Original camera footage edited for broadcast for KNTV San Jose Channel 11 news. The accompanying script, read by the newscaster, provides details of the stories and completes the broadcast.
Reel 1:
Segment 1 (silent): Students on outdoor campus dropping ballots into locked boxes, reading literature, showing identification cards. Script reads, "Stanford students have voted two to one in favor of the college health service distributing birth control devices on campus. The vote was taken during the past two days in which Stanford students also cast ballots for other campus issues and for members of the student government. One of the most controversial items on the ballot was an initiative resolution proposed by the Stanford Sexual Rights Forum. The resolution urged the university health service to prescribe contraceptives to any student desiring them. Students approved that resolution two to one. The health service admitted several months ago they prescribe birth control pills to married and engaged women students. The resolution asks that the pill be available to all. The vote is not binding...but does represent student opinion."
Segment 2 (silent): Baseball game at night. Script reads, "The Bakersfield Bears handed the San Jose Bees their first defeat of the season tonight at Municipal Stadium...The Bears put together 4 big runs in the top of the 8th to down the Bees 6 to 1...Butch Roncoville was the winner, as he allowed the Bees only one run, a 360 foot shot to left field by catcher Dennis Paepke...John French was the loser..."
Segment 3 (sound): Man talking to camera about drive to unionize faculty at San Jose State. Script reads, "National President of the American Federation of Teachers says petitions will be presented to state college trustees asking for a secret election among teachers to determine who will represent them in collective bargaining. Charles Cogan said last night that the need for unions at the college and university level is becoming greater each day. Cogan, speaking in Northridge, said he is confident an election will be approved and that the AFT will be the organization selected to represent the state college teachers. Chairman of the AFT petition drive on the San Jose State campus, Dr. Eldred Rutherford, said that about 60 percent of the faculty members have signed the petition at State..."
Segment 4 (silent): Shots of men looking at products at trade show - plumbing fittings, pipes, paper towel dispenser... Script reads, "Sanitation experts from throughout the state are gathering in Palo Alto for an educational symposium. The sanitarians from the field of both public and private health, took time out from their rounds of lectures to inspect some of the latest devices and improvements in sanitation. Much of the equipment was devoted to food handling and preparation. Other exhibits included industrial towel dispensers, pipeline equipment for waste disposal, and water purification exhibits. The sanitarians wind up their session tomorrow. They will hear addresses from Dr. Elwyn Turner, Santa Clara County Health Officer, along with speeches by County Sanitation Director Irvin Fallis, and Monterey County Sanitarian Walter Wong of the health department."
Reel 2:
Segment 1 (silent): Combine in operation in a city field
showing internal machinery, blades. Script reads, "The prolonged machinists' strike against FMC Corporation here in San Jose is threatening to affect the harvest of California's huge tomato crop, still months away. The walk-out interrupted the manufacture of 200 tomato harvesting machines that growers were depending on this season to replace imported labor. The machine, known as Model 65-W, harvests an average of eight to ten tons of tomatoes an hour. Negotiations to end the 3-week strike are to be resumed Monday with Federal mediators sitting in. About 2000 men are off the job. The strike was called in a dispute over wages and some fringe benefits in a new contract. The old contract expired April 4th. Neither side will talk about the status of the negotiations."
Segment 2 (silent): Fire engine on street, man on phone inside a building, people milling around an office building lobby as they laugh and joke, getting out of an elevator that is stuck. Script reads, "Two men were trapped in an elevator for about a half hour in San Jose today. The elevator became stuck between the first and second floors in the County Welfare building. Police and firemen responded -- crowbars in hand -- but decided to wait for the elevator repair man. Employees in the building stood around the lobby watching the drama...and waiting for something to happen. Jim Henning -- County Elevator Mechanic -- then arrived and shouted instructions to the trapped men from the opposite elevator shaft. The men managed to get the doors open and jumped about five feet to the lobby floor. The two men -- Keith Thompson and Stuart Hunter -- both employees of the Welfare Department -- said the only discomfort they suffered was rising temperature inside the closed elevator."
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