Digitization made possible by the State of Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, approved by voters in 2008.
May 23, 1974 - Princeton economist Burton Malkiel makes an economic prediction that inflation is going to fall. Oil prices will drop and food prices will get better.
May 24, 1974 - MPR’s Sam Ford reports on Stokely Carmichael speech at the AIM Headquarters in St. Paul. Carmichael states capitalism is major oppressor of people of color in this country and has decimated Indian land. Carmichael concludes it can only be changed through a revolutionary struggle with bloodshed.
May 24, 1974 - A discussion concerning open-pit and underground copper-nickel mining operations which International Nickel has proposed to begin near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area and the Town of Ely, Minnesota. Panel members include John Herman, Sierra Club attorney; Victor Arnold, State Planning Agency; William Bryce, Department of Natural Resources-Division of Mines; Miron Heinselman, US Forest Service; and Dean Ramstad, of International Nickel.
May 24, 1974 - Minneapolis' Snoose Boulevard is now the Cedar/Riverside area. But at the turn of the century it was a neighborhood of Scandanavian immigrants. Now days the past is remembered with the Third Annual Snoose Boulevard Festival with song, dance and costumes. The son of the famous Swedish vaudeville commedian, Olle Skratthurt is interviewed.
May 24, 1974 - Community education will be examined in a new Minneapolis film, "A Sense of Community." Senator Jerome Hughs of the Senate Education Committee, Minneapolis School Superintendent John Davis, William Grimshaw of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and filmmaker Lee Bobker called a press conference to discuss the making of the film.
June 6, 1974 - MPR’s Gary Eichten talks with architect Jim Wengler about the preservation of the Grand Avenue neighborhood and about the Grand Old Days celebration. Grand Avenue represents what some consider a solution to energy and problems by renovating existing urban areas rather than building out the suburbs. Wengler discusses the positive and negative aspects of the neighborhood, including the impact of putting in Interstate 35E.
June 6, 1974 - Government witness, Lewis Hanson, took the stand to testify on charges that Wounded Knee occupants erected blockades around the seiged village in defiance of the FBI. Hanson, a white resident of Pine Ridge Reservation, says he and another man were held as "prisoners of war" after weapons were found in their car.
June 6, 1974 - MPR’s Conie Goldman reports on The Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), which recently organized to promote equity for women in the workplace. At their first conference, 58 unions of rank and file female workers participated.
June 6, 1974 - MPR’s Dulcie Lawrence interviews Carolyn Ring, Republican candidate for District 37A state representative seat.
June 6, 1974 - An Ethics Commission meets to discuss an allegation against Chief of Staff Tom Kelm. The committee says that he attempted to strong arm a political contribution from the MN Chiropractic Association with a promise of an appointment on the state board. Senator Robert Stassen lodged the complaint. Kelm says he welcomes the investigation