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Show deferred or exempt, or whether he , should be considered as available for induction for two yeara of service. ser-vice. The local board also' considers information from other sources such aa employers, dependents, government agencies and other legitimate sources. But fundamentally, fundamen-tally, the law imposes on the registrant regis-trant the responsibility for keeping the local board informed of anything any-thing in his personal situation which might affect his classification. J Every classification must be made on the basis of individual status. There are no group classifications. classifi-cations. No classification ia permanent, and in some cases, expiration dates are set. A man classified as available avail-able for service may find his individual indi-vidual situation so changed that the local board may defer him. And a man who ia deferred or exempt may not remain in that class after the conditions on which the exemption ex-emption or deferrment ia based cease to exist. The classification assigned by the local board determine, basically, basic-ally, whether a man will enter service ser-vice in his turn or remain teemp-orarily teemp-orarily in civilian life. The local boards are made up of unpaid, volunteer vol-unteer citizens of the community. They may not be members of the military service. The local board may require1 a registrant to appear before it and has the authority to subpoena witnesses. wit-nesses. Every registrant is required , to submit to the board any information infor-mation requested of him. (The next article will discuss Class I-A, Available.) YOUR SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM (This is the second in the series of Selective Service articles.) Some time after he has registered, register-ed, each man will ' receive from his local board a questionnaire. The answers provide the basic information informa-tion which the local board will use to decide whether a man should be |