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Savings provision. 72 Stat. 1127; 77 Stat. 17, 223.

Free p o s t a g e. 70A Stat. 80.

PUBLIC LAW 89-133-AUG. 23, 1965

[79 STAT.

(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."

Effective date.

SEC. 10. This Act becomes effective on the first day of the first calendar 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 baseball 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 established throughout the United 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 cooperation, 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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