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SPEAKER 1: We've heard the first two movements of Mozart's Serenade Number 9 in D Major, the Posthorn Serenade, members of the Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by George Szell. It's now 10 minutes before 8 o'clock. Sunrise was at 5:31 this morning, sunset at 6:57.

37 degrees right now in the Twin Cities, Alexandria 32, Saint Cloud 32, Redwood Falls 36, Rochester 34. Highs today in the 40s. And storm moving in from the Dakotas tonight, bringing perhaps some heavy snow at least to the western part of the state.

Music at 9 o'clock, the Toy Symphony of Leopold Mozart, works of Marcelo, Schubert three, Military Marches for Two Pianos, Chopin, including his variations on Mozart's aria La Ci Darem La Mano, and the Symphony No. 3 of Carl Nielsen. Studs Terkel at 11:00. His guest is William Glenesk, minister of the Judson Memorial Church in Brooklyn Heights in New York.

[THE BAND, "ROCKIN' CHAIR"]

(SINGING) Hang around, Willie boy

Don't you raise the sails anymore

It's for sure

I've spent my whole life at sea

And I'm pushin' age 73

Now there's only one place that was meant for me

Oh, to be home again

Down in old Virginny

With my very best friend

They call him Ragtime Willie

We're gonna soothe away the rest of our years

We're gonna put away all of our tears

That big rockin' chair won't go nowhere

Slow down, Willie boy

Your heart's gonna give right out on you

It's true and I believe I know what we should do

Turn the stern and point to shore

The seven seas won't carry us no more

Oh, to be home again

Down in old Virginny

With my very best friend

They call him Ragtime Willy

I can't wait to sniff that air

Dip an' snuff, I won't have no care

That big rockin' chair won't go nowhere

Hear the sound, Willie boy

The Flyin' Dutchman's on the reef

It's my belief we've used up all our time

This hill's too steep to climb

And the days that remain ain't worth a dime

Oh, to be home again

Down in old Virginny

With my very best friend

They call him Ragtime Willie

Would've been nice just to see the folks

Listen once again to the stale jokes

That big rockin' chair won't go nowhere

I can hear somethin' calling on me

And you know where I wanna be

Oh, Willie, don't you hear that sound?

Down in old Virginny

I just wanna get my feet back on the ground

Down in old Virginny

I'd love to see my very best friend

They call him Ragtime Willie

I believe old rockin' chair's got me

HERB MILES: When is the best time to begin working on my lawn? How do I aerate my lawn? What fertilizers or herbicides should I use? How can I prevent accidents from people stepping on upturned rake teeth? These and other questions are answered on Principles of Lawn Care. Hello, this is Herb Miles, University Extension Lawn Specialist. And I'll be back in just a moment with some expert advice on getting your lawn into shape.

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When is the best time to begin working on your lawn? The fact is you should never stop. Even during the winter, you should be checking to make sure the snow isn't too deep over the grass. Keep from 2 to 2.75 inches of snow on top, and shovel off the rest.

But let's say you're just starting work on it now. The first thing is to rake the lawn four times, once in each direction. This will keep the blades from bending. Be sure to put the rake away after use to prevent accidents from people stepping on it. To prevent from walking into trees in the dark, you paint the trunks with luminescent orange stripes.

Now, as to fertilizers, the secret is not to use too much. Follow the directions on the package. This is always the best way anyway. For weed killers, we recommend the use of either 24LS3 dieldrin or X41L9 [? USAP, ?] both of these tested in Vietnam for six years and proven nonharmful to human beings. Both of these also include green dye to make your grass look more lifelike. One precaution if you do use these herbicides-- don't drink water from the tap for three days after a heavy rainfall.

Aerating the lawn is a means of allowing the soil to breathe. Take a sharp stick. Make small holes every square foot or so every day for about the first month. Many persons ask what to do about blade cracking. They notice some blades of grass are split down the middle, turning brown at the edges. This is a result of careless mowing. And for best results, use a non-powered lawn mower, or if you must use a power mower, mow slowly and have somebody go along in front with a broom, sweeping the grass up straight for an even cut.

I've heard that some listeners are having to battle grass eczema, turf rot. It's also called plant disease. It turns grass orange. And there really is nothing to be done about it, except flailing or whipping. Simply take a whip or a big club and beat the diseased grass into the ground. And when it grows back out, beat it again. You keep doing this. This is Herb Miles, University Extension Lawn Specialist.

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HARLEY PETERS: How can I kiss better without being vulgar? What's the answer to sweaty palm problems when holding hands? Is too frequent self-abuse a bad thing? How can I put new life into my marriage? These and other questions will be answered on Love Tips.

Hello, this is Harley Peters, University Extension Sex Specialist, with a few ideas on how you can be as pure as the driven snow, as pure as that is these days, and still have fun. Back in a moment.

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A lot of people write and say, you hear a lot of stuff nowadays in favor of love and sex. Is this true? I don't enjoy it very much. Is there something wrong with me? Most likely, the problem is lack of information. Many people just plain don't know how to go about it.

Let's begin with kissing. Kissing is a lot more complicated than you might think. There's the problem of where to kiss, how long, or the duration of the kiss, whether to talk while kissing, the problem of controlling the moisture content of a kiss, and the problem of withdrawing, or the release motion of kissing. Practice is the only way to learn. You might practice kissing the tips of your fingers, or send for our free booklet, 51 Kisses, written by a Department of Agriculture specialists.

The sweaty hand problem is a sticky one. Generally, it indicates nervousness. And the trick is to keep changing hands. If you're sitting on a sofa, you'll have to move over to the other side. And you can learn to do this quickly and unobtrusively. You can even make the shift while you're kissing.

Now, moving on to self-abuse, unfortunately, we don't know nearly enough about this. There doesn't seem to be a direct relationship between self-abuse and insanity, but all the figures aren't in yet. And it is possible that those abusers who did become insane went crazy for other reasons, but one can't be sure.

Again, the problem of marriages going stale is a problem with technique. Find the technique that accomplishes what you want and then master it. For example, sadism has put new life into some marriages, but it isn't necessarily the answer for you. We do have a little booklet on sadism, in case you're interested.

Other couples have found satisfaction in a hobby or a craft. On the whole, a marriage grows stale because of a lack of surprises. And some wives have tried standing on a chair behind a door and jumping on their husbands when they came home from work. It's worth trying once. Or you might try sleeping under the bed, which will engage your husband's interest, perhaps. And this may lead to new things.

Keep it moving. Be different. Be mysterious. Do weird things. Send for our pamphlet, Weird Things to Do in Your Own Home. If necessary, feign unbridled passion. Chase your husband around the house, making low growling noises in your throat. On the other hand, a dull marriage may be your cup of tea. There isn't one answer for everybody. The giant tortoise makes love only once every 35 years. There may be a lesson in this for the rest of us. Think about it. This is Harley Peters, University Extension Sex Specialist.

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SPEAKER 1: Well, I hope that helps some of you. It's 4.5 minutes past 8:00. We'll look at the news in just a moment. 37 degrees right now in the Twin Cities.

ROBERT CONRAD: This is Robert Conrad, speaking from Severance Hall in Cleveland, and inviting you to listen to the concerts of the Cleveland Orchestra, heard each week on this station. This week's program will be under the baton of Associate Conductor Louis Lane and will feature the Prelude to Irmelin by Delius, the Violin Concerto in B Minor, Opus 61 by Elgar, Three Poems of Henri Michaux by Lutoslawski, and the Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor by Borodin. Assisting will be violinist Jaime Laredo and the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus.

SPEAKER 1: Join us Tuesday evenings at 8 o'clock for the stereo broadcast concerts by the Cleveland Orchestra, presented exclusively throughout this area on these noncommercial stations. This is KSJR 90.1 from Collegeville.

37 degrees in the Twin Cities. The high today should be about 48, Alexandria 32, Saint Cloud 32, Rochester 34, 35 degrees in Duluth. High temperatures today across the state in the 40s.

The Apollo 13 spaceship with three astronauts aboard is headed for the moon, but on an emergency maneuver that will take it around the moon and back on course towards the Earth for a splashdown Friday morning, probably in the Pacific. Last night, shortly after completing a television broadcast to Earth, the command ship Odyssey was shaken by something, an explosion in the service module or perhaps a collision with a meteoroid. Whatever it was, within three hours, the spaceship was without power, and the oxygen supply was dwindling. Here's what we heard on Earth.

SPEAKER 2: Houston, we've had a problem. We've had a main B bus undervolt.

SPEAKER 3: Roger, main B undervolt. OK. Stand by, 13. We're looking at it.

SPEAKER 2: OK. Right now, Houston, the voltage is-- it's looking good. And we had a pretty large bang associated with the caution and warning there. And as I recall, main B was the one that had a spike on it once before.

SPEAKER 3: Roger, Fred. 13, we've got lots and lots of people working on this. We'll get you some dope as soon as we have it. And you'll be the first one to know.

SPEAKER 2: Thank you.

SPEAKER 1: At that time, Apollo 13 was on a course that would have swung it into an orbit around the moon. So early this morning, the crew fired the descent rocket for 31 seconds and put their spacecraft into what was called a free return trajectory, which will simply swing them around the moon and right back toward Earth. Right now, James Lovell and Fred Haise are in the two-man lunar landing module, while Swigert remains aboard the command ship, which has been darkened to conserve power.

The director of the Space Center, Chris Craft, described how they were using the lunar module as a sort of lifeboat, because the command module had run out of oxygen and power. And he said that mission control will be able to get them back safely if nothing else major goes wrong.

SPEAKER 4: We appear to have had some kind of accident in the region of the fuel cells and the oxygen tanks. We have not tried too much to reconstruct what has happened, because we were more concerned at the moment for getting the situation under control. As you have seen, we've begun to use the [INAUDIBLE] as a device for keeping oxygen in both the command and service-- command module and the lunar module. And we're using the power system from the lunar module.

It appears at the present time that everything is under control and that we have a safe situation at the moment. If the situation remains stable as it is at the moment, there's no question but what we have to bring under control, and we can return the crew safely to the Earth. Now, we're going to have to make some compromises in procedures as to how you do that. But that can be done. We've got a number of different ways of doing things like reentry.

If we couldn't, for instance, get the platform up, we have what we call the entry monitoring system. We can enter at constant G if we had to with no entry monitoring system. If everything remains as is, we can get them back successfully. Now, if there was some change in the status of the lunar module, then that might mean something else.

SPEAKER 1: The director of the Houston Space Center, Chris Craft. The two space ships, still locked together, will fly behind the moon tonight. When they emerge at about 8:38 our time, there will be another 4 minute and 20 second burn of the main engine that is on the lunar module to speed up their return to Earth. When they reach Earth on Friday, the lunar module will be jettisoned. The three astronauts will re-enter the atmosphere in the Odyssey using emergency batteries for power. Splashdown is now scheduled for about noon our time Friday, somewhere in the Southwest Pacific.

The talks continued in the Minneapolis teacher strike yesterday, but apparently did not get anyplace. The talks were hung up on the no strike law, with the school board unable to come up with a way to get around the strict penalties which the law demands for teachers who go out on strike. For one thing, the law says that any teacher who goes out on strike is automatically fired and cannot return to work unless he is willing to work for a year at the lowest possible salary, or rather, cannot be given any salary raise for one year if rehired.

A taxpayers' group in Minneapolis is forming to go to court if necessary to enforce the anti-strike law. Meanwhile, the president of the Minnesota AF of L CIO, David Rose, says he'll recommend that non-teaching school employees honor the picket lines if the strike is not settled by tomorrow.

The schools had been reopened tomorrow, but there is doubt that they will be. The non-certificate personnel, teaching personnel without certificates, were supposed to report to schools today. Talks between the school board and the Federation of Teachers were disrupted for three hours last night because the Federation of Teachers said that representatives of their rival organization, the Minneapolis Education Association, should not be present.

A hearing is scheduled tomorrow in district court on a motion by the MAA to permit its members to observe the MFT's picket lines. Members of the MAA say it is unsafe to run school with so few teachers. And very little teaching went on during the strike days last week when the schools were open.

About 2,600 students are expected to be bussed to school this morning in Manatee County, Florida. Despite a week of highly publicized stalling tactics by Governor Claude Kirk, the desegregation plan, as prescribed by US District Judge Ben Krentzman of Tampa, will take effect this morning. Teachers in Los Angeles have said they will stay away from school until their demands are met. About half of the 25,000 teachers did not report for work yesterday. The city is still trying to keep the schools open for 650,000 students.

Vice President Spiro Agnew spoke at a Republican fundraising dinner in Des Moines, Iowa last night. He called open-door college admissions policies a threat to the, quote, "natural aristocracy of intellectual achievement." Agnew said that American universities must not lower their standards of excellence to achieve, quote, "social goals for which they are ill designed and ill equipped."

The executive director of the Air Traffic Controllers Organization says the controllers will be ready to move airplanes today. F. Lee Bailey told United Press he thought the air traffic system around the country could return to normal no later than the end of the week. He said that as far as he was concerned, the deadlock was broken. However, the walkout is still apparently not over in Minnesota. At the regional control center at Farmington, 12 of 31 controllers have reported in sick. However, that is fewer than the number that usually did not go to work last week.

The second phase of the SALT Talks, the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, opened Thursday in Vienna. Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev said today the Soviet Union would, quote, "welcome a reasonable agreement with the US on limiting the Strategic Arms Race." He says Russia already has weapons capable of restraining any aggressor. The Soviet negotiator for the talks arrived in Vienna this morning. He said Russia will take what he called a businesslike and constructive attitude toward the conference. The American delegation will arrive in Vienna later today.

The newspaper strike threatened for New York did not materialize this morning. The Newspaper Guild postponed its walkout, which had been scheduled for 6 o'clock this morning Eastern time against the New York Post, after separate talks by mediators with management at the Post. And the union, the Guild, deferred its plans. If they had walked out, it could have triggered a shutdown of New York's four major newspapers.

United Press correspondent Merriman Smith, called the Dean of White House News Correspondents, who covered six presidents, nearly three decades, was found dead yesterday in his suburban Virginia home of a gunshot wound, apparently self-inflicted. He was 57.

A journalist, seaman apprentice goes before a court martial board in Washington today. Roger Priest is charged with eight counts of encouraging military men to desert, commit sedition, and trying to create disloyalty. He publishes an antiwar newsletter.

The case of Brian Wells, who burned draft board records, is expected to go to the jury today in Saint Paul. Wells is a junior at Mankato State. He was the only defense witness in his trial for setting fire to the Nicollet County Draft Board Office in Saint Peter. Wells is 21. He's charged with the destruction of government property and interference with the administration of the Selective Service system.

The fire took place in January. He said he set the fire because he couldn't get results from his legal methods to avoid the draft. The government called a dozen witnesses, including Colonel Robert Knight, State Director of Selective Service, who said there were no inductions from Nicollet County in February or March as a result of that fire in January.

The United Auto Workers Union has urged immediate enactment of an anti-pollution law, making the discharge of mercury and other toxic substances into public waters a felony. A seven-man delegation from the union went from Michigan to Washington today to urge federal authorities to head an investigation of sources of mercury and other contamination of the Great Lakes. And the Conservation Director of the United Auto Workers Union, Olga Madar, called on Governor William Milliken of Michigan to immediately halt the discharge of mercury into the Detroit River.

The forecast for Minnesota-- variable cloudiness in the east today, otherwise cloudy over the entire state today through tomorrow, a chance of snow and a little bit of rain in the west tonight and over the entire state tomorrow, with a chance of locally heavy snow in parts of the northwest and west central parts of the state late tonight or tomorrow.

It'll be a little bit warmer in the south today, about the same tonight, a little bit colder in north and west central Minnesota tomorrow. Highs today in the 40s and lows tonight from 28 to 36 degrees. Partly cloudy skies in the Twin Cities today, a high of 48, a little bit warmer than yesterday. Cloudy with little change in temperature tonight and tomorrow, with a chance of showers tomorrow. High today 48, low tonight 34, and the high tomorrow, 48 degrees.

Right now, it is 37 degrees in the Twin Cities and cloudy sky in-- excuse me-- in Saint cloud, 32 and cloudy, 32 in Alexandria, Rochester fair and 34, Duluth fair and 35. It's now 18 minutes past 8:00.

I was planning this morning to talk by phone with Marvin Davidoff in Minneapolis. Marvin Davidoff has been working for over a year now on the Honeywell project, as it is called, a project which you may have had the impression-- I had the impression-- was organized to protest Honeywell's production of particular war weapons, including the anti-personnel bomb, as it is euphemistically called, but a movement, an organization, which actually has a much broader purpose than that.

I didn't have time. I was supposed to call Marvin earlier this morning and wake him up at about 7:30. And I didn't get around to it. And so I think I'll put that off until tomorrow-- call him and tell him I'll put that off until tomorrow.

Music until 11:00 this morning. Studs Terkel at 11:00. His guest is William Glenesk, minister of the Judson Memorial Church in Brooklyn Heights in New York City. At 9 o'clock, works of Leopold Mozart, Marcelo, Schubert, Chopin, and Carl Nielsen, Nielsen's Symphony No. 3.