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Show !F!RST STATE TO GET nuns ii iw DRAFT "Congratulations Utah!" is the, heading of a bulletin received today at the local draft boards. It says in explanation: ex-planation: "The above message has just been received by this office (adjutant general's) gen-eral's) from the Provost Marshal General. Gen-eral. It comes nfter Utah has been officially of-ficially credited with being the first state in the United States to complete the classification of at least 90 per cent of the September registrants, to forward all proper records to the district dis-trict board and to complete the physical phy-sical examination of at least 00 per cent of the class one men of the September Sep-tember registration. "On tho state progress chart in the office of the provost marshal general, Utah is listed as the first state in the entiro United States to complete the task assigned to it Considering the many handicaps under which Utah was working, the record Is a most remark- j ablo one,. Several' local boards in thisi stato aro remote from telephone or telegraph or railway communication; examining physicians of local bogrds have been working night and day In combating tho Influenza epidemic. In spite of theso conditions Utah made a runaway race in the national contest. con-test. The nearest competitor to Utah was Iowa which has just been credited with completing column 4 of the stato progress chart Tho success of Utah is largely due to the splendid work. of the outside local boards remote from the facilities that made the classification and physical examination of 'the larger boards much easier and to the examining examin-ing physicians of tho local boards who at great sacrifice and with little or no compensation completed the physical examination of the class 1 registrants. The prompt response of every local board in the state of Utah to the requests re-quests from this office was especially gratifying. "Tho spirit of co-operation throughout through-out the selective service system in the entire state of Utah resulted in Utah being first in the original classification of last winter and flr3t again this fall. |