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FACE EIGHT THE PROGRESS, Meshonnen Valley, Salute Court Takes Hand with GPs By JERRY T. BAULCH AP Newsfeatures Writer WASHINGTON The Supreme Court, starting its new term 7) is faced again with requests to rule on the legality of the draft and the authority of the government to call up reservists for the undeclared war in Vietnam. The court, in the past; has been reluctant to take eases, although it upheld last year the law that makes it a crime to destroy draft cards. Two principal appeals involving the draft are now before the court. One of these is by James J.

Oesterich, 22. of Cheyenne, Wyo. He lost his deferment as a divinity student and was reclassified 1A after he turned in his draft card along with hundreds of other Vietnam protesters last October. His ease brought on the spectacle of'one government agency bucking another. The Justice Department filed a brief with the court protesting that the Selective Service System seemed to be using rcclassificntion as a punishment contrary to law and the Constitution.

The department quoted a letter by LI. Gen. Lewis B. Her- head of Selective Service, telling draft boards "that those, who violate the draft act should be denied deferment in the national interest." And there's an appeal from four draft-age Negroes who are asking the court to rule that the draft law illegally discriminates against the poor by deferring college students. A federal court in New York turned them down last June, but the court said they can't be drafted until their case is settled.

The Supreme Court a knocked down all efforts to challenge the legality of American participation in the war in Vietnam, although Justices Potter Stewart and William O. Douglas have urged that the court face the issue. So it'll be intriguing to watch if the court agrees to hear an appeal by 113 reservists who claim Congress has no right to give President Johnson 'authority to call them up without a formal declaration of war or emergency. Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice Hugo L. Black turned down their plea that they not be shipped off to Vietnam as scheduled Sept.

13 while the court weighed whether to hear their arguments. But Justice William O. Douglas agreed they could get killed before the court made up its mind and gave them a last minute reprieve. Any single justice can grant a stay and the reservists' attorney just shopped around. The soldiers' lawyer, Nathan R.

Zahn of Los Angeles, says the law under which the men were called to active duty is unconstitutional. But even if the court says it is constitutional, he argues, the soldiers can't come under it because they were in the reserve before it WHS passed under an agreement with a different set of rules. The success of the group getting a delay set off a whole scr- ies of similar appeals, including a repeater. Marine Pvl. Paul V.

Winters awaiting shipment to Vietnam at Camp Pendleton, Calif. The court refused to hear his case last spring. Veterans Allowance President Johnson has raised the allowance for veterans going to and from veterans hospitals. The rate for travel is uppod from 5 cents to 6' cents a mile. For those who choose to be paid actual expenses the maximum WILD! That's the robust flavor of RANCH BREAD is from $9 to $12 when a night's lodging and three or more meals are involved.

The expenses may be authorized for any veteran needing treatment a service-connected disability. A veteran needing treatment for a nonservice disability must say he's unable to pay the expense. Dressier WAFs You'll soon be seeing Kirls of the Air Force in spiffier uniforms. The new design was approved in a poll by 99 per cent of enlisted women and 77 per cent of WAF officers. Reservists Getting Out The Navy has started the return home of reservists called up in the Pueblo emergency and it is cutting down on the time of its normal active duty for reservists.

In an economy move, about 30.000 who are in the "two-by- six" reserve plan arc getting out early. Normally under this plan a man lakes two years active duty and then four years in the reserve. To save money, the Navy set up a plan to release by Oct. 1 those who have completed 18 months of the two years. In November those with 15 months will bet early releases.

And in December those who have served a year will get a ticket out. About GOO men in six Navy Reserve air units called up in the Pueblo incident are expected out by November. The Air Force is moving into gear its plan to release the units 14,200 Air Guard and Reserve members called up after North Korea seized the Pueblo. But there is- a major complication, since large numbers of men in those units have been assigned elsewhere. The Navy has kept its units almost intact.

Under the rules if a man's reserve unit is released he's supposed to get out then too if he wants to. The Army apparently is going to hold on to its 20,000 activated National Guard and Reserve members. A Correction In my recent column on veterans pensions the word "not" slipped in advertently and reversed what I intended to say. It was supposed to read that VA pensioners under the pre- 1960 plan get a $200 increase 'next January in their income limitation, just like those under the newer plan. G.

I. Q. Box Dear Jerry: A year and a half age I en- listed in the Army Air Command for four years. My recruiter that if I enlisted in this, I would remain in for the entire four years. Now after serving over 18 months I have received orders for Vietnam and I consider this a breach of promise.

-SP4 RPM, Scott AFB, 111. Dear Spec. 4 RPM: The recruiting headquarters tells me there must have been a misunderstanding and a when you sign up for the Air Defense Command you are guaranteed only 14 months in the command. After that you are subject to transfer anywhere. If you still feel there is a probable misrepresentation your only recourse is to appeal to the Army Inspector General.

Dear Jerry: I am a sick woman and have to see the doctor every three, months. My doctor's office is far from where I live, it takes about half an hour to get there. My son who is draft age and the only one who drives takes me to the doctor. Is there a chance of him being deferred? Mrs. JRW, Rochester, N.

Y. Dear JRW: His draft board, is unlikely to defer him only for driving you to the doctor every three months. However, if you are so dependent on him over-all that it would be a hardship for him to be in service he would qualify for deferment. Each draft board judges each such case on the merits of all the situation. Dear Jerry: If a veteran of World War II has collected disability compensation continuously for 12 years is it possible for the VA to stop making payments? STA, Springfield, Mass.

Dear STA: The. Veterans Administration may reassess a disability at anv time or the Veteran him- Calling All Boys Have You Gotten Your Football Set? Ad You Hove to Do is Get One New 6 Months Subscription fo THI PROGRESS New subscriber is one who has not re- ceived The Progress for the past 3 months. 1, the undersigned, agree to THE PROGRESS for 6 months. accept Deliver by Mail Truck Carrier Tube Bring Coupon to PROGRESS Office Nearest You Football to be given to: Name Address Town FOOTBALL 3-Way Kicking Tee Inflating Needle Metal Inflating Pump You Do Not Have to Be a Progress Carrier to Participate New Subscribers by MaiJ, Truck or Tube Must Pay For Months in Advance MAIL RATES ARE: Clearfield and Centre Counties $8.00 Outside of Clearfield and Centre Counties but still in State of Pa. $9.00 Outside Pa.

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Now he has been assigned to USAR Control Group Standby. It sounds like he may be recalled any moment. Can you clarify this for me? Mrs. TC, Indianapolis, Ind. Dear Mrs.

TC: The opposite is true. The control group for annual training is for men who normally are called if needed to fill units during summer training and attend no weekly unit drills. A man is normally transferred to Standby control group when he has completed his active obligation and has only one year of his six-year military obligation left. This means he doesn't have to take part in any training. And he can only be recalled if Congress declares war or a state of emergency and then only if Selective Service says no other men with his qualifications are available.

Math Teacher At MSU Is 16 (You can write Jerry Baulch in care of this newspaper.) WRONG GREETING India (AP) -The leader of the pro-Moscow Indian Communist party, Bhupesh Gupta, has criticized the leader of the pro-Peking Indian Communist party, Pasupuleti Sundarayya, for addressing him with "the bourgeois instead of the Communist "comrade." EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) Walk into Edith Stern's trigonometry class for freshmen at Michigan State University, you would swear the teacher isn't a day over 17. She isn't. She's only 16. Edith is a mathematics phenomenon from Florida who: was exposed to 24-hour-a-day classical music shortly after birth; was reading--and drawing books from the public library--at has an IQ of 154 to 201, depending on the test; and worries about her weight.

She's lost 20 pounds since starting her graduate work at Michigan State, but would like to lose more, "so I can find inexpensive dresses that aren't so old-looking. "I always was a fat little thing," she added. Edith decided to come to MSU after graduation from Florida Atlantic University because she learned the school had an excellent reputation in mathematics and because MSU offered her a graduate assistantship to help pay costs. Her father is unable to work because of illness, and her mother is a sales clerk in a bakery. There arc tvyo other young geniuses at Michigan State.

Michael Grost, 14, son of a Lansing couple, is completing his senior year this semester and will join Edith in the MSU graduate college studying mathematics. Norman Plantnik, 16, a graduate student in zoology, is teaching general biology to sophomores. He is a graduate of Concord in Athens, W. Va. The classical music as an infant was the beginning of years of disciplined work for Edith guided by her father, Aaron, who said he wanted to create a genius in his daughter.

Public school officials fought her father's plans to take Edith from the ninth grade into Miami-Dade Junior College. They lost in court. Edith accepts--with reservations--her father's opinion that she is a genius. "I believe it is questionable that I was born a genius," she stated. "It must be the experience.

In terms of IQ I am a genius. But in terms of creativity, I don't know. LONG DISTANCE VACCINATIONS M1DPLBTOWN. Ky. (AP) The buffalo on Charles don's farm recently received long distance vaccinations.

Aware that the animals wew 'difficult to corral and handle, the veterinarian solved problem by using a gm, filling it with vaccine When the was the SK after the vacoing was injected. Edith reads science fiction- in her spare time and she enjoys one television scries particular: "We 'Star Trek' lovers are an underground." She likes music from classical to pop. She has dated and admits to a crush or two. Young REPUBLICANS! UI1VC ill mia liniv. the ages of 18 to 35 to join the club.

The in the next ten years will look upon, this Kroup for new crs We want A strong and lasting party, now is the time 10 get'started so that when we are called upon we will be able to take charse We would appreciate all interested persons ar the TM7k they are involved to the organization. Thank you. CHARLES BALOCCO, Cttair man, Clearfield County Young Republicans. YOUNG REPUBLICAN CLUB MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION PRECINCT NO ZONE Bring Application Club Meeting 1 7-30 M. Republican Headquarters or Mail io Membership Chairman Charles Balocco, R.

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