Digitization made possible by the State of Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, approved by voters in 2008.
October 1, 1975 - Stillwater Prison's rules are not standardized and sometimes don't make sense says Attorney Melvin Goldberg of an unidentified legal assistance program for inmates. He things all rule policies should be "subjected to public scrutiny." Dan Breen, Governor Wendell Anderson's corrections advisor disagrees.
October 2, 1975 - Private support isn't enough to support the arts any more says Judson Bemis, Twin Cities' representative for the Upper Midwest National Committee for Cultural Resources. State and federal money is needed. The arts improve neighborhoods and improve real estate values. Also, the arts need to be shared with outstate Minnesota, which takes money. Polly Brown of the Guthrie chimes in.
October 3, 1975 - Lawmakers heard from many camps--students, teachers and parents--about changing the Minnesota drinking age back to 21. DFLer Ray Faricy proposes school education to combat drinking problems and also raising the age to 19 rather than 18.
October 9, 1975 - Norman Boralug says his family was fortunate but nonetheless went through great difficulty in trying to find a new home and establish themselves here. He mentions his heritage and being able to develop his talents in America. Minneapolis Mayor Al Hofstede says today there are more Norwegians in America than there are in Norway. We?re proud that they?re here; they played an important role in building not only this country but also Minneapolis. Today everyone should be Norwegian. Let?s really welcome the king when he comes here over the weekend.
October 9, 1975 - The Minnesota Senate considers determinate sentencing, which is designed to avoid inequities in court system when conflicting sentencing philosophies of different judges might send two people to different prison terms for the same crime. Judge Jerome Kluck (sp?) of Dakota County says each set of circumstances requires separate consideration by the court, and it?s not appropriate to have the same punishment for everyone. Some defendants would be served by lesser sentence, some greater. Judge Ronald E. Hatchee (sp?) says court should have discretion within certain limits. He gives the example of man desperate after being laid off who steals milk and bread for his family compared to man who?s a criminal at heart, vicious, who might have hurt someone, who?s a danger to society. Both judges want to retain sentencing discretion based on circumstances.
October 9, 1975 - Borlaug says it?s an honor, as a 4th generation Norwegian American, to be participating in this ceremony honoring the 150th anniversary of the landing of the 1st Norwegian immigrant to this country.
October 9, 1975 - Duluth holds a groundbreaking ceremony for a new performing arts center. It will house the Duluth Ballet, the Duluth Playhouse and the Duluth-Superior Symphony in a 292 seat auditorium. After 62 continuous seasons the playhouse has deep roots in the community. It started in 1912 as the Ladies Drama League. Colleen Lauterbach (sp?), playhouse historian, talks about its start and history, and the community theater movement which began in France in the 1880s. The Duluth theater was the first of its kind in the country. It was a cultural island in the tough mining and lumber area. The theater brought in outside directors and did a premiere performance of a George Bernard Shaw play in 1914. The speaker thinks the theater does better in time of adversity, there are cycles. The theater building burned down a few years ago but the theater rose like a phoenix. She would not want the theater to become so prosperous that it would outgrow the community.
October 9, 1975 - D. Michael Curren (sp?) speaks in favor of building a 1500 mile pipeline from Peugeot Sound to Clearwater, Minnesota to carry oil and natural gas. His group feels when the Canadians cut off oil supply to the U.S., the Midwest should be as independent as possible of foreign countries. Reporter discusses the pros and cons of the proposal. The head of MN Energy Agency John Milhone says building a new pipeline is just one option; we could also use the Alaskan connection and existing pipelines in the south, or trade with the Canadians. He says the US and Canada can interact cooperatively to solve energy problems. If Minnesota wants Alaskan oil through the Canadian pipeline a decision must be made in six months.
October 9, 1975 - Heyerdahl speaks as part of a fundraiser for Concordia College in Moorhead. He says the main trouble is what we?re doing to the world ocean, destroying the possibility of living on this planet. We have maintained the vision of the ocean that existed at the time of Columbus; the ocean is not bottomless, not endless. It is much smaller when you climb on a few logs like he did in Kon-Tiki and step off 4000 miles later. If you move the buildings from Manhattan and set them on the bottom of the North Sea all the big buildings will come high above the surface. We see the big rivers draining into the ocean and still it doesn?t raise an inch. We forget about evaporation, what evaporates is the clean water, what remains is all the pollution that modern man has started to send in the last two decades or so. There's not a river in the world with any clean drinkable water going into the ocean anymore. It?s all polluted by chemicals in ever greater concentration; just a matter of time before we kill the plankton which is not only the food for the fish but is the main producer of oxygen that we need.
October 9, 1975 - Ulrich Scott wants all MN Democrats to come to together to discuss issues. He says his experience as college administrator and fundraiser at St. Mary?s qualifies him to manage the party?s finances, now $50,000 in debt partly due to 1974 election landslide victories for Democrats. He thinks the state party should play a larger role in local and regional races, reducing financial burdens for those candidates.