The News on July 8, 1968

Protesters March Through Downtown Roanoke, Va.

7/8/1968

A group of demonstrators wielding signs marches through downtown Roanoke, Va., and by the National Business College to protest the exclusion of two African American women, Annette Scott Chester and Esther Lee Sayles, from the private college. A voice is heard in the footage, saying that this is a matter of justice for an entire race, not just two women who were denied the right to an education.

Anchor script text: NBC DEMONSTRATION. Wlm 7/8/68 Monday (ROLL FILM) A CROWD OF DEMONSTRATORS ESTIMATED AT FROM 70 TO 125 PERSONS, MARCHED PEACEFULLY THROUGH DOWNTOWN (TAKE FILM) ROANOKE TO NATIONAL BUSINESS COLLEGE ON FRANKLIN ROAD. THE MARCH WAS IN SUPPORT OF THE RENEWED ADMISSIONS EFFORT OF MRS. ANNETTE SCOTT CHESTER. MRS. CHESTER AND 23-YEAR OLD MISS ESTHER LEE SAYLES, BOTH NEGROES, SAID NBC PRESIDENT MURRAY COULTER DECLINED TO ADMIT THEM TO THE COLLEGE. APPROXIMATELY A DOZEN MINISTERS OF ALL FAITHS WERE AMONG THE DEMONSTRATORS. AMONG THEM WAS THE REVEREND JAMES ALLISON OF RALEIGH COURT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. ALLISON WAS SPEAKING WHEN A POTENTIALLY PROVOCATIVE INCIDENT HAPPENED. SOUND UP. TIME: 40 SEC. END CUE: ____.) (FILM ROLLING.) POLICE HAD SPOTTED 21-YEAR OLD DONALD NBC DEMOS, 2 (FILM ROLLING) WAYNE REYNOLDS OF THE 18 HUNDRED BLOCK OF GANDY DRIVE, NORTHWEST, IN THE CROWD. TWO WARRANTS HAD BEEN ISSUED AGAINST HIM, AS LONG AGO AS APRIL 25TH. REYNOLDS WAS CHARGED WITH INTERFERENCE WITH POLICE AND DISORDERLY CONDUCT. POLICE CAPTAIN MURRAY O. COCHRAN AND A NEGRO POLICEMAN PUT REYNOLDS INTO AN UNMARKED CAR DRIVEN BY ROANOKE POLICE CHIEF M. DAVID HOOPER. PROTESTS AND ANGRY OATHS FOLLOWED, AS THE CAR PULLED AWAY, AND A YOUNG SPOKESMAN APPEALED FOR ORDER. MRS. CHESTER, A VETERAN OF THE WOMAN'S ARMY CORPS, IS SEEKING COLLEGE ADMISSION UNDER THE POST-KOREAN G. I. BILL. A VETERANS ADMINISTRATION SPOKESMAN SAYS THE VA IS CHECKING INTO THE STATUS OF NBC AS A PROPER SCHOOL FOR VETERANS TO ATTEND. (LIVE ON. MORE) DEMOS, 3 (LIVE ON) AN EARLIER PROTEST March ON BEHALF OF MRS. CHESTER DREW ABOUT 60 MARCHERS, INCLUDING A NUMBER OF CHILDREN. AFTER TODAY'S BRIEF FLURRY, THE MARCHERS REGROUPED AND MARCHED AWAY. (LIVE ON)

Salem Rebels Baseball Player Prefers Outfield to Catching

7/8/1968

Wilbert Lee Hammond, player for the Salem, Va., Rebels baseball team, tells an interviewer that he prefers playing in the outfield to catching.

Anchor script text: SPORTS USE: 11:00 7/8/68 BW LEAD SECTION LIVE GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE....HERE'S OUR REPORT ON SPORTS. ......................................... (REBELS PLAY BURLINGTON) LIVE IN THE "CAROLINA-LEAGUE"...TONIGHT--- (X COLOR SLIDE CAL BAILEY CAL BAILEY, PITCHED...THE SALEM-REBELS...TO A, 5-TO-1 VICTORY---OVER, THE BURLINGTON-SENATORS---ALLOWING, JUST...3-HITS. BAILEY'S RECORD...IS NOW...3-AND-2. (X) COLOR SLIDE WILL HAMMOND WILL HAMMOND...HIT HIS...7th-HOMER, OF THE YEAR---WITH, NOBODY-ABOARD...IN THE, FIRST-INNING. (X) COLOR SLIDE RON SLOCUM RON SLOCUM, CONNECTED...IN THE 5th-INNING---WITH, THE BASES-EMPTY. THAT WAS, HIS...4th, OF THE SEASON. (X) LIVE LIVE THE LYNCHBURG WHITE-SOX...REMAINED, 6-GAMES...BEHIND, THE REBELS...IN THE WESTERN-DIVISION, STANDINGS---BY POSTING...A COME-FROM-BEHIND...9-TO-8 VICTORY---OVER, PENINSULA---AS, CARLOS MAY...AND JOE MONTY---HIT, 3-RUN HOMERS. WILL HAMMOND---WHO IS IN, HIS...FIRST, FULL-SEASON...AS AN, OUTFIELDER---WAS A CATCHER---WHEN HE, BROKE-INTO...PROFESSIONAL-BASEBALL. WE ASKED, HAMMOND---IF HE LIKED, CATCHING...BETTER, THAN...PLAYING, THE OUTFIELD. (X) FILM COLOR SOUND WILL HAMMOND (:45) (OPEN:"NO, IT'S TOO HARD....") (CLOSE:"...STUFF LIKE THAT.") (X) LIVE LIVE

Strikers and the Bedford Fire Department at Rubatex Manufacturing Plant in Bedford, Va.

7/8/1968

Strikers picket the Rubatex foam rubber plant while the Bedford Fire Department investigates a possible fire at the plant.

Anchor script text: Rubatex mediation. 7/8/68 Monday (LIVE ON) FEDERAL MEDIATOR FRANK PERLES (PER' LESS) OF PHILADELPHIA MET SEPARATELY WITH UNION AND MANAGEMENT IN THE RUBATEX DISPUTE IN BEDFORD TODAY. RUBATEX--BEDFORD'S LEADING INDUSTRY--WILL ENTER ITS SECOND WEEK OF A STRIKE AT MIDNIGHT. PERLESS WAS BRIEFED ON THE FEELINGS OF BOTH SIDES.. (ROLL FILM) HE HAS SCHEDULED ANOTHER TWO SEPARATE SESSIONS WITH THE DISPUTANTS TOMORROW, AND IF THINGS GO WELL, HE SAYS HE'LL ASK BOTH SIDES TO MEET TOGETHER AT (TAKE FILM) THE BARGAINING TABLE. PICKETS WERE STILL ON THE SCENE TODAY AS ABOUT 200 NON-UNION EMPLOYES KEEP PRODUCTION MOVIING.. A FIRE BROKE OUT AT THE PLANT, BUT WAS APPARENTLY A MINOR BLAZE, WHILE A THIN LAYER OF RUBBER WAS GETTING AN ADHESIVE BACKING. ONE PICKET REMARKED THAT IT WAS (FILM ROLLING) RUBATEX, 2 (FILM ROLLING) PROBABLY CAUSED BY AN INEXPERIENCED MACHINE OPERATOR. HOWEVER, RUBATEX PERSONNEL MANAGER JACK COLEMAN SAID THE SAME SITUATION HAS OCCURRED IN THE PASE--WITH A UNION OPERATOR ON THE JOB. COLEMAN TOLD CHANNEL 10 NEWS THAT THE COMPANY IS VERY PLEASED WITH THE OUTPUT OF THE EMPLOYES ON THE JOB. (LIVE ON)