Draft plan postponed in Senate
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The House approved and sent to the Senate Thursday a bill to give President Nixon his draft lottery plan, but the Senate said it would not consider the measure this year.
Informed of Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield's decision against taking up the lottery now, Nixon urged him to reconsider. "Clearly, this is not a matter which should be casually dismissed or made a political football," Nixon said.
At the heart of the controversy was a desire on the part of many liberals in Congress to undertake a broad overhaul of the Selective Service this year. The President wants his lottery implemented now with further reform next year after a study commission makes its recommendations.
"Pointing to the further reforms which might be made is no excuse to make no reforms at all," the President said at the end of the day that saw the draft issue bouncing back and forth between the House, the Senate and the White House.
The House overwhelmingly approved the lottery plan, 382-13, after beating back efforts to open the lottery bill up to all sorts of further Selective Service changes.
Mansfield announced his decision against taking up the bill on the Senate floor and in the face of a threat by the President to implement a modified random selection plan by executive order by the end of the year if Congress did not act.
Under the President's lottery proposal passed by the House, 19-year-olds would make up the draft pool and those to be inducted would be selected at random by a computer.
Reno slot machine dumps giant pot
RENO, Nev. (URI)—The Mapes Hotel-Casino said Thursday it had paid the biggest slot machine jackpot in history.
A spokesman said it paid $9,216.70 to a man, identified only as "a Californian," who hit the jackpot on a machine which accepts from $1 to $5 per play. The $5 risk gives the player a chance at a jackpot which increases with the volume of play.
The Mapes said it was the largest single payoff for a three-reel slot machine in history.
Oct. 31 1969 KANSAN 17
PARIS (UPI)—The United States tried unsuccessfully Thursday to break the Vietnam peace conference deadlock by proposing the negotiations be switched to smaller, secret meetings. The Communists rejected the American move.
Plane crashes; Lindy, passenger
U. S. chief negotiator Henry Cabot Lodge proposed that the first such secret session be held next Tuesday—the morning after President Nixon delivers his
U.S. peace talks plan rejected
MANILA (UPI)—A single engine plane carrying Charles Lindbergh and a companion on a tour of the Philippines made a crash landing Thursday, according to a report from the Civil Aeronautics Administration. It said Lindbergh escaped with minor injuries.
Lindbergh, the 67-year-old "Lone Eagle" who became the first pilot to fly the Atlantic 42 years ago, is a frequent visitor to the Philippines where he is helping in a campaign to save wild water buffaloes from extinction.
Reports did not identify the pilot.
But a disappointed Lodge told newsmen after Thursday's formal conference session that the Communist negotiators "rejected it out of hand—I'm sorry to say."
much-heralded speech on Vietnam.
The Viet Cong's "foreign minister," Mme. Nguyen Thi Binn, confirmed to newsmen after the Paris meeting. "We rejected the American offer."
Both Hanoi and Viet Cong delegations countered Lodge's proposal with their own call for direct negotiations between Washington and the Viet Cong. Mme. Binh said Lodge "would not answer our proposal."
Lodge had proposed that the number of negotiators from each of the four delegations-U.S., South Vietnamese, North Vietnam-
806 MASS.
VI 3-1171
- **PORTRAITS**
- **APPLICATION PICTURES**
- **PASSPORT PICTURES**
- **PHOTOFINISHING**
mese and Viet Cong—be reduced from 13 to four each, and that the texts of their proposals in the behind-the-scenes talks be kept secret.
The U.S. delegation chief said he made the proposal "because I felt so strongly that we needed a new approach to break out of the present sterile situation and promote serious negotiations."
Lodge complained that the present conference procedure had allowed the conference to degenerate into a "propaganda forum"—
not a peace forum."
To remedy this he proposed that "there would be no public release of the record of what is said at such meetings, but we could agree on exactly what would be said to the press."
Although newsmen have been banned from the conference hail ever since the four-sided conference began early this year, each of the delegates has released the text of its prepared statements after the weekly sessions.
SPECIAL SUNDAY CHURCH BUSES FOR DOWNTOWN CHURCHES
Leave Oliver Hall
10:00 a.m.
10:30 a.m.
Leave Campus
10:15 a.m.
10:45 a.m.
Leave Ellsworth
10:10 a.m.
10:40 a.m.
Leave G.S.P.
10:20 a.m.
10:50 a.m.
Buses Return After Church Service
LAWRENCE BUS CO., INC.
841 Pennsylvania VI 2-0544