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Military conscription, which lasted through the long
World War Q-Cold War-Korea-Vietnam period, was an
aberration in American history. Only twice before, in the
Civil War and in World War II, had the nation relied on the
draft to fill its military manpower needs, and then only
briefly.
The ending of the draft and the return to an all-
volunteer Army in 1973 was really a return to the old
American belief that except in time of overriding national
emergency, a person's body belongs to himself, not to the
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But the days are long gone when America, secure behind
thousands of miles of ocean on either side, could make
leisurely preparations for war, mustering its yeoman
farmers and mechanics while a small professional army
and navy held the line. The next war, we are told, will
begin with a massive Soviet invasion of Western Europe
which, unless we can throw it back or contain it with con-
ventional forces, will escalate into general nuclear war and
the destruction of our cities. Either that, or we will have to
capitulate.
Not only has the all-volunteer Army failed to provide the
defense strength in depth needed to prevent a nuclear war,
say its critics, but it has become so costly that it is draining
funds that coukfbe used for research and development of
new weapons and equipment modernization
Since 1964, military pay has nearly doubled and now ac-
counts for 60 per cent of the defense budget The Army
plans to spend $60 million this year to recruit 5,000 ad- •
ditional soldiers, or about $12,000 each, and is not sure it
will get even that small number.
The situation will worsen in the next decade The
Congressional Budget Office has estimated that even if un-
employment remains at its present high level, the military
services will face a shortfall of 20 per cent in recruiting by
1980 simply because the number of draft-age men is
declining.
Army reserve units are currently 80.000 men short of
their peacetime level and the shortage will reach 250.000 by
the early 1980s as the last of the Vietnam-era reservists
finish their tours of duty, warns Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga.
Another critism is that volunteers have come
predominately from poor, uneducated and minority groups
who have not been able to find work in civilian life. Blacks
now make up 24 per cent of Army personnel, more than
twice their percentage in the general population
"Unfortunately, the volunteer Army has not attracted
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Automotive
uy (hey plan to boot! output in
May. the railroad! exclaim the
dawn of a new day. drivers of
tag ran say they'll keep them
and pay the penalty
On Wall Street, research
houses get to wort searching
In any
MMMBMn
will fragment the program Into
many smaller components
whose passage through the
nulls could lake years"
The notion that the country
delayed before and ao II will ar-
gue and promumunile again
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that appearance, which a just
as good for the purpose ot
peddling shares
Economist* quickly advise
their clients that the energy
program an t likely to have a
significant effect until neat
star. Ihev issue assurances
(hat the outlook is good lor the
rest of the year
Are long-delayed decisions
being delayed again"
An analysis of the outcome of
Carter's proposals by one
prominent research firm here
includes this typical comment
With congressional elections
looming, no nghlthmking
legislator will lightly risk of-
fending the drivers of Ihe 100
million cars on Ihe road to-
The enure energy considera-
tion is remarkably absent or
markedly played down in the
projections of many stock mar
kef and other analyst!
All analyst! hereabout con-
cede that Ihe new energy in-
itiatives will eventually have
their impact, but there u the
decided tendency among some
of them lo focus on the imme-
diate and deal wiih ihe future
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There is reason tor so doing
Jhsbelief exists itul Ihe Carter
plan is unalterable There is
ihe feeling we haven't heard
the last word And (here is gen-
eral agreement that Congress
will change il anyhow
The sale advice, therefore,
concerns only the next 6 to 18
months Meanwhile, it's busi-
ness as usual on The Street
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History
Washington Report - -
VW~ Nixon Aides Organize
A Club Of Their Own
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Cnder Ihe Carter plan, coal is
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Bv THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Today is Thursday. May 5.
the 125th day of 1977 There are
240 days left in Ihe year
Today's highlight in history
On this date in 1961. astro-
naut Alan Shepard was rock-
eted 115 miles into space from
Cape Canaveral, becoming the
first American in spare
On this date:
In 1570, Turkey declared war
on Venice lor refusing to sur-
render the island of Cyprus
In 1821. Napoleon Bonaparte
died in exile on the island of St
Helena
In 1824. British troops occu-
pied Rangoon, Burma
In 1936, war ended in Eth-
iopia as the capital. Addis
Ababa, fell to Italian troops.
In 1955, West Germany be-
came a sovereign state as the
terms of the Paris agreements
of 1954 went into effect.
In 1960, Soviet Premier Ni-
kita Khruushchev angrily an-
nounced that an American spy
plane had been shot down over
Russia.
Ten years ago: The World
Journal-Tribune ceased publica-
tion in New York, leaving Man-
hattan with three major daily
newspapers.
HEALTH
licit business, and 1 could go on
and on ”
Concluded the senator “I
think I can safely say. Jack, that
Ihe amateurs through the years
have contributed more to the art
of communications than all of
the so-called experts in the field
Our frequences have been di-
minishing. not increasing
We have great pride in our
craft."
We didn't intend our story to
be interpreted as an attack on
the bams, We merely pointed
out that the airwaves belong to
Ihe public, that there are far
more citizens using CBs than
ham equipment and that some of
the federal regulators them-
selves were hams.
Watch On Waste - Citizens
besiege their congressmen with
complaints about Social Secur-
ity. which is ensnarled in bu-
reaucratic red tape. So the So-
cial Security Administration
sends about 6,000 mailgrams a
month to congressmen, assuring
them routinely that it is looking
into the constituents’ cases. Blut
at $1,-13 apiece, these meaning-
less interim replies cost the tax-
payers about $72,000 a year.
By JACK ANDERSON
And LIS WHITTEN
WASHINGTON -In Ihe eom-
across the board our whole social spectrum in this Ni^ handT^t^theno re?
country," says Sen. John H. Glenn. D-Ohio, “so I think we bve the wondrous days of Wa-
have to seriously consider going back to some form of tergate Sometime inthefall.be-
draft."
One form of draft that has been suggested is a truly un-
iversal system in which all youths would be called upon to
Administration may be hazard-
ous lo your health. "
The February Group, which
meets quarterly, has several
minor Walcrgalc figures on its
rolls Blut the only major Wa-
tergate personality, who has ap-
peared at the meetings, is
halchetman-tumed-evangehst
Charles (Chuck) Colson John
Dean, who blew the whistle on
Watergate, has not asked to join.
HAMS HOLLER - Our April 4
column about the crowded Cit-
izens Band radio frequencies
produced some loud static from
the ham radio operators. We re-
ported that 300,000 hams have
100 times more airspace than is
. available to the nine million CB
enthusiasts and that some feder-
al officials who regulate CB ra-
dio "have traditionally been
hams.''
The story triggered an out-
pouring of mail from the of-
fended hams. They pointed out
that hams relay vital health and
medical information during nat-
ural disasters, that hams are
more scrupulous about policing
themselves than are CB opera-
tors, that hams have helped br-
ing about scientific advances in
radio communication and that
the assignment of radio fre-
quencies is heavily influenced by
international agreements.
Not the least indignant of the
ham operators was Sen. Barry
Goldwater. R-Ariz. We'll let him
speak for his fellow amateur ra-
diomen. He complained that the
CB enthusiasts often operate
without a license and amplify
their transmitters beyond the
five-watt limit.
They have also "abused the
system," he charged, “in com-
plete objection to ail concepts of
decency and gentlemanliness on
the air. While this doesn't apply
across the board, there are
enough offenders that I don’t
care how many frequencies they
have, they are slowly going to
destroy their own function.
“Many of these CBers,” con-
tinued- Goldwater, “never Use
their call signs or their names.
There are many who use profan-
ity and what they discuss should
never be carried on any air-
waves. In many cities, prosti-
tutes use these frequencies to so-
kil
Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D.
Don't follow any fad diets or
so called health diets you may
encounter in the "health club"
environment Ask your doctor
about it first
In general, healthy women
who are pregnant can remain
fairly active Many doctors
have their parents walk
regularly to stay in fairly good
shape Delivering a baby is
really an athletic event and
Ihe woman in good physical
condition is able to go through
childbirth with the least
amount of difficulty.
Unless a woman is prone to
miscarriages, moderate
physical activity during
pregnancy is not likely to 1
cause problems. One of my
professors of obstetrics was
fond of saying that an apple is
not so likely to fall from a tree
until it is ripe. The application
being that the biggest concern
about physical activity is real-
ly as a woman approaches
term and birth is imminent
DEAR DR LAMB -1 am a
high school girl of 15 and have
begun lo have some pimples
and I am worried Please send
me The Health Letter on acne
I've used some creams for
acne but nothing seems to
help I need some help before
this problem gets any worse
DEAR READER - As you
know this is a very common
problem Unfortunately many
of the things people do to treat
acne actually make it worse I
don't know what kinds of
creams you have been using
but any cream that contains
an oily base of any type should
not be used The problem is
too much oil in the first place
Acne is caused by an over-
production of an oily sub-
stance called sebum by your
sebaceous glands. This results
in blackheads, white heads
and pimples The pimple
usually forms because of the
action of special bacteria that
live inside Ihe hair shaft at-
tached to the sebaceous gland
These bacteria break down
the oil and fats forming
irritating fatty acids. The fat-
ty acids cause the inflamma-
lieve it or not, it will happen in
real life
By solemn count. 132 erst-
, while Nixon aides have formed a
perform a year or two of service either in the military or in club, which they call the "Feb-
organizations like the Pace Corp of Vista.
But this would still be coercion and would still go against
the grain of American tradition. There is also the fear,
thanks to the Vietnam experience, that the existence of
conscription, even on a stand-by basis, would constitute a tabhshed a loose association,
"blank check” enabling an adventurist president to involve a pool of the membership
the nation in little wars around the world.
One alternative to the revival of the draft, which has in
fact been suggested by Army secretary Clifford Alexander,
is a restoration of GI Bill education benefits as a recruiting a patriotic pilgrimage next
incentive. Other suggestions are the use of more civilians in Fourth of July, except that too
certain categories now filled by soldiers and the recruit- many of them had already ached-
ment of more women uled fami|5'vacations 1,131 week
mem ui mine women. „ Imtp id thpv dpcidpd to spIptI
Until and unless the critics of the all-volunteer Army can a (.onven,ent week after Labor
prove their case that the country’s defense is in jeopardy, Day Then they will fly to San
Americans will likely opt for exploring every alternative (,’lemente for a few days of remi-
before resorting to the draft. But they will have to accept n[S(ing with Richard Nixon
the fact that it can be done on the cheap. Whatever we do. ^!** ..
r The idea for the reunion with
it Will cost billions. Nixon grew out of a conversa-
tion between ex-White House
aide W, Dewey Glower and the
former president himself. Nixon
was so pleased to learn about the
February Group that he invited
them to San Clemente.
But he cautioned solicitously:
I hope you won't tie the group
ruary Group." They took the
names from the month in 1975
when the founders - Nixon loy-
alists who had escaped the slam-
mer or were out on bail - es-
indicated that 72 were inter-
ested in chartering a plane for a
pilgrimage to visit the Recluse of
San Clemente. It almost became
It’s Possible!
Udall’s Fears
Are Unfounded
By Hobert Schuller
One evening a father came
home to find his boy prac-
ticing baseball. “Hi, Dad!"
shouted the budding athlete
"Watch me hit the ball a
mile'”
The young fellow tossed the
ball up. took a swing and miss-
ed. "Strike one” he shouted
gleefully! “Wait, Dad. I'm go-
ing to knock the cover off this
one!”
Again he tossed the ball in
the air, took a healthy swing
and missed. "Strrrrike two!"
he said. "Well, Dad, it only
takes one,” he enthused. “I’m
really going to clout this
From Sun Files - -
Employes Organized
Federation In ’37
turn
Keeping the face clean and
free of oil is half the battle,
but overscrubbing which in-
jures the skin may make
matters worse
DEAR DR. LAMB - A few
months ago I joined a health
club where they have jogging
tracks, swimming pool and a
whirlpool Sometimes I go
several times a week, other
times I might be a couple of
weeks without going. When we
joined the club we were given
a program consisting of jogg-
ing a few times around the
track and a series of exer-
cises
Since his home-town newspaper in Tucson was sold to a
chain that owns 70 other papers. Rep. Morris Udall has too closely to me I wouldn’t
tame worried about economic concentration in the »* ? “ “>"■ *
publishing and communications industry. Nixon teammates, Glower wrote
He wants Congress to authorize a study looking toward in the familiar, old style: "With
possible new anti-trust or divestiture legislation in that a Democratic administration
and a Democratic Congress here,
my son suggested that signs be
placed at all entrances into
Washington, D.C., stating:
"’WARNING, the thinking
people of the U.S. have deter-
amount came on fines for
drunkenness and disorderly con-
duct and the remainder from
traffic and affray cases.
Voters reject a proposal to
raise the school district tax ceil-
ing from $1 to $1.50, a move that
would have allowed a salary in-
crease for teachers. The
proposal is turned down in of 769
to 595.
Miss Kathrynelle Norris,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E.
Norris of Highlands, is awarded
the Mary Gibbs Jones music
scholarship at Texas State
College for Women at Denton.
Nat Pace is named a grand
swordbearer of the grand com-
mandry of Texas Knights
Templar. He is past master of
the Goose Creek Masonic Lodge.
MAY 5, 1957
C. M. (Jack) Gartman and
Clifton Adams are elected to the
^school board.
r" Chambers County is still a wet
county after voters approve the
legal sale of alcoholic beverages
by a vote of 1,863 to 1,142.
Ganders capture the state
championships in tennis. Paul
Como is the singles chattip.
Doubles championship is won by
Doug Basltrum and Stan Ament.
From The Baytown Sun files,
this is the w#y it was 40 and 30
and 20 years ago:
MAY 5, 1937
A committee is named to
organize the Employes Federa-
tion at Humble’s Baytown
Refinery. W. A. Thomas, presi-
dent of the temporary organiza-
tion to create the federation, an-
nounces that 2,516 employes
favored the proposal and 79 were
against it in the recent election.
A total of 2,038 employes sign-
ed applications for membership
in the federation, representing
57 per cent of the total number
of the employes at the refinery.
There will be one representative
tor each 100 men employed and
each department will have an
election division,
Thelma Branch, 20, of Mont
Belvieu, is in Lillie-Duke
Hospital recovering form in-
juries received in a softball game
at the Baytown Park.
Goose Creek volunteer
firemen vote to participate in
the state pension plan.
MAY 5,1947
Corporation Court Judge E, E,
Hunter announces a total of $1,-,
078 in fines was collected last
ijionth. About 80 per cent of this.
field
Udal fears the day will come when "there’s no more
difference in the daily papers in Topeka and New York
than there is between a Big Mac hamburger and a
Whopper."
We doubt it. In spite of a trend toward multiple mined that the actions of a
ownership. American newspapers as a whole are sttUven “
much a smorgasbord of news judgment and editorial
one!
increasing the
repetitions every so often.
I have just found out that I
am pregnant (about five
weeks) and I am wondering if
it is safe to keep going" to the
club - jogging and exer-
cising. My husband and I have
been wanting a child for a few
years and we certainly would,
not want to risk a,mis-
carriage. By the way, several
of the exercises for most
females are for the stomach.
DEAR READER - How
much exercise a woman
should do during her pregnan-
cy is an individual matter. A
woman with a history of mis-
carriages might need
different mangement than a
woman who has had no such
problems. ,
You need to be under the
care of an obstetrician and let
him (decide what you should do
for exercise and for your diet.
Carefully he positioned his
feet, checked his grip on the
bat and kept his eye on the
ball as he tossed it up. Then a
mighty swing - but again he
missed. “Strrrrike three --
you’re out!” he announced.
And then joyfully turned to his
Dad and beamed, “Boy, Dad,
aren’t I a great pitcher?”
That boy’s going to succeed.
The cure of inability is to con-
sistently maintain a positive
'mental attitude, looking for
possibilities! Try it in your
iife - it works! -
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Bible Verse
opinion.
Members of the American Newspaper Publishers
Association can tell Udall and Congress all there is to know this IS a faithful' saying, and
i about why the ecnomics of publishing have shrunk the worthy of all ^eptation that
number of independently owned newspapers and left so
few cities with competing dailies. chief j Timothy i:is
They can also attest to the dubious prospect of trying to
•; remedy the problem with anti-trust legislation, either from
j a practical standpoint or without stumbling against the
* First Amendment. /
America’s constitutional commitment to a free press Leon Brown
’! means that newspapers have to sink or swim in the Johnwadiey
•! marketplace. A stereotyped product not tailored to local J2°'9er
1 taste soon would sink.
Publishers and editors know this, and that’s why Udall
should stop losing sleep over fears that “chain-store jour-
nalism” will destroy the diversity of the American press. Jim Finley....
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