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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1969
Page
3
The first Selective Service lottery in decades drew all 366 days and Leap Day from a jar to set draft order by birthdays for 19 to 26 year olds. First out was J followed by dates like April 24 and Dec 30 while letters were later scrambled to guide local boards.
Madison Wisconsin AP Richard Stolman 19 a UW sophomore born September 14 is No 1 draft lottery pick. His older brother Douglas 21 a KU senior born April 24 is No 2. Stolman recalls the call to his Nashville parents and says he and his brother are stunned yet trying to laugh it off.
Scott Jenkins a 20 year old from Blossburg Pa waited over the televised draft lottery and learned his birth date Sept 14 199 of the year was drawn first. A friend confirmed the first name to be called starts with J and Jenkins took a long pull on his mug in disbelief.
Hamilton sheriff deputies report 18 year old Collian Creekbaum of 2220 Brentwood St Middletown was hit when his car rolled forward after he paused to shoot crows along Cotton Run Road. He was rushed to Mercy Hospital with head and arm injuries.
Albert Yeckel Jr., 24, will serve 60 to 90 days of study and observation in a federal prison after pleading guilty to two counts of unlawful sale of a stimulant drug. U. S. District Court Judge Timothy Hogan ordered the stay on Monday.
David K. Parker of Anchorage Alaska refused to pull capsules from the draft lottery jar saying he could not participate in a process that could send peers to war. He observed the drawing as one of four advisers and learned his June 20 birthday would likely avoid the 1970 draft, with about 850000 men affected.
A series of evangelistic services begins tomorrow at the Church of God in Trenton and runs through December 14. Rev. Ted Bowman, state evangelist from Florida, will conduct the services starting at 7 p.m. on weekdays and 11 a.m. on Sundays.
In Washington AP reports the draft boards will use a letter based system to break ties when men share a birthday. The sequence for first letters of last names is listed as J G D X N 60 7 Z 8 T 9 W 10 P 11 Q 12 Y 13 U 14 C 15 F 161 17 K 18 H 19 S 20 L 21 M 22 A 23 R 24 E 25 B 6 V.
South Vietnamese officials delay access to Song My as Sen. Tran Van Don leads a parliamentary team seeking eyewitness accounts of the My Lai massacre. An American artillery barrage halted the probe near My Lai, while Col. Ton That Khien casts doubt on civilian casualty figures and cautions against inflated counts.
Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird downplayed any public harm to President Nixon from the My Lai killings case. The court martial for Lt. William Calley Jr. seeks injunctions to curb media coverage as trials prepare to start in March. Senator Ervin proposed letting discharged servicemen face federal court for crimes during service, while S. Sgt. David Mitchell remains under investigation at Fort Hood.
A $450 welder was stolen yesterday from the American Materials Co. plant between Hamilton Trenton and Jacksonburg roads, north of here, according to sheriff's deputies.
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