Newsreel clip on Minnesota welcoming major league baseball to the state in April 1961. Exterior views of Metropolitan Stadium, the home of the new Minnesota Twins. Banner reads "The Minnesota Twins Welcome You." Announcer notes team is playing in Bloomington, seven miles from each of the state's two major cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul. View of 25,000 spectators, most bundled up for a chilly day, inside stadium for the home opener against the Washington Senators. Those on hand include baseball commissioner Ford Frick, American League president Joe Cronin, and Minnesota Governor Elmer Andersen. Announcer notes the previous Washington team moved to Minnesota and was replaced with a new Senators team in Washington. Dignitaries walk on field trailed by Minnesota manager Cookie Lavagetto and Washington manager Mickey Vernon. Dignitaries raise the American flag. Governor Andersen kisses a baseball and throws out the ceremonial first pitch. Announcer notes Twins lost this game, but says "Who cares?" because Minnesota is in the big leagues.
Winter activities of the United States Army 3rd Infantry Regiment at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. Taylor Avenue. Snow covered road and enlisted men's quarters. Smoke rises from a chimney of one the house. A man walks towards quarters. 3rd infantry troops ski. U.S. Colonel William E. Walsh reviews troops in a parade. Machine guns on toboggans(animal driven transportation). Soldiers with supply sleds and horse drawn wagons pass the stand.
Winter activities of the United States 3rd Infantry Regiment at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. Rifle Company soldiers during a cross country hike on skis. Soldiers ski while some of them fall. Soldiers return to the barracks. They hold their skis on shoulders and walk in line. Recruits drill on skis. Men stand on skis.
Maneuvers at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. Night attack on a snow covered battle field during a maneuver. Machine guns are set up and fired as United States ski troops and tanks advance. Soldiers in prone position fire. Soldiers stand with burning torches. Infantry and tanks move forward in field.
Delegates of Pan American Congress of Journalists visit iron mining sites in Minnesota. Cranes digging mines and iron ore is loaded on the trains. Train passes through mountains. At the harbor a ship named GENERAL ORLANDO is being loaded with iron ore via elevated chutes. The delegates observe operations at steel industries in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Role of United States Coast Guard in natural disaster response. Clip focuses on response in 1927 Mississippi River flood. Opens with scenes of a destructive hurricane hitting Florida coast in United States and strong winds blowing. Coast Guard provides relief to the victims. Wreckage from hurricane. Brief scene from San Francisco earthquake. Then scenes from the flood of the Mississippi River in 1927. Swollen Mississippi River flowing at great speed. Coast Guard uses boats to rescue people from the flooded area. People gathered atop the levees awaiting help. Coast Guard lifting citizens from atop levees, into boats. A house floating in the flood waters. A boat filled with livestock as Coast Guard rescues them. A man being rescued from top of a floating house. Film produced in 1935.
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