New Jersey Nightly News; New Jersey Nightly News Episode from 05/16/1978

New Jersey Michael. Vaughan. Good evening. In New Jersey today state inspectors found you can't believe everything you read when it comes to the labels on processed meats. So business people in Atlantic City hope they'll be the big winners when casino gambling starts there later this month. And the national controversy over nuclear waste comes to New Jersey this week. We'll take an advance look. And a sports ball above line will take a look at what the LPGA golfers have been doing in the rain and oh have a report on some Princeton women who have been manning the oars. Tonight's closer look Seidemann deals with the subject of battered wives and shelters for them. The State Department of Consumer Affairs says federal standards for marking weight on prepackaged foods are too lenient and at things New Jersey should have standards that are more strict. Geoffrey hall reports. It's a river between the states and the federal government. The United States Department of

Agriculture at present is letting the meat packing industry set lower net weight standards than the states want. New Jersey is one state that wants the USDA to bring net weight standards into line to satisfy consumers. For instance this package of bacon contains less than the amount marked its price for 16 ounces. But after it's delivered to the store and moisture is rosted it weighs less than 15 ounces. Even though shoppers are paying for a pound. Really a short way industry pressure is very big. Anyone can ask out of industry. You may have to pack a little bit more as a business to deliver the right amount to the consumer is not inflationary. And you don't care that you get it.

The Department of Consumer Affairs shoppers can save money if they want. If you find yourself they don't like it you can write your representatives in Washington and let them know you want the meat packing industry to sell you a pounds worth of prepackaged meat and nothing less. This is Jeffrey holder for. Sitting in the rain today after yesterday's approval of a temporary permit for local merchants. And my power has a story. This is not a story about the usual people in Atlantic City who think their own fortunes will rise with casino gambling. They're convinced the rainbow Resorts International is about to go over town. Along the border. All the usual people have their pots ready and so do the not so usual people. This man is the only one of his kind in town. He's ready for gamblers to leave the

casino and walk three blocks. A fairly new winner I guess. You know looking for a better tattoo or a bigger one in the shop. So you should be pretty good I guess. All right. The losers have other places to go to. Athletic city has three pawn shops. They lend money at two and a half percent a month. This one's been in business 50 years. Most of its 6000 loans a year are for less than $100. But the owner doesn't figure he'll get rich off the bad luck of gamblers. He says geography is working against him. I was a close proximity to the other large cities Philadelphia New York etc.. The losers can get back in their car and just take off and go back home. They don't have to come to you necessarily near the center of attention in Atlantic City is already getting busy. It even started a courtesy school today for its

employees and that presumably will include lessons on how to deal with the customers whose luck runs out here. That Latics city is getting ready for what it hopes will be the best summer in years. And just like always there are places here not just for the winners but for the losers. This is Mike power in Atlantic City. Of all of the rain that's falling water company officials are worried about a drought. Now they worry about water shortages in northern Jersey that may occur as early as 1980. Reporter Jack Conway has the. This reservoir or Adele is part of the Hackensack water company's system serving 60 communities in North Jersey. Company officials now say this system will be an adequate if a drought like that of the middle 60s should hit this region again. Because of the dramatic growth of Bergen County Hackensack Water Company officials say the company would be short over 13 million gallons a day during drought

conditions. Plans are drawn for a new reservoir at two bridges on the Passaic River. But construction is not begun and a drought by 1980 could leave customers high and dry. I think the concern is that it takes a very long time to build things today to obtain the necessary permits and lead times are very important. Even if all approvals are obtained it still means nearly five years before the project can be completed and online. There's another problem too. The new reservoir would be built upstream of the Great Falls so Paterson city officials are fighting the project saying it would drain so much water from the river the falls would lose their static appeal and that would kill it as a tourist attraction. Conflicting testimony has stalled the project for almost three years. Perhaps above everything else the point that has water company officials most concern is the crisis mentality they see in state officials in the public. And they say if that

mentality of waiting for disaster to strike before acting is continued some residents of North Jersey could see the day when the taps run dry in Newark. I'm Jack Connelly a four year old civil suit aimed at cleaning up mercury wastes in the Hackensack Meadowlands is finally going to drive state environmental officials claim the 40 acre site is an ecological time bomb. The problem as much as 300 times mercury and other hazardous waste threatening to spread contamination throughout the Hackensack River Basin. The state is trying to get the companies that dump the stuff to pay for a study of how far the contamination now spread. A conference will be held in Salem on Thursday to lay out the agenda for a hearing concerning the Salem Nuclear Generating Station. Public Service Electric and Gas wants to expand its nuclear waste storage facilities in Salem. But there's a local opposition. Michael Norman has a perspective report on the issues that will be discussed on Thursday.

This is the Salem nuclear power plant. It sits on an hour and then Shalit it juts into the Delaware River each day the plant can produce enough electricity for a million homes. But the plant also produces waste radioactive potentially dangerous nuclear waste that no one wants in his backyard. The waste is the byproduct of the plant's nuclear reactor. 100 tons of nuclear material rest in the reactors core once a year one third of the material is removed. That's the way pst it is stored here in a concrete bunker next to the reactor. Federal law allows the plant to keep four years worth of waste in the bunkers storage tank. But PFC Energy claims it must store more. Another 13 years worth. The utility says if it doesn't get permission for the increase it will have to shut down when the four years are up. Moreover company officials insist the storage bunker is safe. But complete analysis has been done on the additional storage capacity of the spent fuel pool and the safety hazard or a safety risk is the

same as or less than the original design. But nuclear Opponents say the radioactive waste is a danger to the people of Salem County. One of the opponents of this is Eleanor Coleman of Penn's Bill wants the government to limit the amount of radioactive waste the utility can store. A national solution to the problem of this terrible waste that's created by these generating stations and that the waste going on the island will never leave the plant is located in the community of lower our waste creek. Mayor Sam Donaldson is also opposed to the utilities request. I want to be a dumping ground for nuclear waste. That's the detrimental effects. We can't tell now because of technology perhaps to the extent of or anybody realizing what would happen. Utility officials nuclear opponents local politicians and the state government would like to see the waste put in a national storage facility.

But plans for that aren't even on the drawing board. And federal authorities say that a national site to store nuclear waste is at least 10 years down the road. This is Michael Norman reporting. A residential cottage at the Neuropsychiatric Institute it's Gilman has been evacuated after 19 cases of lead poisoning were discovered among patients. State officials have examined 174 of the 600 patients of the Institute so far. This in the wake of a report that patients were becoming ill. After eating lead bettor based paint off the cottage walls. A compromise settlement has been reached in the Manhattan Transit Company bus strike. The settlement accepted already by the company the striking drivers mechanics and clerical workers will vote on it tomorrow night. The strike started back on March 30 first. It's forced 20000 North Jersey and Rockland Orange County commuters to find other ways to get to work. New Jersey senator Harrison Williams labor reform bill ran into expected Republican opposition in

Washington today the GOP started a filibuster against the bill of filibuster that's likely to last at least two weeks. Williams bill would make it easier for unions to organize and would streamline the government's handling of the lead. The labor law violations. The Burton administration is calling for school districts to combine or regionalize as an efficiency measure. But now some large regional districts are finding that bigger may not always mean better. Greg Morrison reports. Systems West and Central and attempt to break up a system. For the break up in the system as well as western district schools.

Saturation with plastic. Has not. Grown in a recent referendum overwhelmingly supported withdrawal from the district but residents in the move usually has to be approved by voters in districts. Or residents of the May 2nd referendum I would say for two reasons. First they felt that it was going to be more costly for them to build a new school. By themselves. As opposed to building it on a regional basis. And secondly I believe they voted no because they felt that. They would be faced with severe overcrowding at Highland Regional High School and felt that that was not in their best interest.

In this case first to the commissioner of education if necessary to the quotes depending on the outcome of the district's regionalization exam and their plans to combine resources regionalization only be workable for districts that have populations similar growth patterns. Police Woman or swat. There's a new cop show going on all over the state this week on foreign agents in New Jersey observing Police Week where a New York Police Museum opened its doors to the public with an exhibition of antique police paraphernalia vintage look at the boys in blue shows hostiles unchanged since the early eighteen hundreds. The purpose of all this of police publicists say it's to increase public awareness of police activities and also of course to improve relations with the people in Princeton they have a shell with women at the oars all bloodline has that story and all of tonight's sports when the New Jersey nightly news continues. Here's the weather forecast cloudy and windy with rain on and off tonight. Low

temperatures will range from the upper 40s in northern New Jersey to the mid 50s in the south. And there is a small craft advisory along the coast tonight. Tomorrow New Jersey weather will be cloudy and cool with a continued chance of rain. Afternoon highs will be in the mid 50s to the mid 60s. The outlook for Thursday in New Jersey occasional rain likely and continued cool. Holly and Andre Previn and the Pittsburgh Symphony. It's. Broadway's buddy common and join Andre Previn for an evening of performance and conversation. Next it's. Been in the pits. Good evening. That weather forecast of more rain won't sit too well with officials of the Coca-Cola Classic. The program is set for tomorrow. The term itself worth

$100000 will run Friday through Sunday. This was supposed to be a day of practice for the women pros but about the only thing practice of all would have been their backstroke. What do the big name golfers on the pro tour do on a day like today. I put that question to someone who should know Betsey Rawls as he has been on the LPGA Tour for 28 years. For the girls or is it enjoyable. Yes generally it is. I think. They put on the

competition and the travel. Last week Edward Ellis Jr. announced that he had agreed to buy the burned down Garden State racetrack in Cherry Hill tomorrow that agreement will be formalized at a 10am ceremony. Ellis whose father originally built the track back in 1942 will pay sixteen point seven million dollars a seeking state aid to help rebuild the track. The women's krewe team at Princeton University is one of the best in the east they finished the year with a 7 1 record. One reason their coach Chris Corps and formerly a member of the Polish national team. Uses European methods of training that means practice and more practice regardless of rain or snow. White as. Snow. And bugs are allowed. You know nobody watches you goods and I don't know if this will be successful. One crewmember who thrives on training as co-captain Ellen the Sanctus an all around athlete.

She's heard all the criticism that rowing will build up on Wanted and unfeminine bulges But she says that's a myth. Misconceptions About that people think there's bodies or leg muscles. That's the drive for this size but it's a back of the arm situation people think of women as having huge arms that's really not the case. And even though their season is over the many of the Princeton crew members will row and nationals in June on Thursday the city of Paterson will honor one of its favorite sons high jumper Franklin Jacobs Jr. a fairly Dickinson Jacobs will be the guest of honor at a luncheon then later on Thursday will give a high jump demonstration for the youth of Paterson. It was on January 20 7th of this year that Jacob set a new indoor world record with this leap seven feet seven and a quarter inches. That record has since been broken but Jacobs is still number one in Paterson and the city will prove that on Thursday. Rebecca. Thanks Paul.

Battered wives how can they turn tail. We'll find out next on a closer look. People filling empty spaces with life. The setting of the treasures

of a city at its heart. I'm preparing Friday night of my 13. Every year in the state of New Jersey one hundred thousand women are assaulted in their own homes by the men they marry. The problem of battered wives touches everyone. The wealthy the middle class the poor. The shock and shame of being abused is one of the main reasons battered wives stay locked in a prison of silence. Well recently some groups have formed special havens for battered women who can't go home again. These havens not only shelter women they also counsel them. Judy Jordan runs one of the shelters called Women's spacing in Mercer County. And Kali is the State Commissioner of Human Services the agency which funds many of these shelters. Commissioner Kali How many shelters exist in the state and how many women can they handle at one time.

Well we don't have very many yet. There are about five I think that are actually operating. Two that are funded by our agent.