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VASHINGTON — David A.
klckman, the brash architect of
|sident Reagan’s campaign to
ihiink the size of the federal govern-
litent, resigned as director of the Of
fice of Management and Budget on
|esday to pursue a career in pri-
vat< business.
|David Stockman has served with
dedication and distinction,” Reagan
|l in a statement accompanying
the White House announcement of
| resignation. “His tireless effort
to 1 ring Fiscal discipline to the fed-
|l government and ensure eco
nomic stability for the country are
deeply appreciated.”
Officials said Stockman, 38, would
remain as budget director until Aug.
1, allowing him time to lend his ex
pertise as the president and congres
sional leaders try to untangle the
current budget deadlock on Capitol
Hill before Congress takes its annual
August recess.
In New York, John H. Gutfreund,
chairman and chief executive officer
of Salomon Brothers, an investment
banking firm, said Stockman would
become a managing director Nov. 1
with responsibilities for corporate
and governmental finance.
Stockman’s salary as budget direc
tor was $75,100 a year. Craig Lewis
of Salmon Brothers’ public relations
firm, . Adams and Rinehart, said
Stockman’s new salary would not be
disclosed.
No successor for Stockman was
immediately named.
A congressional source who spoke
on condition that he not be quoted
by name said the White House
would announce later that Joe
Wright, deputy budget director,
would serve as acting director until a
successor is named.
One ot those mentioned as a pos
sible replacement for Stockman is
Commerce Secretary Malcolm Bal-
drige. However, B. Jay Cooper, Bal-
drige’s press secretary, said Baldrige
had not had any discussions with the
president about taking the post.
John A. Svahn, the president’s top
domestic policy adviser also has been
mentioned as a possible successor.
From the beginning of Reagan’s
first term in 1981, Stockman was the
administration’s whiz kid. He was
the youngest man to hold Cabinet
rank in 150 years when he was sworn
in at the age of 34, after serving
from 1977 until 1981 as the Republi
can congressman from Michigan’s
Fourth District.
Stockman soon established him
self as a workaholic who often
worked around the clock in a single-
minded quest to pare government
spending. But just as important, he
often functioned as the administra
tion’s lightning rod, taking the heat
for the politically painful budget ac
tions Reagan has urged on Con
gress.
Rep. Silvio O. Conte of Massach-
setts, the senior Republican on the
House Appropriations Committee,
dubbed Stockman “the young
slasher,” an example of the admira
tion, fury and exasperation with
which members of Congress viewed
him.
But admiration predominated af
ter it was announced Stockman was
leaving.
“He may be the most brilliant man
in government,” said Rep. Trent
Lott of Mississippi, the assistant Re
publican leader in the House.
“There may have been a few
bumps in the road over the past five
years, but overall he’s done an out
standing job,” said Senate Majority
Leader Robert Dole, R-Kan.
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Fires still on
rampage in
California
Associated Press
1ATOS, Calif. -
sands of firefighters, exhausted af
ter days of trying to harness fires
rt's ni|at have killed three people, leveled
ix stjJ 1: 0 homes and charred 1.1 million
>iesowP ,es ' n the West, turned back sheets
of flame that threatened even more
(j s (yJ homes Tuesday.
dorcaiiilCrews formed fire lines in front of
uh hot-p.pOO homes threatened by a stam-
4ERA|d' n g blaze which wasted 13,800
nts, h(| res on hs march T uesday out of
)victoni$ e California foothills toward the
an( j ^community of Los Gatos, 45 miles
agaijs southeast of San Francisco.
one'll^ 8 man y as 4,500 people were
| en | v evacuated as the fire destroyed two
disjjjlmes and edged toward the others,
intotkl^ ^ re advancing on a settlement
m ar Oracle, Ariz., north of Tucson,
Loui«d been contained as it burned
,|| ( . J Monday to within a mile of Rancho
j^|nda Vista, an artists’ community.
3rd |A nc l on| y one home was damaged
I San Luis Obispo, Calif., on Mon
day when a 64,000-acre blaze
Mi Kreaked down a hillside on the city’s
. "northern edge and forced up to
£ 110,000 people to flee.
7*||E“Ifth e worst possible scenario had
HWcurred, we could have had 1,000
| homes damaged or destroyed and
* lost about $200 million in property,”
ffcifornia Department of Forestry
| spokesman Mike Cole said Tuesday.
In the past few weeks, hundreds
] of fires, many of them lightning-
fRused, have scarred parts of Cali-
| fornia, Arizona, Oregon, Idaho, Ne-
"Ifada. Washington, Utah, New Mex-
| ico, Wyoming, Nebraska, Montana,
|K)uth Dakota and the provinces of
"British Columbia, Alberta and Man-
llfltoba in Canada.
Many of them continued to burn
| out of control Tuesday.
S '"B The number of acres burned
II Ibuld stretch over 1,700 square
Buies, an area larger than the state of
Rhode Island, 1,214 square miles.
I In California, with more than a
quarter of the burned acreage and
■image expected to reach $50 mil
lion, eight major fires still roared out
of control Tuesday.
K The Los Gatos fire, believed to be
larted by an arsonist, started Sun
day in the brushy mountains of Lex
ington Reservoir.
Mash Bash ANTHONY S. CASPER
Grove adviser Terry Marsaw, left, uses a megaphone to announce that there will be a M*A*S*H
party at The Grove at 7 p.m. while (left to right) Ive Arias, Karen Hronek, Monique McCoy and
Sharon Schulze all lend their support. The group drove through campus Tuesday to publicize
the party.
'Facility not needed^
B-CS doctors oppose clinic
By JERRY OSLIN
Staff Writer
The addition of a new Scott and
White Clinic to Bryan-College Sta
tion will not improve the quality of
health care in the area, a local physi
cian said Monday.
“The expertise of the Scott and
White physicians is not any greater
than that of the physicians who are
already here, and Scott and White is
not going to bring in any medical
speciality that is not already here,”
said Dr. Fred Anderson, president
of the Brazos-Robertson Counties
Medical Society.
But a spokesman for Scott and
White, Don Nelson, said the clinic
will offer area residents a service
unique to Bryan-College Station.
“With the clinic, people will be
able to receive different kinds of
treatment and services under one
roof,” he said. “They won’t have to
drive all over town to get the treat
ment they need.”
Scott and White announced re
cently that it plans to build a 46,900-
square-foot clinic at 1600 University
Drive,which will eventually house up
to 30 physicians.
But Anderson said the Bryan-Col
lege Station area doesn’t need more
doctors.
“Right now, we have 100 physi
cians serving an area with a popula
tion of about 100,000,” he said.
“There has been a negative reaction
from local physicians because add
ing 30 new physicians will affect the
local physicians financially.”
The clinic’s president, Dr. Kermit
B. Knudsen, said the clinic’s goal is
to provide personalized comprehen
sive high-quality health care to the
Bryan-College Station area.
But Anderson said Scott and
White’s move to the area is based on
economic reasons.
“They are not on a mercy mis
sion,” he said. “It is my guess that
they are trying to capture some of
the patient load in the area.”
The clinic, scheduled to open in
the spring of 1986, will specialize in
13 medical areas including family
medicine, internal medicine, pediat
rics, OB/GYN, opthamology, gen
eral surgery, urology, orthopedics,
otolaryngology (ear, nose and
throat), dermatology, plastic sur
gery, psychiatry/psychology and ra
diology.
Knudsen said the College Station
clinic will be Scott and White’s first
multispeciality clinic outside
Temple.
Scott and White also operates clin
ics in Killeen, Belton, Moody and
Hewitt and plans to open a new
clinic in Waco this fall.
Reagan, O’Neill
debate budget,
Social Security
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan and House Speaker Thomas
P. O’Neill Jr. were beginning dis
cussions Tuesday aimed at ending
the budget stalemate on Capitol Hill,
but neither was yielding ground on
Social Security.
Social Security is the main issue
that has deadlocked talks for weeks
between the House and Senate on a
compromise version of a 1986
spending blueprint passed by each
chamber.
Reagan, O’Neill, Senate Majority
Leader Robert Dole, House Majority
Leader Jim Wright, House Republi
can Leader Robert Michel ana Sen
ate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd
gathered for a private meeting at the
White House early Tuesday evening
to try to get the budget talks moving.
Reagan also called for budget ne
gotiators to meet at the White House
today.
Earlier Tuesday, Reagan told
GOP congressional leaders that they
all “must get down to serious busi
ness” this week and come up with a
budget agreement.
Before meeting with Reagan,
O’Neill said he would tell the presi
dent he would “like to work out a
compromise” on the budget. But
O’Neill added he accepts the fact
that Reagan was “set in cement”
against any plan that would include
increased taxes.
For his part, O’Neill said, “I’m in
cement” against any plan that would
limit Social Security cost-of-living
adjustments, as called for in the Sen
ate-passed version.
House Majority Leader Jim
Wright, D-Texas, said the unex
pected agreements reached during a
two-hour reception for House and
Senate leaders open the way for a
budget compromise that has eluded
congressional leaders and the ad
ministration all year.
He said the two sides now are
“very substantially closer because
two of the really big stumbling
blocks have been removed”
Senate Majority Leader Robert J.
Dole, R-Kan., expressed similar opti
mism.
“I think we all left there . . . saying
that we ought to be able to work this
out ... I think we have a good
chance to work it out, maybe next
week,” Dole said. “If we don’t do it in
the next couple of weeks, we proba
bly won’t do it at all.”
Wright said, “I don’t want to set a
deadline . . . but I see no reason why
we cannot find some agreement mu
tually agreeable to a majority in the
House and in the Senate by which
we will make substantial reductions
below the figures of spending that
were projected by the president in
his February budget message.
“My clear understanding of the
sense of the meeting (is) that the
president and the representatives of
the Senate agreed that there will be
no tampering with Social Security
COLAs (cost-of-living adjustments).
And we agreed on behalf of the
House that we would move a sub
stantial direction toward the Senate
Figure on budget authority for mili
tary and they would embrace our
figure on outlays for fiscal 1986.”
The effect of that agreement
would be that actual defense spend
ing during the fiscal year beginning
Oct. 1 would increase by only about
$15 billion — far less than Reagan
had wanted — but that on paper
Congress would authorize higher
spending during each of the follow
ing two years.
Senate Democratic Leader Robert
C. Byrd of West Virginia gave a
more cautious view of the results of
the meeting.
Asked if he believed the two sides
were closer to a final agreement,
Byrd said, “No, I don’t think so.”
“We are all of a mind to meet
again,” he said. “The only thing I
think we accomplished was that we
made it very clear Social Security was
off the table.”
Byrd said the Democratic leaders
made their point that no tampering
with cost-of-living increases and no
increase in present taxes on benefits
would be considered.
The developments came after
Reagan declared in remarks to a
group of regional editors and broad
casters that he planned to “be rather
firm” and tell the congressional lead
ers “that this is a time to forget the
1986 election and partisan differen
ces.”
Some melons trashed,
inspectors test others
Associated Press
■ SACRAMENTO, Calif. — State
inspectors began random tests for
Bbesticide contamination on 20 mil-
■on watermelons waiting for harvest
||iCentral Valley fields on Tuesday,
Ihile grocers and wholesalers were
Dt work smashing an estimated 1 mil
lion suspect melons.
I State Food and Agriculture Direc
tor Clare Berryhill said he hoped the
: geld testing program would clear
|the wav to resume the sale of certi-
Ined safe California watermelons this
peek in more than 20,000 grocery
stores statewide.
State health officials on Tuesday
reported no new confirmed cases of
poisoning from watermelons tainted
with the pesticide aldicarb.
Since the first contaminated Cali
fornia watermelons were discovered
a week ago in Oregon, 149 aldicarb
poisoning cases have been con
firmed in California and at least 117
cases in Oregon, Washington,
Alaska, Idaho and British Columbia.
There have been no deaths, and
most victims have been recovered
with 24 hours from the nausea, diar
rhea and tremors.
Aggie Band gets three female recruits
By BRIAN PEARSON
Staff Writer
Three women have joined the Aggie Band
during freshman summer conferences and three
or four more are expected to join, a Corps of Ca
dets representative said Monday.
Lt. Gen. Ormond Simpson, Texas A&M assis
tant vice president for student services, said he
hopes 20 to 30 more will join the band.
A January court order forced the band to ac
cept women into the previously all-male organ-
ziation which has been in existence for 90 years.
The order settled a 1979 suit filed by Melanie
Zentgraf, who was in the Corps at the time.
Simpson said the three women did not realize
when they joined that they were going to be the
first women in the band.
“I told them and it didn’t bother them,” he
said.
Simpson said the women met the qualifications
of playing an instrument, having previous
marching experience and becoming a member of
the Corps.
He said woman have been encouraged to join
the band.
“They’re encouraged in the sense that we tell
everybody in the conferences that all the organi
zations in the Corps of Cadets are open to every
body . . .” he said.
Simpson said he would not release the names
of the three women until “two or three” games
into the football season.
“I would hope that the press would leave them
alone and let them find their own way because
there’s a lot of adjustment everybody has got to
make,” he said.
He said the women band members will live in
Dorm 5 with the regular female cadets. The fe
male band members will be expected to attend-
band activities such as marches and drills with the
men, he said.
Along with the regular uniforms issued to fe
male cadets — skirts and shirts — the band
women will be given slacks similar to the men’s to
wear when marching, he said.
He said the band women are not required to
shave their heads like the men, but they will have
to conform to certain hair regulations.
“We do not set the length of the girls’ hair, ex
cept we say that it can’t touch the collar,” Simp
son said.
Simpson said the band women will be com
manded by men like they were when they were
first allowed into the Corps.
“I would think it would be a long time before
we had a female commander of the band,” he
said. “It might happen, but it’s going to be a long
way down the pipe.”
Simpson said the presence of women in the
band will not have a significant effect on the atti
tudes of male band members.
“There’s going to be a period of adjustment
just like there was when females came into the
Corps in the first place,” Simpson said.