THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1981
Page 7
State
Defense budget plan
could benefit Texans
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Staff photo by Daniel Sanders
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(etsyEades, left, and Kay Patterson, of Neeley Hall, read a
jedtime story to David Sheblah in Walton Hall. Neeley
Hall sponsored a bedtime tuck-in service for the men’s
dorms to raise money for bonfire construction.
United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In an
effort to balance the national
budget by 1984, Sen. Nancy Kas-
sebaum, R-Kan., has drafted a de
fense budget plan that slices $1.3
billion more than that cut in the
Reagan administration’s plan.
“If we re to balance the budget
by 1984, we have to take larger
cuts from the defense budget than
the president had recom
mended,” said Winslow Wheeler,
author of the plan and a legislative
assistant to Kassebaum.
The plan, which could funnel
money out of Kansas and Missouri
and into Texas, could be pre
sented to the Senate Budget Com
mittee next week at the earliest,
Wheeler said Tuesday.
“It is a recommendation to re
duce ’82 outlays in the defense
budget by $3.3 billion, instead of
the presidential cuts of $2 billion, ”
Wheeler said. He said has re
ceived considerable reaction —
positive and negative — to the
proposal.
The Kassebaum plan, which
could make her unpopular in her
home state, would involve buying
189 Texas-built aircraft in 1982 for
$2.45 billion, instead of buying
126 aircraft built elsewhere for
$4.5 billion.
Wheeler said the recommenda
tions of programs to be cut and
new ones to be instituted were
made with total disregard to
where the different pieces of
machinery were built.
“We recommended the B-l
bomber be terminated,” Wheeler
said, “and Boeing has a large in
volvement in the avionics of the
B-l.”
Boeing’s largest plant is located
in Wichita, Kan., Kassebaum’s
hometown.
The proposal advises shutting
down the Missouri McDonnell
Douglas F-15 line down in favor of
buying the Fort Worth, Texas-
built General Dynamics F-16, and
scrapping McDonnell’s F-18
program and replacing it with the
Grand Prairie Vought Corp. ’s A-7
warplane.
“The F-16 costs half as much
and does most of the missions bet
ter than the F-15, in our opinion, ”
Wheeler said.
“The F-18 has declined in per
formance from the original design,
which was quite modest. The cost
of the F-18 has escalated very,
very dramatically — to the point
where we can’t afford it.
Kassebaum’s plan also recom
mends shutting down the New
York Grumman A6E line in favor
of the Vought A7, a recommenda
tion Wheeler said was made be
cause the A-7 costs far less than
the A-6 and its capabilities are
similar.
The proposal also urges ceasing
the California Hughes Helicopter
AH-64 program and instead hav
ing Bell Helicopter of Fort Worth
build AH-1S choppers.
“Helicopters cannot survive in
an intense warfare situation,”
Wheeler said. “They are useable
for Third World scenarios and
AH-IS is capable of such mis
sions.”
Wheeler said Kassebaum’s
proposal only sets a budget
ceiling.
“Even if it is passed in the
budget committee, it would not
mean immediate termination of
any program,” Wheeler said,
adding it would be up to the
Appropriations and Armed Forces
committees to determine which
programs would be affected to fit
the defense budget under Mrs.
Kassebaum’s ceiling.
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United Press International
USTIN — The general coun-
|orthe Public Utility Commis-
has recommended that a $4
lion penalty imposed against
icral Telephone Company for
r service be lifted — a move
would clear the way for a rate
i for residential customers.
General Counsel Allen King
Tuesday the telephone com
mas significantly improved its
ice to customers and recom-
ided that the commission re-
/e the penalty. If the commis-
approves the move, General
phone would be allowed to
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raise customers rates approxi
mately 35 cents per month for re
sidential service.
The PUC first imposed the
penalty against General’s re
venues in 1980 because of the
company’s poor and inadequate
service. When General applied
for another rate increase in Janu
ary 1981, the commission decided
any changes made by the company
had not been sustained long
enough to evaluate whether ser
vice had improved, and ordered
the penalty continued.
The commission also ordered its
staff to investigate General Tele
phone’s service and report back by
Sunday.
King told the commission in his
report, “Over the last two years
the company has made significant
strides toward correcting these
service deficiencies and has
reached a point at which the staff
feels that a monetary penalty is no
longer necessary to achieve the
ends of good service. ”
The staff recommended,
however, that the staff and Gener
al Telephone representatives con
tinue to meet quarterly to discuss
the company’s service problems
and their solutions.
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United Press International
1ICAG0 — A Los Angeles
(ologist says he has the answer
le who can’t sleep because
erson next to them is snoring:
them in mink.
Sot a lot of mink, just a small
r. J. Dewitt Fox introduced
[mink neckwear Tuesday at the
irican Surgical Trade Associa-
show. It was one version of a
collar designed by Fox.
The collars force snorers to
their mouths, preventing
thbreathing which causes the
that keeps others awake,
id.
lie collars sell for $37.50 each
standard model, and $100
the mink version. Fox said
t) have already been sold.
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