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10 A MONDAY. JULY I. 1963 BEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. OREGON Big Business of Government Brings Increased Delays in Appropriations Editor' notti The business of providing monty ior lha government lo operate ii get ting mor complicated each year and Congrnt ii falling iurthtr and furthtr behind in its work. In tha following article, a top legislative re porter explains tha lituation. Br FRANK ELEAZER Washington - (UPD - Govern ment outlays keep rising, and now approach record levels. You might think from this that Congress had turned loose of the purse strings. Actually, the opposite is true. More and more of the members of Congress are de manding a hand in spending your money. It is partly because1 they have made the check-writing process such a tough one that Congress is falling further and further behind in its work. In some cases there is rea son to think this can actually cost the government - and the taxpayer - extra money. The government's new year - fiscal 1964 they call it started July 1. But as of today only one of the dozen appro priation bills that are neces sary to keep the government running during the year had been passed and sent to the White House. It covers the Treasury and Post Office Departments and amounts to only $6 billion of the more than $100 billion required for all the federal functions. The rest of the approprla Mi Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. WATKINS (Reglitar and Tribune Syndicate, ;961) Ambar Is a Mysterious Fossilised Sap of Trees Amber, a rather mysterious substance which is the fossil Ized sap from trees that lived , millions of years ago has some very peculiar characteristics ' It has the capability of gain ing a negative electrical charge by friction. Rub a piece of amber and it attracts - small particles to itself. Rea son enough for the Greek word, "elcctrum," meaning electricity. This peculiar ac tion is evidence of an elec- ' trical force that man never observed. This peculiar action was . originally . attributed to the supernatural, and anything made of amber was believed to be of a magical nature. ; Anything the ancients couldn't understand or ex plain, was thought to be mag ical. Amber beads have al- : ways been a prized possession. Besides being valuable, they were supposed to bring the wearer continuous good luck, protection against witchcraft, plus a counter-remedy against poisons, i . Beads of amber are still ; manufactured, but the prin. clple use today la in the lash- ionlni of mouthpieces for i pipes. Genuine amber is pale yellow in color, brittle and translucent. Very often it Is found in the sea, especially on the coasts after severe storms. In some parts of the world, men with steel hoops scrape the ocean bottom; the hoops attached to long poles allow the operators to loosen the ' amber from the ' submerged rocks. High Price Amber usually occurs in Ir regular masses of rounded nodules, small rods, or plates of various sizes, even up to ' several pounds in weight. In nome regions it is mined from the earth. Usually the mines, nr more correctly the pockets, occur near the edge of the ocean. Pieces of amber weighing 10 pounds have been record ed which, of course, would re ward the finder handsomely as the scarcity of the material has always dictated a very high price. An ocean fish, because of Its bright, yellow color and a member of the Jack family, , has been aptly named, "am berjack." Amber describes a color of pleasing shade; it even has been used in the naming of female children. There are many strange fuels pertaining to this sub stance, especially Is this true In the origin of amber and what It was back in the be ginning. Early in the specula tion as lo the real source of amber, scientists noticed that amber often contained the petrified bodies of Insects that crawled, wriggled, or flew millions of years ago. Many of these insects were unlike any insects we know about today. They were of a kind that lived once, long ago and died out Yet, embedded as they were in amber, they remained in a perfect state of preservation. This indicated that amber was a material solidified into its present form a very long time ago when the world was younger. Further studies revealed the almost unbelievable fact that amber was really the sap, or resinous gum, from some species of pine tree, now extinct, which had been ex uded from the plant and solid ified into a hard, yellowish material. The mouthpiece of a fine pipe, an ornament or a string of amber beads, is actually a fossil resin that nature cre ated as food for a tree. For some reason the trees were all destroyed, but the resin, or sap which was their life blood, was deposited and fos silized into globules of valu able material we now know as amber. tions bills are in various stages and they will not all have become law for months. Meantime all agencies not funded must make do with a "continuing resolution" that allows them to drag along at a base rate but precludes the start of anything new. This happens, to one de gree or another, every year. But over the years it gets worse. One reason is that the government gets bigger and the annual examinations of House and Senate Appropria tions Committees get longer. Another considerable fac tor is that more and more of the other House and Senate committees - the so called legislative committees - are getting into the act. Every year or so they persuade House and Senate to add some thing new to the areas in which an annual authorization bill must precede the annual appropriation. Authorizations are old stuff in Congress, in such fields, for instance, as public works projects. However, since World War II a trend has de veloped toward requiring yearly authorizations for what formerly were considered normal government functions. All Wrapped Up The armed services com mittees got a grip first on military construction projects. Later they claimed authoriza lion rights on procurement of planes, missiles and ships. Last year they got Congress to bring into their scope re search and development re lated to planes, missiles and ships. Starting next year, all military research and develop ment will be brought under the authorization tent. The Treasury Post Office appropriations tradition ally has been about the first of the bunch to be passed. Treas ury includes the Coast Guard. And the Merchant Marine committees have decided they want a say hereafter in Coast Guard "acquisition and con struction" items. Congress this year approved that request. So starting next year Treasury-Post Office may be slowed up along with the rest. There Is talk that com merce committees may push through legislation requiring a prior legislative okay on money bills for the public Need vacation money? North Bend Youth Dies During Hike Sweet Home-ftlPD-A 12 year old Boy Scout from North Bend, Sidney Lee Buaby, died Saturday night while on an nuting in the Cascades. Stair police said he may have suf . ferrd a heart attack. The boy collapsed while hiking near Jorn lake north east of the Santiam Pass sum mit. He was with his father, brother and a group of Scouts from the Coos Bay area. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Arils Busby of North Bend. An autopsy was scheduled. PROPOSAL ACCEPTED Brussels - am - Both par ties in Belgium's coalition government Saturday accept ed a proposal aimed at end ing the crisis which almost toppled Premier Then Le fevre's regime. 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The whole issue may be brought to a head when the Joint Atomic Energy Commit tee brings to the House floor its annual authorization for atomic construction. It will ask in this bill for prior clear ance hereafter not just for the Atomic Energy Commission's construction items - about 8 to 10 per cent of the total -but for the whole AEC operat ing budget. Dukedom on Way Down for British By ROBERT MUSEL London tUPB Once upon a time every British boy was believed to dream of the day when he would have a title. Now an increasing number of Britons with titles are dream ing of the day when they will be plain 'Mister." For "Mister" is a title that carries with it an opportunity the trend of the times denies the doughty dukes, the belted earls, viscounts, the marquess es and barons. Namely, a chance to be prime minister. The pressure from "reluc tant peers" who fear their political careers will be ruin ed by their being forced to sit in the House of Lords -instead of the House of Com mons - is so great that the cabinet has approved legisla tion that will enable them to assume the status of common ers. The government timetable could make this law by July, which would be a big victory for Anthony Wedgwood Benn who nearly two years ago first pleaded for the right not to inherit his father's title as Viscount Stansgate. Can Surrender Under the present govern ment proposals, anyone who inherits a title would have the right to surrender it for Home, who is foreign secre- his lifetime. His decision would not affect his heirs. He would then be able to run for the House of Com mons in the knowledge that he could not be forced out of it by the fact that he was eligible to sit in the House of Lords - as happened to Wedg wood Benn. No member of the House of Lords has been prime minis ter since the Marquess of Sal isbury in 1895. None is likely to become one again in the foreseeable future. If the proposals become law, Viscount Hailsham, Minister for Science, and the Earl of tary, could then enter Com mons and contend - if they wished - for the office of prime minister. Both would be strong candidates to suc ceed Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Of the two, Hail sham is said to be the more eager for the high office. Lord Home probably would have to be "drafted." Might Return The Earl of Sandwich, who was a Conservative member of parliament before he in herited his title, is another who might prefer to return to the House of Commons. Baron Altringham, occa- U.S. DEM"J CHARGE Saigon, South Viet Nam -(UPD - The U. 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