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Show I'd been reclassified because I was on probation, and that if I received letters from the school preferably prefer-ably from Dr. Hepworth stating that I was a full-time student in Tuesday, Jan. 2, the day before I was to be inducted so I personally person-ally phoned Col. Peay and told him I'd bring the papers out to his house so he could see them. And he again changed his mind, saying "It doesn't matter if you bring them out here or take them to the Selective Se-lective Service Board.' He said they wouldn't do him any good. Process Papers So we went ahead with the lawyer, law-yer, Richard Leedy; we were up until 1:30 in the morning processing papers. I was due to be inducted at six that morning. Well, the attorney attor-ney stayed up all night working on those papers; he presented them to Selective Service around 9:30 a.m. They came and got me out of induction in-duction 30 minutes before I was to swear the oath and got a temporary stay of one week. This stay ended Wednesday morning, Jan. 10. The lawyer filed an appeal Tuesday evening with Judge Willis Ritter. Wednesday morning I was again released from the induction process ; a deputy U.S. Marshal delivered the court order to the induction center while I was taking my physical. physi-cal. Judge Ritter set a date for the hearing Jan. 26 and ordered Selective Service Director Col. Clay to appear on behalf of the system. "I'm sure we'll get another stay of induction order at least until the preliminary hearing can be held, as the stay we now have expires Jan. 20 10 days after we got it. "I'm pretty happy with the way things have gone so far, except that I've been so bogged down with fighting the system that it's begun to interfere with my studies." ' By J. BAUMAN Chronicle Editorial Assistant Jim Imus, the University student j who was recently rescued twice from induction into the A r m e d I Forces by scant hours, came to my ! office the other day to tell Chronicle Chroni-cle readers what war against the Selective Service System was like. Imus, a solid, stocky, blond-haired young man, was accompanied by Wendy Craig, his girlfriend. They sat on our blue couch (stolen from the Union's Lobby); Imus asked where he should start. Not too originally or-iginally I told him "at .the beginning." begin-ning." , . Imus: "Well, it began last summer sum-mer Dr. Hepworth," the University's Uni-versity's head of the Office of Military Mili-tary Relations - "sent my Ogden draft board a letter saying I was on probation that's all it said. First of all, they just sent in an IBM card then Hepworth was asked to send in a' letter saying that students on probation weren't necessarily failing students but he didn't sav that. He just sent in 1' ' a letter saying the following student stu-dent is on probation and is entitled to register next quarter. And that's all he said. So he really didn't explain ex-plain what probation was. So they took away my H-S deferment and sent the I-A classification. They did this because they received the letter let-ter that I was on probation. 'Probation' Misunderstood "I think the word 'probation' was misunderstood. The draft board thinks it's a harsh word meaning the student's flunking out. My grade point average was then 1.75. My overall grade point average is now one something one five-seven." Bauman: "And what year are you in school?" Imus: "I'm a sophomore. Anyway, Any-way, I went up to appeal this I-A (available for the draft) classification, classifica-tion, and I talked to the secretary r.p there' she said not to worry 'e about the I-A; I'd be allowed to finish fin-ish this quarter. This was the lady at my draft board in Ogden. She also said that after that quarter fall quarter if I were doing satisfactory sat-isfactory work, I'd receive a II-S rating. Well, I got my induction notice on Christmas Eve, which didn't leave me too much time to do anything about it. I went to my draft board Tuesday following Christmas the first day they were open after I got my notice and talked to them. They told me JIM IMUS . . .rescued twice from induction good standing, they'd give me a deferment. de-ferment. Service Makes Students? "Dr. Hepworth was not too willing will-ing to give me the letter, but I got it, and one from the school. I took the letters directly down to the state board and presented them to Maj. Ross and he told me, 'Well, it's too bad but you might as well go into the service now and come back a better student.' He also said that it really didn't matter what the school said, he was the one who determined who was drafted. So I came back to the University for more HELP capital letters and they in turn got in touch with the Selective Service Board; the University Uni-versity said I was a full time student stu-dent in good standing. So they asked Selective Service what they needed to prove that I was in good standing with the school. Col. Peay (deputy director of the state's Selective Service System) "told them an SS-109 form would be required. re-quired. This form was acquired by Scholastic Probation and the registrar; regis-trar; we ran the form up to the registrar for him to sign. He was in a meeting but he signed it anyway. any-way. It was after closing time when we finally got the form that was |