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Show To Review Farmer Deferments Local Selective Service baords have been ordered to review promptly deferments of agricultural agricul-tural workers because of the sharp curtailment of available manpower for the Armed forces, Selective Service has announced. "It is not expected that local boards will defer or continue to defer a registrant as necessary to and regularly engaged in agriculture agricul-ture unless by his own personal and direct efforts he produces 16 or more wax units each year," Selective Service asserted About 1,700,000 men in agriculture were deferred in Class II-C and Class JII-C as of January 1 1944 Of this total, 400,000 are single men below 22 years of age and more than one million are non-fathers. In all other war production and war supporting activities less than 12J.OO0 non-fathers below the age of 22 were deferred as of Jan 1 |