WFAA - March 27 - 29, 1970 Part 2

0:00, 4:42 - (March 27, 1970) Texas Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes sits in attendance at the Timberlawn Psychiatric Center in Dallas as Dr. Jerry M. Lewis Jr., the center’s executive director, addresses the small audience; Barnes is also seen speaking to men who have participated in drug dependency programs (Silent); Barnes and others are seen boarding a chartered bus; Barnes is touring drug-rehabilitation centers in six Texas cities, including Timberlawn in Dallas and the federal Clinical Research Center in South Fort Worth – among those accompanying him is Fort Worth sheriff Lon Evans. 0:51 - (March 27, 1970) Scenes from a press conference of the North Texas Contractors Association and interview of association president R. Sandy Hallman with WFAA’s Cochise Cash (Silent). 1:32 - (March 27, 1970) Nancy Hanks, head of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the Nixon administration's top-ranking arts official, says that President and Mrs. Nixon have taken a personal interest in the arts and that she sees a healthy future for grants and government funding for arts organizations; Hanks is in Fort Worth to attend several events. 2:37, 5:20 - (March 28, 1970) The Dallas Community Action (DCA) board meets at Samuell-Grand Recreation Center to vote on the city-county recommendations for the War on Poverty program; among those seen at the meeting are board chairman and dean of the Southern Methodist University (SMU) law school, Dr. Charles O. Galvin, Lutheran minister Mark Herbener, A. Maceo Smith, Bennett Miller, and Dr. Percy Luecke; though boycotted by several members of the board who are unhappy with the report, the board votes to accept the special investigative committee's report (Silent); among those voting against the city-county recommendations was poverty representative Allene Hardy who reads a statement saying that the committee did not perform a proper investigation into the War on Poverty program; Dallas County commissioner John Whittington, who led the city-county investigation, says that he hopes the city and county will accept the small change DAC is requesting (to have a larger board) and that he will personally recommend the board’s request; several concerned citizens attending the meeting are seen addressing the board, including Walter Travis, director of the Washington Street Presbyterian Mission, who says angrily that the board acquiesced to the city and that the city can take the War on Poverty program back; Galvin says he does not see the boycott of board members as an indication that there will be an end to participation in the organization by representatives advocating for the poor in Dallas; Teel Salaun reporting. 4:18 - (March 27, 1970) Brief shot of emergency personnel carrying the body of Ms. Earl Crossland of Garland from Blue Lake in Richardson (Silent). 4:26 - A man sits in an office in front of map which is laid on the table in front of him; as seen in later footage, he is a concerned homeowner in the Bachman Creek floodplain area of Northwest Dallas; Teel Salaun reporting (Silent). 7:05 - (March 28, 1970) Edward C. "Ned" Fritz, a local ecology activist, discusses the controversy surrounding the purchase of property along the Shorecrest floodplain in Northwest Dallas near the proposed Bachman Basin Park, with some residents willing to donate easements to the city to solve the problem and to preserve the area’s ecology and natural beauty; Teel Salaun reporting. 8:08 - (March 28, 1970) Henry Newman, Southwest Regional Director of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) praises the aircraft control radar system in the DFW area and the ability of computers to process flight data quickly; he also says that the DFW-area airports have fewer controllers out sick than normal, which is heartening to the FAA during a time when the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) is threatening a “sick-out” of its members.