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Show Requirements Are Identical For All Draft Registrants Selective service registrants in Utah are urged by H. A. Rich, acting state director, to learn the fundamentad physical standards of this nation's armed forces, consult their doctors and dentists to determine whether they conform con-form to these standards, and to have remediable defects corrected prior to examination by local ; board physicians. I pointing out that such action , by registrants would constitute a distinct service to their country and to the individual registrant, Major Rich said that the men could not, of course, be expected to learn highly technical details I of the standards. However, he asserts, they can acquaint them-! them-! selves with the basic requirements and, upon consolation with their own physicians Or dentists, determine deter-mine whether they are physically qualified according to the general standards. I Although the local boards and j the armed forces are the final judges of a registrant's fitness, Major Rich said that registrants ' would be able, by following the j suggested course, to make some determination of their chances of i induction as physically fit with- out wafting to be called before a ! local board physician. Furthermore, he emphasized, men who learn j they have physical defects and ; have remediable ones corrected so as to qualify themselves for train- ing will render patriotic service to their country and improve their own health. He added: "Learn the minimum physical requirements as laid down by the ; selective service regulations. Con-j Con-j suit your family doctor or dentist, j one or both, if you discover or ! suspect that you fall short of what is demanded of you. Follow ' their advice; let them put you back into good condition if arrangements ar-rangements an be made on a mutually mu-tually satisfactory basis if not, let them direct you to the nearest near-est clinic, hospital, or social service ser-vice agency best suited to your particular needs". Enumerating some of the major ma-jor physical requirements. Major Rich listed the following: 1. Teeth requirements: An adequate ade-quate number of serviceable teeth six biting and six chewing teeth, three pairs of each that are opposite to each other when chewing. chew-ing. Fillings, crowns, dummies and fixed and removable bridges i may make teeth acceptable, j 2. Height and weight requirements: require-ments: Examining physician will use discretion and judgment in accepting ac-cepting registrants with slight variation jn ratio to height and (Continued on last page) 111 Draft Information (Continued from first page) weight, provided it is the opinion of the examining physician that the variation is correctible with proper food and physical training; but no registrant may be accepted whose weight is less than 105 pounds, or whose height is less than 60 inches or greatsr than 78 inches. 3. Eye reeiuirements: The vision should be moderately good in both eyes, or capable of being rendered so by glasses. Test cards are read at 20 feet. The army requires each registrant to be able to read at 20 feet without glasses what the normal person can read at 100 feet without glasses, provided the same matter can be read by the registrant at 40 feet wit the use of glasses. Mild degrees of inflammation, in-flammation, squint, color blindness blind-ness and small operative scars do not necessarily disqualify. 4. Ear requirements: Hearing should be good in both ears, capable capa-ble of detecting low conversational conversation-al voice sounds at 20 feet in a quiet room. Hearing is considered consider-ed acceptable if such sounds can be hear at 10 feet- 5. Genito-urinary organs and veneral diseases: Requirments: The kidneys, bladder and genital organs must be free of seriou diseases and the urine free of albumen al-bumen and sugar. Acute gonorrhea gonor-rhea and early syphilis are sc readily cured that they will not i constitute a basis for permenent rejection. ' I iStandards listed constitute only a fraction of the physical require- j ments, Major Rich said. If, how- j 'ever, registrants will assure them-' selves that they conform to those ! specified they will take a material step toward preparing themselves ! for training, he declared, and ! urged them to consult their doc-j doc-j tors and dentists for further ad-' ad-' vice without delay. Men who registered under the 'selective 'training and service act j of July 1 and whose order num-1 num-1 bers were determined in the national na-tional lottery of July 17 are sub-1 sub-1 ject to the same rules of indivi- dual classification as the youths who were enrolled previously, Ma-! Ma-! jor Rich emphasized, i Under no circumstances will the new group of potential trainees ; be classified and considered for possible military training en bloc. Each man has his order number by which his local board will consider con-sider his classification and no local board can classify the indi-; indi-; vidual registrant until his number is reached, except in case of f volunteers. i . XT |