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Show DESERET NEWS Thousands Of Dollars Are Lost Annually 77iroi;gj Fraudulent Actions By Welfare Clients" '. . . By DOUGLAS D. PALMER Services Division and tire state's attorneys. The division says it is not receiving the legal sendee it should have from the attorney generals office. At the same time, however, it admits that just mentioning in letters that this case may be referred to the attorney general's office brings in money. Atty. Gen. Vernon B. Romney said he does not want to start a battle with the welfare department, but he said gripes over welfare matters are not unique ir Deseret News Staff Writer Welfare is like a forkful of spaghetti , difficult to control and with no end ii sight. Rocked fror.. coast to coast by caseloads ncreasing costs, mammoth iid insufficient funds to meet them, the velfare program is troubled with in trying to keep up wit.i the chis-lerthe greedy, the dishonest. . diffi-ulti- By their very actions, they make it iifficult for the needy, the sick, the dis bled, the widow, and the divorcee and ier children. Because of their nature, it is difficult o keep tabs on man, welfare recipient'. change jobs frequently. Theyre on, nd they're off welfare. There are con-- i enient separations," enabling a woman 3 be added to the welfare rolls, only to ave her husband return days, weeks or without notification to lonths If ter ;ie state. I' If a man is working and making $130 week (or whatever), the judge should ender a decision in a divorce on how luch the man should pay his family," aid Dean R. Featherstone, director of Recovery services, Utah Division of Family Services. s This then pressures the father or husband to meet his responsibility and support his children or be in contempt of 'Court. The problem is that county attorneys frequently keep the state in a bot-- i leneck, except in Davis County. They do lot process summonses and orders to how cause, Featherstone said. Some county attorneys, however, say not supply sufficient .. a- timely information" on which to draw i complaint. Evan E. Jones Jr., director, Utah Division of Family Services, said Much better coordination and support is needed with the courts' to collect the full amount of support and alimony payments. Featherstone's office and adjoining rooms are cluttered with evidence of the backlog of cases under investigation, or ihose not being handled at all "because of a lack of personnel. There are six large filing cabinets just Inside the front door where approximately 3,500 active cases are kept. In an adjoining room files are kept on approximately 4,000 other referral for cases. These duty of support action involve fathers who apparently are not supporting their families. Their files haven't even been touched because of a Utah. Romney said his office had collected at least twice as much in our first year of operation as had been collected in the last year of operation of the office by my predecessor. Romneys deputy, Robert E. Hausen, said he studied the computer program for those on welfare in Sacramento County (California) in November 1969. That county has about the same population as the entire state of Utah. We were interested In knowing how big of a staff it took to do the job, and we found out that Utah had more staff members from the attorney general's office working on welfare matters than did the office of the Sacramento district attorney. He said, We have made it clear if they (the division) had any pioblems that we would get right on top of them But the computer program is now at least six months overdue in Utah. It hasn't even got off the ground; once it does it will be a big help to our program. Earl W. Graves, coordinator of data processing for the division, attributed the delay in part to extensive research required in collecting the necessary information from other files, placing it in a format iliat wall enable us to create a master tape on welfare recipients lie division does - involved. court-ordere- d lack ued. of Featherstone manpower, contin- Until more investigators are hired, the case files may lay idle. Once the states Data Processing Center becomes fully operational for the division, welfare workers at 231 E. 4th South may be able to code information from the files for use on the computer. Featherstone estimated that there are currently about 8.500 Aid for Dependent Children (AFDC) cases in Utah in which Featherstone cited an AFDC case which his office handled, in which the recipient was receiving a full grant of $168 monthly. In applying, the woman said her husband had been working for a large local company but was now out wf town. Subsequent Deseret How much welfare money is spent in rt his staff is Is involved. Of this amount, able to handle about 3,500. ' Jones said a major difficulty is in getting the women to tell the division whether or not they know where their husbands are, and that this accounts for part of the backlog, We have taken steps within the division to correct this. For example, on a home visit in which the wife reports desertion, we continually emphasize that it is the clients responsibility to keep the division informed as to the duty of support and payments received from the News Photo by Ray G. Jones taverns at the expense of the taxpayer? separated or former spouse, Jones said. The time lag between processing the case for prosecution and actually receiving court calendar time also adds to the difficulty. He said the division is not satisfied with the performance in this area of responsibility, and additional emphasis and high priority will be placed on recovery services in the immediate future. Despite the many difficulties, however, recoveries are running about $50,000 a month, compared to about $1,500 in 1966 and $20,000 a year ago. For every new investigator and a clerical worker, we could produce in cash about $50,000 a year, Featherstone said. A study is being conducted to determine how many more staff members can be added in order to collect money due the state, Jones explained. By state law the attorney generals office is empowered to assist the division, exercising its legal authority to collect money fraudulently obtained and working to push cases into court. But there are disagreements between the Family Did CIA Plan Castro Death? Here Was By JACK ANDERSON WASHINGTON - C u b as Castro. For 1C boat with a lucky shot but the occupants quickly fished out of the murky water by the other boat. The assassination teams never got a shot at Castro, although the last group reached a rooftop within range. No doubt most of the infiltrators were picked up and tortured terribly. e Fidel years merly married to movie actress June Lang, was a power in the movie industry until his conviction with racketeer Willie Bioff in a million-dolia- r Hollywood labor shakedown. only a few key people have known the terrible secret. They have sworn never to talk. Yet ve have learned tiie details from sources whose The CL assigned two of its most trusted operatives, William Harvey and James Big Jim OConnell, to the hush-husmurder mission. Using phony names, they accompanied Roselli on trips to Miami to line up the assassination teams. h ls are The full story reads like the script of Bond movie, complete with secret trysts at glittering Miami Beach hotels and midnight powerboat dashes to secret landing spots on the Cuban coast. Once, Rosellis boat was shot out from a James beyond question. The plot to knock off Castro began as part of the Bay of Pigs operation. The intent was to eliminate the Cuban dictator betore the motley invaders landed on the island. Their arrival was expected to touch off a general uprising, which the Communist militia would have had more trouble putting down without the charis-!mati- c Castro to lead them. 1 After the first attempt failed, five jnore assassination teams were sent to tuba. The last team reportedly made it jo a rooftop within shooting distance of fcastro before members were apprehended. This happened around the last cf February or first of March, 1963. J 4 Nine months later, President Kennedy is as gunned down in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald, a fanatic who previously had agitated for Castro in New Orleans and had made a mysterious trip to the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City. 1 , 18, 15 1971 Among those privy to the CIA cpnspir-- f icy, there is still a nagging suspicion by the Warren Commis-- l unsupported that Castro became sions findings aware of the U.S. plot upon his life and somehow recruited Oswald to retaliate against P.esldent Kennedy. To set up the Castro assassination, ihe CIA enlisted Robert Maheu, a former FBI agent with shadowy contacts, who had handled dher undecovei assignments for the CIA out of his Washington public relations office. He later moved to Las Vegas to head up billionaire Howard Hughes Nevada operations. Maheu recruited John Roselli, a rtiggedly handsome gambler with contacts in both the American and Cuban underworlds, to arrange the assassina-- s lion. The dapper, hawk-faceRoselli, foi- d under him. For the first try, the CIA furnished Roselli with special poison capsules to slip into Castros food. The poison was supposed to take three days to act. By the time Castro died, his system would throw off all traces of the poison, so he would appear to be the victim of a natural if mysterious ailment. Roselli arranged with a Cuban, related to one of Castros chefs, to plant the deadly pellets in the dictators food. On March 13, 1961, Roselli delivered the capsules to his contact at Miami Beachs glamorous Fontainebleau Hotel. A couple weeks later, just about the right time for the plot to have been carried out. a report out of Havana said Castro was ill. But he recovered before the Bay of Pigs invasion on April 17, 1961. The Cuban who had sneaked the poison into Havana was never seen again. The CIA, unsure whether the plotters had failed or the poison simply hadn't been strong enough, decided to try again with a more powerful dose. Roselli arranged for capsules to be slipped into Castro's food several weeks after the Bay of Pigs. But once again, the plot failed and the conspirators disappeared. trip'e-strengi- h Four more attempts were made on Castro's life, using Cuban assassination teams equipped with rifles, radios. At interexplosives and vals in the dark of night, Roselli personally delivered the teams in twin powerboats to the Cuban shores. high-power- two-wa- y Once, a Cuban patrol boat sank Roscl- - . Roselli, Harvey, OConnell and company. had taken precautions, however, to make sure not even the Cuban recruits knew the CIA was behind the plot. Roselli posed as a representative of big oil interests which sought revenge against Castro expropriating their holdings in Cuba. The weapons and other equipment were of foreign make, mostly Belgian, to prevent any link to the U.S. All the equipment, including the two powerboats, were purchased out of Rosellis own pocket. The CIA paid only the expenses of its two agents Harvey and OConnell. The principals in the CIA conspiracy, sworn to deep secrecy, refused t" comment on the caper. We got an admission out of Maheu only that he had handled special jobs for the CIA, but he refused to discuss them. Roselli responded with a flat no comment. My associate Les Whitten located Harvey, who left the CIA about two years ago, in Indianapolis. Asked about Roselli, Harvey said he had a high regard for him. Whitten than questioned Harvey about Rosellis daring work. This is a long story. replied the former CIA man. I don't think it ought to be printed. Thereafter, he refused to acknowledge even that he had been a CIA operative. We got an admission from Big Jim O'Connell, who is still with the CIA, that he had met Roselli through Maheu. But when we asked about Rosellis CIA sion, OConnell also clammed up. Finally we spoke to John McCone, who headed the CIA at the time of the assassination attempts. He acknowledged the idea had been discussed inside the CIA but insisted it had been rejected immediately. He vigorously denied that the CIA had ever participated in any plot on Castros life. Asked whether the attempts could have been made without his knowledge, he replied: It coud not have happened. We have complete confidence, howev- er, in our sources. (Copyright (C) 1971 by Beil McClure Syndicate) By HAROLD LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Critic The Utah Symphony Orchestra is an ensemble of many facets. Last Wednesday, winters after one of the worst blizards the symphony attracted an unusually large auconsid- - ' dience what its ering members had to endure to get to the Tabernacle for a performance of a Mahler and Schubert symphoArdean Watts ny. Three nights later, on Saturday, joining with what would seem at first to be a strange choice because of the huge contrast in repertoire, the Utah Symphony and its guests attracted another large, if generally different, audience. would you believe The guests were barbershoppers: the Utah Valley Skyline Chorus, the Salt Lake Beehive Statesmen, the Bountiful Chordbusters, e world and the barbershop Evans Quartet. the champions, the Any fears that these two groups Utah Symphony and the barbershoppers might not make it together were quickly put to rest. For one advantage, there was the catalyst, Ardean Watts, associate conductor of the Utah Symphony, music factory who is ala most. equally at home in the pops as in the classics, w'ho served as conductor. one-tim- one-ma- n one that was advantage was extremely interesting to watch Turk Evans who conducted the combined choruses while at the same time Mr. Watts was conducting the Utah Symphoin the ny. They worked final program group that included both groups. Each of the tome choruses was competently led by its regular leader in a group of two selections. Val Hicks directed the Utah Valley Skyline Chorus; Robert Brock directed the Salt Lake Beehive Statesmen; and Turk Evans directed the Bountiful Chordbusters. Another hand-in-glo- The music that the Utah Symphony played for t lie opening half of the I ujjiHP4ua investigation through the nm You may write to Do It Mon, Box 1257 Sait Lake City, Utah 84110 A Bright Idea Fcr Dark Streets Seems like Ive heard about a fluorescent material you can put on clothing that will help motorists see you when youre walking at night. Is there such a tiling? Sounds like a good idea, especially fer kids who ride bikes. P.S., Magna. A bright idea, actually. Talon, for one, makes a reflective tape that can be sewn on coats or jackets or made into arm bands and will reflect a cars headlights more than 600 feet. Company claims use of tape has cut fatalities significantly. May be purchased at any variety or department store. Company's Impatient Too I took a Regina Electric Broom io a store to have a dial repaired. Instead, they repaired the switch which had nothing wrong with it. After I noticed the dial hadn't been fixed, I took it back in and was told they would repair the dial without charge since they had already charged me for the switch. But as yet I havent got my electric broom hack. They say theyre waiting for a part. Could you get it for me? J.P., Salt Lake City. The firm is impatient, too. They admit they made a mistake on your broom and they are going to repair the dial. But the hangup is the part which hasn't come. It's been reordered and they expect it within a week or 10 days. However, if it doesn't come, let us know and maybe we can help the firm help you. man's employer showed, Featherstone Error Is Corrected recalled, that the man was still employed by the company and living writh his wife I placed an order on the 23rd of Octoon welfare in addition to receiving his ber with the Stuart McGuire Company of regular check from work. An investigator found his truck in Salem, Yiiginia for a pair of mans shoes, 10 I). I sent a rheek for $25 which front of the couples Salt Lake County size residence and took the license number, has since been cancelled and returned lo me. On Oct. 27 they sent a card stating checking the information with the Dritheir supply was depleted and new ones vers License Division. The womans eligiwere being made and I should expect the bility worker was consulted. But in tiie 39 days. By the 1st of Demeantime the welfare recipient called order within when no order eanie I wrote cember husshe her and the division, saying that . . but still no order. I would apband had reconciled and wouldnt need again . some help. E.G., Salt Lake preciate welfare. City. Featherstone urged that more personnel be hired to investigate this and other Company claims merchandise was not types of cases, which could result in a shipped due to an error in the office. They say your order has been processed yearly savings of thousands of dollars and you can expect to receive your merto Utah. chandise within 10 days to two weeks. Fun Music To Like Yourself By lis MERRY-GO-ROUN- D Locked in the dark- est recesses of the Central Intelligence Agency is the story of six assassination attempts against y January Welfare Work Needs More Cooperation 5 ' A Monday, program included selections by Gould, Humperdinck, Strass, Siegmeister, and Bart. These pleasant items were played with warmth and artistic control. The choruses and the Evans Quartet were also warm and agile and within many moods. This was, indeed, music to like yourself by. Carl Hanculf served all too briefly as the narrator. For just about the first time in its modem history, the Utah Symphony concert began at 8 p.m. and thus caused many unsuspecting cash customers to be late, and for whatever reason a number were not admitted at all and ended up by going to a movie. Mores the pity for their missing an evening of perfection of top fun and entertainment . . . - Dr. A. Ray Olpin, LOUD & CLEAR president emeritus of the University of Utah and easily one of the major promoters of the arts in Utah, is being honored by having the Univer-- s C h amber i ty Music Festival dedicated to him this year. There will be three concerts, January 31 and February and it couldn't all-tim- e happen to a more deserving patron of the arts. Just consider that Dr. Olpin gave the Utah Symphony Orchestra a home back when it didnt have one, and he invited Wiliam Christensen to cieate a ballet department (one of the first in the nation) that has developed into Ballet West, and you have some idea of his dedication to the arts. The Chamber Festival are being arranged by Prof. Louis Booth, head of chamber music at the U. of U. . . . SEE! HEAR! University Faculty Quartet: Oscar Chausow and Norma Lee Madsen, violins; Sally Peck, viola: Christian Tieymeyer, cellist; will be pianist. joined by Gladys Gladstone, Program: Haydns Quartet No. 79. Opus 76. No. 4 in B Flat, (Sunrise) : Debussys String Quartet in G, Opus 10: Shostakovichs Piano Quintet." Art and Architecture Center Auditorium. Monday (18), 8 p.m. $1. Road's No Secret Recently I contacted you about a strip ol ground that was closed in Hanna, Utah. It was owned by a private corporation. You told me to ask the Duchesne County Commission as to why one could not use a road through this land. I contacted them the middle of November but have had no word. Is someone trying to ? I would think the keep this commission could have answered ire long ago. V.I)., Salt Lake City. hush-hush- No hush-husjust takes time to find out. The Duchesne County attorney, a busy man, investigated county maps and records about the Squaw Creek Road at the request of the commission. Result : it is not now, nor has it ever been, a county ,oad; nor did the county ever acquire any easement or right of way which might have given it some control. They emphasize this because we originally implied from information received from the Fish & Game Dept, that is questioned that the land owners could legally stop anyone from traveling on it as it was used as a public road for many years. Since this was in error, and it is a private road, it is up to the landowner to permit any access or use. Company Promises Action On Oct. 13 I sent for some little weather houses that were advertised in the paper. I sent a check which has been raneelied and back a month or more for $25. About the 25th of Oetobrr I received y two of them but the rest never came. I have written four times but no word. Could you help please? J.B., Provo. The firm, as you now are aware, has been informed of your difficulty and apologized for the misunderstanding. They have asked you to send a photostat of your cancelled check and promised to immediately. .straighten oul the mix-u- An Interesting Item have a Sunlight luminous pen and like to know- where I can get refills for it. The makers name does not appear anywhere on the pen or package. It seems to have been made in Japan. Can you locate someone who would know about refills who is a little closer than L. R. Manti. Japan? 1 Id - How about Salt Lake City? we know, have these pens in stock, also the refil's. The pens cost $2.98 each and the refills are 39c each. Pern-broke- s, (Editor's Note: We're sorry the number of callt and the volume of mail make it impossible to answer every q jc.tion. Please, no medical or legal questions. envelopes as Cor.'t s m stamps or answers can t.tiy be e ven in this column. Omy questions cf general interest will Be answered. Give number not tor ycur name, address and telephone Do-- 1 Man help you.) publication but to help |