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Show v' Two New Screening Centers Are Planned The Sixth Army Headquarters has announced plans to estab- y lish Officers Screening Centers V at Fort Ord, California, Fort Y Lewis, Washington, and a mo-y mo-y bile screening center which will cover the Rocky Mountain states Y, in the Army area. These screen-it screen-it 5ng centers will process all ap- Y pUcants for commissions in the v Regular Army who have not Y previously been processed un-g un-g der the Army Integration Pro- ' 1 gram calling for 50,000 commis- $ sioned Regular Officers, v' Since the program was put into effect on October 15 sup- & elemental applications for com- Y missions from those on the elig- y ible list total over 4500 in the x Sixth Army area alone. X New applications are being I received at Sixth Army Head- quarters at the Presidio of San k Francisco, at the rate of 50 a , t day. i Seventy per cent of the appli- . 1 cants are officers who have re- t turned to civilian life. , X Sixty per cent of the total ap i plications are from Californians , k and 22 per cent are applications t f from residents of Washington .8 The balance is spread evenlj f Y arming the six remaining state: , g in the Sixth Army area. f X Applicants already on the j eligible list are reminded tnat ? I siroplemental applications must j mailed and postmarked not f k later than November 30 to re- j Y 'ceive consideration. i Sf - |