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Show Selective Service Still Active, Though Draft Ends "Even though draft calls have ended the selective se-lective service system will remain in a standby status," announced Colonel Col-onel Richard V. Peay, state director for Selective Se-lective Service in Utah. "All young men in our state will still have the responsibility of registering regis-tering with their local board or local registrar." regis-trar." Colonel Peay said that the Selective Service Act will still require young men to register at age eighteen and that local draft boards will continue con-tinue to process some of these young men. The registration, classification classifica-tion and lottery provisions provi-sions of the Selective Service Act will remain in force. The 1973 Selective Service Ser-vice lottery took place in Washington, D. C. March 8, 1973. This lottery lot-tery affects young men born in 1954 and reaching reach-ing nineteen years of age this calendar year 1973. Young men born in 1954 receiving a lottery lot-tery number will be the first priority manpower pool in the Selective Service Ser-vice standby system, and will potentially be vulnerable vul-nerable to induction during dur-ing 1974 if the induction authority were to be restored re-stored that year. Colonel Peay stated that the standby roll for Selective Service would result in a reduced level of operations in the State of Utah. The presentor-ganization presentor-ganization of twenty five draft board officers will be reduced by collocation colloca-tion to nine local board offices. He emphasized that the collocation affected af-fected the administrative administrat-ive draft board offices only and that the local boards would still be maintained in the various vari-ous counties. Local board members would still be responsible for classification processing. process-ing. To provide better public access to the collocating col-locating administrative sites, Colonel Peay said that registrars would be utilized in all communities communi-ties for the convenience of the young men who must register, in order to preclude unnecessary travel for them. Collocation plans for Grand County include moving the administrative administra-tive draft board office from Moab to Price. The effective date for the move will be April 12, 1973, and all registrants in local board No. 10, Grand County are advised ad-vised that their selective selec-tive service records will now be located in the Price Local Board Office, Of-fice, Oliveto Building, Price, Utah. Young men reaching eighteen may register with Mr. Win-ford Win-ford Bunce in Moab, the Selective Service Registrar Regis-trar for this area, or with the local board office of-fice in Price at the Oliveto Oli-veto Building. |