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Show Selective Service Furloughs to adjust their civilian civ-ilian affairs, which will be f!ven to Selective Service registrants in cases of undue hardship caused by induction immediately after they passs the Army physical examination, ex-amination, will be granted by the Army and not by local boards. Brig. General Lewis B. Hershey, Director of Selective Service, pointed out this week. Under new induction procedure, proced-ure, registrants will be given a notice to report for induction, instead in-stead of a notice to report for physical examination, when they are sent to the Army examiners. On passing the Army physical examinations, ex-aminations, they are immediately induced and subject to Army rules rul-es and regulations, he emphasized, emphas-ized, and they can receive a furlough fur-lough only from the Army. The only change in Selective Service procedure is to speed up induction after a registrant has passed the "screening" examination examina-tion by his local medical examiners, examin-ers, which is given to eliminate unfit. Under former procedure, a registrant who passed" this screening screen-ing test then received a notice to report to the Army for physical physi-cal examination and on passing the latter returned to his home to await notice to report for induction. in-duction. Now, he receives his notice no-tice to report for induction and then is given the Army physical test. General Hershey said the War Department has given the Selective Selec-tive Service System assurance that furloughs will be granted in cases where the registrant, after induction, needs time to adjust his civilian affairs. |