monday, february 28, 1977
daily nebraskan
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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.
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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cluding Nebraska, have rescinded their ratifications, but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.
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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
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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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