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Deadbeat dads forfeit right to drive At (.1 S I A Mflint* IAP) Not onti < .m s.n h«* wasn't warm'd Maim* made good Monday on repeated threats to \,mk the dri ver s licenses of parents who refuse to pay overdue! hild support, revoking driving pris ileges for eight fathers wtio together owe their kids more than $140,000. A ninth man who was to lose his license quickly made arrangements to pay the SI 1.410 he owed, said Human Servii t-s Commission er fane Sheehan. More lii enses will lie lifted, some as ear ly as the end of this week Situ e the legislature authorized the Fam ily Financial Responsibility A« t a year ago. the department has sent notit es to roughly 2tl,(M«) parents who an* at least lX) days behind in child support. The threat has yielded the state $11 5 mil lion in back payments, said Sheehan. "We have had people come in and give us as much ns $19,000” since tin* warnings first went out, said Sheehan Gov. John K McKeman proposed the pinch on delinquent parents when he realized Maine was paying millions in state aid to fum ilies made destitute hv the parents' failure to pa) support time so < .died "deadbeat dads” — fathers in 97 percent of the cases, moth ers in 3 percent — wore walking out on $150 million in support payments every year Besides driver's licenses, the state i an also lift the licenses of doctors, lawyers, architects, plumbers, *-!*-< tri< ians, commercial fishermen and other professionals who fail to pay child support, I here's no priority for lifting either kind of license. said Peter Gore, a spokesman for Human Services If sonioon* has a driver's and profession al license." he said, "we ll go after both of them." t he licenses were targeted because the state had no other wav of penalizing many of the delinquent parents, who are not enrolled In public: assistance programs and frequently have no jobs on which they report nu onto to the state. Gore s.ud Maine s stringent steps to collect the mon ey attroc ted the attention of President Clin ton rhe S'* t billion welfare reform props>s al he sent to Congress last week includes a requirement that all states take similar a< lion against parents with mounting child support debts In Maine, however, one Ik ensmg territory is sacrosanct The state cannot strip its out doors-loving residi'iits of their hunting nr fish ing licenses Sheehan stressed that the program is designed not to punish parents but to get delinquent fathers and mothers to < ontact the state, acknowledge their debts and make arrangements to start paying them off Hut some of those affected say it's mis guided. "For educated, intellectual folks, they're going about this all w rong." said Alice hen nard Her husband. Reynold, a true k driver, is one of the eight men whose licenses were revoked "When they pull his license, his job goes with it," she s.ini. Reynold Kennard, who lives in the north ern Maine town of I ort (airfield. said lie won't pay i hild support without Ins lu ense If they think they re to get $H-i a week. they re not." he -..ml Reynold kennard ,ucurding to the state, owes S-i.fM.I in support pnvments for chi I dreti from a previous marriage. He and five of the seven others lose driving privileges July tw o lost their In eases Monday But Sheehan viid the action should not sur prise anyone We've been warning people sim e hist \ugust this day would i ome imi now it s hern." she said Sheehan said em h of the eight men had rei cived two earlier letters telling them their licenses were in jeopardy because of child support dehts th.it ta. .;rd from S I >U i to StH.Ofi'i If they had i iint.ii ted the state to work out a payment s< hedule. Human Servii es would have ordered their licenses reinstated, she said An initial mailing went out last August to 17,4IH) parents who Were tiehind ill i fold sop port payments hi November, set onti not is es went out to the same group, thanking those who had paid and reminding the rest that time was running out to start paving or slop dri ving This spring, an additional g.OOO deadbeat parents were identified f inal notices went out last month to in parents who still refused to pay up As of mid June 90 of them had agreed to pay Nine others were exempted Ivtxause they are ret eivmg some form of state assistant e Three parents requested hearings Simpson’s attorneys ask to see evidence LOS ANGELES (APJ — Defense lawyers demanded access Monday to blood samples nnd gloves in the murder case against O | Simpson and said they may present their own evi dence and call witnesses at a pre liminary hearing. lawyer Robert Shapiro asked tin* court for immediate tn:i ess to blood samples. Simpson's white Ford Urom o. a ski cap or mask found near the two vic tims. and gloves found at the crime scone and at Simpson's Brentwood estate. The prosecu tion said last week that there was no ski mask "The evidence has not been made available to the defense for examination and photographing," Shapiro said. "Nor have the blood samples been made avail able for the defense to conduct independent DNA testing " The defense motion will be heard Tuesday morning with Simpson present. Simpson has pleaded innoc ent to charges he murdered lus ex wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman on June 12. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Thursday Shapiro suggested that every witness likely to testify at the tri al might be called at the prelimi nary hearing in an effort to prove there is insufficient reason for a jury to consider the t use against Simpson. The tactic, would turn the pro cedure into a mini-trial The pre liminary hearing normally is a brief proceeding in which only the prosecution presents a hare hones version of its case to jus tify a trial Clinton seeks to delay sexual harassment suit I II II.h K()( K Ark (API President Clinton will ask .1 fed *‘riil judge todelay the I’iiula Jones sexual harassment case until after he leaves offii v. ac< ording to court papers filed Monday His lawyer's motion also asks the I! S Distru t Court in Lit tle Rock to allow Clinton to do las the normally required response to the allegations until courts have decided whether a president 1 an fa- sued Clinton will file n motion by Aug '•> arguing thot presidents an- immune w hile m office from having to deal with private law suits, attorney Koiiert Bennett said in the court papers Respoiul ing to allegations and other matters involved in litigation would harm the nation by distracting the president from Ins publii duties. Bennett said Aug 1 is I fie deadline that Judge Susan Webber Wright has given C linton for fifing <1 response She said she would det ide I mi fore then whether other issues may is- set aside until the courts rule on the immunity question Bennett s filing cites a 1082 U S Supreme Court opinion relat ed to former President Nixon, which found that presidents are immune from ftemg sued for official actions taken while they are in office It is not 1 lear whether presidents can lie sued for ear lier actions Sharing Spiritual Experiences Dreams as a Way to Understanding Come and there your experiences with dreams with other people who will listen Wednesday, June 29 at 7:30 p.m. 154 Straub Hall Sponsored by tbs Eugene Eciunkar Society 315-0 West 13th Aye • M3-J457 take Kaplan and get a higher score... More students take Kaplan's courses every year than any other test prep company's Call us today to hod out why. 345-4420 720 E. 13th, Eugene SUMMER TERM SPECIAL ■ *. 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