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imperialists,” his term
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cpanse of death and
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t to land on the 12-
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2:30 a.m. Tuesday,
heavy toll among the
itants and in villages
5 to 10 miles from the
Wage Bill
led Down
— House Democratic
ng scaling down a pro-
ige bill in hopes of
he waning days of the
f the plan now being
alls for reducing from
1.60 the proposed in-
t $1.25 wage.
;so is being given to
nber of new workers
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by the Education and
Home Rule
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—The District of C6 :
ill enters the crucial
the House today, with
ifident they can put
npromise.
business of the House
d by Rep. B. F. Sisk,
• a referendum to see
want home rule, and
board to work out a
•ossibility that other
! disposed of too. More
lying on the speaker’s
e adjourned Tuesday
Stalls
Florida
Ma. — Tropical storm
lort of slamming into
ast of Florida and
forecasters said the
losing power,
ivisory, the Weather
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out 115 miles south-
, Ala., for the next
weakening slowly,
will probably be low-
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andle coastline. Wind
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Nixon suggests that
lident Johnson carry
Lcies is to elect more
3SS.
‘ew York State Pub-
Fuesday night that
lire from Democratic
to adopt a soft line
<1 to Congress, Nixon
"the President wher-
nst the appeasers in
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Critical List
— Academy Award-
=hy Malone was re
progress, but still
spokesmen at Cedars
ctress, star of tele-
e,” underwent 7^
Thursday night to
im her lungs,
“iperature soared to
=day night. Doctors
^ her massive intra-
Kies to keep it down,
sid, “She’s holding
on the critical list
E3w days.”
THE BATTALION
Wednesday, September 29,1965 College Station, Texas Page 3
By WILLIAM GRANT
The Collegiate Press Service
WASHINGTON — With the
October and November draft
calls the largest since the Korean
War, nation’s draft boards are
set to look at requests for stu
dent deferments with a more
discerning eye.
The Selective Service System
has no intention of abandoning
deferments for students in col
leges and universities but, un
der the tighter policy, draft
boards will be picking up some
deferred students who are not
attending school full time or
who are not making satisfactory
progress in their classes.
Last January the total nation
wide draft call was only 5,400
Fishing Excursion
Costly For Angler
SHEFFIELD, England <A>) _
This is a real fish story.
George Holland, dropped his
bait can into the Derwent River,
then dropped his car keys trying
to recover the can.
Worse followed. He fell into
the river trying to recover the
keys. He had to force a side
window to get into his car and,
without keys, had to short the
ignition to start the engine. But
he couldn’t turn the wheel since
the anti-theft device on it was
locked.
“The whole affair,” Geoiige
said, “was a triumph for the
fish.”
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men. In February, it dropped to
3,000. The Vietnam crises shot
the draft call to 7,900 in March;
13,700 in April; 15,100 in May;
17,000 in June; 17,100 in July;
and 16,500 in August.
Then, on July 28 President
Lyndon Johnson announced that
a September call of 27,000 men
would be necessary in order to
meet the increased commitment
in Vietnam.
Even' at that time most state
Selective Service men were quot
ed as saying they didn’t feel the
new figures would cause any
change in the draft status of
most men because “draft pools”
were large enough to take care
of the increased demands. In
most states, draft officials were
quoted, some off the record, as
saying that married men with no
other dependants still need not
fear for the draft. Under a 1963
order by President Kennedy,
married men with no children
were not to be drafted as long
as single men were available.
But the Defense Department
announced an October call of
33,600 and recently announced
its November call of 36,450—the
two largest calls since the end
of the Korean War. And in
November, for the first time
since Korea, the draft will in
clude men for the Marine Corps.
Some states began to back
track on their previous state
ments about married men and
many conceded that it would be
necessary to take married men
“sometime in the fall.”
On Aug. 26, President John
son dropped his well-remembered
bombshell and announced he had
revoked President Kennedy’s or
der and that from now on mar
ried men without children would
be considered the same as single
men as far as the draft is con
cerned.
Trying to beat the order’s mid
night deadline, young couples
sought out marriage spots like
Las Vegas, Nev. Some made it
and got married before midnight.
But Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey,
national director of the Selective
Service System, observed, “I be
lieve these colples will find they
didn’t beat any deadline. We’ll
get most of them — in four or
five months.”
The facts remain that with the
increased draft calls, local boards
are rapidly running out of sin
gle men between the ages of 19
and 26 — the present induction
limits — and the childless mar
ried men are the next to go.
The same sort of concern has
been registered among college
students who fear that continued
high draft calls further deplete
the draft pools and they, after
the married men, they’ll be the
next to go.
To a degree, they’re right.
As one Selective Service of
ficial points out, “There is noth
ing automatic about a student
being deferred. Each case is
considered on its own merits
with the student’s course of stu
dy, its importance to the nation
al interest, and the student’s
scholastic ability” being used as
measuring sticks.
The same high official sug
gested that as the quotas rise
(or even if they stay at the
present high level for some ex
tended period of time) and the
age of the draftee drops, boards
probably will not be able to give
deferments for longer than a
year.
“This would cover a man in
his senior year or probably could
be extended in order to let a jun
ior finish school, but it probably
would not let the 19 or 20 year-
old sophomore finish college be
fore being called for military
duty,” he said.
He said any student who re
ceived an order for induction
while in school might be given
a I-S classification that would
allow him to finish that school
year before reporting for duty.
The first thing likely to hap
pen is that probationary or bor
derline students will lose their
deferments as they did during
the Korean War. This means
draft boards could require a stu
dent to meet certain academic
levels in order to retain his de
ferment.
The graduate students chances
of completing his studies before
service vary. The state director
of Selective Service for Mary
land said in a recent interview
that graduate deferments were
that deferments were given after
asking if the student’s studies
were serving the national inter
est, health, or safety. The Mary
land director, Brig. Gen. Henry
C. Stanwood, said he felt the
requirement could be interpreted
to mean that science, math, and
medical students were favored.
Just as there will be a tight
ening of student deferments,
medical deferments will also be
harder to come by.
If a man is called to take his
physical, the chances are still
better than even that he will be
turned down. A report from the
Army Surgeon General’s office
indicated that during 1964 only
47 percent of the 847,511 draftees
were accepted.
Of the 53 percent that failed
to qualify, 22.2 percent were for
medical reasons: 16.2 percent for
mental reasons; 14 percent had
“limited training ability;” 1.5
percent had both medical and
mental reasons for being reject
ed; and 1.7 percent were found to
be morally unfit.”
“The criteria for medically de-
terming ‘combat fitness’ have ob
viously changed with the chang
ing techniques of warfare,” the
report said. In some ways, the
present standards are more li
beral than during World War
II.
Still, medical deferments are
going to be harder to get in the
coming months. Gen. Hershey
compares the situation to shop
ping for tomatoes. “When you
go shopping for tomatoes and
discover that there is a limited
supply,” the general says, “you
have to buy some with spots
if you’re to get as many as you
need.”
The easiest way to get drafted
still is to be in some sort of
trouble with your local board.
The highest draftable classifi
cation is reserved for those who
the local board finds to he “de
linquent” under the Selective
Service Act. This may he a per
son who doesn’t keep the board
informed of his address or his
status. The law says a regis
trant must furnish the board in
formation on any change of sta
tus within 10 days. Now there
is a new way to be in trouble
considered by local boards hut with the board, and with the law.
President Johnson signed a law
August 31 that makes it illegal
for anyone to burn or destroy
his draft card. Enacted by Con
gress to counteract student de
monstrations that included a
public burning or tearing up of
draft cards as a protest to the
war in Vietnam, the law provides
for a $10,000 fine or five years
in prison for anyone who des
troys his Selective Service card.
Coincidentally, the new urgen
cy over the draft came at a time
when discussions were underway
on the future of the draft. There
was some pressure to do away
with it all together but from ex
perience, officials knew when the
Selective Service Act had been
allowe dto lapse in 1947, the Ar
my was unable to keep a force
of 1.5 million men through en
listments.
A Presidential task force re
ported that by paying compete-
tive salaries the Army could be
maintained on a voluntary basis.
During the summer, the Soviet
Union announced that it had
lowered its three-year service re
quirement to a year for all men
who had completed college. The
announcement said this would al
low them to place college grad
uates in more useful jobs more
quickly and would keep the Sov
iet army at a suitable peace
time level.
MAJOR CARRIES WOUNDED GI
A wounded private clings to the back of a major who is
carrying him to safety under sniper fire in South Viet Nam.
The men were part of the 2nd Battalion, 16th Regiment
of the First Infantry Division trying to dislodge Viet Cong
guerillas in Bien Hoa, about 40 miles northwest of Saigon.
(AP Wirephoto)
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mander, who orbited the earth
in May of 1962, said men are
essentially weightless both in
space and in the ocean but the
density of deep water - 800
times that of air at the surface
- makes every movement there
an effort.
He said one of the delights of
his stay in the 12 x 58-foot steel
cyclinder on the ocean floor 1,000
yards off La Jolla was watching
sea lions which came down at
night to feed on fish attracted
by lights from the Sealab 2 port
holes. “They are about the
most beautiful, graceful things
I’ve ever seen,” he said.
The divers who came up with
Carpenter were the second team
to spent 15 days in Sealab 2 as
part of a Navy experiment to
determine how long men can
function at great depths.
Carpenter went down with
nine men Aug. 28 and stayed for
two more weeks after the first
team was replaced by another
group Sept. 12. A third team,
last in the 45-day test, replaced
the second Sunday.
Carpenter and the nine others
at the news conference had spent
30 hours in a decompression
chamber and emerged for their
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Monday.
Capt. George Bond, project
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far.
Speakers Urge Regional Educators
To Reappraise Teaching Methods
Two speakers challenged re
gional educatinonal leaders Tues
day to adjust teaching methods
to meet the epic-making revolu
tion in education.
Dr. Frank W. R. Hubert, dean
of the A&M College of Liberal
Arts, and Dr. Milo Kearney, di
vision director of teacher educa
tion and certification of the Tex
as Education Agency, spoke to
40 educators attending a regional
teacher education council meet
ing here.
Hubert urged the leaders to
have concern for quality in
teaching everywhere, including
classrooms and laboratories of
colleges and universities.
He called for removal of de
terrents to research opportuni
ties in education, overcoming ob-
solesence in educational tech
niques innovations, marshalling
total resources of an institution
and the improvement of teach
ing.
Kearney told the group, in
cluding representatives from
Beaumont, Prairie View, Hous
ton and Huntsville, to be sensi
tive to experimentation and to
search for new ideas in teach
ing.
“It’s becoming more and more
apparent that we can’t use the
same academic preparations in
teaching that we have used for
the last 100 years,” he chuckled.
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eral funds on education, Kearney
said in his opinion education is
moving from a county-state re
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“It is becoming increasingly
important to establish direct con
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phasized.
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Yearbook Portrait Schedule:
Corps freshmen will have their
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