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Show Responsibility for S S File Information Is Duty of Registrant A Court of Appeals ruling in Pennylvania regarding the classification clas-sification of registrants under Selective Service should be closely close-ly observed by every young man who Is registered with any Selective Se-lective Service Board in the country. coun-try. The court decision rules that a classification that is based upon information "known" to the local board members concerning a registrant reg-istrant and his family, instead of "on-the-record" information in the registrant's file, is not a valid classification. This emphasizes the fact that it is the responsibility of the registrant to keep his Selective Service Board fully informed in writing of his status. If the registrant reg-istrant comes up for induction or classification the board must act on the information in the files and not what it may know about the young man in question. ques-tion. The board members may know of good reasons why a man should not be inducted or should be deferred, but they are not allowed al-lowed to act on the knowledge, but only on the information in the registrant's file. The only way such information can get into the file is for the registrant to submit it to the board in writing. Attention is called to the fact that registrants should file any change of status Information with the board immediately, and not wait until they are classified or ordered to report, and then claim exemption or deferment. |