Show Hershey Hints Draft Deferment For Press Radio Industries WASHINGTON Feb 21 UP Brigadier jp-Brigadier Brigadier General Lewis B. B Hershey s said id Saturday national selective service headquarters would soon advise local draft boards that th the press and radio were viewed officially as industries essential to the national interest The selective service director noted that similar opinions already already al- al ready eady had been given as to motion motion mo- mo tion ion pictures and organized la- la bor or Hershey stressed however that only local boards can decide whether any Individual is a a. key keyman keyman keyman man and therefore eligible to draft deferment as indispensable to an industry considered essential one Forty-one directives have been sent ent thus far to the local boards to o advise them on classifications he ic told a press conference with the he prediction that many others were vere likely But neither the director nor anyone else in the selective servIce service Ice ce system except a local board he ic added can grant deferment to o an individual and no group or class ass exemptions can be made except ex- ex by congress The directives are arc not mandatory mandatory manda- manda tory ory In any sense of the word Their heir sole purpose is to help coordinate coordinate co- co ordinate local with national ac- ac tion lon On the ruling ruling- that newspapers were ere essential Hershey commented comment comment- ed d that the age is built on up-to- up the he minute news The selective service head announced announced an- an also that the army had decided to accept voluntary advance advance advance ad ad- vance inductions from men up to 45 years old He declined however however however how how- ever to speculate whether this and anda a proposal before congress to in increase increase increase in- in crease soldiers' soldiers pay presaged Induction in induction induction In- In of older men with dependents depend depend- |