April 24, 1977

DAKOTA CITY, Iowa—“It scared me when I heard this land was for sale at $3,000 an acre,” said Marvin O. Bacon, taking a break from spreading nitrogen on his cornfield near here. “But if you're in the farming business you've got to own land. And if you're going to get anywhere you've got to take chances.”

THIRTY miles long and ranging from three inches to 12 feet in depth, the Bronx River is not one the grandest in the world or even in Westchester. But it may be one of the best loved, and if a growing movement that includes New York City and county agencies, private organizations and Gary Hermalyn has its way, it will become even better loved.

OMER, the epic poet, lives and works in an unpretentious cave in the suburbs of Rhodes, where most of his chanting is done beneath a stalactite that has been in his family for years. The

THE AD, placed inconspicuously among a number of others in classified section of the local weekly newspaper on March 10, was headed by three lines that said:

Homosexual leaders, meeting with Pres aide Margaret Costanza, ask for changes in Fed prison laws to allow Survey on deepening const controversy over Fed and state cts taking over day-to-day operations of jails and prisons (S)