Deferment elimination recommended
Senate group reviews draft
WASHINGTON (UPI)—A Senate subcommittee headed by Sen. Edward M, Kennedy, D-Mass., proposed Tuesday that all wartime draft deferments be eliminated except for high school students and hardship cases. The proposal said college deferments should be limited to peacetime.
"By pyramiding occupational deferments on top of student deferments, many registrants have effectively obtained an exemption from military service, while less fortunate young men risk their lives in Vietnam," said the Senate administrative practices and procedure subcommittee.
The six-member panel also recommended junking Selective Service exemptions for fathers and those in certain crucial occupations in a report criticizing the "enormous inequities" of the deferment system.
Deferments, it said, favor registrants from wealthier families because they are more likely to attend college and go on to protected occupations.
In a separate statement, Kennedy urged Congress to give serious thought to the possibility of ending student deferments altogether.
The subcommittee defined wartime as a period of "actual conflict" and not necessarily a declared war, and suggested that Congress come up with a yardstick based on the number of casualties suffered.
Committee opposed to utility tax
TOPEKA (UPI) -A proposed law to remove the tax-exempt status of municipal utilities and facilities built with industrial revenue bonds was sharply opposed Tuesday at a senate committee hearing.
Louis Stroup Jr., executive director of the Kansas Municipal Utilities, Inc., told members of the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee the proposed measure would be unconstitutional.
Stroup told the senators the constitution exempts property used exclusively for municipal purposes. An opinion handed down by Attorney General Kent Frizzell stated that it would be unconstitutional to tax such property, said Stroup.
The joint committee on the state tax structure recommended amending a 1969 senate bill to drop the tax—exempt status of municipal utilities.
Stroup read a letter from Fred Diehl, general manager of the McPherson Board of Public Utilities, that asked the committee to include an appropriation to pay court costs for carrying the case to the Kansas Supreme Court, if the committee recommends passage of the measure.
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The report, based on hearings last year on inequities in the draft system, will be followed some time this year by full-scale hearings on the subject by the Senate Armed Services Committee, which has jurisdiction over the draft.
rations of early dates in some months.
Kennedy's group further recommended that a computer handle the next annual random selection of draftees, contending that the initial draft lottery conducted Dec. 1 resulted in heavy concern-
Some of its other draft reform proposals have at least partially been overtaken by events. It recommended that the Selective Service director be a civilian limited to two five-year terms. President Nixon is reliably reported to have chosen a young civilian defense researcher to succeed Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey as draft director.
Intern program open to students
An opportunity to become actively involved in the operations of the federal government is being offered to University of Kansas students through the Washington Summer Intern Program. This program is an effort to involve qualified college students in the federal agency which is related to their administrative, professional or technical career field.
The University will be permitted to nominate four students for consideration in the summer program. Nominees must have completed at least 60 semester hours by June 1970, or be a current graduate student. Undergraduate nominees must have a grade point average of 2.5 or better. Graduate nominees must be in the upper half of their class.
Students in all fields may be nominated. Nominations will be based on scholastic ability, demonstrated leadership ability, honors, awards, and other recognition received, and career goals and interests.
Interested students must nominate themselves by submitting the nomination form and application supplement to the Office of Student Financial Aid, 26 Strong Hall, before February 16. The four KU nominees will be
selected by Feb. 20 and will complete final applications.
The United States Civil Service Commission, in cooperation with other federal agencies, will make the final selections. Four hundred interns will be chosen from nominations received from all four-year colleges and universities in the country.
Salaries for the interns will be based on their years of college work completed, and range from $425 to $850 a month.
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And the Supreme Court already has outlawed what the subcommittee termed "punirice" reclassification of registrants, a reference to Hershey's controversial policy of urging prime induction of student antiwar protesters who disrupt draft operations.
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