Snafu Cuts Funds For In Home Elder Care Program
A state program to aid seniors at home faces a funding shortfall after transferring $9 million from the Department of Public Aid to the Department on Aging. The aging agency warns as many as 7,600 seniors could be left unserved without a possible $4 million to $6 million supplemental appropriation. Officials note caseloads surged beyond initial estimates from July to January, with many transfers from Public Aid and 81 percent of funds already allocated.
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Don Levener
Springfield
State Department On Aging
General Assembly
Department On Aging
Josephine Oblinger
R-Sherman
Oblinger
Karl Piepenburg
Public Aid Department
Piepenburg
Department of Aging
William Eppley
Eppley
Stevenson assails grain embargo as tool for Soviet policy
Sen Adlai E Stevenson of Illinois denounces the Carter administration blanket grain and technology embargo as ineffective punishment and proposes a national grain board to manage exports. He advocates carrot and stick diplomacy, warns of higher costs and inflation, and outlines hearings to begin in Washington. He spoke in Chicago and planned a Carbondale visit and Mount Vernon meeting with grain firm officials.
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Adlai E. Stevenson
D-Ill
Stevenson
Chicago
Southern Illinois
Carbondale
Springfield
International Trade Club
U.S
United States
Soviet Union
Commodity Credit Corp
Steven
Son
Afghanistan
Ussr
Mount Vernon
Wayne City
Behimer and Kissner Grain Co
Ohio River
Senate
International Finance
Subcommittee
Washington
Thompson to push tax lid plan through Southern Illinois
Gov James R Thompson travels Friday to Carbondale Belleville and the Quad City area to drum up support for a property tax lid proposal. He faces opposition from Sens Kenneth Buzbee and Gene Johns who warn of long term local government and school district consequences.
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Mike Lawrence
Thompson
Kenneth V. Buzbee
D-Carbondale
Gene Johns
D-Marion
Buzbee
Johns
Larry Frang
Illinois Municipal League
Good Evening Weather Outlook Tonight Through Saturday
The National Weather Service predicts fair and colder conditions tonight with a low in the 20s. Friday will be mostly sunny with a high in the mid 40s. Illinois extended forecast calls for partly cloudy skies Saturday with highs in the 40s and lows in the 30s.
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National Weather Service
Illinois
ICC refuses to reopen CIPS rate case
The Illinois Commerce Commission denied a petition by Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation for five low income clients to reopen the Central Illinois Public Service rate case. The panel had approved a $22.2 million electric rate increase for CIPS last month, about two thirds of the utility’s request.
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Springfield
Illinois Commerce Commission
Central Illinois Public Service Co
Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation
Ernest K. Nielsen
Foundation
The
Commerce Commission
Japan Resists Iran Sanctions Threat Amid Oil Cutoff Fears
Tokyo signals opposition to joining U S in sanctions on Iran over hostage crisis and Afghan war, warning of possible halt to about 6.5 billion dollars of Iranian oil exports. The stance affects Tokyo relations with Tehran and Western allies while U S envoy Habib presses for action. Separately, American hostage letters travel via John Thomas to urge release. A63
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New York Times
Associated Press
Tokyo
Japan
Iran
United States
Soviet Union
Afghanistan
Foreign Ministry
Ali Akbar Moinfar
Tsutomu Wada
Tehran
Philip C. Habib
Pan
John Thomas
Thomas
Frankfurt
Anna Holman
Donald Holman
U.S
Holman
Germany
Bacteria engineered to produce cancer fighting interferon
A Swiss team inserted the human interferon gene into bacterial DNA, creating microbes that can churn out large amounts of the protein. Harvard biologist Walter Gilbert says this could slash treatment costs from about fifty thousand dollars per course to one or two dollars per shot, potentially yielding a cheap antiviral and anticancer weapon. Interferon is currently sourced from human blood via the Finnish Red Cross, rendering limited supplies and high prices.
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Boston
Harvard University
Walter Gilbert
Red Cross
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