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Show ;WEBER COOilTY BOARD MffPIEflfll Say They Cannot Understand Under-stand Action of District Beard of Exemptions. Special to The Tribune. OGDI'iX, Wtipt. 1. Members of the local lo-cal exemption board for Weber county were puzzled today over reueii't of an official notice from the third district , hoard for the state requesting that B- F. Lofgren, among others whose claims for exemption have been disallowed, be ' hold for a last quota on account of tall crops that must be harvested. Loryren, who claimed exemption on account of a dependent wife and child, is listed in the Halt Lake papers this morning as one of two Weber county registrants , whose claims had been allowed. i "This is on a par with previous work by the district board, and places this j local board in the peculiar position of not knowing whether it is afoot or horseback," said William H. Lowder, the chairman. Cl Also the district board lias accused us of making an error for not exempting men with a wife and one child as dependents, aud the newspapers report that the Heaver county locaL board has been called to account for exempting married men with no children. chil-dren. We have been too severe and tho Beaver board has been too lenient. We would like to know the district board's idea of the happy medium." While further discussing the work of the district board, Mr. Lowder also pointed to the fact that it has sent out letters addressed to the county clerk of Weber county, ' Mlarrisville, Utah." Members of the local board also contend that the district board has not strictly adhered to its own interpretation of the instructions that a married man with wife and one child dependent upon him must be exempted. Several cases have developed in both Weber county and Ogden, they charge, where the district dis-trict board has denied claims appealed on this pround. Included in the district board's list of Weber county registrants to be held for a last quota on account of agricultural work are Alma LeRoy Ellis, Joseph Sur-rage, Sur-rage, William Herman Green, Earl Albion Al-bion Randall. Jessie Earl Booth, David Johnson, Charles S. Shaw, Wallace Manning, Man-ning, Orson Anson Colt, Floyd Clinton Jensen, Herbert Earl Fowels, Charles L. White, Jr.; Benjamin Franklin Lof-gren, Lof-gren, William Mayer Anderson, William Temnle Short, Joseph Bates and John William Clark. The local board for the Ogden district has been instructed to hold Lung Hong Song, Chinese gardener, and Harold W. Stone, 831 Twenty-first street, for a last quota" on account of agricultural pursuits." |