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but the general manager of K r O N T. V. San Francisco Mr. Harold PC. The film, which you are about to witness, is one of the many non entertainment public service programs produced in color by Koron TV Channel four, San Francisco. The rights to this

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is about people in trouble and a man who helps them tha assignment for the award winning weekly Reports to the West Produced in the community Interest by the News and Documentary department of Koron TV Tonight. Shepherd of the Streets, A profile of night people and the

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man who ministers to them. A thing for those who live by day night is the on the town time. Excitement, Showgirls. The third martini, the flaming dessert curtain calls neon and jazz. But for the night people the hours or sometimes long and hard and lonely. Occasionally

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it's the desperate time and violence knows these hours to, you know, the city's many nighttime moods better than this man. Mild of appearance, soft voice. He roams some of San Francisco's toughest streets from 10 PM until dawn. In three months, he's contacted 60 potential suicides, talked

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with countless alcoholics, procured prostitutes and drug addicts. He's broken up numerous fights and been attacked twice. He is the Reverend Donald Stewart, a Navy veteran and father of two who has been retained by the San Francisco Council of Churches. His assignment helped people in trouble. Yeah,

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Prime Minister, can I help you? That help frequently begins with a ringing telephone in this room in San Francisco's Mission District. The caller is usually someone in trouble or a person who knows someone in trouble. The all night volunteer who answers can be in touch with

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Don Stewart within two minutes on his rounds of the city streets, the night minister always carries an Elektronik device called a page master. When a call comes in requiring his personal attention, the page master buzzes, signaling Reverend Stewart to call his office. His call can be

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transferred directly to the man or woman who needs help. It may be a threatened suicide or on Lee, a stranger stranded in the city. Whatever it may be, it's likely to test his sensitivity to the human condition and sometimes his sense of humor as well. And

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almost always, the assignment requires of Don Stewart that most difficult of human demands that he be a good listener. What brings you here? Well, before the night clerk called me, he was worried about you. He's a warrior. Yeah, for making quite a bit of noise up

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here. That's what he was worried about while I wasn't making any noise. No, not the noise itself. But some of the things you were yelling, for instance, uh, jumping, for instance. I was yelling, jumping. Oh, I will. That you were going to jump? Mm. No, I

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am not gonna jump. No, I'm not gonna jump. I want to see what's gonna happen. Well, how can you see what's happening in this condition? You think I'm a drop a little bit? Well, I think you're sober, and that's just a zoo. Abnormal condition, e. Maybe

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a lot of truth in that. But I assure you, I'm drunk. You know? I'm not drunk. Well, I never got drunk enough to put my car on backwards. Well, what's your problems? I'm not sure. I have too many problems except you right now. Well, that's a

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good one. Why? Why am I your problem? How did I becoming a problem? Well, just a little bit concerned about your mobility at this particular point. Why Upward, my Beverly? Yeah. Don't Don't Don't wear our baby killing it there. That's valuable stuff. I never spilled a

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drink in my life. I've spilled blood and spleen and by I never spilled a drink. E Are you a priest? No, I'm a product minister. Hm. Who sent you? The night clerk called me and asked whether I'd come up and talk to you and see how

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you were doing. Come behold the service. Not really, No. He thought maybe you were hungry. Thought maybe you needed something. He said you haven't been out of the room for several days. Oh, this is a matter of thistles. His problem? I don't get out of the

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room because does he know in this hotel everybody who doesn't come out of that room at all? Well, when the noisy, I guess he does, I think he's just patting his role. Yeah. He doesn't know anything about me. I pay my rent was the last time

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you ate. Oh, what's today to his death? Tuesday's what? Tuesday? The 11th. Mhm. What year? Why did you pick up this first drink? Well, I like the mountain climber says, because it was there. Where were you? I was home married. Yeah. You know, I suppose most

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guys called you because their wife left them or something. I wish my would leave me. That's a problem. Oh, yeah, that's the problem. But the all old machinery, its back in motion. What machinery? His first thing. First. Drink your wife a gun? Oh, she doesn't. She

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have yet to. Your dressing tries to egg me off. Let's put it that way When you for Spike won't get off. No, I know she's not here now. I haven't seen her for a week and she's not in any way involved. I don't even think about

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it at the moment. She's telling the neighbors or they're worthless. Bum. I am coming with some justice. Okay? You're drunk. You know all of us. I wonder which ones eaten. If you go through life talking to drunks tonight You must be busy all the time. Well,

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I spent some time talking to him, but if I would have known you were just drunk, I don't think I would have come up. It was a little concerned about, uh, you're committing suicide, though. This is the reason I did show up. I'm not gonna commit

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suicide. Yeah. What? W said thanks. Uh, here. My card. I want you to keep this when you sober up, give me a buzz. Will you get in touch with me and we can see what we could do there from there. Because there isn't much I can

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do with, you know, or there isn't much I can do for, you know, the man in the Tenderloin hotel room may seek further help for Don Stewart May never hear of him again. The night minister's job is punctuated by the broken appointment, the person who rejects

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the helping hand. But there are those who continue seeking help to. And there are the warm and lasting friendships that began on the city's nighttime streets. The newspaper reporter, the cabbie, the bartender, the writer, these and many more from among the legion of the night people

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are the informal staff of the night Ministry. Most have it sometime asked, why does this man take a job so frequently filled with human crisis and despair? A very practical standpoint, it has to be done. And this was the ministry that was offered. And, uh, I

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saw the need for this kind of a ministry to be performed. The fact that, uh, that night people are very alive. People, too. And that may be their problems are intensified because of the night. And I'm a night person. I've, uh, come out of a section

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in Chicago that is not exactly the most desirable section in the city. And, uh, I know some of the activities that go on at night. Uh, part of my family had been involved in the circus. I know the trauma that come about through, uh, performing people,

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you know, And the loneliness that they feel and express. I think there are a theological reasons for doing it, too. And I think this is, uh, what the church should be doing. It should be available to people whenever the people needed. Because a good number of

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the people that we that we have contact with are perfectly all right during the daytime. They have no problems at all during the daytime. But once the night comes and, uh, cover them over with the darkness and the loneliness and the oppression and the stinginess of

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their rooms and they they problems of the job, the problem, the family and all of these starts building up and they have to turn to someone. Someone they turn to is often this minister of the streets. His story shall continue in a moment. Don Stewart's tour

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through the San Francisco night takes him to a coffee house on the edge of the Tenderloin district. It's called the intersection, and it features folk singers. Abstract paintings of aren't guard movies and conversation. Most of the patrons air young, unattached and oriented toe living at night.

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The night minister is a familiar figure to them and their candid when they talked with him and his relief man, Reverend Donald Wines, the young bearded pastor of Fellowship Church in the Russian Hill district. The age limit that we need it on at night cover the

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entire gamut as faras the age is concerned, except that on Market Street, I think way naturally because of the nature of Market Street run into more younger people than we do on Jones Street, for instance, where surprisingly enough, we come across dear little old ladies walking

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with their canes that two or three o'clock in the morning and they're doing this because they're insomniacs. They wake up in the middle of the night, and I'll we have is one little dingy room to live in, and they can't take it, so they go out

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for a while. Eso You see elderly people on the street to, But I think the bulk of the street contacts I would say our younger people e think you can find action in the tender line just about all night if you want it. And it's simply

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a case of of being available, being around, being sensitive to the kind of people that you are with, aware of the fact that they will or will not accept you or will or will not react to you to some of the reaction is good. Some of

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the reaction is bad. Everybody reacts to support, But some people have almost a traumatic experience, you know, when they come across us when we walk in. But when he first walked in, it was was at another place. Another coffee house on, uh was sitting around this

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big minister came, you know, right away. He sort of turned me off. Not exactly Turned me off, you know, put on the the superficial. There would be very nice. Watch what you say, then always a couple of weeks later, I had seen him around. Just got

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to talk with. Really, It was quite enlightening thing. I've never been ableto talk to the minister like that at first. You're very apprehensive. You want to be really cool with them. You just want to just they're just another person. But on the other hand, you there's

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still this hold over. There are ministers and all this, but you get to talk to them when it comes to point where they walk into a room and you just Hi, you old so and so Or if there's a program going on, sometimes it's down here.

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Uh oh. Someone's performing that knows him. He'll toss a comment into the song he's doing or something like this, and it's just it was so much a part of the place now that he's where the action is, what a monster he's really in. And he's almost,

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uh, knowing him is almost, uh, a way of determining how in you are, which is sort of interesting on, like, the major problem we run into here in San Francisco is the problem of loneliness. This manifested in many ways or manifests itself. In many ways. We

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have problems of alcoholism, problems of suicide and which are connected, really, basically with loneliness that way have here. This has many, many reasons for being. I think just our geography is part of it where as far west as you can go, people have moved across country,

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have reached here. There's no place else to go. And here's where they settle Problems multiplying daytime. There are many agencies and other places that people can go to who are depressed, and at night there really are very limited resource is for people to call on it.

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Za quiet time. It's a time of thinking, I guess, more. Here comes the oppression of the night. They can't go to sleep, what do they do? And they lie awake, and all the problems that they have been able to escape from buildup and in real desperation,

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they get on the phone and call us. It should be said somewhere along the line Is that the kind of extended ministry which this represents is the Onley kind of ministry that, uh, many people in our society would be open to, and it is the most

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vital in most riel point of contact with church. But it is important, I think, to I keep it in the back of my mind that this ministry would not be provided at all if there were not, if there wasn't a church. And even some of the

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more traditional, uh, manifestations of church life did not exist where people gather at 11 o'clock hour on support. This ministry, because we couldn't way, can't live brought alone way breath. No, that comes from people who find, uh, their ministry in more traditional ways. Wait, there is

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something that Pike said that I like. I mentioned this to you. The fact that there are too many people, though within the institution who want neither the church in the world or the world in the church. But they wanted to be a separate holy place where

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separate. Holy people do separate holy things. Well, this, I think, is a concept of the church being in the world. And this is the church saying we're not satisfied being tied up here. You know, we want to get out where the people are. And a good

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99% of the people that we have contact with are not a part of the institutional church, which makes our ministry a very vital part of of this institution. What can the night ministry offer? How into whom This is Reverend Stewart's answer and an example. We come

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across all sorts you name the person, and many of them rejected have been rejected by the church. Many of them have been rejected by society. And I think one of the shocks that these people have is the fact that way we can meet them. And we're

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not repulsed by them. You know, we're not shocked by them. And one of the things that we can offer is loved. It may sound small feet, you know, but this is it. That's really what it boils down to. A fact that we can we can love

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each other and I could love a person I love. The prostitute comes to me and this comes as a shock. This is something she can't realize, that something she doesn't understand because every other man she's had anything to do with they wanted to give it a

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10 bucks or 20 bucks or whatever it is, you know, and she can talk to me. It isn't the case of a physical love. It's a case of something else that's involved. There's something else that's involved is found during a conversation with a prostitute who left

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a prospective customer to talk with the night minister. Did Mitt pulling that. I was a little bit surprised and amused at the look on your tricks face when you gave him his money back and decided to come up here with me instead. But that's never happened

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to him before. Never happen to me before, either. On business. Well, it was just kind of nice to see you along there and know that they're perhaps with somebody that I really could talk to that would understand because I don't think that he he was in

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that category. Perhaps, you know, it probably wasn't, but this is one of my reasons for being around too, so that I can in some way or another we have helped to a person like yourself who is obviously alone and obviously needing someone. Well, I do need

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someone. I'm not really alone. I have a daughter and I think that she perhaps, is. My main concern is this stage of the game. Although my concern for her is because of me. E don't know what you know about me. I'm a stripper. And then I

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went into this because I was married early, had a daughter and then my husband, her father died when she was just a little girl and I had to goto work. I wasn't trying to do anything. I had done some dancing and this seemed to be a

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way to make a buck. I went into dancing and then from there into stripping. And then I I went into prostitution. Thio make a little extra money and now I A don't want her to know that I do this and I certainly don't want her to

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follow the same path. A Zaher mother, She doesn't know that you're a stripper. Oh, yes, yes. But she doesn't know about the other. Oh, she's in school now, and I'm trying to keep it from her. And I also I'm tryingto hopefully provide a better life for

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her because I think perhaps it's too late for me. Pauline, I know you've been asked this many times before, but how in the world did you get involved in this business? Well, I suppose basically it was a matter of economics. I needed the money. Oh, thank

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you. I had my daughter to support. I wasn't trained. I couldn't even type. I needed money. Right now, my husband didn't leave me anything, so I went into dancing, and that helped. But it certainly didn't wasn't enough. One thing just kind of led to another. What,

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your daughter studying? What she trying to dio? Well, she's just in high school now. Hmm. I'd like to see her take a commercial course and be able to get a decent 9 to 5 job when she gets out. Be ableto asai, say something more than her

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mother's done. How does she feel about your stripping? That's a living. She doesn't resent it, or she's not ashamed of the fact that you are Uhh, Possibly possibly. I don't know. But she she's never really said much. It's the only way of life that she's known

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for me. Have you been pretty close? Surely, yes, but I would like to keep it that way. I don't wanna to have her go off the deep end and not not feel that she can talk to me. Or that she is completely ashamed to talk to

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me. And I think she would feel it otherwise if she knew about this. And I would like to see that see her go to church. I would like Thio to see her kind of go down the straight and narrow involved in the church at all. No,

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no, I don't think that, you know, the guys that go to church would accept me. I don't really care if they do. I would like to talk to a minister. That's why I was happy to see you. Well, I know several Ministers, actually, Pauline, who would

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be more than willing to accept you in the membership of their church? Wouldn't they be kind of judgmental And no, in fact, Well, there are some That would be yes, but I know a number of ministers who, uh, would accept you, as you are not condemn

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nor condone what you're doing but simply take you where you are and develop the relationship from here. And I think this is probably what you're looking for. Someone who to relate to on a spiritual level. You're right. And some place where you and your daughter can

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very rejuvenated spiritually. Children. Yeah, I think you're right. Well, I have several opportunities. Thio, be able Thio, find work for you. I have several individuals who are willing to come to the help of a person like yourself who is really wanting to change. If you are

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really looking for another opportunity, Another job, uh, they'll train you on the job itself and money. Oh, yes. Uh huh. Mhm. And give you a chance to be able to get out of this rat race, which you're not going to be able to stay in many

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more years. Actually, simply from a physical standpoint, yeah, that's true. That's very true. And a Z faras your emotions are concerned. It's obvious that you're not completely satisfied with yourself, and you can't take it emotionally for many more years either. Yeah, that's probably true. I feel

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very trapped now dancing and then out, then dancing and then out. So if you really want to change, if you really want to get out of this thing, I think we could begin some sort of work to be able. Thio. Help you make a break. It

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may not be as high paying is you're involved in now or getting now that be enough to support two of us? I think so. I think we could work something out. Yeah, I never really thought that there was a way out. Their life there can be.

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And with my help and with the help of a number of other people, we can make the break. Whether she will accept the help that's offered still is not known. But now she has a choice, a choice she perhaps would not have seen. The story of

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the night minister continues in a moment. Aziz Darkness moves toward dawn night. Minister Donald Stewart continues his vigil of the city streets. This has been only one night, and only a few of the stories 1000 more weight for other nights. Other people in crisis. There's some

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situations I just can't remove from my thought that I think about all the time that are always on my mind. There's some individuals that I worry about and concerned about. But I don't go home and worry in a deteriorating sense about every situation that I come

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across during the night that would destroy me. And it would destroy the night Ministry too. Yet I don't ever get to the point of being so professional as do not worry about people, too. All I can do is to say I may not be able to

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do everything, but I can do something and it isn't a facetious attitude of, well, win some lose down. Not this at all. I think it is more personal involvement of dealing with people than this kind of an attitude. There are those people we've been able to

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help find a better way of living, and some we've been only able to help temporarily. But we're here when they do need that kind of help. I realized that people I helped has human limitations, just as I have human limitations because, well, we're all human beings,

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a human being. The ninth minister of San Francisco, Assignment four, is produced in the community. Interest by the news and documentary department of K r O N T. V E. Be with us again next week for another report to the West on

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assignment for okay.