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Show Louise Bisel Explains Status Draft Office During Impasse Mrs. Bisel also stressed that local boards are continuing to consider conscientious objector hardship, and student deferments defer-ments and to take other classification clas-sification actions. Young men who had planned to submit requests re-quests for deferments or exemptions are encouraged to do so. The expiration of the induction in-duction authority does not affect our responsibility to classify young men. Mrs. Bisel may be contacted at 30 South Main, Dearden Building, Coalville, the office of local board 30, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Selective Service System Executive Ex-ecutive Secretary Louise Bisel, who manages Summit County's local board says the current Congressional impasse over extending the induction authority auth-ority has created great, uncertainty un-certainty among area draft-age men. Mrs. Bisel continued, "Selective "Sel-ective Service Director Curtis Tarr has recently stressed the importance of explaining to our draft-age men the high probability prob-ability that draft calls will resume re-sume in the near future and that the current impasse in the Congress Con-gress is not likely to affect any registrant's chance of being drafted." "Our local board has been specifically instructed to continue con-tinue to register and classify men, and to order for preinduc-tion preinduc-tion physical examinations those young men who may be needed to fill draft calls in the coming months," Mrs. Bisel said. Men with lottery numbers through 125 were eligible for induction in June in order to fill draft calls. Since then, the Defense Department has asked Selective Service to draft 16,000 men in July - August. This request is being held by Selective Selec-tive Service headquarters pending pend-ing final Congressional action on the draft bill, which is expected ex-pected within several weeks. "Those young men with relatively low lottery numbers who are eligible for induction this year, particularly those with numbers below 175 the current processing ceilinghave ceil-inghave a very good chance of being processed for induction after draft calls are restored," Mrs. Bisel said. -' ' ' "Many young men," said Mrs. Bisel, "seem to think that the Selective Service Act has permanently perm-anently expired and that they probably will never be drafted. Some of them also think that the entire system has stopped. They are wrong since it is only the induction authority that has expired. They, therefore, may be unintentionally breaking the law by failing to register at age 18, by not keeping their local boards informed of their current cur-rent address, or by failing to report, re-port, if ordered, for their pre-induction pre-induction physical examinations." |