Word: hershey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey last January granted a one-month postponement from induction for the 25,000 students then graduating from college, in order to give them a chance to find jobs in a "critical occupation in essential industry." Some 2,500 took advantage of this; the rest were drafted...
...nation is entering a period in which Selective Service needs should be relatively light, Major General Lewis B. Hershey said last night...
...soft period of man-power needs, much more so than two years from now, when draft replacements start," Hershey noted. June draft calls will be particularly low, he said, and the light calls are likely to last for several months...
Speaking along with Hershey on a radio program called "Youth and the Draft," William Turnbull, vice-president of the Educational Testing Service, said that college men who want to take the first of the Selective Service's attitude tests must got applications to E. T. S. immediately...
...defense of the deferment by test system, Hershey said deferring bright college students is no more discriminatory than is rejection of some men as 4-F's, or the commissioning of some servicemen as officers...