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Show Selective Service Gives Missionary Deferment; Fathers Clause Revised Two changes have Iwcn made in the Selective Service Act recently re-cently that will soon have considerable con-siderable effect on a number of he young men of this area who are of draft age. One has to do sith filling missions for the LDS hurch. and the other discontinues discontin-ues deferrment from military du-y du-y because the registrant be-omes be-omes a father. An agreement has been reached et ween the L D S church lead-rs lead-rs and the Selective Service under un-der which men of draft age will be permitted to fill missions for the church before reporting for military service. This does not mean that any individual wishing wish-ing to can go on a mission regardless re-gardless of bis Selective Service status. Under the agreement, one young man from each ward of the LDS church may be called o the mission field. The responsibility respon-sibility of selecting the young man to represent each ward, will !e placed entirely in the hands of the president of the stake in vhlch the ward is located. The nly restriction placed on the selection of a man for missionary mission-ary service is that a man who is subject to induction within a period of 30 days cannot be railed. If he is not subject to induction in that period, the board will allow such registrant a period of 90 days to complete irrangements for his departure Into the mission field. The fact that the registrant is permitted to fill a mission does not remove his military responsibility, respon-sibility, and he will become subject sub-ject to induction immediately upon his return from the mission mis-sion field. This agreement has no effect on the eligibility of men in certain cer-tain classifications to fill missions. mis-sions. The church may at any time call any registrant who has completed his tour of military duty, is classified as unfit for military duty, or is over the draft age of 26 years. Any registrant who is classified classi-fied in II-A, occupational deferment; defer-ment; II-C, agricultural deferment, defer-ment, or III-A, dependency and hardship deferment, should not be called to fill missions. The second change in Selective Service regulations, regarding fathers has resulted from what is termed "double deferment". Many instances have been reported re-ported in the past where registrants regis-trants who have been deferred for various reasons, such as occupation, occu-pation, agricultural, ROTC, or to attend school, have during the period of their deferment married mar-ried and become fathers which has automatically deferred them from the responsibility of military mili-tary service. In many of these cases the registrants have discontinued dis-continued the activity they were in when deferred as soon as the proof that they have become or are to become fathers is established. estab-lished. This means that they have been granted a temporary deferment and during the period of that deferment have become permanently deferred from service. ser-vice. To overcome this situation the new regulation has been adopted. Under the new regulation no deferment will be granted on the basis of fatherhood if the child is born after Aug. 25, 1953, or if pregnancy of the mother is not proved before than date. The responsibility of proving eligibil-itv eligibil-itv for deferment for this reason rests entirely with the registrant. being married has not been reason for deferment from service, ser-vice, and now being married and having a child, if born after Aug. 25, 1953, will not be reason for deferment. |
