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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
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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
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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. The dispute
was over linguistics in this
bilingual nation - where part
the population speaks
French and part Flemtsh.
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health service. Other new
authorization requirem e n t s
are also under discussion.
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. S. embassy Sat
urday denied a Vietnamese
government project or's
charge that the United St s
was involved in the abortive
I960 coup d'etat against Pres
ident Ngo Dinh Diem.
sionally a critic of royalty in
his writings, is another who
plans to run for Commons if
the law is changed. Viscount
Lambton, a Conservative MP
and son of the 78-year-old Earl
of Durham, might also be
affected. So would Lord Bal
niel, another Conservative
member who is heir to the
Earl of Crawford and Bal-carres.
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