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Show AGRICULTURAL CLASS SENIORS ARE FAVORED Those in Upper Third Work Are to Be Exempted Trom the Selective Draft. Special to The Tribune. LOGAN, March 9. Certain members mem-bers of the senior class in agriculture at the Utah Agricultural college will be exempted from the selective draft, according to a telegram just received from the provost marshal general by President E. G. Peterson. This telegram authorizes that those seniors in agriculture whose class work places them in the upper third of the class may enlist in the reserve corps of the quartermaster department and upon presentation of evidence of such enlistment they will be placed in class five. The new ruling making their provision is as follows: Under such regulations as the quartermaster general may prescribe, pre-scribe, students pursuing a course in agriculture in the senior year in land-grant agricultural colleges whose class standing places them in the upper third of the senior class, as determined by the school authorities, may enlist in the enlisted en-listed reserve corps of the quartermaster quar-termaster department and thereafter, there-after, upon presentation by the registrar to his local board of a certificate of such enlistment, such certificate shall be filed with the questionnaire, and the registrant regis-trant shall be placed in class five, on the ground that he is in the military mil-itary service of the United States. Furlough Cut Short. Special to The Tribune. TWIN FALLS, Idaho, March 9. Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Tom R. Potter, son of Mr and Mrs. T. W. Potter of this citv, arrived here from Texas the latter part of the week to spend an eleven davs' furlough but was compelled to leave after only two 'y.s I'B't- , Two days after reachins Iwln Falls he received a telegram requesting re-questing that he report at once. Joinlni; his regiment on the Atlantic coast |