New Jersey Nightly News; New Jersey Nightly News 10/26/1978

New Jersey Nightly News has a joint presentation. New Jersey nightly news. Was. With Rebecca syllable in Trenton and Clayton Vaughn in Newark going to evening Rebecca Sobol has the day off on blatant in the news. Hundreds of Camden parents marched on city hall there today as negotiations resume between the city and striking Camden teachers. Hearings continued in Trenton on a controversial bill that would require women seeking an abortion to wait at least 48 hours before it could be performed. And we'll have a report about those people at the Union County courthouse who have been working as if they'd seen a ghost. In sports Paul bloodline

reports on last night's Nats victory over the Golden State Warriors. And on a closer look we'll have the story on today's conference on business ownership for New Jersey women. The teachers strike in Camden continued today amid signs that parents there or at least some of them are sick and tired of it. Hundreds of parents escorted the casket through the streets up to City Hall to show what they think is happening to education because of the strike. They wore black armbands emphasizing their own happiness that the dispute has continued into its third week. Although the schools in Camden of remained open only a few hundred of the city's 22000 pupils have been attending classes. No word yet of any new progress toward a sudden. There was another legislative hearing today on a controversial bill that would set up new restrictions on abortions in New Jersey. If the bill should become law a doctor would have to carefully brief a woman seeking an abortion on the risks and then the woman would have to wait 48 hours before going ahead with it. One witness today is that the bill would never stand as law. A spokeswoman for the ACLU said the bill was drawn to frighten women

away from abortions. Many of its provisions may be unconstitutional. A supporter testified however that a woman has a right to know ahead of time about all the medical risks associated with abortion. New Jersey senator Harrison Williams died so the Congress will act quickly on mandatory hospital cost controls. If hospitals themselves don't voluntarily control their rising prices Williams who chairs the Senate Human Resources Committee which deals with health costs spoke today in Princeton. He said there are too many Americans who cannot afford to pay for the health care they need. And for those who are uninsured or under insured a major medical problem becomes a financial disaster. The city of Trenton got some competition today in its push for a highlife entente as that is assuming state voters approve the newest form of New Jersey gambling in a referendum next month. Hamilton township just outside Trenton was the scene of a play for high line approval. Mike Power reports. But campaign for a yes vote on high like gambling has been practically nonexistent. But

that hasn't stopped developers from proposing highlight arenas in a half dozen New Jersey cities. The latest is George Hammond Jr. He owns the state fairgrounds property in Hamilton Township and he's been trying to sell it. Now Hammond says he wants to transform part of the decaying facility into a high life front on and hammock called a news conference today saying he was ready to destroy the chief anti highlight argument that the state hasn't adopted any regulations to police the game. He claimed the regulations are already in place but they're not. We checked and the bills that would establish Highline rules are still in committee. That was one reason cited by the Philadelphia Inquirer today in urging a no vote on how allied its editorial added that unlike gambling highlight is a bad bet for economic rejuvenating of New Jersey cities. The state's poorest cities Trenton Camden and Jersey City among them don't agree. They're pushing for a yes vote on the referendum. They claim revenue from highlight will cut

property taxes and help inner city neighborhoods in the midst of all this is a recent Eagleton poll on the high life referendum. It said half the people in the state don't know anything about it. In Trenton I'm Mike power. The Resorts International Casino in Atlantic City is giving its dealers pit bosses and cashiers a special 20 question test today and tomorrow to make sure that there are 900 workers know the state and company internal controls procedures. The questions are things like the minimum requirement for a signature resorts as had $40000 in state fines because of violations but the company says the testing was set up well before the fines were imposed and set out with a minimum signature in a casino is the first initial and the last name. Six New Jersey cities including Newark are being dropped from the latest round of federal home improvement loans because of high the link once the rates on repayment of earlier law. The other citizen involved are East Orange New Brunswick Atlantic City Camden Irvington Jersey City has had a good record. It will not be cut.

Bergen County is also on the list of continuing the long program. This is the first time the default families have been imposed. There was better news and new work on the public housing side today. As a matter of fact it was a big day the day that management of the stall arrived home complex was officially turned over to the tenants themselves. SANDRA KING reports. It's not too long ago that these buildings look like a battleground and their tenants were shell shocked from the years of neglect and abuse that led them into the longest public housing rent strike in the country but today at the Stella Wright homes all that was different. It took a four year wrenching court battles jailings and finally a massive infusion of nearly 13 million dollars in federal funds. All of it leading up to this. The formal turning over of the newly renovated Stella Wright housing project to the twelve hundred families who live there. With continued federal monies and local assistance. The tenants themselves will now run the project. But the celebration would have been incomplete without a graphic reminder of what had come

before. People were afraid of coming into their apartments and afraid of leaving their apartments there were floods There were blackouts. There was Roach and road infestation. Conditions were truly horrible. And from the city's mayor a sober warning. To be successful. With whatever resources together. So that all of us could get credit. Because God being we haven't really. We would not have the strength to live. Despite the mayor's warning there was optimism from the tenants who speak of their new role not as workers but as full time keepers of their own homes. Before the housing was managed by a person that put eight hours in a day and then went to their own homes. Here we have a personal relationship with the tenants because they are our neighbors we live here with them.

And the man who negotiated the agreement that ended the crippling strike says the experiment will be successful. The tenants here theoretically and I believe realistically can run this place better than government granted. It will probably be years before Henning Berg is proven right or wrong but if it does work. The new Stella Wright homes could become a model of public housing that works just as it once symbolized a national housing program. That flocked. In New York. One of New Jersey's largest industries it's agriculture. Reporter Mike Power concludes his on the job series and takes a look at agriculture and what one farmer's life is like. Now. They harvest blueberries in Atlantic County and raise feed grain in Sussex County. They give the Garden State its name. But farmers feel embattled in New Jersey. By labor costs that rise faster than the prices they can get for their crops. By government regulations which they say defy common

sense and by natural forces that are a friend one day and an enemy the next. Evidently he is a 27 year old blueberry grower like New Jersey's other 83 hundred farmers. He ducks the stones thrown at him by man and nature every day. He says he loves it. There is no typical day this time of year or picking blueberries would only start about 6:45. But sometimes we put a toy in the afternoon usually. 5:30 or 6:00 o'clock the sun lights to level. Or stop or. Leave. And his brother and father harvest their blueberries with a $33000 picker. But they're still labor to be done. Fifty four thousand dollars worth last year 40 percent of the farms expenses. So avidly and his family figured out a way to cut costs. More than a third of the Lees farm sales this year were the people who pick their own. But just as no farmer today can avoid labor costs entirely nor can he escape

mechanization. The Lees run their own blueberry packing house right across the street from the farm. Abbott Lee's father Stephen says farming wasn't so complex when he started the family farm 30 years ago. For one thing he says powerful. Forces are working. Against today's farmer greatest enemy. I think a government which I would say is the greatest enemy by regulation. But I do think that they're coming around that they can see the light of day because there's no food really. What are his fears of government. For one Mr. Lee cites water for years. South Jersey farmers have siphoned water out of the pine barrons to irrigate their crops. Now they're worried that when the federal government preserves the Pine Barrens it'll put controls on that water. Somebody's family persevered years is much more fickle nature of weather and soil. It's perseverance that finds a New Jersey farmer. Farmers across the world. It's the price

they pay for their independent Elisir like a lot of farmers. They work the land not because they have to but because they want to. Like a lot of farmers they say anything drives them off the land. It'll be government regulation. In Chatsworth power. Business and financial leaders in New Jersey are generally praising President Carter's anti-inflation plans but there is some criticism to Marie's venire president of the state Industrial Council of the AFL CIO. So is Carter's program to put a freeze on wages. The blood business profits go uncontrolled venire says employers will enforce that 7 percent top on wage hikes but things like food health care and fuel will continue to cost more and more. Miles of civil service a method of selecting government employees has been in

effect in New Jersey since 1908 it was designed to replace the spoils system. Now there is evidence that it is badly in need of reform and Governor Brendan Byrne has sent a recommended changes to the state legislature. On Sunday October 29th at 4:30 the president of the Civil Service Commission S. Howard Woodson will appear on a prerecorded programs and answer questions about the proposed changes. That's Sunday at 4:30. The New Jersey Public Television. Here's the weather forecast for New Jersey cloudy and cool tonight throughout the state overnight low temperatures will range from the upper 40s to mid 50s in the north and from the mid to upper 40s in the south. Tomorrow it will become partly cloudy in the north with a slight chance of rain. High temperatures from the upper 50s to low 60s skies will be clearing in the south with highs also in the upper 50s to low 60s. The outlook for Saturday variable cloudiness with a chance of a few showers in North Jersey. Skies will be fair further

south. Good evening. The New Jersey Nets are now even at four wins and four losses last night playing at home the nets won their second game in a row 121 to 118 over the Golden State Warriors. The Nets trailed for most of the game last night but then took command in the fourth quarter. This goaltending call you'll see coming up gave the nets a five point lead and gave Bernard 27 points on the night. He was the high man. Wilson Washington finished with that. Six twenty six hundred fans were in Piscataway. They saw John Williamson put it on ice a couple of jumpers very late in the game. The final the nets won 21 the Warriors 118. The Warriors coach is a New York native Al Attles a former great and we school addles has been with the Warriors as a player and coach for 19 years through the good and the bad. How important is a coach in the NBA. Adults talk with Bill Perry. If you have players you can win basketball games I don't think coaching is that big a factor but I think

there might be three or four or five games maybe that you can attribute directly to coaching I think it's players you have to have good players. All things being equal shares. Again four years ago this team wins a championship. What's gone wrong. QUESTION You said Carol for us to go back to rescue one of two you can miss one or two years ago so I think you have to go back therefore. This is a rebuilding year for you. I think it's not a complete rebuild here because we have been stripped of all our players so can you have it for you with six years in which it will become a force for good. A player with Africa but overall I think it's a pretty good club players and it's just a matter of us sustaining in trying to improve the barrier will be pretty good. Another New Jersey native coaching in the NBA this year is Dick Vitale of the Detroit Pistons. Last night the frustrations of that job apparently caught up with Vitale in a game with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Vitale chased referee Tommy Nunez around the court and challenge him to a fistfight place eventually had to drag Dick Vitale off the court. One

professional basketball team we don't hear much about is than the Jersey Shore bullets of the Continental Basketball Association. The bowlers have been practicing at the Asbury Park Convention Hall under head coach Art stock in his first year. Their season opener is set for Sunday night at home. The Continental Basketball Association is made up of eight teens most from smaller towns in the northeast. They usually play in small gyms in front of small crowds but the players claim that doesn't matter. I like to play I play physical try to play for the bad weather is one of 50 I would say it's easy to play with there when they're 50 or 20. For you again she was easy to follow but I think that. If you like the game as much as I do I think I'll play hard wherever I am. Where Bill paternal would like to be of course is up with the big boys in the NBA. A journo played great high school ball at Christian Brothers Academy. Big time college ball at Notre Dame but is a notch below the best. Like all the other players on the Jersey Shore bullets he's waiting for that one big break and wants to be ready when it comes.

You know very possibly she or anybody else and they were really hustles and really. Really plays the game the way it should be I think a few opportunities will people create them so. The Jersey Shore bullets roster also includes former Rutgers star Phil Sellars. Their season opener again is on Sunday night against Rochester that game at Convention Hall in Asbury Park. These youngsters are taking part in the run punt pass and kick competition at Cass Berger field in Newark. More than 3000 kids from all over Essex County signed up for the event. After two elimination rounds. Thirty six are still alive and kicking with the Final Round coming up on Saturday. The youngsters are between 8 and 13 years old they're divided into five age groups of the 3000 kids entered. Some are obviously quite good at these events despite their young age. Some others well they need a little bit of work. Obviously not Ray Guy and that sports Clayton thank you. Well some people and listen both are spooked these days with a crime

of ghosts haunting the grounds of the Union County Courthouse the county has taken it seriously enough to encourage a psychic to investigate your for all reports. It's become such a topic of conversation among union county workers that some have a little ghost balls in their offices. About four or five maintenance workers say they've actually seen the alleged ghost. A woman next to the courthouse complex Tony Carbone says he saw her late one night a few years ago in this garage and all of a sudden I saw a white form taking shape with. The face with sort of blank. He was dressed in old time clothes. And I get so scared I stopped taken aback and I thought that's how they you know help get me out of here you know and just certain groups of people are seeing this. I don't believe that they see a psychic I believe they should see a psychiatry. Psychics theorize that the ghost lives in this cemetery next to the courthouse. They say she is Hannah Ogden Caldwell the Revolutionary War bride whose death

historians say is in accurately depicted on the seal of Union County. And it's because of the apparent inaccuracy that Mrs. Caldwell has come back to haunt people and she cares very much that it's unjust version of history. She wants people to know the real truth which is that she was killed accidentally. Not in cold blood. People in the know always say that Mrs. Caldwell's ghost is friendly. So there's no fear here. On the contrary people appear to be just dying to see the ghost before it snaps his fingers. And disappears for good. Elizabeth. I'm Jeffrey Hall. And while many is it isn't looting Philadelphia been getting into trouble trying to get rid of sewage sludge. There is knowledge chance of that sludge by actually be worth something. The federal government has given a candid company a $400000 grant to find out of sewage and solid waste can be recycled into methane gas. Two possible sites for recycling plants are Burlington County and the Meadowlands. Why.

Absque. One of the newer focuses of the women's movement is business ownership by women. Governor Byrne has proclaimed that today business ownership for women day in New Jersey

not going to action all day conference on the subject was held today at Giants Stadium normally considered a bit of a male preserve contributing reporter Allen. Peter Peterson was there and filed this report from the stadium club. A recent Right House task force report on women business owners estimated that less than six percent of all small businesses are owned by women although women comprise more than 50 percent of the population. The White House report also found that women don't have adequate opportunities to learn the management skills necessary in order to set up their own businesses. Giving New Jersey women that opportunity is the purpose of this conference today in the Meadowlands. The conference included displays of all types and people giving advice on everything from starting a business to expanding one and dealing with business problems like inadequate capital labor problems and turning homegrown skills into profit. There were 2000 people at the conference and that gave the business women opportunities to display their services and products. Men like these from school or the Service

Corps of Retired Executives were among those on hand with free advice. Among the sponsors were the women's division of the Rucker Small Business Development Center like the State Division of women and U.S. Small Business Administration and. Much of the advice was disseminated at some 60 seminars on 20 different subjects. One was presided over by Kay Andrus in Montclair psychotherapist who specializes in group training and counseling. She explained to me how a woman can assess her personal resources before starting a business. First there is to consider the dream. What would be your dream come true. How would you define success in numbers. So the tools what you have. What you need to find or to develop a check and balance sheet on that and the motor to make it go boundless energy determination hard work and ability to bounce back and inability to be alone at the top. For any business

entrepreneur man or woman is very much alone at the top. One of the most striking or unusual success stories I encountered today was that of Elizabeth Murphy of South Carney. She operates white tiger transportation a trucking company which is already done two million dollars worth of business this year. Her firm has 15 trucks and 20 drivers. When she sought financing Ms Murphy a divorcee was rejected by a half dozen banks and had to turn to a male cosigner. I leased trucks. And then when it came time that I want to purchase my own truck I found out that I needed a cosigner and I had a very good friend who had a lot of it for me and said I had enough guts to make a go of it and he called me. When you decided to start your original business why didn't you just go and work for someone else. Well I did work for somebody else but then I decided that I wanted to do it on my own. I wanted to become an owner of a trucking company. And I felt I had the guts to do it.

Jones of Maplewood has been running a restaurant and catering service for 25 years. Recently her firm catered a dinner with 3000 guests for governor Byrne the firm cuisine was written up recently in New York magazine. I really started cooking in the house you know just going into your house you bad food and I go in and cook a meal. But that was a slow process for me. I. Got a word about that every night after dinner when I lived there why she'd have to buy my food. And I cook it. So I let the food. And the meal. Cause I felt that they wasn't quite the quality that I wanted to buy. And that's how I got started. Part of an area fan of Clifton is in the unlikely business for a woman of painting and wallpaper contract with. Her firm finishing touches employs four people now all women and area expects to add two more soon. $60000 last year I was.

Waitressing to go to college and it seemed that going up I was looking for to make more money and I thought I was a guy what would one a man do if he was needed to make money I said he would make $10 an hour you know. So I thought about. Doing different things and I ended up with. Answering in the paper for a painter. And the gentleman on the phone invited me down because he didn't realize that I was a woman on the phone and I figured I was going to close. And when I got there he was a little shocked but he took back and let me work that day and he liked my work and hired me and I worked with him for a year and then I left him he retired and I began my business which. I figured I could do after that which experience and. After a few jobs I got more jobs. Have you ever sought any professional advice. Yeah I'm a big promoter of a lot of professions especially women I have a woman lawyer and a woman accountant and my media consultant is a woman my production manager is a woman. All my crew are women and. I believe that one thing that men have always had is the network of connections they pick up the phone and say I NEED THIS I NEED THAT And I think that women are building

it. I want to actively promote that since 1971 American women have been going into business ownership at a rate three times that of men. This may be one of the most significant spinoffs of the women's movement. However in New Jersey last year only 18 percent of all small business administration loans went to women entrepreneurs in this category. New Jersey ranked 19th nationally. After today's conference. It's sponsors hope New Jersey women business owners both potential and established will be more assertive and confident in seeking the help they need to establish their own businesses from the Meadowlands. I'm Ellen Petersen. Today's conference part of a continuing process scores of federal state and private agencies regularly offer to help women and starting new businesses or improving the operation of existing ones. Good place to start is your local office of the Small Business Administration. Once again our top story of the day hundreds of angry Camden parents marched on city hall

today in a protest of the continuing teachers strike in Camden. That's the news beginning at 8:00 tonight. New Jersey Public Television will broadcast live debate between U.S. Senate candidates Bill Bradley and Jeffrey belt. I'm close. Good night for the New Jersey. Jersey knows the news is a joint presentation of New Jersey Public Television and WTT 13 days broadcast weeknights at 6:30 on Channel 13 at 7:30. The New Jersey Public Television and updated edition is broadcast at 10:00 p.m. on New Jersey public television and at 7:00 the following morning on Channel 13 portions prerecorded. And now.

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