Original camera footage edited for broadcast for KNTV San Jose Channel 11 news for September 19, 1966. The accompanying script, read by the newscaster, provides details of the stories and completes the broadcast. (The script can be requested from History San Jose).
Reel 1:
Segment 1 (silent): Footage of the San Jose State College football game vs. Stanford University. Script reads, "San Jose State Coach Harry Anderson is concerned with the injuries on his squad, suffered in the 25-21 loss to Stanford last Saturday...."
Segment 2 (silent): Night footage of the Santa Clara University Broncos football team beating the Cal Aggies in their opening game of the season.
Segment 3 (silent): Santa Clara County Supervisors meeting, reviewing plans for expansion of the County Jail. Architect Frank Tresseder is seen speaking to the council and holding up a model of the new facility. According to the script, "the 900 hundred thousand dollar addition will be financed by a 1964 bond issue. 132 new cells will be constructed, along with the 58 now being built, bringing the jail capacity to 507 inmates. There will be room to bring this total over 700 inmates."
Segment 4 (sound): Interview with Santa Clara County Sheriff Charles Prelsnik about the need for a new County jail. Prelsnik says that they predict that by 1972 the County will have 1000-1200 prisoners and they also want to combine the civil and criminal proceedings into one location.
Reel 2:
Segment 1 (sound): Interview with Fred Gillette, Santa Clara County welfare director, about increases to the food stamp program. Script reads, "Santa Clara County has officially moved into the controversial statewide food stamp program for welfare recipients. Welfare director Fred Gillette estimates 70,000 persons on welfare and in low income brackets within Santa Clara County will be eligible for increased benefits. We talked with Gillette about the food stamp operation." Gillette explains that every person on public assistance and in low income group will have their food allowance increased by 30%. His department will certify each individual for the program, they will then be able to buy the food stamps from a bank and use them only for food.
Segment 2 (silent + sound): First shot is of a man wearing safety glasses, using machinery on a large boulder with the Bixby Bridge on the Big Sur Highway in the background. Automobiles are seen going over the bridge, followed by shots of the Monterey coastline. Script reads, "The nation's first lady leaves Washington tonight on the first leg of a four day, four thousand mile junket. Mrs. Johnson will be visiting California to attend two dedication ceremonies. She will first fly to Point Reyes National Seashore, and then, on Wednesday will travel south to a point 50 miles south of Carmel on the Big Sur Highway. There she will dedicate the state's first official scenic highway. Dennis Rowedder was on the scene this weekend...here's his report." Rowedder stands next to the coast, with the large block of granite behind him, and remarks that this is the spot where the first lady will dedicate the highway. He says it is also the site of the "Bixby massacre" at the former Crocodile's Tail restaurant [aka Gallatin's], where the chef Augustine Lavalliere killed multiple people one night. Rowedder introduces Senator Fred Farr, who was an attorney on the case, and who also established California's scenic highway program. He comments that the large granite boulder was hauled up from Brian's Creek, weighs 24 tons, and will be used to create the scenic highway marker.
Segment 3 (silent): San Jose City Council in small meeting room. Man speaks to the Council and the audience claps enthusiastically. Script reads, "Across town, the San Jose City Council tonight heard the Santa Clara Mayor Robert Maynard ask for support for an arena and convention center -- to be built in downtown Santa Clara. The project has been considered from time to time as a joint venture between the two cities. But San Jose and Santa Clara have never been able to agree on a location. Each city has threatened to build its own competing arena. Santa Clara Mayor Maynard tonight asked the San Jose Council to drop its own project and support Santa Clara's. He carefully avoided any mention of financial support..."
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