SACRAMENTO, Dec. 2 – All the bills are not in, but federal court officials estimate the cost of Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme’s trial will exceed $55,000.

However, a major item of expense — the cost of a flight to Washington, D.C. to take the unprecedented videotaped testimony of President Ford — has not yet been added to the total.

Uncle Sam will be picking up the full tab, including $332 for coffee and doughnuts served to the jury in deliberation, plus the cost of any appeal of Miss Fromme’s Conviction on a charge she tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford in Sept. 5.

U.S. District Court Clerk James Grindstaff estimates jurors’ fees and their mileage to and from court will cost $16,690. A panel of 160 prospective jurors was called for the trial, most of them from the Sacramento-Stockton area, but one panel member was summoned from as far away as Ft. Jones in Siskiyou County.

U.S. Marshal Arthur Van Court, whose office had the duty of feeding and housing the jurors after they were ordered sequestered by U.S. District Court Judge Thomas J. MacBride, reports a $6,850 bill for the 12 jurors during the 19 days they were sequestered in a downtown motel.

The cost of jurors’ meals averaged $125 a day, Van Court reported, for a total estimated cost of $2,850. Van Court considers the figure low because, he said, many of the jurors did not eat breakfast and their bills for dinner seldom ran over $5 each.

Ten extra deputy marshals, called from outside Sacramento to stand guard over the jurors and provide extra courtroom security, cost an additional $l5,870 for overtime and subsistence during the entire 24-day span — including weekends.

“I don’t know how you could compute it,” said federal defender E. Richard Walker when asked to estimate the cost of legal services for Miss Fromme.

Walker said Miss Fromme’s defense lawyer, John E. Virga, has not yet submitted the bill for his fee and the expenses of his assistant and two investigators on the case.

Computed at the rate of $30 an hour, Virga’s bill for his courtroom time alone could exceed $5,500.

Walker figures he spent about $3,000 in an investigatory costs while he represented the follower of convicted mass slayer Charles Manson.

Walker asked to be relieved of Miss Fromme’s defense after the wispy red-haired defendant told Judge MacBride she and Walker “lacked rapport.”