High numbers vulnerable
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may still face induction unless his particular board has a very large I-A pool with lower numbers.
Elder estimated about 5,500 college seniors are registered at Kansas boards.
"About half of those usually get another deferment," he added, mentioning ROTC cadets, National Guard and reserve volunteers.
"The remaining 2,600 or 2,700 will be cut by about 30 per cent at physical examinations, leaving about 1,800."
"Further deferments, such as late active army enlistments, can reduce that number to about 1,000," Elder explained. "And
that's the total of college men who become I-A."
Kansas I-A's fluctuate from month to month. In 1969 they went as high as 3,600 and as low as 2,000. Most of the change, Elder said, comes from reclassified college graduates in January and June.
By the end of next week, all sequence numbers will be posted at the state board in Topeka and individual boards will probably post their own lists, Elder said.
"You can see that the mechanics of the situation are so flexible that we couldn't predict accurately how many will be called." Elder said.
In the future, I-A pools will be smaller.
"A registrant could get a fairly good idea of where he stands from the roster in his local board," he said.
However, Kansas Selective Service headquarters is now compiling reports from state boards to determine how many men are included in each lottery. number. The numbers will be
averaged to give each man a rough idea of when and if he will be called.
"During 1970, all men between 19 and 26 who have no deferments will be in the I-A pool." Elder noted. "In the years following, they will move into a less vulnerable priority and only
19-year-olds and those losing deferments will be included."
Elder said there was a possibility that one year's I-A pool might not be able to fill quotas. In that case, men who were passed over the preceding year would again be in a high priority. Also, that year's deferments might be reviewed and some taken away.
"It's possible, but not probable," Elder added. "Primarily you're only vulnerable once."
Draft directors in at least two other states—Michigan and New York—believe that most of the men placed in I-A, including men with very high lottery numbers, will be needed in the 1970 draft.
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Mills said he did not want to upset Nixon's budget in fiscal 1970 and thus force Nixon's hand in vetoring the bill. Nixon, Mills said, then would blame a Democratic-controlled Congress for blocking his anti-inflation fight.
The House bill grants $4.5 billion worth of tax cuts—phased in over three years—through reductions in the tax rates. These rates range from 14 to 70 per cent but would fall to a 13-65 range under the House measure.
Senate Democrats preferred to give tax relief through a politically popular $200 boost in the exemption, which has been $600 since $1948.
In sometimes acidic, sometimes sarcastic debate, Republicans denounced the measure as inflationary and as a "cruel hoax."
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After the vote, economy-minded Sen. John J. Williams, R-Del., rose from his seat and refused to serve on the House-Senate committee which must reconcile the Senate's bill with one passed by the House last summer.
"I could not in good conscience serve as a conferee on a bill which I feel is so radically wrong," said the Senate's daily advocate of a balanced budget.
Just before the final vote, Williams was beaten, 60 to 31, after requesting that his colleagues return the bill for a complete overhaul to the Senate Finance Committee, on which he is the ranking Republican.
He said the Senate's action in adding amendments would bring the bill's total cost to the government to about $11 billion a year. He termed this "the most irresponsible action taken in my 22 years in Congress."
Democrats praised the measure, particularly the substitution of an income tax personal exemption of $800 for the tax rate cuts recommended by President Nixon and the addition of a 15 per cent across-the-board increase in Social Security benefits.
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At draft headquarters in Washington, DC., a spokesman held that the 1970 draft of 250,000 would be less than half of the men in the total I-A pool. But he added that there are bound to be some variations by states. It was because of these varia-
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It was because of these variations that "some of our state directors felt that they should caution their registrants that they could not rely with complete certainty on any estimate made at the time of the drawing," he said.
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