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monday, february 28, 1977 daily nebraskan psg3 3 Need for sia By Paula Dittrick Witnesses praised the gasohol program reaffirming Nebraska's need tor a grain alcohol plant, during a public hearing Friday. But some questioned whether the Neb raska legislature should implement plant construction. The gasohol bill, LB52, which would mandate con struction, was held for later action by the Agriculture and Environment Committee. The proposed plant would produce grain alcohol that could be used to make gasohol. Nebraska has no grain alcohol plants. Neligh Sen. John DeCamp introduced the bill that would impose a two cent per bushel tax upon wheat, corn and milo sold in the state. The state treasurer would place such revenue into a Nebraska Grain Alcohol Rant Fund to pay for the land and construction and the initial operating Expenses of the plant. fe gasohol plant reaffirmed at hearing illlfiillir DeCamp said the bill is intended "to bring to a head, the question of whether we are going to get a plant built." He said construction initiative by private industry would be the ideal but "if that cannot reasonably happen, we should create a bill to get a plant." Funding problem The bill's major problem is devising a way to pay for the plant so people who pay for the plant will benefit -from it, he said. However, he said, "the important thing at this time is to attempt if possible to create a vehicle" to relieve such problems as the energy shortage and a grain surplus and to increase the farm income. An increased farm income would benefit everyone in the state, Schmidt said noting decreased state tax reve nues. Slashing parts Technical advisor to the committee, William Scheller, UNL Engineering Dept. Chairman, suggested slashing parts of the proposed bill. "LB52 reflects a reversal in thinking," Scheller said of the idea of a state owned alcohol plant. He is president of a private company organized to build a plant using private funds.""' .V . . ' By The Associated Press news digest Campaign for ERA Washington-President Jimmy Carter has mounted a quiet campaign for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. A total of 35 states has ratified the amend ment, and three more are needed by March 22, 1979, for it to become part of the Constitution. Three states, in cluding Nebraska, have rescinded their ratifications, but the legality of that move has been questioned. In a com mand post in a tiny office on the second floor of the White House, presidential aide Mark Siegel keeps close watch over three key states that soon will vote on the amendment. Carter wants to be remembered as the presi dent who helped eliminate sex discrimination. Before he was nominated, Carter had promised a group of women leaders that he would push for ratification. Elderly abused? Miami Beach, Fla.-Giarging that older Americans living in nursing homes face widespread abuse, the AFL CIO called Saturday for an end to profit-making nursing homes. "Profit must be eliminated from the industry if its problems are to be corrected," the labor organization said in a report on a year-long study. The AFLCIO suggested the gradual replacement of profit-making homes with non profit or government-run homes. Budget criticized Washing! on-A group of mayors has charged that President Carter's plans for increased aid to American cities ignores new social initiatives such as health in surance or welfare revisions. Carter's budget would in crease funds in such areas as public works and comer""5 development, but seeks cuts in urban crime programs and no increase in job opportunities for teenagers in cities. The VS. Conference of Mayors, in a budget analysis re leased Saturday, said: "In many areas, important urban programs have been cut below fiscal 1977 levels or their growth restrained to rates of increase well below the in flation rate." Gty officials say Carter may have deliber ately shortchanged the domestic programs, believing Congress would seek higher spending in those areas. 'Good manV Omaha-Mike Mansfield, former majority leader of the VS. Senate, Saturday said, "Ed Zorinsky is too good a man to even consider resigning." Mansfield was in Omaha to speak at Creighton University and was asked to com ment on Nebraska Sea. Zorinsky's statement that he is frustrated by the Senate's slow pace and had to be talked out of resigning by his wife. d Zorinsky is a good man, he will make his made," Mansfield said. GJE3 S3 0 13 E3 OQE3 E3 E3 C3 E3E3 E3 EJ C3 E3 ES El E3 E3 EJ C3 C3C3 G3 Speaking for the gasohol committee, he estimated the plant would cost from $22 to $25 million. Scheller pre dicted the money needed could be raised in three years or' less if the two cent grain tax is imposed. Speaking of the committee's research concerning the feasibility of gasohol production, Scheller said the market price of gasohol could be made competitive with the price of nonleaded gasoline. " He claimed gasohol could be sold with a pump price matching that of unleaded gasoline a! ;Z.9 cents a gal lon. With 1.6 million miles completed of a 2 million mile road test, the committee has found that five per cent less gasohol is used compared to nonleaded gasoline, Schiller reported. He said that grain alcohol production takes only the starch from the crop and leaves a byproduct which could s 0 0 0 i Q 0 o Q B e n be fed to cattle. The wheat byproduct has gamed protein from the yeast used in the .fermenting process of alcohol produc tion, Scheller said. Byproduct grain yields a 125 per cent increase in cattle weight gain as compared to feeding straight grain, he said. Witnesses supporting the bill included representatives from the Farmers Union and the Nebraska Wheat Growers Association. Alfred Marondl of the Farmers Union suggested a resolution favoring a two per cent checkoff to give the grower stock in the plant. He said this would give the farmer the privilege of deciding if he wanted to contri bute. 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