Digitization made possible by the State of Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, approved by voters in 2008.
October 17, 1973 - Anderson details steps to deal with the energy crisis and fuel shortage in Minnesota and the nation. He says conservation measures and sacrifices are needed, as well as national leadership for state cooperation. He talks about labor unions vs. environmentalists, citing Reserve Mining as an example of resolved conflict. Finally he discusses women?s role in politics, discrimination, and says a larger pool of women with law training is needed.
October 17, 1973 - Israeli artist Dan Rubenstein is inspired from the city of Jerusalem, its people and history. He says it?s a city where many different groups can live together and tolerate each other, an island of peace in the Middle East.
October 17, 1973 - Manned space flights to distant planets in the solar system will require some sort of suspended animation to help conserve food and oxygen on the journey. Scientists in Northern Australia are doing research into suspended animation using salt water crocodiles, who have the ability to control their heart rate voluntarily, down to one beat every three minutes. Professor Harry Metzel of the University of Sydney describes the process of catching them and attaching radio transmitters to monitor them after they?re released. The scientists have to build these transmitters; the atest type of transmitter is microwave and uses solar cells in a small package with a small antenna. They hope it will last ten to fifteen years.
October 18, 1973 - Murray Bookchin discusses the need for more communal lifestyles. He traces societal evolution from the blood ties of clans, tribes and families to a social society based on common interests. The trend of people dropping out of the workplace to become farmers and craftsmen is a sign this is no longer a youth culture but a counter culture. People are questioning relationships, consumerism, conventional lifestyles, and work. There?s a sea change in their values. They are not prepared any longer to accept the predatory attitude of ?compete, advance, climb the ladder, step over bodies.? He hopes for a change in public thinking and eventually institutions.
October 18, 1973 - Clyde Bellecourt talks about the federal government conspiracy to assassinate the leadership of the AIM. He says the government is blatantly trying to silence voices of oppressed, such as the Black Panther leaders, the May Day 1971 crowds, and the Indians indicted for Wounded Knee. Bellecourt states that Oglala Nation and AIM accept the challenge of BIA.
October 18, 1973 - MPR’s Dulcie Lawrence interviews violinist Charles Treger, who talks about competition, Polish audiences, playing with Stanisław Skrowaczewski, and the difficulty of Joachim’s Violin Concerto in D minor.
October 18, 1973 - NSP has requested a twenty percent rate hike in electric rates. St. Paul has a provision in its charter to allow public hearings before rates go into effect, Minneapolis does not. St. Paul residents pay less than Minneapolis. Bill Mailand, vice-president of the Greater Metropolitan Federation says the Minneapolis charter should be amended to allow a hearing. Ruth Murphy, president of the Greater Metropolitan Federation says even if a hearing is held it would have no legal effect on rate hikes. A petition drive would be needed to make this a city council priority. She says the people in this city have no say; witness the domed stadium issue. Mailand says it?s difficult to lobby against the big utilities.
October 18, 1973 - A plaza may surround the Minnesota Orchestra Concert Hall building now being built. The Peavey company is giving money towards this project, which will be eventually be called the Peavey Park Plaza. The concert hall will finish being constructed first, and is scheduled to open in October 1974. Donald P. Engle, President of the Minnesota Orchestral Association, says he can see possibilities for presenting summer concerts in this space.
October 18, 1973 - Both teacher unions, the MEA and MFT, are holding conventions. Speaker Richard Foster at the MEA asked whether accountability will create change or not. At the MFT meeting Senate Majority Leader Nick Coleman said a recent error discovered in state birth projections means some 300,000 fewer students will be in elementary and secondary schools in the 1980's and 1990's. He remarked the teacher/pupil ratio would have to be cut to just over eleven to one to employ the current number of teachers, and that won?t happen. In ten years we won?t need the state college system as it presently exists as there won?t be that many students. Plans should be made now to deal with that reality.
November 27, 1973 - While many media outlets worry about individual industries suffering from lack of fuel, economists such as Frank Booty see that the energy crisis will affect local and individual businesses, but will probably not derail the entire economy. Discussion of chain reaction of fuel shortages to economic shortfalls included in interview.