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Oil delivery

Description: Home heating oil delivery by Gibbs truck. Driver pulls hose from truck, connects to intake pipe on house. Meter in truck reads 146 gallons. Hose retracts and rewinds. Delivery slip is generated from meter, placed in mailbox. Truck drives away. Exteriors of houses and apartment buildings.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/24/1979

Oil delivery and billing

Description: General Oil / Reading Oil truck. Driver attaches hose to fill pipe on side of house. Finishes delivery, prints bill from meter, leaves it in mail slot, drives off. General Oil office. Maintenance truck pulls up. Worker takes tools out of side compartment. Inside office clerk enters billing information at computer keyboard. Printout on perforated paper lists data by billing code.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/31/1979

Oil spill

Description: Cleanup of no. 2 diesel oil spilled in Quincy Harbor. Suds on surface of water. Pump on dock. Jet-Line Services oil pollution control tank truck. Seagull on pier. Vacuum barge. Wide of bay. Estimated 28,000 gallons spilled. Interview with Mike Downey of Coast Guard Marine Safety Division says oil spills not unusual in state and talks about method of cleanup. Man in hip boots and rubber gloves wades in water with pitchfork. Brown residue visible near surface. Interview with fisherman Tom Galgana about secret clam flat and lobster grounds being damaged by spill for at least ten years.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/07/1979

Opera Fair

Description: Fair to raise money for Opera Company of Boston sponsored and broadcast by WCRB. Interview with young children who say they like opera. Male vocalist with piano accompaniment performs in lobby of Opera House. Sarah Caldwell talks about restoring theater with deeper stage, better acoustics, new seats for $6 million.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/19/1979

Orr's number retired

Description: Bruins retire Bobby Orr's number 4 in center ice ceremony at Boston Garden. Raise number to rafters. Crowd cheers relentlessly. Johnny Bucyk helps make presentation. Bobby dons jersey and makes a thank-you and farewell speech.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/09/1979

Outside South Boston High

Description: Outside South Boston High School. Buses arrive. Mostly black students exit school and board buses. Police cruisers and motorcycles stationed in front of school. Interview with headmaster Jerome Wynegar who says despite some trouble and a severe lack of students, classes will go on, and faculty will try to keep up morale. He says “…kids come here to learn, believe it or not.” Several takes of reporter standup.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/18/1979

Ozawa and BSO rehearse

Description: Seiji Ozawa rehearses with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and female vocalist. Then Ravel's "Bolero." Orchestra tunes up.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/04/1979

PCBs in New Bedford

Description: Landfill dump in New Bedford. Seagulls hover over trash. Contaminated with PCBs from industrial waste. Aerovox capacitor manufacturer.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/12/1979

Paul Mooney interview

Description: Interview with Paul Mooney, president of Boston Garden and Bruins, on construction of new stadium versus renovating existing structure. Pan interior of Garden, empty seats, basketball hoops, scoreboard. Bruins and Celtics championship banners suspended from rafters. Maintenance workers mop parquet basketball floor. Marquee of upcoming games.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/12/1979

Pilgrim I power plant

Description: Pilgrim I nuclear power plant exteriors in Plymouth. Atomic energy symbol on building. Boston Edison sign. Water flowing out to sea in discharge channel. Pan grounds to transformers and high tension wires.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/05/1979