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i stab The Minneapolis Metropolitan Area News Mar. 15, 1961 iHennepin Redistrict fBill Gains OK of ISenate Delegation 1 By MARTIN MERRICK Minneapolis Star Staff Writer Sen. Donald 0. Wright, Minneapolis, the state senate's "Mr. Taxes," thinks the fuss about the difference between the people In the suburbs and in the city is "craziness." He expounded Tuesday his "all-for-one and one-for-all" philosophy of county government in consideration of a bill to redistrict Hennepin county.

I The bill, proposed by the Hennepin county board of niommissioners, was approved 3y the Hennepin delegation the senate. It would require, if enacted Into law, the county board to Jedistrict the five commis-ioner districts according to population after every official census. By law passed in 1929, Minneapolis and St. Anthony Comprise four districts and Be a costume collector for just 14.99 Imagine! An easy, collarless dress with its own Wright Bergerud tne remainaer lined, cropped jacket at this low price. Textured washable fabrics.

Far left; taupe, black; rayonsilk, sizes 12-18. taupe, green; rayonDacron polyestersilk, 10-18. Village Dresses Dayton's Minneapolis, 2nd Floor; Southdale, Upper Level of the county is one district. The new bill would abolish the law and call for new district boundaries every 10 years. At the rate the suburbs the proportion could reach a teeter-totter balance by 1970.

Minneapolis has a population of 482,872 under the official 1960 census, against 359,981 for the remainder of the county. Under the proposed bill, Minneapolis, by population, might have only a 3-to-2 margin now. In 10 years the margin could totter the other way, 3 to 2 for the suburbs. Sen. Alf Bergerud, a former Minneapolis resident who moved to a suburb, Edina, was brushed off by the delegation in his quest for bills setting up specified districts for keeps.

One Bergerud bill would retain the five districts and apportion them 3 to 2 in Fraser we growing, MANN from Page ID favor of the city. The other would set up seven districts, 4 to 3 for the city. The delegation wouldn't go for either. Bergerud said he 2jbod theater with convenances a la 1961, give them a good picture then tell them what you're playing. "For instance," he explains, "this will be the only theater in the country where you can walk in and check coat and hat free, and sit Sown in a comfortable chair." He's especially proud of the new foam-rubber seats 6n the main floor.

They're a rlclining type that slides back half a foot as you settle back to watch the show. A six-footer doesn't have to rise to let a late customer walk past him to an inside would introduce his five-dis trict plan without the delega tion's blessing. To salve Bergerud wounds, Sen. Donald Fraser, Minneapolis, offered an amendment to the county board bill to guarantee the suburbs two seats out of five seat Newsy coat: laminated jersey, 29.95 Watch it create a '61 coat-costume look the minute you slip it over Thursday at 8:30 p.m. Ted in the next election in the fall of 1962.

The legislators thought this was hardly necessary be will be out front to welcome his customers to a double premiere the opening night cause the population count would put the suburbs in line of his new Mann theater, and the Upper Midwest premiere a dress! See the sweeping lines and shorter, wider sleeves. for two anyway. "I don't understand all this craziness," Wright said. "The kj. The fabric's water-repellent a county board should represent all of the people in the county and it "Why emphasize a differ vr ence between the people in 80 Orion acrylic20 wool jersey laminated to polyurethane foam so it's warm and wrinkle-resistant; the city and the people in the of the movie, "Spartacus." At his office desk, while he chats long-distance with New York distributors, Mann doodles with a pencil or tears the corners off papers on his desk and absentmindedly nibbles at them.

He's quick to point out that movies have survived 40 years of competition the legitimate theater, vaudeville and TV. Telemeter (pay-TV) is a threat, but not a serious one, he insists. Although some theater owners can thank popcorn for keeping them in business, Mann far from retrenching has just invested suburbs? They're all the same kind of people. Let's just draw some lines for these districts." won't, sag or stretch! Black I "Qw. won't, sag or stretch! Black 1 However, Fraser's amend or royal, sizes 10-18.

ment passed and the bill was recommended to pass. A bill with the delegation's stamp of approval virtually Misses' Coats Dayton's Minneapolis, 3rd Floor; Southdale, Upper Level 0 assures it of passage the senate. fats' I il 4 000 in the Mann theatre and plans a $150,000 remodeling Red Cross Sets Up Volunteer of his Suburban World. He estimates he has invested $900,000 in the last four years to improve his 12 theaters. (He bought, and sold, a dozen others before TV got started.) Mann theaters include the Disaster Corps A volunteer disaster corps of about 20 welfare workers is being recruited by the RKO Orpheum, Academy and World, Westgate and Edina; in St.

Paul, the Orpheum, American Red Cross from so cial workers on the Henne World, Strand, Lyceum, and at Duluth, the Skyline Drive- pin and Ramsey county wel in. He also is president of fare boards and the state de partment of public welfare. Minnesota Entertainment En terprises which operates five The Hennepin county wel metropolitan area drive-ins. fare board, which approved 7 1 the project Tuesday, would Most afternoons, Mann works out on the YMCA handball court, then takes a "loan" the volunteers to the Red Cross whenever a major steam bath before returning disaster occurred in the to his office. He golfs (high 80's), hunts elk in Montana United States.

Normally, the workers and cougar (next month) in Mexico. On the wall behind would serve in Minnesota Longer coat shorter skirt It's the Paris formula for a stunning new coat-costume! The easy coat has bell-bottomed shorter sleeves and a face-framing collar; the slender skirt stops short at mid-knee. Navy, red, gray or beige wool; 10-18. 55.95 styles to 89.95 his desk hangs an eight-foot and surrounding states. In sailfish he pulled from Aca pulco bay last March.

major disasters, the workers could be taken to any part of the country, said Edward Next week he flies to New York to talk with Theater Kierutz, executive secretary Guild executives about bringing musicals to Minneapolis. of the Hennepin county wel He's thinking in terms of fare board. shows like "Camelot," "Mu sic Man" and. "My Fair Misses' SuitsDayton's Lady." He'd like a few dra matic productions as well. The welfare workers would give professional assistance to disaster victims with Red Cross facilities.

They would 3rd Floor; Southdale, Upper Level 7 i "Some of these could run three weeks here," he esti mates. "Remember, Minneapolis has grown and public interest is different from what continue to be paid by their local boards, but the Red Cross, in turn, would re-im-burse the welfare boards for the salaries paid the workers it was years ago." To stage such shows, Mann while they were on disaster duty. would use his RKO Orpheum. It's the largest 2,794 seats motion picture theater in Minnesota. Four floors of dressing rooms flanking its stage haven't been used since Chaplain to Speak The Rev.

Elof G. Nelson chaplain of Fairview hospital will speak on how modern vaudeville days. t. Wit, Mann's older daughter, Roberta, 22, seems to have hospitals try to treat whole persons instead of ailments at a luncheon meeting of the Professional Men's club tKef. SUU Minn.

caucht his love for show business. She is a student at Thursday at Donaldson's Gar the Goodman Dramatic DAYTON'S THURSDAY HOURS: IN MINNEAPOLIS 9:30 TO SOUTHDALE 9:30 TO 9:00 den room. school, Chicago..