Original camera footage edited for broadcast for KNTV San Jose Channel 11 news. Includes national, local, and sports coverage. The broadcast script for this date has not survived.
Reel 1:
Segment 1 (silent): Young people [high school students?] in an electronics lab, with shelves full of testing equipment and oscilloscopes, working to make circuit boards, and testing them with batteries.
Segment 2 (silent): Scenes from the Salinas Rodeo: tractor, woman on horseback, man shoeing a horse next to a very large anvil, men doing stunts on horseback, bulls in a pen, man holding a small baby on the sidelines.
Segment 3 (sound): San Jose City Councilwoman Virginia Shaffer speaking about why she opposes the proposed sex education program for San Jose schools. She argues it's not the authority of the City Council, the city already has a program in place, and this new proposed program would cost $890,000 per year to install and maintain. Once it's installed as a program, she argues that it would be difficult to cut it, and a duplication of citizen's taxes is not a good idea.
Segment 4 (sound): Representative from the health department responds to Shaffer's comments. "The staff was asked by myself to prepare the optimum health care program regarding family life education, without regard to budget. Now it's up to the advisory board of health to formulate -- and this is the permission they're requesting -- a specific proposal from this staff report and include a recommendation to the City Council on how big the program should be and how it might be funded." Reporter: "So you are not asking that this program be accepted or that this one be the one that is financed." "Absolutely not, and it's most unfortunate that Mrs. Shaffer would make that remark. She knows this well. It's a matter of the public record in the minutes of the meetings. I would not vote for this program if it cost $890,000 and I don't think that any member of the council would. We couldn't begin to afford it."
Reel 2:
Segment 1 (silent): Signpost at the corner of Post Street and Lightstone Alley in downtown San Jose. Exterior shots of the businesses on the street, with pedestrians on the sidewalks. Signs for the Cafe Guadalajara #3, American Market, Ace Loan Office, Rusty's, Rex Club. View across the street to the California Loan Office, with Hoffman's Menswear on the near side. These shots are followed by a close-up and pan of a model of proposed El Dorado Street, with photos of the current street on the wall above it. Several of the buildings in the model have business signs for Card Club, Barber Shop, and Loans.
Segment 2 (sound): Man interviewed about proposed changes to Post Street. "They selected Post Street because there's excellent parking, there's very good pedestrian traffic. There's a wide open vista to the street, and actually, the architecture of the old buildings lend themselves to some very nice architectural treatment. These buildings, through the architectural treatment, could be handled very simply, just by the use of painting, the use of metal awnings, the use of doors, by the use of window treatment, with a relatively small expense to the owners. The street would show great improvement, and the overall appearance of the area would be benefitted."
Segment 3 (sound): Charlie Cole [founder of the American Handwriting Analysis Foundation], in a suit and tie, with a nametag on his jacket, standing in front of a large diagram titled Logical Psychogram. The psychogram is composed of circles divided into five areas: Intellect I, Ego II, Directedness III, Emotional Release IV, Libido Vitality Drives V. Cole talks about getting a sample size to test, how to evaluate it correctly and work out the psychogram as a tool to determine all the basic characteristics of the person's talents, inhibitions, fears, their concept of self, their interest in the world in which they live, their intelligence, conscious control. The reporter asks, "You can tell all this from handwriting?" Cole replies, "All we need is a good sample, a page and a half done on unlined paper, and done in a person's own regular writing style, and their signature."
Reel 3 (silent + sound): Silent shots of a hearing going on in a small auditorium cut between two interviews with the same man about funding for improving school buildings. In the first interview, he says, "We haven't decided that. The sum total estimated yesterday at our hearings, some $1 billion 200 million, is not immediately to replace all pre field ac [?] schools is not immediately available either to the state or to our school districts. Obviously we will recommend to the schools that they go ahead with inspection, to see what needs to be done, and then perhaps extend the time over which this building could be done. If a crash program of school construction started it would create tremendous pressure on the building industry, might force costs up. Putting so many bond issues on the market at the same time would also raise the cost of financing here, and this is something we can't afford, and we will have to make a decision gradually over a period of years." In the second interview he says, "We are reaching a point in our society where education is going to be a continuing thing - we learn so much more rapidly that to keep abreast a man might possibly have to change occupations two or three times within his lifetime. So education is going to play an ever increasing role, and we must find ways to bring the unit cost of education down. It's been suggested in the future we'll build educational compounds around which our urban societies will center. Such complexes would carry all levels of education - from kindergarten and nursery school right on up to graduate studies, with libraries and all the educational facilities grouped at its center. I know this is some radical changes in our present educational system, but I think demand is going to force our thinking in this direction.."
Reel 4:
Segment 1 (sound): Interview with man at desk, who has a "Support collective bargaining for teachers" sign on the bookshelf behind him. "I think it's pretty clear. For one thing, it's the case of rising expectations of a group that see all around them prosperity that they do not share, specifically state college professors who teach too much. Their 12-unit load does not allow them to do an adequate job in the classroom. Compared to the professors in the University of California they're grossly underpaid. An instructor receives 2,000 less, a full professor 8,000 less. Their library facilities for research are not adequate, and the laboratory facilities for scientific research are grossly inadequate. All of these things together create a state of chronic unrest for the faculty."
Segment 2 (silent): Scenes from the Salinas Rodeo: people entering ticket gate, view from the stands of horseback riders on the track, bucking broncos, the winner of the Radio Sweetheart beauty pageant [possibly Miss Kings County] waving to the crowd, cowboys lassoing calves, horse racing.
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