Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-10-15 | Page 3 | Utah First State to Complete Its Classification

UTAH FIRST STATE TO COMPLETE ITS . DLASSlFiCATiOfy Utah has been officially- credited with being the first state In the United Uni-ted States to complete the classification classifica-tion of 90 per cent of its registrants be tween the ages of 19 and 3G according accord-ing to a bulletin from state headquarters- received this morning. The bulletin bul-letin .uu'd 19 boards .of the state have completed the 90 per cent classification classifica-tion and physical examination, Ogden and Weber county being among that number, and all have completed 90 per cent of tho classification of registrants. regis-trants. With 19 boards all through with this work the contest now resolves Itself, according to the bulletin, into one in which the remaining boards will all try to keep from being tho last. The contest Is principally up to examining physicians. They are charged with the duty of keeping their boards from lagging lag-ging behind, and if Utah Is first in this race it will be the examining physicians' phy-sicians' of the tardy local boards who are al fault. The boards are authorized by the state organization to draft all doctors within their jurisdiction to aid in physical phy-sical examinations.