Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months after the Houston Post's Cub Reporter Franklin Reed, 21, began covering Houston's draft boards for the Post in 1950, he was himself classified 1-A. City Editor Harry M. Johnston, 32, and a veteran of World War II, was delighted; the classification was just the thing to make Reporter Reed's daily column of draft news seem more authentic. But when weeks passed and Reed was not inducted, City Editor Johnston came to the conclusion that the column was growing monotonous. At Johnston's urging, earnest Reporter Reed asked his board for immediate...
...town celebrity. He was asked to appear on radio and TV programs, lecture at women's clubs, while he took a rest. But after a few days he dropped in to the Post to ask City Editor Johnston for something to do. Johnston set him to covering the draft boards again. Grinned 23-year-old Reporter Reed: "I don't seem to be getting anywhere...
Hershey, in commenting upon his article, said that the tighter regulations will be aimed at getting more men to start their college work after two-year draft hitches, instead of going through college before entering the armed services...
...draft director, reviewing his ideas about the college student deferment program in his agency's monthly newspaper, Selective Service, came to the following conclusion...
...Selective Service chief said the change would begin with the 1953-54 school year, because thousands of men who will have completed their draft duty would be civilians again and ready to head for college campuses...