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...local board does not have the heart to induct other boys of this county into active service when Mr. Beamer [is] allowed to remain at home through apparent political influence...
With that announcement, the three-man draft board of Wabash County, Ind. resigned in a body last week. Reason: Selective Service headquarters in Washington had asked the board to postpone induction of a Congressman's son, John V. Beamer Jr., 24, an engineer. His employer, Procter & Gamble Co., had requested an occupational deferment. Said the board's chairman: "We thought we had [Beamer] in the Army, where he belongs. But some sinister influence or individual in Washington saw fit to interfere...
When it heard of the local board's resignation, Selective Service headquarters in Washington quickly disallowed Procter & Gamble's request. Congressman Beamer, who represents Indiana's Fifth District (including Wabash County), protested that neither he nor his son "contacted Selective Service on any level in an effort to secure deferment," and charged that the county board's action was political. And in Honolulu, where he is honeymooning, young Beamer said-and he was probably right-that he expected to be drafted soon...
...Shorty Clapp exchanging local gossip. Others whom Lillian wondered about include: Lawyer Pettigrew, an ambitious politician who had seduced pretty Meg Taylor in the underbrush; Schoolmarm Fisher, who had a lurid mother complex; Rufe Albright, who frolicked in the barn with fat Fanny Rhimer; and precocious young Gregory Beamer, who persuaded Lillian's adolescent sister to bathe in the buff with...
...nominated at State conventions June 28 (Republican) and July 11 (Democratic). At last week's primaries eleven of the State's twelve sitting Representatives were renominated. For the twelfth seat, now held by anti-Rooseveltian Samuel Pettengill, South Bend Democrats put up a moderate Rooseveltian, George Beamer...