Supreme Court ruling limits exemptions and deferments in draft cases
The court held that exemptions including divinity student status and deferments serve the same purpose of not inducting certain registrants, and that local selective service boards cannot speed antiwar protesters to induction. Justice Black wrote the majority, denying broader challenges to draft procedures and noting the alignment of exemptions with congressional intent.
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Justice Black
Selective “Service Boards
Blind Victim’s Accordian Stolen After Help From Lions Club
Detroit area businessman lent James Mass 200 to cover initiation fees and three months dues for a band, but a thief broke into his downtown YMCA home and stole a $150 accordion given in 1967 by the Armada Lions Club, leaving him without an instrument despite his AFM card.
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Detroit
UPI
James Mass
Mass
American Federation of Musicians
Armada Lions Club
Flood Damage Looms as Californians Seek Disaster Status
Floods in Northern California push estimated losses to 200000 dollars while Governor Reagan weighs declaring the area a disaster. Hardest hit are Shasta Tehama Butte and Glenn counties. A Fort Ross youth Rex Dupret 18 drowns five miles west of Guerneville when a boat capsizes on the Russian River. In Shasta County two men Earl Fielding 26 and John Breckinridge 24 drown rafting flooded lowlands. An unidentified teenage boy is feared drowned near Middleton Clear Lake after a boat overturns on St Helena Creek. U S 101 between Cloverdale and the coast closed for mudslides with railroad slides blocking Northwestern Pacific line. crews aim to reopen today.
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Tehaama
Butte
Glenn
Ross
Rex Dupret
Guerneville
Russian River
Earl ‘Fielding
John Breckinridge
Middleton
Clear Lake
St. Helena
Customer seeks help with Columbia Record Club issue
A Quebec reader asks for assistance after ordering a tape cartridge player from Columbia Record Club in Terre Haute Indiana last July and paying $19.95 by money order. The club now relocates to Canada and has not answered letters. a customer service representative says refunds will be issued and membership connected, though Canada is not serviced.
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Columbia Record Club
Terre Haute
Ind
Stevens
Canada
B. C
Quebec
Law clerk programs in Los Angeles County DA office
The Los Angeles County District Attorney offers two major law clerk programs for students. The summer program accepts second year law students to assist with actual cases and paperwork, while the senior program provides similar experience to law graduates awaiting the bar. Information and application details are available by writing the DA Research and Training Division or the California Attorney General Training Division.
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Long Beach
Los Angeles
William Hobbs
Hall of Justice
Calif
California
Aterney General
First St
Mexico City Newsmen Die in Plane Crash During Campaign
President Diaz Ordaz mourns 14 journalists among 20 aboard a Convair 300 that crashed in heavy fog near Poza Rica while covering the presidential campaign. One survivor, Jesus Kramsky of El Heraldo, and four crew members plus three physicians among the dead. Echevarría continued rallying before departing to the crash site. Election set for July 5.
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Mexico City
UPI
Gustavo Diaz Ordaz
Ordaz
Vera Cruz
Poza Rute
Luis Echaverria
Party of Revolutionary Institutions
Oil City
Jesus Kramsky
el Haraldo
Echeverria
Pora Rica
Mexico
Rioting Students Hurl Rocks at Marcos in Manila
About twenty thousand students demonstrated for new education funds near Congress. Rocks and bottles flew at President Marcos and his wife as guards formed lines to shield them. Police reported injuries and arrests as vehicles and bystanders were attacked.
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Manila
UPI
Ferdinand B. Marcos
Marcos
Marco
Philippine News Service
Congress
No Knock Raid Provision Backed in Drug Bill Debate
Senate leaders Mansfield and Scott endorsed a no knock raid provision in a pending drug control bill. They said warrants from federal courts would authorize no warning narcotics raids with careful discretion. They opposed an amendment to strike the provision as an undue invasion of privacy.
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Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Mansfield
Scott
Lam Or
Ervin Jr
Dn.c
Cleveland fires police chief amid crime surge
Mayor Carl B. Stokes announced the dismissal of Patrick L. Gerity as police chief and appointed William Ellenburg to replace him, citing a 54 percent rise in crime. Ellenburg, a Detroit retiree, will lead the city police and five departments while Benjamin O. Davis Jr. will become safety director.
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Ohio
Patrick L. Gerity
William Hllenburg
Detroit
Cart. B. Stokes
City Hall
Gerity
Stokes
Benjamin O., Davis Jr
Cleveland Safety
Davis
Air Force
Joseph F. McManamon
Ellenburg
Détroit
West Side
Grosse Pointe Park
Mich
United States
131 Teacher Strikes During School Year
Washington reports the National Education Association records 131 teacher strikes and work stoppages in the 1969 70 school year with ongoing trend continuation. NEA notes nearly 100 strikes in the first two months.
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Washington
National Education Association
NEA
C5 transport planes urged grounded by senator
Sen. William Proxmire says the Air Force should ground all 10 C5s in its fleet and refuse to accept more, calling the planes unsafe and deplorable. Eight were cleared to fly after a Jan. 18 wing crack discovery at Lockheed Marietta. Stennis orders a staff inquiry into structural soundness.
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Washington
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Air Force
Proxmire
Senate
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Marietta
John C. Stennis
Dmiss
Armed Services Committee
Stennnis
Congress
Nixon Veto Move on Radio Tv Funding Looms
President Nixon moves to veto a large education funding bill citing inflationary and misdirected spending. White House officials say the House may sustain the veto, with Congress set to vote Wednesday. Teachers and education workers press a by name lobbying drive to overturn the veto while House Republicans face electoral pressure.
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Radio
White House
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Ziegler
Congress
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Charles Lee
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