Show selective ti ve service items of interest modification of selective service regulations with regard to felons of many registrants who had been barred from military training because of statutory law violations Is now ge beca cause iise ot of it a revision of selective service Regu regulator begola latou doaa resulting result liag from modify catlon 0 foi recruitment f the revision of the regulations major H A rich acting state director of selective service said mr aitio day removes the sweeping fi cation of all men who had been convicted on anloff an of tense ense which the laws of the jurisdiction in which it occurred defined as a felony instead he said debarment ua as felony ta is limited to perpetrators of certain heinous crimes and habitual crimi criminals nalis i advising the ithe local boards of utah orthis rev revision islon major rich hailed lit as just and timely ile he said tola itala win will enable many any patriotic young americans americana who had been de barred because of some youthful misstep rois step to serve their nation in the ranks ot of its armed defenders it la Is timely tor for that reason in view of the national emergency and it la just ai also so in that it mal hakea ces a proper discrimination between offenses tenses ot that baat are merely violations statutory law and crimes which denote moral turpitude it bars bara the crial criminal but it opens the door to abe man who has atoned for and repented of au an offense against society that la Is not generally accepted ap as a felony Th the echan changes are in the the regulations defining class IVI VV IV F I physically mentally or niora ly unfit they now ban specific specifically alli the following law violators 1 those who have been condic i tod heinous crimes i 2 who have been convicted on two or more occasions occa dons of offenses which tome come under the generally accepted definition of a felony ife looy 3 who are chronic offenders with pronounced criminal tendencies who deave been convicted on at lenab leasa three occasions ot of offenses of tenses punch punishable able by jail sentences 4 who are being retained to in ithe custody of any court of criminal jurisdiction or other idyll ahll authority the heinous elnous li crimes named are aie treason murder tape rape arson sodomy pandering any aay crime involving ax perversion ol 01 any crime involving illegal dealing in narcotics or other habit forming drugs irrespective of these specific provisions concerning law violators said major rich ahe the rega kegu lations as amended also provide that tiny any reg labaut who is found to be morally unfit tor for military ser eer aled shall be placed in class IY IV B 1 together with any registrant w who 1111 is found after physical physic ia examination to ile be physically or merita mentally iii unfit for military service class IV lv IVF l V F also includes any registrant who has been dishonorably discharged from rom the army navy marine corps or coast guard glaid or lias has been discharged because cacase of undesirability or of habits or kralits of character |