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Deferments Kept In Lottery SystemBy PAT FLORESThe new Selective .Service lottery put Into effect Monday night determines the draft eligibility of all qualified—males 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.M 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 between one and 366 Monday night. The number 366 was needed because of those men bom 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 endin 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 seoond-prior-Ity-place in 1971 because of all the new potential draftees entering the lottery in1971.“This svstem is intended to be one of de-creasing vulnerability,’’ Duncan said Mon-men who hoid numbers between 244 and 366 will almost surely not be 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 new 19-year-olds register and as deferments continue to expire.Differences in *he number of volunteers will cause each local hoard to use more of the list of 1970 dates. “Some parts of Texas have more college students than others, and therefore have more deferments,” Duncan said. “These hoards may ncod to use more numbers than a board with sufficient volunteers.”The yearly drawing is intended to simplify the 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-years and six to 11months old may lie called for pre-induction physical examinations.The state draft quota for January will be 573 men.“These examinations may he held to get everyone examined,” said Duncan. “We thought all 19-year-olds had to be examined before their names were submitted to the lottery. But this was not actually needed.”
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Austin Daily Texan
Austin, Texas, US
Tue, Dec 02, 1969
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