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Show FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1972 THE DAILY RECORD PAGE EIGHT County Clerks Office Picture Tour Reagan 'Workfare' Program Kicks Off to Lame Start By Carl Ingram SACRAMENTO, CALIF. (UPI) -adRonald Reagans ministration is initiating a Work-far- e program designed to put welfare recipients to work. It is off to a slow start. The program is described by Reagan aides as the first of its kind in the nation, and they hope it will become a model for other states. Gov. able-bodi- es Eventually, the dan is intended to become effective in 35 of Californias 58 counties, but the first test was only partially successful. Nobody is certain why only 23 able-bodie- ' Chief Deputy Pufcer Robison Mrs. Katherine H. Llewelyn, executive secretary prepares to take the dictation from W. Sterling Evans, the County Clerk. welfare d recipients showed up for work and job training assignments the first two days in which the experimental project was fully implemented last week in had Ventura County. Seventy-fou-r been summoned. Several were referred to jobs in private industry, another to a clerical position for the city of Oxnard, and two recipients in their early twenties were assigned as maintenance men at county parks. Another joined a city trash collecting crew. One legal aid attorney denounced the program as slave labor. A local program administrator said confusion may have been at least partly to blame for the no-sho- An aide to Reagan said, It very well may mean that a number of these people are quickly finding jobs or reassessing their status as welfare recipients. The Republican Ifs a busy year for the Election .Department managing voter regie-tratlocandidate filing and ballots for elections. Ruth Skeeters, department bead, indicated there are over 225,000 registered voters In Salt Lake County's 525 election governor, who campaigned hard in 1966 and 1970 on a platform of reforming welfare, believes his experimental project can reintroduce the principle of the work ethic to our way of life. The program is bitterly opposed by welfare rights organisations on grounds it is perilously close to ind dentured servitude. It requires districts. able-bodie- i Jersey Court Orders 2 ABC Rules Changed - Hie TRENTON, NJ. (UPI) New Jersey Supreme Court struck down, June 22, two Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) rules that recipients mostly Approximately 9,000 dvil and almost 1,000 criminal eases have been processed by court clerks. The Jury and Docket division schedules cases for trials and calls the juries. Jury Docket clerk; Bob Olsen, seated right, la assisted by Nan Johnson and John "Butch" Dierman. 7-- wall. In Hausners case, the ABC ordered his license suspended after an ABC agent went to the Skyline Lounge in August, 1969, in search of stolen liquor. He found no stolen goods, but he said he did find three obscene catalogs in an office desk and three male contraceptives and a diaphragm and vaginal jelly in the nffirp nafi ployed fathers to work, or train for Jobs, or lose their welfare grants. At the same time, the Reagan administration is seeking to implement a fundamental shift in philosophy away from what officials call hidebound welfare thinking to d thinking. . prohibits contraceptives and obscene materials in taverns. In a 0 opinion which overturned the license suspension of S. Edward Hausner, owner of the Skyline Lounge in Elizabeth, the court said the two rules are overly broad and unreasonable. The Court, saying the rules left no room for private possession, told the ABC to rewrite them. The ABC generally uses the two rules to prevent the sale of contraceptives in tavern rest rooms and to prohibit the display of erotic paintings. For example, a bacJn Atlantic City was recently forced to remove a painting of a nude from the unem- work-oriente- For example, welfare social workers are being reassigned as job counselors in the Department of Human Resources Development, the state's employment agency. Pending before the U.S. Senate is legislation requiring welfare children to mothers of school-ag- e work or lose their grants. Under Reagans project, if a recipient cant find a regular job or train for employment, he is routed into a government sponsored community work experience program in which he must work at a public service task' for up to 80 hours a month in exchange for his grant. Jobs mapped out by program directors range from park and recreation maintenance men, to election aides, to school crossing guards, to clerical helpers. The program was the keystone of Reagans welfare reforms. Without the reforms, he says, there would not be 600,000 more Californians drawing welfare at an increased taxpayer cost of $400 million. Our reforms have enabled us to slay the monster that welfare was becoming in California," Reagan said, adding that the work-fo- r welfare concept will prove to be a model for the nation. Hit hard by unemployment, Ventura County, lying just north of Los Angeles, had experimented on its own at finding jobs for welfare recipients during the past year. Reagan's program was plugged into Ventura's early in June and this expanded potential work opportunities for recipients at various governmental agencies, the employer of last resort. Gene Dick, the man in charge of operating the community work experience program in Ventura County, said he was very hopeful about its chances for success and not pessimistic. Dick theorized that some recipients who got a letter directing them to report to the job center were confused because only a few days earlier they received letters changing a previously established reporting schedule. Others, he speculated, might have been frightened away by a battery of television cameras and newsmen as they arrived to register for work. Dick quoted one recipient as calling the project great and said he overheard another complaining its terrible that people are forced into it, but Im going to do it. During the first year, Reagan administration officials hope to register d 58,000 recipients for work or job training. Of these, 30,000 are expected to be given work or training assignments. Tony Capritto, a job unit supervisor at Ventura, said, he believes the program has the capabilities to prove itself and noted, we must rely heavily on the applicants and their cooperation. able-bodie- Microfilming records for safekeeping and saving spa ee Is maintained by Millie Astom, seated and Shanna Hackett, standing at left and Mary Tangara. Accurate recording of Salt Lain County Coomlisloa meetings Is in the hands of Jacque Burbank; left and Helen Houston. Salt Lake County Deputy Attorney Tom Clark Is la rear center of picture. The ABC maintained that although the office was private it was on the premises of the lounge and, therefore, the prohibitions of the ABCs regulation 20 applied to the private office. Rule Nine of Regulation 20 says no license holder can possess contraceptives on the premises, and Rule 17 forbids the license holder to have an obscene, indecent, filthy, lewd, lascivious or disgusting recording, printing, writing, picture or other matter on the premises. The court said that because the ABC rules contain no provision to protect private possession, theyre oppressive and go beyond the public need... to that extent they are deemed unreasonable. ( ; , The other side of marriage The Family Support Division. Over $5,000,000 and 1,000 accounts per year pass through the hands of Carol Chamberlain, left and Bernice Mortensen when processing alimony and child support monies. 1 Allens la aeed of natnrafizadoa papers will bo greeted by Mary Spiers. |
