European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 30, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes wednesday August 30, 1978 welfare seeks $125 million in losses Washington a the government is mounting a new Effort to recover 125 million overpaid from 1974 to 1976 to 61.000 persons in a welfare program for the poor Blind and disabled. In a few cases some recipients May have gotten $20,000 too much because of program mismanagement and computer problems that included duplicate checks a social Security administration official said monday. But Patricia j. Livers director of the Agency s Bureau of supplemental Security income noted that the overpayment re cords themselves could be in error and that the losses May not be that High. All 61.000 persons Are believed to have gotten at least $1,000 too much in ssi pay ments and none Are currently receiving benefits under the $7.5 billion program of of oks Cleveland school loan Columbus Ohio a state officials gave their approval monday for Cleveland s embattled City schools to Bor Row $20.7 million from the stale a loan the City needs to open classrooms on sched ule sept. 8. The state controlling Board after nearly three hours of discussion approved the loan from the states emergency school assistance fund. 7-0 it attached Stern conditions which will keep the 100.000-Pupil District under state receivership at Leas until May 1980. The Money will cover a deficit which the state auditor s office says includes $13.1 million in unpaid notes and Bills and biweekly salaries totalling about $5 million. Monday s Board action saved the schools from a financial predicament that would have delayed the opening of schools in the stale s biggest District until late no vember. Slate auditor Thomas e. Ferguson had reported that Cleveland lacked funds to run the schools for 56 Days Between the scheduled opening and the end of the Calen Dar year Jan. 31. Cleveland like other Ohio school districts has suffered from inflated operating costs rising teacher salaries and Defeated tax levies. Voters turned Down two tax levies this year the first levies sought by school officials in seven years. Earlier this year the Board advanced Cleveland $20.5 million from its own future state subsidies in order to pay teachers and keep schools open until the end of the 1977-1978 school year in june. That Advance depleted Cleveland s state Aid for the current Calendar year. The new loan will dip into state subsidies for 17 months starting Jan. 1,1979. Deputy stale instruction superintendent Robert Bowers said he is satisfied thai the $20.7 million loan combined with local tax revenues and other income will enable the schools to remain open during the coming school year As Well As the 1979-1980 term. Under the plan adopted by the control Ling Board the loan will be repaid by with holding 10 equal monthly instalment pay ments from Cleveland s slate subsidies beginning in August 1979 and ending inlay 1980. Oxford Grad denied permit w1ijjamsburg. A. Up Oxford University librarian Clifford Currie has been denied a work permit that would Al Low him to become the chief librarian at William and Mary a labor department of kids said. Spokesman John Hord of the depart ment s Philadelphia regional office said Currie cannot have the permit because there Are qualified . Citizens for the the ssi program one of the few surviving elements of former president Richard m. Nixon s ii tempt at welfare Reform was plagued with computer problems when it started in 1974. It still is making overpayment at Itic Rale of nearly $300 million annually but the error rate has dropped steadily to 4 6 Chrysler workers end Wildcat strike Kenton to. Up workers who staged a one Day Wildcat walkout on the first shift at the Chrysler automobile As Sembly Plant returned to their jobs officials at the Plant said. About 4.000 employees at the Plant were idled by the unauthorized walkout. About 2,000 first shift workers walked off their jobs at 7 30 a.m., and 2.000 second shift employees were sent Home in the after noon because of insufficient manpower to operate the Plant a company spokesman said. Percent and is far below 8.7 percent rate in the government s other major welfare pro Gram Aid to families with dependent Chil Dren. Livers said the social Security admits ration is continuing efforts to curtail and collect the overpayment. Improvement if its computer capabilities has made the current drive possible she said. Social Security offices around the nation in july began contacting 2.667 persons overpaid More than 85.000 each or a total of $13.5 million. Last week the Agency s Headquarters in Baltimore sent out lists of the remaining 58.000 with overpayment of $1.000 or More we Are trying to Contact these people to find out if they re still living see if they Are Able to repay the Money and also double Check our records in the District offices to be sure they Are livers told a reporter. The government will Send the persons letters asking them to come into a social Security office for conference without Tell ing them How much they owe. We Don t want to create alarm with a startling letter about owing the Federal government Money unless we Are certain that it s fact she said. The people will be Given a Chance to Dia Pule or Appeal the Agency s Bill or to a. Range repayment in a Lump sum or . Half of the 4.2 million ssi recipients nationwide Are elderly persons who Alsom regular social Security checks. And Mam of the former ssi recipients also May b retired. But livers said the government cannot withhold any Money from social Security checks unless the person agrees to mate repayment that Way. The government could seek a court order forcing repay ment. The fact that the 61.000 arc no longer getting ssi checks indicates Many have some income they lacked previously and May be Able to make some restitution six said. Social Security officials usually exceeds in retrieving 38 percent of overpay ments she added. That would amount to $47.5 million of the $125 million former president Richard Nixon and his wife Pat Greet guests at their Home Republican get together in san Cleminte calif., where they hosted a $250-per-plate fund Raiser for Orange county republicans Over tto weekend. About 400 attended. A pulitzer author Cotton Dies at 78 Frankfort Mich. A Bruce cation who As a youth listened in veterans Tell their tales of the civil War and later won the pulitzer prize for a Book on the conflict is dead at the age of 78. Calton died monday in Paul Oliver hos Pital in this Northern lower Michigan re sort Community where he maintained a summer Home he spent his Winters inner York Hospital administrator Bruce Huron said cation entered the Hospital a week ago for treatment of a respiratory ailment in 1954. Cation won a pulitzer and a National Book award for a stillness at a the last Book in his civil War trilogy. Boy. If Ever there was a night to drink a bottle of Bourbon that was cation said of the pulitzer award. In a 1974 interview with the Detroit news sunday Magazine. Calton recalled that his interest in the civil War was kindled As a boy. There were Many Veter ans in Benzonia. Mich., where the Catton family moved in the Early 1900s, Catton recalled. I think i had the impression then with All those old Fellows around telling their stories that the civil War had been fought 10 Miles cast of Benzonia and just five years before i was born cation said Afler studying at of Calm College m Ohio. Cation worked on newspapers in Cleveland and Boston before becoming Washington correspondent for the news paper Enterprise association. In Inith world War " Eru red Ca joined the government As director of information for the War production Board he so ice " 190 and decided to become a big novelist " Rah a Sion Ann really were far said Well. I got 200 pages Down. And it was awful. Dreadful. But the fact parts where the armies were mov Fot when the Bailies were fought that bad. So i scrapped the fictional part a just wrote what i always wanted to the Story of the of the Potomac. I was just As Impromptu As the first two instalments of the Traff or. Lincoln s and Al of Road were published in 1951 Andl respectively. Catton s other books included Hawf lords of Washington published in of " Grant and the american my 1954 banners at she a 1955 this hallowed ground Iff the coming 1961 Terri left 1963 and Michigan a tort Mal history 1976 his wife. Hazel died of a heart to 1969 at the age of 69
