KNTV Channel 11 News Reels September 20, 1966

Description: Original camera footage edited for broadcast for KNTV San Jose Channel 11 news on October 24, 1966. The accompanying script, read by the newscaster, provides details of the stories and completes the broadcast, and can be obtained from History San Jose. Reel 1: Segment 1 (sound): Interview with attorney Norbert Schlei, campaign manager for Phil Hammer, running for California Secretary of State against incumbent Frank Jordan. He criticizes the current administration and Jordan, saying "The basic problem is that it handles hard problems badly. Routine questions are fine, but when it's a hard problem there's nobody there who is equipped to deal with it at the top. Civil service people don't want to do anything adventurous, so when a new question comes along they dodge and the man at the top is not a lawyer, he's not a professional man, he has no technical skills. How's he going to resolve a hard question of corporate law? Well he can't. The result is the office bobbles around and makes conservative decisions so no one has to do anything adventurous. The two areas it falls down on are hard issues and responsibility for keeping up with law...This man doesn't have the skills needed...he's an old school politician." Reel 2: Segment 2 (sound): Interview with two football coaches from San Jose State, commenting on injuries and the team's readiness. [No story in broadcast script] Segment 1 (silent): San Jose Mayor Ron James in his office, receiving five people representing San Jose's "Citizen's Committee for Planned Zoning," bearing petitions against a proposed Payless store on Foxworthy Avenue, led by chairperson Mrs. Philippa Alvis of 1426 Stark Way. Reel 3: Segment 3 (silent): College football game in daytime. "Alex will crush you" banner, fight on the pitch that is broken up by the referees. [No story in broadcast script] Segment 2 (color, silent): California Secretary of State Frank Jordan is seen conducting a tour of the computer division of his office, part of a story on Jordan asking the state legislature to study possibility of conducting elections by mail. Reel 4: Segment 2 (sound): Interviews at San Jose's Peace Center on North First Street, where every Wednesday night there's a counselling session for young men of draft age who are trying for exemption from the army as conscientious objectors. The first person interviewed is counsellor Larry Wolfe. "Well, I'm really no more interested in enlisting conscientious objectors than I would be for the Marines or for any other cause as far as that's concerned. I'm interested in helping young men think a problem through with the best quality information they can, the most challenging questions I can put to them, and can only hope that I don't influence them too much." The second interviewee is counsellor Lee Schmidt, who is asked what the chief difficulty is for young men finding their way out of the draft. "I think they are used to dealing with concepts that are totally alien to he selective service, and their forms, and their concepts of supreme beings and so forth, and intelligent young men don't think in the same way that draft board officials did 20 years ago. That's a simple summation of it I think." The third interviewee is Dave Ludwig from Foothill College. "It's within myself a kind of religion. I can't believe that you can ever gain peace by killing. It's totally alien to the essence of peace, which is human understanding and tolerance and believe in human dignity." The last interviewee is John Robertson, a married student, who is seeking counselling because his 4F status may at any time be changed to a 1A, and because he doesn't believe in the morality of war. Reel 5: Segment 1 (silent): Brief footage of San Jose City Council meeting followed by footage of the same people in Mayor Ron James' office as seen in Reel 2, Segment 1. This time they can be seen handing him a large document. Broadcast script reads, "The San Jose City Council tonight joined in the fray over the County Assessor's office. On a unanimous vote the Council went on record urging the Board of Supervisors to get on quickly with the job of auditing the assessor's books. The idea is to collect unpaid taxes from firms who have received special treatment. The council acted on the prodding of councilman Dr. Joseph Pace. Earlier, Pace changed his vote from a yes to to a no, thereby denying a zoning change which would have allowed a giant Payless store on Cherry Avenue between Hillsdale and Foxworthy. The council is now tied three to three, and a final vote with all seven members present is scheduled for November 14th. Payless was torpedoed after residents of the area presented Mayor Ron James with more than 3,000 signatures opposing the project." Segment 1 (silent): Women walking with young children along a dirt path in a dirt field, on their way to the Henderson School near Almaden Road in San Jose. The parents have called for a school bus to transport their children, who are being forced to walk through a new housing development construction area and an orchard, but the school board has turned them down. Segment 2 (color, silent): Peace Corps recruitment station set up on a college campus, with shots of publications, a recruiter with an "Andy" name tag, a woman pointing to areas on a map where members can serve. Part of a story on Peace Corps recruitment stations being set up on Bay Area college campuses. According to the broadcast script, Andy Anderson is a 1964 graduate of San Jose State, and is just back from serving in Venezuela. He and other recruiters are aiming to fill 10,000 jobs open to Peace Corpsmen in over 50 emerging nations. Segment 3 (silent): San Jose State students in an auditorium receiving instructions and packets on Proposition 2. Broadcast script reads, "Students of San Jose State College pounded the streets tonight for the passage of Proposition 2 on the November ballot. The issue calls for 230 million dollars to be used in the construction, equipment and site acquisition of state educational institutions. Over 400 students from San Jose State gathered at the school's concert auditorium and received instructions and material from Ken Lane, the campus chairman of Students for Proposition 2, and Jerry Spolter, the Northern California chairman. Then the students went out in groups of four to present the information to the voters. The students represented all fraternities, sororities and service organizations on the state campus. Groups of students such as Susie Smith, a senior from Palo Alto, Laurie Furderer, a freshman from San Jose, Bob Thomas, a junior from El Cerrito, and Richard Martinez, a junior from Sunnyvale, explained to residents what Proposition 2 means to San Jose. The state college would receive 7 million dollars for various projects including equipping the science building, land acquisition to complete the current phase of the college master plan, and air conditioning for the education building." Segment 3 (silent): A mummy, in an open sarcophagus, being carried by four men into the new Rosicrucian Museum on Park Avenue n San Jose's Rose Garden neighborhood. Shots of the mummy on the floor inside the museum; exterior of the new Rosicrucian building with columns and lions. Broadcast script reads, "The cadaver is one of several from the Rosicrucian Museum at the corner of Park and Naglee. The mummies--and in fact the entire contents of the old facility--are being transported to the new 500,000 dollar museum, which is nearing completion, and which will be opened to the public next month. This particular mummy is named Hatason. She was a young temple virgin who consecrated herself to the god Aman-ra -- the Sun God -- in the Nile Valley 2,400 years ago. She is preserved, with seven other mummies, in the Rosicrucian collection...." Segment 1 (sound): San Jose State Spartans football coaches, after their game, discussing injuries, losing Danny Holman in the second quarter. Segment 2 (sound): Interview in Monterey by Dennis Rowedder, about a football tournament where home teams and visiting teams are chosen based on performances. 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