KNTV Channel 11 News Reels July 29, 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 (sound): Interview with man seated in upholstered chair in front of bookcase (reporter off-camera). "I think, quite simply, most Americans, although very familiar with the problem of divorce, although most of them in one way or another have been touched by divorce at some time in their life, just hate to face up to realities. The fact that divorce is becoming more frequent, that Americans are marrying at much earlier ages, and that these teenage marriages are ending in divorce with much greater frequency. We'd like to pretend that that problem isn't there, and that it will just go away, but that won't work. Now what I suggested as a possible solution to this problem is that the young people of America, especially the teenagers, try to take a more realistic view of marriage, and that the state cooperate with them by making it possible for them to take out let's say a two-year marriage license with an option to renew. If the first two years work out then they can perhaps venture into the relationship for life." Segment 2 (silent + sound): Silent clips inside a mostly empty large auditorium, possibly the Municipal Auditorium in San Jose. A woman is seen at the podium. The same woman then speaks to camera. "We feel that this is not an unreasonable amount to ask in view of the cost of living rise that has taken place in the last six years." Reporter: "Very few people turned out tonight. Do you think more of them will turn out tomorrow and picket in the rain?" "Well, if we have a pouring down rain, I'm sorry to say I don't think we expect our picket lines to walk in the rain, no, but the boycott will start, and the boycott of course doesn't involve anyone getting out in the rain, so we're sure that this will be successful." Followed by more silent shots of the interior of the auditorium. Segment 3 (sound): Footage of football game between Utah State and San Jose State Spartans at Utah, with snow-capped mountains in the background. Reel 2: Segment 1 (silent + sound): Silent shots of seafood inside cases, live crabs being placed into a pot of water, cooked crabs being held up for camera. Followed by interview of fish market proprietor behind the counter. Reporter: "Cicero, what's going to happen to the retail fish sales business if Catholics are no longer required to eat meat on Fridays?" "Well, I don't think that would have any variant on people not eating fish. They still would eat fish regardless of whether the Catholic church says yes or no. I think most people come in here to buy fish really like fish, and I don't think it would hurt the fish business in any way." Reporter: "The business is much greater on Fridays than other days of the week?" "Yes, Friday is out best day for the simple reason that people think the freshest fish comes in just on Friday. But that is not true. We have fresh fish all week long." Segment 2 (sound + silent): Interview with Harold Painter at his cabin in woods, in front of roaring fireplace. Intercut with silent shots of Painter and his partner standing on the balcony of their cabin in various poses. Painter: "I'm not sure. We have several doors open. One is that we can come back to the Iowa courts and reopen the case in the lower courts and whether we're going to do this or not we don't know for sure. Our attorneys are exploring this and at the moment we don't know." Reporter: "Do you personally think there's any hope at all?" "Oh, indeed I do. I wouldn't like --" Reporter: "The Iowa court referred to you as being a sort of Bohemian person -- would you care to comment about that?" "Well, certainly by Iowa standards I'm sure we are. I think anyone who lives outside Iowa borders would have to be bohemian by Iowa standards, no, but on the other hand, too, I don't know how this figures into the court's decision to deprive a father of his son because in the eyes of the court he lives a bohemian life. I just don't think this should be a -- it's not a legitimate consideration at all." Reporter: "Also, in the words of the court, they said that your boy would be better off in the quote 'solid, conventional, stable atmosphere of the Midwest.'" "No, I don't think so. I think he's better off here. We want him here." [This story relates to the case Painter v. Bannister, 1966, in which custody of Painter's son Mark was awarded to grandparents Dwight and Mary Bannister in Iowa] Reel 3: Segment 1 (silent): Sportswriters Broadcasters awards. Shots of young men receiving awards inside a small banquet hall. Segment 2 (silent): People standing around on street and lawn in Monterey as the Patania couple are forcibly evicted from their home [appears to be footage from January 1966, reused for story]. Segment 3 (silent): Shots of sign for the Custom House Urban Renewal Project in Monterey, empty dirt lot, construction site, kids playing in dirt, sign, "Excavating Today No Parking," busy street in downtown Monterey with storefronts and automobiles. Reel 4 (sound): Reporter Dennis Rowedder stands in front of Custom House Urban Renewal Project sign in Monterey, reads from script. "Urban renewal is always a controversial subject. But here in Monterey, it is like the proverbial red flag to the bull. Never has any urban renewal project met with such criticism, handwringing, delays, arguments, and at times, downright obstruction. The project even became nationally famous, or should we say infamous, back in January of this year when the Patania family defied every effort of the authorities to evict them from their condemned home in the downtown urban renewal area. Theirs was the largest protest of all. Urban renewal in downtown Monterey actually got underway in 1962, and was originally scheduled for completion at a cost of some 12 million dollars. During these last 4 years, acquisition of property has proved to be a long, painstaking business. Certainly a great deal of demolition has taken place. But although much ahs come down, very little has gone up. Although none can deny the merits of urban renewal as an ideal, many can argue the methods of accomplishment. The Monterey Urban Renewal Agency has not been without its problems. The project is now some six months behind schedule at a conservative estimate, and some six million dollars has already been spent. Has the whole program bogged down, and if so, why? For an answer to this question, we went to Urban Renewal Agency member Dan Snell. [Cut to Rowedder on bench with Snell]. Rowedder: "Is the Urban Renewal project bogged down?" "Oh, certainly no, it's not bogged down. We're proceeding as rapidly as possible under the circumstances that are generally surrounding a government project, a thing as this is -- you're involved in so many little things that take time. Condemnation proceedings are always a problem. If we were starting with a bare piece of land that were owned by the agency or the city it would've gone a lot faster than this, but we are held up by items of this type." Rowedder: "Is a major department store essential to the success of the project?" "Well, let's say it's not essential, but it would be the happiest thing that could happen here, but it's not really essential. We still have some of the most beautiful land on the peninsula here, and it's bound to go --" [Rowedder back in front of Custom House sign] "Tomorrow we will speak with businessmen in the downtown urban renewal area for their views on urban renewal. Also, an exclusive interview with Monterey's mayor Minnie Coyle. This is Dennis Rowedder from the urban renewal area in Monterey." 11/15/66 A-C 653; 11/15/66 D-E 653; 11/15/66 F-G 653; 11/15/66 H 653