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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1971
Page
3
University of Minnesota President Malcolm Moos urged graduates to push for real reforms to open higher education to all ages and backgrounds. He warned colleges risk a lottery of chance and confusion amid public disaffection and hostility, as 3,766 bachelor, 533 masters, and 125 doctoral degrees were awarded.
In Browerville Minnesota a single engine plane crashed in a cornfield five miles west of town injuring brothers Tom Baker 19 and Mike 17. Both were hospitalized with head injuries and the cause remained unclear.
An experimental Amtrak passenger train on a use it or lose it plan will begin operations today on a route through St. Cloud, Staples and Detroit Lakes, per Burlington Northern official Richard K. Mossman Sr. The service was initially slated for Willmar Morris and Breckenridge.
Elmer L. Andersen was chosen as chairman of the University of Minnesota Board of Regents. He pledged to reassure Minnesotans that university investments were justified and anticipated no repeat of the 1971 budget tightening. Regents approved tuition hikes from 25 to 77 dollars per quarter and 1 dollar activity fee, medical and administrative salary cuts, seven new degree programs at the Duluth campus, and appointments for senior posts at Duluth and the general extension division.
An old line insurance ad promotes a $1000 burial policy with no sales calls and no medical exam. It guarantees money back and offers free details via a tear-out request to National Benefit Life Insurance Company in Fort Worth Texas.
James Brinton, 25, vanished at sea during a planned 7,000 mile kayak crossing from LePush Washington toward Japan. His intact 17 foot craft was found four miles off the Olympic Peninsula after he departed Seattle area a day earlier aiming for a three month voyage.
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