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Show AS FIRST SELECTEES WERE GIVEN DISCHARGES ' K L. - x 4l ilVw n, ..1J SAN DIEGO, CALIF. Scene at the finance office at Camp Callan, recently, when 25 "over age" selectees se-lectees received sums ranging up to $150 and certicates of service denoting their renewed status as civilians after little more than three months' army service. First in line at the cashier's table is W. Houston Wolfe, 34-year-old butcher from Atmore, Ala., shown being paid off by Master Sergeant Ser-geant J. J. Solit, while Brig. Gen. F. P. Hardaway (center rear) commanding officer of Camp Callan Cal-lan looks on. The group was de scribed by Camp Callan officers as the first soldiers in the U. . S. to benefit from last month's legislation leg-islation permiting release of men over 28 and others whose retention reten-tion would work a hardship on dependents. |