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...carrier Hancock, which came from its home base in Alameda, Calif. joined the carrier Oriskany in the Tonkin Gulf to launch a strike over a 2000-mile stretch of the Ho Chi Minh trail...
...Barbara Whitner, 33, a petite Piedmont, Calif., housewife and former volunteer social worker, is not against welfare. Indeed, as she told a recent budget hearing of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, she wants to preserve public assistance for those who really need it. But in California, where a newspaper expose showed that dozens of state and county officials had contrived to get themselves on welfare, the poor are often left by the wayside. Mrs. Whitner was enraged...
...Alameda County alone, the welfare budget has risen $24 million in one year to $136,666,000. "End the legal cheating," Mrs. Whitner demanded of the supervisors. Just in case the point was missed, she presented examples from her own experience, including the names and addresses of offenders. "If you won't do this," she threatened, "I'll teach others how to cheat." The official response was a yawn. That was a mistake...
...next venture, a couple borrowed a baby and hit another office in Alameda County. Their story was that they were new in the state, had three children but no money. Without even showing identification, they were signed up for the whole program on the spot. Another presented herself at a local office and though not asked for identification, volunteered to present a rent receipt. Whereupon she left the office, only to return with a bogus receipt written on a scrap of paper bag by Mrs. Whitner...
What the effect of the strange crusade will be is still uncertain. Local authorities are already overburdened just keeping pace with new applicants, who in some counties average more than 200-a day. Says Robert Hannon, Chairman of the Alameda County Committee on welfare: "In essence, Mrs. Whitner's charges are correct. I'm grossly dissatisfied with the whole program." The fact that officials did not stop the Dirty Dozen even after finding out about their capers indicates both their apathy toward welfare cheaters and the difficulties of curbing their profit-making activities...