KNTV Channel 11 News Reels April 1, 1966

Description: Original camera footage edited for broadcast for KNTV San Jose Channel 11 news. No broadcast script exists for this date. Reel 1: Segment 1 (silent): San Jose City Council meeting. Segment 2 (sound): Interview with San Jose State College football coach Harry Anderson after their game with Utah State. "Actually with our workouts all week, and with our pre-game warmup, we really thought the boys were ready for a fine effort. And of course, any human being is influenced by the events that happened, especially when you're in a competitive situation like football, and we did some things early in the ball game that were very disheartening to the coaching staff, and also to the team as a whole. In other words, we gave up the ball in bad field positions, and Utah State took advantage of that by going in to score." Reporter: "Physically, how did the squad come out?" "Well, we came out of the game with some bumps and bruises, we lost our number one defensive right half backer, Alan Saunders, who's been a real fine competitor for us all year -- he will not be ready for the Fresno State game at this point." Reporter: "What occurred to him, Harry?" "He has a knee injury --" Segment 3 (sound): Footage of football game between Utah State and San Jose State Spartans at Utah, with snow-capped mountains in the background. Shot of the scoreboard, with U.S.U. up 10 over Visitors 0. Reel 2: Segment 1 (sound + silent): Reporter Dennis Rowedder interviews people on the street in Monterey, with street sign for Pearl Street above his head, about their feelings on when the city should start putting up Christmas decorations. Silent shots of worker putting up decoration on street lamp; decorations hanging over street as traffic goes underneath; stores along street with pedestrians; theater marquee advertising Marlon Brando in The Apaloosa. Segment 2 (sound): Reporter inside San Jose Municipal Airport terminal, with Pacific Air Lines model plane and banner hanging behind him. "If you've noticed that things have been a little quieter around San Jose the past few days, you can hold Pacific Air Lines responsible. The company's planes have not been in the air. They're back at it now, following more than a week of idleness brought about by a machinists strike against the line. The International Association of Machinists, Saturday night voted by a slim majority to accept a new, 3-year contract with Pacific. That same contract was rejected only on Friday. But even with this new contract, any ski and gambling trips scheduled for tonight will have to be postponed. This aircraft is scheduled to fly to Lake Tahoe tonight as it does every night, but won't be able to make the trip. The machinists say it's okay, but Mother Nature's snow and wind department says no. This is Dick Currier, Channel 11 News at San Jose Airport." Followed by short, silent clip of baggage handlers loading and unloading bags on aircraft. Reel 3: Segment 1 (silent): Exterior night shot of neon sign for the Branding Iron restaurant at 12 Valley Fair. Interior of business, with policemen talking to Black owners/managers. Appears to be site of robbery. Segment 2 (silent): Interior of office, policemen looking at filing cabinets. Segment 3 (sound): Reporter in front of sign for the Spartan City apartments at 1253 South Seventh Street. "Spartan City is a cluster of apartment dwellings used by students of San Jose State College. That is, married students who live here with their families. It's an invaluable facility because the rent is so low, and those students who are married, have wives and children, and study at San Jose State can live here very cheaply. But some of these dwellings are set to be torn down, and it's going to be a new maintenance facility put up here on this spot. Some of the buildings will survive, but we wondered about some of the families, whether they will or not. To get the story about the future of Spartan City, we talked with the San Jose State College Student Union official, Jim Marshello. [Interview outside College Union]. Reporter: "How many people will be displaced by this project?" "Approximately 60 families in the west part city, which is the area that has children, 60% or 60 apartments are being removed by the plan for a new operations complex." Reporter: "How many students would this be?" "This will be a minimum of 60 students, but more than that because many husbands and wives are both going to school, and so somewhere between 60-120 people that are actually students." Reporter: "And with children, that would come to about 300?" "Yes, probably more like 4-500." Reporter: "This points up a larger problem -- would you care to explain what it is?" "Well, we need to consider whether there is a real need for this kind of housing. We who live there are sure there is. As a matter of fact, the 'Plan for Higher Education,' a report that was developed in 1960, predicted that by 1975 there would be a 17% increase in upper division students and a 7% increase in graduate students. Now, we know by examining figures here in San Jose State that these are the very areas that are heavy laden with married students. For instance, 64% of the graduate class of 1962 was married. So we feel there is going to be an increase. Now we would add to that the fact that there are going to be veterans coming back from the Vietnam War who qualify for G.I. Bill assistance, and these people are going to need economical and married student housing. What it means is for many of us, if we were displaced from Spartan City, we would no longer be able to continue our studies, and for those of us who could stay, we would probably have to drop our number of units and measurably extend our formal education years." Reporter: "What's the answer then, for the state to allot more money to build more facilities to live in?" "No, not necessarily that the state has to allot the money. What we would like to see is a change of policy by the board of trustees to allow us to put the resources of the state together to get additional land, and then to get federal monies to get an initial loan for construction of the facilities that would be repaid by the students paying rent over the next 30 years." Reel 4 (silent + sound): Short silent clip looking up through sunlit trees, Monarch butterflies on leaves. Followed by sound clip. Reporter standing on overpass with traffic underneath. "This is an average California freeway. And it's the source of most of the smog that lies over most of our cities. The smog comes out of these exhaust pipes -- tens of thousands of them -- rises up into the air, and settles like a blanket over the city. The problem of smog in California grows each year. We who live in the big population centers are constantly aware of the sickly pall of brown gas that lies over the bursting metropolis. But now the smog problem has reached its absolutely limit. It was affecting the love life of butterflies. According to a news item, quoted in the Bulletin by the Bay Area Pollution Control District, the butterflies are baffled by smog. Noting the apparent decline in the number of butterflies in the U.S., the theory has been advanced that smog is destroying the butterflies lines of communication. It seems that gentlemen butterflies depend on the potent perfume of the female in order to find their mates. One drop of this scent tis so powerful, it is used to draw the males for miles around. Now, it is lost in the smog, and butterflies seem to languish in loneliness. This problem may serve to be the final solution to the smog problem in California because when smog gets so bad it affects the love life of human beings, well then maybe there'll be a massive effort to eliminate this sickly gas. Until then, I suppose the butterflies will just have to fend for themselves somehow. Frank Gorham, Channel 11 News, on a freeway." Reel 5: (sound). Reporter Dennis Rowedder interviews man with dark hair seated at desk, apparently a police detective or chief in Santa Cruz. Rowedder: "Was she suspicious because she got no reply when she turned up for lunch?" "Yes, this is what made her call our department. Rowedder: "What did the officer who discovered the bodies -- when he went into the house, what exactly did he find?" "Well, he found five deceased persons -- three children, all girls, there was the father and the mother in one bed, and the three children in another large bed in the front room of the home located at the 531 Dufour Street address [Santa Cruz]." Rowedder: "Was there any signs of physical violence?" "No, there wasn't. The children were all in the bed and the mother and father, they were all neatly tucked in." 11/14/66 A-C 652; 11/14/66 D-E 652; 11/14/66 F-G 652; 11/14/66 H-I 652; 11/14/66 J 652