Des Moines Tribune from Des Moines, Iowa • 19

More Advice Tue September 30, 1980 DES MOINES TRIBUNE 19 Plan eases load limits on Polk board to decide on Sylvia Porter Weather ization funds for low-income persons Bridge By Alfred Sheinwold We can now disclose that Isaac Newton watched East In today's hand before writing his first law of motion: A body in motion tends to remain in motion in the same direction unless acted upon by an outside force. South dealer Both sides vulnerable Even multi-family dwellings can now be wealherized if two-thirds of the dwelling units in the building are eligible. This is vitally important news for low-income families who previously were limited to allowances for single family dwellings only, If, for instance, there are 18 units in a building, and 12 meet the eligibility requirements, $12,000 can be obtained for the weatherization program on the building. There even can be modest allowances for conservation measures as interim approaches to weatherization. These are available to cover such items as tubes of caulking, waterflow restrictors and plastic sheeting for temporary storm windows.

The states play a key role in the managing and monitoring of the DOE program. Tbey apply for, receive and administer the grant funds. They can allocate the funds among local governments, especially among community action agencies. They also determine the most cost-effective weatherization measures, then rank them by types of dwelling units. THE PROGRAM restricts the type of material that can be installed and stipulates that the products used meet federal standards.

In addition to caulking, Installation of storm windows and insulation, the program provides for: Furnace efficiency modifications, clock thermostats, vapor barriers, skirting and water flow controllers. But excluded is aid for furnace re placement, pipe insulation and general housing rehabilitation. Most of the labor for the weatherization work has been supplied by the Comprehensive Employment Training Act (CETA). Where CETA labor is not available, DOE funds now can be used to hire private contractors. If you meet the government definition of a low-income household, you are eligible to participate in this assistance effort Under the accepted definition, you are a low-income family if your combined income falls below the 125 percent of the Office of Management and Budget income poverty guidelines or if your household receives certain federal, state and local cash assistance.

There are an estimated 14-16 million eligible households, estimates the DOE with the program slated to save 14 percent of the energy expenditures by households that receive aid. Immediately contact your local weatherization agency or your state weatherization program office or the DOE regional office. You will receive an application, and a representative from your local agency even may be sent to help you with the form while an estimator will evaluate the condition of your residence to determine what work should be done. A priority system has been set up based on a local rating system with the priorities rated on need and whether the applicant is handicapped or elderly. File your application NOW! Because of the rating system and the essential paperwork, timing is extremely important to you.

some bridges By Tom Carney Tribune Slat) Writer AMES, IA. Dick Sargent, co-owner of the E.L Sargent Inc. quarry on Iowa Highway 2 in cniiftiArn lwa ait T-'-jf -'fbappy about a De- of Trans portation (DOT) plan presented to com- missioners Tuesday. 'J ffi I i wo Bridges, nw on each side of Sargent's quarry, had been "embargoed" by the dick DOT, thereby mmnt limiting the legal load limits for trucks and raising the costs of transporting crushed rock and agricultural lime from the quarry. The bridges on Iowa 2 are among 96 in the state that had been similarly embargoed.

Although passenger car drivers have felt few direct effects, farmers, grain elevator operators and haulers from cement plants and quarries like Sargent's have lost time and money while taking longer routes to avoid the bridges. But the DOT staff Tuesday presented a plan expected to be approved by the DOT commission Tuesday afternoon to allow one truck at a time at the old load limits over 60 of the 96 bridges. And of 35 bridges added to the list Tuesday, 25 were conditionally embargoed (to one-at-a-time traffic) while 10 were slapped with unconditional, more restrictive load limits. That means a total of 131 bridges will be embargoed 85 with one-truck-at a-time restrictions and 46 with lower load limits for ail truck traffic. One side of the 85 bridges will be posted with signs saying: "Warning, bridge ahead, safe for one truck only," "Be prepared to stop" and "Trucks over 6,000 pounds yield to trucks on bridge." An additional sign will be posted to warn motorists that trucks may be stopping.

The remaining 46 bridges, said the DOT'S Highway Division Director Don McLean, "are weaker bridges, in worse shape." They cannot stand stresses above the embargo load limits, not even at one truck at a time. More than 12,600 bridges or nearly half the state's total, including the 131 on the list are not up to standard, the DOT has announced, and the state doesn't have the money to fix them. Sargent, who attended Tuesday's DOT commission meeting where the new embargo plan was revealed, said: "It has restored my faith in the system." v.3 state payment By John Fryar The Polk County Board of Supervisors was to decide tonight whether to accept a state payment amounting to less than 7 cents on the dollar for foster care services the county has been providing since 1975. The county has been seeking more than S3 million as the state's share of the costs of shelter and detention services at the Juvenile Home, 1548 Hull Ave. The Iowa Department of Social Services instead has offered 1200,000, representing about $44 a day for each child housed in the home's shelter care facility during the 1979-80 budget year that ended last June 30.

Ike Skinner, an assistant director of programs in the county Department of Social Services, Tuesday called the state compromise "a bankruptcy Even if they do accept the $200,000 compromise tonight, the supervisors won't be able to use the money to help pay for social welfare programs the state is cutting back. The $200,000 plus another $43,000 in state foster care payments expected during the current budget year already have been earmarked to help pay for the operation of the Juvenile Home, according to Flora Steven, an administrative analyst in the finance department. The entire $3 million might have been more useful, because on Monday county social services director Quenten Emery said it might cost Polk County $245,205 after Dec. 1 to keep state-financed welfare programs operating at present levels after projected state cutbacks. The agreement the supervisors were to vote on tonight would allow the county to continue to pursue an $81,262 claim with the state for money already spent on youths placed in foster care facilities not licensed by the state.

Those youths were ordered placed in the shelter's care by the courts. And state officials have agreed to pay up to $58 a day for each youth placed in emergency foster care at the Juvenile Home in the future, for at least as long as $18.5 million in funds lasts for statewide spending. After that, unless the state Department of Social Services gets additional money, the county would have to pick up the complete costs. Emery told the supervisors in June that it costs about $68 a day for each Juvenile Home resident. Cunningham to stay SOUTHFIELD, MICH.

(AP) -Mary E. Cunningham, whose rapid rise in the Bendix Corp. prompted the company's chairman to deny that her promotions were due to any relationship with him, has agreed to stay on the job after officials rejected her request for a leave of absence. Your money's worth ALTHOUGH THE over-all outlook for energy costs this winter Is not as grim as it appeared a few months ago, the ezpetes of heating homes in most parts of the United States still will take a ruthless bite out of the budgets of millions of Americans in income groups across the board. But in the low-income level, there is some reassuring news.

At this level, huge numbers of families may be eligible for financial assistance under the Department of Energy's Weather-ization Assistance Program for Low-Income Persons. The DOE program, administered in conjunction with local agencies, provides for the installation of insulation, storm windows and doors and other energy efficiency improvements to reduce heat loss and to conserve energy in low-income homes. This applies especially to the elderly and to the handicapped. In addition, the DOE provides funds that can be spent for some repairs and in certain cases, even labor. Procedures for determining the most cost-effective measures to be applied to a given home also have been set up under the federally-funded program.

These procedures establish a method for determining weatherization deficiencies in a home and outline the steps to be taken to correct those deficiencies. THE MAXIMUM allowable expenditure is generally $1,000. But in some areas under special conditions, the Department of Energy regional office may be able to authorize a higher allowance per dwelling unit. Modern Medicine By Michael J. Halberstam, SANDY WAS the first to get sick, but within minutes dozens of her schoolmates were gasping for breath and vomiting.

The school, a junior high in Miami, was immediately evacuated under the presumption that some noxious gas had seeped into the cooling system. No hazardous substance was found. Epidemiologists who were rushed to the scene were also baffled by the illness, since another guess food poisoning was ruled out; most of the children had eaten at home rather than in the school cafeteria. As the distinguished medical writer Berton Roueche points out in another of his series of medical investigations collected in his new book, "Medical Detective," the epidemic at the Miami school was a non-epidemic. NORTH Q83 V975 OA 10 7 4 WEST EAST 9652 OAKJ74 None A 6 4 OQ 10 973 OK852 98 52 6 SOUTH 10 VKQJ 10 832 064 AJ3 South West North East IV Pass 2 2 3P 3 4 5 All Pass Opening lead 2 East took the jack of spades and continued in motion in the same direction by leading the ace of spades.

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If your partner has top values for his raise or help for diamonds ycu expect him to jump to four spades. If he can bid only three spades, you should pass. TOO Los Angelas Times Syndicate Kit offers help in food buying WASHINGTON, DC. (AP) If inflation is wrecking your food budget, the government may have some helpful advice. The Agriculture Department has put together a new kit entitled "How to Buy Food." Included are 14 illustrated booklets designed to help you get the most for your money when you shop.

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