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Marsh States
Election Position
In response to inquiries as to lis ■position in the event the )re$idential election were thrown nto the House of Representatives o elect a president because no candidate had received a majority /ote in the Electoral College, ■ seventh District Congressman lohn O. Marsh, Jr., said today ‘Insofar as I am concerned, if this jnusual circumstance would sccur whereby the election were referred to the House, I would ixpect to vote for that ^residential candidate who had received a majority or plurality of the votes cast in the Seventh Congressional District.”
Marsh Sets Bill On
Combat Exemptions
Rep. John O. Marsh, Jr., introduced a bill August 1 that would exempt from combat assignment any member of the armed forces whose brother, father or sister had been killed in action or died in line of duty in the Vietnam war unless the serviceman or woman volunteered for duty in a combat area.
The Congressman pointed out that “under the present policy, a sole- surviving son had such exemption, but there are instances where a family with several sons have lost one son and found one or more of their other sons faced with military service in j Vietnam”.
The Seventh District! Representative said that he felt it was a great hardship and unfair to impose additional risks on a family that had already suffered a heavy loss, when under our present policy for military duty, there were many young men who would not be expected to perform military service in Vietnam.
“There have been a number of combat deaths of men from the Seventh Congressional District, and there are presently situations in some of these families where other sons are in the military service and are facing duty in Vietnam,” the Congressman noted.
“Under the proposed bill, the exemption can be waived by the serviceman if he does not wish to! avail himself of it, but if he does, he would not be precluded from| military duty, but might be assigned to a non-combat stotion
in some other area of the J$)8d,” the Congressman said.
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