Vernal Express | 1977-11-24 | Page 17 | Weekly TV Guide Inside

We kly Inside Dollars and the Press Even the cost to taxpayers of supporting the Washington press corps is on the way up Rep David Obey D. D. gives these figures 24 employees of the House and Senate press galleries plus special doorkeepers and messengers at a total cost of 17 this year free reserved parking spaces in choice locations on the Capitol grounds which at commercial rates would cost some free telephones a year desks chairs typewriters and other equipment worth about Rep Obey says the cost to American taxpayers of the amenities offered reporters on on Capitol Hill Hili comes to way over 1 million a year but adds that it is a small price to pay to enable the press to do its constitutionally protected job of reporting to the American public The young man who has not wept Is a savage and the old man who will not laugh is a fool George Santayana