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Okay, this is the city room of one of the nation's great newspapers. The san Francisco Chronicle. We're looking over the shoulder of city editor, a melancholy mhm Yeah, yeah. And here's how the Chronicle works. Hand in hand with its television station K R O N. In

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presenting late and accurate news. Mhm problem. The KRON News Department is 30 ft from the city desk Liaison is close effective and fast. Bill Catherine used director of K R O N T V. Yeah, yeah, I think we've developed the best working relationship between a great

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newspaper and an alert television news staff in the western United States. The results achieved in three months of 1957. You are about to see the program we present for your consideration is one of six daily news programs produced by the K R O N T. V

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News department with the wholehearted cooperation of the Chronicle. I think we've earned this cooperation because we've tried to meet in the medium of television the same high standards of reporting skill which guide a major newspaper or a press association. The following film is representative of the

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stories we've covered since K R O N T. V news went on the air in september I'd like to mention one qualification. The sound you will hear is optical and suffers inevitable quality losses. The original sound was magnetic with quality, we didn't believe when we first

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heard it and now the news, it's six o'clock time for Cheryl news with world news headlines and film and live coverage of local events and here is your shell news reporter tom franklin. Mm hmm live portions of the news like this are used for late bulletins

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from the chronicle city desk or for local and regional story is not suitable for film treatment. There are many that are however, like the mix up which occurred when the city fathers decreed to change in the way pedestrians should cross a downtown street. Traffic lights were

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altered on Montgomery street as the scramble symptom of crossing streets was abandoned but pedestrians, creatures of habit persisted in crossing the street in all directions despite the well publicized civic debate that preceded the change. There were questions and objections. All right. Police cars with loudspeakers shouted

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instructions to those who stuck to the old system and there were barriers against diagonal crossing. Yeah, yeah. Finally Pedestrians got the idea with an exception or two and police said operation unscramble had been a success. Good evening everybody and greetings from your neighborhood. Shell wheeler topping

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the news san Francisco gi William Gerard arrives not saying much dunes beach. Police seek clues in fatal stabbing golden gate fields the all time record for a daily double private William gerard came back to this country today after his conviction by a Japanese court of killing

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a Japanese mother of six as she scavenged shells on a firing range. Other returning servicemen, their families in this waiting crowd on the pier broke into booze as gerard and his Japanese born wife walked down the gangplank. Then a brief brush with news men looks like

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trouble. My aunt one down here I think. Got a fair trial mill. Yeah, I got a fair trial. I think the sentence was tough. I ain't got a comment on that either. Look fellas I don't want, I don't want to answer no more questions. You said

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the press crucified you. What did you say that? I didn't, I didn't say that. Yes, you did. No, I didn't. You told me that here. And in Japan you said the press crucified. Why'd you say that? I ain't got no comment. That's awesome. Then Girard and

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his wife left for his home in Ottawa Illinois. His future status in the army still unclear. San Francisco's famous cable cars have creaked and groaned their way over san Francisco's famous hill since the past century, defying those who would do away with them in the name

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of progress. Ferry boats are another San Francisco tradition like this commuter crowded vessel of 25 years ago. At the height of ferry service, san Francisco bay was crisscrossed with their tracks but the two big bridges across the bay changed all that. The very roots have dwindled

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to one. Used sparingly by Transbay train passengers. The southern pacific railway presented one of the last three ferries operating on the bay to the san Francisco Maritime museum. It was the venerable Eureka which used to be thronged with passengers. Now its decks are empty soon to

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be trod only by sightseers visiting an ancient curiosity of vanishing species. The ferry boats of san Francisco Bay, fading into the fog of the past. A primitive battle was fought in the wilds of san Francisco at stake. Leadership of Golden Gate Park's buffalo herd in a

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furious charging fight. This young male buffalo deposed an older bull as king of the herd and would have fought on if Carrie, baldwin, director of the flash acre zoo, had not intervened with a pitchfork. The final irony, eight females who had actually submitted for years turned

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on the old bull with murder in their hearts until baldwin dissuaded them. The end product this tired, beaten and bloody ex king standing by himself in a clearing, protected from immediate death by a man with a pitchfork. He stood shocked and exhausted in this position for

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a good half hour, then he slumped to the ground. A proud leader becoming a beaten hump on the grass next morning he was dead. But whether of his hurts or his broken pride, no one could tell With the eight females, the new leader struts after the

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battle, undisputed king of the Herd. At this point. Shell news would normally present a quick rundown of national and international events covered in added detail by NBC News which follows the program typical of the major issues we have covered locally as a no holds barred to

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weigh treatment of the segregation problem for the first time. Film cameras were allowed to cover a regular meeting of san Francisco's famed commonwealth club, the speaker circuit judge tom p brady of Mississippi Yeah, we do not intend to obey men. However exalted their offices may be

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or how black their robes or their hearts. We do intend to be the laws of God and obey the laws of this country which are made in accordance with our constitution. We will live as free men or we will die as becomes the descendants of those

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who died in order that we might have the freedom to be different with the liberty to be left alone. So long as we live so long we shall remain segregated and after death. God willing does it will still be for your attention, for the privilege of

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coming here for granting me that thing, which Voltaire said was so dear, I will be forever grateful. Yeah. Another viewpoint was expressed by a distinguished negro governor walter. A Gordon of the Virgin Islands in the bay area to make a speech. I can remember even now

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the fights that we used to have with white Children by virtue of being segregated. There was an uh an antagonism that develops, you don't know how it develops. And I noticed a difference when I came to California and start going to mix school and there were

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white and colored altogether, playing and working together and there was no thoughts about it. It's just an enriching experience and I think it's a pity that people don't all have that experience. Authorities of the city of san mateo still hold an open file in the case

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of a woman slain while walking her dog on a lonely stretch of beach. The victim, Mrs Carola Hartog with a dog which accompanied her on the fatal stroll Dunes beach on the peninsula where Mrs Hart talk was accosted by a man, authorities believe is a psychopath.

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She was stabbed three times, then regained consciousness and tumbled to her car, which she then drove to this house. She walked to the door in search of help, apparently not believing she was seriously injured, but she collapsed and was taken to a hospital. Yeah. Mhm. Four

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hours later Carola Hartog died. Religion in the news. Crusading evangelist, Billy Graham came to san Francisco preparing to open a crusade like his Madison square garden marathon addressing a mass meeting of Minister summoned to organize the crusade. Graham spoke of the state of the world. I

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don't see how any minister can stand in the pulpit on a sunday as though everything were normal and routine. Dr john McKay, the president of Princeton Seminary said the other day, he said, Nazism had fire. Fascism had fire, communism has fire. And he said, unless the

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church catches fire. He said the church is doomed brethren, we need to catch fire. We need to forget our differences because when the enemy comes, they're not going to ask whether you're a baptist or Episcopalian, They're not going to ask, what do you think about Billy

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Graham? They're not going to ask whether you immerse or Sprinkle or whether you have a liturgical service or not or what you think about the sacrament of the Lord's supper and how you interpret it. They're going to hang us together and we better stand together. Now

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the sound of the Ram's Horn. The shofar traditionally signals the start of the jewish new year at Temple Sheriff, Israel Cantor robert, harmon, Rabbi Morris Goldstein and dr Bertram L wilson. Before koron cameras sounded the cry of the shofar. The call to conscience, which is a

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dominant feature of rosh hashanah, May the chauffeur sound redemption for all mankind for generations. Chorus Oh two key. Oh, oh, working chivalry, Yeah. Um two key all oh Mhm. The world of sports also falls under the eyes of K R. O. N. S. Fast ranging news

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cameras. In addition to on camera coverage of some major stories, we have also filmed such items as these Fans gathered at Seals Stadium for a sentimental occasion. The last game to be played by the San Francisco Seals. They lead the Pacific Coast League for the 1957

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seasons. This game marks the end of 55 years of minor league baseball in San Francisco soon to be the home of the Big League Giants. The seals lost a double header to Sacramento 4-5 and 7-14. Then the last play of the last game and tears were

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jed in the stands. There was quite a different reaction among five lucky people at Golden gate fields who collected a record daily double return In the first race. They had their money on a 160-1 shot named Pasadena Slim Who came through at the wire paying $322

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for two. The second race was more prosaic except for the daily double holders filmed in slow motion, it had tell you are winning, paying $9.80. But for the lucky five, it meant winnings too big for the tote board nearly $4200. It is very doubtful whether a

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television interview has ever been filmed under conditions like those. You are about to see the subject. His 23 year old Ron Woolen of Brooklyn who had just written his racing bike across the continent. How far are we going Ron I've come from New York City just

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arrived in San Francisco Tuesday night, I think you're better than I ever did. I've had more experience 3100 miles in 17 states of it for the past 15 weeks, 15 weeks. That's right. Crossing the country. But where do you stay when you're crossing the country? Well,

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mainly I've been staying at people's homes after all the idea developed while I was over in Korea and I wanted to see the country? You get to meet folks you say over in Korea. What gave you the idea while I was working for an army newspaper

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and interviewing korean people and found out how little I knew about the United States can answer questions that they threw at me actually. So I decided to look for myself. How about these youth hostels Ron? Well, I'm representing the american youth hostels and the bicycle institute

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of America helping promote the national youth fitness program. So I've stayed at some but mainly in the east. You don't want to race me. I've got gears. Hold on a 2nd here. Rock. Okay. All right, where we go run? Have any, have any flight holding holding.

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Uh huh. Listen, let's make this light. Yeah. Have any trouble with traffic on the road? Well I have had some, I've had four blowouts in six flats and I have had one accident in Chicago completely demolishing a bike of mine but well recently and I've had

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a little trouble with California traffic conditions but not too bad. You mean kind of like we're having now kinda thanks very much Ron. Thanks a lot doc. And that's the Shell news brought to you by your neighborhood. Shell dealer. Shell news reported by tom franklin with

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exclusive film and live coverage of local events and world news headlines is brought to you through the combined facilities of the K. R. O. N. T. V News department and the san Francisco chronicle