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Vol. 69Price Ten CentsStudent Newspaper at The University of Texas af AusAUSTIN, TEXAS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1969Rue the Day You Were BornWASHINGTON (AP)TV first draftlottery in 27 years was held Monday night, sending men horn on Sept. 14 to the head of the line for 1970 draft calls.The first birth date number was drawn by Rep. Alexander Pirnie, R-N.Y,, ranking Republican on a special House subcommittee on the draft.Fifty-three young people previously selected as unofficial advisers to the Selective Service System drew the 366 plastic capsules containing the dates.Others will be called in the order in which their birthdays were drawn Monday night, until the local boards throughout the nation fulfill their 1970 draft quotas.LotteryBy PAT FLORESThe new Selective Service lottery put into effect Monday night determines the draft eligibility of all qualified—malelt;; between the ages of 19 to 26 by the random drawing of a 1970 date and the potential draftee's birthdate.“The idea that all 19-year-olds will he drafted first is erroneous,” said Col. Charles M. Duncan, deputy State director and chief of the Manpower Division of the Selective Service System, Monday afternoon.Each qualified potential draftee, withand without college and work deferments, received a number hetw-een one and 366 Monday night. The number 366 was needed because of those men born on Feb. 29 ofany leap year.Any qualified male, regardless of age, bom’on a draft-selected day is eligible to be inducted unless his deferment is honored.When a work or school deferment expires, the potential draftee is placed in a second-priority group in the following year if his number was not selected during the yearsof his deferment.For example, those whose deferments end in June, 1970, will be eligible for induction for the remainder of 1970 if their number has not been selected and if their deferments are not renewed.However, they will be in a sccond-prior-ity-place in 1971 because of all the new potential draftees entering the lottery in1971.“This system is intended to be one of de-creasing vulnerability,” Duncan said Monday. “Under our present draft quotas, thoseThe list drawn Monday night applied to all men between 19 and 26 years of age as of the end of this year.Onlv those classified 1-A or 1 AC) willWactually he called.But men now deferred or exempt would retain their place in this order of call should thev later become 1-A or 1-A-O, that is,W 0available for the draft.STARTING IN JANUARY, ealt; i draftboard will begin calling men for militaryservice on the basis of that list.The first ones called will he the men with birthdays matching the daU next to No. 1.By the time most draft boards haveKeptSystemmen who hoid numbers between 244 and 366 will almost surely not lie inducted.” Draft delinquents and all volunteers are Inducted first. After 1970, the first-priority group will Include aLl those 19-year-olds who do not have numbers plus those men who were not selected in 1970. However, each succeeding year places the older potential draftee further down the priority list as newr 19-year-olds register and as deferments continue to expire.Differences in the number of volunteers will cause each local hoard to use more of the list of 1970 dates. “Some parts ofTexas have more college students than others, and therefore have more deferments,” Duncan said. “These boards may need to use more numbers than a boardwith sufficient volunteers.”The yearly drawing is intended to simplify tiie selection process in the long run. The basic idea is to limit draft eligibility to as short a time as possible beginning during a man’s nineteenth year, Duncansaid.Col. Morris S. Schwartz, State Selective Service director, said Friday that available men aged 18-vears and six to 11months old may he called for pre-inductionphysical examinations.The state draft quota for January willbe 573 men.“These examinations may be held to get everyone examined,” said Duncan. “Wethought all 19-year-olds had to be examined before their names were submitted tothe lottery. But this was not actually needed.”FansTicketsness office took priority and general public mail orders for those 5.000 tickets was July 1. Sometime Later Lundstedt decided how many to pull out for student drawing. He could have requested more.Cotton Bowl end zone with the students.” said I.undstedt, “as long as they want seats.”At the moment, though, the end of aivwk'h in frorrt of the tube Will have to0 *f -% % \\VodayNo. 81worked their way half way through the list — into the middle or upper 100’s — they will probably have all the men theyneed for their 1970 quotas.Men with birth dates drawn early in the list can be almost sure of receiving a draft notice next year. Men with middle-r a n g e numbers may have to wait all year to see if they are drafted. Men whose birthdays are drawm late in the list, next to numbers in the 200's or 300’s, probably will not be drafted,EVERY MAN in the country who reachesthe age of 19 but not 26 by Dec. 31,1969. will have a place-in-line number determined by Monday night’s drawing.But only men classifier} 1-A “available for service” — will be subject to draft call in 1970.Men granted deferment or exemption by their local draft boards will not be called while their deferments or exemptions continue.But the place-in-line number they draw In Monday night’s lottery will stay with them. If they lose their deferments or exemptions and become 1-A, they will fallhack into line with other draftable men in exactly the same place they would haveoccupied if they had not been deferred orexempt.Tn other words, if a man now deferred stands third on Monday night’s list, he would become third on the list to be drafted in any future year should he become1-A.EACH YEAR, while the lottery system continues, a new drawing will be held,assigning place-in-line numbers to a brand new group of men — those who reach theage of 19 during that year.That group will be the draft’s prime target for the following year, while themen who have already faced the draft,in l-A classification, for one year wl actually receiving .heir draft notice willmove into a safer category.They could, legally, still be drafted but only if the draft uses up all of the new group of 19-year-olds first. And the WhiteHouse says that is unlikely.President Richard M. Nixon had announced that his goal is eventually to eliminate the draft entirely and rely on anall-volunteer army.The lottery began at 8 p.m. when, aftera brief invocation, draft director Lewis B. Hershey ordered the unlocking of a black box containing 366 blue plastic capsules and ordered them poured into a largeglass jar.foe the 191X1 military draft as deter. .WASHINGTON (AP) — Here is the order of mured by the tottery drawing held Monday nThis list applies to every man who is at 132- Julv «328. Dee. 233d. Jan. 11330. Ma 3331 Julv 34332 March 18 333. Auk 30334 March 21335 June 9336 April '§337. Jan 22338 Feb 9262 April 28263 Sept 9 264. Oct 27265 March 22266. Nov. 4267. March 3268. March 27 269 April 527o, Julv 29 271 April 2 272. June 12273 April 15274 June 16Oct 24M a v 9Auk. 14Jan. 8 March 1.9(let 23Oct. 4Nov 19 Sept 21 Feh 27 June 10 Sep* 1666 Nov. 1267 Julv 25 68. Feb. 1269 June 1370. Dec. 2171. Sept. 1072. Oct. 1373 June 1774 April 2775 May 19 76. 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