New Jersey Nightly News; New Jersey Nightly News Episode from 01/05/1977 6:30 pm

This is the New Jersey news report from Monday September 5th I'm can't man a hand and I'm Greg Morris and good evening. As the holiday weekend winds to a close. State police say traffic on the major roads is medium to heavy. Police say traffic from the shore areas was hampered by a heavy rainstorm this afternoon as motorists filled the Garden State Parkway heading north. The Atlantic City Expressway and the other east west routes from the shore were reported medium to heavy with many people apparently leaving early to beat the weather. So far there have been no major traffic mishaps in the state however. Six people were reportedly killed over the weekend by 7:00 this evening. A total of three hundred forty two people have been killed in traffic accidents nationwide. The traffic jams at the Lincoln Tunnel Tomorrow should be monumental. A Port Authority is closing three of four lanes into the tunnel for repairs and they will be closed through tomorrow. Police at the tunnel say everything should be cleared by Wednesday morning. But in the meantime they are recommending commuters enter New York to find another way to get there. They suggest using the Holland Tunnel or the George Washington Bridge. And in South Jersey motorists who use the Ben Franklin Bridge to get into Philadelphia will find the going a

little bit slower. Starting tomorrow traffic on the Admiral Wilson Boulevard will be restricted to two lanes of the bridge approach. This is because construction will begin on one of the links to ice 676 at the bridge Plaza. Motorists are urged to find alternate routes or use public transportation. The latest accident at public service is nuclear generating plant in Salem County has been taken care of. A spokesman for the company says the leak in the nuclear unit wanted alway's township has been repaired. The spokesman says no radioactive water was released because of the leak which began last Friday. The leaking occurred in a coil around one of the five ventilation fans in the containment building. Normal plant operations were not affected because there are only three fans are needed to cool during normal working conditions. The old bridge in the surrounding municipalities in Middlesex County are quiet today following Senate is one concert that attracted over 100000 music fanatics from just about everywhere. Piles of garbage remain to be cleared but the concert concert featuring the Grateful Dead will have a much longer lasting

impact on the residents around Englishtown raceway a three day traffic jam getting to and from the concert finally cleared up late this morning. Cars even parked everywhere possible up to 10 miles from the concert. Two people died Saturday night after the concert. One from the parent drug overdose and another as a result of an automobile accident. Both deaths are still under investigation from the two deaths. There were two births. Fifty people were treated for drug overdoses. One Medivac helicopter crash landed resulting in no injuries and one person was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct. Well have a film report on the concert later in the news. Political and labor leaders made their annual pilgrimage to Pennsauken today to honor the founder of Labor Day reports. For over 41 years the big wave of organized labor and their families have come to pan Sawkins Arlington Cemetery to remember Peter Jay McGuire the CAMDEN RESIDENT who first proposed this holiday in 1882. The ceremony is usually very small but this year the crowd looked a little different for two reasons. The Camden

County central labor union bussed in hundreds of senior citizens and since it is election year this year politicians came out in droves working the crowd before the ceremonies and then delivering their Labor Day addresses. I've come here to sign a proclamation recognizing. This day a proclamation in which I recall reciting that Peter Mark Warner many years ago that it was to our time that the people of the United States honor the industrial spirit while the various speakers commented on the current problems of unemployment the energy shortage and the future of the minimum wage. Nearly all of those speeches had one thing in common. They paused to remember the fiery Irishman whose efforts brought about the first three day weekend for America's working men

and women in Pennsauken Dave Stryker reporting for New Jersey news. While most of the credit for the founding of the credit should go elsewhere story I actually founded Labor Day. Recently I talked with George Pullman about his discovery and who should get credit for the American worker. He was secretary of the labor union of New York and. 2014 is one of their meetings. Towards the end of the meeting he got up and he said I. Propose that we hold a monster demonstration. For. Which your working men can take part held in the early part of September. Getting credit for it. Well some years later the article appeared.

And 1887 about five years after there was an article in his paper the. Cop and. The brother of a cop and they have a journal of their own called a carpenter and Berry stated. That in May of 1882 I appeared before the Labor Party and proposed that the first Monday in September be set aside as a Labor Day. And he made that statement and several years later he repeated that. But the minutes of the meeting and the old timers that were present no it was not. It was Matthew began in 1967 after finding some documents with the holiday in Great Falls area and Patterson was bustling with sports activities and other special events today is that city's Seventh Annual Festival ended a four day run mini marathons where the main event today in Patterson and scaled down races were set on

three mile an eight mile course and the runners were grouped by age. There was also a soccer tournament along with concerts dancing and a fashion show. Today's activities four days of almost nonstop special events clustered around the historic Great Falls area. President Carter's schedule while in New Jersey this Saturday has been expanded to include two meetings with the public campaigning in Trenton Chambersburg section has been receiving all of the attention. However the president and Governor Vern will campaign among the people of Newark also. That event is scheduled to follow the president's tour of the College of Medicine and Dentistry on Saturday morning. The president will be spending more than five hours in New Jersey stumping for the reelection of Governor burns. This coming Saturday is expected to bring more good news for the governor from the New Jersey Education Association the big teachers union created to do with being one of the strongest lobbies in Trenton. It's going to make an endorsement. Dick Minton reports. The issue of public education is clearly divided between the two major candidates this

year although both candidates favors state aid public education it's the level of aid in the method of funding that in which they differ. Republican gubernatorial candidate Raymond Bateman is against the income tax the tax that now provides the money for the constitutionally mandated thorough and efficient educational system. Bateman says he will finance the current level of state aid about five hundred five million dollars by conservative fiscal measures and possibly a sales tax increase. But he wants to hold next year's level of state aid to this year's amount. Governor Brown on the other hand favors keeping the income tax and increasing state aid to public schools next year to around 600 million dollars. The governor emphasizes this does not mean more money will be spent on education but rather that less will have to be spent from local property taxes. The NJCAA is expected to make its gubernatorial endorsement this coming weekend. It's expected to go to Governor Burton. However a number of leaders in the teacher's union favor Bateman's ideas about reducing teachers paperwork and removing the state law that limits the amount of budget increases for local school districts each year.

Still one berth both candidates appeared before the teachers recently. The governor was given the warm reception that reception is expected to be translated into a political endorsement. This is Dick Minton. Detectives from the Mercer County prosecutor's office and Ewing Township Police Department are investigating the apparent rape and murder of a graduate student at Trenton State College. The victim identified as 25 year old Sigrid Stevenson of Livermore California was found last night by a guard at the college. Police say the young woman's body was discovered on the stage at Calvin Kendall hall and that she apparently had been dead for several days. An autopsy has been performed but the results have not been made public yet. Some news from Atlantic City this week that has more to do with beauty and talent than the pros and cons of casino gambling. On center stage is the Miss America pageant. And today the first formal rehearsal took place and then it worries most about the image of the Miss America pageant. Albert Marx Jr. is already making sure that future contestants are unsullied by the spicy nightlife next year's entrants are booked into casino lists local

hotels. But this Saturday night coming up some 100 million people will watch on television the coronation of this year's Miss America. And it was also announced today that the scholarship prize money that will be awarded to this year's Miss America has been increased from 15 to $20000. Pageant officials say that they've hiked the prize money because education costs have gone up so high a lot of sports activities took place this past Labor Day weekend adik Landis is next to bring us up to date Dick. OK thank you can't Steve Carlton became baseball's first 20 game winner today as the Phillies split with the pirates losing the first 3 1 and winning the second game 11 1. The net nets rather dropped a single game to the Expos for three. The American Soccer League title was settled yesterday at Rutgers stadium and has got away where the New Jersey Americans beat the Sacramento spirits three nothing for the championship. It wasn't Giants Stadium where the wealthier Cosmo's of the North American Soccer League played before seventy seven thousand fans but it was a vocal and enthusiastic crowd

bigger than the usual 3000 at the league's regular season games and a smaller and faster New Jerseyans never quit against the bigger tougher and better skilled Californians to second have goals locked up at a time when the tide put out these nice women in a way. That the New Jersey Americans never stopped hustling and when it was over the garden state had two pro soccer champs because most of the NASL and Americans of the AFL the great thing about yesterday's win was that coach Manny shell shyte had died in the last place team in 76 to the league title in 77. Following a victory Manny told me there had been doubts about winning at all. I kind of confident that it was the better team and skills under the better team. An individual. I think we want to underscore cannot show to be very much defined by the document a team because they got to be a lot of fun. Thank you very much Kevin Walsh number 11 had started this season in the NASL and had been cut. So yesterday's victory was very very sweet.

Well I think that the American Soccer League still has a little bit more to go before they catch up to the NASL as far as marketing and as far as money which is a big word in this game professional sports. So I can't help but saying I'd like to play and play in a better league with more money. But I mean you know I couldn't be any more happy with the team that I'm with now I mean winning the league and everything else so it's hard to say at this time you know off to see what develops in the future. The post-game celebration was more sweet because. The kids are part timers at the game while Sacramento is a full time operation. But regardless. League Commissioner Bob Cousy was pleased with the game and hopefully his organization will someday be able to compete on a par with the richer NASL. Why not a game now between the cosmos and the Americans to settle the pro championship of New Jersey. Yesterday's Giants Jets football game the Meadowlands was more than just a preseason exhibition. It was the only game between the two this year and the winner would have bragging rights to the metropolitan area.

The Giants had dominated the series. The Jets last win coming in 1971. Both teams have been struggling and searching for identities under new head coaches this year both looking for the right combinations to start the season. The Jets may have found something in their 10 nothing win yesterday quarterback Richard Todd once again looked impressive but the key to the Jets success could be the development of a rookie free agent from tiny town State College in Pennsylvania. Bruce Harper began his season as a return specialist but yesterday given his first start Harper responded with 59 yards on 11 carries. You also ran back eight points in a kickoff to end the day with 171 total yards victory even as the Jets record at 3 and 3. The Giants are wanted for the preseason comes to an end next weekend with the Jets traveling the Washington Friday night. And the Giants host the Dolphins next Sunday afternoon. Rutgers must get ready for a very good Colgate team next Saturday and held in New

York where the Red Raiders wish to avenge a controversy a loss to the Scarlet Knights last Thanksgiving in the Meadowlands. The game that gave Rutgers 18 straight Friday night however in a game you saw here the nation's longest win streak ended when some people like Matt Sui ripped Rutgers for two quick touchdowns before you could say Nittany Lions. Penn State was just too big and too deep in talent. Plus the heat and the lack of depth was too much for Rutgers. Jeffrey Holtz got the job of quarterbacking in the biggest college football game in New Jersey but he felt the Penn State pressure and threw three interceptions. The ground game was shut off and red holes put it up successfully at first but then the interceptions rebels had won the job this year from bird Kosten the cost may have strengthened his chances of getting a starting job back when he entered the game in the fourth quarter and passed his team down the field on the only drive of the night for Rutgers with a freshman Lester Johnson finally taking it in to avoid a shut out even though it was against the Penn State subs coach Frank Burns was now decide who will quarterback against

Colgate. Not an easy decision. And finally if Rutgers had the guts to put his reputation on the line against Penn State it has the guts to come back against Colgate. And that's in sports. Harold Casey of marble township Monmouth County completed his years of study and training at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis last spring. He expected to receive his degree and officers commission but Casey was found guilty of plagiarizing a final term paper last month he was expelled. Casey has taken the academy to the U.S. military court of appeals in federal district court in Washington D.C. He charges that academy officials ignored military procedures in reviewing his case and deprived him of his constitutional right of due process. Casey talked with Washington correspondent Andrea Fleischer about his encounter with the Naval Academy. Do you feel you were treated fairly by the Naval Academy. No I feel that the Academy that did not treat me very fairly they didn't follow their own set down procedure their own rules that they and guidelines they

had to follow. Many of them were violated and some of them or ignore it completely. Why do you think you were singled out accused. Of plagiarism. I don't know why I was singled out. You know midshipman or whatever the student in the. Charging Professor class. I feel he singled me out from the class in his first interview. That he didn't care whether I was found guilty or innocent by the honor board but he was going to give me an incomplete on the paperwork and probably flunk me for the class regardless. And he knew that this would keep me from graduating. And one way or the other Casey complained that he wasn't advised of his right to have a lawyer at the original hearing. That attorney can ask you Don will handle his appeal. United States Naval Academy. Has a number of rules pursuant to which people are tried their midshipmen are tried for honor code

violations. In each and every instance where they had a rule of procedure it was violated and we hope to bring out that there was a complete denial of due process of law. In violation of the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution. What do you think our chances are for a retrial. Well I think that his chances for a retrial are very good. However I must say that we don't think that under the circumstances that are now prevalent at the academy with the stigma that's been associated with his dismissal with the fact that he's a rock the boat so to speak by taking this court or this action into the open that he can possibly get a fair trial. Is this the usual. Kind of treatment that a midshipman would get at the Naval Academy is this a common thing.

That's a hard question to answer. Midshipman at the academy the attitude is the midshipmen are midshipman not really people. They were treated more or less along the lines of children being told when they go to sleep when to wake up when they went to study a very rigorous training environment which may be necessary for some things and unnecessary for others. My family has an extensive military background. My grandfather a career military man my father a career military man. I have two brothers which graduated from the Naval Academy and myself to be the third. After working for over four years to become a naval officer and get a college degree have it taken away from you really staggers me and leaves me kind of numb all over the side. Those affect of course my marriage has been postponed indefinitely now through drawing out the case over a couple months. I was unable to get married in June as my

plan for. I was unable to go to a surface warfare school and become a surface line author of My plan for is this fight worth it. To me it's worth it. I have worked over four years for something and they have just taken away on unfair treatment and unjust procedure to me is completely unfair. I'm not one to just roll over and. Play dead form Law believe in myself and I believe I was wronged and I'm going to fight for it. Casey's appeal for review has the backing of congressmen from four states. He's also sent personal letters of appeal to the secretary of the Navy and the president. He still hopes for a naval career. But right now he says he's very discouraged. Mostly overcast skies kept much of the Labor Day quiet crowd away from the beaches today but still the day was a day to be spent outside somewhere and many people did. But while some spent a day on the Garden State Parkway others found a better way to spend a cloudy but still summery day. Keith

spent his day away from our studios but the National Weather Service says there's a good chance of shower or thunder showers just about anywhere in the state tonight. Temperatures will get down to the low to mid 60s tomorrow. The chance of showers will increase except in the northern sections where the sun will pop through the overcast every once in a while. Temperatures up in the low to mid 80s. Getting down to the upper 50s in some areas tomorrow night. Then for Wednesday the high will range from the mid 70s to the low 80s again. A good chance of showers throughout the state. Some headlines from around the world tonight Senator Charles Percy and Abraham Ribicoff met with President Carter today and informed him that serious allegations have been uncovered against budget director Bert lats. The two senators said that Lance should resign. A West German terrorist group today ambushed a car carrying Hons MARTIN One of the heads of the Donmar Benz corporation. Four of the businessmen's bodyguards were killed. Martin was kidnapped and is presumed to be injured.

Paul Springle attended that concert Saturday by the Grateful Dead. He and a camera man flew in at about 9:00 Saturday morning instead while asset by the dead. Here was his report. Would the security be enough with the crowd be peaceful or would there be the violence the Middlesex County prosecutor had warned of that was the big media question and flying into it. You could feel the potential of things did go wrong but also of interest was who would be in that audience down there. The Grateful Dead band goes back to the mid sixties with a hard core following that used to call themselves Deadheads. How many of the half million souls who soak up the sunshine smoked the pot tripped out on the music and left behind their garbage at Woodstock which show up here perhaps as middle aged somewhat potbellied stretchmarks senior hippies. And when this guy comes to greet you with the hellebore you figure my God. Maybe they're all here but when you look at the faces in the audience they're almost all too young too old to have been told it in a Woodstock backpack but too young to have been there on their own. Not by any stretch members of the original Deadheads. So when you meet Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead you ask him about that.

First of all it's the young people who are willing to expend the effort to get here. The older ones don't want to walk for a couple miles after they park their car after the after the traffic jam and all that kind of stuff and they've been there and they've been to a few and they've seen the elephant and now they're sort of getting out of the way and. As far as I'm concerned. To go from generation to generation or you know I guess right now we're kind of between Generation X or something I'm not sure of but to play for younger younger kids younger people it's my pleasure. A lot of how the day goes for everybody depends on the security and how well you take care of your crowds beside building an enormous ring of piggyback cargo containers and you make sure no beer or liquor get in. And by 10:00 in the morning the number of bottles that did not get in is really beginning to mount. Drugs did find their way on the concert grounds and they were used openly. The promoters had provided for the inevitable overdoses of paid professional ambulance squad victims to three helicopters used to ferry the press the bands and some 50 overdoses plus two pregnant women who gave birth during the concert. There were 50 overdoses. One

died. For a rock concert of this size things went well on the inside on the outside. It was a different story. Cars parked everywhere along roads to the concert blocking traffic blocking people's driveways and the concert goers became pigs out there with their bottles in their garbage and streets and lawns became garbage dumps and as much as three miles from the concert cars parked in fields whose owners had suddenly gone into the parking business. They wanted to park where to park charging. Yeah yeah yeah. How much. Do I have. Yeah yeah. I know how many cars you got there. Oh I don't know how much money you make today. Yes. No I'm not saying it. How do you feel about them having these concerts. Right. I don't know why but I feel sorry for the kids. We have far to go and we figure they're humanitarianism

earn them about $800. Promoter John shear blames most of the problems outside the arena on area police have one report of any violence at all. Kids who are here to have a good time and they're having a good time. I think. There are some problems the way events like this. Especially when you have been this account he said to me now a band for example that in their fear of potential crime. The problems that were probably the main culprits of causing the massive backups in the parking problems at work. We have absolute proof. For directions which. If you don't know what you mean. We haven't a. Word to show. That there's no way to get any.

So they were just not going to come with. A fork right now. Sure is convinced from how well it went on the inside that there is a future for concerts on such a large scale in New Jersey. As for the Grateful Dead How do they feel about facing 125 to 150 thousand people at a clip from Bob where it's not what you'd expect. Many people not know all that well and we did once last year. We do it once this year maybe next summer. Smoothly and is established as a precedent. We might use it as a basis or a mode of operation for next summer. The weather permitting. How does it feel knowing after you've flown over it you've seen that hundred and twenty thousand faces. I'm scared silly.

Seriously I don't know I don't know on any given night how well I'm going to play I don't know I don't know if I'm going to be completely muddled and. Take any chances. Scary. How do you get through it. You go through anything. At Englishtown Paul Spring New Jersey. And that's our news for tonight. The update will be at 10:00 and from all of us here in New Jersey Public Television enjoy a good evening. Now. That. I am.

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