European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 13, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                8" White House maintenance and restoration work costs a tidy $165,000 by David Bartnett Nana staff writer and maintenance historic furnishings at the of costing taxpayer 9165,000 include the value of Tom donated to the exec estimated at some j13q,000. It include any expenditure or. Kennedy May have Federal paycheck of $100,000hta Federal expense account i � year. Part of the Tab. However i to so Down to $50.000 annually year starting next  the project. Recently in a nationwide Tele vision program Wilt Cost the Treasury about $90,000 a year As Long u the first family keeps it going. Of these details were provided to a j. House appropriations subcommittee be Hind closed doors by t. Sutton Jett regional director of the National Park serv ice. The service has taken Over budgetary responsibility for the mansion and 1u 18 acre of grounds. Jett informed the congressmen that museum exhibit is to be established along the Entrance corridor to the Public rooms of the White House. Visitors which numbered almost 13 Mil lion last or will be Able to View the exhibit while waiting to tour the Man  household budget for the White House runs to $658.000 for the next fiscal year. For the current year. Congress firs provided $528,000, and then added $165.000 to take care of the refurbishing project Back in the 1956-56 fiscal year the budget was $366,200, but increasing costs of such things As Domestic help and laundry kept pushing the total up. In thelast year of the tenancy of former presi Dent Eisenhower the budget was up to $505,000.besides repairs to the House the budget covers compensation to a staff of 72 maintenance and Domestic employees such per sons As gardeners Cooks pantry women electricians maids carpenters butlers and doormen. The budget for the next fiscal year Calls for an increase in the staff to 76. The four additional workers Jett explained Are needed to maintain the new exhibit and to take care of some additional household cleaning. Even before mrs. Kennedy began acquiring suitable Antiques the White House contained More than 2t,500  average salary for household person Nel at 1600 Pennsylvania ave. La 95.094 a year. Whit House staffer inspects recently donated desk. T4 a Tik state dining room has been redecorated in antique White and Gold. A been refurbished with donated colonial period furniture. 13, 1962. Trot stabs the red room was restored in the manner of an american Empire parlor