Outlaw Mushroom Hunter Travels Iowa Woodlands
Emil Herman of Swisher, owner of Herman's Tap, hunts sponge mushrooms across hundreds of acres on horseback with his horse Silver. He notes a shrinking, harder-to-find supply as spring mushrooms flood Eastern Iowa and warns identification remains challenging yet sponge mushrooms are among the easiest to recognize.
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Iowa
Emil Herman
Swisher
Herman
Iowa State University
East
Amana
Silver
Energy Plan Advances and Oil Lobby Push
A House committee backed the energy department plan to consolidate agencies and faced pressure from oil executives who lobbied to overturn a foreign oil import amendment. In the Senate, a pricing compromise emerged as leadership and Schlesinger lay out pricing authority with an independent board to advise the president.
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Washington
House
Carter
Senate
Department of Energy
Conyers
Oil and Gas
White House
James Schlesinger
Elliot Levitas
D-Ga
William Moorhead
D-Pa
Levitas
Energy Department
Schlesinger
House Commerce Committee
Federal Power Commission
Federal Energy Administration
Energy Research and Development Administration
Secretary of Energy
Abraham Ribicoff
D-Conn
Winter campers flock to Iowa parks as season opens
Winter weary campers head for camping areas across Iowa and the nation. Record crowds are expected this year as park officials urge early campground arrivals to secure sites. Weather hints of increasing clouds with weekend showers and highs in the 60s to 70s.
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Iowa
Carter Hosts Five Allied Leaders in Prelude to Summit
President Carter met with Takeo Fukuda Helmut Schmidt Giulio Andreotti Pierre Trudeau and James Callaghan at 10 Downing Street ahead of the weekend economic conference. France’s Giscard d Estaing was absent delaying arrival while Roy Jenkins faced a political snub over market union links.
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London
Carter
America
Downing Street
Britain
James Callaghan
Valery Giscard d’Estaing
France
Japan
Takeo Fukuda
West Germany
Helmut Schmidt
Italy
Giulio Andreotti
Canad
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
England
Giscard
Roy Jenkins
European Common Market Commission
Paris
Ist
United States
Jenkins
Berlin
Tax Burden Shifts To Homeowners In Iowa
A Drake University study shows Iowa homeowners are paying a rising share of property taxes while farmland’s burden shrinks. Despite higher farmland assessments, homeowners and farm owners now pay roughly equal totals, aided by homestead and elderly credits. The report covers 15 years of actual taxes paid, noting new construction boosts residential taxes and overall property tax bills have risen sharply.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Steven Gold
Drake University
Government rejects GM harassment claims in tax probe
UPI reports the government asked a federal judge to continue a grand jury investigation into possible tax fraud by General Motors. The case centers on allegations of harassment and improper use of the grand jury, with GM denying misconduct and the U.S. attorney pushing to keep the probe active.
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UPI
General Motors Corp
U.S
Philip van Dam
Internal Revenue Service
Grand Jury
van Dam
General Motors
IRS
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Howard Baker
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