Joint resolution to provide for the designation of the period from August 31 through September 6 in 1965 as ""National American Legion Basdnill Week"".
PL 89-133 (S.J.Res.100), enacted 08/23/1965

548 
PUBLIC LAW 89-133-AUG. 23, 1965 
[79 STAT. 
Savings provi-
sion. 
72 Stat. 1127; 
77 Stat. 17, 223. 
Free postage. 
70A Stat. 80. 
Effective date. 
(1) The Act of March 23,1946, chapter 112 (60 Stat. 59). 
(2) The Act of June 26,1948, chapter 677 (62 Stat. 1052). 
(3) The Act of September 18,1950, chapter 952 (64 Stat. A224). 
SEC. 8. The enactment of this Act does not reduce— 
(1) the rate of dependency and indemnity compensation under 
section 411 of title 38, United States Code, that any person was 
receiving on the day before the effective date of this Act or which 
thereafter becomes payable for that day by reason of a subsequent 
determination; or 
(2) the basic pay or the retired pay or retainer pay to which a 
member or former member of a uniformed service was entitled on 
the day before the effective date of this Act. 
SEC. 9. (a) Chapter 53 of title 10, United States Code (relating to 
miscellaneous rights and benefits of members of the Armed Forces), 
is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: 
"§ 1040. Free postage from combat zones 
"Any first-class mail matter admissible to the mails as ordinary 
mail matter which is sent by any member of the Armed Forces from— 
" (1) Vietnam, until such time as the President determines that 
Vietnam is no longer an area in which members of the Armed 
Forces are engaged in combat, and 
" (2) any other area or areas in which the President determines 
members of the Armed Forces are engaged in combat, 
to any person in the United States (including Puerto Rico or any 
possession of the United States) shall be transmitted in the mails free 
of postage, subject to such regulations as the Secretary of Defense 
may prescribe after consultation with the Postmaster General." 
(b) The analysis of such chapter 53 is amended by adding at the 
end thereof the following: 
*'1040. Free postage from combat zones." 
SEC. 10. This Act becomes effective on the first day of the first calen-
dar month beginning after the date of enactment of this Act. 
Approved August 21, 1965. 
Public Law 89-133 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
[s. J. Res. 100] rj^^ provide for the designation of the period from August 31 through September (? 
in 1J>6.'). as "National American Legion Basdnill Week". 
Whereas a nationwide organization of American Legion junior base-
ball was first proposed as a program of service to the youth of 
America at the annual department convention of the American 
Legion held in Milbank, South Dakota, in 1925: and 
Whereas, since the organization of this program, which has been estab-
lished throughout the LTnited States, there have been more than 
fifteen million youths of eighteen years of age and under who have 
participated in the program; and 
Whereas the American Legion junior baseball program performs a 
vital service to our youth by offering them outstanding opportunities 
to acquire physical fitness, to develop personal responsibility and 
good citizenship, to learn the value of teamwork and mutual cooper-
ation, as Avell as to acquire individual proficiency and an opportunity 
to advance to a professional career in the sport of baseball; and 
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"Whereas the annual American Legion World Series for 1965 Avill be 
held at Aberdeen, South Dakota, during the period from August 31 
through September 6: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved hy the Senate and Home of Repre-sentatlres of the United 
States of America in Congress as.semb?ed. That, in honor of the fortieth 
anniversary of the founding of the American Legion baseball program, 
the President is authorized and requested to issue a proclamation des-
ignating the period from August 31 through September 6 in 1965, as 
"National American Legion Baseball Week", and inviting the Gov-
ernors of the several States to issue similar proclamations. 
Approved August 23, 1965. 
National Ameri-
can Legion Base-
ball Week. 
Proclamation. 
Public Law 89-134 
AN ACT 
To aniwul further the Peace Corps Act (75 Stat. 612), 
other purposes. 
as amended, and for 
August 24, 1965 
[S. 2054] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 3(b) 
of the Peace Corps Act, as amended, which authorizes appropriations 
to carry out the purposes of that Act, is amended by striking out 
"1965" and substituting "1966*', and by inserting before the period at 
the end thereof a comma and the following: "of which not to exceed 
$500,000 shall be available for carrying out research". 
SEC, 2. Section 5 of the Peace Corps Act, as amended, which relates 
to Peace Corps volunteers, is amended as follows: 
(a) Subsection (c) is amended by adding at the end thereof a new 
sentence as follows: "For purposes of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1954 (26 U.S.C.), a volunteer shall be deemed to be paid and to receive 
each amount of a readjustment allowance to which he is entitled after 
December 31,1964, when such amount is transferred from funds made 
available under this Act to the fund from which such readjustment 
allowance is payable." 
^b) In subsection (e): 
(1) In the first sentence, strike out "and such health examinations 
and immunization preparatory to their service," and substitute there-
for "applicants for enrollment shall receive such health examinations 
preparatory to their service, applicants for enrollment who have 
accepted an invitation to begin a period of training under section 8(a) 
of this Act shall receive such immunization and dental care prepara-
tory to their service, and former volunteers shall receive such health 
examinations within six months after termination of their sendee,". 
(2) In the second sentence, strike out ", examinations, and immu-
nization" and strike out "for volunteers". 
(c) In the first proviso of subsection (g), strike out "one" and sub-
stitute therefor "two" and strike out "in the aggregate". 
(d) In subsection (h), immediately after "(5 LLS.C. 73b-5)," insert 
"the Act of December 23,1944, chapter 716, section 1, as amended (31 
U.S.C. 492a),". 
SEC. 3. In section 6(3) of the Peace Corps Act, as amended, which 
relates to the provision of health care to the spouses and minor children 
of A'olunteer leadei-s, immediately after "accompanying them" insert 
", and a married volunteer's child if born during the volunteer's 
service,". 
SEC. 4. Section 7 of the Peace Corps Act, as amended, which relates 
to Peace Corps employees, is amended as follows: 
Peace Corps Act, 
amendment. 
78 Stat. 166. 
22 u s e 2502. 
Volunteers. 
77 Stat. 359. 
22 u s e 2504. 
68A Stat. 3. 
75 Stat. 616. 
22 u s e 2507. 
77 Stat. 360. 
67 Stat. 61. 
Dependents, 
health care. 
22 u s e 2505. 
Employees. 
22 u s e 2506.