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Show Draft Officials Give Answer To Dependency Query I Support ' by a Selective Service registrant of his parents, grandparents, grand-parents, brothers and sisters must be ! considered as a basis for "dependency" "depen-dency" deferment from training in -the' same way as his care of -a. wife or children would be, National Headquarters, Selective Service System, Sys-tem, said today. In a letter to State Headquarters, C. A. Dykstra; Director pf Selective Service, suggested that when local boards consider the classification of "registrants they - should . carefully weigh all questions of dependency and not confine their investigation to the dependent status of Wives or children. The ' Director pointed ' out that a registrant can be deferred on "dependency" "de-pendency" grounds only if his local board is convinced that a person is "dependent in fact" upon him. This includes wives as well as other claimed dependents, Mr. Dykstra asserted. He said: "When local boards investigate questions of dependency they must not confine their inquiry to the status sta-tus of wives or children. "Selective Service Regulations clearly say that a 'dependent' may be a parent, grandparent, brother, sister, or a person under 18 years of age, or any person who is physically or mentally handicapped, whose support the registrant has assumed in good faith. "Support of these dependents is as important to one man as another man's support to his wife. |