Nevada Appeal at 150: Dec. 2, 1969: Sept. 14 is magic date for draft lottery

WASHINGTON (AP) — Men from 19 to 26 years old born on Sept. 14 who have last names starting with the letter “J” will be the first ones drafted next month under the nation’s first Selective Service lottery in a generation. In less than an hour and a half Monday night, all 365 days of the year plus Leap Year’s Feb. 29 were drawn at random from a big glass laboratory jar at Selective Service headquarters here. The order in which they emerged, rolled up in blue plastic