KNTV Channel 11 News Reels October 1, 1979

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): KNTV Reporter Paul Lockhurt (sp?) stands outside the new Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, reads from script. "Ram here is one of six guarding the new Rosicrucian Museum on Park Avenue in San Jose. The rams are cast from the originals, which at one point lined a four-mile stretch of road linking two ancient Egyptian temples -- Luxor and Karnak. The rams set the stage for thousands of relics dug up from old Egypt, housed inside this building. The museum is receiving its finishing touches, and the public will get its first glimpse of the inside at the formal opening November 26th. One of the highlights of the collection inside is a replica of an old Egyptian tomb. Visitors will be escorted through the tunnels, and passageways, which take on back thousands of years to the time of the pharaohs. In the inner chamber is the secret room where the body of the Egyptian king was laid to rest. And quite frankly, it puts Forest Lawn in the amateur class. Bright colorful paintings cover walls and ceilings, depicting the life of the pyramids' tenants. And, outside, here a ram still mans his stoic position linking the world of ancient Egypt with the 20th century flow of traffic outside here on Park Avenue. This is Paul Lockhurt reporting from the new Egyptian museum in San Jose." Followed by silent footage of the exterior, columns, sphinx, interior tunnels, tomb, wall paintings. Segment 2 (sound): Football game action between San Jose State College and Utah State University. Snow-capped mountains, banner "Go Big Blue." Scoreboard. Reel 2 (sound): Reporter Rik Whittaker outside the old Hall of Records building on St. James Square in San Jose, in the midst of being demolished. "They just don't make 'em like this anymore. I'm referring of course to the old Hall of Records building in back of me here. They're tearing it down brick by brick, but it's resisting every inch of the way. Wreckers have been at the job since Monday, but if they keep going like this they'll be here through at least next week. In the nearby Superior Court building, it's a different story. They're finishing building. The project is the completion of the courthouse's fifth floor. From the time it was dedicated 18 months ago, court personnel knew that the three floors of courtrooms and the main floor court offices left a lot to be desired in the way of space. Late last May, work began on the fifth floor, and is due for completion a month from now. Courtroom 13 will house the U.S. District Court, where newly appointed federal judge Robert Peckham will [reside]. The spacious courtroom, with seating for 90 spectators, represents a triumph for local jurists who have devoted years in pressing for a federal bench in San Jose. One of the most unique features of the new floor will be a multipurpose courtroom, smaller than the rest but designed to be an appellate superior court with seating for a bank of three judges to hear cases appealed from municipal courts. The courtroom will also be used for pre-trial and non-jury hearings. The multi-purpose courtroom is a new innovation. Santa Clara County will be one of a few in the nation to have such a facility. There's a spacious room for the judges to meet en banc, and the grand jury will also weigh evidence here. Two conciliation rooms have been built in an effort to halt the spiraling number of divorces in the county. Conciliators will meet on a voluntary basis with couples who have filed for divorce in an effort to salvage a marriage. This floor cost slightly over $200,000 to complete, slightly more than the other floors since it was specially contracted, but the construction is good. It's built to last at least 100 years, with provision for another three floors to be added on when these five become over-crowded. But where the Hall of Records stands now a spacious [?] is planned. The old courthouse now 100 years old will cost a half million dollars to renovate. That decision will be up to the Board of Supervisors. The keynote in all of this is planning, with an eye for beauty and a look to the budget. But when you look to the old Hall of Records you realize again, they just don't make 'em like this anymore. Rik Whittaker reporting." Reel 3: Segment 1 (silent): Shot of demolition of the Hall of Records Building and interior of the new Superior Courthouse construction. Interior halls, new courtroom, man vacuuming, exterior of the old Santa Clara County Courthouse. Segment 2 (sound): Woman seated at table with microphone, wearing suit. Appears to be a press conference or panel. She answers a question about the issue with the East San Jose Community Improvement Center not receiving funding from Economic Opportunities Commission. "I hesitate to comment on a local program with which I'm not familiar. However, if the Economic Opportunities Commission has refused to grant them funds because it is a local person's not elective then this is different -- this differs from the philosophy of the program itself. And this is one of the reasons that Mrs. Newman and I have opposed the Economic Opportunity Act, because it does fund with our tax dollars groups of individuals to operate poverty or anti-poverty programs without the approval of the locally elected officials. In other words, it's the federal government coming in, spending our tax dollars but not making persons responsible to the electorate responsible for the funds. And so I would wonder why, on what grounds then that they could refuse to give it to them. [Off-camera question] Well, I think there are many contributing factors to anyone's defeat in public office, but I do feel very strongly that the war on poverty has been renounced by the voters.." Reel 4: Segment 1 (sound): Interview with football coach, possibly Fresno State. Coach, joking: "That's right, the score in the third quarter is 0 for Fresno State, 61 points for the opponents." Reporter: "You've got a quarterback who is sort of a la Danny Holman, he's operating right now with a fiberglass cast on his back." "Well, he has a fiberglass cage that goes all the way around. He has a torn rib that is torn right by the backbone." Reporter: "What are you worried about from San Jose State?" "Well, we respect San Jose highly as we have over the years...started in 1921 we're fairly even in our victories, losses and ties, and course if San Jose clicks the way they did against Cal and Oregon, we'll be in for a real tough game." Segment 2 (silent): Night football game, with cheerleaders. Sign for "Jaguars" on one side. Reel 5: Segment 1 (sound): Interview with Gore Vidal about politics. Vidal: "Well, I think it's inevitable that it will be run by professional politicians, I assume that Ronald Reagan is not a fool. In other words, if I, I mean, after all I'm a literary man, if suddenly they made me president of General Motors, and the stockholders suddenly had a great surge of affection for my ten shares, made me the president of General Motors, I would immediately rely on experts to help me through the early stages. Ronald Reagan has not a clue as to how a state is governed. These things are rather difficult. I think he will depend upon advice, and I think [?] is giving him a rather dirty curve, saying well he can't do it by himself, hoping that Reagan will say I'll show him, I'll do it all by myself, Nancy and I that is, Nancy and I will do it all ourselves. And he's hoping that Reagan will make some great mistake." Segment 2 (sound): Reporter Dennis Rowedder (off-camera) interviews man affiliated with farmworker's movement, presumably near Monterey or Salinas, outdoors, with building behind him and women with books walking past. Man: "Well, I don't think it's going to help us much, but there's a time to come and we shall see what Mr. Reagan is going to do for the farmworkers. We hope that he does give us help, and we hope that he does feel that the farmworkers are entitled to better wages, and better working conditions, and -- not better, but just to equal us like any other worker." Rowedder: "Do you think it's going to be difficult to get legislature through?" "Well, right now that's a question that we couldn't answer because we have to see what he's going to do, and what are the assemblymen and the senators in the state of California are willing to do for the farmworker. But I think that they have heard enough and they seen enough in Delano that I think they gonna, they're going to come with good legislation for the farmworkers -- hoping that they do." [Question cut] "That is hard to answer because it's not up to me. It's not up to the organization. It's up to the farmworkers themselves. Those are the ones that are being hurt, and they need help, and they need us for what they want. We don't tell them what they want. They tell us what they want. We do what they tell us." Rowedder: "Have they made a dire call for your help, let me put it that way?" "Well, they did, yes, and not only did they did this dire call, but we are farmworkers ourselves, and we know that what the farmworker needs is better legislation, and better wages, and to treat us like human beings, and dignity, and that's what we're asking for. We're not asking for more than any other worker would." Reel 6: Segment 1 (sound): Interview San Jose State College football coach Harry Anderson. Anderson: "Plus they do things that other teams haven't done so far. For example, they will pitch the ball out to their halfback, who by the way is, was, their second string quarterback earlier in the season. And then he will run one direction or the other but throw back to their quarterback, and we don't usually pass to your quarterback. Then they also will pitch out to their quarterback, who in turn will throw a halfback pass.." Reporter: "Harry, you've had a squad that started off with a great big bang then ran into some hefty ball clubs and didn't have quite the record that some people expected at the beginning. Are you disappointed?" "Well, I think if we weren't disappointed, we wouldn't be human, because the players I know are disappointed at the number of games we've been able to win this year, so's the coaching staff, and I'm sure other people are too. But as we were chatting here before we went on tv, I mentioned that the season has been an exciting one, certainly a disappointing one in the number of wins, but our players have put out good effort, been hut by injuries, we haven't played as well at times as well should have, but we're certainly not discouraged, and I'm convinced that we're going to have a winning football program at San Jose State and we're not gonna--" Segment 2 (silent): Football match action between Houston Oilers and Oakland Raiders. Segment 3 (sound): Interview with Australian woman seated on sofa, reporter Dennis Rowedder off camera. Woman: "No, they're certainly not, the anti-American propaganda is -- it never ceases, and I -- of course, the situation with the Russians has deteriorated since I was there. Nonetheless, at the time, the quarrel between the Soviets was being aired day and night in the newspapers, in magazines, and the letters that have been exchanged in this quarrel are studied intensely by the students of China." Rowedder: "Is there a natural assumption in Red China that ultimately was with the United States is inevitable?" "Well, not inevitable, but the Chinese definitely fear an invasion by the United States, there's no doubt about this. They interpret the presence of the 7th Fleet off the China coast, the thousands of American troops in Vietnam, and the fact that aeroplanes have gone over their territory add up to one thing, to these isolated people. That is, they regard United States as aggressive." Reel 7 (silent + sound): Conference room where Dr. Robert D. Clark, president of San Jose State, is speaking at a table microphone. Shots of others in room, someone taking notes on a notepad. Followed by outdoor interview of Dr. G. W. Ford. Ford: "The purpose of the program we have established in the Dominican Republic is to assist the Ministry of Education in the Dominican Republic to improve its educational program. Rather specifically, we are providing consultants to the ministry and to the Normal Schools that prepare the elementary teachers in the Dominican Republic, and consultants to the secondary schools in that country. Consultants in the area of the sciences, mathematics, social studies, and the teaching of English as a Second Language." Reporter: "Then this is not a program of teacher training as such -- it's designed more to increase the quality of the people they are training." "This is correct. We are asked to help the Dominicans to plan ways in which they can attract a greater number of teachers; however, our chief responsibility is to serve as consultants with the teachers and the ministry officials and other educators in their present capacities." Interview with Dr. Clark. Reporter: "Dr. Clark, would you evaluate the significance of this largest federal grant that San Jose State has ever had, and possible future outlook in this area for San Jose State?" Clark: "Yes, I should be glad to give you my opinion on it. I think that this may be one of the most important means for us to help an undeveloped and an emerging nation, for us to give them assistance in their education. Trying to spread literacy among their people, train teachers to teach their people, I think is as fine a contribution as we could make. I think this college is very well equipped to do that." Reporter: "Does this mean perhaps that this college will be seeking other federal grants and getting more involved in this area?" "I suspect that it may mean that. We will not want to exceed our resources, of course, and we have a limited number of faculty members who could contribute their time and energy to this, but I think we probably shall reach out to other areas." Reporter: "Dr. G. W. Ford, of the San Jose State staff, has been named to coordinate the program. We asked him the purpose for it.." Reel 8 (sound + silent): Interview with executive at Lockheed Missile & Space Co. in Sunnyvale, seated at desk with world map on wall behind him, and model of missile on his desk. Reporter: "Mr. Gruman, what is, from a local point of view, the significant of [Robert] McNamara's announcement? What can we look for?" "Well, of course we're very pleased that the Secretary has announced that he's gonna go ahead with the production of the Poseidon missile. And in the long term of course this will be beneficial to Lockheed and the community. However, it should have no immediate effects since we really just got started with the development of the Poseidon this last March, and it takes many years before we go from the development phase into the production phase on a missile of this type." Reporter: "From a community point of view perhaps the most important part of the whole thing is the economic factor. Will this mean that you'll employ more people, and that there will be more money in the community, or will things go along abut the way you planned previously?" "I would say it would mean we would continue at about our present level of employment through a somewhat longer period. That will be the most significant effect." Reporter: "How many people will you employ on the program?" "Well, it's hard to say just how many will be employed on the Poseidon, uh, it's numbered in the thousands however." Followed by silent footage of a Polaris ballistic missile on display in Sunnyvale, with close-ups of each segment, and signs describing them, title sign "U.S. Navy A-3 Polaris Fleet Ballistic Missile. Lockheed Missile & Space Co. Sunnyvale, Calif." Reel 9: (sound + silent): KNTV reporter leaning against a Channel 11 car in the parking lot with P&W Supermarket behind him. "Ah, the ways of the world. We came down here with our camera crew this morning expecting to see five, or at least 10 or 15 housewives against high food prices here at San Jose picketing this food store, but apparently things didn't pan out the way the ladies had wanted. Earlier this month, and the last part of last month, there was a big plan for five to 10,000 San Jose housewives against high food prices to start a massive picket and boycott of supermarkets and chain stores in the area to bring prices down. There was a lot of hullaballoo but apparently not much has happened since then. The D-Day was the 15th of this month -- that's when the boycotting and the picketing was to have started. Well the 16th has come and gone, today we came down here because there was a report that they were gonna be picketing the P&W Supermarket on the corner of Foxworthy and Meridian. There were two ladies with some hastily scribbled signs marching around in front. They stayed for about 45 minutes and then gave up and drove away. It's hard to predict right now what will happen to this massive plan, these 10,000 ladies picketing the supermarkets. I suppose we'll just have to wait and see. Probably proves one thing. The ladies are looking for a bargain, and if they find it at the supermarket, they'll go there. If they find it at the corner drugstore, they'll go there. Prices probably do need to come down and maybe the ladies will accomplish it. It's too bad as far as the news item goes, because we thought we'd come down here and shoot these fighting Amazons in front of the supermarket, armed to the teeth and battling it out with supermarket owners. It didn't work out, so we'll just have to leave." In attempt at humor, reporter puts his microphone on the ground, gets in the car and drives away. Extended shot of the parking lot exit and traffic on road. Cut to silent footage of one woman with picket outside the supermarket, "If you don't lower our food prices, send us a care package." Reel 10: Segment 1 (silent): Women on assembly line putting together TONKA toy trucks. Shots of enormous industrial equipment marked MONSTER [?]. Metal truck beds being pressed, tires added, fire engines assembled, put into boxes. Shot of a man dressed as Santa operating forklift in the warehouse. Segment 2 (silent): Men in conference room with pointers and exhibit of an aerial map. Cut to men examining an architectural model in an office. It appears to have amusement park features such as a roller coaster and monorail, but also features multiple buildings. 11/18/66 A-B 656; 11/18/66 C 656; 11/18/66 D-E 656; 11/18/66 F-G 656; 11/18/66 H-J 656; 11/18/66 K-M 656; 11/18/66 N 656; 11/18/66 O 656; 11/18/66 P 656; 11/18/66 Q-R 656