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part of our country Philly where are taking place you you point exactly to the Missouri River Billy this is thei River you're not getting it exactly I if you about John a little [Music] higher this is Missouri River how many agre that's better we've learned that many people are hom because of this condition I have joy does anyone have state news will all those children please [Applause] come Connie I brought this it I brought this item in about um uh the city can I help you contributing cont contrib contributing cont um they got $4,000 and 3,2 90 Connie can I was uh given to May mayor Robinson and he's and and um they're gonna make um an Dam let me your who like to tell us what this word contributing means will you tell us Ashley it means you're giving something yes this money was given by the United States government to San Francisco and it's a much bigger amount of money than that was just read I wonder who can read this number correctly will you try it Susan 3, 29,000 yes that money is going to be used to build a dam in the Sierra called the Cherry River Dam stepen I brought in this item about link tooth decay to food past presence of the Cal California state gent asso breakfast together at the F Hotel before attending sessions of an annual me what does this mean can you tell us the dentist think the the dentists think that our tees get um decayed spots in them because of the foods that we eat they are discussing this at their meeting Tom next Sunday daylight savings time will start does anyone have local news will all those children please come out I I think this is the same item miss Connie brought only it has more to it yes well we won't take that again then thank you it is uh local news not State as you said on television I saw that these um these children they came in here and this man he he showed them he they he take out he tell the children to take out their teeth and uh they had real bad they had accidents and things happened to him and then after um they there was a girl that showed us how to um the man showed us how to brush your teeth how should you brush your teeth Susan um on the on the the CL top you brush down on the bottom you brush up and on the um here you brush you just brush down I think that's all thank you Joyce would you like to suggest an item with which we could begin to write our paper this morning John I think we the item about the B how many agree fine that's someone a sentence which would go with this item pass yesterday they dropped AIC B someone else suggestion P yesterday in FL Nevada theam expion how many like it I think it was an improvement you've been looking ladies and gentlemen at the fourth grade classroom at the aloa school located at 42nd Avenue in vienti in San Francisco this is uh Miss Luke's classroom the principal is Miss key and today you saw how the Daily News is put together the form of a newspaper right here in the classroom the entire efforts being put forward by the students themselves we'll see you again next week on telet trips good night what else we this is the corner of post and Grant in San Francisco we have brought telet trips here to ask anyone we can the question what do you consider today's most important problem that's an overwhelming question to ask naturally we're going to talk to anyone we can at the flower stand right here lady has just been in the process of purchasing flowers what did you buy oh I'll have to ask the flower man I really don't even know the name thank you I have two nickel who are you Mrs delin Mrs William Devin uhhuh you like flowers obviously oh yes I do fine could you come on up close here as soon as you get your flowers want people to get a good look at you and we want to ask ask you the powerful question what do you think is the most important problem affecting us today well I would say the the U war in the Korean War yes why do you feel that that's the most important thing well surely it must be on everybody's mind um yes but specifically that is how does it affect you or your family and so forth well myself and family we don't have anybody in the service that it affects us that way but uh um the very fact that the whole world is disturbed by this and naturally I think it's affecting um our standard of living here in the United States which is naturally affecting you directly uhhuh uhhuh well I think that's pretty concise you've explained it as the Korean War and in your opinion that's the most important problem today affecting us I feel it is MHM well that's what we wanted to hear thank you very much quite welcome well that's her opinion may we talk to you a moment mam huh are you frighting of us a little bit well we won't do anything just want to ask you your name Helen Florest and we want to that's the name of a famous singer is it not it any relation to you no uhhuh we want to ask you what you think is the most important problem affecting us today in your opinion International I think well uh any particular the international tension tension I believe uh the war tension you mean uh what the Korean war or the dangers of other for stting mhm do you think that you have felt that right now I mean or are feeling at the moment feeling that for a long time M that's what we on to hear thank you very much for talking welcome the obvious man right here at the corner is the man that runs this flower stand hi who are you Jean CI come on up here Jean did you hear the question we addressed to the young lady I got Pard of Sir uh it was what in your opinion is the most important problem facing us today and you face the television screen so people can look at you I think it's theore Korean War the Korean why do you specifically point to that well I think everything is in a turmoil people don't know just what to do I mean since they had a touch of the last war people are skeptical I mean they don't want to make one move think it the wrong move they're just standing pet they still buy flowers oh yes definitely how long have you been at the stand here at Poston Grant about 20 years 20 years you don't look much over 20 yourself thank you sir how old are you if I may be 38 38 well you started as a young man then well my dad's been here for 41 years sir is that right yes sir well tell me about the flower business since that's a typical San Francisco uh scene uh is it something that's unique or what well to me I think it's a landmark of San Francisco M well I mean just as much as San Francisco as fisherman W Cable Car Golden Gate Park C house wow well thank you very much for your opinion there we have the Korean War too is a half could we ask you to a question are you embarrassed you know you're being watched by people on television may I ask you your name now you see when you look away television you know may we talk to you ma'am it seems for some reason that people really when you ask them who they are are very frightened could we stop you for just a moment and ask your name all right can we talk to you I don't like you I beg your pardon you're being watched right now on television we have one home I big I didn't hear that we have one home a television who am I going to see now you're going to see yourself oh no that would be fun wouldn't it what are you selling we're not selling anything I want to ask you what you think is the most important problem facing us today may we ask you your name and your name what is your name but don't hide her because people are watching you on television and your back the back of your head is toward the television screen right there Marilyn Mery and my mother what do you think is the most important problem facing us today well right now the Cal usfc football game there we have a an answer for a change tell me in your opinion would you look over there so they can see that's mine what is your opinion as to the most important problem well right now that's pretty near and dear to my heart too why I'm an SD student uhhuh and are you a former SC student or why no my husband happens to be and we have followed them for a number of years through their game would you care to predict the game I'm afraid to thank you both very much for talking to us we ask you your name that's a very unusual name but thank you very much well don't could we ask you a question sir come on up here I beg your pardon KP everything it said i' showed in the paper that K act have those Pices in Louis Missouri that Atkins and and Rollins fights you know people are watching you and and listening to everything you're saying right now the fights are on Wednesday nights that's correct I want to ask you first your name uh fredman Henry Freedman in your opinion what is the most important problem facing us today well I think the economic problem uh economic yes well based on what uh taxes going up or uh taxes going up yes I don't see how some of the people come meet it mhm and and uh you feel that that is where we all feel it the most so above all other things I think so myself of course it's naturally it's going to heav any class of people surely especially the people that make to the in the lower brackets you going hit them uh do you have any solution well I I think I tell you what I think I think we ought to change this whole Administration and get through and put somebody else in there and that will do some good I think we're spending too much money when we ask for money for our shelves here they won't allow it we want to give it abroad to foreigners they say okay I they look to home first I see well thank you very much for your opinion Mr Freedman for that ladies and people uh may we talk to you ma'am what about uh if you come right up here we'll get into it and we'll ask you all about it we want to ask you first your name Mrs is Maran no don't look there you look up there those people that's fine what in your opinion is the most important problem facing us today well I think the Korea situation well why do you think so well I think we should get our boys home well I think we're just sending them over there and sending them over for what end so you feel that the problem is the Korean War but it's uh sort of a useless thing in your opinion yes yes I do uhhuh what would you do to solve it well I would for your opinion sir can we stop you just a moment don't be frightened you're being watched on gentlemen is a telet trip at the corner of post and Grant in San Francisco a typical San Francisco corner with a flower stand to decorate the scene our question has been in your opinion what is the most important problem facing us today principal it was the Korean War one answer was the economic situation and another was the football game on Saturday we hope you enjoy this glimpse into opinions of people in San Francisco good night good evening ladies and gentlemen we're at the San Francisco Police Department Communications Bureau the nerves Center where all Communications are handled we want you to meet the director of the criminal information George hipley George we want to talk to you about what goes on here tell you why don't you come up here close to our television screen people first get a look at you and uh you come around here so they can watch you right over here first of all we want to know how many radio messages come in a day well there are average a thousand messages and possibly 1,000 every day 1,000 every day and on uh special occasions it will go as is 1500 or 2,000 certainly keeps your men busy yes indeed does the weather have anything to do with the amount of well yes and the hours of the day regulate our traffic too that is in the uh rainy afternoon usually between the hours of 4: and 6 when people are leaving for their homes for dinner an to get home they're anxious to get home and they're inclined to speed in doing so and the result is is we have a lot of automobile accidents so so uh after the normal business hours you have more calls coming in oh yes mostly what automobile accidents automobile accidents and then it tapers off until uh around 8:00 in the evening and the other time and people leave their homes again to go to shows and uh we have the results of uh automobile accidents again how many uh you call them squad cars TR cars radio patrol cars radio patrol cars how many do we have in the city of San Francisco well we have uh approximately 85 cars that are equipped with uh receivers that is they can receive the messages but they can't talk back to headquarters then there are U some 64 that are equ with two ways oh yeah uh that is they talk back to headquarters and we convey the message to them then we have some 85 motorcycles they're equipped with oneway radio that is they receive but uh we contemplate installation of some two-way so that the officer can talk back to head and each of these cars and motorcycles have certain areas yes find through a certain district there are nine police districts in the city and uh the heavier districts for instance the northern uh that Embraces the uh territory for West of lenworth to Steiner and from Market Street to the a a heavily populated area and we have five cars growing there at all times all right let's uh find out what some of this material is that we notice here in the background if this is too small for your television screens bear with us we'll be right back what are these teletypes for example uh this tell type machine you see here is the state t type that connects all the other that connects with every station in the state we have here a map of the state of California on there you notice the are green buttons pretty hard to see on our television screen it's a map as you know and then it's marked with buttons each one of those points we can contact or we can call for an all points hookup and we contact them all simultaneously so everybody gets the message if I steal $10 and I say well I'm going to head for the Mexican border by by the time I hit San Diego they know about it we'll head you off possibly at San Diego or if you start East we can get you with newer Arizona if you cross the line and go into Nevada they can get you at either Reno or Sparks or Las Vegas oh I won't try it I'll we have pretty fair cage there blocking what uh what are these men doing there other teletypes here I know they very small on your screens but uh this uh this machine is uh simply a standby for our district stations uh this we're in the way of it that's well uh this machine hooks into the nine police districts and various bureaus in this building and it's simply for the transmission of orders that is missing person stolen Automobiles and the any orders for the uh company Commander for details but is detailing officers at football games and all that sort of thing that go out to the rush more or less are transmitted on that machine uh can we see the radio set up now I think most of you are familiar with police calls that come in and uh why don't you head in there first in this little section in here and this is the radio announce Booth it looks like to me uh there are two men here as you possibly see on your screen they are your radio announcers is that right that's right they're called dispatchers and we have dual transmitters so that either man when one of them is busy why he gets the other transmitter to work with and uh they get the calls from all the the radio patrol car that's right and in turn dispatch I suppose radio uh messages from telephone information that's right comes in from our switchboard which is located in the other room here and it's transmitted over three lines we have Con in the switchboard and they in turn go on the air here and give the message to the car I noticed one thing here it says uh probably hard for you to read there on your screen it says bank and burglar alarms is this whole panel connected to say Banks or that panel is connected with the branch banks the main office that and the minute that alarm hits going to hear one go off now comes in under that buzzer and there's a pilot light that goes on at the same time uh the minute the uh dispatcher hears that buzzer and sees the light locates the uh uh places where the alarm is originating by this card here and he dispatches two radio cards two every two every two we interrupt talking just for a second uh first we want to find out your name and how long you've been doing this sort of thing well I'm officer llo and I've I've only been here a short time about four months five months could we ask you your age you look pretty young I'm 25 years uhuh have you ever had a great desire to be an announcer on a regular radio station oh no no no great desire well you know you're probably one of the most listened to uh personalities even though it's on the the radio hook up for the police only I imagine the boys know you pretty well by your voice yeah well they get acquainted with us by our voice each of us have different voices sound different over the air they know us personally of course I've worked out in the district stations and I know most of the Fells out there remember the radio cars well we want to interrupt you we're going to talk to you and your face will just about fill the screen you look right there okay fine what is your name my name is Officer O'Neal we're going to sneak over here so people can look at you okay fine officer O'Neal how long have you been doing this well it's this is my first day your first day that's right oh welcome course you like it well it's interesting very interesting work you got it all fairly well mastered well it's haven't haven't mastered yet but uh I'm getting there I'm doing fairly well you have a family yes I do I have a wife and a young daughter it's 3 months old they ever hear you on the air no they never have no probably will one of these days huh possibly yes well okay fine uh now uh is this set up just for the San Francisco area uh we monitor the uh B cies we monitor Redwood City and the Oakland Police San Rafel we uh do most of our uh broadcasting for Sano County through the Redwood City station and they in turn transmit anything they have through their radio to us now uh while we were speaking there was noise that uh guess with somebody talking what uh what is it all about do they have coded messages come in oh yes we use nothing but code and that's for the sake of brevity that doesn't tie up the air too long a man come in with any lengthy messages uh required to go to a police signal box and transmit by telephone rather than tie up the air any length of time uh tell me this do you get any strange calls I know you must uh people wonder about uh certain things that happen in the area here and call the police department well we had uh about a year ago the uh Martinez refineries uh the wind had changed to the north and blew all their fumes into San Francisco and we had the result was that we had calls from as far south as Redwood City wanting to know what we were doing in San Francisco thank you very much for that story you add something to that no that was about all but they flooded our telephone switchboard so that we had a app went out of business for a little while well thanks very much uh you've just been listening to George hipley who is the director of criminal information here we've brought you this telet trip from the the communications Bureau from the Hall of Justice in San Francisco we'll see you again next week on telet trip good night