Word: francks
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...such a tightening probably will not occur as a result of the doubling of draft calls announced yesterday by President Johnson. Col. Bernard T. Franck, a spokesman for the U.S. Selective Service in Washington, said yesterday that lowering the average national age of inductees from 21 to 19 should produce enough additional men to meet the gradual increase demanded by the President...
...think we could go to 35,000 indefinitely," Franck said...
Massachusetts, which is currently drafting 19-year-olds, may not be affected at all by the step-up. Franck said the burden would be placed first on states that are not yet drafting men so young...
...Franck said that the call would be levied on the basis of "availables" rather than population. He explained that he does not know at the present time how fast the draft will be increased to 35,000. "We'll have to wait until we hear from the Secretary of Defense," he said, "but we can't increase the number until the facilities for processing men are increased...
Died. Dr. James Franck, 81, German-Jewish physicist, winner with Gustav Hertz of a 1925 Nobel Prize for the discovery of the laws governing collisions between electrons and atoms; of a heart attack; in Gottingen, Germany. Forced out of his professorship at the University of Gottingen in 1933, Franck later came to the University of Chicago, headed a wartime team of scientists that perfected the method for reducing uranium oxide to metal, a major contribution to the Manhattan Project...