The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa • Page 74

6M THE PES MOINES REGISTER Tfcws No. 25, 1982 2 men fined or killing faun REGlSTEft PHOTO BY BOt MODERSOHN Drcnsfcd considering program fcr more soil conssrili8n 1 By RICK JOST By DAVID YEPSEN Governor-elect Terry Branstad Two Odebolt men who shot a young deer, cut off its tail with an ax add left the dead fawn in a ditch were fined a total of $1,271 Wednesday, said Wednesday he wants to explore the possibility of a new state program to finance soil conservation programs. I Branstad said during a break in his budget hearings that he wants to investigate the creation of a "revolving Iowa Conservation Commission inew loan program with the cost-share money. He made his comments during the 'hearings on the 1984 and 1985 budget requests from the Iowa Department Soil Conservation. The department asked for an additional 2.5 million for its cost-share program.

This program allows local soil conservation officials to match landowner dollars to install soil con officials said. I David Schluter, 18, and Scott Koenen, 21, pleaded guilty in Sac County Magistrate Court in Sac City, said Jim Wallace, a commission law fund" similar to the rail branch line assistance program, to make low-interest loans to farmers for soil conservation projects. Branstad said a state program that enforcement officer. Schluter was fined for hunting without a license, hunting at night II I III HWHfll lH 111 with a spotlight and helping to take a deer out of season. begins soon can be combined with an old program to allow Iowa landowners to install soil conservation terraces for little "up-front" money.

He said the new program, the Soil Noreen and John Gosch hold sketches of a man believed to be involved in their son's disappearance. Driver did 'strange things': Investigator Koenen was fined for hunting with a spotlight, illegally taking a deer and two counts of having loaded and assembled guns in a pickup truck. Conservation Loan Program, will start taking applications for loans in about two weeks. The program, Saying the witnesses "haven't told Wallace said the incident occurred about 11 p.m. Nov.

17 on a county I i 9 mm: created by the Legislature, allows farmers to borrow up to $25,000 at low interest rates from a state tax- Continued from Page One road five miles south of Sac City. He said he was using binoculars to exempt bond fund. does not look like this person. You have a prosecution problem," Shanahan said. Branstad said that money can then servation structures and practices.

The department, In its presentation, told Branstad that "concern for our economy, inflation and unemployment should not be allowed to overshadow the long-term need for Iowa to protect its capability to produce food. "Erosion continues on nearly two- i thirds of our 26 million acres of; cropland. At an average rate of 9.9 tons per acre per year, we lose 262 million tons of soil per year and the soil lost is our topsoil the most fertile part" In addition to soil loss, this "sediment and the agricultural chemicals it carries are recognized as the principal water pollutants in Iowa," the department report said. The department said "only 9, million acres of our row crop land are adequately protected." Department officials now receive $5.6 million for cost-share programs and they asked Branstad to give them $8.4 million next year and $9.4 million in 1985. During bis recent campaign, Branstad promised to provide additional money for cost-' share programs but be did not say how much and be declined again Wednesday to specify an amount Much of what the Gosches told be used to match dollars from the soil conservation cost-share program.

The reporters had been told before by only immediate charge to a landowner will be a 1 percent tlx tit fiy john obnnis OOSCH WMiLAN police. The mystery man was driving a car made between 1979 and 1981 with a dark blue top and a light blue bottom. He stood about 5 feet 9 inches, had dark eyes and black processing fee on the application for the new program, Branstad said. us anything they haven't told the police," Whelan speculated that the mystery man in the car may have tried to signal the second man "before he drove off." "I'd say they were trying to abduct John. That was their intention," he said.

Noreen Gosch added, "We don't know if it was John or another one who was more vulnerable who they wanted." Whelan said the mystery driver, spent 20 to 25 minutes in the neighborhood "and did some strange things." After driving in the area, the man "parked his car, turned off his lights, opened the right front door, slid across the seat and sat on the. passenger side and engaged John in a conversation," Whelan said. Branstad said additional conserva tion work can be done by formally watch the truck when he beard a shot and saw the two men make "several trips into the ditch" before they drove away in the truck. Wallace later stopped the truck with the assistance of Sac County Sheriffs Deputy Tom McGinty. The conservation officer found a pistol, a rifle, a bloody az and the deer tail in the truck.

Wallace said he later found the carcass in a ditch. The fawn was about 6 months old and weighed about 75 pounds, he said. Wallace said he was not able to determine whether the hunters were only after the deer's tail or if they had planned to pick up the carcass later. eyebrows, was in his early 40s, had full black hair combed back, a black mustache and heavy beard. combining the new program and creating a revolving fund.

Farmers would repay soil conservation loans to a pool that earns interest, and those funds would be loaned for more He had stopped to ask directions to Eighty-sixth Street Twenty-second comments about the "weird" mystery man. A second man who emerged from the shadows and was seen near the parked car by the two witnesses may have been working with the mystery man, Whelan said. He said the second man was seen walking with young Gosch as the boy started out on his paper route. Police had reported the presence of a second man earlier. Street in West Des Moines).

conservation projects. But the Gosches released other bits "It's just at the thinking stage right of information obtained by their detective, Dennis G. Whelan of now," Branstad said. But he said he encourages farmers to combine the Omaha, including the youngster's Police chief hopes minorities apply for posts iii.ii.il i.iiiii.1. 1 TnaotHh Continued from Page One task force on labor Issues pointed out in an October that 90 percent of the police department's cadets eventually become officers.

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