New Jersey Nightly News; New Jersey Nightly News Episode from 10/27/1980

This weekend's storm creates problems in South Jersey and doesn't bring much relief from the drought in north Jersey. Losses for the Giants and Rutgers a win for Princeton will recap the weekend football tonight in sports. And we'll take a closer look at the one hundred forty five million dollar natural resources Monday issue. New Jersey Nightly News with Karen Stone correspondent Gus hummingbird. And Bill Perry was born. Good evening Karen Stone has the night off I'm Steve Taylor. The weekend storm that surprised even the most seasoned Jersey Shore resident with its intensity caused as much as 80 million dollars worth of damage mostly along the Delaware Bay shoreline. Hundreds of people who fled high water and wind have been allowed back into their communities but many have found their homes gone. Initial officials met today to apply for state and federal aid but the hard hit areas have not formally been declared disaster areas yet Don Tarrant's reports the storm swept up from the south and that left the underside of New Jersey the Delaware Bay shoreline most

vulnerable but damage was heavy along the Atlantic shoreline too. Power lines down houses swept off foundations. The dunes here in Sea Isle City pushed into the roadway seven families have lost their permanent homes. How are those back to most of the 75000 people who lost it for as long as 10 hours. One death has been directly blamed on the storm. You know support officials met on over South Jersey today to talk about rebuilding and how to pay for it and even to place some blame. This is Bridgeton in Cumberland County. The damage estimate here 20 million dollars. But if you don't look to the future you don't get things turned into a future. And I was referring. In places like Ganges beach Cumberland County people were trying to recover whatever they could from debris swept as far away as a mile by the high winds and times were you know as the disaster was complete. This wasn't his summer home it was his retirement home. He spent Saturday night riding out the waves with his wife and granddaughters in the bedroom and the waves are heading from the house machination all the front end coming in one

door and I broke out the side of the house. Which the water was running out. Now we had about two foot of water in here we sit on this bed. My oldest Pandora here my wife here and my little baby daughter to peach pre-state bag wrapped around her feet and was running around picking up small incidentals. It's been 30 years since a storm took a bite as big as this one out of this area. It took another 20 for all the people to come back and rebuild but come back they did. And it's likely that they will once again rebuild right on the water and take their chances. One more time in Dante's beach Cumberland County. I'm Don Torrance. Newark Airport measured one point seven inches of rain from Saturday's storm but it did little help to ease the drought as well as reports in tonight's drought update. Although Saturday's steady downpour was sorely needed at the parched reservoirs of northern New Jersey the miner benefits from the rain were somewhat overshadowed by the extensive damage it did after the storm died down as much as two inches of rain had fallen. But it was hardly enough to

provide any substantial relief to the northern part of the state which now enters its fifth week of water rationing. Also on Saturday two New Jersey construction firms were given the go ahead to begin work on the two mile pipeline between Lake a panic on the buton reservoir. The emergency pipeline is a joint venture between the state and federal government and Construction is scheduled to begin on December 1st. Meanwhile consumption for the most part was down last week when compared to a base figure used by the Department of Environmental Protection. The base figure is used by the governor's task force to determine the mandatory 25 percent reduction in consumption. The figure is based on water usage the week of September 22nd which is the week before rationing going into effect. When the task force asked for 25 percent reductions it wanted consumption to be 25 percent less than consumption the week before rationing was imposed. Last week the Commonwealth water company reduced consumption of 4.9 percent when compared to the week of September 22nd and its reservoir is now at thirty three point nine percent capacity. The Hackensack water company

registered a 16 percent drop in consumption last week but its reservoir is 75 percent empty. Newark reduced consumption by seven and a half percent last week in its reservoirs of thirty five point two percent of capacity. But Newark is also buying water from the Passaic valley system and the Elizabeth Town water company. The North Jersey district water company reduced consumption by 21 percent last week when compared to the week just prior to rationing figures for Jersey City are not available because of a dispute between the municipality and the Department of Environmental Protection over how the figures are compiled. The Passaic Valley Water Commission seems to have reversed the downward trend by pumping 4 percent more water than it did the third week in September. But Passaic Valley pumped additional supplies of water to Jersey City because of water main break in Jersey City. And the company also pumped additional supplies to the Newark reservoir Passaic Valley has no reservoir and draws water from the Passaic River and shares water from the want to the reservoir. Jersey City continues to receive at least a half a million gallons of water a day from New York City. Water that is being piped

through the Holland Tunnel. But reservoir levels in New York are reportedly dropping by three to five percent a week. And New York officials have hinted that they will probably withdraw the service this Saturday. I'm ready. The Senate Energy and Environment Committee today held its second hearing on a bill to regulate the location of hazardous waste disposal plants in New Jersey. There's a shortage of disposal facilities now and a growing problem with illegal chemical dumping all across the state. Committee Chairman Frank Dodd says the state is looking for a sound enforceable solution to both problems. We have a technical problem there Senator Dodd said that he would have told us New Jersey will be the first state in the nation to establish privately operated toxic waste sites closely scrutinized by the State Department of Environmental Protection and the host municipalities where the facilities are located. Dodd added that the bill calls for three to five new dump sites in the state and the towns affected would get money to conduct their own studies of how the Dems would affect the environment. The toxic waste oil

that was spread on a rural road in West Milford Township is expected to be all cleaned up by tonight. At least that's what state environmental officials say. But as Phelps Hawkins reports local residents are not sure the clean up is the total solution to their problem. Road to reduce dust from the dirt road. It would go one one. Phelps would have reported that local residents are still concerned they and their families were contaminated by the toxic oil before the state cleaned it up over the weekend. State officials say the possibility of serious harm is small but residents know kids played on that contaminated road contaminated with cancer causing PCBs for three months before the possible danger was revealed. It now looks like it will be next week before the Federal Communications Commission takes up the question of transferring TV channel line to New Jersey. The FCC has revoked RKO general's license for New York's channel line and Garden State politicians are trying to get the channel

reassigned to New Jersey. A hearing on the subject had been set for this week but now the FCC says it will start considering nine for New Jersey on November 6th. The first lady Rosalynn Carter was in New York today. Her mission to pick up urban white ethnic votes that may be straying from the Democratic fold this year. In a stop at St. John's Ukrainian Catholic church and school she aimed her words mostly at the elderly in the crowd contending Jimmy Carter's the candidate with their interests at heart. And at a news conference later she attacked Ronald Reagan's record and predicted that the GOP challenger would lose the slight edge he now has in the polls here. I think we're going to carry New Jersey. And the reason I think is that people people like to protest and and people like to think that somebody else could solve the problems overnight because the problems are difficult and they don't have an easy solutions and they don't go away overnight. But you can't solve an energy problem and inflation which has been with us for 25 years overnight as the campaign

draws down to and people see that Jimmy Carter is making slow steady progress toward solving those problems. This is Carter also argued for continuity in government noting that no president since Eisenhower has held the office for two full terms in the ninth congressional district in eastern Bergen County and parts of Hudson the Democrats are trying to regain a congressional seat they feel is rightfully theirs. But they have to contend with an incumbent Republican congressman who is so moderate a lot of voters think he's a Democrat. Nerium Rosso reports. Congressman how old Capt. Hollenbeck could be a political strategist stream. He's good looking laid back he gets along and he doesn't make waves. Hollenbeck another North Jersey members of Congress were together at a Jewish Federation symposium on Israel recently while others finesse the fine points of foreign policy. We find India and Pakistan fighting through wars against each other now it ran against Iraq. You have to ask the question. Allan Beck hit the big issue most

you know morning is the one we're in the euro and of course in the Middle East peace has been in Congress for four years and none of the legislation he's introduced has passed although parts of his bills have made it into other bills yet he's led a charmed life this politician managing to win public office without much campaign fuss. He's been a state assemblyman and senator and he's managed to win a congressional seat twice in a normally Democratic district. But his Democratic opponent gave Ambrosio is trying to make Hollenbeck unlucky this year. Ambrosio wasn't Cliffside Park the day we filmed him making his case to senior citizens and getting an assist from Senator Bill Bradley. I'm here to strongly endorse the care of C of Gabe Ambrosio for the

ninth district by running against the incumbent Republican who has been there for four years. I'm running because I think this district needs representation and it hasn't received a representation this year is the Democrats clear a shot at the 9th District seat since 1976 when then incumbent Democrat Henry Hill Starsky lost because of his legal troubles. But even this year the Democrats may have trouble shaking Hollenbeck from his perch Ambrosio made an unsuccessful run for county freeholder but he's still relatively unknown here. And Hollenbeck is such a middle of the roader that according to a Democratic poll one third of the voters think he's a Democrat. In addition Hollenbeck has a lot of traditionally Democratic support. And these are people organizations and labor organizations or teachers nurses right across the board. But Ambrosio says Hollenbeck may be too obligated to the special interest groups which support him.

He has. The way his campaign money dictated for example he voted against hospital cost control and accepted Eighty five hundred dollars in campaign contributions from the American Medical Association. I would like to see the need for that type of funding obviated. But until that is obviated I don't think you'll find too many people who are trying to run a campaign against someone who's investing $100000 of his own money to turn down the PAC contribution in this asinine system we have going out and begging from the people for legislation and trying to get money from them. That's got to be done away with. Ambrose says the first thing he'll do if elected is to introduce a law for public financing of congressional campaigns. He's trying hard to win and has taken out almost $100000 personally secured loans to finance his campaign. But Holland bet the charmed and moderate politician may well get re-elected once again.

I'm sorry I'm a Caesar's world is running the boardwalk Regency in Atlantic City even though its temporary casino license expired last midnight. On Saturday the Casino Control Commission gave Caesar's a conditional license which expires in 30 days to get that license. Caesars put its chairman and vice chairman on unpaid leave of absence. Clifford Perlman and his brother Stuart were declared unfit for licensing in New Jersey and unless they resigned Caesars won't keep its license past November 26 on Saturday Caesar's attorney William Gunn said the company hasn't decided whether to take the commission to court over the decision and Glyndon added that Caesar's could decide to keep the Perlman's and give up the boardwalk Regency. Well that's one of the alternatives. It's one of the alternatives and when you say is it possible as was just responsible you know rolling it out. It's only really care of you if the Perlman's do resign the commission also says they'll have to sell their huge stock holdings in the

company they control 18 percent of the stock worth about 70 million dollars. Rain is in the weather forecast for the next few days tonight will have cloudy skies and a chance of scattered showers temperatures will be in the low to mid 40s. It will be cloudy again tomorrow with periods of rain throughout the day. Highs will be in the low to mid 50s. And the outlook for Wednesday more rain and cool temperatures. While.

Bill Perry is here with tonight's sports report including a lot of football you got it Stephen it's Monday so that means I'm here to tell you about another loss for the chimes this time 8:46 to Denver. Giants one in seven now the Giants often looked ok early they converted their first for third down situations Phil Simms running for the first first down and then throwing for three more. As you will see brought the Giants only got a field goal out of it for a quick 3 nothing lead and all their points came via Joe de Mello's toe. The Giants oftens hasn't watched for a touchdown since the first half of the Eagles game three games ago or 11 quarters ago last week's touchdown was a gift after a San Diego fumble at their own one yard line. So much for the Giants coach. Now with the score three not the second. Want to watch top left of your screen. That's Christian women running back on the field you left by mistake that's 10 against 11 11 against 11 tough enough Jim Jensen runs to the 430 to our game three plays later Jensen goes in 7 3 9 7 Giants after two more general field goals now third quarter Simms throwing interceptions 36 yards on the return by Bill Thompson and five points later Otis Armstrong goes in 49. That's how it ended

but you have to go back to Christmas. BBB big boo boo. Going through a photo was a neutral situation so it was coming off the field. You know the time was coming off the field I was in such a hurry to get off the field. Three corps were off the field saw Rob Hawkins or difference of the coordinator told me get back on I was trying to get back gone back to my position where I should have been right in the middle and I was just about there but they don't stop the ball around the ball outside Crist's unfortunate happened but really I do appreciate you talking to us I mean another guy may have run away just not talk to us I appreciate you talking to us. It's it's my fault it's my fault. It's no one else's and that's when the most mistakes that I made. OK three weeks ago if you would have told me that Rutgers was about to lose three in a row and Princeton was about to win three in a row I would have delivered a simple no way. But Saturday in the Carrier Dome in Syracuse Orangeman 17th Scarlet Knights 9 tough Syracuse D all day Rutgers in white had to settle for three points Alex fastened in the

second quarter with a 37 yard field goal. Syracuse tied it up just 31 seconds left in the first half and I should have gone ahead but this pass was dropped in the end zone should have been six in the field goal coming right afterwards. Ties it up three three half time now third quarter Joe the Jets Maurice 157 yards on the day to become the all time Syracuse rushing leader 38 yard run for six after the conversion. Ten three Syracuse put Rutgers marched right back into your 20 plays fourth quarter reserve quarterback roughly 10 9. But the try for two failed Ed McMichael going to be hit right there 10 9. Over three minutes to play Syracuse blocked Keith Hancock's punt James Campbell not only blocked it he hung on in the end zone for the score 79 79 the final rector's is now four and three Army next. At West Point so Rutgers has a three game losing streak and Princeton is going the other way. The Tigers with a 7 3 win over Harvard Saturday Princeton now two and two in the Ivy League 3 and 3 overall and Penn comes to Tiger Town Saturday Harvard in white moving after the opening

kickoff but the interception by Princeton's Dave gutsy keeps it scoreless. Princeton then went 80 yards and 15 players quarterback Mark lock in model with a diversified attack and a couple of key passes to Lugo only doing it first one for 14 yards. Then this one right here for 12. Finally after holding the ball for over six minutes walk and Maya rolled right 5 yards 7 0 Princeton Harvard 168 yards in 12 plays and got an early second quarter field goal made it 7 3 and that was all the scoring big defensive plays by the Tigers stymied the crimson who dominated statistically Henry Milligan with the interception right here late in the first half to stop Harvard. Now will move late fourth quarter 137 left Harvard drove to the Princeton 23 but a good again good pass defense good thing the D was there for Princeton because the Tigers revealed the chorus line authentic one two three kicks on their first five second half possessions but they won it 7 3. A couple of baseball notes for you.

Yes 61 year old Ralph Howe is the new manager of the Boston Red Sox and Al Rosen who recently resigned as an executive at Atlantic City's Park Place casino has been named president and general manager of the Euston Astros who replace his housemate who was fired Rosen of course before going to Atlantic City was the general manager for The New York Yankees That's our Sports Steve you asked earlier how old was Ralph Houck after extensive research 61 years on it's not as bad as you thought it has been not as old as I thought nothing wrong with the 61st. Of course not thanks Bill. The Internal Revenue Service has put together a list of what it calls the 400 most powerful criminals in New Jersey IRS says its list is part of a major crackdown on organized crime aimed at discovering sources of income for the mob particularly businesses which seem legitimate but really are fronts for criminals. Reportedly the names listed are organized into crime families supposedly operating in the state including 150 family members and scores of associates. Nurses at the St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston are scheduled to go on strike at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow. If contract negotiations fail to

produce an agreement as 11th hour talks continued late today union nurses prepared for a walkout and hospital officials plan to keep the facility open with only elective surgery canceled for now. The nurses are seeking a 10 percent salary increase and improve benefits package. Meanwhile some 500 nurses continued their walk out at Englewood Hospital. That strike is now in its eighth week. General Public Utilities made it official today the utility is shelving plans for a second nuclear plant in Ocean County. And considering building a coal fired generating station on the site GP you operator of the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania stopped construction on its fork and River Plate one week after the accident at TMI citing money difficulties. Concern over the drought has begun to focus some public attention on the proposed natural resources bond

issue. One of three state wide bond issues that will appear on the November ballot. Tonight we begin a series of special closer look reports on these ballot questions. Here's a guy standing Byrd. Usually there's a heavy voter turnout in presidential election years but so far most voters don't seem particularly excited about this year's race. As a result many experts are predicting a voter turnout this November which might be surprisingly light. And that could spell trouble for a proposed hundred and forty five million dollar natural resources bond issue. The bond issue is divided into five areas of concern. Construction of new sewage treatment plants. It's a list of priorities 60 million set aside to help finance wastewater treatment facilities. In an effort to help end open dumping 50 million is a remarkable municipal resource recovery program. With at least 80 New Jersey dams in need of immediate repair the bond issue provides 15 million for a dam reconstruction projects 12 million would be used to continue

the cleanup of the Hudson River waterfront. And begin the cleanup efforts in the Delaware River Basin. And then response to dangerously low water levels in New Jersey reservoirs. Eight million will be spent. On a system of interconnections between public and private reservoirs. Judge Tyler assistant commissioner of the State Department of Environmental Protection represents the agency with responsibility for administering this program. The bond issue is approved by the voters. Mr. Tyler first of all what is your speculation on whether a high or low voter turnout will affect responders. Who I think will have a better voter turnout in a presidential year than we would have had in an off year election. But beyond that I think the Natural Resources fund issue sells itself and I think the New Jersey voters have a good. History and a fine track record of supporting environmental bond issues. Green Acres and water pollution issues in the past the past. And in many ways this issue of the natural resources bond issue. Continues those past programs. Well

is it enough money though. To do the things you really need to do. And so in some cases no and in some cases it's a first step on the water supply. For example we proposed an eight million dollar bond issue to. Deal with the interconnections between our existing water systems so that in times of crisis we can move water more quickly from one to the other. But that all that we're in one of those crises do you think that the crisis coming out at about election time will help or hurt the bond issue. I think it has to help although I think that the New Jersey voters are stupid enough to have perceived the importance of the issue whether or not we have a crisis right now. You know I didn't create the crisis to sell the bonds that are of course not. But I think it did focus attention on the water supply piece and an awful lot of this bond issue is water related to water pollution control monies the 60 million dollars that's going to mean that some of the waterways in the state that are polluted now are going to be cleaner and useful for potable water if we need it. The 50

million for resource recovery is going to mean that in some cases we will be able to end our reliance on landfills which pollute groundwater and leave that water in polluted for water supply and also deal with garbage on a. Sound scientifically. High technology faces some environmentalist who normally support without question the EPA proposals are criticizing this one on the grounds that you might be getting money to build infrastructures in areas that need to remain undeveloped. Is that a legitimate charge. No. Most of the water pollution control money is targeted for areas that are polluted now that need to be cleaned up. There's a priority list that's published every year it's very difficult to get a growth area high on the priority list. The federal government sets those standards and they're set. For water pollution control. Also I should add that many environmental groups the league for conservation legislation for example has endorsed the bond issue.

You claim that the hundred forty five million dollar bond issue will leverage almost a billion dollars and other federal state and private sector fund. That's right that's largely in the water area but it does require for some of the projects local municipalities to put in money themselves that have any evidence that they are willing or able to do that for I think in some cases. What we're doing is providing half of the money for a local responsibility so the dam for example will provide a dollar for every two dollars of cost to repair 80 dams for around the state. Those dams are critically in need of repair and just can't be put off by the towns and counties that manage them. And with the other bond issues on the ballot is it your speculation that it will pass. I think so. As I said I think it sells itself as commissioner English has said we're going to repair New Jersey's own nuclear. So we can provide a future for the state. And that's really what it's all about. The information put out by the EPA calls this investing in the future. And George Tyler thanks for joining us from the voters of New Jersey will have

an opportunity to say yes or no on November 4. Once again our top stories. New Jersey residents were hit with more than 80 million dollars worth of damages from this weekend's storm. The hardest hit areas have not formally been declared disaster areas yet. Newark Airport measured one point seven inches of rain from Saturday's storm but it did little to help ease the drought and toxic waste oil that was spread on a rural road in West Milford Township is expected to be all cleaned up by tonight. And that's the news for Karen Stone and Bill Perry. I'm Steve Taylor Good night for the New Jersey nightly news. New Jersey Nightly News is a joint presentation of New Jersey Public Television. W1 E.T. 30. Program is broadcast weeknights at 6:30 p.m. on channel 30 at 7:30 PM on New Jersey Public Television. Here is a repeat broadcast at 11 p.m. on New Jersey public television at 7:00 the

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