NJN News; Friday, May 17, 1991
- Transcript
also use it's been the state officials these new rules limiting jewish invited leaders acknowledges union county police investigate the death of an elderly woman whose body was
found in a freezer supporters say new evidence proves that maybe made a mistake of recommending the closing the naval shipyard and it's a show of support for the troops that half of armed forces day we catch a fish major funding for new jersey network news is provided by the general being our diets foundation first fidelity bank and public service electric and gas as bob dylan but it can't have denied outright interested aspirants a major tuition policy changed today the state board of higher education has eased in nineteen seventy seven rule which had limited tuition increases at state colleges and universities but along with that move the border they
also made it tougher to prove that it is needed has raised a bagel reports however students think the procedures were not taking their no for years the tuition and jerseys public universities and colleges has represented thirty percent of the cost of educating a student today faced with reduced aid for the fourth straight year the state board of higher education approved a policy to relax thirty percent rule quality education but in order to exceed the thirty percent women the school must receive a waiver from the port by showing where the additional revenue is being spent and the funds cannot be used for anything other than educational programs stern organizations did not see this proposal as a way of holding down costs they think the waiver will make it easier for colleges and universities the increase tuition once again
bicyclists and the middle class for state funding for higher education has been slashed by sixty five million dollars in next year's proposed budget irish dictation chancellor edward colbert's many schools to apply for the tuition waiver i think many institutions will be about thirty percent we need to recognize that this is the third going into the fourth year of renewed state appropriation rutgers university has already approved a nine percent tuition hike for next year if state funding is not restored the size of any tuition hikes won't be known until july a new state budget is about where it's typically pretty network news the run from congressional investigators told the base closure and realignment commission in washington today at the navy failed to document its decision to close the philadelphia naval shipyard a gao report concludes that the navy used flawed information in selecting bases for closing or realignment me while one south
jersey congressman says he has other proof that the decision to close the shipyard was a bad one marty smith reports the white island ferry takes many of the three thousand south jersey residents who work in the philadelphia naval shipyards across the delaware to work every day and it was on that very today the south jersey congressman rob andrews became the latest politician to call the military's decision to close the base and biased and politically motivated we have some substantial reasons to believe that the navy said let's close philadelphia and figure out how to justify not let supply the criteria a pianist was offered philadelphia yard was targeted for closure in part because it doesn't work on nuclear ships the only other non nuclear navy yard is in long beach california that facility was not targeted the reason andrew has produced documents indicating that long beach requested and received a last minute nuclear designation from the navy just weeks before the closure list was released that make philadelphia at least on paper the sole conventional shipyard why
was long beach taking off a list of art because its nuclear capable of course there's the nuclear capable since february twenty third nineteen ninety one a longstanding tradition of nuclear excellence at responded by saying all shipyards were rated fairly the federal base closing commission has until july first to make a final decision on the shipyard congressman andrews says he'll present his findings to the commission during hearings in philadelphia to washington next week to shoot that many shipyard workers feel at this point he's just grasping at straws and they want more say and others say they've endured shutdown threat so many times before they're simply getting used to wondering if today will be the last day they step off this very large e smith new jersey network news international are lost to county
an autopsy will be performed on the body of an elderly woman found in the freezer in union county a body of eighteen year old julie myers was removed from the freezer an attached garage behind the home she shared with her son recently to lately and myers told them his mother died last saturday and that he did not know what to do you play somebody in the freezer he's found out about it the myers attorney elizabeth authorities say they do not suspect foul play but will await the results of the autopsy the trial of the reverend al sharpton and at other protesters began today in atlantic city municipal court they were arrested last labor day during a civil rights demonstration about recreational facilities like city officials in the group should have protested elsewhere lee salem ore to block traffic on the atlantic city expressway one of the busiest days of the year defense claims of police actually blocked traffic lawyers for sharpton say the case could last year and that among the witnesses to be called or donald trump boxing promoter don king gop fundraiser lawrence basket has sued trouble first national bank of toms river for one hundred million dollars the bank closing of government takeovers and basket two weeks ago for defaulting on sixteen billion
dollars in loans baskets covers its britches as the biker trying to blame its troubles and high profile clients like him lakewood attorney and multimillionaires chairman of the republican national finance committee the suit says he had a side agreement with the bank to pay fifty cents on the dollar for is that the bank reneged on the agreement and in so doing before that and the wind jewish state to state health department will test nearly five thousand hudson county residents to determine the impact of chromium on their health chromium slab was uses landfill of one hundred sixty sites in hudson county between nineteen oh five and nineteen seventy six chromium has been linked to lung cancer asthma and liver and kidney disease indeed he has said in allowable contamination standard of point zero five parts per billion ratings of the most highly contaminated areas of hudson county show more than a hundred parts per billion the state health department said that the testing of residents will begin on july first well if you live in new jersey and work in new york you could soon be socked in your wallet new york city officials are
calling for a three dollar week increase in the commuter attacks affected by the hype would be commuters from new jersey as well as long island and connecticut the increase is expected to bring in an extra one hundred thirty million dollars for new york's coffers new jersey legislators are already attacking the proposal saying their studying a number of steps including possible legal action to block any increase in the computer attacks senator bill bradley has written president bush asking the president to bring the reserve is home thousands of reservist from new jersey are still overseas as a result of the persian gulf crisis among the members of the west right marine reserve unit the hamilton army national guard in many new jersey and serving in a space that little grove pennsylvania summer bradley says the duty has disrupted family incomes and personal lives soldiers returning from the persian gulf have been on a hometown praise across the state and now fort monmouth is pulling out all the stops for a celebration of its own scotch bonnet reports on the start of armed forces we get the
preakness there was a marching band on the ground here defensive and redevelop bombarded the crowd of well wishers as if they were shot out of the canon a tremendous around some of the actual equipment used in operation desert storm was on display for kids of all ages including a member of our camera her courageous soldiers who not long ago were putting their lives on the line in the heat of battle prove to be a soft touch with because it's better barbara scott says it's important for americans to show our soldiers respect and appreciation that the military fort
monmouth is one of the only county regional armed forces day weekend celebration sites across the country and the coastal extravaganza is expected to break all attendance records for this isn't the first time these soldiers and touch down on american soil since returning from the middle east but they say their enthusiasm hasn't diminished even for a general my mother and dublin in the first couple years i mean when i go to you know i don't we do the armed forces today they saw it they saw what soldiers actually do new jersey network news for months i mean there is a network news or accept a weakened business and answer live special segment an examination of a little known theme of using his handlers you do with your home video camera does know about is like nailing new jersey never used it one hundred years and one k u r s
you live on it as boy the pittsburgh there's been much research can broadcast about domestic violence as it affects
adults particularly women were little reported about the syndrome which some say may be at the root of such abuse it's called team experts say it's a little publicized but very real problem affecting one in every eight teenagers a problem which can be dangerous and even deadly mary cummings has more in tonight's special segment adolescents often secretive confusing sometimes exhilarating and sometimes painful rite of passage of time when kids experiment with relationships and the goal of good or not so good dating habits habits which can carry over into their adult life and not so good as what jane mrs county woman experienced in the form of teen dating violence they noticed the relationship with her then boyfriend starting to deteriorate knew a teller who she could and couldn't talk to i would limit my conversations with whom i talked to just my closest friends he would then say you know i want to talk and then i'm like you don't trust me he's i don't it's not that i don't trust you trust and emotional abuse grew worse at
parties i sit there be quiet but was not to talk to guys unless he was there or he proved of which one of his friends i was allowed to talk to until the emotional escalated into the user interface it would be back and it would be like if i was i saw coming so i pushed my head away and his hand would follow with my face it was a just a cold outside or he would stop me open handed on the side of my arm like pushing me down like a kind of a shove james grades started to slip and her mother started to wonder what was wrong was too afraid to tell him on because i was afraid that you know she would look bad on me for not being the person she always try to teach me to pay an adolescent is working hard to be independent make her own decisions and here she has chosen someone who's turned out to be abusive and she feels really humiliated to have to admit that your parents and an even greater problem the of the team does work up the courage to tell her parents sometimes they don't take her seriously we also tend to view teenaged english and ships
intrinsic nature you know they're dating today that it will be over tomorrow so it's not built to those not get too excited about this a mistake which can be dangerous even fatal there's some real concern on our core what are the police officer that newscast clayton and we could end up with a tragedy not the headlines of of the fifteen year old girls been killed by their other boyfriends are not uncommon anymore hart says in this society young women are the targets of teen dating violence much more so than young man then there's the question of why a team would put up with abusive behavior use those three magic words i loved you in that with that with enough time being older have a nice fancy car and paying attention was only a junior in high school that was that was so complementary love which eventually ended when her boyfriend smelling about all tried to force her to drive home with him from school one day and jane wouldn't go that way just took in all the back to take its full strength upon somebody special a new drug you get the
strength from god knows where and he just laid off and has punched me on the right side my face in fact it's the most dangerous time when a girl decides to end the relationship that's when the violence really escalate because he wants to make sure she stays with her jane was lucky she was able to end the relationship without further violence what about other teams involved and even more dangerous situations rain fall suggests getting in touch with a jersey battered women's service for each county has its own domestic violence programs if we talk a lot about a safety plan how to break off the relationship in a way that you'll be safe set up support networks for her we work with school personnel to help her while she's in classes officials say the court system offers little protection that you own these cases are ever prosecuted so it's important that if they can get hurt parents rance and even her school behind her as she tries to end an abusive relationship and equally importantly experts say that a victim's loved ones listen to her and take your problems seriously very cummings new jersey network news
when we come back new jersey utilities charging him to court over higher taxes and then you know new york louisiana surviving on a tighter budget fb we're now into the next day and yes and let's play a guessing game question was a public road in the state of new jersey easy you say a public orders that
straight out in front of my house ok that's a public role right but so are leaders those rows down they're winding among the condos call it you say those are private rooms not public was there part of the condominium complex wrong under a rule change or the state division of taxation those are public roads because they have gas electric lines running along these months see those power lines running beside us one they are tax because they run along a public row but now although the roads in a shopping centre are private if they have gas electric and war bonds running through these once they become but with rose for purposes of taxation the division of taxation changing role of fifty years' standing is an eighty million the item that much more in taxes for the state will face well the utility's electric gas water telephone view but they
point out under bp use of bp you'll rules normally if they get taxed they pass along that tax to get so utilities marginal tax court today follow raptor suits against that change it is not nice to rip the people especially on the happiest holiday of the year and in the case so that the manischewitz company is also the legal seems my show thats pleaded no contest an indictment was conspiring to fix the price of passover muscles from nineteen eighty one to label nineteen eighty six now manischewitz lawyers told federal judge our ackerman in the work of the consumers have suffered no harm and well find the voice of a hundred and sixty thousand dollars would be ample hated the government prosecutor the skin reached all the way to former committee president robert started to jack lemmon said the finer than even million dollars manischewitz already has paid out two million to charity and half a million two of new businesses dow jones and westinghouse dropped a big financial news
network today the federal strings are resolved in his favor and the city's forty base at nbc will they get over the market and so we found thirty three points or seven of them today and moderately strong wind loses ahead just a little bit day the dow was much slower rise in bond interest rates have imported show on equities trade deficit came in its lowest in eighty years barnes have been the problem as i said at the outset that then at the close of a long by mule down to eight point two six percent and telling of thunderstorms author of the cooler weekend will forte and in sports have reports on the revival of the new media speedway as an evolution fb we have that warm summer like whether now we might have to pay the price the weather
service says torrential downpours and thunderstorms are possible tonight at least part of the state a severe thunderstorm what has been issued for all of south jersey until ten pm but that ominous forecast didn't dampen the fun at the beach goers had today at sandy hook the water temperature was definitely to call to take a day but the sun and sand or current conditions it's cloudy to partly cloudy around the state in your kid's eighty five in trenton eighty two when an atlantic city also at two degrees tonight thunder storms with heavy downpours and gusty winds temperatures falling to forty five to fifty seven degrees tomorrow partly sunny and breezy the high sixty to seventy and sunday sunday and cooled just like spring the high as sixty to seventy to visitors and the global changes just doubled as president of the local support and changes in a basketball today writer carter made it official one example the programs with the northeast conference in nineteen ninety two ninety three writer announces leaving the east
coast conference which is slowly dying and a member of the ntc researchers more national writer president bartlett he talked about the move back to really lead and elemental by independent colleges which we are all schools buzz saws with the commitment to the small division one a nominally dr jeff healey happy half three outstanding programs in college basketball so popular in the state is really a very much of the backbone of our program right now so i think it's only going to get better with time three schools played each other over their rivalries on the floor and this just makes us better uses a better relation with better schools letting stability excited about the rivalries we can now have not only in the state played regionally and it just gives us an opportunity to go and work hard to live up to the other schools in the league with just offered to leak and it's exactly a great fit for us and baseball announcer los angeles weather permitting of those was the cubs and the
yankees entertained seattle this episode mike bowers the barriers for a player to be named later and cash well if you're a motor sports managers is the place to be this week in delhi fly through the air a giant stadium saturday night is the ama camels have of course to work stops at the meadowlands stadium turf is buried under tons of dirt as one of bus riders replace gridiron warrior and our racing motors into a job at the central jersey state why not the green flying sunday the old witch of speedway has a new large new providers and a familiar roar filling the countryside it's been jeffers cavaliers and got a former driver turned promoter is trying to resurrect a full review we just we laugh because they bend the change in the image of the speedway throw my facility that's why we got into a really excited about race and bought myself a recent
report a volatile goes over forty years of racing history jeff when i raced here i ran against in here guys i carefully richie havens in a narrowing to shore and people like that have visited this track frequently wartime track champion john who oppose all about success and the commitment it takes to achieve that what has been that by the body this can stop this kid going to work sundays we counted on to keep don't we do it in a race where every score and most excited of racing outweighs the financial commitments thousand compilation car and drive myself it really wants a lot of work but we were out there because i could really feel kind of anywhere in the whole country new jersey is probably most happen america because a lot attractive replayed old tax havens and the resurrection of the central jersey is the life it's really happy with disney animation sounds critical closing the growth in the
tires ms am an odd collection of buildings on washington street united by princeton architect michael graves open tonight in at nine in the latest report on surviving these tough economic times state of the arts correspondent lisa made it takes a look at the new museum building to see its later years you come to the museum and you see our collective identity a fantastic beauty that humans have made it makes you proud of our past and hope we'll look at the future and that's the heartbreak for say look the whole point of the list is immigration created for us has got to be perfect for a dozen more modest estimate of i'm sorry this is the north we need a museum of the jewel in the crown and neither set of clothes in this section to the public completely of state budget cuts are drastic that is if they go well beyond the expected a percent miller says he'd have to run the museum as an educational institution
say artificial surfaces know you've already closed on mondays are now closed on tuesdays to to the public because of last year's budget squeeze and miller has turned away big blockbuster shows because they're just too expensive to mount oh murder in the home are watercolors is that nobody knows that the public would routinely gotten out to sea and that are not being seen in new york and i can't even contemplate the show owen director of the new home game for twenty three years he's waited sometimes storms people despise on the international map and i think they're finding the budget announcement will be made this summer anything new jersey network news new work day recapping tonight's top stories the state board of higher education has eased a tuition rolling that could pave the way for a larger tuition hikes or the board also took
action to make it tougher for state colleges and universities to prove and increases need it south jersey congressman robert andrews says he has new evidence that the navy made a mistake when it recommended the closing of the philadelphia naval shipyard three thousand new jersey residents are employed apathy so again well that by news for tonight i'm thirsty gas for instance the vice states in for a front page new jersey coming aftermath of all of those who have visited with news the peak to peak fb fb
- Series
- NJN News
- Episode
- Friday, May 17, 1991
- Producing Organization
- New Jersey Network
- Contributing Organization
- New Jersey Network (Trenton, New Jersey)
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- cpb-aacip-259-z31nm596
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Full 6:00pm News cast with Trish DeGasperis and Steve Highsmith; State officials ease rules over tuition hikes, Congressional investigators conclude closing Philadelphia Shipyard a mistake, body of elderly woman Toby Meyers found in freezer, Al Sharpton trial begins in Atlantic City, Chromium slag in landfills, Armed Forces Day weekend in Fort Monmouth, Teen dating violence, what constitutes a public road, Rider College joining Northeast Conference, AMA Campbell's Soupercross Motocross tour, Auto racing returns to New Egypt speedway, Future of the new Newark Museum
- Broadcast Date
- 1991-05-17
- Created Date
- 1991-05-17
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- Genres
- News
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- News
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- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:31:13.472
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Producing Organization: New Jersey Network
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New Jersey Network
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Duration: 0:30:00
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