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Show WASHINGTON neiws rsn ipV i -I i FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER Draft Measure Passed After exhaustive statistical study, public opinion polls (many of you will recall that I personally conducted such a poll throughout the First Congressional Congres-sional District of Utah), and considerable con-siderable debate, our draft policy is finally fixed, pending the President' Pres-ident' approval of the bill. The draft law will expire March 31, 1947. Fathers and eighteen-year-olds are exempt, and .fathers now in service may request discharge after August 1, 1946. Farm workers may be deferred, de-ferred, and any man drafted before be-fore expiration of the law must be released after eighteen months of service. The Army has not taken any man over 29 for duty since V-J Day; therefore, the top eligible age of 45 has little significance. Although the draft law has been extended until March 1947, it is hoped that military requirements require-ments will be met with highly paid volunteers. The revised pay scale for the Army provides that a private or apprentice seaman will receive $75 per month instead in-stead of $50; and payment will be graduated accordingly through the ranks. A master sergeant and chief petty officer will receive $165 per month instead of $138. In addition to the pay raise, any man who volunteers before the final termination of the war, and after three years of service, will be entitled to all the benefits of the GI Bill. He may receive four years of college training plus subsistence, which for a single man has a dollar value of about $4340, and a married man, $5240. In the hope of making this volunteer system work, the Army has agreed not to draft any man during July and August. Let us hope this volunteer basis is p success. Office Visitors The influx of western visitors to the Capitol has been stepped up with the lifting of wartime restrictions re-strictions on travel, and many Utahns have been enjoying the beauties of Washington in summertime. sum-mertime. Mr. and Mrs. Parson U. Webster of Cedar City are visiting the eastern cities; Miss Edythe Adams of Cedar City and Miss Wanda Sjablom of Draper spent the week-end here on a brief vacation from duties at school in Hyde Park, N. Y.; Miss Phyllis Boynton or Logan has come to Wshington to work; and H Alvah Fitzgerald, Director of the L. D. S. Institute at Ephraim, stopped in Washington briefly after attending the Red Cross Convention held in Philadelphia recently. |