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THE TENNESSEAN, Baker Lashes Out at Carter Welfare Plan By JACK SIRICA Tennessean Washington Bureau WASHINGTON-In a direct attack on President Carter's welfare reform plan, Sen. Howard Baker last night strongly criticized several basic provisions of the administration's program. Baker meanwhile called on private industry to aid in reducing high minority unemployment rates, charging that the president's proposal. to set up 1.4 million public service jobs is no more than a temporary solution to the rising minority unemployment rate. "THE PRESIDENT'S public jobs proposal is at best an expensive placebo and at worst a long stride down the road to organized make-work," Baker told the annual conference of the Institute for Socioeconomic Studies in New York.

"Public service jobs have their place. But, they are Band-Aids for the wounded, not cures for the disease of structural unemployment," the senator said. Baker called on Carter and congressional leaders to convene a "National Employment Conference," where major corporations and labor unions could formulate plans to bring unemployed and untrained workers into the labor force. IN ADDITION, he advocated "major tax incentives" to prod corporate heads into hiring and training more persons. Republicans have long favored tax incentives as a way to ease unemployment.

Baker termed the current urban situation a "quiet crisis which threatens to explode in anger and violence at any time at the slighest provocation. "IT IS, MORE than anything else, a crisis of the human spirit," he added. "It is crisis in the heart of the father who cannot support his family. It is the crisis of the child who faces the bleak prospect of a life of fear and desperation and joblessness and crime and pun, ishment." Carter's plan, however, would enlarge, rather than consolidate the welfare stucture, Baker said, claiming that more than 30 million Americans would receive. "welfare-related checks" if the administration's package is approved.

"That signifies to me a society in the senator said. "'That is not the kind of reform I believe the great majority of the American people will tolerate. "LET US TAKE steps to remedy its (the welfare system's) inequities, to tie the system closely to opportunities for productive work," he added. Baker echoed the common belief the present welfare system discourages recipients from searching for work. He charged that the system fosters "outrageous discrimination against intact families," and encourages fathers to leave their families to obtain more benefits.

His criticism comes at a time when Carter's reform package is encountering stiff opposition on Capitol Hill. SEVERAL HOUSE committee chairmen with jursidiction over parts of the package have voiced serious questions about the president's reform ideas. House Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman, D- has called Cater's plan "totally Paint Body DIVISION ALL MAKE TRUCKS Neely Coble Cal TRUCK CENTER Wednesday, December 14, 1977 Sen. Baker "Expensive placebo" Former Aide To Hoover Burial Slated Today Services for Samuel Scott Alden, 70, a former assistant to the late FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, will be at 2:30 p.m.

today at Cole Garrett Funeral Home, Goodlettsville. Dr. Cortez Cooper and Dr. Arch MacNair will officiate. Burial will be in Spring Hill Cemetery.

ALDEN, who was also a- former director of the State Alcoholic Beverage Commission, died Monday in St. Thomas Hospital following a heart attack. During his 27-year FBI career, Alden was either a special agent or a special agent in charge of offices in Dallas, Little Rock, Savannah, Baltimore, Knoxville and Miami. He became director of the Alcoholic Beverage Commission after his retirement from the FBI in 1963, and served in that position for nine years. ALDEN studied at the University of Tennessee and was graduated from Peabody College.

He was graduated from Vanderbilt Law School.with top honors, and was a member of the Order of the Coif and Lincoln's Inn honor societies. Alden, a direct descendant of Mayflower pilgrim John Alden, was also a former history professor and the first coach at the former Austin Peay Normal School in Clarksville, Tenn. HE WAS a member of First Presbyterian Church, where he taught HOW TO an adult Sunday School class for three years. Alden was also a member of the Ex-Special Agents (of the FBI) Association. Survivors include his wife, Mrs.

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