September 18, 1966 Page 4 THE DAILY TAR HEEL o Hi 4 - . " Of Whom; Draft ' Will (Gall: What are the odds on finding yourself in military uniform either because you are drafted or because you volunteer for regular or reserve duty after a glance over your shoulder at the draft board? Selective Service headquar- This is part one of a seven-part series by Asso ciated Press writer Elton Fay on the draft and re cruit programs of the U.S. armed forces as they are during the present accele rated situation. The entire series will appear in this week's Daily Tar Heel. ters has in its files some sta tistics which give a clue. At the beginning of 1966 more than 31 million men were registered, with over 130,000 more being added each month. This big total, of course, in cludes millions over the 19-to-25 year age group now being drafted. And it' also embraces other millions deferred or ex empted. In the "qualified" category (this means 1-A and 1-A-0, the latter being conscientious ob jectors available for non-combatant service) about 1.5 mil lion were on hand at the start of the year. FIGURING IT Selective Service figures it this way: At the age of 26, of each 10 who have registered, six are or have been serving in the .regular Army, Navy, Marines or Air Force or in National Guard or reserve units. The other four did not serve because they failed to meet Defense Department standards i ,'AsmDPereitf I i IN WILLIAM WYLER'S )- NOW PLAYING WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF STARTS SEPT. 22 MS Greensboro Daily News Delivered To Dorm Rooms The Entire Semester, Including Sundays, Excluding Holidays. $7.50 Call 942-5953 fill VOO CIIUGK ON N. C. 86 y2. MILES Aid) 7 ft Di jm nH Li Jul The Draft its', Offer IndicatEOii V - ' , urn i i r I 'i : i a y J, A . 4,f A 'i , - . i - 5 r Yr 1 1 ri '-K' A y "m -vv " v A v-si 1 I I ' ' I , ,y w S I BASIC TRAINING mental, physical or moral in categories, were deferred by reserve units, conscientious od draft boards or exempted by jectors, certain students, men law. Selective Services says it" fills the monthly quotas pre dominantly with single men who are 19 through 25 years old. The oldest available men are at the top of the list. ; The older a man is, however, the more likely he is to be deferred or exempted for var ious reasons. AVERAGE AGE The average age for being drafted is slightly over 20 years and may increase some what m coming months. It's possible to draft ,a man between the ages of 26 and 35, with the youngest being called first, if the available pool of men below 26 is exhausted. Only those classified, as, 1-A. .JZiy ,u:.... vis anmnsanforizedieiant irstontheorderJot.can arev;i failed to perform some of 1 - their draft law duties. After that come: Volunteers . for induction those under 19 who want to get their military obligations over with as soon as possible. The 19-through-25 group, un married or married after Aug. 26, 1965. The 26-through-35 year olds. The 18 1-2 to 19 year olds. RECLASSIFICATION Those not subject to draft unless reclassified include men who have already done their ffi VflGOn JEflT BUFFET J Every Sunday 5:30-7:30 P.M. MEATS Sesame Fried Chicken Smoked Ham Roast Beef Baked Spaghetti Saute Chicken Livers Rolled Cabbage In .Lemon Sauce if Choice of 7 Vegetables ir Choice of 7 Salads & Dessert Devil's-Food Cake Orange Sauce jAr Beverage NORTH OF TOWN HALL uj O O Q if And You AT FORT DIX, N. J. military service, members of with certain essential occupa tions, aliens, certain officials, ministers and divinity students, the physically and mentally unfit, and those too old for service. Student deferments have ioMm INDIAtf SUMMER, By John Knowles, New York Random House. 243 pages. $4.95. , By J. A. C. DUNN From Charlotte Observer John Knowles, a former UNC .,writer-in-residence,l it appears shrinking r . ..,.'-r..- "a vpnarato Keapfl'- nis iir- st novel, was excellent. A mod ern "Stalky," people said. A successor to "Catcher in the Rye," people said. Great ex pectations. Knowles' next two books. car ried less impact. Some of the bloom came off the liteary rose. Now "Indian Summer" has barely enough power to , blow a feather off your palm. Whatever happened to John Knowles? "Indian Summer" reminds you of a term paper by an undergraduate bored with the assignment. Its protagonist, an ex-GI named Cleet, is not memorable. He doesn't even arouse concern. He is boring. He does not live: he is merely chronicled. Knowles does not breathe upon Cleet; he writes about him, from a distance, as though he neither knew nor liked him very well. At first you think Knowles THE CHAPEL HILL GIIUOGIl OF GIlRiST IS NOW MEETING ON SOUTH COLUMBIA STREET AT BRIARBRIDGE LANE (FORMERLY THE ODUM PROPERTY) ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO WORSHIP WITH US f3 fjf Leica Bolex 7V Nikon And Binoculars m f It sum mm i I Iff f I t 3 l It lilt ill 161 EAST FRANKLIN St. PHONE 942-3026 been in controversy arising out of demonstrations protest ing the Viet Nam war. The law makes a student eligible for deferment until graduation from college, provided he goes to school full time and his grades are satisfactory. Se lective Service lets the local boards decide whether he is really working at his educa tion or just using it to keep out of the service. A young man reaching 18 years is required to register with his local board (there is one in about every community and the address usually ap pears in telephone director ies) within five days after he becomes 18. Registration i s easy. Better do like the Selective Service law says. The maxi- mum penalty for violation of Escape" form of welded, form provisions of the law is five ed steel, even down to the years m prison or $10,000 fine or both. McNAMARA SAYS Arid, as Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara told Con gress early in 1966: "We cannot look forward to discontinuance of the draft in the coming decade unless changing world conditions per mit the reduction of our regn lar forces substantially below the levels which have proved necessary since the beginning of the Korean war." So don't count on wars going out of style and the need for selective service or volunteer enlistment ending. We'll talk about volunteering tomorrow. Kmowies I 3 - - , , s f John Knowles ... Indian Summer might have a pretty good comic character developing, sort of a combination of Sam pson Shillitoe in "A Fine Mad ness," Yossarian i n "Catch 22," and The Cincinnati Kid. Cleet gets out of the Air Force in 1946, starts hitchhiking home to Connecticut from Texas, stops in a little Kansas town to work at a cropduster's airfield, and begins to give faint little twitches suggesting growth as SWOTS "Everything Photographic" Kodak Graf lex Pentax Many Other Fine Brands In Stork For Your Choice Tape Recorders Weather Instruments jm .w. I Ackland At A The current student art ex hibition at Ackland Art Cen ter is nothing if it isn't de rivative. Of course a certain amount of influence is inevitable . in the teacher-student rela tionship, but the junior, grade Hugginses by Faulkner and the junior grade Howard by Brinkhous pretty well bowl the viewer over. Faulkner's purist hard-edg- Art World By OWEN LEWIS ed tondos are purest Huggins. But he breaks out of it occa sionally to offer some more original compositions in well defined shapes of hot color on rectangular canvases. Brinkhous went all the way witn Howard ai& his "land- fire-engine red color he paint- ed it. ; Schnider is more imagina tive with a great, happy weld ed toadstool of welded metals. Wheelock and Rose have ex citing, huge, painted purist wooden geometric construc tions. All in all, the sculpture offers more promise, individ uality, technical proficiency and has more to say than the paintings in the show. There are two sculptors, Surratt and Harp, who have obviously seen the work of Henry Moore, but whoever said there was anything truly original in the way of art? There is a paucity of crafts Keens JJL a character. He is faintly funny, vaguely zany and root less enough to make you won der what he will do next. ;t Enter his best friend from the big wealthy family in his Connecticut home town. At this . point Cleet's promise as a character pales. The course of 1iis development was not exact ly soaring to begin with. Sud denly it plummets. , Cleet goes t o Connecticut sinking rapidly), and within a chapter hits bottpm. He is no longer human. He has become a literary zombie. His prob lems aren't even worth men tioning. He could solve them by simply leaving town, a course of action which would be completely in character for him. But he is not allowed to. Knwles keeps him hanging around playing a fuddle'd, off jkey second fiddle to his "wealthy friend, and the whole mechanism of the story siezes, freezes and halts. A story is like a train: The coal of environment produces the fire of, circumstance, which heats the water of the steam of motive, which drives the engine of action, which pulls the train o f plot, But Knowles seems to be trying to move his story-train with no more fuel than scrap. - Polaroid & Rolleiflex Hasselblad Picture Framing Exhibition Like An Orphan j amily Reunion-Plunk, rlunK in the show, and the beginning art work is generally dull and tight. Someone came up with some pompous, dull written statements to accompany the works. The Ackland has treated the exhibit like an orphan at a family reunion. There is no list of works, or even artists. ' ' t . x-cv.'-r i I v. I r " r ; J: - " if: I , . -; r t STUDENT SCULPTURE The massive polished wood sculp ture pictured above is one of many large, heavy pieces on dis play in the Student Art Exhibition at Ackland Art Center this week. Sculpture in the show is far more impressive than the paintings according to DTH Art Critic Owen Lewis. DTH Photo by Mike McGowan Shrinkin paper. It doesn't produce monotone, like somebody read enough heat. No steam is ing a speech, generated. The engine won't Too bad about John Knowles. move. The story never leaves Selling a story is one thing, the station. Selling the author's name is And something seems to another like labeling mar have happened to John earine butter. Knowles writing. Once he had pace and bite. He could be v truthful without being vindic tive.. He coujd be compassion ate without being soupy. Now h e just writes in a Tlia Only Thing Thai Wcsid Take This Load off my Back Is a ALL (10 THE km (2 P.M. To 10 P.M.) For Your Text Buying Convenience! 119 East Franklin Street Only the last names of the graduate students are shown. The individual students and teachers put the work up," a museum spokesman said. The paintings are monoto nnuslv hunff. Dlunk. plunk, with no attempt being made to design a cohesive exhibition from the individual works, Abstract expressionism i s Come on, now Knowles. Pull yourself apart and start again. Nobody is buying shab by workmanship like that except, apparently, the pub lisher. Will Be Open IN 1 1 MATE DAY A.M. To 10 P.M.) MM Open Till 9 P.M. pretty much out, as elsewhere, but op, pop. assemblage and abstract figurativism are not in, as they are in most art : centers these days. There is a preponderance of somewhat formally organized non - objective abstraction, quite a bit of collage and lit tie figurative work. The hard-edged colorists seem the most promising, and Stoess looks like a real comer. Taken as a whole, the ex- . . hibit is several cuts below that : of student exhibits shown else- where in the area. UNC at . Greensboro, for instance, far outdoes UNC at Chapel Hill in the quantity and qua lity of works, and in the pre- nl sentation of them. The show will be on view through the first week in Oct- iJ ober. Oct. 8 through 30 . will bring a traveling show from ', Ti the Smithsonian: "William Blake, Poet and Printer."" Blake, a mystic who lived 1757 through 1827, is best rr known for his painting, but he was a man of many parts and the coming exhibition presents -2fi definitively some of his lesser known facets. Gallery hours are Tuesday " through Saturday, 10 to 5 and Sunday from 2 till 6. The it museum is closed on Mon days. Admission is free. Swinging mmwm 1 Divide 30 by i2 and add 10. What is the answer;.. (Answen below) 2 You have aTOT Stapler that staples eight 10-page reports or tacks 31 memos tea bulletin board. How eld is the owner of tMs TOT Stapler? This is the V (including 1000 staples) Larger size CUB Desk i 'XI Stapler only $1.43 ,1 " No bigger than a pack of gum-but packs : f the punch of a bie deal! T?fitl. ....Ii.vi- M!ZWeT?XinCdonal,y 8unteed. ' Made in U.S.A. Get it at any stationery variety, book store! . 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