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SECTION A 1 THE WEATHER Partly cloudy today and Monday. High today in mid-80s. Low tonight in upper 60s. Monday's high around BO. Sunrise sunset 8:51.

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Skylab to be over Iowa during its final days PRESIDENT 'TO COME OUT SWINGING' Carter seeks to end OPEC 'stranglehold' 1 iessw V7 ir7 OkUim tanfl WllllBlll MUM Hm llllllll I Qmium Bmmvom FMHWh HwtoWi ru lt 1 im I Mmm ViowGn; fort Werlo6 1 I i IDodff I "I I I I I I Nmm but! im I torshH)o i' 1 I I I Cedar Batwfe 1 I Oes Manes OavtiMfT mh I m. an. 'mm i i IimI- l- JULY Council 41 ffcl I This story toas compiled from reports by Register Sto Writer James Flansburg in LoutsviUe and The Register's leased wires. LOUISVILLE, KY. President Carter is drafting a series of lW H-iw to mm.

'MM UHtnm Ottumwa Xiim i pm I executive orders and legislative recommendations to free the nation from the "stranglehold" of foreign oil producers and may make some "high- I ii1VV'- "iuiT level personnel changes," governors who huddled with him said Saturday. Keokuk JULY 12 MY 18 IULT 11 And his chief domestic adviser. Stuart Eizenstat, said the president tv 7 -H will come out swinging" from his secrecy-shrouded domestic summit. Arriving in Louisville, Vice President Walter Mondale, who ls representing Carter at the National Urban development closes in on farm land near Davenport's northwest side. Governors Association meeting, stepped up the White House campaign.

He accused the oil-producing nations of brutality against America and promised that Carter will come up with a plan to unify the Feeding our hungry world from less and less farm land country. By OTTO KNAUTH Rtflftter Staff Wrftor Skylab will make at least one pass over Iowa every day before it falls, according to calculations worked out by two University of Iowa graduate students. Using figures supplied by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Mark Hodges and Mark Claussen calculated the orbits with the aid of the university's big computer. They worked under the direction of Dr. James A.

Van Allen, head of the of I physics department According to their figures, Skylab will pass over or near the following Iowa cities in its final days (all passes will be from northwest to southeast): Today, at 2:21 p.m. Entering Iowa over Burt Lake in northern Kossuth County, passing south of Mason City, north of Waterloo, north delegation of governors said Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, of 130 miles Saturday, the students said. NASA officials have said they expect the huge space station to fall to Earth sometime between Tuesday and Thursday, with Wednesday as the most favored day. Persons in the path of the falling -satellite should have at least two hours of warning, NASA officials have said. The 77-ton spaceship will not be visible on any of its passes over Iowa unless it should be on its final plunge.

In that case it may appear as a bright flaming meteor across the sky. Ordinarily, the spacecraft is visible from the Earth only in the late evening or early morning hours when the Earth is in darkness and the spacecraft shines by reflected although never mentioned by name, came under heavy fire during their meeting with Carter at Camp David, Md. It was clear they were talking afMut Schlesinger," said Gov. Julian of Cedar Rapids, leaving the state By GEORGE ANTHAN 01 RtglttWt WKilngNn Butmu WASHINGTON, C. A lew miles from the White House, along a broad suburban street called Democracy Boulevard, the faded, collapsing barn of a once-productive Maryland farm stands amid an array of recently-completed glass and concrete buildings.

It is flanked on each side by huge shopping centers. The topsoil has been scraped into mounds. It makes no difference, anyway. What's left of the farm soon will be a parking lot. A student at nearby Walter Johnson High School, one who has Carroll of Kentucky.

'The delegation of governors, returning from the president's mountain hideaway, moved to quash speculation that the president is not well to the reports you may have heard, I just want to assure you tbat the president is truly alive and Well," said Connecticut Gov. Ella Crasso, a member of the delegation tihat spent Friday night at Camp David. 1 i i i Iff just north of Davenport Monday, at 2:01 p.m. Filtering Iowa north of Rock Rapids In Lyon County, passing south of Spencer, between Humboldt and Fort Dodge, over Marshall town, south of Iowa City, over Wapello. Tuesday, at 1:42 p.m.

Entering Iowa south of Hawarden in Sioux sunlight. NASA officials have said that in its remaining life Skylab will not make any passes over Iowa at times when it would be visible. Hodge and Claussen said that they first worked out the problems of computing the orbits using information on the university's own satellite, Hawkeye IV, which has been circling the Earth in a near-polar orbit VAIUSHUtfi ACRES auucu lauiaoa uvv. vus duwcu, a Indian, attacked the land. It was a matter of survival then, and throughout the early years of the country's development hope was erpressed that a nation of soil tillers would protect the land.

But the situation began to get out of hand after World War II, when prosperity and the automobile allowed a burgeoning population to burst forth from the central cities, where Americans had lived a relatively compact existence. In their rush for bigger private plots, for highways, for lakes, for airports and for land as a hedge against inflation, Americans have bid up land prices to the point where farm land is being priced out of the market for farm use. A Minnesota farmer, whose land Ls being overtaken by the suburbs of Minneapolis, said, "Why a man'd be a fool not to sell out for 82,000 an acre." Now, experts at the U. S. Department of Agriculture are studying computer tapes that contain disquieting information.

The impact of these statistics will be felt in a serious way by many of the people now living in this LAND Please turn to Page 4A medical doctor and the only Republican, in the delegation: "My observa IXSISE TGSR REGISTER tion a physician is that he looks well and healthy. He ran a couple of miles this morning and Governor County, passing south of Le Mars, south of Jefferson, over Des Moines, over Ottumwa, over Keokuk. Wednesday, at 1:22 p.m. Entering Iowa over Whiting in Monona County, passing north of Greenfield, over Humeston, south of Osceola. Thursday, at 1:03 p.m.

Entering Iowa just north of Omaha- (James) Hunt (of North Carolina) couldn't keep up with him." In this seriet of articles, Ths Register svi explore the dfcnerislons of the problem of loss of prime and unique crop lands, and how the situation could affect the production of food The articles kM focus on land speculation, on how and why crop land Is lost, on the Impact of tax policy and other government actions in this area, and on the sociological and economic aspects of the encroachment of non-farmers into rural areas. Also, this series wHI examine efforts of various slates and local government units to deal with the situation. Said Kentucky Gov. Carroll: "I Telephone numbers you can call for swam with him and after seeing him lived all bis life in sprawling suburbias, wonders why the builders "didn't at least have the decency to tear that barn down first." The scene is that offensive to the eye. It ignites a spark of common sense which tells even the casual, uninformed and largely disinterested observer that something isn't quite right.

But, at the same time, the scene is nothing new, nor is it startling. It's so much a part of life in this country that Americans of middle age or older know they're making no useful social comment by telling their juniors that "I can CARTER Please turn to Page 7 A vacation-area fuel reports are in LEISURE. Book Reviews 4C Am Under 2E Country Living 2F Markets 5F Crossword 2H Movies 5rl GwyDees 1TV Obituaries 68 Food 4E Sports 70 Robert IB Larry Stone 3M Investors Memo 4F Travel 7H Jumble 4H TV Mai Baf 3TV John Karras 2E Weddings BE DonaMKaul 1C Week la Review 6C Council Bluffs, passing over Red Oak and over Redding, in Ringgold County. The times given are for the midpoints in the satellite's passes over the state. Skylab takes 3Vi to 4 minutes to pass over Iowa.

The spacecraft was circling the Earth every 88 minutes at an altitude remember only a few years ago cattle were grazing on this spot." The process began when the white man arrived in North America and, in contrast to the HOME MARKET SLUMPS; MONEY IS HARD TO FIND Gas pinch throws vacations awry By DAN PILLER Keeater BuU Writer At some Midwest spots Here was the scene just a few months ago: Harassed real estate agents, phones at both ears, shouting ever-higher offers and counter offers from confident home buyers into the ears of smiling home sellers. The sky was the limit. And for buyers to wait, even for a short time, was to mean risking even higher prices, higher mortgage rates, and, perhaps, a less desirable home. The scene today is somewhat altered: "For sale" signs stand undisturbed for weeks or months, real estate agents advise sellers to consider dropping their asking price a bit to attract leery home buyers who are searching, themselves, for At the Iowa Great Lakes By BUD APPLEBY Rvvtstor Stiff Writer ARNOLDS PARK, IA. When gasoline prices start pushing and sometimes passing a dollar a gallon, where can lowans afford to go for a summer vacation? Judging from the size of the crowds at the Iowa Great Lakes, many believe they can afford to come here, although they may not spend as much money on other things as they have in the past.

Bob Ross, owner of Vacation Village, a popular resort on the northwestern shore of West Okoboji Lake, says his reservation book "for the rest of the summer ls fuller than normal at this stage." And Ross says he believes the number of people visiting the lakes area this year ls tied directly to the concerns about gasoline either high prices or the fear of shortages. "I've got a theory I don't know if it's true or not that people aren't going to go to the Black Hills or other (distant) places. They are going to stop here," he says. That opinion is shared by many who make their livings catering to the needs of vacationers to this area. "I think Iowans are rediscovering their own backyard," is the way Tom Tourville puts it And Tourville, manager of the Iowa Great Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce, isn't surprised that the gasoline crunch hasn't prevented crowds from flocking to the lakes.

It's happened before. When the Arab oil embargo created a gasoline shortage in 1974, says Tourville, "we had the biggest summer we've ever had in the history of the lakes." For that reason, Tourville says he isn't concerned about this summer, even though he's beard reports of LAKES precious mortgage money. While the recent slowdown in the By DIX HOLLOBAUGII Rniiler SIX) Writer Of course there's a gas shortage. Or is there? With the continuing uncertainty about fuel supplies, many Iowans have given up their vacation plans this year. But what is simply a vacation plan to an Iowan is bread-and-butter to an innkeeper in the Black Hills, a restaurant owner at the Wisconsin Dells, an artist at Silver Dollar City or a boat renter at the Lake of the Ozarks.

For these, the gas shortage whether real or contrived has a frightening reality. For them, no tourists means no money, which means losing money, which means risking a life's investment. Tom Kiernan sputters when he talks about the way summer is going for the Black Kills. "Tourist business is off 25 to SO percent," he said, "and I don't know how many bad seasons we can handle before the banks foreclose." He was talking about the hundreds of men and women who earn their living supplying motel rooms, hamburgers, souvenirs and other services that some 2 to 3 million visitors a year require when they vacation in the Black Hills. Kiernan works for the Rapid City Chamber of Commerce, a group keenly interested in the economic health of the state's prime tourist area.

But it is the Black Hills Tourism Committee, a group of private businessmen including some bankers, who put up the money for the eye-catching ads that have been running in news- TOURISM Please turn to Page 6A home-buying market doesn't forecast if iff ii -rll Ill the bottom dropping out of the real estate market, it does indicate a leveling off of the sky-rocketing home prices of just a few months ago. And what it means, at least in Des Moines, is that the scales have been tipped slightly to favor the buyer. But "buyer," unfortunately, Is a term limited to the fortunate few who can wheedle a home mortgage from an Iowa financial Institution. The extreme difficulty In getting mortgages, and an overabundance of properties for sale, are the prime HOMES "Maybe he knows something about Skylab that we don't." Please turn to Page 10A Please turn to Page.