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THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1967 The Doily Nebraskan Page 5 udents Attack For No The State Selective Serv ice has received no official information concern ing President Johnson's re cent draft recommenda tions, according to Guy Henninger, State Selective Service director. "All that we know is what we have read in the pa pers," Henninger said. "We mation in the next few days." Washington D.C. (CPS) Proponents of voluntary na tional service have attacked the reports of two govern ment panels studying the draft for their failure to consider voluntary work as an alternative to conscrip tion. Eighteen leaders of stu dents organizations have in formed President Johnson by telegram that they are "appalled that the two advi sory groups make no provi sion in their recommenda tions for a move toward voluntary national service." The youth group leaders, representing political and religious organizations, had called for abolition of t h e draft at a February meet ing sponsored by MODER ATOR magazine. Voluntary Service In their statement to the President, the students commented, "It incredible is to us that the two investi gating bodies fail to propose any realistic programs for significantly extending vol untary service in either the armed forces or in non-military, humanitarian p r o grams." Heavy criticism was di rected at the report of the President's National Advi sory Commission on Selec tive Service, headed by for mer Assistant Attorney Gen eral Burke Marshall. The students charged that the Marshall Commission's recommendations "are a grab-bag of storage meas ures designed to alleviate certain inequities at the cost of further entrenching and exacerbating the impact of conscription." The youth leaders stated, "The Commission recom mendations, if implemented, mean the perpetuation of a 3 Yo u n g Republican out standing worker awards winners include: Becky Jones, Joan Wilson, Carol Graham, Roger Doerr, Sheryl B r e s 1 ey, Mary Topp, Glory Wilbur, Fred Lamb, Craig Broyhill, Orin Ellingson, Neil Balfour. Mike Le May, Marty Got tschalk, Kathy Dunn, Terry Schaaf, Larry Johnson, La vone Agena, Dan Duven, Peggy Hanna, Sheri Glaz er, Judy Martin, Jerry Mc Creary, Verle Lessig. Susan Rantz, Pierre Dag gett, Beth Monson, Dave Piester, Joan Stoldorf, Di ane Theisen. New officers of K a p p a Kappa Gamma include: Jackie Freeman, presi dent; Susan Duncan, first vice president; Nancy Pro basco, second vice presi dent; Steph Tinan, record ing secretary; Barb Sim mons, corrrespondinfj secretary. Would You Like A Job Now With A Future Later? We are always on the lookout for young men, preferably Juniors or Seniors, who would like to earn while they learn the Life insurance business. You should be in a position to devote from 10 to 15 hours a week to Life insurance selling, and you can easily average $100 a week. But more importantly, you will be preparing yourself for a career as a successful professional Life insurance representative. If you are ambitious, intelligent and are looking for an opportunity to make additional money now, please call or come in for an interview. Jim Kowalke, General Agent 750 Stuart Building, Telephone 477-4102 Voluntary Service Ideas y system which debases hu man dignity and deprives young Americans of t n e I r freedom." Signers of the statement included officers of the Col lege Young Democrats, the Young Republican National Federation, the YMCA Stu dent Council, and the Uni versity Christian Movement. One of the recommenda tions of the Marshall Com mission was the abolition of student deferments. In a statement to Congress re leased today, the President announced that he was par tially implementing that suggestion. In his message on the draft, the President also suggested that "enlistment procedures for our National Guard and Reserve units be strenghtened to remove in equities and to ensure a high state of readiness for those units." President's Praise The President praised the work of young Americans who, through service in such programs as VISTA and the Peace Corps, "have touched, and perhaps even changed, the life of our country and our world." He said that both t h e Marshall Commission re port and the statement of a special panel reporting to the House Armed Services Committee found that the United States cannot "es tablish, through these pro grams and others like them, a practical system of non military alternatives to the draft without harming our national security." Johnson said that he hoped "the spirit of voluntary serv ice in socially useful enter prises will . . . continue to grow until that good day when all service will be vol untary, when all young peo ple can and will choose the kind of service best fitted to their own needs and their nation's." Ask Service The President stated that "because of the condi tions of the world we live in now, we must continue to ask one form of service military duty of our young man. We would be an irre sponsible nation if we did Anne Hunter, treasurer; Kathy Kelley, Pledge train er; Cathy Stilwell, mem bership chairman; Judy Baird, house chairman; Nancy Shook, social chair man; Jan Bonnon, activi ties chairman. Kathy Augustine, cultural chairman; Lynda Schoen ing p u b 1 i c relations; Su sie Phelps, Panbellenlc delegate. Heroic Book Store New Arrivals Every ANCHOR paperback. Over 400 different titles. All 10 off. 236 No. 12th OPEN 7 DAYSi .M0 Mk BANKERS LIFE NEBRASKA raft Advisors not and perhaps even an extinct one." An executive order to be issued in the near future will abolish deferments for graduate students, unless those students are attending medical or dental school. The President stated that "student deferments have resulted in inequities be cause many of those defer ments have pyramided into exemptions from military service." Other major points in the President's message in clude the induction of men beginning at age 18 "re versing the present order of calling the oldest first, so that uncertainties now gen erated in the lives of young men will be reduced; "uni form rules for determining non - student deferments; and the establishment of a lottery system of "fair and impartial random" to de termine the order of call for eligible men. Improvement Additionally, the Presi dent called for immediate improvement of the Selec tive Service System "to as sure better service to the registrant both in counsel ing and appeals, better In formation to the public re garding the System's opera tion and broader represen tation on local boards of the communities they serve." Johnson's recommenda tions also include the con tinuation of the Marshall Commission for another year, "to provide a contin uing review of the system that touches the lives of so many young Americans and their families." He said he believes the proposals he has sent to Congress will help create the fairest system that can be devised for choosing who shall serve in the military. Comments Officials of the major ed ucation associations had no immediate comment on the President's proposals. 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