St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 11

TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1994 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 3B. Carnahan Signs New Welfare Law Hp 13 ft '1 L1 fit 1 Here are key provisions of welfare re-j form legislation signed into law Mon-i day by Gov. Mel Carnahan: Child support: Holds grandparents responsible for supporting grandchil-! dren, if the grandparents' child doesn't earn an income. A court would decide on this.

Community revitalization plans: Gives communities more inde- pendence on using federal, state and local public assistance, allowing them to coordinate different programs and i make them more accessible to those who need them. Education: Requires that Aid to Families with Dependent Children re- cipients younger than 19 be enrolled in school to get payments. Exemptions: Defines AFDC recipi- ents exempt from signing self-sufficiency pacts as people whose disabil- ities prevent them from working and parents who must take care of disabled children. Qualifications: Targets AFDC re- cipients who have received payments during 18 of the last 36 months, par-1 ents under 24 years old who lack a high school diploma and parents whose, youngest child is 1 6 or older. Self-sufficiency pacts: Man-! dates that AFDC recipients would have to sign agreements with the Depart-, ment of Social Services to start the process of leaving benefit rolls and get-1 ting onto payrolls.

Recipient has up to two years to get off welfare in ex-1 change for job training and greater short-term assistance. The Depart- ment of Social Services estimates that 15,000 AFDC recipients will have signed self-sufficiency pacts by 1 997. Teen parents: Requires an unmar-1 ried minor with a dependent child to live with a parent or guardian to receive AFDC payments. SOURCE: The Associated Press After Ammonia Leak Workers exposed Monday afternoon to ammonia fumes at the Max German Quality Meats plant, in the 3800 block of Aldine Place, assure firefighters that they are all right. A hose carrying ammonia was cut accidentally.

Firefighters gave compressed air to the workers. 2nd Fire Tests Will Of Family Byim O'Neil Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Calvin and Denise Bailey of St. Louis, who only last Saturday celebrated the renovation of their fire-bombed home, face yet another trial by house fire. Sunday, a fire that began in a basement bedroom heavily damaged theij home in the 5200 block of Emerson Avenue in the city's Walnut Park neighborhood. Fire Capt.

Larry Donovan said the fire was accidental, apparently caused by. faulty wiring in a ceiling light fixture. On April 20, someone threw a firebomb "against their house. Many neighbors called the act retaliation for the Baileys' efforts to revive a neighborhood group and target alleged drug dealers on their block. With the help of neighbors, friends and fellow members of Roofers Local 2, the Baileys repaired their one-story home.

On Saturday, they played hosts at a back-yard barbecue to thank their friends. Then came the second fire. "I guess you could call it a test of our characters. But, oh, what a test," Calvin Bailey, 35, said while he cleaned up again Monday. "We finish the house, we celebrate and then bam.

I just want to go.out somewhere and scream." But he and Denise Bailey, 34, said they planned to rebuild again. Denise Bailey said they and their four children, who range in age from 15 to 2 years old, were awake when the smoke alarm began shrieking shortly after 11 p.m. Sunday. She said she opened the basement door to a billow of black smoke and fire. "We got the kids out," she said.

"But we were all standing around saying it was like a second bad dream. I'm going to give it my best, but that night I was thinking I just can't go through this anymore." Calvin Bailey said they would stay on Emerson both because their religious faith gives them strength and because of the reason they decided to April that they didn't want to run from bullies. He said the second fire killed their two pet parakeets and ruined the personal computer they bought for children as a homecoming present. "It's a lump," he said of the computer. Calvin Bailey said the fire gutted the bedrooms he built in the basement, seriously damaged 17 ceiling joists and damaged floorboards in the two front rooms of the first floor.

He said he hoped to do most of the repairs himself. Their homeowners' insurance paid after the first fire, but the company then canceled the policy. Calvin Bailey said they hadn't yet bought new insurance. With two neighbors as co-signing trustees, a fund was set up Monday at the Boatmen's Bank branch at 6605 West Florissant Avenue. It is the Calvin and Denise Bailey Special in care of Boatmen's Bank, P.O.

Box 236, St. Louis, 63166. Area's Overnight Mail Delivery Drops Below National Average KANSAS CITY (AP) Gov. Mel Carnahan signed legislation Monday that he characterized as welfare reform, but the state Republican party immediately attacked it as another costly expansion of government. The centerpiece of the new law, which goes into effect Aug.

28, is a requirement that most aid recipients sign contracts pledging to get out of the system within two years. In exchange, they would receive job training and higher benefits. Those who failed to abide by the contracts would have their benefits cut. "Welfare as we know it is a failed system," said Carnahan, signing the bill in the offices of the Women's Employment Network, an agency dedicated to building the self-esteem of women and to helping women develop job skills. "We need a system that can do better than simply sustain a permanent welfare population generation after generation." Senate President Pro Tern James Mathewson, D-Sedalia, helped push the bill through the Legislature.

"President Clinton came to Missouri and announced a program that was almost an exact copy of what we're doing in Missouri," Mathewson said. "People want to get out of that hole for the rest of their life." The "The Carnahan plan imposes little discipline on welfare recipients," said Tom Fowler, chairman of the state Republican party. "We need a radical change to free Missourians from the bondage of welfare dependency." Republican proposals call for stricter parental and child responsibility, and for putting communities in charge of welfare spending, Fowler said. Therapy From page one "She was back on the track," he said. "We hadn't handled everything, but we had made a difference to her well-being." Henderson treated the 34 patients polled; they had sought help for depression, stress, family and marriage problems but not drug dependency.

They ranged from teens to older adults and represented ZIP codes across the area. He said short-term therapy makes some patients anxious. But many more feel comfortable with the concept because they want to finish and be independent. Some never even hear "brief," Henderson said. "People just come in with problems," he said.

"I don't mention brief. I just start working." At a time when insurance companies, health care providers, government and employers put a tight lid on medical costs, brief therapy gains appeal. "Our mission is to find the most cost-effective approach," said Denice Fondren, regional director for United Behavioral Systems Inc. "There isn't an unlimited pool of dollars for psychotherapy for the majority of people." United Behavioral Systems manages mental health services for Kevin ManningPost-Dispatch Kansas City. 83 Lancaster, 75 Las Vegas, 81 Little Rock, 84 Long Beach, 90 Long Island, N.Y 78 Los Angeles, 80 Louisville, 89 Manchester, N.H., 91 Memphis, Tenn 76 Miami, 78 Milwaukee, 84 Minneapolis, 83 Nashville, Tenn 81 New Brunswick, N.J., 84 New Orleans, 85 New York, 62 Newark, N.J., 77 North Suburban, 80 Northern Virginia 71 Oakland, 78 Oklahoma City, 86 Omaha, 89 Orlando, 85 Philadelphia, 68 Phoenix, 86 Pittsburgh, 81 Portland, Maine, 90 Portland, 89 Providence, R.

85 Queens, N.Y., 73 Richmond, 85 Sacramento, 88 Salt Lake City, 89 San Antonio, 83 San Diego, 91 San Francisco, 83 San Jose, 87 San Juan, Puerto Rico, 68 Santa Ana, 87 Seattle, 91 Sioux Falls, S.D., 87 South Jersey, N.J., 75 South Suburban, I 85 Southern Maryland, 73 Spokane, 90 Springfield, 85 St. Louis, 79 St. Paul, 82 Tampa, 88 Tucson, 82 Tulsa, Ok 86 Van Nuys, 84 Virgin Islands, 74 Washington, D.C 62 Westchester, N.Y 76 Wichita, 93 The Associated Press contrib- uted information to this story. 240,000 people in southern Missouri and Illinois. In brief therapy, each patient gets assigned sessions based on diagnosis and need.

Common treatment ranges from six to 12 sessions but can be longer. Cases get reviewed periodically, and treatment is adjusted to offer more or less intensive and fre quent care. "We have to make the most of limited resources," said John R. Deats. He directs communications for Medco Behavioral Care which has national operations and is based in Maryland Heights.

The company provides managed mental health care to 13 million Americans, including 275,321 who live in Missouri, through a national network of 3,000 therapists who spe-' cialize in brief therapy. Even business tries brief therapy. A company in California hired a therapist because it could not decide among resumes from potential employees. "We want to teach business how to get themselves unstuck," Gurney said. "We want to be able to help business solve their problems the fastest and easiest way possible, because that is going to create workplaces that are mentally healthier." An unexpected bonus of brief therapy: Therapists, burned out by years of using other techniques, find the concept jump-starts their career.

"They say, 'I am having fun Gurney said. TO FUTURE! By Tim O'Neil Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Overnight mail delivery in a wide area around St. Louis has fallen below national averages that it used to beat, says St. Louis Postmaster Larry Wood. "We're not happy with that.

We're not going to let the gains we'd seen in the past several years slip away," he said. Wood oversees mail service in St. Louis and parts of St. Louis County. He spoke on behalf of the Gateway service area, which covers most of northern and central Missouri and southern Illinois.

Starting this week, he said, the Postal Service will install nine machines in separate neighborhood post offices so customers can answer a six-question survey. Wood also said the St. Louis Post Office will set up an advisory council of 15 residential customers. In 1990, the Postal Service headquarters in Washington hired the accounting firm of Price Waterhouse to make four reviews each year of overnight delivery rates. The first Price Waterhouse report, issued in November 1990, said that 88.3 percent of first-class letters mailed within the St.

Louis overnight-delivery area reached their destinations the next day. The national average was 80.6 percent. A similar report released in January 1992 put the St. Louis average at 83 percent, still above the national score. But new reports show that overnight delivery in the St.

Louis St. Louis County police gave this account: The robber showed up at the bank when it opened at 9 a.m. and took a seat at a loan officer's desk. The man pretended to be opening a new account, then displayed a handgun. The man then ordered bank employees to kneel.

Walking behind the teller line, the Come Get The area has been as many as five percentage points below the national averages in four of five quarters since early 1993. Only in early summer 1993 was the rate above average 85 percent, or one point above the national score. In spring 1994, the most recent report, the St. Louis overnight rate was 79 percent, three points below the national average. Wood cited bad weather, retirements of skilled workers, and new machinery as reasons for the delivery-rate decline.

Here are the most recent delivery figures: Akron, Ohio, 77 percent Albany, N.Y. 68 Albuquerque, N.M., 76 Anchorage, Alaska, 87 (tested for two-day mail only) Atlanta, 80 Austin, Texas, 83 Baltimore, 69 Birmingham, 83 Boston, 81 Brooklyn, N.Y., 73 Buffalo, N.Y., 91 Charleston, W.Va., 87 Charlotte, N.C 82 Chicago, 75 Cincinnati, 83 Cleveland, 80 Columbia, S.C, 89 Columbus, Ohio, 88 Dallas, 79 Denver, 83 Des Moines, Iowa, 90 Detroit, 83 Erie, 85 Fort Worth, Texas 85 Grand Rapids, 86 Greensboro, N.C, 89 Harrisburg, 88 Hartford, 87 Honolulu, 90 Houston, 80 Indianapolis, 83 Inglewood, 85 Jackson, 84 Jacksonville, 84 Tellers, Escapes robber filled a plastic bag with money from the cash drawers of three tellers. He stuffed the plastic bag into a briefcase, walked out the front door and drove off. The FBI joined county police in the investigation. Your SIiare OF Fun July 11 14! Gunman In Suit, Baseball Cap Robs 3 Bank IT'S NOT TOO LATE OPEN THE DOOR TO YOUR man dressed in a business suit and baseball cap robbed three tellers Monday morning at the Magna Bank at 4545 Lemay Ferry Road in south St.

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