The High Resolution Telescope and Spectrograph (HRTS) instrument contains a broadband spectroheliograph which has been tuned on sounding rocket flights to cover a passband centered on 1600 A˚, where the predominant flux contributor is continuum emission from the temperature minimum region (approximately 70% of the integrated intensity in quiet regions). I discuss the HRTS observations of the temperature minimum region in quiet areas and their relation with magnetic field, 5 minute oscillations, and heating. The brightness temperature of solar fine structure elements composing the supergranular network is found to be linearly proportional to the local absolute value of magnetic field strength. In cell centers, there is evidence for a 250 s period oscillation occurring in 10 arc sec scale patches, which, however, is energetically unimportant to the local heating budget. I discuss an interpretation in which a basal heating and 5 minute type oscillations occur globally, while the network bright points occur in magnetic regions, heated perhaps from partial dissipation of Alfven waves (whose energy flux is linearly proportional to B) in individual elemental 1500 G (at the photosphere) flux tubes which expand to form the temperature minimum fine structure bright points.