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Show Toimg Mem Sign Up register or face possible prosecution. pro-secution. Another 175,000 let- JJl. ters will be mailed later this year. Selective Service has released re-leased updated statistics showing the compliance rate for registration of young men, both at the state and national level, according to Colonel Gene Toolson, of Bountiful, a Selective Service Reserve Officer. . AS OF July 18, 8.4 million men have registered for a compliance com-pliance rate of 93 percent. These figures include men born in I960, 1961, 1962, 1963, and the first six months of 1964, Col. Toolson explained. At the state level, Wyoming v leads the nation with a compliance com-pliance rate of 98 percent. At V the median level are states such as Virginia and Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania both at 92 percent. Rhode Island has the lowest compliance rate in the nation of 84.3 percent. Utah is in 31st place with a compliance rate of 91.46 percent. THOMAS K. Turnage, the Director of Selective Service, noted that the registration program is a very successful one. He said, "I can think of no other program-either in the public or private sector-that has a 93 percent success rate. I'm very proud of the young men of this nation who have accepted their responsibilities as citizens and have complied with the law." Young men are required to register with Selective Service within 30 days of their 18th birthday. They register at any U.S. Post Office, filling out a very simple form that asks only for their name, address, telephone number, social security number, and date of birth, said Col. Toolson. DIRECTOR Turnage continues con-tinues to stress that his interest is in registering people, not prosecuting them- He encourages encour-ages late registrants to come forward and register. "If young men wilfully and knowingly know-ingly fail to register, however, I am obligated by law to send their names to the Justice Department De-partment for possible prosecution." prosecu-tion." In mid-August, the Government Govern-ment mailed out approximately approximate-ly 33,000 letters to non-registrants, non-registrants, warning them to |