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Show Congressional impasse on draft law creates draftee uncertainty Selective Service System secretary, sec-retary, Mrs. Zina L. Rigby, who manages the Iron County . local board, says the current Congressional impasse over extending the induction authority au-thority has created great uncertainty un-certainty among area draft-age draft-age men. Mrs. Rigby continued, "Selective "Se-lective Service Director Curtis Tarr has recently stressed the importance of explaining to our draft-age men the high probability that draft calls will resume In the near future fu-ture and that the current impasse im-passe In the Congress is not likely to affect any registrant's regis-trant's chance of being drafted." draft-ed." "Our local board has been speciffically instructed to continue con-tinue to register and classify men, and to order for pTein-duction pTein-duction physical examinations those young men who may be needed to fill draft calls in the coming months." she said. Men with lottery numbers to 123 were eligible for induction induc-tion in June in order to fill draft calls. Since then, the Defense De-fense Department has asked Selective Service headquarters pending final Congressional action on the draft bill which is expected within several weeks. Those young men with relatively rela-tively tow lottery numbers who are eligible for induction induc-tion this yearf particularly t those with numbers below 175 the current processing ceiling ceil-ing have a very good chance of being processed for induction induc-tion after draft calls are restored. re-stored. Many young men seem to think that the Selective Service Ser-vice Act has permanently ex- pired and that they probably! will never be drafted. Some of them also think that the entire system has stopped. They are wrong since it is only the induction authority that has expired. They, therefore, there-fore, may be unintentionally breaking the law by failing to register at age 18, by not keeping their local boards Informed In-formed of their current address ad-dress or by failing to report if ordered, for their prein duction duc-tion physical examinations. It is also stressed that local boards are continuing to consider con-sider CO, hardship, and student stu-dent deferments and to take other classification actions. "Young men who had planned to submit request s for deferments defer-ments or exemptions are encouraged en-couraged to do so," Mrs. Rig-by Rig-by said. The expiration of the Induction authority does not affect our responsibility to classify young men," she added. Mrs. Rigby may be contacted contact-ed at Boom 203, Post Office Building. Cedar Gty, the office of-fice of local board No. 11. |