Vanderbilt Television News Archive

CBS Evening News for 1973-04-02

This program is 27 minutes long

• Introduction Walter Cronkite (New York City)

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  05:30:00 pm — 05:30:30 pm

• Meat Boycott

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  05:30:30 pm — 05:38:20 pm

  (Studio) National meat boycott begins in earnest today. Some meat packers declare temporary layoffs.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (NYC) Supermkts. report significant reductions in beef sales. One company says sales off 80%.
  REPORTER: Robert Schakne

  (Atlanta, Georgia) [Fight Inflation Together spokesperson Ginger SANFORD - says will march if necessary to bring prices down.]
  REPORTER: Ed Rabel

  (Studio) Farmers' wives stage counter protest.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Rochester, Minnesota) [Mrs. Eugene HOLST - says prices fair considering how much it costs to raise beef.] Farmers' wives buy out meat supply at 2 mkts.
  REPORTER: Jerry Bowen

  (Sioux City, Iowa) [Farmers' wives - say would rather shoot hogs than sell them for less.] Meat boycott closes Iowa Beef Processors' Plant in Fort Dodge.
  REPORTER: Jeff Williams

  (Studio) Congress considering imposing wage and price controls. Admin. opposes. Treasury Secretary George Shultz says Nixon would veto such legislature Agriculture Secretary Butz says Nixon moves to increase food supplies and meat boycott will have more effect than controls. CBS reporters investigate rise in food costs over last month
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (NYC) Changes in certain grocery store item prices reviewed. Most prices up. Only tomato prices down.
  REPORTER: Sylvia Chase

  (Atlanta, Georgia) Groceries costing $20.00 last month now cost $20.39.
  REPORTER: Jed Duvall

  (Chicago, Illinois) Groceries costing $19.99 last month now cost $20.74
  REPORTER: Bill Plante

  (Los Angeles, California) Groceries costing $20.00 last month now cost $19.98. Produce prices down.
  REPORTER: Jim Kilpatrick

  (Studio) Best beef in Tokyo, Japan, costs $17.40/lb.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Stock Market Report (Studio)

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  05:38:20 pm — 05:38:40 pm

  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial: Geritol; Aero Wax.)

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  05:38:40 pm — 05:39:40 pm

• Nixon-Thieu Meeting

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  05:39:40 pm — 05:41:30 pm

  (Studio) South Vietnam President Thieu visits Nixon in San Clemente.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (San Clemente, California) [NIXON - says Thieu has led courageous fight.] Outside Jane Fonda leads demonstration against Thieu. Thieu wants continued government support, include United States air power and reintervention if necessary. Thieu has dinner with Nixon tonight, with Governor Reagan tomorrow night, and meets with Congress later.
  REPORTER: Dan Rather

• Cambodia / Offensive

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  05:41:30 pm — 05:41:50 pm

  (Studio) Heavy fighting continues in Cambodia. Phnom Penh virtually surrounded by Communists
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial: Michelob Beer; O'Brien Paint.)

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  05:41:50 pm — 05:42:50 pm

• Impoundment

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  05:42:50 pm — 05:43:20 pm

  (Studio) Federal appeals court rules President impoundment highway funds appropriated by Congress illegal.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Watergate Case

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  05:43:20 pm — 05:45:50 pm

  (Studio) Senator Sam Ervin rejects Nixon offer to let his aides talk informally with Ervin's investigating committee
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (DC) [ERVIN - says Nixon appears to want information on Watergate bugging kept secret. White House aides have same duty to testify to Senator cmtes. as other people.]
  REPORTER: No reporter given

  (Studio) White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler says administration still refuses to allow aides to testify to Senator in open session. G. Gordon Liddy still refusing to testify to grand jury.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• ITT (International Telephone And Telegraph Corporation) / Chile

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  05:45:50 pm — 05:47:40 pm

  (Studio) ITT (International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation) President Harold Geneen testifies to Senator with regard to ITT's involvement in election President Allende in Chile.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (DC) Geneen says ITT's offer to government of $1 million to keep Salvadore Allende from winning Chile's president election was not actual intervention. [GENEEN - says $1 million offer was just measure of ITT's willingness to join in government plan.] [Senator Clifford CASE - says can't understand why Geneen feels offer didn't constitute intervention into Chilean politics.]
  REPORTER: George Herman

• Alaska Pipeline

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  05:47:40 pm — 05:48:10 pm

  (Studio) Supreme Court refuses to hear Alaska oil pipeline case. Lower court blocked construction 800 mile line.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Tuna Fishing

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  05:48:10 pm — 05:48:30 pm

  (Studio) Govt. bans practice of using radio-equipped porpoises to locate tuna schools by commercial fishermen.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial: Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice Cocktail; Tijuana Smalls Aromatic Cigars.)

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  05:48:30 pm — 05:49:30 pm

• Floods / Mississippi and Missouri Rivers

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  05:49:30 pm — 05:50:10 pm

  (Studio) Flooding on Mississippi and Missouri Rivers drives people from homes.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Stanton Retirement

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  05:50:10 pm — 05:50:20 pm

  (Studio) Dr. Frank Stanton retires as head CBS.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Analysis (Stanton Retirement)

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  05:50:20 pm — 05:52:20 pm

  (DC) Reporter pays eulogy to career Dr. Frank Stanton. Reporter especially praises Stanton's commitment to freedom of press and high quality in broadcast journalism
  REPORTER: Eric. Sevareid

• Graham / Castration

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  05:52:20 pm — 05:52:50 pm

  (Studio) Billy Graham says regrets recent statement that rapists should be castrated.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial: State Farm Insurance.)

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  05:52:50 pm — 05:53:50 pm

• Los Angeles / Mayer's Race

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  05:53:50 pm — 05:57:20 pm

  (Studio) Los Angeles votes for mayor tomorrow.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Los Angeles, California) Sam Yorty, Tom Reddin, Jess Unruh, Tom Bradley, all running for mayor LA. Voters apathetic. All candidates sound alike. [BRADLEY - says favors better law enforcement.] [REDDIN - says can make streets safe.] [UNRUH - favors putting police in high schools.] [Mayor YORTY - tells police and firemen they're best depts. in nation] Eileen Anderson also running. She sings her message. [ANDERSON - promises to lower taxes and eliminate smog.] Anderson will eliminate smog by cutting holes in mtns. and blowing in fresh air to city.
  REPORTER: Richard Threlkeld

• Good Night

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  05:57:20 pm — 05:57:20 pm