European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 1, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday december 1, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 heirs billed for depression Era welfare Madison wis a the heirs of Wisconsin residents who received county welfare Hnnry during the great depression May gel an unpleasant Surprise after heir relatives die. Sonic Wisconsin enmities and municipalities re quire that people who sol local welfare no Mailer How song ago pay it Back however neither the county nor in Ninny cases the family will find out about the Bill until i lit recipe incl has died county officials said. In one Case this full the Rock county social serv ice. Department billed he estate of an 86-year-old woman for j100.21. Irene Schwyn gals then a Miner s widow with two toddlers got 1h9l amount in assistance in 1935 and 1936. She used 15.72 for a ton of Coal si9.63 to pay a doctor s Bill and the rest for food. The demand for repayment incensed her sister Enid . I can see going Back 10 years bul to go Hack 50 years. That was the depression and people were starving la in t the Money it s the principle i Chell said. However officials in Rock and Milwaukee coun ties and the City of Madison also argue principle in collecting the half Century old debts. It s usually a Small amount and in essence it s been a 50-year interest free loan said James Bahler financial investigator for the Rock county social services department. That Money we collect is used to help those who need it Loday he said. The department handles about two dozen cases a year involving depression Era welfare payments Bahler said. The Bills usually Range from 1200 to $400 2nd Cost Only about $20 per Case to process he said. Most Are surprised Aboul gelling a Bill Hal old. And Moat heirs lend to thin of the estate As their Money said Jeff Aikin of the Milwaukee county department of health and human services. But if you look at Ilas a Benefit your parents got when they needed it most i think you should feel an obligation 10 repay the taxpayers he said. The Only ways a such a Bill surfaces for repayment arc through checks with various county records when probate and estate papers arc tiled alter death or if an individual voluntarily comes Forward. State Law says a county can Only require repay ment of welfare from the recipients themselves with in 10 years after it is granted. After that routines arc prohibited from seeking repayment until a person s death. Then they can seek the Money through a Lien against the estate Aikin said. It is Cost effective Here because of our larger population. There were an estimated 40,000 people on welfare in Milwaukee at that time compared to Only about 7,000 Loday Aikin said. Bob Mcevoy. Head of the Milwaukee county securities division which collects welfare Bills said his office handles up to 50 cases a month involving debts from the 193us and 1940s. I think we re probably the most vigorous of counties at Rimini this Mcfry said. A of Opeo. Pic come in and want to pay the Bill soil won t be billed to the  the City of Madison will pursue depression Era Bills but Brown and Dane counties and the City of Green Bay have decided to forgive the debts. We be tooted at them and found it just was t Worth it the amount you d spend to gel Back a Hun dred Bucks said Roy Ticarich vice president of the Brown county housing allowance. I m sur prised anyone still does require repayment. Officials in the neighbouring states of Illinois Michigan and Minnesota say there arc no similar collection programs in their Stales. Anti nuke group claims car bombing Livermore Calif. A a Man claiming to belong to a group called the nuclear liberation front claimed responsibility sunday for a bomb that blew out dozens of windows at a Laboratory where nuclear weapons arc designed. The bomb planted beneath a car in a parking lot near the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 40 Miles cast of san Francisco exploded at 1 30 . Sat urday. There were no injuries but the blast destroyed the car and damaged at least three others created a Small Crater in the parking lot and scattered debris for 400 Yards. Authorities and local anti nuclear groups said they had never heard of the nuclear liberation front. The Fri declined to say whether it had any suspects. A Man identifying himself As optic called the san Francisco Bureau of the associated press on sunday morning and said he and his Friend the plutonium kid had carried out the bombing As members of the Oppenheimer brigade of the nuclear liberation front. The late j. Robert Oppenheimer an american physicist was a key figure in the development of the first atomic bomb. The Man described the organization As International and said the attack was the firs in the san Francisco area and that More Are planned. The lab managed by the University of California is one of two . Centers for nuclear tests totals since 1945 United states 845 user 624 France Britain Vilna Hole us and Britai have done joint letting India since 1062 i inc ago Embum Gripe soviet natural Bou urch cd Rani Council american girl to meet with soviet Leader s wife Boca Raton Fla. A a 13 year old girl has been invited to meet Raisa Gorbachev the Soviel Leader s wife Gram he to discuss setting up a pen pal pro far american and soviet children the design of nuclear weapons. The Adja cent privately managed Sandia National Laboratory whose parking lot was bombed designs supplementary equip ment for those nuclear weapons. Sue step Hanson a spokeswoman for the Lawrence liver More Laboratory said at least id employees were working in the building when windows were broken by the blast about 75 Yards away. The blast did nol damage the Sandia building. Her father Robert l. We Nick a former while House official said sunday. He said the family has t been told de tails of the meeting Between his daughter Laura and mrs. Gorbachev which is expected to be held in Washington d.c., during the dec. 8-10 Summit Between president Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. We were invited. But the schedule in t out yet so it s nol confirmed As to when or what or How we Nick said. The invitation was extended by Vitaly can. A . Correspondent for the soviet newspaper pravda he said. Wenick said the soviet Media arc the voice and the ears and if you want something you go through them. I feel that they Are  Laura said she is prepared for the meeting. Ill Lell mrs. Gorbachev. I m glad to see you and. I Hope you can Start a pen pal thing in Russia " she said sat urday. I m excited about it she has already received gifts of a Small pin and a trinket Box from soviet officials and was interviewed last week by journalists from pravda and Izvestia another soviet newspaper. The invitation came last week during a Washington dinner that Wencek held Tor several soviet journalists. A former lobbyist and while Louse Media Liaison during the Penthouse says Hahn was a prostitute new York a an article writ ten for Penthouse Magazine quotes a woman who said she had been a Madam As saying Hal Jessica Hahn worked for her i a prostitute in 197 7 and 1978. Hahn has said she was a Virgin when television evangelist Jim Bakker had a sexual encounter with her in 1980. She claims Bakker and another evangelist raped her. The article for the Magazine s january Issue quotes Roxanne Dacus As saying she was a Madam on Long Island until a raid by Nassau county police in Decem Ber 1978. Dacus said a woman named Jessie worked for her in 1977 and 1978 and thai she recognized the woman As Hahn in recent television appearances. A copy of the article was released Sun Day. Dominic Barbara an attorney for Hahn said of course she denies  she said Hahn never met Dacus in her  we will be presenting both proof and witnesses about this Story at a news conference in new York later his week Barbara said and will announce then if a lawsuit is planned. Hahn. 28, is now living in the los Angeles mansion of Playboy Magazine publisher Hugh Hefner. The mansion has an unlisted Telephone number and a spokesman for Playboy enterprises did not answer the Telephone sunday. Nassau county police officer Frank o Connor said a woman named Betty Dacus was arrested on dec. 20, 1978, at the address mentioned in the article and was charged with three counts of prostitution and one count of endangering the welfare of a child. De Grilli a spokesman for the District attorney s office said the woman pleaded guilty to promoting prostitution and was sentenced to one year s Proba Tion. Hahn was a Central figure in Bakker s fall when he left the pal television ministry he founded in the Wake of a scandal involving the sexual encounter with Hahn Ana hush Money paid o her. Bakker admitted the 1980 incident took place and characterized Hahn As sexually experienced. Ford administration Wencek said he pulled some strings to arrange the visit. I had several phone conversations with russian journalists in Washington he said. "1 had to assure them that i was t an activist and was very Neutral and had no ties to any other agencies. I told them let s talk about How we can Lake the fear out of the children on your Side and ours " meanwhile his daughter launched her own Campaign by writing Reagan and Gorbachev and she wrote twice to a 13 year old girl in the Soviel City of Kiev. She does t know if her intended pen pal Ever received the letters sent in april and july loan address she obtained through a soviet jewish activist group the Only re plies came Fra i the soviet Union s com Mittee of youth of Ani Zaions which thanked her and told her the letters were sent to the International Friendship club. Sands or time1 in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. ,. Dec. I 1947 the United nations elected a five nation commission consist ing of Bolivia Czechoslovakia Den Mark Panama and the Philippines to Rule Palestine Between the Lime Britain withdraws its troops and the creation of the Arab and jewish states. 30 years ago today. Dec. 1, 1957 president Eisenhower named retired it. Gen. James h. Doo Limite and Lour scientists to a special committee to advise him on scientific mailers. 20 years ago foe a. Dec. 1, 1967 sen. Eugene j. Me Carthy of Minnesota announced that he would Challenge president Johnson on the Vietnam Issue in at least four demo cratic presidential primaries and possibly in six. 10 years ago foe a. Dec. I 1977 Black rhodesian nationalist Leader Abe Muzorewa in a let Ter to prime minister Ian Smith demanded a pledge thai there would be no More attacks such As those that the Mili tary command said killed More than 1,200 nationalist guerrillas a week ear Lier