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Show Registrants Will Get Questionnaires Dissemination by the selective service system of a four-pate oc-! oc-! cupational questionnaire, designed to obtain for the government full information ' on the vocational background of men registered on February 16 under the selective and training service act, was announced an-nounced this week. The question, naire is being distributed by local boards. The data obtained will be for-! for-! warded, through state directors of selective service, for use by the national roster of scientific and specialized personnel in locating persons with certain professional and scientific qualifications and by the United States employment t service for locating persons having hav-ing skills in critical or essential i occupations. The questionnaire has no connection con-nection with the regular questionnaire question-naire Form 40 which is sent to all selective service registrants to obtain ob-tain information on which classification classi-fication for possible military service ser-vice is based, national headquarters headquar-ters of the selective service sys-; sys-; tern emphasized. , In announcing distribution of the questionnaire, national head-j head-j quarters said: i "The selective service system j has been designated to make an I occupational inventory of all per- sons now or hereafter registered j under the selective training and ; service act of 1940, as amended, ! (Continued on last page) V Get Questionnaires (Continued from first page) with the exception of those who have been inducted into the armed arm-ed forces. The purpose of this inventory is to obtain information on the present employment' activities acti-vities of registrants and on their other skills or abilities. The data gathered will serve as on important import-ant aid in achieving a more complete com-plete and efficient utilization of the manpower of the country in connection with the war production produc-tion program outlined by the president". At the present' time, the occupational occu-pational questionnaire will be sent only to registrant's of the third registration. Later it will be sent to registrants of the first and second registrations and of future registrations, national headquarters headquar-ters said. |