New Draft Order
Will Exempt
Married Men
WASHINGTON UP _ President
Kennedy yesterday ordered a halt
to the drafting of married men so
long as enough single men are
available to maintain the strength
of the armed forces.
Kennedy signed an excutive or
der which provides that married
men shall be inducted only after
all single men in the 19-25 age
group have been drafted.
Military sources said that, for
the foreseeable future, enough
single men will be available so
that there will be no need to draft
husbands.
Only a major increase in mili
tary strength, they said, would
again place married men within
the scope of the draft.
Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Se
lective Service Director, estimated
that about one out of every five
men now classified as A1—avail
able for service — is married and
without children.
A previous executive order said
the halt to induction of married
men will mean that young single
men generally will be drafted at
an earlier age. At present the av
erage draftee is about 23 years of
age.
Some 1.7 million men are clas
sified 1A. This pool has been grow
ing in recent years because of the
crop of "war babies” reaching the
minimum draft age of 18.
Hershey was called to the White
House for Kennedy’s signing of
the order.
The terms of the order exclude
from the draft all young men who
get married from this day for
ward. The order is effective im
mediately.
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NEW YORK OP — Holland
French is the new national com
mander of the Salvation Army.
French, commander of the or
ganization’s 11-state Eastern ter
ritory for 10 years, was named to
the top post in New York City.
He succeeds Norman S. Marshal
who retired.
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‘Few Russian Soldiers’ in
Cuba, Report Students
SAN FRANCISCO — There
are few Russian soldiers in Cuba,
12 American students who re
cently returned from a trip to that
country said Friday.
“We saw Russian agronomists
and biochemists and technicians,”
said John Milton of San Mateo,
Calif., one of the 12, “but the
place isn’t swarming with Rus
sians.”
Luria Castell, a San Francisco
State College student, expressed
admiration for Premier Fidel Cas
tro, who, she said, she watched
play table tennis at Varadero
Beach with his shirt off.
“I was sort of amazed he’d take
off his shirt and play ping-pong
with the people,” she said.
The 12 students, all from the
San Francisco bay area, were part
of a larger group which defied a
State Department ban on travel
to Cuba this summer.
HO HUM . . .
DENVER, Colo, (jfl — Last Feb
ruary thieves stole a car parked
by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Nichols
in front of their home.
The car was found Aug. 24 in
Los Angeles, and Nichols went for
it last week. He washed it, bought
new tires and filled the gas tank.
Last weekend the car was stolen
again — from the same spot in
front of their home.
“If they had waited one more
day, we would have had the car
waxed, too,” Mrs. Nichols said.
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FAIRBANKS tiP — A fire
which for a time Monday threat
ened the Yukon Ri\ r village of
Ruby destroyed an old warehouse,
th * old Stockman Sfore and sev
eral other unused buildings.
“The loss turned out to be not
serious,” a resident of Ruby re
ported Tuesday. “No one is in
need of help nor was anyone
hurt.”
A radio message Monday re
ported the blaze and said the com
munity of about 200 persons was
endangered. Then communications
were lost.
Men and equipment were rushed
to Ruby by the Bureau of Land
Management.
A bulldozer operator was cre
dited with containing the fire. The
tractor cleared the area around
the burning structures.
No loss estimate was available.
Ruby is about 250 miles west
of Fairbanks.
POSTMASTERS . . .
Appointments of three acting
postmasters in Alaska have been
announced by Assistant Postmaster
General Frederick C. Belen. Those
names are Arthur S. Douglas, Am
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and Mrs. Angeline N. Moto,
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beat them to a pulp to kill the larvae
and then throw them back for later
harvesting.
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AN ASPIRIN-SIZE "pill" has been
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costs of a $4 million hydrogen
plant, reports Chemetron Corp.
The company's new catalyst elimi
nates several previously neces
sary purification steps.
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