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Tuesday, April 18, 1978 ITHACA JOURNAL 7 ill to increase tuition aid 1 '41 43. C411 motorists come to a full before proceeding through any intersection which is normally controlled by a stoplight or other traffic-control signal but where the light is not functioning. TAXIS The Assembly approved and sent to the Senate a bill to require that taxicabs have signs in the passenger compartment listing their prices and rules. The bill would not apply in New York City, which has its own rules for cabs. PLATES The Senate passed and sent to the Assembly a bill to allow the state to make up special license plates for winners of the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Photo by AP ALBANY (AP) Thousands ot college students can look forward to bigger tuition grants from the state In the next school year, under a bill signed into law by Gov. Hugh Carey. In an attempt by the state to ease the burden of rising tuition costs, the size of grants awarded under the Tuition Assistance Program will be permanently boosted to a maximum of $1,800 and a minimum of $200. The change in the maximum and minimum grant size will benefit more than 130,000 low-and middle-income students. Thousands more will benefit by other revisions in the program.

Carey's approval of the bill was announced by the governor's office on Monday. The law establishes a new sliding scale for TAP grants that increases the size of most awards for public college students by $45, and the size of most awards to private college students by $300. And it makes the $25 college fee paid by State University of New York students eligible for TAP reimbursement. The change brings SUNY in line with the City University of New York, which includes the fee in tuition costs, therefore making it reimbursable through TAP awards. The changes, estimated to cost $23.6 million, will boost the total cost of the TAP program to $238 million in the 1978-79 state fiscal year.

Approximately $13 million of the Increased TAP benefits will go to students at private colleges. About $7.8 million is earmarked for students at SUNY and $2.7 million for CUNY student. With the exception of the increase in the maximum award from $1,500 to $1,800, the changes apply to all TAP recipients in college next fall. The increase in the maximum award is to be phased in over the course of the next three years, with sophomores, freshmen and other first-time TAP recipients benefitting In the next school year. Earlier this year, the Legislature Increased the maximum TAP award from $1,500 to $1,800 for this school year only for freshman and other first-time recipients of aid under the program.

The increase mainly benefitted students at private colleges since TAP awards generally cover only tuition, and the top tuition at the state's public colleges is $925. Tuition at private colleges in the state ranges from $3,000 a year upwards. Legislative Democrats had criticized that approach on the grounds that it favored those students at the institutions charging the highest tuition. And the permanent TAP changes signed into law were a compromise measure aimed to also aiding students at the CUNY and SUNY. Under the new law, a student whose family's net taxable income is $2,750 or less will be eligible for the maximum award of $1,800, and a student with a net taxable income of $20,000 will be eligible for a minimum grant of $200.

The current minimum grant is $100. In other developments during the day at the Capitol: TRAFFIC LIGHTS The Assembly passed and sent to the Senate a bill to reouire that Shop talk Dancer Cynthia Gregory (right) chats with her colleague Mikhail Baryshnikov and Broadway star Liza Minnelli at a discotheque Monday night in New York City. The dancers were attending the Don Quixote Ball, sponsored by the Harkness Ballet. Gregory and Baryshnikov dance for the American Ballet Theater. The Staff at the 17 CROWN JEWELRY GIFT CO.

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Jr, I 1--- NtutaKaikataiWaildi 4 .1 1 4 By BETSY BUECHNER Gannett News Service ALBANY State Labor Corn- -missioner Philip Ross shortly is expected to issue regulations that bar thousands of non-teaching school workers from collecting jobless benefits during summer and vacations. He has been waffling on the ques School boards around the state say 'that an adverse ruling allowing the benefits would cost them $55 At issue is Ross' interpretation of a law passed last year prohibiting school bus drivers, cafeteria maintenance personnel, secretaries and other non-teaching school employees from col-lecting jobless benefits during if they have a "contract" individual or negotiated them of continued employment. He initially said that in the case of workers covered by collective agreements, he would require a job security clause written in he work contract as proof that would be rehired after summer vacations or holiday recesses. This position all but guaranteed that school districts would have to shell out unemployment insurance benefits for most non-teaching employes, since "no union negotiator in his right mind would agree to open up a contract to insert a job security clause if it meant giving up jobless benefits," according to one school board official. Between 80 and 90 percent of the 130,000 non-teaching school employees are covered by Collective bargaining agreements, according to the state Labor Department.

Now, according to Ross' aides, the commissioner has scrapped the job security clause requirement and instead will write regulations accepting a written guarantee by the school board to individual workers that they segments of "Star Trek" and "Deep Throat." The station, calling itself "Lucky 7," had a live announcer who viewers said was wearing a gas mask and a noose around his neck. He said he hoped viewers enjoyed the programming and promised more entertainment in coming weekends. Television engineers here said an electronics buff with relatively simple equipment could accomplish the programming on the vacant channel. The crime calls for a possible maximum sentence of one year in prison and a $10,000 fine. COMMerelgoiall Daftness ope I .4 0 '0 tZ FOR crrv44, RERL You will find Grand Opening Specials giving you extra savings.

Our prices are comparable to or below area catalog showrooms and discount stores. signed SNOW DAYS The Senate passed and sent to the Assembly a bill to give free days off to state employees in western New York and the Watertown area for time lost due to the severe weather this past winter. Current state rules require that employees use sick time, leave time or vacation time for the days they were forced to miss because of weather. CONTRACTS The Assembly passed and sent to an uncertain fate in the Senate a bill which would force manufacturers who subcontract out work to pay the same benefits to the employees brought in the for work as they do to their own employees. Ladles' Dress Watch Plant Stand Mantua Set Westbend 9 Cup Colleemaker Hours: M-W 9-9 T-F Lew-I-Charge your Purchases! Phone 753-7003 workers will be rehired during the next school term.

This agreement would disqualify such workers from automatic eligibility for unemployment insurance. Stanley L. Raub, executive director of the 750-member New York State School Boards Association, saying that Ross has twice switched positions on the issue, said: "He has had us on a yo-yo." He is waiting for written regulations. "Until he hands them down, it is still not a fact." If Ross follows his latest position, the decision is sure to upset unions representing non-instructional workers and may be challenged in the courts. Arne Wipfler, coordinator for school district affairs for the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA), said the union "will do everything we have to to protect our members." CSEA represents about 30,000 non-teaching school employees.

"We interpret the law one way and the Labor Department apparently Interprets it another," she said. "The law says 'written We look at that as a written contract and not as a piece of paper." The issue arose because of a federal mandate requiring local governments and school districts, for the first time, to pay for unemployment insurance benefits starting July 1. These employees now are covered by a special federal unemployment insurance program set up in 1974, but that coverage expires June 31. During the first three years of the federal program, a number of non-teaching school personnel collected jobless benefits during summer vacations under broadly written requirements. Last year, however, the federal government tightened the regulations to forbid payments to school employees who had a "reasonable assurance" that their jobs would be continued after the summer vacation.

earn enough to carry that drain," Snow said. Dairy lea's members suport the cooperative by paying dues, purchasing certificates of indebtedness and paying assessments for indebtedness. Dairy lea earlier this month announced that it was halting payment on $2 7 million in certificates of indebtedness held both by members and nonmembers, such as banks and retired members. The certificates mature in 1985. Snow said top Dairylea brass were optimistic the exchange would eliminate much of the cooperative's financial problems.

He said that Dairylea officials were "very optimistic" that the business would not lose many members as a result of the required investment. In 1974, when Dairylea imposed its $13 million assessment, the cooperative lost seven to eight percent of its membership, which stood at 7,500 at the time. 6 ti .1 9, yy; 4 .11, Iiiir '4 4 4ir -) If .0 lett" to, 0 ce, it ii, 4, ,...7 OP 19 ziw 1 PROGRESS 1 :1: 1 Dairy lea OKs plan SYRACUSE (AP) Federal officials are trying to locate the "broadcast bandits" who turned the usually dormant Channel 7 in Syracuse into a showcase for programs ranging from Oscar-winning films to "Deep Throat" over the weekend. "We're very definitely interested in who's been broadcasting the stuff," said John Theimer, director of the Federal Communications Commission office in Buffalo. Theimer was in Syracuse on another matter Monday.

The unlicensed station reached viewers Saturday and Sunday in downtown Syracuse and sections of the surrounding Syracuse University campus. Films featured included "Rocky," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," ACLU chief quits NEW YORK (AP) Aryeh Neier, who watched the American Civil Liberties Union reach its membership peak during the early years of this decade and then fought to prevent its dwindling, will step aside as the union's executive director this fall. In a letter distributed Monday to members of the ACLU staff, Neier said "it will be very refreshing both for the organization and for me personally for a change to take place." RIB-EYE $199 CHOPPED BEEF $1.89 M. M. PM.

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"This is not an assessment," Snow said. "This money is an investment which they have every opportunity to get back." However, he said each member's investment would become eligible for repayment only "at the discretion of the board of directors," and that if the board felt it did not have enough money at the time, payment would be deferred. A member could avoid the investment by dropping out of Dairy lea, but only when his one-year contract expires, Snow said. Dairy lea has been in serious financial trouble for several years. Its most recent audit, for the 1976-77 fiscal year, showed a loss of $4 million.

The cooperative's difficulties first drew attention in 1974, when it imposed a $13 million assessment on its members to help wipe out a massive accumulated debt. Snow said the heart of the new financing program was the conversion of outstanding certificates of indebtedness from debt capital to permanent equity capital. Snow said that Dairy lea is currently paying out $5 million annually to redeem certificates of indebtedness as they come due. But he said the cooperative's potential earnings on sales were only $3 million to $4 million. "The organization simply couldn't 1 ''J, Itt, A litkt NII(1 9 44eef, 704to: on Mr Commono the Cothes horse too for Bloomin' Buys! (tly Shop at Shop Daily 10 'til 5:30 Come to Ponderosa Tuesday nights and try F2 II ay our super prices on Chopped Beef and Rib- Eye dinnets In Get potato, ist warm roll.

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