Sunday Tribune, The (Newspaper) - February 23, 1975, Albert Lea, Minnesota THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE VOL. No. 45 ALBERT FEBRUARY 23, 1975 SINGLE COPY 20 CENTS 24 PAGES Retaining Young Farmers Legislator Seeks Means to Make Farm Lands Available By GENE LAHAMMER Associated Press Writer ST. Minn. The chairman of the House riculture Committee wants the Minnesota Legislature to plow new ground and help make lands available to young The as Rep. George sees has forced land prices up to levels where a young couple cannot both ford the necessary ment on a farm and have the capital to buy expensive has forced land prices high that older farmers past normal ment age feel they cannot ford to sell their land and pay capital gains with taxes ultimately forcing the sale and breakup of a ly fann as a viable economic Mann says Area Technical Schools in recent years have been doing a good Job young people farms for One he losing too many young The farmer wants to export his beans but he's found lately he's exporting his most valuable boys and Methods of dealing with the exodus to urban areas are so varied and complex that Mann has introduced a which only states the problem in broid outline and does not spell out a House Advisory No. 6. sponsored by Majority Leader Irv national Russell Willis Twin and Frank has sent to the Com- A special subcommittee ed by Eken will begin hearings on the proposal Alter hearing from farm and real estate the subcommittee will hold four or five hearings in rural The suggests that state department or agency shall offer to purchase farm land from retiring ers at fair and equitable ket prices for the purpose of immediate resale to beginning thus providing cial and tax benefits to both parties and tion of farm land by successes generations of Minnesota farm A joint ture subcommittee visited last summer to look at a program launched in that Canadian The cial government has purchased land from retiring farmers ind is renting it to young with an option to seems like it's Mann problem n they've got 10 young couples for every piece of land that's The interest is Mann doubts that he wants the state to get into the buying business but prefers the state loaning the couple money for a The state could sell bonds to nance the startup is all that's the reason we've got an ry Mann emphasized in an Unlike a regular which contains a specific an advisory is de- signed to call attention to a problem and invite a solution by A feature of the loan would reverse the normal flow of interest Mann with a small percentage of the installment payments ing for interest costs in the ly and a large This would permit the farmer to build up and later become a better it risk for conventional 56, an House veteran who has farmed since thinks something should have been done in this area He am aiming right now to do something on this program in this I think it's an idea that will catch Mann has no doubt as to what is at stake if the does not act. we can't get young people on the the whole rural society is at This includes the mam street all one big package out More Disaster Areas Minn. Ten more Minnesota counties were declared disaster areas bringing the total number of counties so designated in Minnesota to 44. Counties named Friday include Washington and Ruling on Attorney ST. Minn. A state agency must obtain the attorney general's sion before hiring a private Atty. Gen. Warren Spannaus ruled naus said state law requires that the request for employing temporary legal services from a lawyer must be made in writing to the at- torney The opinion was requested by state Welfare Commissioner Vera Farmers Make Threats ELBOW Minn. A group of west central Minnesota farmers has threatened to cut production of cattle and other farm products in an effort to drive prices At a meeting 250 farmers to their con- gressmen demanding prompt action and threatening to cut production if Congress does not similar effort has been in North group spokesmen Law Reform Effort CHICAGO The American Bar Association is considering a resolution reform of rape laws to protect women victims and take into account homo- sexual The proposed resolution asks that state statutes cover homosexual and be- sexual both of which an ing ABA report says are on the increase along with rape of the opposite Claims Good Reception By MIKE BULGER Tribune City Editor Republican legislators toured the state Friday to present a program of tax cuts and economic stimulation and Rep. Henry J. Savelkoul said he was at the reception they don't think this has ever Inside The Tribune Entertainment 2 TV Daily Record 19 Editorial Page 4 Shadows 14 Family Page 5 To Close Minn. Owatonna Marion High School will close at the end of the rent school officials of the Roman school an- The board of education voted Thursday night to educate dren only from kindergarten through grade nine at St. Mary's Elementary and Junior The system has not previously had a ten Students enrolled at Marion will transfer to Owatonna's public high school next fa 1. There presently are 150 students enrolled at have to face the fact it is ble to continue operation of the senior said Board man Emmett am convinced that if the state's tax credit had been continued our high school would be operating next The Minnesota Supreme Court has declared the program under which parents of children en- rolled in schools re- credits on their state in- come Marion has been m ation 17 been done Savelkoul said in an Response to the trip was I was really Ten of legislators went out to blanket the state Friday with a 13-page document con- the many of are outlined by the Tribune two weeks Senate Minority Leader Robert Ashbach and Rep. Mary were scheduled to to be in Albert but apparently got during the day and never net result we hope for from this is that Republicans will get enthusiastic again about our said the House minority of government has been than two times faster than of the people who support he have to get people to realize people will write their legislators and tell them arc some good ideas in that Savelkoul was asked about the chances of getting approval for the since they are outnumbered 3-1 in the hope there will be a spirit of he purpose of the on Proposed Y Gymn Oh South Side The addition planned for the Albert Lea will be the south side of the existing not on the north as was reported in Friday's 1 School Board To Study Possible Budget Cuts The Albert Lea School Board will be taking a look of the District 241 programs and staffing needs for the coming year at a special meeting Tuesday The scrutiny comes because the school tentatively expects to receive less state aid than in the even with Gov. Wendell Anderson's proposed increase of the per pupil state foundation The governor's proposal would up foundation aid to per pupil from the present but would not help District 241. which may lose approximately 200 It is also likely that salaries will increase at least as much as last year per while the state aid for- mula will increase only by 10. Board Chairman John said at the last meeting the district expects to be short for next So the board feels now is a good time to examine programs in case it needs to make At its last meeting the board heard comments from parties interested in the student ad- vocate program at the high and asked principals to prepare lists of what courses are being offered and how many students are registered for them for this The regular March meeting was moved up to March 3. less than one week after and the board would then decide what to cut from the County Highway Funds Announced Freeborn County will receive as its share of the County State Aid Highways the Minnesota Highway Department has Of the total fund of over about million is allocated for with the million for maintenance on roads in the state's 87 Other area counties will receive the following and The county state aid funds make up about 29 per cent of the total highway funding in the the department The money is raised by the gas tax and motor vehicle registration Ford Named Minute Man Ford Is presented with the Reserve Officers Association Minute Man Award during the Jon's Mid-winter Conference Bicentennial Banquet at the Washington Hilton chairman of the Senate Armed Services makes the pre- Daylight Time Began Today Daylight Savings time went into effect at 2 this You should have turned your clocks ahead one hour last i A Good Choice Snow accumulates on this Minneapolis woman's scarf as she waits for a bus ing Friday's variable weather which went from rain to hail to It made it tough to know what to wear but her choice worked Telephoto Federal Judge Upholds Ford Position on Tariff WASHINGTON A federal judge has acknowledged President Ford's tariff on oil imports will be damaging to the Northeastern states but has upheld it for tional security U S District Judge John Pratt made the ruling Friday after a hearing in which nine states sought a temporary in- junction against the Massachusetts Atty. Gen. Francis who argued the case for eight Northeastern states and said after the hearing that ruling would be The ruling came as a victory for the White House after backs in which voted to delay the tariff for 90 Ford says he will veto the In his Pratt must accept the dent's determination of national security upon which his action was our continued de- on imports of foreign oil threatens our national the the posture of our defense and the conduct of our foreign Pratt Bellotti had argued that Ford's national security cation for the which it legally called a license could not be but the power under which Ford im- posed it could security cannot be used as a public interest ket under which everything can be hidden however he ad- justs he must do it within the law he has not done Bellotti Bellotti also began to outline the economic damage to the Northeastern states because of the tariff when Pratt inter- to think you can assume the New England states will suffer irreparable from the Bellotti said Treasury tary William E. Simon should have conducted public hearings on the tariff before it was im- posed and an environmental impact statement should have been filed before it took But Irwm lawyer for the said a pre- liminary impact statement had been filed and that a complete one would be filed in As for a Goldbloom said the law under which Ford acted requires a hearing only if the Treasury secretary deems one which bloom said Simon did One dollar of the tariff it in with additional to take effect March I and April 1. The head of the House Ways and Means Committee said m an interview Friday that an compromise between Congress and Ford would be to leave in effect the but not impose the additional Chairman Al predicted the House will over- ride the expected Ford veto of the measure rescinding for 90 days the imposition of the too close to m the he BEAT THE COLD Get with Tribune Want Dial in by 5 P.M. appear in Next Day's PHILCO REFRIGERATOR tor Mlf good condition Coll lor more This advertiser sold the re- in a short Sell your longer items the same by placing them in tht Want Ad PHONE 373-1411 Ask for Want
