You like to. Build St. Peters and Seton Hall just like Rutgers campus. From Trenton Here's Karen Stone. Good evening. A shooting in Essex County has claimed the life of Governor Burns former law partner. The latest figures for February show energy prices rising and food
prices dropping. And in sports Seton Hall and St. Peters both lose. Bill Perry will have details. A former law partner of Governor Brendan Byrne was shot and killed this morning in front of his North Caldwell home. George Frank and erro the brother of singer Connie Francis was twice convicted of bank fraud and was found guilty of obstruction of justice but it was his connections to organized crime and the governor burned that kept him in the public eye. Phelps Sawkins has a report. At a packed news conference this afternoon. Essex County prosecutor Donald Coburn released what few details were available but he refused to characterize the slaying as a mob hit. I would not characterize the incident we've described to you what occurred characterizing so. However Frank on Arrowhead once told federal investigators that he feared for his life because of his cooperation in several investigations into organized crime. COBURN admitted that the FBI and the United States attorney had been notified immediately
of the shooting. Franklin erro 40 years old was shot in the head more than once. Police say as he was scraping ice off his car in front of his house just after 9:00 o'clock this morning. Preliminary reports indicate a car deposited two men not far from the Franklin erro house. The men started walking to the house. The car went around the block the opposite direction. The two men emerged from behind a hedge approach to within about 20 feet of Franko narrow and pumped more than one shot from small caliber revolvers into the side of his head. By that time their car and driver had come around the block. They got in and sped off. No further details of the shooting are available yet pending the autopsy. Franco Niros wife saw him on the ground thought he might have slipped on the ice and went outside to help him. She found him dead. George Renko narrow was suspended from practicing law in the state in 1979 as a result of his guilty plea in a bank fraud case. Most recently last December he appeared before a state commission on investigations hearing looking into mob
involvement in dental health care plans of labor unions two years ago. He was an unindicted co-conspirator in a federal racketeering case against several leaders of Teamsters Local 945 in West Paterson. Federal officials say Franco Nero told of how he introduced mob connected union leaders to bank officials and then shared in the kickbacks the decade old law association with Franco Nero has haunted governor Byrne during his last term. In Newark. I'm Philip Hawkins. The federal government has had its first break in its investigation of the New Jersey based anti-Castro group Americal seven a U.S. district court in Manhattan today found Jose 10 rail Guert guilty of lying to a grand jury and had been investigating on August 7. It was the first conviction directly implicating the group 10 Reyaad denied knowing the origin of two letters signed by Omega 7 that appeared in his union city newspaper. The letters contain veiled threats against two other
Cubans that had negotiated with the Castro government two years ago. An investigation found the letters had been typed on a typewriter. Authorities removed from the defendant's Elizabeth office the latest government figures for February show energy crisis costs rising and food prices on the way down. But overall price prices went up last month keeping pace with the nation's double digit inflation rate. At the same time New Jersey's unemployment rate dropped to the lowest level since last April. Tom Stewart has a report. New Jersey's unemployment rate dropped for the second straight month putting it slightly lower than the national average in February the number of New Jersey workers off the job dipped to six point nine percent of the labor force down from 7.5 percent in January meaning 23000 fewer people were out of work in this state. But state department of labor and industry officials cautioned against any overoptimism largely because manufacturers are making a slower comeback than other parts of the economy. Just the same.
New Jersey is continuing to recover from last year's recession but wholesale prices presented another story last month thanks to rapidly rising energy costs that helped push overall prices up eight tenths of a percent. Maintaining the present annual inflation rate of 10 percent. Economist boy much of the higher energy costs on the president's plan to decontrol U.S. soil resulting in more expensive fuel oil and gasoline a trend they say that's far from over. Food prices on the other hand to soften the blow of the other increases. After holding steady in January grocery bills fell six tenths of a percent last month but just about everything else on your supermarket shelves went up. Costs rose on a broad range of goods including cosmetics health products drugs and other items that economists expect the same thing to happen to food prices starting sometime soon. Reporting from Trenton I'm Tom Stewart. All 1000 city employees in Camden have been given layoff notices it's the latest move in that city's budget struggle. But city officials say they're not sure just how
many workers will actually be laid off. More should be known Tuesday when Mayor Angelo Kattie presents his formal city budget. Officials gave 45 day notices to everyone including firemen and police to comply with civil service law. Provisional employees they say will be laid off before full time employees. The new city budget is expected to be at least $10 billion higher than last year's. Just to cover the city's current deficit and tax rates there are expected to double. Legal Services is among the last of the Great Society programs some say it was the best providing hundreds of thousands of poor people each year with legal representation. But President Reagan yesterday revealed his plans to eliminate the $321 billion projects. Supporters of legal services today responded with shock and indignation vowing to fight the proposed cuts. SANDRA KING reports. In New Jersey last year more than 42000 people got free legal help from legal services. Their problems ranged from marital disputes to consumer frauds to
illegal evictions but they had one thing in common they all were poor with no access to private attorneys. When you come here to get to know your son and see if I can find a lawyer to help me out. If there were no legal services where would you go for legal help. I really don't know. I really don't know because I would have probably had to go to court by myself without any say any help it or take my chances in court. I realized what I was accused of criminal acts the services of a court appointed lawyer are provided. But on the civil side there is no such guarantee. And we feel strongly that that's a right a constitutional right of our citizens because we think that this country philosophizes that it provides for the welfare of its citizens. Many of the cases that clients come to us. With are cases which directly impact upon the quality of life. The president's plan to do away with legal services does need congressional approval but
there's fear that with calls for a balanced budget and the generally conservative mood of the country even the Democrats in Congress might withhold support. But Governor Byrne today was more optimistic. First time differences with our congressional delegation are really good. And I think that they will be fairly unified and discouraging and kind of a cut. And Congressman Peter Rodino said he'll lead that fight to save legal services in Newark. I'm Sandra King. A federal health agency says it will investigate working conditions at the Hooker Chemical Plant in Burlington. The National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety or notshe will look into claims by workers there that exposure to hazardous chemicals of Second the number of employees 350 workers at the Burlington County factory has been on strike for more than a week protesting safety conditions at the plant. Another federal agency the Occupational Health and Safety Administration has refused to probe the situation until the employees returned to their jobs.
12 Conrail tank cars loaded with hazardous material derailed outside a Dupont Chemical plant this morning and Gibb's town Gloucester County. There were no injuries or leaks reported. But as Susan Naess last reports it caused problems for nearby residents. The incident happened around 6:00 a.m. when two separate sets of Conrail tank cars both carrying toxic chemicals derailed within about 500 yards of each other the cars were part of a local delivery train making regular stops along a 30 mile route between Camden and deep water in Salem County. Several of the cars contained ammonia and chlorine. Some of it being sent from the DuPont plant here in Gibbs town authorities quickly sealed off the area allowing the town's 50 400 residents to stay in their homes. Police added an evacuation would have been nearly impossible since one set of derailed cars blocked off access to half of Gibb's town. It scared me to death shook the house. Got right up out of bed. Couldn't take the kids to school couldn't get him across Jack to get to school.
Meanwhile Dupont officials said there was no need for alarm because the tanks were undamaged. Doesn't look like any of the cargo carrying equipment has been damaged in any way so it looks like it's just a simple problem lifting things back on track. And as long as the cargo tanks themselves are not damaged there should be no hazard to. The. Area. Conrail spokesman would not comment on what may have caused the derailment. Until you have completed a thorough investigation. But they said all 12 cars should be railed and ready to leave sometime late tonight in Gibbs town. I'm Susan Naess loss. The state water emergency task force will settle the dispute over water supplies between Newark and the town of Wayne. The Passaic County community has been receiving more than four million gallons of water a day from Newark but citing dwindling supplies of its own. Newark wanted to turn off the tap until the task force comes to a decision. Newark will continue to supply the township with water. And today was drought Education Day. State officials took their plans for conservation to at least a
half dozen schools around the state. Governor Brown visited a grammar school in Rutherford Raaj Wells has a report. Governor Byrne visited the Union Avenue grammar school in Rutherford this morning. An environmental commissioner Jerry English at an elementary school in Irvington. Education Commissioner Fred Burke spoke to a group of students in Hamilton Township and the state's water resources director addressed a group of students in Camden. State executives are trying to educate schoolchildren so they can take the water conservation message home to their parents in Rutherford. The kids were excited about the visit from the governor and Byrne seemed to enjoy every minute the Union Avenue School recently got a state grant. Implement an environmental studies program. And right now that drought is the main topic of discussion the halls are lined with posters in several languages and in class. The kids know all the routine water saving methods and they've even added a few of their own. Don't cry because it. Saves a lot of water. He always puts in his bowl
and says using Fosset was. Carefully when rushing you to take a shower. Well we're using recycled water to water all the plants. We're taking very quick drinks when we go to the fountain and we're also changing Blackwall water only once a week. The governor spent more than an hour with these grammar school students and he said he was impressed with their grasp of the situation and they're prepared to keep vigilant throughout the crisis I'm pretty proud of a city. You have read about Although the governor may have been proud some of the suggestions the kids came up with could make a parent cringe. One youngster said he's now giving his pet German Shepherd at home orange juice instead of water. In Rutherford. I'm Redwald. And now here's the weather forecast. Fair skies and windy tonight except for some cloudiness in North Jersey. Temperatures should be in the low to mid 20s. It will be mostly sunny and windy tomorrow. Temperatures should be in the upper 30s to low 40s and the outlook for Sunday partly sunny
and mild. The Eagleton Institute at Rutgers University which polls New Jerseyans regularly on just about any topic is steering clear of one at least for now. The pollsters say it will be late strip late spring probably may before they ask New Jerseyans about their favorite state gubernatorial primary candidates says one poll director. There are
so many candidates expected to run. And it's a very volatile situation. Still this was clearly an unusual week for the gubernatorial campaign in New Jersey. No one announced his candidacy but there was a development which will affect all candidates and potential ones. Jim McWhinnie has that story. On the first day of this week the assembly proclaimed. Let there be candidates and let them go forth to populate the landscape and that they will at least until the June primary because the assembly rejected governor Burn's proposal to make it harder for gubernatorial candidates to qualify for matching public campaign funds. Byrd wanted to triple the $50000 qualifying threshold. He simply said It's fine the way it is which means seven Democrats and Republicans now requesting matching funds will probably double in number. Byrne had hoped to narrow the field. So it's on the way to becoming the most crowded gubernatorial primary in the state's history. And as little as 25 percent of the party vote might win the Democratic or Republican nomination for governor.
And Jim is here to talk with us again on this Friday. The governor has said Jim that he's afraid of someone winning the nomination with a low percentage of the primary vote. What's the status of his runoff suggestion as it is that is is more like grounded. We're not flying anywhere in the legislature even burn says that there's only an outside chance at best. He got the open primary which is one of the reforms he wanted but he's probably going to have to right off the threshold and the runoff is a matter of fact some are saying that that threshold defeat marked the threshold for burn himself. He couldn't get it through an assembly that was democratically controlled his own party. That might signal that while he's not a lame duck till after November officially Some are saying it might simply some someone of a limp duck at the moment anyway. Well also this week a Republican candidate interjected himself into the Democratic primary. Now what's going on there. He gets a little confusing. Well State Senator James Wallwork stood outside Newark City Hall and he called Newark mayor Gibson the frontrunner and the frontrunner and then proceeded to knock the stuffings out of his record. And usually primaries are
kind of an intramural affair. And but what he did was probably fair game because after all the Democrats are running against Ronald Reagan in this primary and and his record. And so that's their issue. So I think it's fair game for him to do that. But whatever reason he gave them good play in many of the newspapers and in the state's largest newspaper for that matter. And that's probably worth more than all the ads that he probably can't buy at the moment because he's having some problem raising funds compared to all the money that everybody else is having and he's trailing the Republican pack. He's the frontrunner in fact Tom Cain also comes from Essex County. So whether he's got a shot for attention and but whether the attention translates into votes. We'll see. OK Jim thank you. And we'll be right back with sports after this. Three one dollar state lottery tickets are each worth more than a half million
dollars today. The winning pick six lotto jackpot combination was drawn last night with the winnings totaling 1.6 million dollars. But so far no one has filed for the largest single cash payout in the history of the state lottery and Lottery Director Gloria Decker said two of the winning tickets may be held by the same person because they were each purchased at the same place in Garfield. The other ticket was bought in Addison. The record winnings accumulated because no one had picked the correct six numbers in 17 weeks. And now here's Bill Perry with Sports Bill. Thank you Karen. St. Peters and Seton Hall just like Rutgers came up empty in their first league playoff game. But St. Peters I figure we'll get an invite to bid the peaco*cks of Lost. I own a 40 1:38 in the ECAC Metro playoff for us night. I only will now tell you for the title. Oh are you upset for them in the Big East tournament in Syracuse Georgetown beat Seton Hall 58 52 the hall. We'll wait till next year. Early on behind the outside shooting of Matt picnics the hall at a 12:08 but the Hoyas came back to school on the way up from Mike Hanco*ck high to do well. Then the inside game off to set
off a nice tip pass and two for Ed Spriggs and then stepped Tipton for Jeff bullets at the half was Georgetown by one in the second half the Hoyas opened up a 13 point lead on Robin sides of a seven foot Mike Frazier. Then Dan Callan's Romo had a jumper blocked by Gene Smith sweepy Floyd converted the way up a the other Android by Georgetown with 19. But the hall did not quit. Cowan drove out. He led the way with 22 with the steal and way up and then moments later Howard McNeil with the basket plus the foul for the three point play. Suddenly there was a two point game 46 44 with seven and a half to play. But down the stretch even though Georgetown missed seven of 11 free throws the ball never got closer. Fifty eight to 52 the final the NCAA Division 3 tournament finds a couple of Jersey schools among the hopefuls. Pat Scanlan picks up that story. For a solid Moncler state tonight begins the second season in a quest for the NCAA overlayed Division 3 championship absolves Mikey Memorial Hall will be the scene for the South Atlantic Division regional on that hardboard Tom Chapman's club has only lost once in the last three
years. The Vikings last year was insightfully title one around a six game streak entering tonight's game against Alleghany is won nine straight Jetman put together a 21 5 season with 1 returning starter. I think that the news this year is that Uppsala has gone back to the NCAA Tournament despite losing for starters. It seems to be old hat for Uppsala to be in a tournament which is a compliment but yet for this group of people to do it after not knowing each other going into the year in October is a complement to their desire to play together. Montclair State is the attorney's surprise winning the Jersey State Conference title gets Glassborow state. They're the Cinderella team that will face ruin. What does the tournament rank second in the nation with a 26 or one mark the consolation and title game will be held on Saturday night. I'm Pat Scanlan also in basketball princedom post-Columbia tonight and Cornell Tomorrow night the Tigers are 11 and 1 and tied for first in the Ivy League with Penn going into this final weekend in the NBA the nets you remember them. They played Atlanta tonight and there's volleyball this
weekend the third annual Golden Dome classic something a little different. It's at the Rutgers athletic center. Krista Gaspar's reports. And a classic it is one of the most prestigious volleyball tournaments in the country hosted by one of the best teams in the country. Rutgers Newark a rare East Coast powerhouse volleyball anywhere in the least is a surprise to most people with an exciting sport. I think it's one that in many cases in many ways is probably one of the best spectator sports around Rutgers Newark plays the University of Southern California tonight. Their last year's national champs presently ranked second in the country and they won the Golden Dome classic last year. We play a lot of intense competition week after week after week for three months and we have in the three months we end up a very good team. The action starts tonight at the Rutgers athletic center and continues tomorrow night with the Finals. I'm Trish diasporas. In Florida today at Gulfstream Park Jersey on the board. Avi won the Florida Derby in convincing fashion four and a half months ahead of runner up. Ah-Q rarey or have you paid $4 three dollars to
sixty saying he is disheartened by the state of affairs in baseball the carpenter family has put the Philadelphia Phillies up for sale Carol chippin. And finally the New Jersey nightly news. No stars no stars basketball team we'll meet the assemblyman Cody team. That's Sunday at 1:00 at the South Mountain arena before the Gem's game against San Francisco. The uniforms are nice. I don't know about the team but I'm predicting a buzzer beater by purry to win it. That's right. OK. Thanks Phil.. Spring is just a few weeks away but it's hard to plan any outdoor activities because the weather is so uncertain. But a star in London tells us there's still plenty to do indoors including a bluegrass festival an unusual art exhibit and the marionette show. This is the weekend for bluegrass as the battleground Arts Center presents the second annual Bluegrass Festival. There'll be entertainment throughout the day by such groups as D.W. Griffith's and the rank strangers. The Johnson Mountain Boys and late night garage. You also get to hear New Jersey's own all women bluegrass band sweet Dixie. It all takes place on Sunday with two shows at 12 noon and
6 at the Sheraton gardens Grand Ballroom Ruth 5:37 and Gibson place in Freehold an exhibition of antique Asian rugs offering a glimpse into the life and art of the nomadic tribes that created them is now on view at the Montclair Art Museum entitled Turkman tribal carpets and traditions the selection of carpets tent furnishings and animal trappings were drawn from the textile museum in Washington D.C. and 35 other collections Tuckman carpets were long known as the Rembrandt's of the east and rank among the most important groups of weaving in the Islamic world. The words date mostly to the late 70s. Hundreds. The designs are geometric with a variety of color. The most dominant motif in many Turkman carpets is a tribal emblem called a go and octagonal design that is repeated over and over in the main section of the rug's Turkman weavings first gained attention in 1995 when a Russian general returned from the Turkman area with a collection of rugs and tent decorations which he presented to Zaim Nicholas the second.
Since then they have become the most widely admired studied and collected of all oriental carpets made during the last seven hundred years. The exhibit will run through April 5th on Saturday from 10 to 5 on Sunday from 2 to 5. The museum is at three South Mountain Avenue in Montclair. The Wizard of Oz has been delighting audiences of all ages since the 1930s. And for those of you who missed it on television last week you'll get a chance to see another version this weekend. The Marionette players will take D'Arby the Scarecrow the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion down the yellow brick road. But as marionettes will also be five live actors will join them. It's fun for the entire family that's tomorrow at 11 o'clock and 1:30 at the Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences on Normandy Heights road in Morristown. In bed this weekend the actor's cafe theater in Bloomfield presents Ernest Thompson's drama on Golden Pond. It's a poignant story of an elderly couple who would turn to Golden Pond Maine for their annual summer vacation. Joining them with their divorced daughter her new boyfriend and his son.
Curtain goes up on Saturday at 8:00 on Sunday at 7:30. The theater is on the Bloomfield college campus in Bloomfield. Finally the flute and the harp are two of the oldest instruments in the world. And this weekend they'll be combined in a concert at Brookdale Community College flutist Alicia Rowe and harpist Marjorie Mullen our will perform a varied program which includes Sephardic songs a Chinese dragon dance and the work by Bach and reveil. That's on Sunday at 8 at the Performing Arts Center on the college campus in Lynn Croft. Have a good weekend. And this weekend made New Jersey concentrates on life in New Jersey's cities. The glory and the grit. Here's program co-host. Can't get ahead. Karen we'll begin with our cover story of Steve Taylor presents a day in the life of a Camden policeman. I'll take you inside the powerful Democratic Party organization in Jersey City. We'll profile two community activists from Atlantic City who are fighting to improve housing opportunities for the poor there. And you'll look in on a group of very talented youngsters who are with the Paterson inner city dance ensemble made in New Jersey can be seen on
18:13 at six o'clock Saturday evening and again at 9:30 on Sunday morning. It can also be seen at six o'clock Sunday evening on New Jersey Public Television. Karen. Thank you. And that's the news for Bill Perry. Cornerstone good night for the New Jersey and. New Jersey making his presentation. New Jersey Public Television
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