September 22, 1975 - Audio clip from Gary Eichten’s interview with Minneapolis Star columnist Jim Klobuchar.
October 1, 1975 - MPR’s Terri Keefe reports on a speech by feminist author Kate Millett at the University of Minnesota about Millet talks about the rules of sexuality in classical literature, Oedipus and Medea, and about erotic literature.
October 1, 1975 - MPR’s Greg Barron visits Earl Cunningham’s farm in Sleepy Eye, which has been organic since 1964. Tours come to see this revolutionary way of farming for the 20th Century. Barron interviews Cunningham, who is passionate about organic practices and talks about how it's done.
October 2, 1975 - Organic farmer Earl Cunningham equates natural soil "with the Creator" and chemically treated soil as "prostituted." He takes John Gostivitch, an agricultural economist from the University of Minnesota; and Charles Reinert, a citizen member of the state's pesticide task force, on a tour of his crops.
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 10, 1975 - When harvest time arrives in the northern plains farmers go into the fields to harvest the crop. This story is primarily a montage of sounds of the harvest including combines, farm machinery, and a farmer’s reflections.
October 10, 1975 - Dr. Christian Barnard, famous heart transplant surgeon, talks briefly about his novel whose protagonist is a heart surgeon. He says one point of the book was to bring out racial discrimination and segregation in medicine, petty-apartheid (petit-apartheid?), in South Africa. He talks about having received threats due to his challenging the white ideology in South Africa, where the white minority fears they?ll lose everything they?ve built there without the apartheid government structure. They?ve seen what has happened in other African countries. South Africa represents western civilization in Africa, and competition is based on your ability to compete in that environment, where it?s natural the white man would do better.
October 11, 1975 - John Milhone, Minnesota Energy Agency director, is skeptical of the president?s energy proposal including a subsidy for crash construction of synthetic fuels by 1976. He says while there?s a need for additional capital for the development of energy sources we?ve learned that programs announced with a with a fanfare and big dollar tag are not necessarily effective. This reminds him of Project Independence, a plan to have the nation energy independent by 1980. That?s impossible and it will be difficult to be even partially independent by 1985. Splashy big investment programs are not a good substitute for a more realistic look at energy use and supply. We need to look at more effective conservation programs, such as a need to get better efficiency out of automobiles. We should spend funds on alternative transportation methods and mass transit programs. The railroads don?t get support they need. With retrofitting insulation in homes, business and industry for less money you could get more energy savings. It?s possible to consider conservation programs as economic investments in fuel. With limited public funds in the energy area more could be achieved by conservation than new supply development projects.
October 12, 1975 - The king of Norway is in the Twin Cities as part of a tour to commemorate the first wave of Norwegian immigrants 150 years ago in 1825. Some 800,000 Norwegians left to come to the U.S. due primarily to overpopulation and lack of tillable land. A spokeswoman with the King?s press entourage, Anna Bagatier (sp?), says as Minnesota is the state with the most people of Norwegian descent, this was a natural place for the king to visit. Many people in Norway have relatives here. One spectator, Mrs. Anna Henland (sp?), came to the U.S. from Norway in 1956 for a trip and decided to stay and settle here. Spectators waved flags as the Air Force jet with the king arrived; the Augsburg band played (fanfare music). The king received roses and later left for the Leamington Hotel. He?ll be in Minneapolis for several days.
October 13, 1975 - Archie Holmes says equal educational opportunity changes the way people operate.