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Show Garfield Residents Named to Selective Service County Board Five Garfield and Kane county residents have recently been notified by a letter from Gov. Scott Matheson of their appointment to serve on a local ' Selective Service board. According to Air Force Reserve Colonel Gene Toolson, the five were chosen to serve the two counties with another five selected to service Sevier, Sanpete, Piute and Wayne counties to the north. The six counties make up Area Six. which Toolson administers. Statewide' director for Utah's Selective Service' program, is Colonel Leland Ford, Salt Lake CifywhosejurisdicttorrakcB-ft the six separate areas formed from Utah's 29 counties. Selected from Garfield and Kane counties were Vard Coombs, Boulder; Henry Jolley, Panguitch; Rick Lutes, Cannonville; Ora Nell Judd, Johnson Canyon; and William Canning, Kanab. The five were first notified of their selection as candidates for the board by Col. Ford with a follow-up interview by Toolson who explained the program to each potential board member. ' Certain criteria were applied in making the selection Toolson said, and a real effort made to achieve a near cross-section of the population, or as near as possible where only five people are involved. Members, Toolson noted, must be between 18 and 60 years of age, a U.S. citizen, resident of the county in which they will serve, able to devote the time required to serve and must be able to fairly and uniformly apply Selective Service laws and regulations. They may not be active in or retired from the armed services nor in a reserve component. If they have previously served on a Selective Service board for 15 years or more they are also disqualified from further service. The five members recieved their first (Continued on Page 2) County commissioners had their hopes raised just a little in Friday's meeting with newly appointed Utah State Director of Bureau of Land Management, Roland G. Ilobison (second from left) as he expressed to them the intent of "still doing the job but streamlining whenever possible." He meets here with George Middleton, commissioner, Keith Carter, cattleman and commissioner Dell LeFevre. Selective Service (Continued from Page 1) contact from the Selective Service late last summer. The Selective Service had previously sent inquiries to every religious denomination, every service organization, school districts, county commissions and other groups listed in the telephone book. They were requested to provide names of individuals who might be qualified to serve as board members, with the Selective Service following up on those recommendations which appeared to be most suitable. Selective Service was shelved in the mid-seventies and revived in the latter part of 1980. Two members of the eight-man state team recently returned from specialized training in Denver. They will be responsible for training new appointees all over the state shortly after the first of the year. Board members will continue to receive training on a periodic basis. They will learn how to classify potential indue-tees in the event of a national emergency. Only in the event of such an emergency will members of local boards be activated; all are currently serving on a standby basis. Toolson said that if such an emergency occurs, he will immediately travel to Area Six where an area office will be set up in Richfield. After hiring an executive secretary and making certian that the two local boards are functioning properly he would travel to Salt Lake City to fill his assignment to the Armed Forces Entrance and Examining Stations (AFEES) in Salt Lake City. Of the eight men permanently assigned, to the Selective Service in Utah, six are assigned to administer the six areas of the state and the remaining two attached to Fort Douglas headquarters. Young men born in 1960 and 1961 were required to register in 1980 with the Selective Service for the first time in a number of years. There is currently a policy of continuing registration with young men required to register with the Selective Service within 30 days of their 18th birthday. Toolson noted that such registrations are made at local post offices and that failure to register is a federal offense. Upon registering each person is classified 1-H, a holding classification. In the event of a national emergency, those under 20 would be classified 1-A and random selection by computer would make those born on certain named days subject to induction. Those selected would be allowed 10 days in which to report to AFEE. Up to this point, local boards have no responsibility, but if a young man selected for induction feels he has a legitimate reason he should not be inducted or that his induction should be postponed for a specific length of time, he may apply to his local Selective Service board for reclassification. It is at this point that members of the Selective Service board are activated and they may meet monthly or as often as required to perform their duties. If an individual subject to induction into the armed services is dissatisfied with the local board's decision, he may apply to the state appeal board in hopes, of a change. The fivjjmliefsd 'olj tl& state appeal board 'mu'st agrei unanimously on their decision. One dissenting vote sends the matter to the National Appeal Board. Selective Service board members at all levels serve ona volunteer basis without pay". They are reimbursed only for travel and out-of-pocket expenses. |
