New Jersey Nightly News 04/05/1979

New Jersey Nightly News. With Rebecca suable in Trenton and Clayton Vaughn in Newark. Good evening. Rebecca Sobol has the night off. I'm Clayton Vaughn. There were traffic jams at the Lincoln Tunnel today as motorists tried to avoid what turned out to be a non existent work slow down by police at the Holland Tunnel. About a thousand construction workers are being laid off at the side of the Fort Hood River nuclear power plant. And there another new story out on what really happened to Jimmy Hoffa bashed in the head in Detroit caught up in little pieces in New Jersey and dumped in a swamp in Florida. In sports Bill Perry has a report on last night's Community boxing program that you're back. High School here in Newark and on a closer look. We'll preview a program tonight on New Jersey public television about the Riverside hospice a peaceful place for the terminally ill. It's been a nightmare. Most of the day for people trying to get into New York City through the Lincoln Tunnel the traffic jam resulted when a lot of people were tricked into believing that there would be a job action by Port Authority police at the Holland Tunnel. This is a story of a lot of frustrated

motorists and what may have been a big public relations hoax or coup. Jeffrey Hall reports. Traffic was lighter than usual getting through the Holland Tunnel from New Jersey this morning. Commuters were all over here at the Lincoln Tunnel. That's because of Port Authority police spokesman told the news media that cops were closing the Holland tunnel between eight and eight thirty to demonstrate their unhappiness with their current contract. It's now about quarter to 12 in the morning. The early morning rush hour is all over but there are still heavy traffic jams getting into the Lincoln Tunnel from New Jersey. I'd say traffic must be backed up at least two miles right now. Police deny they had any intention of closing the Holland Tunnel. That would be illegal they say. So the Holland Tunnel was never closed even though motorists thought it wouldn't be at all. Port authority police had to say about the fouled up is that their spokesman probably made a mistake.

I'm speaking for the PBA. And there was never any intention to close any of our facilities down as far as any accusations of a trick. It was not a planned situation. The diversion through the Lincoln Tunnel. Why did your spokesman let the news media. No different. As I indicated I believe he might have been caught up with his own rhetoric. The irony of this story is that that public relations spokesman Jim Connelly who was so accessible before the tie up couldn't be reached for comment after he already told everyone that the Holland Tunnel would be closed for a while. When asked if Connally would be fired PBA officials said no but that they try to tone him down in the future. Which kind of makes you wonder if Port Authority police didn't orchestrate this whole mess after all. One thing's for certain though a lot of unhappy motorists probably want someone from the Port Authority fired. At the Lincoln Tunnel in Weehawken.

Jeffrey Hall and the Port Authority itself late today sharply criticized the police union for harassing antics sew them to unfair labor practices. State education commissioner Fred Burke today got a dramatic vote of no confidence from the State Board of Education. Nonetheless a state Senate committee approved Burk's nomination for a second term. Mary Amoroso has the story. The statewide education commissioner Fred Burke is a quiet man who somehow manages to stir up a lot of controversy. The Senate Judiciary Committee has been holding hearings on Bourke's nomination and scores of people have come forward some to praise Barack. Others trying to bury him. But perhaps the most damning testimony came today from the group that works most closely with Ferk the State Board of Education. Three of the board members were in favor of the renomination. Eight members were opposed to abstain. The board asked for a secret session with the Judiciary Committee to air their grievances. But Democratic committee members quashed the move for a private session saying they'd already heard enough

testimony about the governor's nominee. Later in the day the committee raked over some lukewarm coals that gave him the opportunity to say that he's not the source of controversy. It's a state program a teeny thorough and efficient education. And he says he feels the board is not angry with him not with their own limitations. State Board is in once a month. And is difficult for them. Many of them people are looking for members to realize the enormous range of decisions are made. And therefore I think some frustration in not being intimately or more fully involved still the Judiciary Committee approved his nomination 9:2 to the whole Senate will vote on it when the legislature returns at the end of the month. In Trenton I'm Mary Amoroso the Judiciary Committee today also cleared the nomination of two new Supreme Court justices Robert islands of Perth Amboy as Chief Justice Stewart Pollock of Mendham as an associate justice Lanzas a former assemblyman and a

lawyer with a lucrative practice. He is the son of the man who prosecuted the Lindbergh kidnapping case. Pawlak is Governor Burns legal counsel and a former member of the State Board of Public Utilities and also a former member of the state commission on investigation. Neither man has any experience as a judge. The full Senate is due to take up the nominations at the end of this month. About a thousand workers are being laid off at the Fort Hood River nuclear power plant construction site. Jersey Central Power and Light owns the plant but says it wants to conserve cash because of the costs involved in the accident of the Three Mile Island the plant in Pennsylvania. Jersey Central is a quarter mile or owner of the Three Mile Island plant. The eight gas stations on the Garden State Parkway run by Exxon have reduced their eight dollar limit on gas sales down to $6. But at the same time Exxon has raised its limit on the turnpike where Exxon has five of the 13 stations from eight up to $10. Inspectors from the state department of weights and measures were out in force again today continuing the campaign the governor Byrne calls Operation

gas watch. Today's inspections started with a check of a Gulf oil terminal in London. The state director of Consumer Affairs Adam Levin says it's part of an effort to keep the oil industry honest. We're trying to trace the accuracy of meter reading the same quantities of gasoline all the way up the chain not only at the pump because that's really the final step. The last clear chance before the consumer gets gasoline but also to go all the way back to the terminals check the meters at the terminals and the trucks coming out of the terminals to make sure that everything they say that they're carrying to the gas station. Levin and other state officials say they're trying to stop price gouging and profiteering as the state moves toward a shortened gasoline supply and the prospect of weekend closings by many stations a caravan of ambulances invaded the state capitol today to protest a plan to set up regional instead of local volunteer first aid squads. The protesters won their fight as

the state health department made its final decision on the proposal. White power was there as the convoy rolled in. The emergency squads arrived a hundred strong. It was the 11th hour and their long battle with the state. For the last year the Health Department has proposed new rules. It said would upgrade ambulance service from simple emergency transportation to on the spot paramedic treatment. The ambulance squads said it was more like bureaucratic meddling. They said the health department has ignored their suggestions all along. And at the Capitol today they expected to lose again. But as it turned out all the volunteers had to do to win was leave the street and go into the meeting. But after two hours of discussion as the angry volunteers looked on the health departments administrative board voted the regulations down. Health Director Joanne Finley said the vote in New Jersey will lose $2 billion in federal funds for the paramedic project. But when we tried it twice to question Dr. Finlay about that

her aids shut the door in our face each time. But a deputy commissioner was more cooperative. He said The board was frightened and intimidated by the ambulance volunteers but they have not presented any facts to change any of the provisions that we feel would be in the public interest. The volunteers of course didn't see it that way as they savored their victory. Right next to me. Just. There. In Trenton. I'm Mike. Our. North Arlington policeman was shot to death last night in Bellville today a suspect Katherine Hogan described as an acquaintance was arraigned on murder charges. Officials say the police officer was killed shot in the back as he left MS Hogan's apartment when she was arrested later in Bayonne in Mount Holly in southern New Jersey. Four Philadelphia men appeared in court to answer a variety of charges in connection with the holdup of a Hammonton liquor store Tuesday night and the wounding of two policemen in the gun battle that followed. One of the officer's wounds was minor

but the other is still hospitalized. He was shot three times he is in critical but stable condition. Here in Newark the eight seamen accused of trying to smuggle 40 million dollars worth of hasheesh into this country pleaded innocent today. Trial was set for late June. The five Americans and the three West Germans were arrested last month on a Liberian ship off Sandy Hook. State officials today told Congress that a chemical dump in Elizabeth appears to have links to organized crime. At least 45000 drums of chemicals are in the dump which is now controlled by the state. A congressman asked a state official today what happened to the president of the company that ran the dump just before the president was supposed to testify about all this before a grand jury official replied. Someone drove a truck over his legs and there is another news story out on what really happened to Jimmy Hoffa. The former Teamsters president the Philadelphia Bulletin Today is reporting that law enforcement sources say a former mob hit man from New Jersey

done to fight as Charles Allen has now turned informer and he is telling this version of how Hoffa was killed and his body disposed of. The story is that Hoffa was bashed in the head with a baseball bat in Detroit by a 6 foot 4 inch 240 pound killer known to Allen only as monster man offas body was then brought to New Jersey where it was cut up by three men in two pieces of foot long and four inches wide. The pieces were packed into two 55 gallon drums. The drums were then taken to a Florida swamp and dumped. Know if you thought you might be able to put your umbrella away you may be in for a disappointment. It will be cloudy and breezy tonight with a 10 percent chance of rain in the northern section of the state. A 50 percent chance in the south. Temperatures tonight will be in the low to mid 30s throughout the state tomorrow we can look for partly sunny skies although there is a chance of showers. As for temperatures tomorrow it will be windy and cooler with highs in the mid to upper 40s. Saturday is forecast partly cloudy skies windy and cool.

On. PBS. Movie theater presents the Italian cinema classic Nova into. The. Madagascar Christmas party. I may add that. My nanny got. Pretty. Good. Company. Because. She. Was. Making careful put down to the new thing she. Said At 9 o'clock on New Jersey Public Television. Thoroughbred horse racing returned to the Garden State racetrack outside Camden today. But for a one day only Steve Taylor was there along with a handful of racing fans. So dedicated they don't mind a little adversity. The skies were partly cloudy. The track was muddy and the grandstand was gone.

Burned to the ground two years ago but that didn't prevent two races for being run at the Garden State track today. The man who wants to rebuild the grandstand and stable area is having trouble meeting mortgage payments and is looking for new investors. So he put on today's demonstration to show that racing could be held right now with the action beamed to local motels where presumably the gamblers would go and watch on closed circuit television. Whether all this amounts to off track betting which is illegal in New Jersey is something that has yet to be decided. But demonstration or not it wasn't hard to find a little on track betting around the ruined paddock today and in the second race the winner was number 11. Cheek. But we don't know what the payoff was because the tote board was broken in any way the wagering was strictly private. In Cherry Hill. I'm Steve Taylor. Now here's Bill Berrian Brendan with the rest of the sports though. Thank you. And look at it this way that fans and that's lose tonight the and that's the night off tomorrow night they play at Kansas City and then New Jersey has Boston in Piscataway high there Saturday night. It's the Celtics and

nets in Beantown Sunday the playoffs starting next Wednesday. So looking more and more like who will be the 76 years for the Nets in the first round last night New Jersey lost at San Antonio the final was 110 103. The Spurs got it going in the second half. Behind the iceman number 44 George Gervin San Antonio outscored the Mets by 12 points in the third quarter to stretch a three point lead to 15. Gerben and only 10 points at the half started writing it up he finished with 30. John Williamson sat it out for the Nets resting a sore back and it was this kind of nice for Bernard Payne. He missed an easy breakaway jam on the next trip down the north and ripped into the officials and promptly got rejected. I hope Bernard wasn't claiming contact on the play he just simply blew it. There was a boxing card at Newark shabash high school last night but it was more than just a boxing card it was an event that an entire community participated in the Gaspar's has more.

Than 500 people. Who were come forward quite a dollar last night to get back playing. But more importantly there was plenty of junior high scholarship fund. The fund was started for two years ago by the leaders of the haemorrhoid community. The money raised from the bottom fell for local kids to help further their education. George pre-amps runs the fine and focused not only benefit of scholarship winners but also helps the boxers. It means not because it leads to. Of fight for them not only to beat up actually leads to the professional ranks. Of young people. And by having fact shown Alex Jones that he does have the experience. I'm looking forward giving up a. Fight. I just wait and. Now. But the thing that really makes this project work is total community involvement. Can you tell me why you're here tonight. Not. Sure. How our children. The. Future of America. Do you like. Are you rocking back. Yes I have. Now I am for real. I think this stuff might just keep people off the streets. You know

keep people out. You know doing things that they should be doing stuff and stuff like just a body out here and then they could think of doing bad is a fight you don't have to see they'll fight it out on the street in Newark. I'm trying to get across. The Cosmos play their second game of the young season Sunday afternoon in Washington last Saturday the Cosmo's got off with a win two to one over San Diego cosmos captain won a Rothwell miss Sunday's game but he's received some good news concerning his injured right knee. He's rehabilitating now that the cast has come off. After two days in the cast. I wanted out. So thinking that I was going to be in for three weeks and having it come off in nine days and replaced by Linux he'll Brace was was great news for me and also allowed me much more flexibility to have the cast off if I had it on. I wouldn't still wouldn't be able to do anything physically. Is the four to five week estimate for your returns accurate. Well I had another doc Nicholas looked at it again yesterday and that forecast was brought down another week to 10 days so I'm looking towards April 22nd as

being available for that day. First home game you hope to be the home game. Yeah. Very much so. The Giants began a three day mini camp today at Giants Stadium some 61 players gathered for the sköll sessions and on the field workouts this is the first opportunity for new coach Ray Perkins to see his squad on the field. Perkins has to evaluate his talent prior to next month's college draft and one of the big question marks exists at quarterback. Perkins has five quarterbacks in camp. Joe pre-start chick number one last year plus holdovers Randy Dean and Jerry Goldstein free agents Tom shoeman and Fred Messina who resigned late last year are also aboard. Happy Opening Day to you. In baseball today the Mets beat the Cubs 10 6. The Yankees lost the Milwaukee 5 1 college ball. Montclair State over Princeton for one rider three St. Joseph's two OK. Thank you Bill. Another glowing report today from Resorts International and Atlantic City casinos average daily when in March more than six hundred and sixty three thousand dollars. That's each day a 25 percent increase over February and March take more than 20 million dollars boosting

resorts growth since opening late last made more than one hundred eighty three million dollars. The state's share of that is eight percent of the gross works out for 14 and a half million so far north american Gibson is planning a trip to China. He said today he expects to be part of a State Department sponsored tour of the People's Republic this June. The mayor of China plans revealed in an interview taped for broadcast on Wednesdays Dateline New Jersey program. In that interview Gibson also told reporters on rekeying that he discounts charges that Newark crime has increased since the January 1st layoff of 200 police. Please. Let. Me have my show. Well perhaps it's a step to something else if we can get to the scene on foot. Your teachers had been on strike. What has happened is that policemen who are reporting crime have upgraded the reporting to show an increase in crime to prove that if they had their police

men back then a crime would go down. Do you know how you do it right you have an old one type crime which is an assault or something like that and you make it an old one rather than an old two and you can show a crime rate increase. You think someone is playing with the numbers they're doing a very good job. In our interview to be broadcast on WDBJ at 6:30 on Sunday evening five insurance agents who used a tape recording of a congressman's voice to sell insurance have agreed to stop it. The sponsor of the promotion company in Dallas had packaged it for five companies here in New Jersey State Insurance Commissioner James Sharon said the practice was deceptive and illegal. Vice President Mondelez and Nurick denied for a couple of Democratic Party money raisers. The first stop a reception at the Newark museum. Five hundred dollars a ticket for that one. Then there's a dinner with Senator Harrison Williams a $150 plate of. Mondale scheduled dinner speeches about the Middle East peace treaty. And you can put this one down and the nice try but no cigar. File a state appeals court ruled today that state officials

cannot seize pornographic films under New Jersey's weights and measures law. Middlesex County weights and measures man actually tried to do that to more than 200 films from an adult bookstore in Edison. His reasoning was that some of the films. Why borrow my wife did not have the length of them on the can. The others had the wrong link like the Watergate girls which turned out to be actually longer than advertised. Nice try no cigar. Slow learners. So they even celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Zakat. As it happened. Ball. You need to be off the you're here in America. And. The. Eyes. Of. The audience are as happy birthday. Your. Majesty. PBS station.

Friday. Night on public television. Most hospitals wage a daily battle to prolong life with machines and drugs. There is a new kind of medical institution called a hospice that is redefining the word care for the terminally ill. These hospices believe that prolonged dying ravages the entire family and they try to ease that collective pain. The idea is to let patients die in peace without machines and at home. Tonight at 8:30 New Jersey Public Television profiles the Riverside hospice in Boonton and now on a closer look we have a portion of that report due out early Christian history the hospice served as an in for kill worms who were tired and ill and needed care from nursing nuns. Today hospice has taken on a new meaning. It is a place where people ill with terminal cancer and for whom heroic measures no longer work are offered medical care and psychological solace 24 hours a day seven days a week

based on need regardless of ability to pay. It is the contention of the hospice movement that the terminally ill patients should die with dignity at home. Barring that in the hospice a home like atmosphere unlike that of an often cold costly and isolated hospital bed there are now 186 hospices in 40 states. The only freestanding hospice is located in Boonton New Jersey. This. Is my Home. You. Better get it home. I feel like. I'm on guard. And the noise scared constantly. However I great. Part of it is me. I try to do. As well as possible. Through all the takes to tango. But you're comfortable here very

comfortable and very happy. I believe I could say. That every day. I feel better. A state of mind over matter. Which makes me feel so warm to a scrap psychologist at Riverside. Marcella Baldwin uses the technique of stress therapy with those cancer patients who wish to relieve their anxiety. And you are out in nature. By yourself just enjoying the day. Picture that scene in all its detail. And so for your self. Can. You imagine how it looks. Now. To my life here. Just take everything about in what you wearing that day. But yourself before. Enjoying. Suzanne.

I know you like to take to those big pink pills with your mouth snapping at the cancer. Picture them as favorably as you can. Attacking the cancer cells and doing away with them. In. Rome. You can just picture your treatment. Crying up to cancer cells making them shrivel away. I feel much better. In. My volunteer work usually involves general household duties you know helping Mrs. neurally. Because she's got her hands full and. A lot of times I'll sit around with Dr normally and you know talk about medicine and. Things she's done how he skied from Vermont. You know I relate to. And. Just generally sit around and. Have a good time. What this man has gone through has taught me. To fully appreciate everything I do. And you know I used to let little things bother me I don't anymore.

And. You know just a happy life really. I can't see the point of having. To I say dying beds in hospitals for all this apparatus. Woke up one year and all the rest of this stuff I could see extending one's life but I can't prove it. Extending one's dying period. If I'm due to die and them going down hill and woken me up is going to mean I live another day or two. I can't see the point to that. I stress that we're we're a substitute for the patient. We treat them as though they were at home give them the freedom of the building through them when they choose to have a nail with a roof. And of course I knew we couldn't serve everyone every five minutes. But time. For a kitchen is open to the patient and to his family if you would like to have something special brought in. Which is not always possible

for type of an institution. We are home with professionals here. We are not our own medical facility. That is the whole world. No I don't think I feel sorry for myself. Not now at one point I did a little bit. I tell you. I think rather than feel sorry for yourself. One feels lonely. Alone in this. And. For each other I have a wife who understands this and is that go across the hospice Kuipers the place. And you feel part of a group rather than although. Once again our top story the reporter of supposed job action by police at the Holland Tunnel which turned out to be bogus caused a massive traffic jam at the Lincoln Tunnel today which apparently was just what the people who circulated the report about the Hallen wanted. And that's the news for Rebecca Sobel who returns tomorrow on flight Move-On. Good night

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