresistible lure to the growing diving fraternity. Early one morning I met John Larson who spends most of his week running a small company in Sayreville which makes injection moles for the plastics industry. But on weekends and whenever he can get away from his job John is aboard a 65 foot boat. People adventurers. Operating out of the fishing port of Brielle deep adventures is available to train divers for excursions off shore to the site of the wrecks such a trip even for one day involves the marshalling of considerable expensive equipment and expertise. The divers bring along their own equipment for the expertise they depend on Captain John Larson.

He has been diving on wrecks off the Jersey coast for 20 years and in that time has visited over 200 of the deep adventures in its specialized gear. The weekend divers can't get to the sunken hoax. We had a long trip out to the wreck chosen for this day's dive and I spent the time talking with Nick a lawyer an US diver from Baltimore who specializes in underwater photography. The objective was the gulf freighter the tanker sunk by a German U-boat in 1942 about 9 miles east northeast of the bar to get them out using more ran a depth sounder precise location of the wreck was pinpointed after about a two hour run out of Brielle. Now each diver was more or less on his own dawning and checking out the rear which will be responsible for a safety during the dive. One aspect of this is carefully calculating the time available for each dive.

Since the Gulf freighter lies in about 80 feet of water the divers were limited to about 20 minutes but all the surface that controls the capacity of the compressed air tanks each diver uses. And so the hunt began. Just a.

Few. Facts from a. Few people get. The racks on every ship. It comes from one place. Only one person. Doing it. A few. Components from. Ships by saying shifting gears ever shifting.

Gears today. In the beginning of. Exciting. Lives. It was. Often John Larson brings up souvenirs from the Rex brass fittings portable ship's bell. Once he recovered some very old and very potable Scotch whiskey for him. But this day he brought up only lobsters and mussels. Then John Larson the form A took over. We had a feast of mussels steamed and wine and downed with drawn butter. The

conversation naturally about diving past adventures and ones as yet for the divers it had been an intoxicating day and this seemed like the perfect ending. Recapping the day's top stories former Jersey City Mayor Thomas Whalen and former City Council President Thomas Florida had their 15 year jail terms were due to 10 years. The two men were convicted in 1971 of extorting more than a million dollars from a local contractor. They said today that all the money has been spent. And attorneys for the New York Times expect a decision later this week about whether contempt charges against the paper will be dropped in the murder case. And that's the news tonight by. A joint presentation of New Jersey Public Television and 13 13. And at 7:30 on New Jersey Public Television an updated edition is

broadcast at 10:00 p.m.. New Jersey public television and it's 7:00 the following morning on Channel. 4 should. Be recorded. It's time for the 23rd. Are you. And helping me tonight

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