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fife Xt Bulls talk tough Team still likes its playoff chances, without RoseBl Circus life labors Crew visiting Mt. Zion works 36 weeks a yearA3 WWW.HERALD-REVIEW.COM Quinn has floated the idea of tying a cigarette tax hike to improving health care, ine Democrat said a $l-per-pack increase would bring in nearly $700 million including federal matching funds to help close a $2.7 billion Medicaid shortfall, with the bene incentive to quit and deters young people from starting. Since there'll be fewer smokers, the costs of treating smoking-related diseases should also go down. But the plan to essentially double the cigarette tax has raised questions about whether such a hike could indeed curb smoking, if it's a sensible funding source as the number of smokers dwindles, and if it would simply drive smokers to buy cigarettes elsewhere. "It makes sense from a public health perspective," said Heather Eagleton, a spokeswoman for the Illinois division of the American Cancer Society.

"We are aware that it is difficult to quit and this may be the final push they need to quit." Her group estimates about $1.5 billion of the state's $14 billion Medicaid budget goes toward treating smoking-related diseases, such as lung cancer CIGARETTEA2 Governor hopes hike will help Medicaid gap By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press Writer CHICAGO Whether successful or not, Illinois governors repeatedly have aimed at the same target for additional money to address the state's financial gap cigarette smokers. But for the first time, Gov. Pat fits going well beyond. Quinn The thinking goes like this: Raising the price of cigarettes gives smokers MUSICAL LEGACY Great 60 years of making melodies and memories packed into new book Jk t-W XX xx- J. XX'x-! MYX fl3Sx fSti'tSa'? fjfr XXV'1 DECATUR MAN'S Gary Warnick have been part of the It's simply in the blood.

"The Warnicks were the fourth family here in Macon County," said the piano player and Millikin University graduate, reclining in the South Shores home of his nephew and fellow musician, Michael Lee. "William Warnick was the first sheriff in 1829, and a good friend of Abraham Lincoln's." Since that time, the extended family of War-nicks has been a consistent presence in Decatur. And since at least the time of Warnick's grandfather, nearly everyone born into the family has been a musician. According to Lee, musical talent was the rule and not the exception. "If you didn't dance, sing or play an instrument in this family, we thought you were odd," he said.

"I'm serious. All my cousins and everybody was all some sort of musician. At a fami- gigs Tornado ears spark saTe rooms Demand soars for home shelters By PHILLIP RAWLS, H0LBR00K MOHR and JIM SALTER Associated Press Writers MONTGOMERY, Ala. When deadly twisters chewed through the South and Midwest in 2011, thousands of people in the killers' paths had nowhere to hide. Now many of those families are taking an extra step to be ready next time: adding tornado shelters to their homes.

A year after the storms, sales of small residential shelters known as safe rooms are surging across much of the nation, especially in hard-hit communities such as Montgomery and Tuscaloosa in Alabama and in Joplin, where twisters laid waste to entire neighborhoods. Manufacturers can barely keep up with demand, and some states are offering grants and other financial incentives to help pay for the added protection and peace of mind. Tom Cook didn't need convincing. When a 2008 tornado barreled toward his home in rural southwest Missouri, Cook, his wife and their teenage daughter sought refuge in a bathroom. It wasn't enough.

His wife was killed. Cook moved to nearby Joplin to rebuild, never imaging he would confront another monster twister. But he had a safe room installed in the garage just in case. On May 22, Cook and his daughter huddled inside the small steel enclosure while an EF-5 tornado roared outside. They emerged unharmed, although the new house was gone.

"It was blown away completely again," he said. "The only thing standing was that storm room." Generations ago, homes across America's Tornado Alley often came equipped with storm cellars, usually a small concrete bunker buried in the backyard. Although SAFEA2 MONDAY APRIL 30, 2012 Hop on it and start saving now with Today's Deal at: www.herald-review. comdeal Bears' top pick Shea McClellin's good fortune has his hometown of Marsing, Idaho, population 1 ,031 bursting with pride. Sports B1 NATO protest jail A former prison near Chicago, featured in the "The Blues Brothers" film, might serve as a detention facility for those arrested during the NATO summit in Chicago.

State A8 In some business jets, pilots are bringing iPads into their cockpits instead of flight bags stuffed with charts, manuals and checklists. Workplace A5 'Gaitology' What makes a Pulitzer Prize winner dive into the messy subject of trash? Life A7 Lake Decatur level watch Normal winter pool level .612.5 Normal summer pool level .614.4 Yesterday's level 614.0 YOUR WEATHER Today: Storms possible Tonight: Chance of storms DetailsB10 INDEX Classifieds B6-8 Comics B9 Dear Abby )7 Horoscopes B9 Life A7 Lottery A2 Obituaries A6 Opinion A4 Puzzles Sports B1-4 Television B5 '02138 "OOOOi 75 cents issue 121 Our 140th year Two sections Delivery: 421-6990 Newsroom: 421-6979 IPads take flight HIGH LOW ii Herald Review photosJim Bowling Central Illinois music scene for more than five decades. Michael Lee, left, and his uncle By JIM VOREL Staff Writer ECATUR When a 5-year-old Gary War- nick sat down at the home piano and began learning to play by ear, it was just another chapter in a family history of natural musicians. Raised by a mother who could play any song off the radio by ear despite never having a piano lesson and a grandfather who played violin at turn-of-the-century square dances, it should not be surprising that Warnick now has spent more than 60 years performing at paid gigs in and around Decatur. Submitted photo From left, Kenny Monska, Gary Warnick, Danny Goveia, Mike Lee and Dick Underwood played several Central Illinois venues as The Galaxies.

ly party, we once put plays organ, clarinet and together a 14-piece band on other instruments, music a whim, and it sounded has been the consuming pretty darn good." For Warnick, who also GIGSA2 20 years after tactics evolve riots, LAPD Department brass had just ordered the officers to withdraw. "Get in the car!" Arteaga yelled. But his rookie partner froze, unwilling to turn his back on the advancing mob. In those menacing seconds, a single fear grabbed them both: This was a vengeful crowd, and they were about to be lynched. Arteaga grabbed the shotgun from the floor of his patrol car and made a noisy show of loading a round.

The crowd backed off just long enough for his partner to retreat. The "not guilty" verdicts in the Rodney King case had, in minutes, reached the streets. Arteaga had never seen anything turn so bad so fast. People were cursing and shouting at him: Four hundred years! You've been suppressing us for 400 years! Arteaga, just 29, was thinking, "What did 400 years have to do with me?" Everything. Because he wore the uniform of a force that had ruled South Los Angeles like an occupying army.

Twenty years later, Arteaga heads a team of senior lead LAPDA2 City's community policing improves residents trust By SANDY BANKS McClatchy-Tribune News Service Writer LOS ANGELES What LAPD Sgt. Rick Arteaga remembers most about the first night of the riots is a history lesson at the intersection of Manchester and Vermont. Six police officers were trying to face down 400 angry residents. The Los Angeles Police McClatchy-Tribune News Service A man who identified himself as Divine The Great, left, owner of a tattoo parlor in South Los Angeles, argues with LAPD officer Gary Verge in front of his shop. Verge was responding to complaints of gang activity, narcotic activity and loitering..