European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday june 14 complexity ceases headaches growth of Federal budget outpacing Congress Carl p. Leubsdorf Washington a the Fine political Art of budget Clit Ling practice with great fan fare by Congress each year is obscuring the fact that congressional appropriations proce dures Are failing to keep Pace with the growing complexity of the Federal budget. The budget has become so involved that some senators and congressmen who Don t serve on the appropriations committees complain they Don t know enough about the Money to offer amendments or even Tovote intelligently. Even committee Mem Bers frequently understand them Only in general terms. Last week the Senate passed Money Bill covering agricultural activities without knowing How much spending it would generate in the coming year. Spending figure contained in a preliminary report was dropped an aide said because no one was sure it was right. A special congressional re form committee recommended two years ago that Congress employ computers and other modern techniques to assist i with the appropriations process. But a Senate passed Bill to do this is stalled in the House rules committee. While provi Sions for extra trips Home and additional electric typewriter for congressional offices have been passed separately the computerization proposal lies  the meantime Congress is ready to pass a tax increase accompanied by provisions to chop $10 billion from next year appropriations and $6 billion from actual spending. The two figures differ since appropriated Money can be spent Over a period of several years. Congress having decide cuts should be made will let president Johnson Bear the Burden of making them. The president said last month methinks Congress should be doing this in its consideration of the appropriations Bills. In the next breath however he said he doubts this would happen. As former chairman fan appropriations subcommittee he knows the  reports accompanying such measures talk continually about Economy and where the budget was Cut. A close scrutiny gives a different picture. Take for example that Agri culture appropriation Bill. The House claims that its Bill cuts the budget by $1.4 billion in appropriations the Senate by Only $16.9 million less. But the administration s budget contained $425 million for sales of Loans in so called participation sales certificates and $460 million to reimburse Pas losses of the commodity credit corp., a government owned body. Both of these items Are in effect Only bookkeeping transactions shifting Money betwee government funds. Thus they have no real Impact at All on spending. By deleting them Congress saved nothing in cur rent spending the budget recommended also $917 million for the food Lor peace program. Congress Putall but $300 million from this bringing the appropriations Sav Ings on these three items to just Over $1.5 billion More Thau the entire saving in the Bill. It then added More than $100 million to the politically popular soil and water conservation pro  the food for peace pro Gram can get More in various ways from things such As . Owned currencies in foreign countries carryover funds from the past and transfers from the  addition an extra $200 Mil lion will have to be provided later this year when an International wheat agreement is Rati fied. The House appropriation committee estimated that Sav Ings in actual spending from the food for peace cuts would be $361 million of the $414 million in spending it claims to have chopped from the agriculture budget. The Senate appropriations committee was unable to give a comparable figure. But the actual spending on the program probably will not be known until this time next year As the 1969 fiscal year draws to a  the two houses juggle figures Between each other. The House voted $182.8 million for school lunch programs Only $1.6 million under the  the Senate appropriations committee Cut the total to $173.3million, sen. Walter f. Mon Dale d-minn., said one million children might be deprived of school  a closer look at the two Bills shows that the House washable to vote such a High figure Only by adding $14.4 million tothe budgeted amount for regu since the House gave the apartment of agriculture. Funds it neither wanted plans to spend the Senate in ures will a the end mean Money for the program though the total is lower it ended in London court Ray s Europe tour was a fiasco by Scott b. Brun London up James Earl Ray had a terrible tour of Europe. The accused Assassin of mar tin Luther King or. Could t find his Way to the bathroom in London hotel. British currency confused him. He was so nervous that head his breakfast tray set Down outside his hotel  London hotel clerk judged him simple. A Lisbon Waite called him cheap. One hotel owner declared his going was Good riddance and announced plans to change the name of the hotel where Ray slept. Ray had a month to visit such sights As the Tower of Lon Don the sunny beaches of por Tugal and the British museum. But he was on the run it rained and Ray stayed mostly in his hotel rooms or sought out jus those bars that feed on luckless travellers. A girl in a thigh High mini skirt a hotel clerk who thought Ray was neurotic and a night Porter who refused to let the lonely Man bring a girl upstairs have filled in some of the Jigsaw pieces of the last Days of free Dom of James Earl Ray. Ray arrived in Britain May 8.he hurried off to Lisbon to pick up some Money transferred from a Swiss Bank account according to Scotland Yard sources. He flew Back to Lon Don not knowing his time was running out. Jane Nassau 21, first saw Ray when he showed up May 28 in a taxicab at London s new Earl s court hotel a building of White Stone adorned with Blue awnings. Miss Nassau a hotel clerk said he gave the impression he had just come from an air  the clerk who checked inlay is off on Holiday on a Chan Nel Island. But Jane remembers Ray. She is a North of England girl with dark hair and shapely legs and a Blue miniskirt an she came to London to better herself and see the world. Ray interested Jane. He was extremely shy pathetically shy. I did t know Why he was so secretive. I jus thought he was nervous she  signed in As a Canadian. But i thought it was  had this deep Southern drawl. I Learned about Souther drawls from television and i can Tell a southerner from a Canad an. I tried to talk to him Burthen i stopped myself. I was afraid he might think i was try theft 1 changed face at left James Earl Ray wears glasses in photo released by the Royal Canadian mounted police. Ray had the picture taken for a Canadian passport. Photo at right is on issued by the Fri in Washington. Up photo ing to Chat him up flirt Jane said. Ray emerged one night from his room in search of the Bath room. In a dark Hall he bowl Dover a Porter who had climbed a ladder to change a Light  apologized Jane said. Patiently Jane tried to explain the intricate British cur Rency. But he was a bit thick and it did t sink in. He was very slow she said. Later another hotel clerk found a paperback spy novel assignment Tangier that Ray had dropped. In the Back was a mass of figures indicating Ray s attempts to compare the value of dollars to pounds. A second Man had appeared with Ray when he checked in. Jane never saw the other Man again. Ray left june 5, carry ing the airline flight bag he Al ways clutched possibly contain ing the pistol he was arrested with saturday. Jane called out Gooslby an that sen. Kennedy had just been shot. He just shrugged an walked away she said. Contrary to what he had told Jane Ray headed for a new hotel. It was raining and the first hotel he tried was full. The clerk recommended the hotel Pax owned by a mrs. Thomas. Ray had a Friend with him when he asked at the first hotel. The second Man was gone when he checked into his Small room at the Pax. He received four Tele phone Calls Scotland Yard is trying to find out who from and a postcard. The card came for Ian Colvin a Newspaperman Ray had telephoned in search of help in joining an african Mer Cenary unit. Mrs. Thomas said one Tele phone caller was a woman with an american  Ray washout and the twang was heard no More. Mrs. Thomas though something was funny. I always thought he slept inbred with his clothes on. When i brought his breakfast tray retold me to leave it outside like he was still in bed. Then a min Ute later before i had gone a step he was at the door full dressed picking it up. He was so neurotic " she  kept out the maid. He made his own bed. She ordered him into another room and had a look. Yanks Are All the same. I thought he had a lady in but he did t have any lady 51 my  he left the hotel in Chelico area Early i Good riddance to you " mrs Thomas said. She said she Noil will change the hotel name tampax meaning peace to smut thing else. Ray left her hotel just in time to keep a Date with police waft i ing at London Airport. Back to Lisbon the police and an agent found an easy but Dull Trail left by Ray Early Lasij month. On May 8, at 8 p.m.,entered a third class waterfront hotel and asked for a room. It stayed for nine Days. It overlooks a narrow Street and has a bed a wardrobe a Chest of drawers and two chairs Luis the receptionist remembers Ray As quiet lonely and shy chambermaid Maria cel Estre 31, said he did not tip. Both recall he went out very late at night and sometimes at 6 . He washed his own socks Ray asked Joao the night por Ter for permission to take a Young woman upstairs. Joa said no. The girls in the nearby bars remember him. One name Maria can t seem to recall i she spent on or two nights Wray. She will describe it All for a tip. Gloria at the Galo bar win when asked. Paula around the Corner at the to hernia bar smiles. The Man at the Cana Dian embassy remember s to fixed up a passport to jew when he showed a Canadian birth certificate. Arraigned Dickens used to vim in Clil a Deputy j _ circulation european edition col. James w. Campbell Usa it. Col. F. S. Michael. Jr.,. Usan Mert Proctor Elmer d. Frank Henry s. Epstein an unofficial newspaper of and for the . 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