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THE BAYTOWN SUN Tuesday, April 1, 1986 Lockheed, ed, MIT top res WASHINGTON (AP) The Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. led the nation's businesses last year in performing research work for the Pentagon, while the Massachusetts Institute of Technology finished first among non-profit organizations, a new report shows. The report, released Monday, also shows the Defense Department spent $18.94 billion in fiscal 1985 for "research, development, test and evaluation" work, compared to $18.28 billion in fiscal 1 1984. Medicare WASHINGTON (AP) Congress must either restrict Medicare hospital spending or increase its tax income, trustees for the program say, or face the possibility of system bankruptcy by the mid-1990s. The trustees, who manage the $21 billion trust fund that pays for, the hospital insurance program for the elderly and disabled, said the fund could go bankrupt by 1996 if changes are not made.

The prediction is contained in the annual report by the board of trustees to Congress. Clements AUSTIN (AP) The state government might have to lay off some employees to get through the current economic squeeze, says gubernatorial candidate Bill Clements. wouldn't completely eliminate the thought that in some instances we might have a minimal amount of layoffs if there are, indeed, surplus people Film attracts in Aurora, AURORA (AP) If Aurora residents are unsure now whether an extraterrestial visited their town in 1897, they'll be less sure when they go see a movie based on the legend, some town residents say. The film "Aurora Encounter" is based loosely on the' legend that a UFO crashed in the small Wise County community in 1897 and that the sole occupant of the cigar-shaped craft was buried in Aurora cemetery. According to longtime resident Bonnie Oates the best thing about the film is that it's only a movie.

Ms. Oates, who owns the property where the UFO purportedly crashed, says the movie was an Aurora encounter in name only. "It wasn't anything about she said. wouldn't know it was the same place. I'd tell you not to go see it and expect to see anything like the legend of Aurora.

It's more of a kid's show to me." The movie's producers say their movie owes a debt to The totals include all contract research contracts totaling $1.53 awards totaling $25,000 or more. billion, compared to $1.07 billion During fiscal 1985, which end- for No. 2 Boeing. ed last Sept. 30, "the top 50011 In fiscal 1984, Boeing led the recipients of such research con- list of the top 500 research contracts included 390 businesses; tractors with awards totaling 95 educational or non-profit in- $1.8 billion.

Lockheed Missiles stitutions; six U.S. government and Space was No. 2 that year agencies, and nine foreign con- with awards totaling $1.16 tractors, the report shows. billion. Lockheed Missiles and Space, Lockheed's position among a unit of the California-based firms and organizations perLockheed bumped The forming research work is actualBoeing Co.

out of first place last ly greater than it would appear year, the report shows. The one because the report treats inunit of Lockheed received dividual corporate divisions trustees call for changes In the report, a series of pro- need for later, potentially jections are made that vary ac- precipitous changes," the cording to possible economic trustees said Monday. "The developments in future years. board therefore urges that the But the projection foreseeing Congress take early remedial bankruptcy by 1996 is considered measures to bring future prothe middle range, the one fund gram costs and financing into managers rely on most. balance." Under more optimistic Under the most likely economic conditions, the economic conditions, the trustees said, the trust fund may trustees said, "balance" will reremain solvent for 25 years.

But quire either a 22 percent reducunder more pessimistic assump- tion in spending or a 28 percent tions, they said, it could go increase in income. The board bankrupt even earlier by 1993. made no more specific corrective action is mendations. essential in order to avoid the The call for further congres- says state layoffs out there," he said at a Monday news conference. But Clements said most of the necessary savings could be realized by not replacing state workers who quit or retire.

The former GOP governor on Monday renewed his call for Democratic Gov. Mark White to call a special legislative session to cut overall spending and find money for new prisons. There's interest UFO legend and acknowledge they took dramatic liberties with the Aurora legend. In the movie, which was filmed in Ferris, the space traveler lives a while, befriending several Aurora residents. Subplots involve an enterprising reporter and the governor of Texas, played by Spanky McFarland.

Legend has it that the spaceman died in the crash, but Aurora residents nevertheless say they're intrigued. Periodically, from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, newspapers and magazines published stories about the alien visitation, prompting outsiders to prowl around the small North Texas town with Geiger counters and other devices designed to help them find remnants of the spaceship. Scientists and historians say the Aurora legend was a hoax perpetrated by residents of a once-thriving town that had been bypassed by the railroad and racked by a spotted fever "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" epidemic. Deaths and funerals TIMMONS Dr. George Walmsley, Gene LenaServices for James H.

Timmons, mond. Mike Walters, J.E. Cain and 55, of Baytown will be held at 10 a.m. Jim Rutherford. Wednesday at Nuvarre's Paul U.

Lee Services are under direction of Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Navarre's Paul U. Lee Funeral P. Walter Henckell officiating. Home.

Timmons died Sunday. He was a BRANDT 26-year resident of Baytown and Services for Anna Marie Brandt, worked in management. 85, of Baytown were held at 10 consiruction a.m. He was also a member of Trinity Tuesday at Navarre's Paul U. Lee Episcopal Church, the Rice Funeral Chapel with the Rev.

Charles Association and served in the U.S. D. Probst officiating. Navy during the Korean Conflict. A Baytown resident nine years, she He is survived by his wife, Wanda died Sunday al a Baytown hospital.

Timmons of Baytown; his sons and She was a member of the Lutheran duughter-in-law, Steve and Elizabeth church. Timmons of Houston and David She is survived by her daughter und Timmons of Buytown; his daughter, son-in-law, Gloria and Arthur Irwin Hanna P. Timmons of Houston; his of Baytown; her grandchildren, brother, Kenneth Timmons of Bryan; Robert, Linda, Donna, Paul and his sister, Marianne Berry of El Paso; Peter Irwin, all of Baytown, and Arhis grandchildren, Douglas and Mat- thur Irwin Jr. of Broomfield, thew Rankin and Lauren Timmons; and eight great-grandchildren. and several nieces and nephews.

Burial was at White Cemetery. Burial will be at Housion National Services were under direction of Cemetery. Navarre's Paul U. Lee Funeral Pallbearers will be Jack Sheppard, Home. Alvin McFarland dies Alvin McFarland, 57, of He is survived by his wife, Baytown died Saturday in a Agnes McFarland of Baytown; hospital.

his mother-in-law, Mildred Rice of Baytown; his daughters, LinBaytown He was a one-year resident of da Elaine Parks of Austin, SanBaytown and a longtime resi- dra Allen of Baytown, and Leann dent of La Porte. He was a McFarland of Kansas City, retired employee of Barbours his son, Alvin Simpson of Cut Import Service. Plant City, and 14 grandwill be no services. children. There researchers rs for Pentagon receiving large amounts of work as separate entities.

The Pentagon reported several weeks ago that based on all types of contracts weapons production as well as research the McDonnell Douglas Corp. and the General Dyanamics Corp. were the first- and secondranked defense contractors, respectively, in fiscal 1985. Boeing was No. 5 on that consolidated list and Lockheed No.

6. The new report thus emphasizes the extent to which the Pentagon is devoting its sional action ended a one-year lull in warnings of the system's potential demise. Three years ago. the trustees warned that bankruptcy could come as early as 1987. But reforms were initiated, and the trustees last year said the system likely was safe until at least 1998 and possibly into the next century.

The new report resurrects the questions about the system's financial footing. Health and Human Services Secretary Otis R. Bowen, one of the trustees, noted in a statement accompanying the report possible to spending should not be reduced, he said, but all other agencies are fair game for the budget knife. "'I'm not going to get into a detailed road map and blueprint of where and how you are going to cut that budget. There's ample room in the budgets of those roughly 200 agencies out there to where it can be scrubbed," he said.

"if you're saying have I reviewed each one of these 200 agencies in detail, the answer is no," he said. "I think the voters understand my modus operandi very, very well. When I tell them that detailed road map will be fortheoming prior to the legislative research dollars to work involv- General Electric Co. with $885.4 ing missile and space systems, million, and McDonnell Douglas electronics and aircraft. with $669.1 million.

In fiscal 1985, 37.6 percent of On the non-profit and educathe total spent on research and tional side, the climb by MIT development involved missile was even more dramatic than and space systems. Roughly 25 that of Lockheed Missiles. In percent of the total was spent on fiscal 1984, MIT was ranked No. electronics research, and 12.2 18 out of the top 500 and No. 4 percent on aircraft-related among educational and nonwork.

profit institutions with awards On the research side, totaling $260.9 million. Lockheed and Boeing were In fiscal 1985, MIT climbed to followed in fiscal 1985 by the No. 14 on the top 500 list and No. 1 Martin Marietta Corp. with among educational and million in awards; the profit institutions.

prevent bankruptcy Monday that bankruptcy is not maintain the trust fund al the imminent. He said the recent recommended reserve level reforms have given the govern- six months worth of payments ment breathing room it did not over the next seven to nine have before. years. Changes in Medicare The report said the Medicare payments have slowed the hospital insurance trust fund growth of spending, "giving us took in $50.93 billion in the fiscal more time and opportunity to take the further steps needed to year ending last Sept. 30, while solvency for of paying the fund stood at billion out $48.65 billion.

Assets ensure long-term Medicare trust fund," Bowen $21.28 the said. at year's end. But something must be done, The Medicare hospitai inthe board said, because current surance report was the Medicare income is "barely suf- gloomiest of a series released ficient" to pay benefits and Friday. because of cuts plenty of money that can be cut from state spending. Clements said, 1 but he would not offer specifics.

"It's not that time yet," he said when asked why he would not say where he wants to cut. 'Christmas is coming. Thanksgiving is coming and November is coming." He said he would propose specific cuts the proper time." "Just like I used to tell my children: Santa Claus will appear on Christmas said Clements. He said more money is needed for state prisons, police and mental health and mental retardation facilities. Education session of 1987, they believe me, they understand me and I have credibility with them," he said.

Clements also released an "Open Letter to Mark White," in which he says the Board of Corrections plan to lease-purchase a prison violates the state consitution's ban on deficit spending. "You are about to become the first Texas governor to commit an unconstitutional act," Clements told White in the letter. Also on the campaign trail Monday, Supreme Court candidate Shirley Butts of San Antonio said the "good ole boy" system has taken control of the high court. Ms. Butts, a state appeals judge, is seeking to become the first woman elected to the Supreme Court.

She is a Democrat. "'The good ole boy system must be eliminated from our Texas courts. It has no place on our Supreme Court, our highest and most powerful she said. "I believe that no lawyer or group of lawyers should have an in with either a particular judge, group of judges of any court, especially the Supreme Court." State District Judge Nathan Hecht of Dallas, a Republican seeking the same Supreme Court seat as Ms. Butts, announced Monday that former U.S.

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