Draft lottery is causing shortage
The lottery system is not working and any change in the system would be an improvement, said Mrs. Edith Cordell, clerk of Selective Service Local Board No. 18.
President Nixon sent two proposals to Congress last week. The first, and probably best known, was a request for the authority to end all student deferments for those entering college next fall. The other would create a direct lottery draft by eliminating the local boards.
Mrs. Cordell explained the local board's quota has been running about six men a month, but that she is now 20 men behind the total that should have been inducted so far this year. This is because the registrants know about when they are to be drafted, and enlist first. When they enlist, Mrs. Cordell is left with no one to induct for that month.
Mrs. Cordell said, "We can't offer the advantages that enlistment can offer you. No one wants to be inducted." But voluntary enlistments do not go toward filling the board's quota because, "the enlistments do not fill the needs normally supplied by induction." Enlistees are generally given some form of special training but draftees are allotted jobs no one will enlist for.
The local clerk said the board had reached 155 in the lottery number sequence, and she belives most boards across the state of Kansas have reached from 150-170 in their calls to this date. She
In another move last week, Nixon eliminated by executive order all future agricultural, occupational and paternity deferments.
thinks the President's proposal will improve the present system. "The President's idea is to try to get boys with the same numbers to enter the service each month."
Mrs. Cordell said the changes in deferment eligibility would not have much effect on the local board since they have granted no beginning II-A deferments for about a year. There are presently only six agricultural deferments in Douglas County, and these were granted on the basis of hardship.
Out of a total of over 8,000 registrants in Douglas County, there are 500 student deferments, 67 II-A deferments, and 787 paternity exemptions. The only occupational deferments to be granted in the future will be for medicine, dentistry, or allied medical study, such as veterinary medicine.
In a statement accompanying his legislative requests, the President said occupational, agricultural, and student deferments "are no longer dictated by the national interest."
Nixon said, "The nation has a right to expect that the responsibility for national defense will be shared equitably and consistently by all segments of our society."
The 1.8 million students presently deferred will retain their
KU freshmen capture pageant's top honors
The new Miss Kansas selected for the Miss USA beauty pageant is a University of Kansas freshman, as is the first runner up. Both young ladies were chosen in the Miss Kansas-Missouri pageant in Kansas City this weekend.
Norma Decker, Tecumseh freshman, will represent the state of Kansas in the nationally televised Miss USA Pageant May 16 in Miami Beach, Fla. She competed with 48 contestants for the title.
Susie Homes, Prairie Village freshman, is the first runner up.
The pageant consisted of evening gown and swim suit competition and a short personal interview with the judges, Miss Decker said. She said that 1500
USSR blasts troop move
By United Press International
Alexei N. Kosygin, in his first news conference since becoming premier of the Soviet Union six years ago, joined with Red China Monday in denouncing President Nixon's decision to send American soldiers to fight Communists in Cambodia.
So did the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which said Nixon violated the constitution by sending U.S. troops across the border to wipe out sanctuaries protecting North Vietnamese troops battling the allies in South Vietnam.
The Communist bloc has never acknowledged the presence of North Vietnam regulars in Cambodia and has implied the Communist forces there were guerillas.
10 KANSAN May 5 1970
Shankel said undergraduatesh should submit a one-page project typed application supported by a letter from a faculty member willing to supervise and encourage the research.
girls were interviewed from all of Kansas before the field of contestants was narrowed to 48.
Recital to be held
The University Research Committee has again provided funds for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to administer a University-wide undergraduate research program, said Delbert Shankel, associate dean of the College.
The deadline for applications for the summer is May 10 and for next academic year, Sept. 15, said Shankel.
Funds provide for a limited number of $500 awards for full-time research in the summer and $200 awards for part-time research during the academic year, said Shankel.
John Leslie Wolfe, Roswell,
N.M. senior, will present a senior
recital tonight at 8 p.m. in
Swarthout Recital Hall.
Miss Decker said she received prizes of a portable television set, a tape recorder, a set of luggage, and an all expense paid vacation. Miss Decker will leave for Miami Beach on Wednesday for a week of rehearsing before the national pageant.
II-S status until they have completed their undergraduate work. Only those planning to enroll next fall will not be eligible for deferment.
Funds given for research
If Congress adopts this amendment, "I will authorize the Selective Service System to establish a plan under which the draft call each month will be on a national basis, with the same lottery sequence numbers called throughout the country," Nixon said.
Should Congress accept Nixon's proposals, college ROTC programs will receive a welcome boost, since those who enroll in these programs will be able to complete their four years of college work without fear of being drafted.
There are presently 431,000 men holding II-A or occupational deferments. These include those with "critical skills" such as engineers, chemists, physicists and teachers. 23,000 more men hold agricultural deferments, and more than four million others are exempted because of dependents. Even more are deferred under the paternity clause. These men will continue to hold their deferments, but no further deferments
Wolfe, a tenor, is a theater voice major in the KU School of Fine Arts. He will be accompanied by Carolyn Weber, Topeka sophomore.
from only one of several problems which have developed since the lottery idea was adopted. Some local boards may not have enough low numbers to fill assigned quotas for the month. As a result, they have to call young men with higher numbers. At the same time, other draft boards throughout the country will have more low numbers than necessary to fill their quotas.
The Congressional hearings on the President's two proposals will not begin before early summer.
Nixon's second legislative request involves the establishment of a direct national call by lottery sequence numbers each month. "We need to ensure that men throughout the country with the same lottery number have equal liability to induction," the President said.
for these reasons were to be granted as of the 23rd.
In his statement accompanying his executive order ending the three categories of deferments, Nixon said, "As long as we need the draft, it is incumbent upon us to make it as fair and equitable as we can." The President's desired result is to end one of the present system's worst inequities —some are able to avoid service indefinitely while the poor or less gifted are sent to Vietnam.
This request by Nixon arose