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Show SELECTIVE SERVin: I HEAD TELLS MAXXJff OF PKOPER AI'ip C. A. Dykstra, director $f Tective service, said recently tf thousands of letters continue! pour into- national headqufcrtj from mothers, wives, eniphyv and others vitally interest id the lives of individual -ei trants citing reasons why efr ments should be granted i IS But national headquarteU f no power to grant or ean commend deferments, Mr Br stra pointed out. The quest an what classification any :ej trant shall be placed in is . ai ter entirely up to his local .oaf "Of course we are inte es in every individual case,' Dykstra said, "but the only th possible for us to do wit I f letters that come addressed I national headquarters as which are forwarded iron White House and membe -s the administrative and ltijisi tive branches of the goverrpi here in Washington is $ J form the senders that thc-s ; have ample opportunity U p sent their cases to their loi boards and that the very ipij, of the Selective Service Ac p eludes national headquartei I ll ing its influence in any w whatsoever with the decision) i the local boards." ; Mr. Dykstra emphasized tf any person who is able to g reasonable proof that he 1 1 if. ' terested in a registrant maf i, I pear before the local boarcj i I give evidence pertinent til" , case. The witness must, Mr ph stra added, have a real aifij honest interest and be moij ed by something more tlM mere desire to meddle in a M body way. But no personN does have a sincere interest 4 be denied the right either t I pear personally or to give H ence in writing. t |