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Coach Lisa Hanson, after her first race as coach, was reasonably optimistic about the squad, calling it "very determined," but also pointing to the relatively short time the crew had been together. As obviously exhilarated Sabatino said that they were "still feeling for a rhythm...
DIED. Howard Hanson, 84. director of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., from 1924 to 1964 and a composer whose Fourth Symphony won a Pulitzer Prize in 1944; in Rochester. Also a teacher and conductor, he fought tirelessly, if unsuccessfully, against progressive trends in American classical music...
What really riles Hanson is the Government regulations that hamper his ranching. "Big Brother has got his arm solidly around you," he says. The Environmental Protection Agency will not let him use weed spray on his feed crops com animal poisons against the coyotes that prey on his calves. He complains that the Bureau of Land Management will not plow back more of the ranchers' grazing fees into improving the range, and that he must seek permission from the Army Corps of Engineers to build a culvert along a stream on his own property. "It's rules...
...Hanson is surviving, but barely. From 1974 to 1978, he lost so much money that he did not have to pay income taxes - on a ranch worth $2.5 million. He turned a small profit in 1979, but he will not do as well this year. In an effort to better his profits, Hanson now breeds his cows as two-year-olds - a year earlier than before - fattens his steers another 150 lbs., up from 650 lbs., companies selling them, and leases parts of his land to oil and gas companies for exploration at $1 per year per acre...
Still, that has an abiding faith in the land and a hardy conviction that with a as of work and a little ingenuity he can keep on ranching as long as he likes and then pass Riverside on to his children. "We love our land," says Hanson. "If we treat it well, somehow it will make us a living...