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Show Thursday, September V, lasu THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Page E2 Welfare redpionts paid to start msn business Editor's Note: Annie Honey-cu- tt became a foster mother to two retarded brothers, knowing it would be an job. But it also represented freedom and from on welfare. follows: businesses have been started. "Welfare recipients can be more enterprising than some people in business, the way they have to wheel and deal their resources." Sheila Das, coordinator of programs More than 100 being Other stories By SHARON COHEN receives welfare. "They think we're all ignorant sons of guns. They don't think we want to go anywhere or do anything." And sometimes, discouragement comes from a surprising source. Corporation for Enterprise Development Associated Press Writer DETROIT Though a judge in - : equipment for her Detroit bakerv, Chugga's, one store demanded full payment In advance; another accused her of doing something illegal. "What people think about the system burns me up," said Ms. Bell, 42, who's too embarrassed to tell her three children she July partially suspended the breaking the generational welfare cycle. Not so, said Dennis Fengier, whose family has been repeatedly Learnfare program in Michigan, errors, the citing record-keepin- g state plans to make changes, believing Learnfare offers hope for sanctioned when their teens miss school. "You're picking on poor people," he said. "How are you helping families by taking money from them?" (See story on Page C4, Sept. 25) Another welfare experiment has the jobless bring in money by creating their own jobs. "When they try to break out, they've got family and friends Manpower Demonstration Re search Corporation, which is eval- uating some programs. "Very few people .think it's going to eliminate the public welfare system Part 2 entirely." saying, 'You can't do this. What makes you think you can?' " said Cheri Huber, who runs the Iowa program. Experts say it's too early to gauge success or the impact on the welfare rolls. "Nobody has really tried many of these things before. We really don't know how they're going to work," said Fred Doolittle of the But Ruth Bell is confident she'll make the break. Last year, she started by peddling her homemade bread to one store. Now she helps cater luncheons and has more than 100 customers buying her pies and breads. She hopes to move soon from her basement to a rented store. "I have come a long way," she said. "I'm on the road to Minnesota, Mississippi, Iowa, Michigan and Maryland have small entrepreneur projects in 11 1 which welfare recipients receive benefits past the point where money earned from their businesses would make them ineligible. The checks continue for a year after they reach that point under a federal waiver that allows them to try to become t 5 I' . X"3 Critics argue this approach is too costly, too limited and too risky starting a business is tough enough for those with jobs, they say. But proponents argue that welfare, ironically, is a good training school. "Welfare " a,, ,1 ' vii - ' recipients can be more enterprising than some people in business, the way they have to wheel and deal their resources," said Sheila Das, of the Corporation for Enterprise Development, coordinator of the programs. More than 100 businesses have been started including restaurants, repair and cleaning servand dozens ices, and caterers more are ready to go. AP Laserphoto Though aspiring entrepreneurs receive training, develop business plans and sometimes are helped with loans, obstacles remain. When Ruth Bell tried to buy Foster mother Annie Honeycutt, 34, participates in Detroit's Living in Family Environments program which pays women who once lived off welfare $18,000 to 21,500 a year to be foster mother to disabled children like retarded brothers Fletcher, 6, left, and Rico, 3, her foster children. hard-to-pla- ce AP Laserphoto Ruth Bell holds up a loaf of t read at her Detroit bakery. She is part of an entrepreneur project in which welfare recipients continue to receive benefits while trying to become Hair stylists slate Plight of the MIA (missing n action portionately affects low-inco- families, the group announced its unwillingness to support the current proposal to eliminate the tax. The Utah League suggests that citizens ask themselves two questions before they vote this November. Would the lost revenues be replaced or would passage of the initiative result in cuts in critical famiservices? Would lies be better off if they paid no food tax but received fewer social services? "If the wording of the initiative included guaranteed replacements for funds supporting health and human services, local government as well as public and higher education, we could support it," says of Terri McCulloch, the Utah League. "Until we are low-inco- certain that Utah's tax structure will be more progressive and impeople less, we pact cannot get behind what we consider to be an inappropriate initialow-inco- tive." The governor and the Republican legislative leadership have decided that removal of the food tax would mean a reduction of services. They would not increase taxes to replace 10017. Landers They will see that your name will longer be sold to the large mailing list companies. This will reduce your junk mail by nearly 75 percent. (Suggestion: To get people moving, one volunteer in your office could produce a form letter and distribute a copy to all the employees who would merely fill in the particulars and pop it in the mail.) Turning Green in Long Island no CREATORS SYNDICATE the last moments of his life. Can you help me locate Tina, Patricia or Kathleen Martin? John Martin was born in Pittsburgh and I believe they later lived in Dover, Del. I have tried without success to find them through Friendfind Agency, Air Force Locator and Omega Task Force, an MLVPOW organization. I hope that you or your readers can help me in my mission, Ann. It would be wonderful if John's family had all the facts about the last hours of his life. Sincerely Lynda Paffrath, San Mateo, Calif. Dear Readers: If anyone knows the whereabouts of John Martin's family members, please contact Lynda Paffrath. Her address is 215 Castilian Way, San Mateo, Calif., 94402. I'm sure Lynda if this message will let me know bears fruit. Of Women Voters won't support elimination of sales tax on food While it is the policy of the League of Women Voters of Utah to oppose a sales tax on food because it is regressive and dispro- Write to: Mail Preference Service, Direct Marketing Association, 6 East 43rd St., New York, N.Y. Ann the lost revenue. The Republican party as a whole has not taken a position. The Democratic party favors food tax removal as a way of making Utah's tax structure more progressive. They would like to replace lost revenue by eliminating some of the 35 sales tax exemptions and by restructuring state income taxes to make them more progressive. The Legislature has tried several times to eliminate some sales tax exemptions, but has had little success. The Utah Constitution requires that all state income taxes go into the Uniform School Fund to be used for public education. An increase in income taxes, therefore, could not be used for other state services unless the Constitution were amended. Nor are state surpluses an appropriate revenue replacement. They cannot be counted on in the future. A Legislative fiscal analyst's report predicts that Utah will experience a revenue shortfall of $196 million over the next five years. Removal of the food tax would increase that shortfall. The League of Women Voters is a membership organization that encourages informed and active citizen participation in government. course, if I hear anything, I'll pass the word to you, my readers. Dear Ann Landers: I'm taking this information directly from "50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth" by the Earthworks Dear Ann Landers: I'm years heard people say, "Pardon my French," when they swear or use a dirty 1) Americans receive almost 4 million tons of junk mail every word. year. This really puzzles me because as I know, the French don't use any worse language than anyone else. So where did that expression come from? Puzzled in California 2) About 44 percent of the junk mail is never opened. 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BabvJ Sale Sept. w Dear California: I don't have a clue. How about it, readers? Any answers out there? CHILDREN'S OUTLET & 17 old, and all my life I have Group, the Earthworks Press, Berkeley, Calif. Please piint it. BULLETIN BOARD show at Elks Lodge And John Murray Martin in particular who is not an MIA but was shot down Dear Ann Landers: Recently I visited the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C., and was shocked to discover that John Murray Mar- ' tin had been listed as MIA (missing in action) until 1979. His plane was shot down on Nov. 20, 1967. The pilot who was with him was my sweetheart, James Badley. He "was lucky enough to bail out. Jim Badley wrote his brother that night and said, "Capt. Martin never came out. I am heartsick. I can't stop thinking about John and Tina and their five kids. I'm afraid to go to sleep. They will probably list him as missing, but there's not "much doubt about what actually happened. Tina won't know for awhile that her husband went down with the plane, but the Air Force seems to think that is best." (I should mention that when the Air Force lists men "missing in action," their widows can continue to receive the servicemen's full pay.) I know that Jim was planning on talking to Tina when he came home, but he was killed March 27, never 1968, so that conversation took place. It makes me sick to think that the Martin family has lived with doubts all these years. I would like to find them and give them Jim's letter. It also describes what a hero John Martin was in mm k; C5& VUfi?! L ' University Mall Orem 224-100- 0 Don't Fotset The Cheese WwT. Yxmv. In. |