Manuscripts Collection
John Anton Blatnik was born in Chisholm, Minnesota on August 17, 1911. He graduated from Winona State College in 1935 after which he became an educational advisor for the Superior National Forest Civilian Conservation Corps (1935-1937), taught chemistry at Chisholm High School (1937-1939), and served as Saint Louis County Assistant Superintendent of Schools (1939-1941). During 1941 and 1942 he did graduate work in public administration at the University of Minnesota. He enlisted in the U. S. Army in 1942, spending three and one-half years in the Army Air Corps Intelligence and Office of Strategic Services, including eighteen months of service in Yugoslavia and Italy. He was discharged in 1946 with the rank of Captain.
In 1940 Blatnik was elected to the Minnesota state senate from the sixtieth district (northeastern Saint Louis County) and authored the senate version of the Minnesota taconite tax law of 1941. He retained his senate seat until his election as U.S. Representative (Democratic-Farmer-Labor party) from Minnesota's eighth district in 1946.
During his tenure in Congress, he served twenty years on the House Committee on Public Works, acting as chairman from 1971-1974. He also served on the House Committee on Government Operations, as chairman of the 1973 Conference of Great Lakes Congressmen, and on the fifteen-member study committee that created the 1972 Water Pollution Control Act. Blatnik was especially active in legislation dealing with water pollution control, flood control, disaster relief, community facilities, community development, education and vocational training, and regional economic development. He authored or co-authored many major bills in these areas, including the Water Pollution Control Act of 1956 (and its 1961 and 1972 amendments); Accelerated Public Works Program, 1962; Water Quality Act of 1956; Area Development Act of 1961; and the Public Works and Economic Act of 1965. Blatnik retired from Congress in 1974.
He married Gisela Hager on April 9, 1955. They had three children: Thomas H., Stephanie, and Virginia. Blatnik died in Forest Heights, Maryland on December 17, 1991.
The collection is divided into six series: Congressional Office Files, 1963-1974; Legislation Files, 1947-1974; Subject Files, 1945-1974; Campaigns and Other Political Activities, 1937-1977; Personal Papers, 1889-1991; and Files retained by Representative Oberstar's office, 1942-1985 (bulk 1963-1974).
The collection as a whole focuses upon efforts at the national, state, and local levels to strengthen and diversify the economy of northern Minnesota. It includes economic development studies, surveys, and reports; community development plans; prospectuses and feasibility studies for the establishment of new businesses and industries; and information on public works programs, Job Corps centers and other employment programs, and educational and vocational training. Also contains significant materials regarding existing and proposed industries that utilize the forest and mineral resources of the Iron Range and Arrowhead country.
Other matters that recur consistently throughout the collection include: watershed management and utilization of water resources, public power facilities, conservation and utilization of natural resources in general, low-cost housing, health care, community events and festivities, the establishment of Voyageurs National Park, management of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA), highway construction and upkeep, and Democratic-Farmer-Labor party politics, particularly Blatnik's 1970 campaign and his rivalry with the William R. Ojala-Perpich brothers (Rudy and Tony) faction of the DFL.
Since the files, particularly the Congressional Office Files, do not include cross-references, control files, or other means of locating materials by subject or by congressional committee, researchers interested in a particular topic would do well to identify as many names as possible connected with that topic before beginning to use the files. The reply carbons were annotated by the office staff with references to the subject of the correspondence and/or the Congressional committee or government office involved, and can be scanned for content in this manner.
Larger volumes of committee hearings and other government publications have been removed and replaced with photocopied title pages; these materials are available at a federal documents depository library.
These documents are organized into the following sections:
Blatnik's oral history reminiscences are available in the John F. Kennedy Library, Waltham, Massachusetts.
Accession number: 11,748; 12,787; 14,551; 15,005; and 15,121; 16,645
Processed by: Cheryl N. Thies, June 1981; Kathryn A. Johnson, March 1995; Shelby Edwards, February 2012.
Catalog ID number: 900022987
The Congressional Office Files, 1963-1974 (boxes 1-51, 67-106), are correspondence files which also contain associated reports, articles, and other informational materials sent to Blatnik. These are supplemented by carbon copies of his replies. The files are arranged by Congress (88th-93rd) (1963-1974), thereunder alphabetically, generally by name of the correspondent. Some items are filed under the name of an organization or topic. Most of the correspondence comes from constituents expressing opinions on current issues, legislation, and district economic and community service projects, or making requests for assistance in obtaining employment, pension, or disability claims and other constituent services. Primarily documents the personal concerns and attitudes of the residents of northeast and north central Minnesota, and reflects the economic and social concerns of that area.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Academy; Agriculture Department Food Stamp program; Order of AHEPA; Aitkin County; AFL-CIO; American Hoist and Derrick Company; American Legion; Robert L. Anders--1964 Academy; Governor Elmer L. Andersen; L. J. Andolesk; Area redevelopment projects; and Arrowhead Resources Corporation of America.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Boatel Company; Chambers of Commerce (various towns); Chisholm (city) (1961-1962); Cloquet Community Hospital (1955-1959); and Cloverton Post Office.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Commerce Department 1960 Census Reports; Crane Lake (1962-1964); Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) party (1962-1964); Duluth AFL-CIO; Duluth Board of Education; Duluth air base (1957-1964); Duluth arena auditorium blueline drawings (1962-1966); Duluth Avionics Corporation; Duluth-Cloquet water project--Duluth Water Quality Laboratory (1963-1966); Duluth Filter Company; and Duluth Gateway Urban Renewal Project (Minnesota R-11) (1961-1962).
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Duluth Seaway Port Authority (1961-1966); Duluth-Superior Area Educational Television Corporation; Duluth-Superior Harbor Great Lakes harbor Study (1953-1964); Duluth Urban Development Company blueline drawings; Duluth Water Quality Control Laboratory; Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway Company (Virginia, Minnesota); Economic study/land use survey and analysis, Mesabi and Vermilion ranges (1962); Eveleth by-pass; Eveleth (city); Federal Employees Payroll Deduction Plan [for charities]; Peter J. Floe, Jr.; Ford Motor Company--Eveleth Taconite Plant; and Fowler-Veranth Construction Company
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Grand Rapids (village); Hay Creek Mining and Development Company (Morrison County) (1959-1963); and Chisholm Housing and Redevelopment Authority.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: International Falls--Fort Francis boundary dispute; International Union of Operating Engineers; Itasca Memorial Hospital; Izaak Walton League of America; Knife River Harbor (1955-1961); Lake County; Lake Superior International Highway; Minnesota League of Women Voters; and Richard Lenci--Pigeon River border station project.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Litton Industries, Inc., Duluth plant newspaper clippings (1962-1963); Lookout Mountain ski lodge (Virginia, Minnesota) (1955-1964); Lutsen Ski Corporation/Lutsen Resort (1957-1961); Minneapolis (city); Minnesota Accelerated Public Works Program projects; Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation; Minnesota Farmers Union; Minnesota Federation of Postal Clerks; Minnesota highway I-35 criticism and investigation of its construction; Minnesota Historical Society; and Minnesota Outdoor Recreation Resources Commission.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Minnesota Power and Light Company atomic energy plant; Minnesota State Association of Letter Carriers; Minnesota State Departments: Agriculture, Attorney General, Business Development, Civil Defense, Conservation, Education, Employment Security, Health, Highway, Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation, Public Welfare, Railroad and Warehouse Commission, Secretary of State, Soil and Water Conservation, and Water Pollution Control; Minnesota taconite; University of Minnesota; Minuteman missile base; Mississippi River Parkway Planning Commission; Namakan Lake road development; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; National Association of Letter Carriers; National Customs Service Association; National Federation of Independent Business; National Limestone Institute; National Rivers and Harbors Congress.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Northern Natural Gas Company; Northwest County Elevator Association; Nichols Township; North Central Airlines; North Coast Products Corporation (Duluth, Minnesota); Northeastern Minnesota Development Organization; Northern Electric Co-operative Association (Virginia, Minnesota); Helmer E. Olson--Hibbing Chamber of Commerce, Mississippi River Parkway Commission, and Iron and taconite development; Onan Division of Studebaker-Packard (Chisholm, Minnesota); Organic Fertilizer Corporation feasibility study (Duluth, Minnesota) (1964); Paper makers colony (International Falls, Minnesota); Parkville Post Office; Jeno F. Paulucci; Public schools (various); Quadna Mountain ski resort; and Quetico-Superior research reports.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Range Mental Health Center; Red Lake Band of Chippewa; Redistricting; Robitshek-Schneider Company (Chisholm, Minnesota); Saint Anthony Falls Upper Harbor project; Saint Louis County Reforestation program; Saint Louis River channel block (Fond du Lac, Minnesota); Saint Paul Post Office; Sandstone prison; and Smoked fish--botulism.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Soo Line; Strategic-Udy Processes, Inc., iron ore smelting process reports, proposals, and Strategic Materials Corporation (New York, New York); Superior National Forest (1961); Taconite amendment (1961-1964); Taconite story [Blatnik speech background] (1961-1964); Taconite summary; Three way watershed, Hibbing area; Timber Producers Association (1959-1964); Andrew B. Tomasich--Junior Mining Company (Virginia, Minnesota) loan application; Two Harbors (city); Upper Mississippi Waterway Association; and United Steelworkers of America.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Veterans of World War I; Virginia-Eveleth-Gilbert-Mountain Iron administrative and financial analysis; Veterans of Foreign Wars; Virginia (city); and Winzen Research, Inc. manned flight research.
This run excludes "Anderson." Folders with a significant quantity of items are: American Legion.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Atomic Energy Commission proposal for National Accelerator Laboratory; and Big Stone Lake-Whetstone River flood control project (1964-1966).
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Chippewa National Forest; Chisholm (city); Chung King Corporation; Chamber of Commerce (various cities)--includes blueline plat of Keewatin, Minnesota, and Great Northern Railway track serving the taconite plant; Columbus Day celebrations (1963-1971); Como (Hunter) Camping and Recreation Area (Duluth, Minnesota area); Cook County Historical Society; Cooperative Light and Power Association of Lake County; Crane Lake Customs Station; Cuyahoga River Reclamation Commission (Ohio); Cuyuna Range Minerals Research, Inc. (Duluth, Minnesota); Duluth AFL-CIO; Duluth Board of Education; and Duluth Economic Development Administration office.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Company right-of-way; Duluth Post Office; Duluth-Superior planning and transportation study; Edgewater Motel (Duluth, Minnesota); Ely (city); Esko rural route; Eveleth Taconite Company; Federal Judgeship (Minnesota); Ferndale Estates, Inc., senior citizens housing project (Askov, Minnesota); Federal funds in Eighth District for 1965; Forest Products Marketing Laboratory, University of Minnesota, Duluth, proposal; and Gary-New Duluth Community Club.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Grand Portage Indian Reservation; Grand Portage National Monument; Grand Rapids: Job Corps, Radar Base, and Diamond Jubilee; Great Lakes Commission/Great Lakes Pilotage Administration; Great Lakes Gas Transmission Company; Heights Court, Inc. (Wyoming, Minnesota); Hill City (village); Hinckley Post Office; Hibbing Precision Industries; Hibbing Post Office; Hibbing Housing and Redevelopment Authority; International Falls; and International Nickel Company.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Iron Range Community Planning symposium (1966); Isabella Job Corps Center; Isanti sewage project; Itasca County; Izaak Walton League; Jacobson Post Office; Johnson and Son's Fisheries (Duluth, Minnesota); Judiciary--voting rights; [radio and television stations]; Kichi Saga watershed; Lake Superior Pilots Association; Lake County; and Lake Superior pollution.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: League of Women Voters; Leech Lake Indian Reservation; William H. Magie--Friends of the Wilderness; Merryview addition--housing project (Hibbing, Minnesota); Minneapolis storm sewer relocation project; Minnesota Arrowhead Association; Minnesota Association of Electric Cooperatives (1965-1967); Minnesota Education Association; Minnesota Farmers Union; and Minnesota floods.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Minnesota School Boards Association; Minnesota State Departments: Agriculture, Business Development, Chippewa, Conservation, Education, Employment Security, Highway, Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation, Surplus Commodities Program, Taxation, Veterans Affairs, and Water Pollution Control Commission; University of Minnesota; Minnesota Power and Light Company; University of Minnesota immigrant archives; Minnesota-Wisconsin Fisheries Association; Minnkota Power Cooperative; and Morgenstern and Stanius feasibility study for a metropolitan resort complex in Duluth, Minnesota.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: National Federation of Independent Business; Northern Electric Cooperative Association; North Pine Electric Cooperative; Northeastern Minnesota Development Association; Northern States Power Company; Oglebay-Norton-Ford taconite plant--Eveleth Taconite Company construction of dam on Saint Louis River; Jeno F. Paulucci; Pine City (village); and Pigeon River Customs and Immigration Station (Grand Portage, Minnesota) (1957-1964).
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Property Owners of Duluth, Inc.; Public schools (various); Karl F. Rolvaag; Saint Ann's Home (Duluth, Minnesota); Saint Mary's Hospital (Duluth, Minnesota); College of Saint Scholastica (Duluth, Minnesota); Saint Louis County Board of Education; Saint Louis County medical care; Saint Louis County Economic Opportunity Agency; and Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Smoked fish--botulism; Steenberg Construction Company; Sugar Hills ski resort (Grand Rapids, Minnesota); Superwood Corporation (Duluth, Minnesota) peat stabilization of wood processing wastes, water pollution control, and Ruble Miller Associates, Inc. (Duluth, Minnesota); Tower-Sudan Development Council; Twin City Milk Producers Association (Saint Paul, Minnesota); Twin Ports; Two Harbors (city); Union Pacific and Rock Island Merger; United Federation of Postal Clerks; United Steelworkers of America; Virginia (city); and Veterans.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: [radio and television stations]; Ways and Means Committee firearms legislation; Western Paint Company (Duluth, Minnesota); Wild Rice River watershed proposal; Wilderness Valley Farms peat research project (Sax, Minnesota) and Chung King Corporation; Minnesota Department of Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation; and World's Fair (New York, New York) Minnesota pavilion.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service consolidation; Aguar, Jyring, Whiteman and Moser (Duluth, Minnesota) proposed range expressway and economic development; Star Route 56435 (Aitkin, Minnesota); American Paint Corporation (Duluth, Minnesota); American Steel and Wire Plant--U.S. Steel (Duluth, Minnesota) pollution; American Veterans Committee; American Legion; American Yugoslav Association; and American Power Control, (Nashwauk, Minnesota).
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Arrowhead Economic
Development District. Inc.; Associated General Contractors; Armco
Steel Corporation; Arrowhead Briquetting Company; Arrowhead Economic
Opportunity Agency; Beaver Bay (village), Blackduck-Elephant Lake
highway; Blatnik biography (1950s-1960s); Blatnik appreciation
statements (1968); Boatel, Inc. (Mora, Minnesota) U.S. Navy
contract, audit reports, and loan; Bohman Airways (Ranier,
Minnesota); Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; June Brower,
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Cambridge (city); Carlton Machined Products, Inc. (Carlton, Minnesota); Chamber of Commerce (various cities); Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company; Chisago County; Chisholm (city); Cloquet water line; Community Health and Welfare Council--American Indian Employment and Guidance Center; Community Memorial Hospital (Cloquet, Minnesota); Cook County; Cook (village); Cuyahoga River Reclamation Commission (Ohio); Dalbo Post Office; Dallavia Company (Duluth, Minnesota) cost-savings techniques proposal; Darco Stainless Products Corporation (Kulpmont, Pennsylvania); and Deer River (city).
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Duluth Lighthouse for the Blind; Duluth Area Vocational School; Duluth Army--695th Transportation Company; Duluth Avionics; Duluth Department of Economic Development; Duluth Jaycees "portorama"; Duluth Model Cities; Duluth Regional air center; Duquesne University Tamburitzans; Educational Research and Development Council of Northeast Minnesota; Ely luxury resort development and feasibility study and pulp mill feasibility evaluation; Ericsburg rural station (Ericsburg, Minnesota); Eveleth (city); First Federal Savings and Loan Association; First National Bank (various cities); Finnish commemorative stamp; Fond du Lac Indian Reservation; Fort Snelling State Park; and Four Mile Portage (Basswood Lake).
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Grand Portage (city); Grand Portage National Monument; Grand Rapids (village); Grasston alfalfa pelletizing plant; Great Lakes Pilotage; Great Northern Railway post office service; Ground Water Resources Institute (1967); Hallett Dock Company (Duluth, Minnesota); Hibbing Area Technical Institute (1965-1966); Hibbing-Chisholm Aviation Days; Hibbing Housing and Redevelopment Authority; Hibbing State Junior College; and Hinckley (village).
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Chisholm Housing and Redevelopment Authority land utilization and marketability study and Longyear Lake urban renewal project number 2; Human Engineering Institute (Cleveland, Ohio); Industrial Rubber Applicators, Inc. (Hibbing, Minnesota); International Conference on Water for Peace (1967); International Falls (village); International Nickel Company; Iron Range; Isanti County; Itasca County; Izaak Walton League; [radio and television stations]; and Keewatin (village).
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Koochiching County; Koochiching-Itasca Action Council; Lake County; Lakes and Pines Community Action Council; League of Women Voters; L. D. Lowry cattle ranching proposal (Aitkin County); and W. M. MacConnachie, Vice President of Northwest Paper Company.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Meadowlands-Toivola Head Start program; MesabAlloy, Inc. foundry (Hibbing, Minnesota); Mesabi Cores, Inc. (Hibbing, Minnesota); Mesaba Drill and Tool (Chisholm, Minnesota); Mesabi State Junior College (Virginia, Minnesota); Midwest Democratic Conference; Midway Bowl, Inc. (Grand Rapids, Minnesota); Midwest Federal Savings and Loan Association; Mille Lacs Electric Cooperative (Aitkin, Minnesota); Minneapolis (city); Minnesota AFL-CIO; Minnesota Bankers Association; Minnesota Conservation Federation; Minnesota Historical Society; Minnesota Junior Colleges; Minnesota State Association of Letter Carriers; Minnesota State Automobile Association; Minnesota Arrowhead Association; Minnesota Chippewa; Minnesota Newspaper Association; Minnesota Light and Power Company (Duluth, Minnesota); Minnesota State Departments: Governor Harold LeVander, Public Works, State Legislature, Civil Defense, Agriculture, Conservation, Economic Development, Employment Security, Health, Highways, Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation, National Guard, Pollution Control Agency, and Veterans Affairs; University of Minnesota; Loyal Order of Moose, Chisholm Lodge; Moose Lake; Mountain Iron (village); National Association of Counties; National Association of Letter Carriers; National Association of Postmasters; and National Rivers and Harbors Congress.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Nett Lake Indian Reservation; Nichols Township; North Pine Electric Cooperative (Finlayson, Minnesota); North Star Trails (Duluth, Minnesota); Northern Electric Cooperative Association (Virginia, Minnesota); Northern Minnesota Power Association (Grand Rapids, Minnesota); Northern Great Lakes Resource Development Committee; Northern Pacific Railway Company discontinuance of mail service and passenger trains; Ojibway Press, Inc. (Duluth, Minnesota); Jeno F. Paulucci; Perch Lake Farmers Union Local; Pine City (village); Pine City State Junior College proposal; Pollution Control exposition and conference (Houston, Texas); Post Office Saturday deliveries proposed cutback; and Prairie Portage dam.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Pyrophoric processes [charcoal briquette process] (Saint Paul, Minnesota); Public schools (various towns); Railroad brotherhoods; Rainy Lake channel markers; Rand Development Corporation (Cleveland, Ohio); Range Mental Health Center (Virginia, Minnesota); Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians; Max Rheinberger, Handicapped American of the Year; Rural Cooperative Power Association (Elk River, Minnesota); Ruble Miller Associates, Inc. (Duluth, Minnesota); Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (Bramble, Minnesota); Saint Croix; Saint Joseph's Hospital (Brainerd, Minnesota); Saint Louis County work experience and training project; Saint Luke's Hospital (Duluth, Minnesota); Saint Mary's Hospital (Duluth, Minnesota); Saint Paul (city); College of Saint Scholastica (Duluth, Minnesota); Sandstone water system and sewer project; Serbian Days celebration; and Silver Bay (village).
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: South Grove addition, (Mountain Iron, Minnesota); State-Federal Crop and Livestock Reporting Service; Steel import problem; Sugar Hills ski resort (Grand Rapids, Minnesota); Taconite demonstration plant (Keewatin, Minnesota); Taconite training program; Thiokol Chemical Corporation (Bristol, Pennsylvania) Indian training program in Minnesota; Trenka Corporation (Hinckley, Minnesota) plastic pipe factory; Twin Cities Opportunities Industrial Center (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Two Harbors (city); United Federation of Postal Clerks; United Steelworkers of America; Universal Fiberglass Corporation (Two Harbors, Minnesota); Upper Great Lakes Regional Commission; and Bernard J. Usiak.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Versa Plastics, Inc. (Sawyer, Minnesota); Veterans of Foreign Wars; Virginia Diamond Days celebration; Virginia senior citizens housing project; [television stations]; Wild and Scenic Rivers bill; Willow River sanitary sewer project; and Wright (city).
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Agriculture--Farm Bulletin information; Aitkin County; Aitkin Housing and Redevelopment Authority; and Alcoholism.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: AFL-CIO; American Legion; American Power Control, Inc. Nashwauk promotion; American Trucking Associations, Inc.; American Yugoslav; R. W. Anderson--natural gas supplies; Arrowhead Economic Opportunity Agency (Virginia, Minnesota); Arrowhead Library System; Arrowhead Regional Council for Health annual report and application for grant; Arrowhead Regional Development Commission/Arrowhead Economic Development District; Arrowhead Zoological Society; Gerald E. Ascher--State Technical Services annual report (1968); Automobile Manufacturers Association vs. USA--pollution control suit; David N. Bailey; and Basswood Lake.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Beaver Bay (village); Nicholas J. Begich--Alaskan congressman; Bellamy Award for Excellence in Education, Hibbing High School and Lead High School (Lead, North Dakota); Biwabik, Minnesota city plan [folder "bi"]; Big Falls (village); Blue Earth River dam; Boise Cascade Corporation [folder "bo"]; Boundary Waters Canoe Area--logging operations, mineral rights, and mineral drilling and exploration; and Braham (village) [folder "br"].
These files contain primarily constituent correspondence, with replies attached, regarding the management of the BWCA. These files also include statements, proposed regulations, and guidelines. The controversy centered on H.R. 9070 ("Wilderness Bill" 1964); logging operations within the BWCA; and the U.S. Forest Service's new management plan.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Bureau of Mines [taconite] demonstration plant (Keewatin, Minnesota); Cambodia escalation; CAC On-the-Job-Training; Carlton County; Carlton (village) community development plan; Century Twenty-One (SCARE) symposium; Chamber of Commerce; Duluth Chamber of Commerce; Chester Park ski facility (Duluth, Minnesota); Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company; Chisholm (village); Chisholm-Hibbing Hospital role study for Hibbing General Hospital and Chisholm Memorial Hospital; Chisholm Housing and Redevelopment Authority; Chisholm industrial park project phase one final report and feasibility study; Cloquet Housing Authority; Arnold M. Cogan--comprehensive land use plan, State of Alaska [folder "co"]; and Coates Hotel (Virginia, Minnesota) project plan and blueline drawings.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Community Work and Development Center of the Iron Range, Inc. annual report (1970) [folder "col"]; Conference on Noncontiguous Trade proceedings (1970); Congressional pay raise; Cook County; Cook (village); Cuyahoga River Reclamation Commission [folder "cu"]; Customs Station, Cook County (Grand Marais/Seagull Lake, Minnesota); Cuyuna Range technical assistance grant; Cuyuna Range minerals research project reports and proposals; R. W. Darland--Alworth Memorial Fund for science and medicine scholarships [folder "d"]; Darco Stainless Products Corporation (Kulpmont, Pennsylvania) loan investigation; Detroit Marine Terminal and Great Lakes Steel Company dredging and disposal; and Diabetes detection center (Minneapolis, Minnesota).
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Duluth (city);
Duluth Accordionnaires; Duluth Air base; Duluth Board of Education;
Duluth Transit Authority; Duluth Economic Development
Administration; Duluth Hall of Fame; Duluth Housing and
Redevelopment Authority; Duluth Lakewood sewage facility; Duluth
Mount Royal Post Office and Duluth Post Office; Duluth YMCA
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Fond du Lac Community Club Mission Creek Bridge project; Fort Snelling commemorative stamp; Gappa's Landing (Voyageurs National Park boundaries); Four-H citizenship conference; Gilbert (city); Frederick A. Gilbert--detergent phosphates; Grand River Reservoir (Ohio) brochure opposing; Grand Portage (city) and Grand Portage Indian Reservation; Grand Portage National Monument great hall fire; Grand Rapids (city); Great Lakes Congressmen; Great Lakes Saint Lawrence Seaway; Great Lakes Commission; Great Northern Railway; and Green Thumb--Eagle Rural Training Center project proposal.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Hearding Island marina project; Hearing Conservation, Inc. (Virginia, Minnesota); Robert D. Hennigan--papers on water pollution control; Hibbing General Hospital; Hibbing (village); Hibbing senior citizen housing mail delivery; Highway standards; Hill City low rent housing; Hinckley commemorative stamp [folder "him-hn"]; Horton Connet Construction Company (Minneapolis, Minnesota) proposal for prebuilt home manufacturing plant at Mora, Minnesota; International Falls (village); International Falls international bridge (1970); and Interstate Commerce Commission investigation #263--concealed damage claims.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Iron Range Community Shelter (Itasca County) plan draft of final report; Iron Range taxes; Isabella Conservation Center [Job Corps] (Isabella, Minnesota); Isanti County [folder "ip-iv"]; Itasca County; Itasca State Junior College [folder "ip-iv"]; Izaak Walton League of America; Job Corps--Lydick Lake Center; William Jokela--DFL party in Pine County; Junior National Association for the Deaf; Kawishiwi watershed [folder "kas-kaz"]; and Kanabec County Hospital.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Koochiching-Itasca Action Council; Laetrile [drug]; Lake County; Lake Superior; Lake Superior beach erosion and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers study report (1968); Lake Superior Enforcement Conference--water pollution control; Lakes and Pines Community Action Council (Cambridge, Minnesota); League of Women Voters; Leech Lake Chippewa Indian band; Lent township road; Governor Harold LeVander; Lists--news media; Lists--postal patron mailings; and Littlefork Municipal Hospital (Littlefork, Minnesota).
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Lookout Mountain land exchange (Virginia, Minnesota); Lundeberg School of Seamanship (Piney Point, Maryland); Marquette Corporation (Saint Paul, Minnesota) automobile frame alignment system; J. P. McFarland, General Mills, Inc. on nutritional value of prepared breakfast foods; Medicare/chiropractic--form letters; Mesabi State Junior College [folder "mer"]; Mille Lacs Industry, Inc. (Ogilvie, Minnesota); and Miller Memorial Hospital (Duluth, Minnesota).
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Minneapolis (city); Minneapolis Grain Exchange; Minnesota AFL-CIO; Minnesota Arrowhead Association; Minnesota Bankers Association; Minnesota Conservation Federation--legislation enacted in Minnesota (1969); Minnesota Education Department; Minnesota Education Association; Minnesota Employment Security; Minnesota Environmental Sciences Foundation (Minneapolis, Minnesota) [folder "Minn. misc. a-e"]; Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation; Minnesota Farmers Union; Minnesota Good Roads, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) [folder "Minn. misc. f-o"]; Minnesota Hospital Association brochures; Minnesota Joint Highway Executive Committee Meeting (April 28, 1970); Minnesota Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Department proposal for research on typha rhizomes and peat bog waste stabilization; Minnesota Legislative delegation meeting (March 24-26, 1969); Minnesota Newspapers; Minnesota Pollution Control Agency; Minnesota Private College Council [folder "Minn. misc. p-so"]; Minnesota Resources Commission; Minnesota Society of Architects; Minnesota State college system; Minnesota University of Minnesota; Minnesota Valley Trail; Minnesota Veterans Administration hospitals; Minnesota Power and Light Company; "Missing link" canal (Lake Superior to Mississippi River) [folder "mio-mn"]; Mississippi River navigation dams; Missouri Basin Systems Group reconnaissance power supply study; Theodore G. Mitau [folder "mio-mn"]; Moose Lake [folder "mo"]; Moose Lake Hospital; Mobilfone Corporation (Saint Paul, Minnesota), and Mountain Iron Mine dedication.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: National Environment Foundation (Washington, D.C.); National Grange; National Rivers and Harbors Congress; Nett Lake village road; Nelson Knitting Mills, Inc. (Duluth, Minnesota); North Central Airlines fare increase; Northern Natural Gas Company [folder "northa-northwood"]; Northwest Paper Company [folder "northa-northwood"]; Northwest Minnesota Youth Development Project (Bemidji, Minnesota) annual report (1968-1969) [folder "northa-northwood"]; Northern Great Lakes Resource Development Committee; Northern Minnesota Cable TV, Inc. legal papers and FCC regulations; Northern Minnesota Youth Development project; Northern Montana College Indian Adult Basic Education Program; Northern Pacific Railway Company passenger train discontinuance; Northern States Power Company Prairie Island plant; Northome Sawmill Complex (Northome, Minnesota); Northwest Airlines; Oddfellows commemorative stamp; and Ohio Water Development Authority presentation on construction of sewage facility.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Paid television--opposing letters; Pan American World Airways; Jeno F. Paulucci; Pemtom, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota); HUD Operation Breakthrough housing demonstration program; Pine County [folder "pi"]; Pickands-Mather and Company (Cleveland, Ohio) pig iron imports; Pickwick Tavern employees (Duluth, Minnesota) income tax problems; Pine City (village); Post Office pay increase; Burlington Northern rail passenger service discontinuance; Rainy Lake buoy removal; Rainy Lake watershed regulation; Rainy River pollution and Souris-Red-Rainy River Basins Commission (May 22, 1969); and Ramsgate, Inc. (Eveleth, Minnesota).
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Range Center mental retardation day care facility (Chisholm, Minnesota); Range Mental Health Center (Virginia, Minnesota); REA Air Express tariff; Saint Croix Wild River cooperative agreement for establishment of the Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway; Saint Louis County; Saint Paul (city); Sandstone (village); Sandstone Prison Farm; Sawtooth Mountain Development Corporation (Grand Marais, Minnesota); and Sebeka paper mill proposal, including Minnesota National Pulp and Paper Mill (Sebeka, Minnesota) forecast (1968) and impact report by North Star Research and Development Institute.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Silver Bay
(village); Sonford Products Corporation (Stacy, Minnesota)
prospectus, financial data, and 1969 market value; Souris-Red-Rainy
River Basins Commission (1969-1970); South Viet Nam--
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Teal season; Technicon Corporation (Tarrytown, New York) pollution analysis equipment; Timber Marketing and Utilization Laboratory proposal (Duluth, Minnesota); Tower (city) and Tower marina project; Twin Cities naval air station; Two Harbors (city); Underwater Storage, Inc. (Washington, D.C.) sewer and marina waste disposal systems; United Power Association; United States Steel Corporation; United Steel Workers of America; Universal Fiberglass Corporation (Two Harbors, Minnesota); Upper Great Lakes Regional Commission annual report (1969); Upper Mississippi Waterway Association; Veterans Administration insurance office consolidation; Veterans of Foreign Wars; Virginia (city); Vocational Education work study program; and Wadena Soil and Water Conservation District annual report (1969).
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Water pollution;
John Webster; West Duluth urban renewal; Westinghouse Electric
Corporation; Westmoreland--film showing
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: AirTech, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Aitken County; AFL-CIO; American Legion; American Paint Company; American Pipe Services; American Road Builders Association; American Yugoslav Association; Amtrak; Herbert K. Anderson, Saint Louis County grant and aid; Governor Wendell Anderson; Anoka County; Anoka County coffee party [with] Mrs. Blatnik (September 1972); Anoka County Council of Economic Opportunity; Anoka County fund raiser (May 22, 1972); Anoka County Halloween parade (October 30-31, 1971); Anoka County trip (August 1971); Anoka High School band, Washington, D.C. visit (June 11-17, 1972); Arrowhead; and Arrowhead Economic Opportunity Agency (Virginia, Minnesota) (1969-1972).
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Arrowhead Regional Development Commission (Duluth, Minnesota); Assateague Island; Associated Pennsylvania Constructors (Atlantic City, New Jersey); Blaine housing; Blandin Foundation; and Blandin Paper Company Blandex (Grand Rapids, Minnesota).
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Boise Cascade Corporation; Bois Forte Indian Reservation; Bol-Inca Mining Corporation; Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA); BWCA snowmobile restrictions; BWCA canoe camping control; Braham Housing and Redevelopment Authority; Brookings Institute; Campaign (1972); Camp Buckskin (Ely, Minnesota); Central Illinois Builders annual meeting (Springfield, Illinois) (November 20, 1971); Central Mesabi Regional Health Center; Chemical Specialties Manufacturers (Washington, D.C.) (December 7, 1971); and Chippewa National Forest ranger districts consolidation (1971).
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Chisago County;
Chisholm (village); Chisholm: Blatnik Day (December 4, 1972);
Chisholm congregate housing for handicapped; Chisholm Housing and
Redevelopment Authority; Chisholm Range Center for northeastern
Minnesota mentally retarded; Cloquet reception (May 1972); Cloquet
water filtration plant--
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Deaf Young Leadership camp (Pengilly, Minnesota); Democratic-Farmer-Labor party (DFL); Democratic Caucus notices; Democratic National Committee; Democratic National Convention; Democratic Steering Committee; Democratic Study Group [folder "dem-dez"]; A. Mondo DeYoannes, Director Minnesota Department of Economic Development; William Miller, Doorkeeper U.S. Congress; Downtown Kiwanis Club of Washington, D.C. (September 16, 1971); Duluth (city); Duluth Accordionnaires trip to Yugoslavia (1972); Duluth Air base; Duluth AFL-CIO central body; Duluth Area Cultural Center application for an historic preservation grant (June 1972); Duluth arena auditorium fifth anniversary (1972); Duluth Boys Club; Duluth bridge dedication as "John A. Blatnik Bridge" (September 21, 1971); Duluth Chamber of Commerce; Duluth highway I-35 (1969-1971); Duluth Transit Authority; Duluth Economic Adjustment Committee; Duluth Federal building remodeling (1972); Duluth Forestry Sciences Laboratory; Duluth Hall of Fame; Duluth Housing and Redevelopment Authority; and Duluth library project--grant for regional library funding (September 9, 1971).
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Duluth office
correspondence; Duluth-Superior Harbor upper channels; Duluth
Volunteer Services; Duluth Water Quality Laboratory; Duluth YMCA
Anti-amendment correspondence, and a sample of Blatnik's reply. These are items received from all over the United States, except Minnesota's Eight district.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Giant's Ridge ski area (Biwabik, Minnesota); Gifts [given ] (1968-1970); Gilbert (village); Government Printing Office exchange account (1968-1972); Grand Marais public schools: Elementary student's letters concerning water pollution (1971); Grand Portage Indian Reservation (1971); Grand Portage National Monument; Grand Portage tourist complex; Grand Rapids (city); Grand Rapids Industrial Foundation; Grand Rapids mall; Grand Rapids radar site; Grandview Christian Home (Cambridge, Minnesota); Grasston (village); Great Lakes Commission; Great Lakes Congressmen conference, including November 1972 statement on high water levels (1970-1972); and Group Health of Northeastern Minnesota, Inc.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Guardian Enterprises, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Gustavus Adolphus College (Saint Peter, Minnesota) student and faculty exchange program with University of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia; Ham Lake airport; Health Sciences program; Hennepin County Hospital; Hermantown (village); Hibbing (city); Hibbing Precision Industries; Hibbing sewage treatment plant; Holy Cross Church (Fairfield, Connecticut) ground breaking dinner (October 31, 1971); Home Improvements and Repair Expenses (H.R. 802) (1971); House Administration Committee; House of Representatives; House of Representatives restaurant; and House recording studio.
Constituent correspondence against the construction of a highway through Golden Valley, Minnesota with a copy of Blatnik's reply.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Hubert H. Humphrey [folder "hu-hy"]; International; International Falls (village); International bridge (International Falls, Minnesota) (1971); Isabella Environmental Learning Center (Isabella, Minnesota); (1967-1972); Itasca County; Itasca County Forest Highway #27; Itasca Engineering, Inc. Lower Minnesota River watershed, board of directors minutes, and lawsuit against U. S. General Services Administration; Izaak Walton League of America; and J.E.C. Associates.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Kawishiwi
watershed; KDAL-TV; Keewatin (village); Knife River atomic plant;
Koochiching-Itasca Counties: Community Action Council "Operation
Mainstream"; Lakes and Pines Community Action Council (Mora,
Minnesota) (1971-1972); Lake County; Lake Erie pollution
film--NBC-TV
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Library of
Congress; Congressional Directory (1965-1972);
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Mercy Hospital (Anoka County); Mesaba Drill and Tool (Chisholm, Minnesota) (1969-1972); MesabAlloy, Inc. (Hibbing, Minnesota); Mesabi State Junior College proposal and grant application to the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration for funding to conduct criminal justice and related law enforcement courses (1971); Metropolitan Airport Commission; Miller-Dwan Hospital and Medical Center (Duluth, Minnesota); Bureau of Mines demonstration plant (1972); Minneapolis (city); Minneapolis Age and Opportunity Center; Minnesota AFL-CIO; Minnesota Arrowhead Association; Minnesota Association of Commerce and Industry; Minnesota Bankers Association; Minnesota Broadcasters Association; Minnesota Concerned Senior Citizens for Better Government; Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation; Minnesota Federation of Teachers; Minnesota 4-H Citizenship short course group; Minnesota Historical Society; Minnesota League of Credit Unions; Minnesota League of Municipalities; Minnesota Safety Council; Minnesota School Boards Association; Minnesota Chippewa; Minnesota Club reception (1972); Minnesota Environmental Education proposal (July 1971); Minnesota experimental city (1969-1972); and Minnesota Good Roads fly-in (Washington, D.C.) (February 29-March 1, 1972).
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Minnesota Heritage Enterprises adding Angel Falls district of Taylors Falls, Minnesota onto the National Register of Historic Places; Minnesota lakes; Minnesota Manpower Services; Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M); Minnesota Power and Light Company; Minnesota State Departments: Agriculture, Education, Health Planning Advisory Council, Highway, Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation, National Guard, Natural Resources, and Pollution Control Agency; University of Minnesota; Missing Link Waterway (Mississippi River-Lake Superior canal); [W. S.] Moore Company; Mora (village); Mora airport proposal opposition; Mora Housing Authority; Mountain Iron (village); Mountain Iron low income housing; National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) meeting (Washington, D.C.) (November 21, 1971); Nashwauk (city); National Asphalt Pavement Association; National League of Cities; and National Limestone Institute: Blatnik receipt of Distinguished Service Award for contribution to the nation's highways (Washington, D.C.) (January 24-26, 1972).
Folders with a significant quantity of items are:
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: People to People High School Student Ambassador program (1969-1972); Virginia, Minnesota proposal for open space land development at the Miners Memorial Recreation Area (February 15, 1972) [folder "pia-pin"]; Pickands-Mather and Company (Cleveland, Ohio); Pine City (village); Pine County; Post Office--House of Representatives; Presidential Classroom program; Press releases; Proctor (village); Public Works Committee water pollution legislation; Public Works Committee meeting notices; Public Works Committee thanks to members and staff (1972); and Railpax.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Railroad Retirement
Act (1972) constituent form letters urging passage of the bill;
Range Mental Health Center (Virginia, Minnesota); Saint Cloud
College Campus Laboratory school fund raiser (1971); Saint Croix
River proposal to add the Lower Saint Croix area to the National
Wild and Scenic Rivers system and
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Sacred Heart School (Cloquet, Minnesota); Tony Sandler (Lucien Joseph Santele) naturalization of Sandler, his brother Pierre Santele, brother-in-law Hilonaat Van Marke, and their families to allow them to live on Sandler's Ogilvie, Minnesota ranch (1970-1971); Sandstone (village); Seaway port of Duluth: Waste Management program; Society for Historical Outdoor Recreational Entertainment (SHORE), Inc. (Knife River, Minnesota); (village); Slovenian Chapel dedication National Shrine of Immaculate Conception (Washington, D.C.) (1971); Snelling Oil (MacGregor, Minnesota); and Snowbank Lodge (Ely, Minnesota).
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Southwest Minnesota
State College; Split Rock Lighthouse addition to the National
Register and donation to the State of Minnesota (1969-1971); Summer
student work program at BWCA and
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: United Power
Association
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Western Lake Superior Sanitary District preliminary engineering report (July 1972) and comprehensive plan (August 1972); Whip notices; White House; and Yugoslav visitors.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Air taxi service between U.S. and Canada (1971-1974); Aitkin County; Carl Albert, Speaker of the House; Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers Local number 12 (Duluth, Minnesota); American Consulting Service; AFL-CIO; American Hoist and Derrick Company, American Solid Waste Systems Division Saint Paul high density baling plant (1971-1974); American Legion; American Paint Company (Duluth, Minnesota); American Public Works Association: Blatnik's address to bicentennial commission (December 13, 1973); American Road Builders Association; Amtrak; Herbert K. Anderson, Saint Louis County Regional Grant and Aid; Governor Wendell Anderson; L. J. Adolsek, U.S. Civil Service Commission; Anoka County; Anoka-Hennepin school district; Area Retail Grocers Association of Northeastern Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin; Arrowhead; Arrowhead Civic Club (Duluth, Minnesota); and Arrowhead Economic Opportunity Agency.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Arrowhead Regional Development Commission, including Upper Great Lakes regional recreation planning study on environmental conditions in Minnesota (1973); Robert J. "Bob" Babich, Northeastern Minnesota Development Association; Nick Basura--research on Nikola Tesla; Beaver Bay (village); Joseph T. Begich, Mayor (Eveleth, Minnesota); Harold J. Belgum, Public Information Network (Fridley, Minnesota); Lawrence (Chober) Belluzzo, Mayor (Chisholm, Minnesota); Nike missile site (Bethel, Minnesota) assignment of land to Minnesota Sheriffs' Boys Ranch (1971-1973); Big Falls (village); Birthday greetings from Blatnik; Blaine postal facilities; Blandin Foundation; Blandin Paper Company (Grand Rapids, Minnesota); Blatnik special events--luncheons, receptions, etc. (1974); Boise Cascade Corporation; and Bois Forte Reservation: Nett Lake housing.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Ben Boo, Mayor
(Duluth, Minnesota); Boone Avenue and I-94 proposal for four-way
access (February 1973); Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) mineral
rights and snowmobiles; Boy Scouts of America; June Brower,
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Clean-Flo
Laboratories, Inc. (Hopkins, Minnesota); Clerk of the House; Cold
Spring Granite Company (Cold Spring, Minnesota); Norman Cole, Jr.,
Virginia State Water Control Board (1970-1973); Condolences from
Blatnik; Congratulations from Blatnik;
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Drill's Marina,
Inc. (Duluth, Minnesota); Duluth (city); Duluth Accordionnaires
Russian tour (1974); Duluth Air Base; Duluth Area Vocational
Technical; Duluth arena auditorium; Duluth Boys Club; Duluth Chamber
of Commerce; Duluth Highway I-35; Duluth Transit Authority; Duluth
harbor dredging project; Duluth Housing and Redevelopment Authority;
Duluth marine museum visitor center dedication (September 29, 1973);
Duluth sheltered workshops; Duluth water filtration plant; Duluth
YMCA
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Ericsburg Postal Station closing (Ericsburg, Minnesota) (1974); Rudy R. Esala, Arrowhead Regional Development Commission; Eveleth Area Vocational Technical School and Hockey Hall of Fame dedication (June 21, 1973); Federal sources of supply and excess property: opposition to GSA rulings (1972-1973); Fingerhut Corporation (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Finland air base service by United Power Association; Floodwood (village); FMC Corporation Northern Ordnance Division plant strike (Fridley, Minnesota) (1974); Forbes Trailer Court (Iron, Minnesota) (1974); Forest Highway 11 (Saint Louis County); French River hatchery; Fresh Water Biological Research Foundation (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Germany; and get well messages from Blatnik.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Grand Marais closing of Coast Guard station; Grand Portage Indian Reservation; Grand Portage National Monument; Grand Portage tourist complex; Grand Rapids (city); Grand Rapids industrial park (1971-1974); Great Lakes; Great Lakes Commission; Great Lakes Congressmen; Great Lakes water levels; Great Lakes winter navigation season; Great River road maps; Greater Miami (Florida) Jaycees; Greetings from Blatnik; and Group Health Association of Northeastern Minnesota, Inc.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Hartley Field dam (Duluth, Minnesota); Ronald M. Hays Associates (Edina, Minnesota); Robert L. Herbst, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources; Hermantown (village); Hibbing (village); Hibbing Housing and Redevelopment Authority; Hibbing 29th Street Housing Development (Hibbing, Minnesota); Highway 2 (Duluth, Saint Louis County, Minnesota); Highways 53 and 33 (Saint Louis County, Minnesota); Hoerner Waldorf Corporation (Saint Paul, Minnesota) land exchange; Joyce Hoffa, National Federation of the Blind; Richard W. Holm, Koochiching-Itasca Action Council; House Administration Committee; House of Representatives; William F. Hunter, Range Mental Health Center, Inc. (Virginia, Minnesota); Inaugural activities (1957, 1973-1974); International: Conference on Environmental Health (October 23-26, 1973); International Falls (village); International Falls dedication of U.S. Army Reserve Center (June 23, 1973); International bridge to Fort Frances, Ontario, Canada (International Falls, Minnesota); and International organics.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Iridizing--Anodizing; Iron Range Interpretive Center; Isabella Environmental Learning Center (Isabella, Minnesota); Isle Royal National Park; Itasca County Forest highway #27; Izaak Walton League of America; Jacobsen Construction Company (Parkville, Minnesota); Jeno's (Duluth, Minnesota); Kanabec County Soil and Water Conservation District (1971-1974); Kettle Falls dam; and MPIRG/Sue Kline article (1972-1974) [folder "kl"].
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Knife Lake dam; Knife River; Knife River amphitheater pros and cons of construction including SHORE impact statement (1972-1974); Koch Refining Company. (Saint Paul [Rosemont], Minnesota); Koochiching County; Korkki Aviation, Inc. (Duluth, Minnesota); Frederick Kottke, MD, Head of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis campus; One-and-a-half year walk for UNICEF by David Kunst (Waseca, Minnesota) (1974) [folder "kru-ky"]; Lake Superior: asbestos causes closing of Reserve Mining Company's Silver Bay, Minnesota plant (1974); Lake Superior Basin plan; Lake Superior U.S.-Soviet study; Lake Superior Water Quality Management and Planning Team; Lake Survey Center; and Land O'Lakes Company.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Lists: General, Federal Depository Libraries, and Mayors and County Commissioners; Marina del Ray (California); J. P. McFarland, General Mills, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Mercy Medical Center dedication (Coon Rapids, Minnesota) (May 3, 1974); MesabAlloy, Inc. (Hibbing, Minnesota); Mesabi Drill and Tool (Chisholm, Minnesota); Mesabi State Junior College (Virginia, Minnesota); Metropolitan Airport Commission; and Metropolitan Auto Dealers Association of Minnesota.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Midwest Electrical Consumers Association (Denver Colorado); Miller-Dwan Hospital (Duluth, Minnesota); Minneapolis (city); Mister Fixit's Service Center, Inc. (Duluth, Minnesota); Minnesota Association of Commerce and Industry; Minnesota Association of Electric Co-ops; Minnesota Hospital Association; Minnesota Congress of Parents and Teachers; Minnesota Resources Commission; Minnesota AFL-CIO; Minnesota American Legion; Minnesota Arrowhead Association; Minnesota Chippewa Tribe; Minnesota Conservation Federation; Minnesota Economic Development; Minnesota elected officials; Minnesota Emergency Helicopter Service; Minnesota Experimental City; Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation; Minnesota Farmers Union; Minnesota Good Roads fly-in (Washington, D.C.); Minnesota hospitals and nursing homes; Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing [3M]; Minnesota Poultry and Hatchery and Turkey Growers; Minnesota Power and Light; Minnesota State Association of Letter Carriers; Minnesota State Departments: Aeronautics, Agriculture, Attorney General, Bicentennial Commission, Education, Employment Services, Health, Highway, Housing and Redevelopment Authority, Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation, Legislative Retirement Study Committee, Motor Vehicles, National Guard, Natural Resources, Pollution Control Agency, Public Service, Public Welfare, State Legislature, State Planning Agency, Taxation, and Veterans Affairs.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: University of Minnesota; Dorothy Molter, Boundary Waters Canoe Area resident; Senator Walter F. Mondale; Monongahela National Forest (West Virginia); Mora (village); Mountain Iron (village); Mountain Iron senior citizens; Nader report (1972-1974); National; National Asphalt and Pavement Association; National League of Cities; National Limestone Institute, Inc.; Navigable waters on U.S.-Canadian border; Nett Lake Indian Reservation timber project; Morris Nooner, Veterans Administration Center (Fort Snelling, Minnesota); North Central Airlines; North Star Steel; Northeastern Minnesota Development Association (NEMDA) (Duluth, Minnesota); Northern Community Radio (Lake Elmo, Minnesota); and Northern Electric Co-op Association.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Northwest Airlines; Northwestern Minnesota Custom Ports Transfer--Pembina to Duluth; Park Point (village); Parking sticker procedure; Pathfinder Village, Inc. (Hinckley, Minnesota); Jeno F. Paulucci; J. Edward Pearsall, Mayor (Virginia, Minnesota); Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) systems; Personnel Committee; Pickands-Mather; Pine City (village); and Pine County.
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Veda Ponikvar,
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Saint Cloud College Campus Laboratory School; Saint Croix Wild River; Saint John's River canal; Saint Lawrence Seaway Corporation; Saint Louis County; Saint Louis County garage and police departments; Saint Mary's Hospital (Duluth, Minnesota); Saint Paul (city); Saint Paul Columbus Day celebration (October 12, 1973); College of Saint Scholastica (Duluth, Minnesota); Sandstone (village); Sandstone prison inmates; Sapawe Gold Mines, Ltd. (Canada); Science Advisory Panel meeting (Piney Point, Maryland) (May 17-19, 1974); Seaway Port Authority of Duluth waste management program; and Father Francis X. Shea, College of Saint Scholastica (Duluth, Minnesota).
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Silver Bay
(village); South Saint Paul (city); Attorney General Warren
Spannaus; Spirit Mountain recreational project; Staff; Suomi College
(Hancock, Michigan); Superior National Forest mainstream project
(1973); Superwood Corporation (Duluth, Minnesota);
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Twin Cities: includes New Brighton ammunition plant closing; Twin City Barge and Towing Company (Saint Paul, Minnesota); Two Harbors (village); United Nations World Population Conference (Bucharest, Romania) (August 19-30, 1974); United States; United Steel Corporation; United Steel Workers of America district 33 (Duluth, Minnesota); Universal Atlas Cement Plant (Duluth, Minnesota); Universal Match Corporation; Upper Great Lakes Regional Commission; Upper Midwest Council; Lee Vann, Jeno F. Paulucci and Associates, Inc. (Duluth, Minnesota); Veterans of Foreign Wars; Viking Oil Company (Coleraine, Minnesota) includes National Steel Pellet plant (Keewatin, Minnesota) and Butler Taconite plant; Virginia (city); Volkswagen of America, Inc.; Voyageurs National Park "dead ducks" letters urging removal of the Gold Portage Water Fowl Area, Koochiching County, from the park (1974); Washington visits; Water pollution control; Water Quality Management Team; Water Resources Congress; and WCCO radio antenna project (Coon Rapids, Minnesota).
Folders with a significant quantity of items are: Darrell R. Wegner, Koochiching County emergency fuel coordinator weekly reports (January 7-November 5, 1974); Western Lake Superior Sanitary District (Duluth, Minnesota); and Willow River (village).
The Legislation Files contain copies of nearly all bills Blatnik introduced. In addition, for those bills on which some action was taken, there are drafts and working copies, background and summary memoranda, legislative reports, comparative analyses, prepared statements, and testimony. There is some correspondence, usually with colleagues or government officials.
Encompasses the 80th Congress, 1st Session, through the 93rd Congress, 2nd Session (1947-1974). A summary list of all Blatnik legislation precedes the other files for each Congress or Session.
Includes H.R. 231 Repeal of Taft-Hartley Act; H.R. 5956 and 5734--PL 364--Bridge at Duluth; and H.J. Res. 161, 335, and 87 (PL 265)--Finnish War Debt.
Includes: H.R. 4431 Immigration and Citizenship Act of 1955.
Includes: Statements and executive committee minutes on Townsend Plan Bill of 1957.
Includes: Another Townsend Plan Bill with statements, and Steering Committee agenda.
Includes: Correspondence on major bills such as H.R. 6543 Re-employment Act of 1961, and correspondence regarding federal grants and loans for public works.
Includes: H.R. 10113 Public Works Coordination and Acceleration Act.
Includes: H.R. 10727 Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1962; H.R. 10728 Relating to disposal of solid municipal waste; and H.R. 12385 To extend temporary unemployment compensation program.
Includes: H.R. 6991 and 6992 Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965.
Includes: H.R. 2048 Private bill for relief of Bill Masterston and Louis Nanne [adjust citizenship status--both playing U.S. Olympic hockey], and H.R. 12510 Commission on government procurement.
Includes: H.R. 18826 Intergovernmental Cooperation Act.
Includes: H.R. 14517 Joint Funding Simplification Act.
Includes: H.R. 15904 Federal Aid Highway Act of 1970.
Includes: H.R. 5376 Public Works Acceleration Act Amendments of 1971 and H.R. 11896 (and S. 2770) To Amend Federal Water Pollution Control Act.
Includes: H.R. 16645 To provide for construction of a civic center in the District of Columbia and H.R. 16656 Federal Aid Highway Act of 1972.
Includes: Summary of bills introduced; summary of Public Works
legislation and
Contains legislative files arranged by House Resolution number for the 93rd Congress (1973-1974).
Includes iron ore taxes, imports, and tariffs; highways; water pollution; the U.S. Economic Development Administration; the Duluth-Superior High Bridge (1947-1971); mass transit proposals; taconite production; the Minnesota Taconite Amendment; the Citizens Committee for the Taconite Amendment (1963-1964); the Reserve Mining Company-Lake Superior controversy; and the Ralph Nader report (1971-1974).
See also: Photographs: envelope dated December 2, 1961 (box 111) and awards files (box 108).
Concerns timber harvesting in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA).
This group of files covers legislation for various kinds of government assisted economic development programs: area redevelopment, accelerated public works, Appalachian regional development, and emergency employment. In the case of bills introduced by Blatnik, there will be some duplication of materials with the previous group arranged by Congress.
Includes: Appalachian Regional Development.
Includes: Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 working papers.
Includes: S. 602 To revise and extend the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1967.
Both sessions are filed together in one folder.
Includes: H.R. 16071 To amend the Public Works and Economic
Development Act of 1965 and
Includes H.R. 6441 Amending Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Proceedings of National Water Research Symposium, and Report from Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany concerning developments in Germany with respect to water pollution.
Includes: H.R. 3166 To Amend Federal Water Pollution Control Act, including working copies of the bill, analytic summary, reports, proxy votes, and vote tallies; and H.R. 6844 [To provide for sealing off abandoned coal mines to prevent pollution of waterways].
Includes: H.R. 3988 To Amend Federal Water Pollution Control Act, including a formalized work-up of H.R. 3988, witness lists and biography cards, analytical summaries, companion bills, press releases, the President's message on natural beauty, and statements and testimony from hearings (February 18-23, 1965).
Includes: Public Works H.R. 12135 Federal Aid Highway Act of 1962.
Includes the subject of peat production.
See also: box 97.
H.R. 9540 To extend and strengthen the Water Pollution
Control Act and
Includes:
Includes: H.R. 13104 and 16076 Clean River Restoration Act; the Reorganization Plan #2 [for] transfer to water pollution activities from H.E.W. to Interior.
Includes: H.R. 4148 and 7361 Water Quality Improvement Act of 1969.
Includes: H.R. 11895 and 11896 To Amend Federal Water Pollution Control Act.
Includes: H.R. 11895 and 11896.
Includes: H.R. 11895 and 11896.
composed of Blatnik's voting records compiled by the AFL-CIO (1947-1974 ), bill summaries (1947-1973), and bill status reports (1974).
Vote tabulations, ratings by various organizations such as the National Rural Electrical Cooperative Association, League of Conservative Voters, and the Farmers Union.
The Subject Files consist of statements, correspondence, agendas, clippings, press releases, background materials, and studies. They are arranged alphabetically by topic, preceded by a one-volume subject index. Major topics covered are: highways, conferences and meetings, foreign relations, natural resources, pollution, and public relations.
METRO--Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
Blatnik statements, conference agendas, and printed material.
Photographs, courtesy of International Cooperation Administration, with Blatnik script notes.
Including printed background materials and Blatnik articles. The largest amount of information (3 folders, 1963) pertains to the Hibbing-Chisholm highway, including pictures, clippings, and correspondence regarding the historic site marker.
Information on taconite, peat, coal, and steel.
Blatnik appreciation statements and key quotes [copies of constituent correspondence].
Concerning Blatnik's appearances at meetings, dedications, and other events.
Very miscellaneous collection on subjects such as highways, foreign policy, natural resources, and the Iron Range.
There are several title changes to the publication after 1968.
See also: box 102 and 81.
Newspaper and magazine clippings pertaining to Blatnik and/or legislation issues. Files have various titles such as "press coverage," "JAB press," or "assorted press." Other files have topical titles such as "economic action" or "foreign policy."
Newspaper and magazine clippings pertaining to Blatnik and/or legislation issues. Files have various titles such as "press coverage," "JAB press," or "assorted press." Other files have topical titles such as "economic action" or "foreign policy."
Mainly press releases and newspaper clippings concerning community affairs and community development in cities and counties in Minnesota's Eight District.
Underpass at hazardous railroad crossing.
Includes photographs.
Includes computer census profile, Eighth District population statistics; and a volume of community profiles, Eighth District, from the Minnesota Department of Economic Development.
Arranged chronologically, beginning in 1940 with Blatnik's race for the 60th legislative district seat, and continuing with each of his congressional races from 1946 through 1972. These files include correspondence, campaign literature, newspaper clippings, speech transcripts, news releases, schedules, and financial records for the years 1958-1970. The 1974 records pertain to Blatnik's administrative assistant, James Oberstar's, campaign for the Eighth District seat.
Includes files on persons such as Nick Begich, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, and Rudy, George, and Tony Perpich.
Invitations received by Blatnik (1961-1977)
Materials reflect Blatnik's leadership in environmental concerns, particularly water pollution, and contain speech transcripts, news releases, newspaper clippings, and related materials. There are also tape recordings, films, and phonograph records which provide information on the Saint Lawrence Seaway, water pollution, Blatnik's 1940 campaign for the 60th District seat, and the 1952 congressional campaign.
Speeches are in individual folders, arranged alphabetically under title, place, or organization addressed.
Speeches are in individual folders, arranged alphabetically under title, place, or organization addressed.
Saint Lawrence Seaway--includes WTOL interview, March 6, 1970.
Concerns the Reserve Mining controversy.
Copied from 2 lacquer disk records onto tape cassette, April 6, 1995.
Provides documentation of Blatnik's many trips to Europe, Central America, Minnesota, and other states. Most of the foreign trips were made through congressional committees. Other trip files pertain to Blatnik's appearances at conferences, commencements, conventions, dedications, fund raisers, and related activities. President John F. Kennedy's trip to Minnesota (1963) is represented, as is Blatnik's extensive trip to Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, and Mexico (1971). Of interest are his relations to Yugoslavia, illustrated by this attendance at an environmental conference (1973), the 30th anniversary of the liberation of Yugoslavia (1975), as a member of the United States delegation to the funeral of President Tito (1980), and two personal visits (1973 and 1976).
Contains correspondence, miscellany, photographs, and notes.
Details Blatnik's appointment as Minnesota's Democratic National Committeeman (1962), involvement in the Democratic Study Group, and the House Democratic Caucus (1960-1962). This section includes files on the Democratic House Caucus actions against Representatives John B. William and Albert W. Watson who incurred censure because of their support of the Republican presidential candidate in 1964.
Encompasses biographical information, family background, and genealogical information (1889-1991). The latter includes a few untranslated documents (1889-1916) in Slovenian pertaining to Blatnik's family before its emigration to the United States. Some of the records may relate to Blatnik's mother's family.
Awards, citations, campaign materials, clippings, and letters.
Immigration case.
Consists of a number of routine army and air force correspondence, memos, and orders (1942-1945) that revolve around his commission into the air force reserve (1946-1951) and his service in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). The latter contain some details on his activities in Yugoslavia locating American prisoners of war.
Includes the naming of the Blatnik Lock at Sault Sainte Marie (1959-1969) and the dedication of the Duluth-Superior High Bridge and its renaming as the John A. Blatnik Bridge (1961-1990).
Arranged by date, identified by occasion, and partially identified by individual.
May contain correspondence, community affairs, speeches, and statements that relate to or continue materials in other series. James Oberstar was a staff assistant for Blatnik, and succeeded him as the U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 8th District. These files were initially held in Blatnik's office but were retained by James Oberstar's office. Additional materials may have been added by Oberstar and staff after Blatnik's retirement.
Arranged alphabetically; materials were added to subject files as topics expanded.
Notebooks prepared by Oberstar; includes memos concerning scheduled events in which Blatnik participated, staff position papers, agendas, and related documents.
Mainly election related; includes memos, correspondence, and clippings.
Miscellaneous materials related to local polls, election results, and media coverage.
Includes informational booklets, statistical data; area maps; media coverage; local projects; directories; and miscellaneous related materials.