Lottery for Draft Set Next Month
The Selective Service System announces the 1972 draft lottery will be held next month, with August 5 tentatively set. Congress delay and a stalled draft act extension prompted the move, despite debates on Vietnam withdrawal and 16,000 men called up for July and August. The Defense Department expects 500,000 eligible men to be deferred or drafted, while officials probe fairness of the process.
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Robert A. Dobkin
Washington (Ap
Selective Service
Congress
House Senate
U.S
Vietnam
Hanoi
Curtis Tarr
Tarr
Defense Department
Army
Nixon
Melvin
Laird
Washington
Selective Service System
Weather Elsewhere and Heat Across Arkansas
Weather report covers 24 hours to 7 a.m. Friday with a high of 101 and a low of 73. Arkansas forecast remains hot and fair through Saturday with tonight's lows upper 70s and Saturday highs 94 to 104. Separate note: arson charges against two phone company employees for cutting cables affecting 8,000 subscribers in Munsterden, Aurora, and Libertyville, Illinois, plus similar damage in Vineland New Jersey and Gretna Nebraska. Additional outages in Los Angeles area affecting about 1,500, and San Francisco area about 2,700. Crews repaired most services quickly. A sulphur bomb at a New Rochelle New York office forced evacuation of over 100 nonstrikers.
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Weather Experiment Station
Arkansas
Mundelein
Aurora
Libertyville
Vineland
N.J
Grethna
Neb
Los Angeles
San Francisco Area
New Rochelle
N.Y
Texas Faces VEE Epidemic Among Humans and Horses
Health officials from across Texas convened in Austin to address Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis as 34 people in the Lower Rio Grande Valley are hospitalized and over 500 horses have been stricken. The outbreak prompts interstate embargoes, a U.S. Senate vaccine funding vote, and ongoing aerial spraying in Cameron County while horses receive experimental vaccination.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
Rio Grande Valley
Fort Worth
U.S. Army
U.S. Senate
Canada
Virginia
Louisiana
Tommy Williams
Louisiana Veterinarians Association
DeRidder
U.S. Agriculture Department
Brownsville
Cameron County
U.S. Air Force
El Dorado Desegregation Plan Delayed by Judge Harris
U S District Judge Oren Harris postponed a final ruling on El Dorado School Board desegregation plan. The plan relies on bus routes for elementary grades and split sixth grade between three buildings. Plaintiffs’ attorney argues the plan burdens Black students and Harris sought more detail on routes and notification. He rejected freedom of choice for elementary desegregation and warned that a single-race school is likely in violation, though he lacks authority to impose quotas.
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EL Dorado, Ark
U.S
Oren Harris
el Dorado
John Walker
Little Rock
Harris
Nixon plans trip to Peking within 10 months
AP dispatches report Nixon will visit Communist China within ten months at Chou Enlai’s invitation to seek normalization of U S relations. Coverage notes varied reactions from Democrats Republicans and conservatives and reports protests from Nationalist China and allies in Asia.
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San Clemente
Calif
Nixon
Peking
China
Chou Enlai
U.S
Mainland China
Washington
Tokyo
United States
Henry Kissinger
Pakistan
United Front
Red China
Chou
West
Formosa
Asia
Communist Party
Mao Tse-tung
Chiang Ching
Chen Po-ta
Yao Wen-yuan
Central Committee
Red Guards
Drug Ring Links Tie to Viet Nam Vice President Ky
NBC correspondent Phil Brady cited Vietnamese sources alleging Ky profited from narcotics and opium smuggling via air force networks. The report linked other figures including Tran Thanh Phong Dang Van Quang and Ngo Dzu to drug trafficking amid Thieu opposition claims. Ky denied the charges while Thieu seeks reelection.
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Huynh Minh Trinh
Associated Press
Saigon
Nguyen van Thien
Nguyen Cao Ky
Phil Brady
National Broadcasting Co
NBC Nightly News
Brady
Ky, A Former Commander of the Air Force
Air Force
Thieu
Quang
Robert H. Steele
Conn
House
Washington
Ngo Dzu
Central Highlands
Brady Said That “According To Extremely Reliable Sources,” Dzu
Dzu
Steele
AP&L Blames Arkla Over Gas Curtailment Policy
AP&L attorneys charged at a Federal Power Commission hearing that Arkla is curtailing gas deliveries more than needed under its husbanding policy. Arkla says curtailment of 200 to 250 million cubic feet a day from industrial customers is necessary until new supplies arrive.
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Washington (Ap
Arkansas Power & Light Co
Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co
Arkla
Ap&l
Federal Power Commission
Washington
Desegregation plan snag noted in education bill
The House Education and Labor Committee faced a new snag as Rep. Ford offered a substitute to fold desegregation aid into a $6.8 billion general school aid measure. He won implied support, but the subcommittee adjourned without action. Chairman Pucinski aims for a vote early next week amid Republican opposition.
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Washington
Nixon
House Education and Labor Committee
John Beckler
Associated Press
William D. Ford
D-Mich
Ford
Roman C. Pucinski
D-Ill
Albert H. Quie
Minnesota
Congress
House
Senate
Pucinski
Subcommittee
Double funeral for Strech and Gathright in Missouri and Tennessee
Ella Mae Strech, 86, of Webb City Missouri, died in Shawnee Oklahoma after a long illness. Funeral services will be held in Webb City with three local pastors officiating. Survivors include five daughters and two sons. Geraldine Gathright, 40, of Saratoga, died in Nashville Thursday night. Funeral Sunday in Nashville with burial at Restland Memorial Park. She is survived by husband Doyle D Gathright, a daughter and several siblings. Also notes U S B52 bombers striking North Vietnamese positions near the DMZ and Khe Sanh as part of heavy raids amid a two week lull, with 360 tons dropped and a South Vietnamese task force withdrawing from Cambodia. The December 2 winter solstice is mentioned.
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Ella Mae Strevan
Ella Mae Strech
John Strech
Webb City
Missouri
Shawnee
Oklahoma
Johnston-Simpson
Charles Smith
Alfred Jenkins
F. M. Sumpter
Forrestine Atkerson
Edith Carnes
Lancaster
Calif
Nelva McGillivray
Manhattan Beach
Dortha McKillip
Ozan
Ark
Ruth McMakin
Okla
C. L. Strech
Escondido
Arthur L. Strech
Hope
Geraldine Gathright
Saratoga
Nashville
Latimer
David Webb
M. H. Peebles
Restland Memorial Park
Doyle D. Gathright
Judy Bowers
Centerpoint
Dewey Icenhower
Olen Icenhower
Dierks
Otis Icenhower
Willie B. Icenhower
Hix Chambers
Mineral Springs
Oscar Gibson
Foreman
Saigon
South Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Khe Sanh
Cambodia
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