European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 2b. 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 congressional negotiators agree to Bill that would overhaul . Welfare system by the Washington Post Washington top House and Senate negotiators reached agreement monday on sweeping changes in the nation s welfare system. The legislation proposes to shift the welfare system s emphasis to Job train ing Basic education and work programs for welfare parents to try to move them of welfare Rolls and into the work Force. It s an excellent  Senate finance committee chairman Lloyd Bent sen of Texas told reporters As lawmakers ended three months of Inch by Inch negotiation dogged by Battles Over work requirements costs and benefits. Belsen the democratic vice presi a Coliat nominee said the landmark Bill would Cost $3.34 billion Over five years and that the administration has accepted the proposal. Welfare parents with children older than 3 would be required to the extent funds arc available to enrol in slate Basic education Job training work experience and Job search programs. In fiscal 1990 and 1991, a state would be required to enrol at least 7 percent of eligible parents in the education and raining programs. That requirement would Rise to 20 percent by fiscal 1995. To smooth the transition from welfare dependency to Reliance on a Job recipients would be assured of one year of Day care assistance and one year of continued family medicaid eligibility after obtaining a Job and working their Way Oft Cash welfare Benefit Rolls. To help improve the income of Wel fare parents the Bill would require Auto Matic employer deduction of legally due child support payments from the pay Check of an absent Parent even if the payments arc nol in arrears. All slates would have to provide benefits for families in which the father is present but unemployed. Half the slates already cover such families voluntarily. Newly Cov ered two Parent slates could limit benefits to a family to six months a year. The full House Senate conference committee is expected to approve the Compromise this week. Assistant to the president Charles d. Hobbs a welfare expert present during the final negotiations said if this turns out to be what we understood it to be it sounds to me like something we could  the White House repeatedly had said it considered Many of the provisions in the House version As merely Benefit in creases that could make welfare More attractive discouraging welfare mothers from working. Most of the criticized provisions were dropped. The administration won a major Victory when conference Leader accepted a Senate amendment requiring that in most two Parent welfare families one Parent typically the father be required to wont at least 16 hours a week in an unpaid Community Job or some similar work Slot. This provision would be phased in from1994-97. The president said he would veto the Bill without the provision. There have been nominal work requirements under the current welfare program but at any Given time Only 6 percent of recipients Are working. Under the Compromise worked out monday the Bill would provide Auto Matic payments of up to $600 million in fiscal 1989, raising to $ i billion a year by 1990, to help the states pay Tor the Job programs on a Matching basis. However the full amounts would probably nol be spent because of the time required to put the programs into effect. Billy Carter eulogized As Compass Onafre trusting Plains a. Al j country Singer Tom t. Hall delivered the Eulogy monday afternoon at a funeral for Billy Carter describing his Friend As one Man with that smile that laugh that gleam of Trust and compas Sion in his  about 500 mourners showed up to pay their last respects to Carter Olio was thrust into the National spotlight after his older brother became the nation s39lh president. Carter was Well known for his Down Home witticisms and his Beer drinking at a service station he once owned in Plains Carter 51, died quietly and peacefully in his sleep of pancreatic cancer the disease that killed his father and an older sister the family said in a statement his funeral was held at Lebanon cemetery West of Plains where his Mother miss Lillian Carter and his father James Earl Carter Are buried. Billy Carter s widow Sybil and the couple s six Chil Dren were escorted to the Gra Vesile by friends and scaled in front of Carter s Cherry casket which was covered by a Blanket of exotic Flowers and surrounded by dozens of wreaths. Also among the Large crowd of mourners were for Mer president Carter and his wife Rosalynn who lived next door to Billy Carter. The former president said their relationship strained during his years in the White House improved in later years. We worked together for Many years Side by Side. While i was president we went in opposite directions but in the last year we be just been friends Carter said. My Mother said never underestimate him " the former president said he was the most intelligent one in the  in rising to deliver the Eulogy Hall noted that Billy Carter had overcome Many of his own personal prob lems and had been planning to devote his life to help ing others Deal with alcoholism. Billy Carter was struck Down in the prime of his former president Carter wife Rosalynn and other family members arrive it Billy Carter s House in Plains a. Court rejects father s bid to prevent wife s abortion life. He was just beginning a new chapter. He was planning his travels to help others Lake charge of i hair lives Hall  graveside service was conducted by the Rev. Dan anal pastor of the Maranatha Baptist Church where Jimmy Carter leaches sunday school. Plains businesses including Billy s former service station and Cousin Hugh Carter s antique store closed Early for the  Mae Bearden a worker at the Plains visitors Center East of Lowit said she got numerous Calls from Billy Carter admirers Billy loved other people she said. He was never the bad Guy the Media made him out to  Sands  Early monday Well wishers stood outside the cart Rhome in Small groups. Reporters were turned away. In a downtown Park in front of the service station where Carter used to sit drinking and entertaining re porters during his brother s presidency a Flag new at half staff. In the year since his cancer was diagnosed. Carte Rhad tried a variety of experimental treatments and lived longer than his doctors expected. The family s statement issued by the Carter presidential Center in Atlanta said he had struggled courageously with his illness never losing his sense of humor and always More concerned about those who loved him than about  Washington a the supreme court on monday refused to Slop a Flint mich., woman from having a abortion her estranged husband sought to prevent. The justices without comment an without any recorded dissent let stand Michigan court rulings thai Shawn Lewisham a constitutional right to end her preg Nancy despite her husband s objections. Michigan s highest court had rejected Carlton Lewis attempt to prevent the abortion but gave him and a court appointed guardian for the fetus until Mon Day to seek emergency help from supreme court Justice Antonin Scalia who handles emergency appeals from Michi Gan for the nation s highest court. Scalia referred the request to the .supreme court which denied in. Lawyer James Bopp or. Of Terre haute ind., representing the court appointed guardian asked that mrs. Lewis be kept from having an abortion until the full supreme court considers a for mat Appeal. In the Appeal Bopp urged the court to overturn ils landmark 1973 decision legalizing abortion. Three other supreme court members chief Justice William h. Rehnquist and justices Byron r. White and Johnpaul Stevens rejected similar Emer gency requests earlier this year. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sept. 28, 1948 defense ministers from France Britain and the Benelux coun tries met in Paris along with observers from the United slates and Canada to discuss the possibility of a joint Atlantic military Alliance. 30 years ago today. Sept 28, 958 a former contestant on the television quiz show "21" testified at a grand jury investigation that rigged answers and off camera rehearsals had been used by the producers of the show. 20 years ago today. Sept. 28, 1968 presidential candidate George a Wallace denied reports of a romantic relationship Between himself and a Volunteer Campaign worker. 10 years ago foe a. Sept. 28, 1978 having received congressional approval the . Treasury department announced plans to mint 500 million Dollar coins bearing the likeness of Suffragette Susan b. Anthony by mid-1979