Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much like the trainer whose stunt horse finally begins acting out of habit and not merely for sugar, draft officials think it is time to tighten student deferments and other exemptions or else scrap the whole Selective Service system and substitute Universal Military Training. Draft officials sense that students and everyone else of draft age now know they will have to serve sometime. With a dwindling manpower supply they contend that this is the opportune time to decide whether to skimp on deferments or institute UMT. But until President Eisenhower and Congress decide which course they will take, the present...
...vague sort of way, both Short and Eisenhower agree on one thing: UMT cannot be instituted while the Selective Service program is functioning. Apparently they expect the draft to come to an absolute halt, with UMT beginning on its own at some later date, but neither has outlined any plan for the period between the transition, a period which could present innumerable problems. During the campaign, Eisenhower said he favored establishment of a commission to solve these problems, but since dozens of committees have presented dozens of solutions, it is doubtful whether another would come up with anything...
...since no change in deferment policies can be made without an Executive Order from the President, Hershey can only gaze unhappy at the statistics, and calls from the military. And for college students, and hope he can meet the high (53,000 for march) draft call from the military. And for college students, the Defence Department's annual report indicated that the military expects no drastic developments in students and fathers could be drafted but other than that it devoted out the obvious: student are not exempt from the draft; they will have to serve sometime...
...Army yesterday issued a draft call for 53,000 men in March...
...heavy draft call for March is the same as February...