Interstate Commerce Commission Nomination of Two Members.

The President today announced two persons whom he will nominate to be Commissioners of the Interstate Commerce Commission. They are:

Darius W. Gaskins, Jr., of Washington, D.C., for a term expiring December 31, 1984. Gaskins is currently Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for Policy Analysis.

He was born September 16, 1939, in Washington, D.C. He received a B.S. from the U.S. Military Academy in 1961, M.S.E. degrees in astronautical engineering and instrumentation engineering from the University of Michigan in 1963, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan in 1970.

From 1963 to 1967, Gaskins served as a captain in the Air Force as an instructor at the Aerospace Research Pilots School. From 1970 to 1973, he was an assistant professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley. From 1973 to 1974, he was Assistant Director for Economics in the Interior Department's Office of Policy Analysis.

In 1974 Gaskins was Acting Director of Interior's Office of Minerals Policy Development, and in 1975 he was Director of the Office of Outer Continental Shelf Program Coordination. From 1975 to 1976, he was an assistant professor of economics at Berkeley, and from 1976 to 1977, he was Director of the Bureau of Economics of the Federal Trade Commission. Gaskins was Director of the Office of Economic Analysis of the Civil Aeronautics Board from 1977 until 1978, when he joined the Energy Department.

Thomas A. Trantum, of Ridgefield, Conn., for a term expiring December 31, 1985. Trantum is a financial analyst specializing in transportation with the New York City firm of L. F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin.

He was born July 25, 1944, in Englewood, N.J. He received a B.A. from the College of Wooster in 1966 and an M.B.A. from New York University Graduate School of Business in 1968. He served in the U.S. Army from 1968 to 1971.

Trantum was with Wainwright Securities from 1971 to 1978 as a financial analyst with responsibility for the motor carrier, airline, and airfreight forwarding industries. He has been with L. F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin since 1978. He has testified before the Senate as an expert witness on airline regulatory reform.