Ex-Students Ex to Get Draft WASHINGTON

College Is Cleared by Judge Sunny and Cool sunny, cool today. Clear, cool WEBMLY tonight. Cloudy, cool tomor- Red Bank, Freehold row and Friday. 1 Long Branch 7 EDITION Moninoulli County's Outstanding Home Newspaper VOJ*.«>4 NO. 61 KFD BANK, N. J. WEDNESDAY, SEFTEMBFR 22,1971 Ex-Students Ex To Get Draft WASHINGTON. (AP) - present witnesses before hlfj, man with lottery no. 125 or 130,000 inductions in the cur- the president authority to Men with low draft numbers board, requiring a local or ap- lower would be* called. Wheth- rent fiscal year that began phase out undergraduate'stu- who have lost their defer- peal board to have a quorum er it will reach 140, the cur- July 1 and 140,000 in the next dent deferments. Students ments—primarily students when hearing a registrant, rent limit for ordering pre- fiscal year, both well above who entered college or trade graduated from college in and lowering the maximum induction exams, depends on this year's expected callup. school this summer or fall June or dropouts — are ex- length of service on boards the Pentagon manpower re- won't be eligible for defer- pected to be the first called from 25 to 20 years. quirements. The biggest change in the ments, nor will future under- when the Selective Service re- Pentagon officials lave said The draft bill sets a limit of draft provided in the bill gives graduates, officials said. sumes inductions. that about 20,000 draftees Draft officials gave no in- would be needed during the dication when the first men remainder of the year, in- would be called, but said men cluding a 16,009 July-August would be in uniform within request left hanging when the two weeks after President draft authority expired Juno NiXon signs the draft measure 30. approved yesterday by the That would bring this year's Senate. total to less than 110,000, the Nixon is expected to quickly smallest callup since 107,500 sign the "bill extending the Se- were drafted in 1964. When lective Service System. the draft was suspended the The impact of other major Pentagon had asked for 88,000 provisions of the act will be — aside from the July-August slow to materialize, officials 16,000 call — and the draft said. Included are the phasing boards had provided 83,000. out of undergraduate defer- Selective Service officials ments, the right of a man to. said nearly every qualified Bomb Raids Continuing SAIGON (AP) — U.S. bombers followed up massive strikes in the southern panhandle'of North Vietnam with raids today against enemy positions |ri the southern half ot the demi- litarized ?one and Laos. , The U.S. Command said it still had no assessment of damage caused by 200 strikes by Air Force tactical fighter-bombers yesterday in an area from the DMZ 35 miles into North Vietnam, The planes bombed missile and gun sites and sup- AP Wire Photo ply depots. Some sources said poor weather hampered an as- ASSEMBLY OPENS — This was the scene Tuesday as the United Nations sessment. General Assembly opened Its 26th session at United Nations headquarters North Vietnam claimed today that it downed two of the . In/New York. Among the major Items on this^year's agenda, are the ad- fighter-bombers and damaged many others, but this was im- mission of Communist China, and the selection of a successor to Secre- mediately denied by the U.S. Command. tary-General U Thant, who plans to retire Dec. 31. "All of our aircraft were recovered safely and there was no damage," said Maj. Robert O'Brien. AP Wire Photo The Radio Hanoi broadcast also said the planes bombed BUBBLY ACCIDENT —Youngsters play with suds on the road caused and strafed "a large number of civilian populated areas" in when a truck on the N.J. Turnpike crashed and dumped part of its cargo Quang Blnh Province, just north of the DMZ. O'Brien said the of liquid detergent on the Yardviile-Allentown Road below the super- Jersey Students Given strikes were directed against; military targets. highway. Following, the accident last night, rain created the mountains of In the followup raids, Air Force B52 bombers and fighter- suds. bombers from bases in Thailand and Navy warplanes from a 7th Fleet carrier in the Tonkin Gulf launched heavy strikes againsf storage depots and rockets positions in the southern Lift on College Vote half of the DMZ and against the Ho Chi Mirdi trail supply net- work in eastern Laos. TRENTON (AP) —qollege cessfully to,register in Ewing registration, said he did not students across the state have Township,/Mercer County, know if the state would appeal Two 7th Fleet destroyers with five-inch guns also kept up War-o£Words Near been given a boost in their where his school is located. Kingfield's ruling. their bombardment of North Vietnamese positions along the fight to vote where they go to The judge said the election The deadline for registering eastern flank of the DMZ. school. •boards had no right to treat for the Nov. 2 election is to- - Superior Court Judge Frank students as a separate class of morrow. Funding J. Kingfield ruled yesterday citizens in deciding whether Kingfield, who conceded his that it. would be dis- they were qualified to vote. • ruling applied to students all Chinese Puzzle WASHINGTON (AP) - Af- do anything," he told report-' which authorizes funds for crimin'atbry for election : He said students who say over the state; said he ter a. long, long debate,'the ers. , major weapons systems and boards" to refuse to register they do not intend to return to doubted he had the power to Senate has decided to extend, He noted conferees on the research and development, most local college students.- their hometowns after gradu- order the election boards to the draft, but another war-of- military procurement bill are ; has lasted well over a month. ' The'judge said that only- ation, those who plan to re- accept registrations beyond words looms over the con- senior members of the Senate The long draft debate, those students who plan to remain in their college towns tomorrow's deadline. BeingWatched troversial %l\ billion bill for and House Armed Services which began in the Senate turn to their hometown after and those who do not know "You have two days," King- WASHINGTON (AP) — China watchers here doubt that military hardware. committee, likely to be the May 5, came to a surprisingly completing their education where they will go after col- field told Gerald Stockman, Chairman Mao is on his deathbed or even, seriously ill, but Behind the torrent of words, same as. those who watered swift end. may be barred from register- lege should all be allowed to attorney for 18-year-old they suspect Peking may have ran into a lower-level political the talk of young men or man- down the earlier Mansfield Senate leaders had pre- ing in their college towns. register. Thomas J. Wordcn. "If the problem. ned bombers, pay raises or Amendment after the House dicted it would take at least "To classify students as a The state election law re- boards are swamped, let them Mao Tse-tung, 77; was described as vigorously healthy pay loads, the issue remains rejected it. two tries to produce the two- spearate class, not only here quires persons to be residents ask for an injunction." when last viewed by outsiders at his Aug.'7 meeting with Bur- the same — how to force an "When it comes down to the thirds needed to invoke clo- but probably other places as of the county in which they Kingfield's ruling was con- ma's Premier No Win. Nothing to contradict this has been re- end to U.S. involvement in In- real crunch," Gravel said, • ture and limit debate on the •well, is a denial of their right register and declare their in- trary to one' made earlier in- ported here since. dochina. "we'll have a reoccurrence of draft measure. to equal protection under the tention to remain there. volving a Solon Hall Univer- • However some French news stories, in part embroidering Democratic Leader Mike what went on today." But the vote was 61 to 30, 14th Amendment to the U.S. Only those who affirmati-. sity student. But tho judge on reports from French correspondents in Peking, speculated Mansfield, who spearheaded Sen. .John C. Stennis, D- giving supporters of the bill Constitution," Judge King- vely state they plan to return said that decision was based yesterday that some puzzling events in China indicate the red the unsuccessful drive to call Miss., chairman of the Armed victory by a single vote. field said. home after college may be' on narrow grounds and did leader may be dead or gravely ill. for a total withdrawal from Services' Committee and floor Then, as,Gravel and Sen. Ruling Is Made. barred from registering there, not apply in this case. One apparent development is that for the first time since Indochina in idne months pro- manager of both the draft and Alan Cranston, D-Calif., con- Kingfield ruled in the- case tho judge said. vided that all American POWs procurement measures, pre- Bloc Vote Feared the Communists took power 22 years ago, they may not stage ferred on the floor on whether of an 18-year-old Trenton v Appeal Uncertain .their traditional Oct. 1 national day parade at Tien An Men are released, plans to try dicted the debate on the latter to fight further, the Senate State College student from Deputy Ally.

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