Word: ercs
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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Interviewing Andrew E. Rice '43 and James McNulty '45, Sanford proved that such rumors as the one about the ERC being called up before January and the curtailing of train travel during Christmas vacation were without foundation, and backed up his statement with facts from the most authoritative sources at his disposal...
...said, "University delays immediate action" as the nation "prepares to fight Axis," Dean Buck last night issued a statement announcing that the release of the manpower-college plan may be postponed for several days. No official clarification could be obtained either on the expected War Department rulings affecting the ERC and ROTC...
Rumors that decisions on the ERC and the ROTC had been made public emanated from a morning Boston newspaper story and an evening radio broadcast. Attempts to trace the newspaper story through the wire services and the Boston and New York press failed to substantiate its statement that the Enlisted Reserve would be called up "within a few weeks." No basis for the radio report could be uncovered. Officials in the Military Science Department and at the First Corps Area Headquarters in Boston reported that they were uninformed of the rumored action...
Even though service enlistments have been closed, the Air Force hopes to get the men it approves transferred to this program after their induction into the Army, the War Service Information Bureau revealed last night. Men in ERC may apply for assignment, since they are already enlisted in the army, but men in V-1, V-5, and V-7 are absolutely ineligible...
Meanwhile colleges and college students are left, almost without plans at the mercy of a new juggernaut draft bill. The ERC is now closed and its promised reopening for those in special training may very well result in the delay, the arguments, and the local draft board whims that characterized the previous inadequate Selective Service system. Meanwhile draft boards are hot on the trail of 'teen-agers who may be turned into infantry privates instead of valuable technicians because of this gap in the planning...