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A8 linwlHliiw Pul Hfld WJnwdif hpliwbir 20 1W1 Forum Income credit Slash gets OK roles in their communities teaching parents how to raise their children back in distant past I remember a Scripture like this: a child in the ways of the Lord and he will never depart from it he said coming close to quoting Pro- verbs 22:6 must reassert authority but ministers must Jo come all the Way tO Birmingham Ala today My question why dj(j ft toke SQ thank Gov James for deeming it necessary crime We don't need to force everybody into their own Before James spoke Carmen McCain founder of Mothers Against Violence chastised politicians who make youth violence nothing more than a campaign issue and leveled criticism at James Five Birmingham mayoral candidates attended the meeting question any political leader who is put in a position to do something tell me you do something otherwise why occupy the get she said Her group has camped out on the steps of the state Capitol seeking a meeting with James Ms McCain has been outspoken about youth violence ever since her son 16-year-old son Nexariah Ramone McCain was fatally shot outside an Eastwood restaurant three year ago thank Gov James for deeming it necessary to come all the way to Birmingham Ala she said question is why did it take so long?" Defending the governor Rev Franklin Tate first vice president of Mothers Against Violence said thank God that Gov James decided to come too and I say better late than Carmen McCain founder of Mothers Against Violence they act on it and put some laws out there to get these kids off these streets and get these guns out of their Ms Johnson said she supports youth curfews and penalties against parents whose children are involved crimes if the situation applies However Langford said he doesn't support youth curfews not fair to tell everybody in this country that you have to be in your house at 10 o'clock at he said reasonable parents' child would be in the house at 10 o'clock at night anyway What we need to do is punish the folks committing the you touch the hearts of the parents If you do that we could put a deputy sheriff and a state trooper and a national guardsman and a city policeman on every door step and we would not stop James also challenged ministers to create maps of their neighborhoods to identify places where drugs or guns are sold so they can tell police are the people we need to run out of our Johnson said he supports initatives to put more criminals behind bars But we wait for the criminal Justice system to do something with our children doomed" he said Cynthia Johnson 42 whose 21-year-old daughter wu stabbed in the heart and burned beyond recognition While in her Birmingham apartment Sept 23 1994 said she was encouraged by the meeting Tm hoping that they're not just she said hoping that Democrat Rep Sam Gibbons of Florida The wide-ringing bill also reduces or ends more than two dozen tax breaks for businesses extends some expiring tax breaks establishes tax-sheltered savings accounts for medical expenses and strengthens taxpayer rights in dealing with the Internal Revenue Service The changes to the earned income credit would reduce it for more than million families with children earning more than 111620 and end it altogether for 44 million childless workers Also fewer people receiving Social Security and other retirement income would qualify Republicans said their changes would target the credit which can be claimed bom the IRS as a tax refund to families who need it most They said 85 percent of the money goes to people who pay no income taxes and complained that the program has been plagued by fraudulent claims From page A1 The comments came at a youth violence meeting at Birmingham Baptist Bible College About 200 people including local National Baptists ministers and parents or grandparents whove lost children to violence attended the meeting About 30 parents stood and told how their children died by violence Among the public officials who attended were Alabama Attorney General Jeff Sessions state Department of Public Safety Director Gene Mitchell Jefferson County Family Court Judge Sandra Storm Birmingham Mayor Richard Arrington Fair-field Mayor Larry Langford Bessemer Mayor Quitman Mitchell and Birmingham Police Chief Johnnie Johnson James asked them to Join his youth violence panel and all gave their support James also urged Rev Wilson Fal-lin president of the Baptist college to find about 20 ministers to serve on the panel The governor said ministers are criticial to solving the problems He urged them to reassume their jr'-'j-j'i-f WASHINGTON Home Uz writers voted yesterday to reduce tax credits for the workinf poor and encourage corporations to i withdraw billions of dollars from their pension funds The bill aimed at raising $38 'billion in new revenue over the next seven years was adopted by Ways and Means Committee by a 21-15 party-line vote It now heads to the House floor far folding into a massive Republican tax i and spending-cut measure The bulk of the new revenues billion would come from working poor Another $95 bil-' lion would cone from corporate -income and excise taxes from -companies expected take out up "fco 40 billion in excess assets 'from their pension funds over the 'next five years The law for the 'most part now prohibits removing "rthose excess assets Democrats objected to both has got to be othe most heartless thing we have said the senior Welfare From page A1 WmtM Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota who sup- ported the bill despite reservations about many of its provisions said Democrats may have gotten legislation more to their liking only a year ago if they had pursued the issue Still the bill reflect in my view the political reality of today Daschle said is the best bill we 'are going to get under the circum- i stances we have today in the (Demo- cratic) caucus in the Senate in the Congress and in the Some liberals however deplored the bill for ending the historic fed-i end commitment to providing a I safety net for the poor without ad-I dressing the underlying causes of poverty essential truth remains: For i the first time in 60 years we are i eliminating the floor below which we would not let children said Sen Paul Wellstone D-Mina is a i profound mistake for The Senate approved the bill by a vote of 87-12 with opposition coming i from 11 Democrats and one Republican Sen Lauch Faircioth R-NC The vote became almost a formal-j ity after the negotiation of a compro-! mise last weekon several key issues including additional funds for child and the removal of job training from the bill The Senate sealed that compromise yesterday by approving an amendment adding $3 billion to the $5 billion already in the bill to pay for child care for mothers forced to go to work Supporters of the amendment had argued that it wu unrealistic to expect mothers to give up I i i 1 1 i welfare benefits in exchange for low-wage jobs without providing the mean to care for their children while they work While the bill provides more fundi for child care than Republican previously had proposed it still does not guarantee child-care assistance for anyone who eligible The amendment also removed job training programs from the bill Republican had proposed consolidating dozen of federal job-training programs Into block grants to be administered by the states and then reducing overall funding for the programs Democrats had argued many of the job programs were aimed at workers dislocated by economic restructuring and had little connection to the larger issue of welfare reform Under the compromise job training will be dealt with in separate legislation later this year The House approved welfare legislation earlier this year but there are significant differences between the two bills that will have to be worked out by a joint conference committee Chief among those differences are' provisions in the House bill that would deny additional assistance to unwed mothers who have more children while on welfare and would deny welfare payments to unwed teenage mothers The provisions are strongly backed by conservatives and Religious Right groups which say they are needed to discourage illegitimacy Democrats and moderate Republicans however contend the provisions would punish children for the mistakes of their parents Daschle warned Republicans that they risk derailing welfare reform by adopting the harsher tact across the country WNAL is owned by Birmingham-based Fant Broadcasting Companies Fox has not notified WNAL that its affiliation agreement will end when the network begins broadcasting on WBRC-6 next year So WNAL management is making the assumption that Channel 6 will air Fox programming hi the area covered by the Gadsden station said Charles Rountree WNAL general manager Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc which owns WTTO-21 and has an agreement to provide programming for WABM-68 is the other company that will discuss a possible affiliate relationship with ABC has contacted SBG (Sinclair) to explore our level of said Steven Marks a regional director responsible for the Birmingham market hope to meet in the not too distant He raid it was premature to speculate whether WABM-68 or WTTO-21 would be more likely to become the new ABC affiliate Baltimore-based Sinclair entered a program service agreement with new owner Glencaim Ltd of Pittsburgh In July Glencaim completed its acquisition of the station whose previous owner had filed for bankruptcy WABM-68 is the local affiliate for United Paramount Network WTTO-21 will have no affiliation if it doesn't enter an agreement with another network before Fox leaves next September But Marks said that remaining independent is also a possibility Fox From page A1 That leaves the three Fox stations arid Birmingham station WABM-68 'pi the likely contenders for the right carry ABC programming to the entire region now reached by to a portion of it sifThere are ultimately three choices for said David Dubose general manager of WDBB in Tusca-Joosa In one scenario WDBB would a 2000-foot broadcasting tower to north Jefferson County build a "center of operations with a news studio in Birmingham and broadcast as ABC affiliate to the entire area Dubose said the station has al-' ready filed a permit application with the Federal Communications Commission to construct the tower The tower would carry a UHF signal that cbuld be seen Birmingham on channel 17 he said Another possibility is to become the ABC affiliate for the Tuscaloosa area Dubose said A third possibility is to strike a deal with Warner Brothers and carry programming of its recently launched network WDBB has been in discussions with ABC for more than a year Dubose said He also raised the poasiMl-rdity that WDBB could team up with Gadsden station WNAL to work with WDBB is owned by HAP Gommu- Inc which has 16 stations rr 7 iHn Tlr FOOD Wednesdays In HfSrmiiiiamRetJfcraM Psychologists- Need someone to talk to? 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