European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 14,1977 the stars and stripes Page 7 $30.7 billion welfare plan launched Washington up the administration monday sent Congress a legislative proposal for the first major revision of the welfare system since the great de pression a $30.7 billion package of jobs and supplemental income for the  hearings on the proposed better jobs and income act Are scheduled to begin next monday. In a letter to House speaker Thomas p. O Neill d-mass., hew Secretary Joseph Califano and labor Secretary Ray mar shall said the plan would replace existing Federal welfare Reform programs with a single coordinated program to seek to assure jobs training and income supplementation for Low income citizens Able to work an income support for Low income citizens in need who Are not available for work by reason of disability age of family Circum  proposal would create up to 1.4 million Public service jobs for the primary wage earner in families with children. These jobs should serve As Many As 2.5 million different persons on a temporary basis during one year. Consolidate Aid to families with de pendent children supplemental Security income and food Stamps into a single system. Allow families headed by two parents to receive income supplements if the Hus band s earnings Are insufficient to support the family. The plan would result in a net increase of $2.8 billion in welfare costs Congress was told. State and local governments should save $2.1 billion the Cabinet officers Esti mated. States that traditionally pay the highest welfare benefits California Illinois Massachusetts Michigan new York and Pennsylvania will save More than 25 per cent of their present welfare spending they said. No state will save less than 10 per Centof its welfare costs. The administration offered this exam ple of How the plan would work for a family the husband in a husband wife family with two children who could find no work would get a minimum wage Job paying $5,512 in terms of 1978 dollars. If the family had no other income it also members of the Kennedy family attend funeral services for Kenneth o Donnell onetime aide to the late president John funeral in Boston f. Kennedy. From left to right they Are sen. Edward m. Kennedy Joseph p. Kennedy Iii son of the late Robert Ken Nedy mrs. Ethel Kennedy widow of Robert and Jacqueline Kennedy Onas Sis widow of the late president. A Kennedy clan at o Donnell rites Boston a her Short Black lace veil thrown Back Over her hair Jacquelin Kennedy Onassis bowed her head As the memory of her assassinated husband was evoked repeatedly monday at a funeral mass for his White House adviser Kenneth. O Donnell. Beside her were other representatives of the Kennedy family sen. Edward m. Ken Nedy the surviving brother mrs. Ethe Kennedy widow of sen. Robert f. Kennedy another slain brother and Robert and Ethel Kennedy s son Joe Iii 24. O Donnell 53, who died of an Undis closed ailment Friday was White House appointments Secretary during the uncompleted term of John f. Kennedy. Also As a member of the inner ring of adviser dubbed the Irish mafia he helped counsel the 1968 presidential Campaign of Rober Kennedy until the senator s assassination. The very Rev. Philip j. Kearney who celebrated the mass described o Donnell As a solitary dreamer who restlessly walked the streets of american cities driven by the spirits of two Brothers striving to keep alive their  referring to the death of president Ken Nedy the priest spoke of a dream called Camelot. Shattered that Day in  quoting from Shakespeare s Henry a Edward Kennedy also raised the Royal image often associated with the Kennedy Rule. He who Sheds his blood with me Ken Nedy recited in the words of King Henry woman officer appointed to High ship Post in Noaa Washington up a lieutenant in the National oceanic and atmospheric administration corps has been appointed to the highest shipboard Post Ever held by a woman in a . Uniformed service the Noaa announced sunday. It. Pamela Chelgren 28, port Orchard wash., will be a Field operations officer aboard the Noaa s 162-foot hydrographic Survey ship Pierce. Her duties include the scheduling and reviewing of the ship s hydrographic work. Shall be my  he also read from Homer s Ulysses a Story he said symbolized the Odyssey of Public service of men who served under president Kennedy John Bunyan s Pil grim s Progress and of Donnell Aboo a gaelic legend of the o Donnell clan. Old politicians such As retired speaker of the House John w. Mccormack 85, an former Boston mayor John Collins mixed in the crowd with such new Frontier Fig ures As Lawrence o Brien now commissioner of the National basketball association and Dave Powers Deputy to o Donnell in the White House  of the others of Massachusetts Hierarchy of National and state level demo cratic leaders appeared at the mass in blessed sacrament roman Catholic Church in Jamaica Plain a Boston neigh boyhood once heavily Irish and now increasingly hispanic. O Donnell s prominence rested almost entirely on his association with the Kennedy Brothers. Attempts to run for governor in Massachusetts ended in failure in 1966 and 1970. Would receive a Cash supplement of $1,444,raising the family income to $6,956. If the husband were working in a private Job or a regular Public service Job rather than a Job created under this proposal he also would receive a tax credit of $476, raising family income to $7,432. About 15 per cent of the Public service jobs can pay 25 per cent More than the minimum wage. For persons not Able to work the aged Blind or disabled without other income Cash benefits of $2,500 for an individual and $3,750 for a couple would be provided the administration said. Single Parent families in which the youngest child is under age 7 would not be expected to work but Are eligible for Public service jobs. Probe links . Marshals to underworld new York a a year Long investigation of the . Marshals service has uncovered evidence of mob payoffs extor Tion Loans harking narcotics traffic and thefts by marshals and their deputies throughout the country according to the newspaper new Day. The newspaper in articles appearing sunday and monday said the investigation was made by a special team of Fri agent Sand the Justice department s office of professional responsibility. So far the investigation has resulted in at least a dozen forced resignations of marshals and deputies in Florida Arizona Texas and new Jersey the Long Island newspaper said. A Justice department spokesman in Washington confirmed monday that therein an investigation going on about the marshals service and that there have Bee some  but the spokesman declined to discuss the nature of the investigation or to Dis close the number of marshals who re signed. New Day said a Deputy marshal in grand rapids mich., has been indicted on embezzlement and drug dealing charges. Other indictments were expected by Feder Al officials new Day said but they will not necessarily involve those who have re signed. There Are 94 marshals and More than 1,-800 deputies in the country. Their primary responsibilities Are transporting Federal witnesses serving subpoenas and protect ing Federal courtrooms. The marshals service also has charge of the Federal witness Protection program which provides new identities and Relo Cates witnesses who have testified against organized crime figures. The investigation has looked into allegations that Deputy marshals in Newark n.j., helped disclose to organized crime figures the whereabouts and identities of relocated witnesses new Day  newspaper said several attempts were made on the life of Gerald Festa whose testimony helped convict More than 40 mob figures on state and Federal charges. New Day said sources reported that theman assigned to kill Festa Learned of his whereabouts from Deputy marshals i Newark. According to new Day the investigation also found evidence that members of organized crime families have infiltrated the marshal s office in Newark. A former Newark Deputy marshal was involved with government witnesses who organized two phony cocaine transactions and then took the Money from the prospective buyers. The same former Newark Deputy after resigning from the service conspired with a former Miami Deputy marshal to sell cocaine