KNTV Channel 11 News Reels September 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 (sound): Reporter Dennis Rowedder in front of the Custom House Urban Renewal Project sign in Monterey. "Yesterday, you heard a member of the Monterey Urban Renewal Agency answer criticism of and explain some of the pertinent points of the Urban Renewal project here in Monterey. Despite the fact that the program has come under heavy fire, it would certainly not be true to say that everyone is against the project. Mel Monaco is a barber. He has performed his tonsorial techniques for nineteen years at this shop in lower Alvarado Street, until his place was recently bought by Urban Renewal. We asked him how he felt about his relocation. [Mel interviewed while clipping hair] Mel: "The City adopted Urban Renewal and it's vitally important that they go ahead and finish the job because as one of the displaced persons down there I don't see how can anybody now be able to survive down there in business." Rowedder: "How has Urban Renewal treated you Mel?" "They treat me fine. I have no complaints, they gave all their assistance and financing they could, and it was invaluable to me." [Cut to Rowedder in front of Urban Renewal sign again] "There is also the other side of the story. Ray Crandy owns a coffee shop in the Urban Renewal area, and is destined ultimately for eviction. What does he think about the project?" [Ray interviewed at the counter of his shop] "Well, I don't think much of it. I think they're goin' awful slow with it, and haven't put anything up." Rowedder: "What's it going to do to you?" "It's going to put me out of business, like everybody else." Rowedder: "Will you be relocating your business?" "No, not that I know of. I don't know where I would go." [Cut to Rowedder at Urban Renewal sign] "Mrs. Minnie Coyle enjoys the distinction of being Monterey's first woman mayor. She has been on the receiving end of many brick bats and a few bouquets regarding the Urban Renewal project. [Coyle interviewed at her desk] Rowedder: "Does the program have any chance of success?" "Definitely. It can't be anything BUT a success. If it isn't a heavy dense commercial idea, it's going to be a tourist idea, and it can't be anything BUT a success." Rowedder: "Let me ask you this. It has been suggested that your very political life hangs on the success or failure of the Urban Renewal Project. How do you feel about this?" "I think this is a false idea. Because if it were a matter of politics, both the City Council and myself would allow the apartment houses and the motels to be built immediately. But it's more the consideration of what's best for the City. And in this case, we feel that to know whether it's going to be a commercial area comes before what is known as politics. Let's face it, politics are the people. And what's best for the people is what's best for the city and I can't see any other way of --" [Cut to Rowedder in front of sign] "As you have seen, there are many pros and cons of the Urban Renewal Program in Monterey, and we have endeavored to answer some of the pertinent questions in the minds of most citizens. Any project of this nature would find it difficult to achieve perfection without constructive criticism --" Reel 2: Segment 1 (sound): Interview with man with glasses and small mustache (reporter off-screen), speaking about unnamed country's population issues, possibly China. "They have a serious growth problem because of the fact that a large proportion of their population is also concentrated in large metropolitan areas, and these are growing very rapidly, and extending beyond their capacity to cope with them on a routine basis, and they have to make decisions at this point in time to try to resolve these problems." Segment 2 (silent): Shots looking down at traffic from top of tall building in city, likely San Francisco. People on sidewalk looking up at building. Young man getting into climbing harness, and then pulling himself up the building on the rope. Another man is seen rappelling down the building from the top. They meet at a window on a high floor, where a young woman kisses them and they drink from cups as they rest their feet on the ledge. Shot of Bank of American building entrance nearby. Segment 3 (silent): Sign outside banquet hall, "Welcome KGNU Radio / Channel 11 KNTV / San Jose Light Opera Auxiliary / San Jose Symphony,". Shots of women having lunch and smoking inside at tables. Segment 4 (silent): Horse racing at race track. Close-up of man ripping up what appears to be a ticket and then dropping pieces on the ground. Reel 3: Segment 1 (sound): Dennis Rowedder interviews man in office, likely law enforcement, about the family found dead in home at 531 Dufour Street (Santa Cruz). Rowedder: "Is there any evidence of them [needles/drugs] being used at all?" "It was reported that he had -- we -- I did see hypo marks on him, and she also had some hypo marks on her." Rowedder: "What about the children?" "The doctor said he did not notice any visible." Rowedder: "Were there any traces of any identifiable drug in the hypodermic syringes?" "No, they were clean plastic syringes. They had a supply of them -- there was a letter in which they had an order for 200 syringes." Rowedder: "Now, there's some -- apparently you've been trying to find out if they were in fact married. Have you made any enquiries?" "We checked with approximately six counties surrounding Lake Tahoe area and no recent marriage certificates had been issued in these names." Segment 2 (sound + silent): Reporter Dick Currier interviews California Highway Patrolman next to freeway. "We had an inspection team in our area last month, and these stickers may not be to the exact percentage, but they ran closer to 90% rather than 3 out of 8, and the major violation found locally here was headlight out of adjustment." Currier: "So what do you attribute this -- why are there so many faulty vehicles on the road?" "Well, I wouldn't say faulty vehicles, but there are these mechanical defects, and I would say that the average motorist isn't aware of a lot of these things. I ask you the question -- how many people have checked the level, the correctness of the headlights. How many people even think about these things? It actually becomes a necessity to them to be aware that headlights might be out of adjustment, that the taillights might not be working, stoplights and the other things we're looking for, and correct them. Because I'm sure that most people want these things corrected before we stop them and tell them there's a violation here." Currier: "Do you run into many very serious difficulties?" Interview is followed by silent footage of CHP conducting inspections on vehicles. Reel 4: Segment 1 (sound): Inside locker room with San Jose State Spartans football team as coach Harry Anderson gives them a half-time pep talk. He tells them what they're doing wrong, then says, "Do what does that mean -- we throw in the towel? NO! Baloney. You're going to go out there, you're gonna fight to get open...This is not a good football team in my estimation...we're MAKING them look good --" Segment 2 (sound): Interview outside with Santa Clara University football coach. "Well, this Saturday we play CalPoly Pomona, a real good football team, down in Pomona. Their football team has averaged 43 points in their last three football games. They are a very hard-hitting football team, and this is the type of team we would like to play against." Reporter: "Who are you going to start as quarterback?" "Well, today is early, so I'm really not too sure, I think that we'll just have to wait and see how the two boys progress as the week goes on --" Reel 5 (silent + sound): Silent shots of exterior of the Community Improvement Center on San Jose's Eastside at 230 Lynette Way. Close-up of signs in windows: "Why can't we have preschool?" "Self Help" "Support funds for CIC" "2 years 2 late" "Praise won't pay rent" "$Money$ for Directors Promises for the Poor." Cut to small group meeting inside the building around a table. One of them may be Sofia Mendoza. Followed by sound segment with reporter Dick Currier standing in front of the CIC building. "Members of the Eastside Community Improvement Center are concerned over what they consider to be a real problem. The CIC, based here on Lynette Avenue, part of San Jose's Little Egypt area, several months ago applied to the Equal Opportunities Commission for operating funds. But the EOC won't come through, and the Eastsiders met today to decide what to do about it. The Center wants $140,000 to operate on its own, because it believes other social services are too far away, there's too long a time lag between requests and delivery of aid, overcrowding of the area, and a failure on the part of outside agencies to provide for the needs of the people. CIC Director Fred Albritton talked with us about the problem. [Cut to Currier talking to Albritton] Currier: "What's in store for the CIC if the money doesn't come through -- what will happen?" "Well, if the money doesn't come through, I'm frustrated that we will probably have to close our doors, because we won't be able to rally funds at this late date, and finances, and do our job that we're supposed to do in the area. We had been promised funds from the EOC, and that's just one reason why we didn't rally funds earlier. Since they said now sorry we don't have funds, now we're just about ready to close our doors." [Cut to Currier standing in front of building] "If the money does come through, the San Francisco Office of the EOC will have to review and approve any programs. The Office of Economic Opportunity doesn't want to give away its money blindly even to an established organization like the Eastside Community Improvement Center. Back on this side of the fence, one CIC Board member, San Jose State philosophy professor Phil Jacklin, sums up the situation by saying that the local EOC is incompetent. This is Dick Currier, Channel 11 News, on San Jose's East side." 11/16/66 A 654; 11/16/66 B-E 654; 11/16/66 F-G 654; 11/16/66 H-J 654; 11/16/66 K 654