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daily nebraskan
thursday, October 18, 1979
Public buildings may be refuge from heatless homes
MITCHELL, S.D.-The rising cost of home heating oil
could force hundreds of South Dakota families, unable to
meet heating bills that doubled since last year, to leave
their homes this winter for the shelter of public buDdings.
In rural Davison County, social workers say more than
500 families could have trouble paying skyrocketing fuel
bills. So county officials have worked out a contingency
plan to house the homeless in church basements and city
hall, should worse come to worse.
"We're looking at $1 a gallon for heating oil by the
first of the year, and who knows after that," said Don
Herrick, Davison County disaster services director.
State officials say the cost of fuel oil has nearly
doubled since last fall, when a gallon was priced in the 40
45 cents range. Today, that gallon costs anywhere from
71-85 cents-and officials expect the price to dwell in the
$1 range later this winter. .
Herrick said that price will be out of the reach of some
citizens.
The 1970 census shows that 36 percent, or 76,000, of
South Dakota's homes are heated by fuel oil. South Dako
ta's winters are usually long and severely cold, with fur
naces running from October through March.
. Herrick said the fuel oil crunch is hitting "a group, that
in prior years, has never had a problem-lower middle in
come people."
Herrick said a "gentleman's code" among the oil com
panies has stopped them from shutting off heat on those
unable to meet heating bills in past years. But delivering
more fuel to customers with back bills to pay might be
another matter.
"Of course, they're not going to deliver to those people
who can't pay for it," said Cathy Carver, energy program
manager for the South Dakota Economic Opportunity
Office. ' '
Hastings prepares for funeral
OMAHA, Neb -Three-year-old Chad Green, a leukemia
victim whose parents defied a court order and fled the
United States to obtain Laetrile treatments for their son,
is on his way home.
Chad died Friday in Tijuana, Mexico, where his par
ents, Jerry and Diana Green of Hastings, Neb., had taken
him for Laetrile treatments and a special diet to combat
his cancer. . '
His body is being flown back to Hastings for burial.
Services will be at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Mark's Epis
copal Church, according to his maternal grandmother,
Mrs. Carl Barton.
The Greens drove back into the United States early
Wednesday, ending an 8'i-month exile in which they de
fied a court order to seek Laetrile treatments for their
cancer-stricken son.
The grief-striken parents delivered the death certificate
to a Tijuana mortuary Tuesday. Then, after talking by
fcWhnne with relatives and friends in Nebraska, thrv ka.
gan the long drive to Nebraska for a reunion and the
funeral Saturday.
Spending bill proposed
WASIIINGTON-Rep. Doug Bereuter, R.-Neb., hasco
sponsored a Constitutional amendment to limit federal
spending and the growth of the national economy.
. The amendment would place a limit on the increase in
federal spending to no more than the rate of growth of
the national economy, he said.
the increase in total outlays in any fiscal year would
be limited to the percentage increase in the gross national
product for the previous calendar year. If inflation during
that calendar year "exceeds 3 percent, budget growth
would be reduced by one-fourth of the rate of inflation
above 3 percent.
.."Of primary importance is the fact that the amend
would prohibit a sudden shifting of program costs to state
and local governments," Bereuter said.
During the first six years after ratification, total grants
to state and local governments would be no jess than the
current fraction of federal spending. Thereafter, grant re
ductions would be permitted, but only in conjunction
with . a dollar-for-dollar reduction in federal spending,
Bereuter said."
In addition, the federal government could not impose
more costs on state and local governments without com
pensation equal to those costs, he said.
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