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SOUTH IbAMOfKlSi BwfUy.ldoho.Mondof. boMles horn in Boise lcrr.rr,:iu-c iny Uike anoUs-r I at about t) only till of substance to be introduced in the first wtik It a proposal from Rep. Bavd UX H-Meridian, to expand tlw state's investment tax credit from the current 3 percent to 5 percent. Repeal of the credit, adding $15 million to state tax collections, is a central part of the governor's plan to balance his new budget. But Hill said the tax credit is a good incentive to business, and should be expanded.

He put a $25 million price tag on the bill, but contends the tax incentive would stimulate enough economic activity to pay for itself through increased income and other taxes. come for the year starting July t. Since Idaho cannot have a oVficit budget, that figure caps state spending in the new year unless tax increases are approved. As soon as Committee Cochair-man Don Loveland, R-Boise, presents the estimate report to the House. Republicans plan to go into closed caucus to start working on a tax and spending policy.

Andrus has proposed spending $703.1 million in the new budget and raising $34.5 million in revenue to pay the bill. Analysts have effectively told the committee not to expect the current tax system to generate more than around $670 million to $675 million. The House Revenue and Taxation from Ada County, He was one of six Republicans running for the party's governor nomination in 1978. losing to House Speaker Allan Larsen. After interviewing Jackson this afternoon, the committee can recommend for or against confirmation, or send the matter to the entire Senate without recommendation.

Jackson said Friday he hoped to convince enough Republicans on the panel to withhold judgment and at least support a Senate vote without any recommendation. On the money side, the joint Revenue Projection Committee will finish sifting through the economic outlooks it has received over the last two weeks and issue its official declaration of expected state tax in years ago, making a campaign swing through the state to urge GOP voters to support Andrus instead of Republican nominee David Leroy. Senate Republican Caucus Chairman Jerry Tw iggs of Blackf oot and others have questioned Jackson's party credentials because of his support for Andrus, and the embattled tax commissioner admits the Senate's decision will be "very close." But he was confident he would win confirmation. With the 16 Democrats in the Senate expected to back Jackson, six Republicans will have to support confirmation for Jackson to win. A moderate, Jackson served in the Idaho Legislature for several terms as a Republican state representative ment and Taxation Committee.

Jackson was named to one of the commission seats designated for Republicans. A former Major League baseball pitcher with some 20 years of Idaho Republican creditials, Jackson is being labeled by leaders of his own party, including state GOP Chairman Blake Hall and Committee Chairman V'earl Crystal, as a turncoat because he supported Andrus in the 1386 election campaign. "Senator Crystal should have the Republican credentials Larry Jackson has then his statements would carry more eight," Jackson shot back last week. Jackson was among a number of Republicans to serve on "Republicans For Andrus" two BOISE, Idaho (APi Partisan polities and money, the things legislatures are made of, come to the fore today as Idaho lawmakers get down to the serious business of the 1988 session. Revenue forecasters meet on one side of the statehouse in search of a tax collection estimate the Andrus administration hopes will reflect economic reality while on the other Republicans on a Senate committee take aim at one of Democratic Gov.

Cecil Andrus' most visible appointees. In what may be the most controversial battle of the session, the confirmation process for Tax Commissioner Larry Jackson gets under ay before the Senate Local Govern Murder trial 1 opens today in I.F. slaying Idaho Today IDAHO FALLS; Idaho (AP) Ten months after the bullet-riddled body of Idaho Falls teacher Susan Michelbacher was found in the sagebrush and lava rock west of-Idaho Falls, the trial of the man accused of killing her has begun. Eight men- and six women from Ada County were selected in Boise last week as the 12 jurors and two alternates to consider the case against Paul Ezra Rhoades. Opening arguments were scheduled to begin today, Rhoades' 31st birthday, before 7th District Judge Larry Boyle in Idaho Falls.

The trial is expected to last at least 10 days, Rhoades, of Idaho Falls, faces a $40 mil. development fund sought I.F. team wins "Olympic" bid MILWAUKEE (API An Idaho Falls team has won the right to represent the; United States during the Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada: in the snow sculpture competition. Team captain Michelle Havens, Marilyn Hansen and Allen Haroldsen carved a horse and a dragon out of a huge block of ice to beat out 40 teams from as far away as Alaska and Connecticut. Temperatures in the 30s and gusty winds' destroyed at least seven sculptures created during the four-day competition at the Milwaukee County Zod before Saturday's judging.

However, the judges said none of the destroyed works would have won, said zoo spokeswoman Laura Pedriani. The Idaho team will participate in the Calgary competition Feb. 9-12 being held along with the Olympics. Menu item turns up "fishy" BOISE, Idaho (AP) A menu item in a Boise restaurant that sounded fishy- to the wife of Idaho Steelhead and Salmon Unlimited President Dan Magers has uncovered an inadvertant transgression of a state law involving the sale of steelhead. Pam and Dan Magers sat down to eat dinner at the Lock, Stock and Barrel receDtly, when she spotted "Steelhead Salmon" on the menu.

Mrs. Magers asked the waiter, "What in the world is a steelhead salmon? Manager Chris Gutierrez came to the rescue. "This is a kind of bright salmon," he told the couple, who replied, "There is no such thing, Chris." Magers explained that if a restaurant sells steelhead, it needs a $10 permit and the wholesaler from which it purchased the fish Idaho Fish Co. must have a $50 license. Gutierrez later learned from ISSU Coordinator Mitch Sanchotena that he had inadvertantly broken a law passed by the Legislature last year.

"The thing that cracks me up is the guy at Idaho Fish didn't know anything about it either," Gutierrez said. "I doubt anybody sent out notices to restaurants about the hew law." He decided to drop the fish from the menu, rather than buying a permit. Sanchotena said the law alsr requires wholesalers and retailers to report all steelhead sales to the Idaho Kish and Game Commission at year's end. Nolan Haddon of Blackf was shot while working at an Idaho Falls convenience store and died the next day, and for the Feb. 28 murder of Blackfoot convenience store clerk Stacy Baldwin.

Those killings, along with an parently unrelated shooting death at an Ashton grocery store owner in July, sent a wave of fear rippling through eastern Idaho. Rhoades was arrested in Wells, on March 25 and extradited to Idaho about a week later. His attorneys tried unsuccessfully to get the Idaho Supreme Court to consider an appeal of the Idaho Legislature's ff Banks and other lenders aren't willing to make long-term, fixed-rate loans because their sources of financing are not at fixed rates, he said. The loans would be aimed at manufacturing, but the officials involved said that would cover a wide range of activities, from food processing to almost anything that adds value to products. Not eligible would be retailers such as mart.

Private banks would be involved, handling the loans. "From our agency standpoint, we don't want to compete with anybody," said Lamont Jones, PocateUo lawyer who is chairman of the Idaho Housing Agency board. "We need the services of the banks." department is encouraging districts" to develop AIDS policies. About 60 percent of Idaho's 116 school districts are in the process of developing a policy or already have one in place, said Ms. Paige, who spoke Friday at a conference on sexuality and AIDS at Boise State University.

The top school official in Blaine County the first district in Idaho to admit a child known to have AIDS urged his colleagues- at the conference to have a mechanism in place to deal with the disease, and to institute some form of AIDS education. "I think it's a self-defense education," said David Noonan, superintendent of the Blaine County School District in Hailey. state's insanity defense in criminal cases. They later said they intended to use an alibi defense, but did not disclose its exact nature. Gov.

Cecil Andrus was among the approximately 120 Ada County residents from which prosecution and defense attorneys chose jurors for Rhoades' trial to avoid extensive pretrial publicity on the case in eastern Idaho. The governor was excused from the panel after explaining his familiarity with evidence in the case from a review of documents he signed to have Rhoades extradited from Nevada. PairofGOPs may challenge Rep. Stallings POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) By this stage in the 1986 campign, Rep. Richard Stallings, D-Idaho, already had five declared opponents and was on his way to a sixth.

So far this year, however, no Republican has surfaced to challenge him. That may change soon. Both Keith Nyborg, Ashton rancher and former U.S. ambassador to Finland, and former state senator Dane Watkins are considering the GOP 2nd District primary. Both have been invited to attend a campaign school put on by the National Republican Congressional Committee in Arlington, Va beginning next Friday.

Nyborg, who is busy with preparations for the Ambassador's Cup ski race set for Feb. 13 in Ashton, says he probably won't have time to attend. But he says he's received so much encouragement to challenge Stallings that he won't rule out making the race. "I'm not looking very seriously at it until after I get this ski race out of the way," said Nyborg. ''I told them 1 (party officials) I won't announce one, way or another until after the race.

I probably won't make any decision until late February or early March." Sam Richardson, communications director for the NRCC, said any Republican candidate is welcome to the candidate school, but-only Nyborg indicated he would attend. Penny's Special Offer: 2.00Off HairCuts 5.00 Off Permanents Good Thru January Fri, Saturday's And tvemngstsy Appointment Only Orion Tiipq I BOISE, Idaho (AP) Idaho leaders say one of the state's biggest needs is development capital something readily available in the nation's population centers and hard to get in a rural, sparsely populated state. Legislative and government leaders got their first look Friday at a package of proposals that could meet that need. It could provide a $40 million economic development fund involving the Idaho Housing Agency, Department of Commerce and private banks. The session was organized by House Majority Leader Jack Ken-nevick, who has been working on the program for several months.

Keith Moore, managing director of Browne, Bortz and Coddington, State ed. board AIDS education BOISE, Idaho (AP) The jury is still out on whether the state will require that all Idaho public schools in-elude AIDS education in their riculum and develop policies for dealing with students infected with the disease. The state Board of Education will discuss a proposal during its meeting in Boise starting Monday that would require the state's colleges and universities to develop AIDS educational programs and policies protecting the rights pf vic possible death penalty if convicted i on charges of first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping, rape, committing an infamous crime against nature, robbery, and four counts of using a firearm in the commission of a felony. He is accused of abducting Mrs. Michelbacher, 34, from a super market parking lot on March 19.

Prosecutors contend he forced the Eagle Rock Junior High School special-education teacher to cash a $1,000 check at a bank drive-up window, then raped and killed her. Rhoades also is scheduled to stand trial later for the March 16 slaying of a Denver financial consultant, told a gathering of legislators at the Statehouse that several other states have expanded the authority of a housing agency to meet capital needs. As proposed Friday, the state would authorize the Idaho Housing Agency to issue bonds and administer the new borrowing account. The Department of Commerce could work with prospective new companies to provide stable, long-term financing at relatively low interest. For example, Moore said the state of Arkansas is able to offer 10-year, 7.6 percent loans for equipment purchases.

He said Idaho's rate might be a little higher, butjn any event, the new fund could be a source of long-term financing at fixed rates. will consider in curriculum tims. But the proposal would not cover public elementary and secondary schools. Shannon Paige, health and physical education consultant for the Idaho Department of Education, said the state has left it to local" school boards to decide how acquired immune deficiency syndrome should be handled. The department's position is that the community should decide what's appropriate," she said.

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Gov. Cecil Andrus has proposed a $19.3 million hike this year. Both Andrus andlRepublican leaders acknowledge that the unexpectedly high increase in funding for the schools in the last session will not occur again this year. Sperring made his comments in the Idaho Statesman on Sunday. Toe state board has requested an increase for higher education to $114.3 million, $3.4 million above Andrus' call for an 8 percent increase to $110 million.

'T, think that I've typified a number of different places as primarily a maintenance-type budget," the former dean of Business and Finance at St. Thomas University in Miami said. "This is not a budget that's loaded with goodjes." Sperring said the effort to offer some University of Idaho engineering programs at Boise State was an easier task than the board expected and could set a precedent for more cooperation between the schools. But he pointed out that an agreement on specific engineering classes between Idaho and Idaho State existed before he assumed his current position AAV land not being set aside TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) Participation in the Twin Falls area in a federal program that sets aside highly erodible land has been uneven at best. The Conservation Reserve Program has attracted a high of 114 contracts in Cassia County, while drawing only five in Jerome County.

Nationally, almost 23 million acres have been enrolled in "the program in over 200,000 contracts. Of that, Magic Valley farmers have contributed 75,263 acres on 233 contracts. That is very low participation, said Jim McLaughlin, director of the Twin Falls County office of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. "The good irrigated land isn't going into this program because it isn't cost effective yet," McLaughlin said. "Farmers in this area are paid only $50 per acre per year for land in the reserve.

farmer still has to pay for his water shares even if he isn't using then, and that can run around $50 an acre, so there is no gain. If a guy can renhis land for $80 an acre, he'll do that instead." Farmers in the program establish permanent cover on the land for ten yeas. Gloria Judd, the program assistant in Cassia County, said the reason the sighiips there are high is because the county is hill country and most of the laiut is open to erosion. The goal for the program is to set aside 45 million acres nationwide. About half 'that many acres have been enrolled since the program began in 1985.

The next signup is scheduled for Feb. 1-19. Centennial park choices due BOISE, Idaho (AP) Less than two weeks remain to nominate your personal choice for a possible Centennial state park, Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation officials say. The project, which begins this month with a six-month study of all potential sites, could result in a new state park by 1990, Idaho's 100th birthday. John Crowe, department planner in charge of the study, said he started work on the study, funded by the Idaho Centennial Commission, on Jan.

4. Some 50 public nominations have arrived so far, in addition to 75 possible sites drawn from department files. "People come in and they're selling these sites just like a salesman," Crowe said. "They are so excited, it's infectious." Among the nominations are: An island on Lake Pend Oreille near Sand-point, the Old Penitentiary in Boise, the former mining town of Silver City, Thousand Springs on the Snake River near Hagerman, an archaeological site in southeastern Idaho that includes a rock shelter and Mesa Falls northeast of Ashton. In.

the next few months, Crowe will travel to the proposed sites and evaluate them for inclusion among the three to 10 tq be presented to the Centennial Commission in August But an approval of a site as a Centennial project still is only the beginning. "A Centennial State Park will happen if the public wants it to happen," Crowe.said. The Centennial Commission has provided money for the study, but funds for the park must come from other sources, he said. But no matter what, none of the nominations will be wasted, Crowe said. CHIROPRACTIC OUTLOOK By Dr.

Wilcher AUTO ACCIDENTS The aches and pains that follow auto accidents bring more people to the chiropractor than any other single type of injury. Tact is, the human body is not as tough as a steclauto body; even if there's been little or no damage to the car, you're going to feel stiff and sore. Most "common is the whiplash injury, as theftead is snapped back and then forward on impact. Pain may not be experienced until the next day; you may not realize you've been injured. Though the damage is usually limited to the- muscles, joints, ligaments and soft neck tissues, there is always a possibility of a fracture.

Because pain is sometimes delayed, it's wise to see your chiropractor promptly. His or her diagnostic tests can reveal the extent of injury so you can start treatment right away. Presented as a service to the community by C. C. WILCHER, D.C.

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