"His proposals are short on substance, long on politics," said Catherine A. Boudreau, president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, a branch of the National Education Association.

The National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse, a branch of the National District Attorneys Association, calls the stings a "highly effective tool" against child abuse.

He first became politically active in the 1950s as a member of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

The following year, this organization was absorbed into the Connecticut Woman's Suffrage Association and became a branch of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

The Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the lobbying branch of the National Rifle Association of America.

The goal for the organization was to have at least one branch of the National Association of Letter Carriers participate from all 50 states.

There are two branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Utah.

The New Orleans Branch is the oldest continuously active branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People south of Washington D.C.

A spokesman for the Manufacturing Institute, a branch of the National Association of Manufacturers, said that metrication was not seen as a big issue.

Mr. Wetterling, a chiropractor with a growing business in town, was president of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.