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Oklahoma's Senator Bob Kerr is an oil-rich Democrat who makes no bones about sticking up for the oilmen's interests on Capitol Hill. Last year, he touched off one of the biggest fights of the year with a bill to exempt independent natural gas producers (i.e., those who own no interstate pipelines) from control of the Federal Power Commission. Bob Kerr won his battle in Congress, but suffered defeat at the hands of old friend Harry Truman, who vetoed the Kerr bill...
...Senate group suggested this weekend that a lot of college and professional athletes now exempt from military service should be drafted...
Ninety-five percent of the senior class is between 19 and 26, the age group eligible for military service. Of these, 40.5 percent is 1-A, while 12.5 percent is 1-D, deferred by taking reserve training. Marriage deferments go to five percent, while another 13 percent is exempt from the draft because of previous service. A final 24.5 percent of the class is example because of work "essential to the national interest...
...indicated that several insurance companies were interested in the project and that he "would make every effort to bring someone here" to build a development that "New York's Riverside Drive would take notice of." The tax-exempt yards cost the City $80,000 annually in lost revenue. The City would also benefit from the gain in real estate value on such a development...
...drafting is necessary, 'Cliffe girls would exempt all college women and take all others between 18 and 35 years who are not engaged in essential industry or have children...