Compilation of Larry Stuelpnagel news packages; Atlantic City Edit Tape #93 (clip compilation)

A fire anywhere can be hazardous. But onboard a jet airliner it is especially dangerous. Less than a month ago twenty three people died in a fire on an Air Canada jet in Cincinnati. Today the head of the Federal Aviation Administration Jalen Helms unveiled ways the agency hopes to reduce fire related deaths on aircraft. Jet planes use highly volatile kerosene for fuel during a crash the plane's gas tank ruptures and the kerosene becomes a mist which then engulfed the plane in a fireball. Today the FAA demonstrated an experimental fuel which contains an anti misting agent that significantly reduces the chances of fire. The FAA requires that airliners be designed to allow for the emergency evacuation of all passengers within 90 seconds. But airline seats are so combustible that people can die of this fixation before they get out of the plane. Next month the FAA will were choir a fire blocking material be installed in passenger seats as the airlines were furnished their aircraft.

The FAA estimates that 15 percent of all air crash fatalities are due to post crash fires by installing fire retardant materials like this on aircraft seats the FAA hopes to buy passengers at least another 40 seconds to get out of a burning plane. However it will take years before all of the nation's 2000 airline aircraft are outfitted. I would suspect a blocking approach will be satisfactory in production within 24 to 36 months we'll start seeing it on the air carriers. An interesting fuel. We're not quite yet through with our research there and we need about another year I suspect. So that if we get out our notice a proposal making late 94 I would suspect we would start to see it on CNN met 85. Says he doesn't like the delays but he's not displeased with the agency's progress because these taking innovations only come about in the last two years at the FAA technical center in Egg Harbor Township. I'm Larry Stewart. With the free Beach Boys concert on Monday night Atlanta City officials are expecting one of the biggest

holiday crowds in the city's history. Up to 1 1/2 million people could come into the City Mayor Michael Matthews says he's preparing for the worst and hoping for the best. I've sent a telegram to the governor concerning National Guard just in case we need them. I've asked him for a phone number so I can get in touch with him late this afternoon the governor turned down Matthew's request. The mayor wouldn't say how many but he's also requested extra state police to help with crowd and traffic control to relieve the expected congestion people are being asked to come early parked their cars and then use public transportation. City officials are confident there are enough parking spaces to accommodate everyone who comes into town. Inspectors will be checking the private parking lots to make sure price gouging doesn't occur. Extra ambulances will also be on duty. State police helicopters will be standing by city roads are too congested for the ambulances to pass. Workers today were preparing the area where the Beach Boys concert will happen. The group was going to

play in Washington this weekend until interior secretary James Watt nixed the deal. Watt said rock groups would attract the wrong element to the nation's July 4th celebration although he later changed his mind. The Beach Boys decided to play Atlantic City instead. He is Matthews worried about undesirables. Like I said it's really going to bite him down but the minute I was on the beach the boardwalks though he does very. Well find out of the four that he has a right number on in addition to the Caesars Beach Boys concert two other casinos the Tropicana and Harrah's are also planning weekend celebrations. There is no such thing as a free concert. Matthews estimates the cost of the city at around one hundred fifty thousand dollars. However Caesars and Harrah's are helping to defray some of the expense. Matthews admitted he feels some apprehension about the event but since the city hasn't tried anything like this before it's willing to gamble the concert will be a public relations success in Atlantic City. I'm Larry Stupak.

A. Today regarding 300 prisoners in a facility to hold one

hundred forty seven. Virtually all of New Jersey jails are overcrowded. But the public jail is one of the worst. Last year the public advocate filed suit to reduce the jails population and emergency level of 230 inmates was established. Even with the removal of state prisoners the county has not been able to reach that goal. Next week the public advocate to take the county back to court. Lottery machines are not new to woodland. There are 31 but today the 30 second machine opened for business in a unique location. The gift shop of a casino hotel lottery director Hazel Gluck watched as the first ticket was sold to Playboy casino President Arnold Fleishman hopes other casinos will follow Playboys lead and allow sales outlets and their establishments looking for new market.

And it's a 30 day experiment. We're going to see whether Playboy thinks it's worthwhile going to see how it effects other agents in Atlantic City if it affects them at all and we don't think it will. Summer is traditionally the slow season for the lottery by moving into the casinos the state hopes to cash in on the busy tourism market. Yet for the first two customers to buy tickets at Playboy were from New York and Kentucky. But if you walk down the boardwalk Marilyn Cohen worries she will lose her lottery business to the casinos. My feelings are is that it's taken us a long time to develop a clientele in the winter and in the summer. And I'd like to keep my clientele and that they have enough what with what they're doing says if casino sales hurt small outlets then the state will pull back. Atlanta county Senator William Gormley thinks the state should pull a lot of resales out of casinos. This is something that if it might be hurting. And I don't think any. The statistics can't really give you an accurate and accurate report of that. What I do know it is

assigned to the guy it is assigned to that little business man. That's one more attraction that you had. It's not going to go that casino Gormley says he will ask the Casino Control Commission to bar the machines from casinos. If that fails he and two other legislators will introduce a bill to prohibit the practice in Atlantic City. I'm Larry stoop nickel. The tour didn't begin under the best of circumstances. No sooner did Governor Kaine get on the chartered bus than a downpour get at Latics city the bus went through the city's depressed north and south inlet a two hundred six million dollar redevelopment project is being proposed for the area. But the plan requires some 60 million dollars from the casino reinvestment tax. The 2 percent tax is paid only in years want to casinos revenues exceed the cost of their initial investment. It's projected that will happen for the first time next year but legislation

is being proposed that would make the tax mandatory every year. It would also set aside 25 percent of the revenues to meet the city's housing needs for middle and low income people. The governor says the proposal does not go far enough. I've checked into the proposals now in the state legislature because I believe it doesn't make provision for housing and and it does not make use of the funds in the most effective way to rehabilitate Atlantic City and to get to redevelop it in the best possible way for the future. So we are trying to redesign a proposal and hopefully do it with some legislative support. The governor didn't specify what he will propose but he said the plan would be announced very very shortly. The Atlantic City Congress of community organizations invited the governor to the city. Vice President James Maslin says redevelopment in the community is overdue. Since 1976 when gambling passed we have not seen one unit of affordable middle income housing being built in Atlantic City and the inlet obviously is the most rundown section with the least development and we feel that this area up in here specifically the area

targeted by the American city venturers Corp. would be ideal to develop that affordable housing that we need and we were promised when Gamling passed in 76. The governor says the proper redevelopment of Atlantic City will take more money than is currently available or being proposed. He wants a funding mechanism where money can be raised and then used over and over again in Atlantic City. I'm Larry stupid. The ocean Manor apartments in Atlantic City. Some rants here are federally subsidized. Others go for below market rates with its view of the ocean and easy access to the boardwalk. It appears to be the perfect place to retire but the roughly 500 senior citizens who live here share a common emotion mostly fear that the fear that this may be you know that they're going to lose their homes the apartment building is owned by the Federal Department of Housing and Urban

Development HUD wants to sell the complex to the highest bidder. The city of Atlantic City has offered 5 million dollars with a guarantee the building will remain a low rent senior complex unable to pay more. City officials say the highest bidder will come in and raise rents until they are on affordable for the current tenants. Yes I think the federal government is being greedy. They're being greedy because they have some budget problems in Washington and are looking for a bailout. The sail the ocean matter for a billion dollars will not solve the trillion dollar deficit we have and I think they're being totally insensitive to the needs of the residents of this complex. We have no place to house these senior citizens but officials say they are protecting the taxpayers investment. They add federal state and local laws would prevent evictions or big rent increases. But residents are leery of such promises. Yesterday touring the city Governor Kaine said he would appeal their case to the very top of the federal agency. You know what I can do and what I'm going to do to the best of my ability should contact Secretary Peters and ask for his personal involvement in the

matter. Now the. Regulations do allow for a negotiated property sales to municipalities. But newspaper ads offering the ocean Manor for sale are scheduled to appear in the near future. Unless Gov. Kaine's appeal to HUD secretary Samuel Pierce is successful the ocean Manor will be sold to the highest bidder. The people who live here that means their rents will go up and they will have to move. I'm 63 years old I'm disabled my has been disabled. You're going to take me now and put me in another neighborhood you're going to let me make new friends. Think that's for me. I mean we're not 16 or 17 years old that it's easy for us to get around. It isn't. We've already settled here. We just don't want to move from here we want to stay here in Atlantic City. I'm Larry stupid. The Cumberland County Juvenile Advocacy Program brings teenagers and their parents together in

group counseling and discussion sessions. Often this includes role reversal acting like they see the other act. Twelve year old Stephen Bennett had been running away from home a lot. Here he plays the role of a parent trying to understand why a child played by his mother would run away. Why. Do you run for. Someone like. This. It takes parents and kids get together like this once a week for three months. The kids have other sessions with their peers and individual sessions with the counselors program seems to be working for both the child and the parent. Because I can relate to understand a lot more of his problems. You know this was why I did what he did and it's apparently help Steve

too. He ran away from home the night before the program started but there been no problems in the months since this. Program officials admit so far they've only been able to get about one sixth of the parents to participate. But even so the center feels it's successful in more than 50 percent of the cases and keeping the teenagers from returning to crime or to their destructive behavior. Only if you know but so far very few agencies are set up to run group sessions with both parents and kids. Even though the parents we talked with say the program has been instrumental in helping them learn to communicate with their kids. Officials here say the program cost less than $10 per child per day would cost more than 10 times that much to put these kids in a detention center. But the state funding for their program is scheduled to be cut by one third and the center says if that happens it could force some major

cutbacks in the program in Britain. Oh. Funding for their program is scheduled to be cut by one third. And the center says if that happens it could force some major cutbacks in the program. So they are inviting community leaders and politicians to a special OPEN HOUSE this Sunday in hopes of finding some additional funding. In Bridgeton climbdown heights.