High numbers vulnerable
By MONROE DODD Kansan Staff Writer
Men who drew high numbers in the recent draft lottery have little reason to gloat. The chances are good that they, too, will be called.
Contrary to White House estimates that the lowest third of draft numbers—001 to 122—would definitely be called, that the middle third would stand an even chance of receiving their notices and that the last third would be almost sure to escape, the Kansan has learned that the pool of men classified I-A will barely exceed the yearly quota.
"Yes, I can visualize our using a tremendous number of I-A's," Col. Junior F. Elder, Kansas Selective Service director, said in an interview Thursday.
"I think it could well be that the first third of numbers is called before the first month is out," he said.
Kansas' I-A pool averaged about 3,000 in 1969. State draft quotas are normally about 1.1 per cent of the national quota, which will be about 250,000 in 1970. Projecting the 3,000 I-A pool into 1970, Kansas would barely fill its quota of about 2,750 men, Elder said.
Graduating college men who lose their II-S deferments will increase the number of I-A's but registrants who leave the pool because of age or those who are granted new deferments will probably nullify the gain, he noted.
Enlistments in the active armed forces, which come out of the I-A pool, are counted in filling local board quotas.
What it means, according to Elder's estimates, is that roughly 90 per cent of the men in I-A will be called. Thus, No.'s 001 to 329 theoretically will receive their notices.
Cases will differ among individual boards, Elder said.
"One board in western Kansas has several men registered whose numbers are below 010," Elder said. "But in the adjacent county, the lowest numbered has a number over 100."
"Also, some boards will have many enlistments in the active armed forces, so they will need to call fewer draftees."
Yet these circumstances will apparently have small effect by the end of the year. A high percentage of men from board to board will be drafted eventually.
Volunteers for the National Guard and reserve units will lower the number of I-A's, but the local boards are not given credit for them as they are for active armed forces enlistees.
College graduates and those who purposely lose their II-S deferments to take their chances with the lottery cannot now be certain their number will not be called. A man with a number such as 300—in the so-called "invulnerable" third—
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80th Year, No. 60
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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Friday, Dec. 12, 1969
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Greece resigns Council
PARIS—Greece withdrew from the 18 nation Council of Europe today before the group had a chance to vote on whether it should be ousted for suppressing Democratic principles.
Collision in sight
WASHINGTON — Republicans divided over President Nixon's bill to continue war; on poverty unchanged today were headed for a collision on the House floor. Opponents of the administration bill hold a slight edge.
Ochs came to the witness stand with his guitar and testified Yippie leaders Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin came to Chicago in August, 1968, "to theatrically sort of spook" the Democratic National Convention.
'Theater' trial continues
The opponents, made up mainly of Re- publicans and Southern Democrats, have not budged from their substitute plan to give states virtual control of poverty programs. Their effort is strongly opposed by Donald Rumsfeld, Nixon's director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO).
Philippines pulls out
Folk singer Phil Ochs almost got to play his guitar for the jury and, later, poet Allen Ginsberg was going to appear.
CHICAGO—It was one of the best "theater" days so far in the trial of the "Chicago Seven." and David Dellinger was enjoying it with his fellow defendants.
SAIGON—The Philippines' 1,350-man commitment to the Vietnam War packed up and left for home today, the first Allied military contingent to withdraw completely.
After three years, Manila decided to pull out the group—noncombatant engineers, pacification workers and farmers—as an economy move after Sen. J. William Fulbright, D-Ark., alleged that the United States had paid $45 million to keep them in Vietnam.
Senate approves tax cuts
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Senate brushed aside a threatened veto and Republican talk of "economic collapse" Thursday and approved 69-22 a tax bill that will affect every American taxpayer.
Eighteen Republicans ignored President Nixon's opposition and joined 51 Democrats in voting for the bill, the biggest tax measure since the adoption of the income tax in 1913. Two Democrats and 20 Republicans voted no.
As changed in a three-week floor debate that Republicans said raised the bill's pricetag for the government to $11 billion, the measure would cut everybody's
income tax starting next year by boosting the $600 personal income tax exemption to $700 in 1970 and $800 in 1971. It also would give special relief to 12 million poor, and grant 25 million retired Americans a 15 per cent boost in Social Security benefits effective Jan. 1.
It also provides for raising taxes on the wealthy and on corporations through $5 billion-a-year worth of tax reforms—including a cut in the 27.5 per cent oil depletion allowance to 23 per cent.
But friends and foes alike predicted that a far different measure—with more severe tax reforms and less generous tax cuts
would emerge from the House Senate conference committee, which now receives the bill.
That committee must reconcile the Senate's bill with a bill adopted by the House last summer which is far closer to President Nixon's tax reform goals.
House managers of the tax bill agreed to go to conference with the Senate on Monday, and their leader, Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, D-Ark., promised to trim the bill. Under questioning on the House floor, the influential Mills agreed to some form of increase in the $600 personal exemption—but not to be implemented in 1970.
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Hanoi lauds protest
A letter from Hanoi, praising the October moratorium, was sent to the office of the School of Architecture and Urban Design Thursday.
The letter, postmarked from Doan Kien Truc Su, Vietnam, was dated Oct. 17 and signed by Hoang-nhu-Tiep, president of the Executive Committee of the
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Union of Architects, Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
The organization's address was listed at the end of the letter as Nr23 Dinh-tien-Hoang St. Hanoi.
The congratulatory letter said, "On behalf of all Vietnamese architects, engineers and designers, we send to you and American people including American Architects, engineers, designers, professors and students in architecture our warmest congratulations and our sincere thanks."
The letter, which referred to the Oct. 15 moratorium, said that "millions of Americans including American architects, engineers, designers, professors and students in architecture in hundreds of cities and towns across the United States poured into the streets to take part in the Vietnam Moratorium Day.
The letter called the United States an aggressor in South Vietnam.
It also said that the moratorium reflected the "legitimate and pressing demand of the people of your country to save the honour of the United States and to avoid for their boys a useless death in Vietnam."