European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 7, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Grip and Grin May 1977 the stars and stripes Page 7 in my shop i think we if a Job of getting the Story love with con do one hell c he said his photographers help National news organizations cover Congress when their own photographers Are too photo editors at the associated press said congressional photographers occasionally offer photographs for news but Esti mated that no More than 50 of them Are transmitted by the a in any one Oneill estimated that his photographers produce a total of photos each when Oneill and the other House photographers were transferred from political Washington a Congress billed taxpayers last year to pay 19 photographers and Darkroom assistants to produce hundreds of thousands of publicity the photographers snap pictures of Hometown High school bands playing on the Capitol girl potential Campaign donors socializing at fundraising dinners and senators shaking hands with visiting constituents we Call them grip and Grin said a Republican Campaign aide who supervises one of the four photo labs on the Capitol there is one each for Senate Senate House republicans and House cell finn to Kaaa Many senators and congressmen Rou apologizes to a film Uncle give copies of the photographs to visitors As or Send them to Home town some of the photos occasionally find their Way into covers of books written by senators or poli Washington up Educa Tion and welfare Secretary Joseph Call Fano has apologized to the american medical association for errors in hews March 14 listing of doctors who generated or More Worth of medicare Busi Ness in i am deeply distressed at the number of and i regret any embarrassment publicity Darkroom assistants on Public payroll to Public payrolls Congress granted them and the Senate photographers valuable pension although the civil service commission opposed the idea strongly in a letter to the both the Senate and House passed the special pension Bill without debate or the president Gerald Ford signed it without comment on the measure Grants to Oneill and 12 others retroactive pension credits toward congressional in it counts their years of employment for the political committees As though the photographers had been employed by those who gel the credits give up some social Security benefits and must pay into the pen Sion system an amount equal to what would have been withheld from their pay and they actually been working for con plus interest of 3 per cent per year Oneill said he will have to pay about in Back pension he got credit for 15 years of congressional service for his work with the democratic congressional based on his present salary this will be Worth roughly a year in extra pension payments if he re tires at age 65 he is is now hew erred on medicare Ripoff list Cal Campaign into National news publications and the wires of major news salaries for the photographers formerly were paid by the democratic and Republican Campaign committees of the Senate and these whose Pur pose is to Aid members of their political parties win congressional still direct the work of the photographers and pay for their film and other but Congress transferred the Senate photographers to the Public payroll in 1962 and the House photographers in in Congress awarded Many of them retroactive longevity credit toward their congressional pensions which potentially Are Worth several thousands of dollars a year apiece in pensions paid by the tax pay in an the senior House demo cratic took credit or setting up the photo operation and getting it shifted from political to Public i originated the whole he a popular political fixture around Washington since the Truman and described his work primarily As a service to news he said that some congressional photographers engage in political gimmicks but that his photographers do ours is he its not the Cost of the photo operations is part of the swelling yearly outlays or the legislative which Are budgeted to exceed billion this year for the first the photographers were paid less when they were on privately financed political Oneill Drew a salary in the last year he was paid by the democratic National congressional commit tee which gels its Money from voluntary on Oneill went on the House payroll and his salary jumped to 000 a lie getting a yearly salary of More than making him the highest paid of llx13 photo six other photographers it congressional salaries exceeding last and five got Between and one ills is on tilt payroll at about xxx a 1 love my Oneill said in in for the last 12 years and practice no Medicine at All in a Michigan doctor listed As having received received and my wife must think i have an apartment on the Side and a mistress As Robert in a speech on the Senate questioned hews listing of general Hospital in Detroit As a Solo that May have been caused to any of i suppose someone at How Califano wrote to James Ama executive vice it was a gracious act on his Sammons replied an Ama spokesman said the list of Doc tors treating elderly medicare patients included a 76yearold doctor for children who actually lived in Arizona must have thought that some physician named Hospital held a Reserve rank in the armed services As a major the listing had More serious repercussions for some said an Ama spokesman1 in a slate legislature held Back on appropriations to a Hospital because of excessive medicare children of doctors named in the report were beaten up on the playground and other doctors were subjected to abuse from colleagues and patients for their purported medicare Califano said in his letter that 1ikw would continue to release the names of medicare doctors generating Large amounts of even those for whom reimbursements Are less than i am committed to making More information Public annul the costs of health in our Califano but he said he ordered his staff to prevent future the March 14 report listed 409 physicians in Solo group prac und 58 Craig Addy of like someone who born startled irom close ties abruptly broken a actually Hes parting company with a at the toilers during the All Killio finals in am a Hutn Man gives away borrows cab fare up Sylvan hop Kins borrowed 50 for cab fare the Day after he gave away about in Bills at a Pancake came Back to the Pancake House thursday for a free meal because he was broke an borrowed the Money to pay the taxi an employee at the pig n Pancake res Shirley gave Hopkins his breakfast of pancakes and then Pavc Hin cab fare because he had done so much for so Many people he even gave his car she said As he handed out Money Hopkins said he merely wanted to do something to help people out he was a very Sweet looking Schneider said Hopkins was just beginning to Cal thursday morning when police came and told him his was looking for Hopkns left Pohiva family was upset Over the publicity about the no crime was committed so far As we said a police and his family had nut heard from him for a while and asked us to help locate which we Keith a Clat sop Community College was a recipient f from said he surf the Money for a traffic Fixie n pay and by i bicycle seems to tx1 working out Ali ixt1 told hop Kins seven in nine other in Lite res Taurand were recipients of Money ranging from to during a period of Sev eral hours As Hopkins drank milkshakes and other beverages As he gave his Money away a voting couple who received and we not told Hopkins they were to Jiw life