New Idaho Nursing Home Reimbursement Schedule Adopted
State Board of Health and Welfare approves a new reimbursement formula for nursing homes cutting annual payments by about 500000. The change shifts payment structure to a 6 cent per day maximum profit per patient, prompting calls for AG opinion on adopting procedures. A federal regulation mandate and a $105000 grant for crisis services in the Teton Dam area are noted.
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Ketchum
Idaho
UPI
State Board of Health and Welfare
Mula
Donald Lojeck
Idaho Health Facilities Incorporated
James Wilson
Division of Welfare
Lojeck
Milton Klein
Department of Health and Welfare
Teton Dam
Cattleman Blasts Federal Environmental Statements Impact
Nevada cattlemen leader at the 98th Owyhee County Cattlemen’s Association reunion warns that new environmental impact statements ordered for BLM grazing districts threaten ranch profitability. He cites rising grazing fees, costly EIS processes, and urges unity to press Washington officials while protesting a $400,000 Challis district study as wasteful and a bad model.
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Silver City
Idaho
UPI
Nevada
Owyhee County Cattlemen’s Association
Bureau of Land Management
John Marvel
Nevada Cattlemen’s Association
Washington, DC
Mississippi
Challis
Cash Flow Woes Hit Disaster Area Businesses in Idaho
In the Teton Dam disaster area southeastern Idaho businesses struggle with cash flow as SBA loans aid economic injury. Verne Leighton notes many firms need more cash than standard loans. aid targets disaster relief not expansion. Deadline May 5, 1977. physical loss loans due Oct 4, 1976.
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Idaho Falls
Idaho
UPI
Teton Dam
Small Business Administration
Verne Leighton
Teton
Leighton
SBA
Idaho Prison Escapee Bennett At Large From Eagle Island
Jerry Wayne Bennett 23 walked away from Eagle Island Prison Farm Sunday morning and remained at large. He vanished during noon meal assembly after being discovered missing about 10 50 a m. Bennett, five feet ten inches, 160 pounds, dark brown hair and complexion, has April 53 tattoo on his upper left arm and Cindy on his left shoulder. He was sentenced to five years for grand larceny in Cassia County in July 1975. His father arrived from California to visit him moments after the escape was detected.
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Boise
UPI
Jerry Wayne Bennett
Eagle Island
Bennett
Richard Anderson
California
Cassia County
FBI Asked To Investigate Canyon County Sheriff
The FBI is asked to join an inquiry into alleged inmate beating at Canyon County Jail. Sheriff George W. Nourse denies the accusation. state investigators found the sheriff and a jailer mostly truthful.
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FBI
Canyon County
Duane Sorenson
Nampa
James C. Morfitt
Morfitt
Floyd Dorbin
Caldwell
George W. Nourse
State Department of Law Enforcement
Nourse
Idaho Potato Futures Hearing Scheduled In Boise This Month
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission will hold hearings in Boise on August 30 at 9 30 a m on revising the Idaho Potato Futures Contract of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to an Idaho Midwestern and Western Russetburbank potato contract. Delivery points would expand beyond Pocatello to Pasco Othello Klamath Falls Hinkle Monte Vista Stevens Point Iron Mountain Greenville Grand Forks and others with different allowances and packaging rules.
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Idaho
Boise
Washington
UPI
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Rodeway Inn
The
Chicago Exchange
Commission
Burbank
Exchange
Pocatello
Nampa
Pasco
Othello
Wash
Klamath Falls
Hinkle
Ore
Monte Vista
Colo
Stevens Point
Wisc
Iron Mountain
Greenville
Mich
Grand Forks
N.C
Mercantile Exchange
Jane Stuckey
Secretariat
E Street
N.W
Washington, D.C
Rape Reports Up In Spokane
A federal report shows a 20 percent rise in rape reports in Spokane and a 50 percent increase in successful prosecutions since the city rape crisis network began. JoAnn Ray notes federal funds cover about two thirds of operating costs but run out in March next year, urging local funding to continue after three years.
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Spokane
UPI
JoAnn Ray
Federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
Ms. Ray
Storms Hit South Idaho Cause Flooding and Road Closures
Severe rainstorms lashed southwestern Idaho Saturday night flooding the U S 30 underpass at Mountain Home four feet deep and washing out parts of Grand View Road. A five foot wall of water rushed down Grand View Road threatening a J R Simplot Co feedlot housing unit while State Highway 78 near Grand View saw flood debris. State crews cleared debris and plowed flood channels. a mudslide north of Gardena blocked a lane on State Highway 55 for several hours.
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Boise
UPID
Idaho
Mountain Home
Elmore County
Grand View Road
Grandview
J. R. Simplot Co
Owyhee County
Sheriff's
Grand View
Gardena
Marijuana field seized on county line in Idaho
Jerome and Minidoka County deputies confiscated a three quarter acre marijuana field with an estimated retail value of 7000 to 8000 dollars. Newell Maxfield faced manufacturing a controlled substance charge after arraignment by Magistrate Russell Shaud. released on 1000 dollar bond. Officers seized 30 to 40 pounds as evidence while the remaining plants were destroyed.
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Newell Maxfield
Russell Shaud
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Sandpoint
Attorney General
Stoddard
Zenith
Caldwell, Idaho
Dorbin
Moffitt
Sorenson
Department of Law Enforcement
South
Bonner County
Henry Samuels
Russell Oliver
Jerome, Idaho
Jerome and
Minidoka County
Sugyrstee
Kiebert
Senate
First Security Bank
Raa
First Security
First Security Bank of
Utah
N.A
First Security State Bank
Salt Lake City
First Security State Bank of
Springville
Kaysville
Logan
Rock, Springs
Wyo
First Security State Bank of Helper
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