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Show Questions On Selective Service Should Be Taken To Local Board SEE YOUR LOCAL BOARD: If you are interested in any matter pertaining to a Selective Service registrant, take it up directly with the local board with which he is registered or you are merely wasting time, Major H. Arnold Rich, Acting State Director of Selective Service, declares. Hundred of letters are flowing into State and National Headquarters Head-quarters every day, Major Rich said; which must be referred to the proper locoal boards for answers an-swers because ouly local boards can act upon the cases of individual individ-ual registrants until they have been classified. He said: "While both State and National Headquarters are sympathetic with each individual case, the Selective Se-lective Service System is thoroughly thor-oughly decentralized and the local board with which he is registered must have classified a registrant for selection or deferment before either State or National Headquarters Head-quarters could act upon his case. That is basic in the Selective Training and Service Act and the Regulations." All that dan be done with hundreds of letters from registrants regis-trants and others interested in matters pertaining to registrants being received at State and National Na-tional Headquarters, Major Rich said, is to send them to the proper pro-per local boards. That causes much needless delay and also much inconvenience, he pointed out. |