European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 2, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Happy new Washington a you be tooted Norl a no horns worn no hats and heard no one playing Auld Lang syne so you know the new year is still three months off. Right wrong. The arrival of october marked the beginning of a new spending and taxing year for the Federal government. While your Calendar shows three months remaining in 1978, the congressional Calen Dar says otherwise. By order of the con Gressional budget act Federal boo keep to pay office expenses Diggs employee tells of bloated paychecks monday october 2, 1978 the stars and stripes year fiscally speaking Mireau crafts Are turning their of Success at this time next year would be of 1974 created the current a new year known in govern the size of the fiscal 1979 deficit the sex through september system i As fiscal 1979. Tent to which the government spends More the goal of the present fiscal 1 year begins sunday oct. 1, Money than it takes in. Ran gement is to give Congress tin i cant T 1q7q during fiscal 1979. Congress wants the More Businesslike grip on Devieu Page 7 ers an bureaucrats r Calendar to a be year known in govern ment circles As fiscal 1979. The fiscal year begins sunday oct. 1, and runs through sept. 30,1979. Only time will Tell exactly How fruitful the new fiscal year will be despite the in creasing numbers of congressmen resolving with the Carter administration to turn Over a new Leaf by doing More to hold the line on Federal spending. From a budget standpoint one measure Washington up an employee of rep. Charles c. Diggs or. Testified Satur Day the Michigan congressman told him to pay expenses for his Detroit District office with funds from his bloated payroll Check. Felix r. Matlock said his salary ranged from $900 per month to More than $2,000 per month depending on the size of Bills his Boss wanted him to pay. Matlock who has worked for Diggs since 1965, said the Michigan Democrat told him what Bills to pay during his monthly visit to the Detroit office and that he cooperated. I did t want to make any Waves Matlock said. Diggs is on trial on charges of defraud ing the government of about $60,000 through an elaborate payroll scheme. The government said his aides paid personal and office Bills for him with their congressional payroll funds. The government contends that two per sons working for Diggs at the family owned funeral Home in Detroit the House of Diggs were paid with the Public funds although they did not work for Congress. Matlock said he was first instructed on How to pay Field office expenses by Jean g. Stultz Diggs office manager in washing ton. He said when she resigned in August 1976 Diggs personally told him what Bills Topay Ofield Dukes a Washington Public relations consultant said he was placed on the Diggs payroll in 1973 at $12,000 a year serving As a a kind of chief of staff at  said he would pay Bills incurred for Diggs for photographs advertising and other services through his paycheck. Dukes said he saw nothing wrong with the system but that his accountant advised him the funds earmarked for office expenses were taxed As income. He said he asked Diggs to Stop paying him for office expenses in february 1978. Diggs was charged in a 29-count indict ment and faces a possible penalty of $191, 000 in fines and five years imprisonment on each count. On the Tail end Sabbath a 3-year-old German Shep Herd tags along on the family motorcycle with his owner Don Homeijer on a Boonton n.j., Street. Up photo mormons put final of on Blacks Priesthood o the ten Mone duri Cong res government to spend $487.5 billion collect $448.7 billion in taxes and operate at a Bud get deficit of no More than $38.8 billion. The administration s recommendation to Congress As revived in late july was for a deficit of roughly $43.5 billion com pared with the president s original Janu Ary Call for a $60.6 billion deficit. For just completed 1978 fiscal year con Gress had figured in its voting in septem Ber 1977, on running a $61.3 billion deficit. But government financing experts now estimate it will be closer to $51 billion. The deficit had been $45 billion at the end of fiscal 1977 and reached a record $66.4 billion in fiscal 1976. Fiscal 1969, when the government s tax Revenue collections were $3.2 billion ahead of its spending was the last time the Bud get finished in the Black. Rather than using the traditional Janu Ary through december Calendar the government conducted budget business on a july through june basis for More than a Century until the congressional budget act Salt Lake City a eight thou Sand mormon Church members raised their right hands saturday and unanimously accepted As the word and will of the lord a revelation opening the Church s Priesthood to Blacks. The action at the Church of Jesus Christ of latter Day saints 148th semiannual general conference was a formality. Sev eral Blacks already had been ordained into the Priesthood after Church leaders announced on june 9 that a revelation from god had changed the Church s policy. The measure As presented did not men Tion Blacks but said that the Priesthood would be opened to All worthy male Mem  Blacks of african lineage were the Only race which was previously excluded. All faithful mormon males Over age 11 hold of e t october through september. The l f the t fiscal period arrangement t time to get a mor development of a budget for these Federal operations. The lawmakers got bogged Down this year in their budget making process and they remained in a race with the clock in getting Money Bills enacted after work on legislation authorizing tax and spending programs. Some appropriations Bills became Law before the Start of fiscal 1979, but several measures still were working their Way through Congress when the new fiscal year arrived As lawmakers put final touches on the package of budget legislation. As the years March on budget writers in Congress also say they Are taking Steps toward eventually getting government spending and Revenue in balance. The budget process is far from perfect. It contains loopholes which must be closed says sen. Edmund Muskie d Maine chairman of the Senate budget committee. But it is clearly our Best Hope for reaching a balanced budget and setting reasonable priorities within such a Bud get arthritis foundation Over 5-milion americans Are victims of rheumatoid arthritis. Most victims Are stricken during the 20 to 40 prime of life years. Help the arthritis foundation to reach out and sponsor services to these victims through your contribution to the Csc. One of a series of Priesthood offices. The Church announced for the first time saturday that the revelation came to pres ident Spencer w. Kimball although Noth ing was said about How it was received. Recognizing Spencer w. Kimball As the Prophet seer and revelator of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter Day saints it is proposed that we As a constituent Assem Bly accept this revelation As the word and will of the lord first Counselor Nathan e. Tanner read in presenting the matter for a  told the conference which was broadcast worldwide that Kimball received the revelation after extended medi tation and prayer in the Church s Temple then presented it to his Counselor who accepted and approved  this is a stars and stripes Public service advertisement reach  the world a better place through your Campaign ends nov. 5