New Jersey to use. With Don Torrance and the Cantwell ahead. Good evening guardian angels in Newark bury one of their own with Heroes honors St. Peter's and the cosmos are among the winners in sports Bill Perry one of the highlights and we continue our series of closer look reports of the Patterson project how a city and its people face Reaganomics guardian angel Frank Melton killed by a policeman's bullet last Wednesday night was buried today in Newark. But first there was a hero's farewell for the fallen angel as Sandra King reports. Frank Melvin first donned his red brain nearly one year ago each night since he'd led patrols in the hallways and courtyards of these crime plagued projects. But for Melvin all that ended last Wednesday and today his funeral just across the street from those projects in the small Catholic church where he had taught self-defense and organized his patrols. But his own small band of 10 Guardian Angels was bolstered today by hundreds of others most of them from New York. They've come to praise Frank Melton and to honor his grieving family. Cameras were
kept outside the packed church. But inside fellow angels lined the aisles standing at attention as Frank Melvin was held by his neighbors his comrades and his priest. Later that priest again explained what Melvin had meant to his community. He was one of the first to respond to the call of. Video filming God going to God an angel. He was appointed. As a leader. Of the forming group and he did good work often with members and even when the body was carried from the church Frank Melvin didn't really leave his neighborhood. He was taken to the cemetery that adjoins the questioner projects the cemetery where he'd worked for six years as a security guard. And as his family mourned the angels filed past dropping flowers and Franks red Bray on his casket. Then it was just a short walk back to the
projects there the leader of the angels said the auto crash my home should have a new name. During the Frank Melvin HOLMES It's very easy to change the name of a public housing take a poll of the residents and I'm sure each and every resident would sign a petition to rename the public housing project and are still insisting that the truth of Melvin shooting is being hidden that his force will march again tomorrow. The destination Washington. The stated goal of justice for Frank Melvin in New York. I'm Sandra King. A man wanted in the shooting death of state trooper Philip Monaco may be traveling with members of his family. State Police distributed wanted posters today for 35 year old Thomas Manning of Boston will officially believe is traveling with his 26 year old wife Carolan and their 8 year old son Jeremy. In addition the poster includes a picture of Raymond it look like he was also wanted in connection with the shooting and is on the FBI his most wanted list. Mrs. Manning is described as 5 feet 6 inches tall about 125 pounds with brown hair.
She's wanted on a federal warrant for a main bank robbery. There's no description being offered of the couple's son. Monica was gunned down on December 21st while patrolling a lonely stretch of Route 80 near Norton township in Warren County. The poster indicates manning his wife and Ossie they are known to carry automatic weapons and false identification. Contaminated eggs may be part of the reason five elderly residents of a Gloucester County nursing home died during the past week. Another 100 cases of salmonella food poisoning have been reported. Dan Hodson has more on the story. On Christmas Eve cooks at the Shady Lane nursing home in Clarksburg of Gloucester County decided to make some eggnog for residents and staff. The recipe called for raw eggs eggs it turned out they were contaminated with salmonella bacteria. In addition to the deaths in the past week more than half of the 260 staff and residents have become ill. Seven are now hospitalized but are said to be in good condition. Shady Lane is a county owned and considered one of the better nursing homes in south Jersey. Those state and county health officials say they
are satisfied with food handling and Clinton is at the home. But the eggnog was prepared and distributed even though raw eggs are well known carriers of the salmonella bacteria. And even though the elderly are known to be especially susceptible to its affects you have to take into consideration the fact that this was Christmas time and there was a benevolent spirit present and that this is something that perhaps turned out poorly but the intent was was good and festive It was a festive occasion. And as things turned out it didn't work out well. Smith says he does not think the incident warrants an investigation for possible negligence. He says there is no way to tell if aides are contaminated and he says the food poisoning was only one of a number of contributing factors in the five deaths. Still autopsies are now being conducted. Much of the illness and bacteria was passed before salmonella could be isolated as the cause when residents came in contact with others who had already been infected. The primary efforts now are directed at separating the two groups and preventing any further spread of the bacteria. Although officials
say they believe proper steps have been taken since the outbreak to minimize its effects. State and County investigations are continuing lab test results determining the extent of the infection are expected by the end of the week. In the meantime no new residents are being admitted to the home but officials say they're convinced the worst of the problem is over. And she did a nursing home in Clarksville. I'm Dan Hudson. I'm going to burn acted within his power when he ordered county jails to take prisoners from overcrowded state penitentiary. That's the ruling today from the state Supreme Court a unanimous ruling. The justices say the state's disaster Control Act allows the governor to force the state prisoners on the counties but only temporarily. They did not rule on how often the governor could renew that emergency order. It was scenes like these in the Union County Jail that prompted Governor Brown to issue the order. But Atlantic County challenged it saying there was no sudden emergency because the state had known about overcrowding for years. The justices ruled against Atlantic County today. Byrne issued a 90 day order in June but extended it until January 20th when it was about to run out. At present nine hundred forty five state inmates are housed in
county jails. Governor elect Tom Kane has not said if he will extend the order when he takes office January 19. Superior Court Judge Peter crusie was indicted by a state grand jury today on charges he took a bribe to get a man released from prison. This latest indictment supersedes an earlier one charging cruising with taking a $15000 bribe to keep a convicted arsonist out of prison. The state grand jury accuses Cruising of Haddonfield of conspiring to take $35000 to get a man he had sentenced to prison released early. The man had been found guilty in cruces Camden court of shooting and wounding another man. It was back on November 6th that police arrested cruising on the steps of the Camden courthouse they allegedly found $12000 in cash in his pockets from the bride made in the arson case. The Senate Labor committee's two top members have asked the Justice Department to expand its probe of Labor secretary Ray Donovan. Committee chairman Orrin Hatch a Republican and senior Democratic member Ted Kennedy wrote a letter last week to Attorney General William French Smith
requesting that the special prosecutor in the Donovan case explore other areas. The letter was revealed today. In it they asked that prosecutor Leon Silverman investigate not just allegations that Donovan was present when members of his New Jersey construction company made payoffs to labor unions but also whether Donovan told the truth before their committee during confirmation hearings a year ago. And what his relationship is now with his former company Shivani construction of Secaucus Attorney General Smith has not yet replied to the senator's request. Don. Can state law enforcement officials today said they were able to nip in the bud potential race fixing incidents at the Meadowlands racetrack three jockeys are being charged with that conspiracy but as Gemma Queeny reports a state police probe is spreading to other New Jersey tracks. Maryland's racing officials have long prided themselves on their tight track security being able to avoid racing scandals yet it took an undercover state police investigation to crack a race fixing plot. At the track last October track and state law enforcement officials today jointly announced three out of state jockeys whereabouts
presently unknown are being charged with conspiracy. State police officials say they nipped a conspiracy in the bud before the races were run but they're still investigating prior races run by the trio one of whom had 81 mounts in the last their bread meat. Plus the probe has been expanded to Monmouth in the Atlantic City race tracks. Maryland's officials admitted their own security systems didn't catch on to the plot initially. We want appreciate the fact that there is no such thing as a fail safe security system at any racetrack anywhere in the world. Once you concede that however I want to emphasize the security program in place at the Meadowlands this is complete and as intense as any existing and law enforcement officials were unable to discuss how widespread the latest race fixing incident might be. You have a great deal of money as you have in the casino industry and you have a racing industry. You have those people who are on the fringes of life and on the fringes of society who create problems.
That's the nature of this type of a competitive industry and I think we simply have to live with it doing our best and urged even more be done proposing 11 steps for greater racing security some of which tracks can do now some of which will require approval by the state racing commission or the legislature in Trenton. I'm Jim acquainted. In addition to all that the Federal Bureau of Investigation recently requested videotapes from scores of Meadowlands races apparently part of its own inquiry into the possibility of race fixing. It didn't work against vendors of sex but Atlantic City hopes it will work against vendors of hot dogs. City officials tried recently to use an ordinance forbidding blocking or delaying traffic against the city's many prostitutes but a judge ruled against that application. So now the city wants to use the law against street and Boardwalk vendors of everything from hot dogs to neckties. City merchants fear a flood of street vendors because of a revision of state law which allows any veteran to get a vendor's license. Well so far only a few vets have taken advantage but the merchants are afraid of the competition. But
before any summonses can be issued under the ordinance a judge will have to rule if it applies in the case of vendors. That 12 mile stretch of Garden State Parkway the high occupancy vehicle lane should be ended shortly after Governor elect Tom Kane takes office. According to Cain's press secretary Carl golden the lanes have been proven all that beneficial. Goldman added that the new governor will have the driving restrictions removed by the new transportation commissioner whose name has not yet been made public. Presently the HLV lanes extend in each direction on the parkway from the New Jersey Turnpike and one bridge to Route 22 in union. A lot of high school students are concerned these days about their academic life after high school. The cost of a college education is climbing and the opportunities for federal aid are sinking. The New Jersey Association of Student Councils held its annual fifty six than you will convention at Trenton State College today and Rolonda Watts or many of the students present writing about just how to foot the bill for college. Most of the high school students that packed this auditorium today hope to go on to
college but many are concerned that their family's income cannot meet the rising college costs. When you started considering colleges you considered what school you could academically get accepted into. And now when you start considering you have to consider your financial range also and it's scary because colleges are so expensive. One of the most popular workshops at today's convention was on preparing young people for college but workshop director SIGA Svante says most of the students are overly concerned about President Reagan's budget cutbacks. The real cutbacks that have been made by this administration have been at the institutional level the amount of direct support that's given to a college or university rather than the amount given to an individual to support their own education. That's where the money problems of come because now a lot of the schools that could afford to give their students aid from this federal budget in other words they were kind of the middle person with it don't have the money to give. And that impact is going to be felt greater and greater.
Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick keynote speaker for the convention agrees the cutbacks are not as drastic as the students believe. It's not desperate. It's not easy street either. The really cool person wants a college education. You can still get it just the way you could before. But the only difference is going to have to prove that. President Reagan has said all along that Americans must become more innovative to make up for losses and cutbacks in federal programs. Some students seem to echo his message will tell you to go out and hunt and look for the money in some way. Just have the drive to find it because it is out there in Trenton. I'm Rhonda Watts. And now here's a look at the weather forecast tonight will be cloudy with a chance of some scattered showers temperatures in the upper 20s to low 30s partly sunny windy and cold tomorrow with highs in the mid 30s. And the outlook for Friday partly sunny and cold. More than any other president of recent times Ronald Reagan would agree with that famous Calvin Coolidge
observation that the business of America is business as candidate and President Reagan has made clear his belief that with government off our backs private business will put America back on its feet. Our contributing reporter Howard Hughes is tracking the effects of the Reagan economic plan using the city of Paterson as his laboratory. The Patterson project is following the Reagan impact of the eyes of four families ranging from rich to poor. Well tonight we look at someone Ronald Reagan is counting on one of Paterson's business leaders. For Philip teapot president of chemical and Patterson boys club man of the year voting for Ronald Reagan was an act of conscience. I think we do see government spending and increased investment and private business is a very important thing. IFILL Paul likes Reaganomics. The president would surely like Phil pope. Here is a classic small city businessman active in church and charity. He began this printing supply business in what had been an abandoned building from a handful of employees 17 years ago.
He now employs almost 90 people toward whom he projects a fatherly feeling. One of the things that pleases me most about our employees and Patterson is a number of them that have become homeowners in the last five years. I think this is the thing that's going to bring Paterson back. The old sweat equity idea of putting your own efforts into fixing up your house every weekend and you're proud of it. You worry about your neighbors you worry about keeping the neighborhood up. Ronald Reagan has made a deal with a pulse of America in exchange for tax cuts both business and personal. It's hoped they'll expand their businesses give more to charity and try to fill the void left by cuts in government social programs. So Paul likes to think he is doing his part. The firm is just beginning a 2 million dollar expansion renovation. Does the Reagan economic plan make any difference to chemical directly. I think so. We are able now to depreciate our equipment faster which gives us more dollars every year to expand waits.
What's more as Ronald Reagan would have it hopes interest to branch beyond his own firm is quadrupled the company's charitable contributions for starters. And once a week he visits Paterson the only big downtown office building to don his new hat as president of the city's Private Industry Council. This consortium of local businessmen gets federal funds to train the unemployed and underemployed in skills known to be in short supply. Because of that link with private business training programs like these are among the ONLY see the job not to get the Reagan budget ax. Training programs can be well run by private businessmen. Need to the marketplace. I'm excited to see a small group of people. 18 students in this program that are turned on by the chance that they can get in a trade that pays good wages. The members of this class are being trained to work in Patterson's many small machine shops where jobs have been going begging.
Of 18 who graduated earlier this year 16 did indeed get jobs as an opportunity to help yourself you know in life you know like always you get out here and get a job placement somewhere. You can still keep growing you know. Possible. You can put some of these trainees to work indirectly. And yet a third role becomes a developer of industrial real estate. He's negotiating to buy this abandoned gas works and turned into a 10 acre industrial park. He hopes to begin work within the month on what you'll call opportunity park opportunities a great name for people helping other people and for growth and for new development in an area that used to be called a dying area. Hope hopes that ultimately five to seven hundred people will work in the five new buildings that were wrecked here. It all sounds perfect. New jobs job training Reaganomics and more. Hope doesn't it to some down. I don't see private philanthropy and private giving whether it's personal
or industrial coming anywhere near filling the hole gap caused by federal cutbacks and you can see that his firm's expansion plans are in the works before the Reagan economic recovery. Tax breaks were nice but not crucial. The machine shop training program. Seems to have made a good start. But you and other remaining job training programs are far smaller than the phased out of public service jobs program. Which once employed eleven hundred and resident would like to expand this program. But new federal budget cuts could make that difficult. Even opportunity part might be easier to build at federal programs for such projects not been cut back. Pope says he'll manage anyway. And government intervention should be reduced. But other pastors and business leaders are concerned. We see it as being a real scary time if you will with all the changes that are taking place and the threat of
losing some of the programs that event as well as the economy being so shaky at this point in particular it's going to be a very difficult time and if we lose a lot of the government programs that we've had not handouts but help and assistance if we're going to have a very difficult time keeping our heads above water and keeping people like you see behind us employ that many pastors and businesses like this meat packing plant started with federal loans or aid and might not exist otherwise he fears the city may not be able to attract businesses to replace older firms that continue to. But Phil pope still a believer preaches patience. He hopes that the city could be part of the proposed Reagan enterprise zone concept in which tax breaks could replace lost business subsidies. And he sure By spring the magic of supply side economics will begin to work. And so you would say. Just wait things will get better tighten your belt and they are going to get better.
We'll follow Phil pope and all his projects. But next on the Patterson project a look at two families neither poor nor rich Americans in the middle for whom the effects of Reaganomics are more difficult to pinpoint. In Patterson I'm Howard Hughes. And here's Bill Perry with tonight's Sports Bill. OK thank you Dan. college basketball right here 7:00 into place
at Duke tonight. Last night Princeton beat Fairfield 50 to 49 in overtime the forensics Tigers scored the only field goal in O.T. rich simply made it and St. Peters is now six and six. After beating Dowling 76 58 Shelton Gibbs led the peaco*ck's twenty seven points to the freshman from Jersey City it was given to spark the peaco*ck's early. He's shooting rebounding and passing doing it all. Number 24 and how about this. Gibbs made the steel William Brown with the slam to beat the buzzer at the half 34 27 St. Peters up Brown had 18 What a move. One more time. Dolling hung in there for the first 11 minutes of the second half but a fourteen point Peaco*ck sport put it away here comes Gibbs from Brown. And next up Tyrone Holloway you had 12 hit to make it 63 42 It was a 76 58 final. The nets won 14 1 0 8 winners over Washington last night returned home to meet Milwaukee tonight James barely had nine last night Nate rebounds James Bailey you remember him an unpolished freshman at Rutgers back in 75 76 then with polish in the later years he became jammin James now he's the next after the trade from Seattle
on Nov. 26 after leaving Rutgers in 1979. They only joined Seattle as a first round draft choice now in its third season. Is James Bailey emerging as a net in 18 games he's averaging nine and a half a game shooting 54 percent in 21 minutes per game and he wants to shed the inconsistent rap which has followed him here from Seattle. Situation. To continue. All right after winning their opener the cosmos lost five in a row in this their first season playing indoor soccer
well last night the most be tall say 8 6 to snap that losing streak cosmos never trailed one to nothing on the Steve Moore's goal from Steve Wereley at 5:50 the first quarter of ten twenty eight two to nothing Chico bra passing to bars banned off an account off Tulsa's defender right in Tulsa did battle back to tight at five of the cosmos playing without drugs Yochi now you who is sitting out a one game suspension scored to take a 6 5 lead that was Fernando de Mathias and it came just 10 seconds after I had tied it to Mathias at 2 for the night so did band off and so did Steve Moore as that one made it eight to five in the final was eight to six Cosmo's one and can I say happy anniversary to mom and dad. Absolutely. Don says no tennis and yes I'm happy I don't think that's a thank you Bill. And that's the news for tonight. Don Torrance Bill Perry and the rest of the nightly news. I cannot I had a good night. New Jersey let it be.
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