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I Week In Review
Legislators Turn Down Tax Session
Spangler: Philosophic Object
Lacks Selective Service Status
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COLONEL FRANCIS DRATH . . . says the draft will
not take students until June, at least.
The Nebraska Legislat
ure ended its two-day Le
gislative Council meeting
Tuesday almost unani
mously agreeing that the
state's tax problems can
solved at the regular ses
sion that begins January 3.
By a 40-6 vote the Legis
lature turned down Sen.
Terry Carpenter's proposal
for a special session to
pass sales and income tax
laws.
Sen. Carpenter had per
sisted in his request after
being rebuffed by Governor-elect
Norbert Tiemann.
The senator claimed that
Tiemann had given h i m
authority to initiate the
action for him.
Tiemann denied this af
ter the senator had collect
ed signatures of 10 legisla
tors. The signatures auth
orized Secretary of State
Frank Marsh to poll the
Legislative Council by
handing each a ballot in
side an envelope.
At Tuesday's meeting
Tiemann reiterated, In a
statement read by Sen.
William Hasebroock, that
he had no wish to influ
ence the judgment of t h e
Legislature. He added,
however that if a special
session were called he
would make his tax legis
lation available.
The possibility of referen
dum drives, aimed at halt
ing new tax laws and plac
ing the issue on the No
vember 1968 ballot was
one of the prime reasons
Sen. Carpenter sought a
special session.
Senators who voted for
the special session were
George Gerdes, Fern Hub
bard, Peter Claussen, Jer
ome Warner, Harold Stry
ker and Terry Carpenter.
Omaha World-Herald
Draft Doesn't Take
Mid-Term Students Leaders Applaud LBJ's Budget Cuts
By Mick Lowe
Junior Staff Writer
Students now enrolled in
the University and carrying
at least 12 hours satisfac
torily can rest assured that
no matter what their grades
they will be allowed to re
main to continue school un
til June, according to Col
onel Francis Drath, Deputy
Director of the Nebraska
Selective Service System.
Congressional law, ac
cording to Drath, demands
that no student be inducted
until the completion of the
academic year.
Students who have been
ordered to take their physi
cal examinations will be re
classified I-S. (II-S is the
regular student d e f e r r
ment.) A I-S classification is an
interim student deferment,
Drath said. If a student can
bring his grades to "satis
factory standard, he will be
returned into the II-S cate
gory." Drath pointed out that I
S status is given only once,
however, meaning that if a
student allows his grades to
drop after he has been
classified I-S and returned
to II-S, he will inducted at
the close of the academic
year.
Drath defined "satisfac
tory" as the "upper half of
the freshman class, the up
per two-thirds of the sopho
more class, and the upper
three-fourths of the junior
class," or a score of 70 or
above on the draft test."
Only one-fifth of the stu
dents who take the test,
according to Drath, failed
to score 70 or above.
Frequently heard rumors
that all students in a cer
tain town are being drafted
are incorrect, according to
Drath, since local draft
boards do not have to fill a
"quota."
Local boards are gov
erned by the "availability
of the number of qualified
men," Drath said. "Normal
ly the number you call is in
proportion to the size of
your registration."
Concerning reports that
application for conscien
tious objector can postpone
induction for up to two
years (because of process
ing), Drath admitted that
the average minimum time
requirement is six months,
the average maximum one
year.
"Two years Is an exag
geration," Drath said. But
because the 10 application
must pass through the Jus
tice Department, hearings,
and the local board, it is in
evitably a lengthy proced
ure. Many students, notably at
the University of Michigan,
have reacted to university
distribution of grades to the
draft board.
"If we didn't have grades
as a guideline," Drath ob
served, "we would have to
go on the draft test alone.
NEWS
OUTLOOK
Everyone who didn't take
the test would probably be
inducted."
The future of the Selec
tive Service System is In
doubt, according to Drath,
not only in the number of
men to be drafted, but a
continuation of the defer
ment policy.
Secretary of Defense Mc
Namara has announced
that draft quotas in 1967
will probably be reduced
from 35,000 men per month
to 27 thousand.
At the same time, the sys
tem that allows college stu
dents to stay out of war
while forcing the economi
cally underprivileged to
fight has come under heavy
fire.
"There is no perfect sys
tem," Drath said. "But I
like the present system be
cause it is flexible. You can
adjust to a call for 1,000
men a month or 30 people
a month."
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(AP) Austin, Texas - - Both Republican
and Democratic congressional leaders
have applauded President Johnson's dec
laration that he plans to trim federal pro
grams by more than $3 billion next year.
After confering with the leaders for
several hours at his ranch Johnson held
a news conference. The Senate and House
leaders took part in the meeting with
newsmen.
"Our goal is to have in excess of $3
billion in program reductions," President
Johnson said.
He said the cutback will be accom
plished by setting aside programs "if we
think they can be done better tomorrow
than they can today in the light of the
war situation and in the light of other
demands being made in the government."
Asked whether he and Republican
House leader Gerald R. Ford were "now
generally happy with the effort the Pre
sident is making to cut nonessential
spending," Senate GOP leader Everett
Dirksen replied:
"Any effort in that direction, and
particularly when It Is substantial, ought
to make everybody who embraces a rea
sonable or moderate or conservative view
quite happy . . . moving in that direc
tion certainly does make ns happy. It
will have a definite impact on the infla
tionary picture that obtains to some ex
tent in the country."
Ford said "it seems to me we are
moving exactly in the right direction."
Senate Democratic leader Mike Mans
field also promptly endorsed Johnson's
efforts to reduce expenditures.
Johnson told the news conference
that Budget Director Charles L. Schultze
would meet with Cabinet members short
ly to make further recommendations for
cutting back government programs. He
said he would take prompt action on
them.
Johnson told newsmen that military
operations in Viet Nam continue to be
successful. He said between $5 and $15
billion would be requested to meet war
costs between next January and July 1.
Johnson said that the possibility of
an income-tax increase was discussed.
The Christian Science Mositor
West German Coalition Elects Ex-Nazi
Bon - - West Germans got a prema
ture Christmas present Thursday a
new government with some prospect that
it can function.
The first act in a whirlwind of par
liamentary activity was the election
Thursday morning of Kurt Georg Kie
singer, a 2 year-old lawyer-politician
and ex-Nazi from Stuttgart as West Ger
many's third post-war chancellor and
successor to the luckless Ludwig Erhard.
Kiesinger, minister president of Ba
den Wuerttembury for the last eight
years, won 340 of the fully valid votes
of the Bundestag (parliament) members
plus 1 of the 22 Berliners whose voting
privileges are restricted at Allied insis
tence. One hundred nine full members plus
three Berliners voted against Kiesinger
and the grand coalition. Twenty -t h r e e
plus three Berliners cast bland ballots.
Altogether about 80 members of the two
major parties voted against or declined
to support their new partnership.
Kiesinger's cabinet will be installed
Thursday. It includes in addition to Kie
singer, 10 men from the previously rul
ing Christian Democrats and their Va
varian sister party, the Christian Social
ists and eight men and a woman from
the Social Democrats, until now in op
position. For the Socialists under Mayor Wil
ly Brandt of Berlin, who became vice
chancellor and foreign minister it is the
end of a long dry spell.
They have not shared responsibility
on the federal level since West Germany
was established as such in 1949 and be
fore that not since 1930 in Berlin.
They naturally would have preferred
to run the whole show with the small
Free Democratic Party as partners but
the majority was too thin and the risks
too great.
Against the will of the Christian Dem
ocrats the Socialists apparently have
managed to take over the government
with the Free Democrats in the populous
and troubled Ruhr region which includes
one-third of West Germany's people.
Erhard fcrst became chancellor in
October 1963 upon the retirement of Kon
rad Adenauer and had served since 1949
as minister of economics.
Choking down the bitterness of the
recent weeks in which the one-time pub
lic idol has been deserted by friend and
foe alike, Erhard said a dignified fare
well with apparent relief in a 12-minute
TV and radio speech.
In many ways if it actually can
tackle the awesome problems of econom
ic stability and changing foreign policy a
new government may be one of the rec
oncilliations. The two major parties have fought
each other to a standstill in the past.
Now they must cooperate to survive in
programs of reform that represent com
promises for both of them.
Lincoln Evening Journal
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If you're o Mechanical or Electrical Engineer looking for a
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KANSAS CITY POWER & LIGHT COMPANY.
We'll be on campus December 7,' 1966.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
"The draft is undemo
cratic and oppressive," ac
cording to Al Spangler,
campus president of Stu
dents for a Democratic So
ciety. Spangler said that
he is opposed to conscrip
tion of any kind, but that
he realized "the tremen
mendous problem that
would occurr if the draft
were abolished."
Spangler said that h i s
main objection to the draft
was the lack of a defer
ment for those people who
are not categorically op
posed to war, but who, for
moral or philisophical rea
sons, are opposed to the
war in Viet Nam.
"These people are not
conscientious objectors,"
Spangler observed, "b u t
they feel that they couldn't
fight in this war. There's
no out."
"I think this kind of per
son ought to have some
kind of alternative. Per
haps they could go to Viet
Nam, not to fight, but in a
capacity similar to the
Peace Corps."
The national SDS organ
ization has passed a reso
lution opposing the draft,
"no matter what form it
takes, because of its un
democratic and coercive
nature."
The draft Is undemocrat
ic, according to Spangler,
because "people are draft
ed who can't vote and who
have no voice in the poli
cies they're helping to car
ry out. Also the draft hurts
the person who can't afford
to go to college."
"If not enough people
volunteer to fight in Viet
Nam, then perhaps we
should re-examine what
we're doing over there. A
number of revolutionary
movements have been car
ried out with just volun
teers," Spangler added.
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