New Jersey Nightly News; New Jersey Nightly News Episode from 05/29/1980

Rice President Mondale campaigns for President Carter in Atlantic City. In sports Christian Brothers high school tennis champs looking for a college baseball World Series title will take a closer look at a polar explorer from Warren County. Right President Walter Mondale made a campaign swing through Atlantic City today talking about jobs. The vice president met with government and construction workers and called on New Jersey Democrats to unite behind the Carter Mondale ticket. Steve Taylor reports Monday his first stop was of the dedication of the billing of the Federal Aviation Administration airfield in front to keep reminding the audience that when President Carter took office the Moana facility was due to be closed. But the president saved it and put the stop at the moment it was

officially nonpolitical but of course Monday was every appearance as part of his campaign and the vice president's second stop was nothing but political. My BIL visited construction workers at a housing project in Atlantic City. Been working pretty steadily the last few years. Yeah but you know there's a lot of construction work in Atlantic City now because of the casino boom. But the vice president didn't mention that. Instead he implied that it was mainly the president's employment policies which opened up the construction industry here. Next there was a very warm welcome from a state convention of construction unions at Resorts International. These unions are already behind the Carter Mondale ticket but the vice president kept campaigning still stressing the administration's job record. Three hundred and fourteen thousand more people. At work in New Jersey and 8 million more people at work in the United States than on the day we were sworn into office we have broken an exam for the worst in our country.

And Mondale dismissed Senator Edward Kennedy's challenge in the Democratic primaries calling it a family fight and warning that if Democrats don't unite behind Carter Ronald Reagan could win in November. In Atlantic City I'm Steve Taylor. Another Carter substitute campaigned last night in Edison New secretary Jody Powell didn't even mention Senator Kennedy in his address to Middlesex County Democrats and many of those Democrats had hoped to be sharing an evening with the president himself. And Don Torrance report when you're rushed to a campaign story days before the state's primary you do things instinctively like search for your Secret Service ID required when the candidates are around. But last night you remember this isn't the president this is his new secretary and confidant. Don't you know there's going to be a maverick. Only a fraction of the anticipation that people like to receive. I got a very fiery campaigns get your point across.

Every Democrat has to vote the party much talked about after the dinner we asked the president didn't accept the Democrat's invitation to California we don't have a president. Understood but some were democratic. Bringing in the president today creates a lot of a lot of the newspapers uneasy that he understood why the president couldn't make it. He thinks there's a chance Rosalynn Carter may stop by next week.

There may be a thousand people here but not every one of them will get him more than a few. Tonight at 8 o'clock New Jersey Public Television will present a special report on next Tuesday's primary elections. General Electric is closing its Trenton central air conditioning plant for the last three weeks in June. The plant shut down because of poor economic conditions will mean layoffs for 350 workers. But most of those workers should get financial aid. They will make up the difference between unemployment benefits and their regular basis outraise. Meanwhile Ford assembly plant in Madrasa scheduled to close permanently June 20th will shut down one week beginning Monday. Company officials say sluggish sales are to blame but they plan to resume production June 9th through June 20th at least twenty four hundred jobs will be spared in North Jersey

as the result of a multimillion dollar sale of the bankrupt us what had a railroad a federal judge has ordered the sales of the Delaware Sego corporation of upstate New York for five million dollars. The software had to run freight from Edgewater on the Hudson River in Bergen County to Butler in Passaic County. A state study showed more than twenty four hundred people would have lost their jobs if that railroad went out of business. New York is beginning to recover from a rash of suspicious fires that struck yesterday. It was one of the worst outbreaks in that city's recent history. And while there were no serious injuries the fires may have fanned the flames of protest. SANDRA KING reports. Just yesterday the smell of smoke and the screech of sirens were everywhere in New York this abandoned factory site was one of about 40 that burned over just 24 hours and are still on the smoking ruins.

But there have been no buyers. New York standards the concern. About Tomorrow. Because this Sunday the fire department is scheduled to demote 33 men and eliminate three fire companies. I think it's going to have a devastating effect either by them or with us right. But look you could say the last two days our firemen were overworked here. We ran out of fire coverage that it brought outside help in the surrounding Mr. Valley equally concerned our city residents who for weeks have been petitioning City Hall to call off the cutbacks they say the loss of the three companies will affect the entire city and they point to yesterday as evidence here it simply wasn't enough coverage to go around and we live in an area where there are lots of chemical companies that people are afraid of the fire. Newark has the highest fire death rate in the entire country. City officials confirm that statistic but today offered no comment.

At York City Hall I'm Sandra King. It's been over a month since that fire raged out of control at the chemical control dump site in Elizabeth. Arson has still not been ruled out and Paul Gardena director of New Jersey's Hazardous Waste Management Program says the dump site is still being treated as a crime scene. Meanwhile the cleanup continues. And today you Haqqani went back to the dump site for a look and a report of a progress being made. We seem to be having some technical problems will try and get back to that story. We'll have it now Jack on. The bells. I don't have it. We're one of the sites in the fire. More than 30000 remain. The work is slow tedious dangerous and expensive. Three different contractors have supplied men and equipment some from as far away as

Ohio. Inside those protective suits the men swelter in 130 degree temperatures. They can only work for about 30 minutes at a time. Still the officials here say the progress is remarkable. It's going so well right now with the movement the disposal it seems like we've pulled everything together and never really got to people to give us a superhuman efforts on all fronts including in administrative and disposal and net and net funding the whole works and it seems like we're really moving at a very good pace. Why he says most of the potentially explosive materials are out and everything here including the bricks that remain on the ruins of the former office building and warehouse will be removed. The cost estimates are incomplete but could average as high as $200 a barrel. Much of what leaves here is headed for a scientific landfill outside Buffalo New York. The smell of chemical

waste still hangs heavy in the air here and the site is still under 24 hour surveillance. But it appears that the worst is over. So just one month after that disastrous fire the outlook for the cleanup here has brightened considerably. Officials now believe it could be over in two to three months. But remember so far it's the taxpayers not the chemical companies that have picked up the bill. Elizabeth. I'm Jack Connelly. There's no political race like a Hudson County political race backbiting backstabbing even name calling. These are as natural as hand shaking and baby kissing and a county whose dad used to be real Retin-A resurrected every election day to vote Democratic. This year there's really no contest for Congress. So while the political heat and further than concentrated on the county sheriff's race Mariam are also reports. John Democrat on the outs with

democratic. Credentials his background as a recreation. But in fact the fight is not so much between the villain as it is between Sheila and this man. Jersey City mayor and gubernatorial hopeful Tommy Smith insiders say Smith promised she'll he could run for mayor when Smith runs for governor next year. But Smith it seems has changed his mind. And they run for both governor and mayor to play it safe and not happy. So instead of having united Hudson County Democratic organization run for the governor the possibility of. One of the government always exist but if I was Wiley she'll want to feel like an office I don't think a man could have a deal like that any job.

And what if Donato wins what does that do to Tommy Smith hopes to become governor. I beat him real bad of course that would make it that nothing it had been a wonderfully vicious campaign. One side told us the other candidate had run out on his wife and his kids. The other side told us the first candidate was too dumb to pass a civil service test. Cons have been ripped down jobs threatened mud flung liberally. This data for Donato. Remember now this is the sheriff's race attracted to contain a hundred people and you dollars ahead including such heavy that Union City mayor Billy Musto and assembly speaker Chris Jackman It's a little race may forebode a year or more in Hudson I Mariama Rosso. New York's highest court today revived the murder case against former New Jersey Teamsters boss Anthony Provenzano two years ago he was convicted of murdering Union rival Anthony three fingers Cathelineau over control of local 561 Union City. But last year the New York appeals court dismissed that conviction. It said the trial judge had

refused to excuse a potential juror who had worked on the prosecutor's election campaign. Today the New York Court of Appeals reversed of that ruling and ordered the lower court to consider new issues. Now here is the weather forecast for the day tonight will be partly cloudy with temperatures in the upper 50s to low 60s with partly cloudy skies tomorrow with a chance of showers. Highs will be in the mid to upper 70s and the outlook for Saturday partly cloudy. Another chance of showers. Full

and now here's Bill Perry with tonight's fourth of them bad news. Karen thank you yesterday I told you that the Giants would be without their linebacker Dan Lloyd in 1980 Now comes word that Dan Lloyd is fighting for his life. His limp no disease has been diagnosed as malignant. Dan Lloyd will undergo therapy at Sloan Kettering in New York. The state high school team tennis title was up for grabs yesterday in the match turned out to be a beauty Christian Brothers Academy beat Cherry Hill East the reader to win the match at Princeton East has a girl Laurie Miller playing Number One single. She's quite a story interesting Gaspar's will have a profile on Laura tomorrow night yesterday. CBS Scott blessing beat glory 6 Love 6 1 to give his team an early edge Blessing who will now go after the St.. Individual singles title at 16 and one on the season. Christian Brothers Academy also won the number two singles match freshman Mark power Castro turned back Mike Kessler 61 or 62 and CBA appeared to be on its way to an

easy win a second straight state championship and we're not going to last six years and you would think that the freshman power Castro would have felt just a little bit of that pressure. Our pressures on the family were the rock off easy you know how to get on. Yes it did come down to the final doubles match in CBS Dave Smith in mild Gilson in New York or didn't want to get a mistake in his first career pick a good commander's crown. There's going to be a great kind of girl that you are just the recipient of great talent with the Scott Bryce NY public after the freshman with a freshman mile Gilson and who would take the three singles but I kept a while kind of watched them without the pressure and with Dave Smith the same year they hung in there got a fourth return.

Upsala college has been on the brink of national athletic success for the past few years the baseball team has had 14 consecutive winning seasons and this year the Vikings will go after the national division pre-title as the College Baseball World Series begins tomorrow in Marietta Ohio Bill Mullen attended a recent Uppsala practice before the team left for the series the year 1980 will long be remembered here at Upsala college. Well the school has never won a national championship in well over 60 years. For the second time in just three months and Upsala team has gone into the final four. Back in March the basketball team won the South Atlantic region in the NCAA Division 3. And now the baseball team has matched that performance and they're on the verge of bringing home of Solace first national championship. The Vikings take on in the college in the opening of the College World Series on Friday in Ohio. It's a double elimination tournament that finishes up on Sunday. The other two teams involved are Marietta and the University of Wisconsin Osh Kosh. Well actually it's the first time we've gotten this close and we've been in the NCAA with

for years but the this time we've made it to the finals where the College World Series. I guess when you get that far. YOU'RE MEETING THE BEST. We get one chance out of Who Are We. We want to be as good as the rest of them. JR pitching a Steve Kordek who hasn't already a week ninety two and a record of 12 in one will take the mound for Uppsala on Friday. I'm Bill Bowen in baseball today pirates five bills four bucks back and forth in the NL East. The NBA at its summer meetings announced award winners today Kareem Abdul-Jabbar the league's MVP It's the sixth such honor for the big guy in his 11 year career Larry Bird Rookie of the year coach of the year Bill Fitch Red Auerbach executive of the year and all is not peace and harmony in Islander land after winning the Stanley Cup with Billy Smith in goal and 1000 of the 21 playoff games. Chico Russia says I want to be traded. That's sports Karen. Thank you Bill. With less than a week left in New Jersey's primary campaign commentator Barbara Drake offers a reminder in tonight's sound off. The art of politics what a phrase you have trouble with that. Well maybe that's because you've

always felt that art should be uplifting. But then again should be means that something really isn't that is of course unless you've been uplifted. Now if politics is art then like art it too should be uplifting. So what's uplifting. Well you know it's that good feeling you get when all is well. I haven't been afflicted lately have you. Well you're not alone most of the voters in New Jersey feel the same way you do. As a matter of fact people are so turned off with the political process that studies have indicated that this election year will have one of the poorest voter turn up in history and all because the art of politics has failed to inspire us. Right. Wrong. You see I believe were an integral part of the political art form. If politics has failed to uplift us it's because we've had failed ourselves. Normally I limit my comments to women's affairs but I believe it to be in everyone's best interest to urge all of you who are underpaid ill housed and unskilled to get out and vote on June 3rd for women for blacks for Hispanics. June 3rd could be the deciding

factor in whether in whether the already unacceptable status quo is maintained possibly worsened or whether we break through with a change for the better. With today's tight conservative economic policies the number of politicians who will break through on your behalf are few but they are there. Give yourself a lift on June 30. Be political. The artful get out and vote. I'm Barbara Drake. We occasionally travel out of state for stories with the New Jersey angle but tonight's

closer look literally takes us to the end of the earth and the polar regions are vast and frozen wastelands of numbing cold violent winds and drifting ice. Yet explorers are still drawn to these most hostile of regions in the world. After Admiral Perry discovered the North Pole in 1990 and Roald Amundsen the South Pole in 1911 the poles became the goal of people seeking high adventure. One of them is New Jersey and David Porter. He's a resident of the Warren County community of hope and he will be cited in the 1981 Guinness Book of World Records for something neither Perry nor Amundsen accomplished. He's the first man to of walked in both the north and south poles. Mr. Porter is recently back from another record setting journey to the north pole and he's here to tell us about his latest expedition. Welcome. Thank you. Tell us about your latest trip why you went and give us an idea of the details in planning such a trip. Well having been to the South Pole having worked for the Navy in volunteer work for many years

I was always interested in the North Pole as well but I never thought I'd have the opportunity to go. Last year I happened to go along on a flying adventure trip to the pole took my ham radio along which froze up and I decided that I would make good on that. Go back again this year with a specially heated radio and backup equipment and other radio operators and that we would stay at the pole make an encampment which had never been done before the full they said to do records on this trip. Well we combined the people that went we couldn't get enough radio operators so my co-leader and I found a bunch of skydivers that were most anxious to go and jump out of a plane and set a world record at the North Pole. So we combined that. But unfortunately at the last moment the weather changed and we couldn't land at the pole. We had to land two hundred miles from the pole. And 200 miles is pretty close to the pole. When you figure how far away it is from everything else we landed on the sea ice which is a very treacherous thing to do with airplanes that have wheels and skis we had one

each. But the weather was good the ice was clear where we landed and the men went up to 7000 feet did their sky dive. It was all sound and recorded as the northernmost skydive and our amateur radio operation worked perfectly everything worked and everything was probably warmer than we were. Take other skydiving and the ham radio operation were were two new records. Yes they are OK. You did have some problems as you mentioned. Yes we had one plane that was a very old DC 3 built in World War 2 that had engine trouble on it put us three days behind schedule and so they were not able to have our 4 day stay at the pole and then once we did go to the pole and planned to be there 24 hours we ran into cloudy weather and cloudy weather is very bad for landing on sea ice because you can't see any shadows. Therefore you can't see the pressure ridges and you might smack into one of the landing gear. You have to have some these guys. Tell us what it's like there. Well I think that is most unusual because you're

out over the Arctic Ocean you're just beyond the northernmost land of Canada where it's very mountainous and you go out over the Arctic Ocean and it's very flat. It's flows of ice that ever pressed together into pressure ridges the pressure ridges where they impact together sometimes are 40 feet high so that when you land a plane in between these pressure ridges you feel like you're in a canyon or the canyon is solid baby blue ice. It's very frightening to get out a plane look right up at these vertical walls of ice. There isn't very much snow there's about six inches of snow and of course the sea ice is moving 15 miles a day. But you don't feel it is very solid underfoot. What is that I think you have to consider when you've got to plan a trip like this. You have to anticipate everything against the temperature first of all the temperature can be anywhere from 40 below to zero with an average of 25 below Fahrenheit. So everything must be designed for 60 below. The logistics of how to record your radio contacts. You can use ballpoint you can't

use felt if you have to use a regular lead pencil and a large piece of paper because your hands are covered. With a glove that the size of a tennis racquet all covered with goose down so everything has to be very well thought out to make things work at that temperature the problems of how to cook food. You don't take frozen food because you never get it thawed. Take freeze dried food and melt snow to make the water and reconstitute the food. And of course you have to be a great deal of food six thousand calories per person per day and to consume two quarts of liquid a day because it's very dry it's less than 1 percent humidity. A lot of things to think out and I had three hundred and sixty days to think it out and plan it all for 17 people and you plan to go again. What will you do differently. What you're really going to early April next year will go a little earlier when the weather is a little bit more to our liking. It'll be guaranteed clear whether it'll be a little cold or the sun will be lower in the sky. OK but we will do our four day encampment. We will talk to the world in the sky divers will jump from a precisely 90 north. Good luck thank you. Thank you very

much. Dave in Puerto Rico wrapping our top story Vice President Mondale campaign for President Carter in Atlantic City today and promised jobs in Jersey and the Ford assembly plant in MA is closing for a week just three weeks before it shutdown shuts down for good. That's the news for Bill Perry right. I'm currently down. Good night for the new Turkey nightly news. New Jersey Nightly News is a joint presentation of New Jersey Public Television and nobody money there to program is broadcast weeknights at 6:30 p.m. on Channel 13 and at 7:30 p.m. on the Jersey Public Television. There's a repeat broadcast at 10:00 p.m. Monday Tuesday public television and at 7:00 the funneling money channel 13 pre recording.