WFAA - March 5 - 6, 1971 Part 1

0:00 - (March 5, 1971) Mike Snell, jammer for the Oakland Bay Bombers roller derby team and star of the 1970 documentary, DERBY, talks about the difficulties of the sport and about his upcoming match against the Northeast Braves at the State Fair Coliseum in Dallas; Jerry Haynes reporting.

0:59 - Brief shot of Allan Wayne Murray who has been convicted in a Dallas court of murdering Patricia Ann Mahanay (Silent).

1:05, 6:44 - Brief close-up of an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) news release; Bill L. Gaunt, Southwestern assistant regional commissioner of the IRS’s Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division, is interviewed (Silent); Gaunt goes on to discuss the new federal Explosives Control Act, which regulates the explosives industry; Jim Riddle reporting.

1:24, 7:57 - (March 5, 1971) Morris Harrell, president of the State Bar of Texas, is interviewed (Silent); when asked about the proposed revision to the Texas Penal Code, which some (such as Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade) say would reduce penalties for violent crimes – including murder – Harrell says that the maximum penalty for murder has not been reduced and, in fact, continues to provide for the use of the death penalty; Travis Linn reporting.

1:44 - Brief shot of a sign for the Fort Wolters army base in Mineral Wells, Texas, which the Defense Department has said will be inactivated (Silent).

1:49, 10:39 - Max Schnallinger, general manager of the Fairmont Hotel in Dallas, is interviewed (Silent); standing outside the Fairmont, Jim Mitchell reports on how the hotel does a great deal of Dallas' entertainment bookings, and that, though their acts are expensive, precautions need to be taken in order to ensure that the artists they book are the ones they expect them to be rather than fraudulent imposters; in his interview, Schnallinger says that the Fairmont doesn't have any precautions, per se, because of the level of entertainment they book, but that their performance contracts do protect them from this type of fraud; in an interview, singer Mel Torme, who's currently performing a 1-week engagement in the hotel's Venetian Room, discusses the prevalence of fraud in the entertainment industry.

2:03, 12:34 - A man speaks at a Rotary Club of Fort Worth luncheon and is later seen being interviewed (Silent); he goes on to say that society does not put young people in positions to make decisions on their own, and this is why we've formed figurative prisons for our children; Jim Green reporting.

2:34, 13:59 - (March 5, 1971) A plane that took off from Meacham Field accidentally dropped two ballast bags full of lead shot – one fell through the roof of a Fort Worth house at 3216 Refugio Avenue, and the other landed in the yard; various shots of the damaged roof and of the bag in the yard; 16-year-old Faye Dean – who was in the house at the time and narrowly avoided being hit – is interviewed (Silent); in an interview, neighbor James Childress describes what he saw and heard when the bag landed; Jim Green reporting.

3:21, 14:36 - Various shots of women using sewing machines to sew lace onto lingerie (Silent); Tarrant County Junior College (TCJC) South Campus is offering a non-credit course on how to construct lingerie; in an interview, instructor Alice Allen of the Home Economics department explains why students would be interested in such a course and says they will be able to make quality lingerie; Jay Lewis reporting.

4:29 - A man robbed a motor bank teller at the Trinity National Bank (2505 Fort Worth Avenue) in West Dallas; various shots of the bank and of investigators at the scene; bank president Hershal Massey is interviewed (Silent).

5:25 - Dallas police and first responders are on the scene of a highway crash involving two cars; Sparkman-Hillcrest ambulance attendants and firemen are seen removing an injured man from one of the cars and placing him on a gurney; the ambulance drives away as others continue to work the scene (Silent).

6:13 - (March 5, 1971) A two-alarm fire at the United Paper Stock Company (300 N. Oakland Street) in Dallas causes an estimated $10,000 in damages (Silent).

8:53 - (March 5, 1971) Joaquin Him Gonzales, a Panamanian air traffic controller who was arrested by United States officials on charges of smuggling cocaine, is escorted out of the Federal Courthouse in downtown Dallas to a nearby U.S. Marshals vehicle (Silent).

9:21 - Dallas’ Kimball High School basketball team is set to face off against Fort Worth Poly for the regional playoffs in College Station; in interviews, Kimball’s coach Pete Brown talks about the upcoming game with Jerry Haynes, and Poly coach Tommy Newman talks about the game with Jim Green.

13:23 - (March 5, 1971) Lupe Perkins and Archie McGaughey are named Goodwill Industries Handicapped Workers of the Year; various shots of the ceremony and of Dallas City Councilwoman Anita Martinez who presents the two with their Goodwill keys (Silent).