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Show Selective Service o INSTRUCTIONS TO REGISTRANTS: REGIS-TRANTS: Selective Service Regulations make it mandatory for every registrant to have his registration registra-tion certificate in his possession at all times and to display it upon up-on request of proper authorities, Acting State Director Rich, today to-day warned all Utah registrants. Failure to have his registration certificate in his personal possession, posses-sion, or to exhibit it upon request is a violation of the Regulations and, in addition, shall be construd-ed construd-ed as prima facie evidence of his failure to register, Acting State Director Rich said. Acting State Director Rich also al-so called to attention that regulations regul-ations pertaining to late registration regis-tration make it compulsory that, "Every person subject to registration regis-tration on the day fixed by the President for his registration must present himself for and submit sub-mit to registration before a local board." "This means," the Acting Act-ing State Director, emphasized, "that every person subject to registration reg-istration on October 16, 1940, or July 1, 1941, must register if he has not already done so. Violation Vio-lation of the Regulation may cause a deliquent to be penalized by fine or imprisonment or both, it was pointed out. m REHABILITATION OF REJECTED REJECT-ED SELECTEES: Approval of plans to facilitate the rehabilitation of Selective Service registrants who fail to qualify for military service because be-cause of remediable physical defects de-fects was announced this week by National Selective Selrvice Headquarters. Arrangements for cooperation by giving data concerning con-cerning such registrants to authorized auth-orized agencies have been under study at National Headquarters for several months now are virtually completed, it was stated. stat-ed. The program, announced by the Office of the Coordinator of health, welfare, and Related Defense De-fense Activities, was initiated fol lowing findings of a high rate of rejections of registrants for remediable rem-ediable physical defects. Conferences Confer-ences with other government fgencies and representatives of the medical profession looking to the formulation of a rehabilitation program were inaugurated early this year by the National Headquarters Head-quarters , Selective Service System. Sys-tem. Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Director of Selective Service, brought its needs sharply to at-tenion at-tenion last May in an address to the National Nutrition Conference Confer-ence for Defense, when he termed term-ed the physical status of American Amer-ican youth as revealed by Selective Sel-ective Service tests to be "shameful." "shame-ful." He predicted that the gen-ral gen-ral public would tire of having 3ien escape military service because be-cause of some minor disability that could be removed by proper treatment. Commenting today on the announcement an-nouncement by Federal Security Adminstrator Paul V. McNutt that government financing will be sought for the proposed rehabilitation re-habilitation program, General Hershey: said "National Headquarters Head-quarters has consistently advocated advo-cated that efforts be made to re habilitate registrants who have remediable physical defects. Although Al-though more than a third of the men examined are rejected as unfit un-fit for genral military service, a' s ' ' tanlial percentage of them iQtave imperfections which can be corrected. If proper measures are taken, every registant who has remediable remed-iable defects will be given opportunity oppor-tunity for treatment so that he can qualify for military training at a time when his nation and his neighbors need his services. Selective Service will cooperate with those agencies primarily responsible re-sponsible for the rehabilitation program by giving them the names and other essential information infor-mation concerning rejected registrants regis-trants who have remediable de fects. Plans to make the information inform-ation available to authorised agencies will be completed withir a few days.'' |