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Show Selective Service Registers 161 Men A total of 161 Iron county men 18 and 19 years of age registered under the SIe"tlve Service Act Tuesday. A few of the registrants had reached their 20th. blrthdate since the last registration day. Of the 161 men registered m the county 93 were registered in Cedar City, 35 in Parowan, four in Paragonah, Para-gonah, six in Kanarra, one in Summit, ten in Modena, five n Newcastle, two in Bervl and five In Enoch. Lund was the only town in Uie county without a single registrant. reg-istrant. Only those young men who are now 20 years of age will be eligible for draft for military service, unless un-less Congress posses a new Act making the younger men eligible for duty. The 20-year-old men will be placed on Jthe Selective Service list and may expect to be called to service soon, If they pass the physical phy-sical requirements. Those who have not reached 20 years of age will be given call numbers, but will not be ordered to duty until the law Ls changed or until they reach the draft age.. There will be no national lottery to determine the young men's order numbers, but rather they will be numbered In accordance with their ages, the oldest receiving the first number and so on down to the youngest. |