Evening star., 1955-06-23
House 0kay
Seen for New
Reserves Bill
By tn. Associated Press

~ viz AoSot4atS0 Ekeso
Representative Brooks, Demo-
crat Of Louisiana. predicted to-
day a revised version of Presi-
dent Eisenhower's stalemated
military reserve program will
pass the House next week with
no trouble"
But Representative Powell,
Democrat. of New York, declared
the new measure is worse than
before" and faces anothre ctrong
fight over racial segregation is
sues.
A House armed services sub
committee, headed by Mr..
Brooks, voted II to / yesterday
to report new compromise bill.
It is designed to break an i'm
passe created a month ago by
Mr.. Powell's amendment to bar
assignment Of reservists to seq
regated National Guard units.
Guard Not Mentioned
In an effort to avoid this issue,
the new measure avoids all men,
ton of the NationaP Guard, al
though Guard spokesmen OBJ
jected that they need the addi-
tional manpower.
1t also contains softer Ian
euage In authorizing the Penta-
gon to establish a new six
months training program forI
teen-agers volunteering for the
reserves.
The evident purpose is to avoid
the parliamentary tangle which
House leaders say permitted op-
ponents virtually to kiy the bill
before by supporting the Powell
amendment. This alienated the
Southerners need to pass the
measure.
In other respects the compro-
mise measure parallels the
shelved bill, which Mr.. Eisen-
hover has called vital" to ma
tional security. The measure
goes to the full Armed Services
Committee Tuesday for expected
approval and quick routing to
the House.
Mr.. Powell said he already has
prepared an anti-segregation
amendment which he declared
can be offered to the bill as now
written.
Mr.. Brooks said in a separate
interview he did not see how op-
ponents of the training program
could oppose the new measure,
because lit is protected against
any thought Of extending" it
into any form of universal mill
tary training.
Has Training Clause
The measure provides that
youths under 1872 years can
volunteer for reserve service un-
der such regulations as pre-.
scribed by the Secretary of De-
tense" Testimony showed these
regulations would include a re-
qu1rement to accept six months
training.
In return. the volunteer who
keeps up reserve training would
be free of all military obligations
after serving eight years. The
President could extend this pro-
gram to a maximum of 250,O00
men a year.
Under the original bill, the
youth had to volunteer directly
for the training program. Op-
ponents said this would be the
back door" to UNIT.
Other Provisions
The compromise measure also
contains these other provisions:
l. The reserve obligation for
other servicemen would be low
cred from eight to six years.
The maximum for active duty
and training resrve would be for
five years, with the other year
in the standby or inactive re-
serve.
z. ReServistS would be obliged
to maintain training require
ments-48 annual drills and III
days summer camp, or the
equivalent-or face recall to As
days active duty. Those who
completed active service prior to
July q, 1858, would be exempt.
3. The Pentagon would be au-
thorized to increase the active
reserves more than four times,
to 100000 men, by 1860. The
President could recall up to one
million active reservists to duty,
without consulting Congress, inI
a presidentially declared emer-
gency.