Teachers are in demand as class enrollments increase — Page 4 AL NL pennant races begin to heat up after All-Star break — Page 5 Lack of water, sun destroy crops in Montana, Dakotas —Paged Texas A&M Battalion Vol. 79 No. 174 CISPS 045360 6 pages College Station, Texas Friday 19, 1985 ouse, Senate budget standoff continues Associated Press iWBi [WASHINGTON — White House ot staff Donald I Regan Jly denounced the “ridiculous" Jdget deadlock on Capitol Hill n k. k. ■ iurs American Enterprise Institute, a was fr,p Washington think-tank of a conser- , run. A'Sdjvaiive bent. His nomination as direc- rs, not fhf t0l 0 f t b e Office of Management reported and Budget would be subject to Sen- eive a tttf ^ confirmation. « Miller, an economist, would take river from the often-controversial Stockman, a former Republican con- ■essman from Michigan , at a time when the administration’s efforts to cut deeply into federal programs land reduce budget deficits face strong opposition in Congress. K Other candidates who have been mentioned for the budget post in clude John A. Svahn, assistant to the Resident for policy development; Constance Horner, whom Reagan previously nominated to head the ■ffice of Personnel Management; Drew Lewis, former transportation leretary; Commerce Secretary Mal- Eltn Baldrige; and Joseph A. Wright Jr. White House: Reagan fine, planning to meet with new Soviet minister vV'.., , V; V . t/:- ,„i jHE Detour Ahead Runners used to running on the A&M aerobics track are having to get accustomed to a new detoured route. Construction of the new former students building is responsible for closing sections of the track. GREG BAILEY Associated Press WASHINGTON — Dressed in blue pajamas and a robe, President Reagan flashed an OK sign by hand from a hospital window Thursday in his first television appearance since cancer surgery, but indicated he did not know when he would be going home to the White House. With his wife, Nancy, at his side, the president appeared at a third- floor window of Bethesda Naval Hospital at 4:27 p.m. EDT to pose for photographers, who had been alerted in advance. Aside from pic tures released by the White House, it was the first time the president had been seen since he entered the hos pital last Friday. Reagan was quoted earlier in the day by his staff as saying, “I’m feel ing great,” and the White House, underscoring the picture of a patient rapidly on the mend, disclosed the president will meet with the new So viet foreign minister in two months to prepare for November’s summit. When questions were shouted to the president at the hospital window, he replied with gestures. Asked if the president had a sore throat, Mrs. Reagan said it was easier for her to speak than for him. Reagan gave an OK sign, using his thumb and forefinger, when some one asked how he was feeling. Asked when he was going home, the presi dent made a quizzical face and sliced the air with his hands, palms down, indicating he did not know. Doctors have said the president would be released in seven to 10 days after surgery — meaning that Saturday would be his earliest re lease date. Mrs. Reagan said he would go home “as soon as they say it’s OK.” Asked what Reagan looked for ward to most, Mrs. Reagan replied, “Just being home.” She said they both were in good spirits. “We’ll make a big to-do of it” when Reagan comes home, presi dential spokesman Larry Speakes told reporters at the White House earlier. Perhaps the best news for Reagan was that he could return to a diet of solid food for the first time in eight days: sOup, bread, crackers and pud ding for lunch, followed by what presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said would be a “feast of baked chicken ami rice” for dinner. His menu suggested that Reagan’s digestive process, which had been in terrupted by last Saturday’s cancer surgery, was returning to normal. I he 74-year-old president had been put on a restricted diet two days before he entered Bethesda Naval Hospital last Friday for a thor ough intestinal examination. After surgery, he was fed intravenously, and then was limited to a liquid diet of tea, apple juice, Jell-O and Popsi- cles. Doctors removed the staple stitches in Reagan’s abdominal inci sion on Thursday and replaced them with adhesive strips. “The president is totally back to normal,” Speakes said light-heart edly. As proof of that claim, Speakes said Reagan recited, word-for-word, two well-known poems by Yukon writer Robert W. Service for the benefit of nurses, “The Shooting of Dan McGrew” and “The Cremation of Sam McGee.” Vice President George Bush, who visited with Reagan on Wednesday, made telephone calls to allied lead ers to pass along the message that, “The best medical evidence is that the president will make a full recov ery and resume duties here at the White House next week.” Free party initiates monthly activities sifieds Dance planned for mentally retarded By BRIAN PEARSON Staff Writer The Bryan-College Station Asso ciation of Retarded Citizens is kick ing off its monthly programs July 23 with a free dance party for adoles cents and young adults who are mentally retarded. D’Rinda Grimsinger, president of the association, says the purpose of the programs is to help mentally re tarded young adults develop social skills in a structured environment. “We want to provide a recre ational program which will serve as an opportunity for socialization with peers and an appropriate location for teaching social skills to the men tally retarded,” Grimsinger, presi dent of the association, says. “The idea is to start them in a rec reational, structured setting and then encourage them to join a mainstream setting,” she says. “We want to help make a smooth tran sition to what is happening in the real world.” She says that after mentally re tarded persons have adjusted to the structured, supervised environment of the programs, then they are en couraged to join in a less-controlled setting such as other dances, bowling leagues and softball teams. “Everybody needs to get out and socialize,” Grimsinger says; The participants in the programs are also taught to balance work and recreation time, she says. Other monthly programs spon sored by the association will include Softball games, an aquatics night, more dances and volleyball games. The activities are being held to benefit the approximate 3,000 men tally retarded citizens in the area, Grimsinger says. She says the association, which is an all-volunteer, non-profit organi zation, is hoping to hold activities several times a month in the future. She says part of the decision to ex pand will be based on surveys taken at the July 23 party. The dance, which is open to the public, will be held from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the National Guard Armory in Bryan. The dance will feature local band 4 Hams on Rye. Free refreshments (no alchohol) will be available and donations are encouraged. merican burger kings battle in Britain :K IKE ,liege Main hgate Associated Press I LONDON — The Battle of the Burgers between American fast- liod giants McDonald’s and Burger King ended in a London High Court n Thursday with each side claiming it had singed the other. After five days of testimony, Judge John Whitford granted Mc- onald’s an injunction barring Bur- Sjer King from using an advertise ment that knocked McDonald’s estselling burger, the Big Mac. But the judge rejected McDon- d’s claim that Burger King, home of The Whopper, had maliciously implied McDonald’s hamburgers were less than 100 percent beef. I Whitford Said that from photos presented as evidence it was clear that the Big Mac was “quite a mouth- lil.” I “It was described as McDonald’s flagship product — but not with ref- thence to the thise with which it can be sunk,” the judge said. McDonald’s sued its arch-rival for leged trade libel over a three- Judge John Whitford granted McDonald's an injunc- : tim-fmrmg Burgetr. ^h00ppm using m "Mvenisement that knocked burger, month 1983 ad campaign in the London subway system. Burger King had posted ads pic turing a huge hamburger and the slogan, “It’s Not Just Big, Mac.” In smaller print, the ad described The Whopper and said: “LInlike some burgers, it’s 100 percent pure beef.” McDonald’s complained that Bur ger King used its product name to lure away customers and alleged that the reference to 100 percent beef was libel by innuendo. In granting the injunction, Whit ford said the advertisement could mislead Some people into thinking the Big Mac was a Burger King product. McDonald’s, which has 168 res taurants in Britain, commissioned a Gallup Poll for the trial showing that 55 percent of 1,000 people surveyed thought the ad was for a Big Mac. Burger King, which operates 10 res taurants in Britain, argued that the poll was not valid. But the judge said he himself had thought the ad was promoting the Big Mac, not The Whopper. “Like all the witnesses, I missed the pun and it had to be explained to me,” he said. “It would seem that, so far as the majority of readers were concerned, these tube cards (Subway posters) were nothing more than free advertising for McDonald’s.” But rejecting the allegation of trade libel, Whitford said he was sat isfied Burger King had “never for one moment” intended to suggest that McDonald’s hamburgers were not 100 percent beef. Most people, he said, only remem bered the main feature of the ad and probably would not read the small print. Whitford ordered each side to pay its own share of legal costs, estimated to total $210,000. Study says U.S. spends too much on surgery After the hearing, claimed victory. both sides Jim McGee, a lawyer for Burger King, said, “The judge had found clearly that there was no malice in volved on our part. As such, Burger King sees it as a victory.” McGee Said he did not know how much Burger King would have to pay in legal costs, but he said it would be “substantially lower” than McDonald’s share. Associated Press CHICAGO — In parts of Massa chusetts, some surgical operations are performed more than twice as often as in other sections of the state, a new study says, bolstering evidence Americans spend unnecessary bil lions on hospital care. “You know from your own expe rience, and your friends’, that (in) going to the doctor with a bad back, one will say, ‘Go to the hospital for two weeks,’ and another will say, ‘Go home and put your mattress on the floor for two weeks,”’ said the re searcher, Dr. Benjamin A. Barnes of Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. A study by Barnes and his col leagues in Friday’s Journal of the American Medical Association indi cates 1980 rates of surgery in some parts of Massachusetts were double what they were in others for three procedures: tonsillectomy, insertion of a heart pacemaker and removal of damaged spinal disks. Two other procedures — hyster ectomy without removal of ovaries and surgery to remove knee carti lage — were 90 percent more com mon in these areas, the study said. Slight but significant geographical differences emerged for four other procedures: cataract surgery, hyster ectomy with removal of ovaries, set ting a broken thigh bone and partial removal of the colon and rectum, the study said. The only procedure for which there was no significant difference was removal of the prostate gland, indicating “far less discretion as to whether it’s carried out or not,” Bar nes said.