New Jersey Nightly News; 09/21/1981

New Jersey likely to lose with downturns and a good many. Good evening the state's going to tell you the campaign continues to build momentum. We'll have a series of reports on today's developments in sports Bulgaria's highlights is the Giants at Rutgers women. Princeton drops its opener. And we'll take a closer look at a state Supreme Court case that may have a profound effect on television journalism. Democratic candidate for Governor Jim Florio took his campaign into what might be called foreign territory today. The world of business executives a traditionally Republican preserve. Steve Taylor reports. You know what. It's a common enough sight to see a candidate. First thing in the morning shaking hands at a factory gate. But this is a Democratic candidate working a white collar crowd. Jim Florio is at the giant Merck Pharmaceutical headquarters in Rahway speaking against Reagan economics before the people it was designed for business executives for has done this in about 10 New Jersey corporations so far and he's doing more than shaking hands today and at other corporate stops. He

addressed smaller groups of top executives in private sessions. We were able to watch just a few minutes of this meeting before closed the doors and started the serious questions that the company is officially neutral in this election. Republican candidate Tom Cane in for a visit next week. We can tell you a Florio made any converts among the executives today because neutral interview any employees. But if the state's corporate headquarters seem to be Republican territory a month ago they seem less so today. Wall Street has been second guessing the president's policies lately. And candidate Florio hopes that discontent will work against Cain. Every day when one picks up the newspaper journalist putting into question. It's doubtful whether he'll beat

the Republicans on their home field. I'm Steve Taylor. The tenants organization has a clear choice because of his support for Republican candidates today want to vote on President Reagan's economic program. More than Jim Florio backyard at the front door of the congressman's Camden office can accuse Floyd of turning his back to his constituents against the Reagan budget. One of the congressman's own published polls show that his constituents backed the president. By extension Cain says Florio is out of touch with New Jersey voters who Cain says also backed the president's economic game plan. Congressional poll says 56 percent of his constituents say that the

president's economic tax decrease over the next couple years and yet he went back against the wishes of his own constituents. Cain's campaign visit is the latest in a series of stops shopping for independent and Democratic support that outnumbered Republicans say they need to elect Kaine governor with some of the worst slums in the state for a backdrop. The residents are no better off despite the fact a Democrat has been governor of New Jersey for 20 of the past 24 years. On the other hand Cain himself was asked repeatedly about President Reagan's budget cuts and social programs and candid for example nearly two thirds of the residents receive money under one or more of those programs and some of those cuts go into effect next week one month. One postscript to Cain's day of campaigning. Some local Democrats snickered at advance work that put the candidate in an entourage of luxury cars to tour the slums

in Camden. I'm Jim acquainted. And as we reported last week Cain would accept public financing for his campaign today formally announced application for the full 1.2 million dollar maximum and matching public funds. Jim Florio had already done so. Investigators are looking into why two subway trains collided during this morning's rush hour in Newark Penn Station injuring seven passengers and the motorman in both cars. According to New Jersey Transit the accident occurred when a train smacked into the rear of a stationary train that had just discharge its passengers injured were treated at nearby hospitals only one person was seriously hurt. The state ordered three boarding homes closed today bringing to seven the number of homes closed in the last month. State officials say the building's owner poling size but I was given 15 days to correct violations at the homes but instead conditions became worse. The State Department of Community Affairs is relocating the elderly residents to nursing homes and other health care facilities. The buildings which were located on 10 streets Fabian place and six straight only work were cited by state

inspectors for health and safety violations. Jersey City is controversy a red Control Ordinance which was to have taken effect today will be postponed for at least 20 days. Mission of concerned citizens of the city clerk with petitions containing 20000 signatures this afternoon hoping to place the issue before the voters. It is expected to take some three weeks to verify the signatures. Now Gerard McCann who pushed the ordinance through city council earlier this month called today's action a political move on the part of the coalition. The ordinance would allow landlords to raise rents without limit on vacant apartments but maintain a fair percent ceiling on continuing leases are there it is too late to get the issue on the November ballot. Opponents are hoping for a special election or referendum in November 1982 striking school bus drivers in East Windsor Mercer County were back to work today after ratifying a new contract. When your PAC calls for a 10 percent wage hike and reduced working hours the drivers who transport children between their homes in the District Six schools will average about 575 an hour with the new

agreement supported by teachers teachers aides and secretaries the drivers went out on strike last Friday of spirited senior citizens in Hudson County is proving that age isn't necessarily an obstacle to continuing to lead a productive life. Susan nice also explains. Do you want to draw to us. Eighty five years old and has trouble working because of his arthritis. But that doesn't stop him from doing volunteer work four hours a day five days a week. 68 Hudson County parents are over 60 physically handicapped children and those in daycare centers. Some come here to the pediatric exam 18 sites. And it's clear the program the children and their doctor

and the children. Dress. Sometimes when you. Have. A program run by Catholic Community Services is one of only three in the state. The others are in Trenton and Atlantic City. Grandparents get to know at the cost of volunteering for their transportation and receive a daily meal and annual medical checkups through the program to become foster grandparents they have to go through a foodie our nation and get monthly training once they finish that.

President Reagan's recent budget cuts have meant some serious cutbacks in New Jersey social services. The future of the Foster Grandparent program looks bright. Mrs. Reagan has been an active supporter of the program for a long time and she's now trying to get private money to keep New Jersey's foster grandparents and others around the country going strong. In Jersey City. I'm Susan. The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra will launch a limited season this fall. New Jersey Nightly News has learned that the orchestra was able to raise enough corporate contributions to fund 70 to 80 performances beginning in November last year following a musicians strike the symphony was forced to cancel its season entirely because of a funding shortfall of $700000. A formal announcement is expected later this week. I have 40 year old New York attorney who is reportedly slated to be the next U.S. attorney for New Jersey says he wants to end the cat fight between the state and federal prosecutors. W. hunt Dumont says that cat fight started over who had jurisdiction in the federal Abscam undercover operation. State

or Federal prosecutors do not the son of State Sen. Wayne Dumont says his objective will be to mend broken relationships between New Jersey and Washington. Do not expect his nomination to be sent to the U.S. Senate within a few weeks would replace William Robertson who was appointed on an interim basis one year ago. Robertson in turn replaced Robert Doyle to follow as U.S. attorney after the two four resigned for what he called financial reasons after being appointed by President Carter. Most of what was criticized in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission report last week has either been corrected or is being worked on. Now that according to engineers at the Oyster Creek plant in Ocean County and the two nuclear power plants in Salem County those nuclear plants were among 21 facilities in the country to receive below average grades in the NRC report. Critics of the report say the NRC evaluations were done between August 179 in July of 1900 and weaknesses such as poor management of radioactive waste and radiation protection of the Oyster Creek plant have since been corrected. The two seven power plants were cited for general plant operation security and management controls among other things. But a spokesman for the facility

said that was a year ago and what hasn't been corrected is now being worked upon. Federal assistance programs have been widely criticized for destroying the people being helped. But there's a program underway that is helping to restore efficiency and doing it very cheaply at the same time and has more. His family has been working the small farm for 11 years now. Never really able to make very much money at it. But a few months ago about a federal program that would help him build an inexpensive green house. I hear so much of you know coming down here yes. From the time the foundation started it generally takes about a week to build a green house. A large router to collect and store heat in the airtight room bending the warmer air into the house can save 20 to 40

percent on winter heating bills. How much do you think you'll save with it. When the greenhouse is finished in a couple of days. It looks similar to this one built a year ago it paid for Clarence House which is not only for heating but to grow plants year round to germinate spring plants and provide a nice sun porch. We're trying to make our farm workers were self-sufficient self-sufficient in the amount of money that they have to pay for heat costs reducing the cost and also I saw sufficient depending less on existing food programs by growing their own vegetables. The nonprofit farm workers corporation is administering the program and supplies the necessary technological expertise. Forty nine families have made application there's enough money to build seven green houses even though the average cost of government is only eleven hundred dollars per house. That's a lot of applicants when you consider the level of funding and the fact that homeowners have to supply whatever

recycled lumber materials and funds they can they have to come up with the laborers to like an old fashioned bam raising friends and neighbors come over to help and to learn how to build. The role. Of a private contractor would charge up to $5000 to build a green house like this. This would cost less than a third of that much in addition to cost this is a five or six of the friends and relatives who've been helping out are now interested in building one of the rooms and if they have their friends and relatives up there's no telling where it'll all end. In Vineland I'm down. State officials were today denying reports that a lot of pipeline built across the George Washington Bridge during the recent drought will be dismantled. Officials for the State Department of Environmental Protection say the pipe will remain in place until the water emergency can be definitely declared over. The pipe is designed to carry 20 million gallons of water per day from New York City's aqueducts to the Hackensack water company. State officials say that even when the pipeline is removed connections on both sides of the bridge will remain in place in case the line is needed in the future.

And state officials have also announced a new pipeline for Central Jersey is now ready for use. The 1000 foot main inbound connects the Raritan level with the Delaware and Raritan can now as much as forty five million gallons of water a day could be provided to the Middlesex right a company I mean a simple utilities in New Brunswick North Brunswick and East Brunswick. And now here's a look at the weather forecast increasing cloudiness tonight was the chance of rain toward morning temperatures in the high 40s to low 50s. Tomorrow it will be cloudy with a chance of rain temperatures in the upper 50s to low 60s. The outlook for Wednesday partly sunny and cool. Tomorrow the state Supreme Court will hear arguments regarding a suit brought by onetime Republican gubernatorial

candidate Richard McGlynn against a New Jersey nightly news. The suit filed in late May before the gubernatorial primary was held. Georgia's new judge injured New Jersey nightly news had been unfair in its coverage of the McGlynn campaign. Glenn's name isn't a household word in fact you may have forgotten that McGlynn was one of 21 candidates who ran for governor in this year's crowded primary election in order to cover that race in New Jersey. Besides airing regular news reports and a weekly wrap up prepared profiles of each of the gubernatorial hopefuls in addition during the last week of May New Jersey began airing a series of in-depth reports detailing where the leading candidates in the governor's race stood on important issues. We did not include all of the gubernatorial candidates in the series only those who in the judgment of our staff seem to have the best chance of winning. Ten candidates out of the total of 21 who are running. The idea was to make a very complicated issue a little more understandable. But the candidates who have not been included in the series were angry. One Republican Richard McClellan went to court this race.

Down to the last week and I suspect still 50 percent or more of the electorate is undecided as to who they're going to vote for. I was terribly concerned. Here is the major New Jersey news program. My opponents and not my own. BLOOM executive producer of New Jersey Nightly News took the position that the decision to interview only some candidates for The Closer Look at issue series was a sound journalistic decision. But Glenn first took his case to an Essex County Court where it was transferred to a panel of three state appellate judges who found in favor the appellate court ruled that McGlynn and the other candidates who had not been included in a closer look at issue series had been treated unfairly. New Jersey nightly news and the two partners who fund the program New Jersey public television now call the New Jersey network and 2013 appeal here to the state Supreme Court. After reviewing the case the High Court only partially upheld a lower court ruling. The justices said 13 could air the disputed closer look series by New Jersey Public Television could not because it was an agency of the state government was according to the state Supreme Court bound to provide the same amount of coverage to each and every gubernatorial

candidate. Gordon McGinnis executive director of New Jersey Public Television was unhappy about that decision. We cannot permit. Station est newsletter where the judgment of the Supreme Court about what constitutes supplants that of the professional staff at the station that in fact were not permitted to share. Any of that responsibility and yet the court is affectively to do that. The 6:30 PM edition of New Jersey Nightly News which airs on 13 continue to carry the closer look at issue series 7:30 in 10 p.m. editions which aired on New Jersey Public Television did not. And following the program aired interviews with gubernatorial candidates who had not appeared in The Closer Look reports which had been broadcast earlier in the week. The story attracted widespread attention both in newspapers and on national television which saw freedom of the press as the key issue in the case. The public television sought and has been granted a new hearing before the state Supreme Court briefs supporting the contention that the Federal Communications Commission not

state and local courts has jurisdiction over cases like this have been filed by the National Association of Broadcasters the Corporation for Public Broadcasting PBS as well as National Public Radio. The FCC itself and 13 jurisdiction is a central argument comes down to. A view as to whether the Federal Communications Commission has exclusive jurisdiction on these questions since we hold licenses that are issued by the Federal Communications Commission and are governed in all respects by the requirements of the Federal Communications Law. I think that there are the other questions in this case are subsidiary of that one. The implications of the McLean case could be far reaching. It raises serious questions about journalistic freedom especially in instances where a publicly financed television stations are involved. In particular if the state Supreme Court reaffirms its earlier decision in favor of McGlynn the future of New Jersey nightly news may be in doubt. Attorney Floyd Abrams will represent

WATB for the New Jersey Supreme Court. Case is to be. That the Public Broadcasting Authority. Had. Behaved in a journalistic. Cannot choose candidates to have won. Based on notions of newsworthiness and must have everybody on if its going to have anybody and it will be completely destructive as the nightly news. It's not a drug it's something else. It's not horrible. There are forums where that kind of thing is done. Where where where people paste up different. It's just as nothing to do with journalism and to the extent that it would make it impossible to continue to work together is between you and the Broadcasting Authority to create a news. How does Richard despite finishing last gubernatorial primary he's still determined to fight for what he sees as a principle.

And my contention in this case is that the producer of Nightly News and the executive director simply said Our decision was based on a news judgment. We exercised editorial discretion. How do the courts of New Jersey intrude in that process. Well I think that's the kind of. Event that to me is somewhat more self-righteous and sanctimonious than I would have a public agency supported by taxpayer dollars. The state Supreme Court is scheduled to begin listening to arguments in the Glenn case tomorrow morning at 10:00 we'll have a report on that hearing tomorrow evening. In addition the New Jersey network plans to air excerpts of the Supreme Court hearing tomorrow night at 10:30. Thank you Don. And when we return Bill Perry will have the latest sports from New York. Bill Perry is up in our New York studios to report tonight Sports Bill. OK thank you.

Thank you Don the Giants who started after us this evening the Giants made a two and a yesterday off the 20 to seven win over New Orleans the Giants are 2 1 1 and they play in Dallas next week let's go to yesterday's action Giants taking a seven to nothing lead as Phil Sam said Gary shirk 12 yard touchdown pass in the second quarter shook caught 11 passes tying a club record you like defense. Giants have been super Lawrence Taylor right here tackling George Rogers the top two draft choices colliding Taylor on the pass coverage Bobby Scott hitting Jack Holmes. That's a pretty good hit Curtis McGrath had a real big game for the Giants defensively batting that went away one of three batted passes for McGrath have recourse an eight solo tackles two sacks. Here's one of them. More offense for the Giants Sam's on the day 28 of 41 passing for three hundred twenty four yards he hits Johnny Perkins late in the first half and that set up Joe Donnelly was fifty five yard field goal made of 13 0. It set a Giants club record the old record was 54 yards in one thousand

seventy feet. Giants on to win at 6:40 and Ray Perkins called it sems best game ever. I asked Bill afterwards if he agreed with that assessment. I feel like I never got to be the biggest thing in like we have I think the first three weeks we do that. I got to tell you that answer kind of surprises me I got to believe with the Giants fan too and won the biggest game

Phil Simms has played but you heard his answer Friday night at Giants Stadium. Rutgers beat for junior three to nothing the only scoring in that ball game came on a field goal with three minutes and two seconds left Mr. Clutch Alex Foster Nellie the rector's Sr. had a 37 yard field goal to beat the Cavs last year he beat Virginia with a field goal in the final 33 seconds so that put Rutgers up right there for us in L.A. three to nothing. But for Ginia whose office did nothing all night immediately started coming back here hit back Derrick Jenkins for a short pick up then it was Whitehead going to Henry Johnson 28 yards down to the Raptors 43 then Whitehead 11 yards to Johnson put Virginia in field goal position to tie it. But what if. The protection is good. You.

Want it so that big interception brought up and turned Virginia away wreckers remains undefeated with the three to nothing win over the Cavs in the night's play in Cincinnati Saturday night. Meanwhile Dartmouth beat Princeton 32 13 Saturday Tigers up 7 nothing on rowdy Van Pelts 20 yard touchdown run in the first quarter but Dartmouth got two touchdowns from Shaun this one from 18 yards out made it 7 6 late in the first quarter Mahara scored again in the second quarter but with up 12 7. Then this block turned into a Dartmouth touchdown rate Peizer fell on the ball in the end zone 6:40 big green a safety and a touchdown made it twenty nine seven Dartmouth Princeton finally scored again. Polly had gotten used to the pass down to the one Mike and he kept it with the one yard touchdown but Dartmouth to win 30 to 13 and the reason I'm in Newark tonight because of our sports inside program live at 8 o'clock on channels twenty three fifty fifty one fifty eight I'll be back with a complete sports review and tonight we'll be talking cosmos soccer cosmos player Steve

Weatherly and your handmaid skins will be will be with me live in our studio so please join us at 8 o'clock on the New Jersey network we will talk cosmos Soco Also New York Post soccer writer Phil Mushnick will be with us tonight. That's our Sports Let's go back to Trent. Thank you Bill. Repeating our top story Jim Florio and Tom Kane were trying to win votes in each other's strongholds today Democrat Florio met with business executives of Republican Cain went to South Jersey economics was the main thing for each once again. And investigators are looking into the cause of a collision this morning between two subway trains at New York's Penn Station. Nine people were injured. Don we have something of an historic note for you tonight late tonight or today the Senate confirmed President Reagan's nomination of Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to serve on the Supreme Court. Judge O'Connor will be sworn in on Friday the 100 and second associate justice of the country's highest court. And of course the first woman to hold that position and that's the news for tonight for Bill Perry up a new account manager. I'm Don Collins Good night from all of us at New Jersey and I think.

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Garden State and I'm now better than that. Let's find out what's happening in the real world and what are we going to finding out. The 30 New Jersey nightly news top story tonight bill deals with the gubernatorial candidates who were out on the campaign trail today. Democrat Jim Florio was up in the Republican neighborhood of Tom Cain looking for votes from business executives and Republican Tom Cain was down in South Jersey area Jim Florio area looking for votes down there we'll have those reports tonight and of course the rest of the news at 7:30. All right thank you very much. We look forward to that. And right now we're going to check on whether those gubernatorial candidates are going to be campaigning for one state or possibly two states. There are those folks in the south who are raising their voice saying we have no community of interest with you northern New Jerseyans and we want to go our own way. Larry you've been investigating this story that's correct and they raised their voice last November and will tell you that those results those of you who need a refresher course on that in just a moment. There is no Mason-Dixon line but in southern New Jersey some residents are still talking about forming a new

state. The sentiment for secession goes back a long time and last November residents of six South state counties voted in favor of forming the new state. Almost a year later we asked will the South rise again. A. Binding referendum to secede was approved by voters by wide margins in Salem. Cape May in Cumberland county's nearly in Atlantic and Burlington counties.