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...reply Hershey emphasized that the Selective Service law was amended after the Korean War to provide that no local board should be required to defer any student solely on the basis of a grade on any test or his standing in class or "any other evaluation of that character." He added that this was done to preserve the local boards' authority over draft classifications...
...made the request in recent letters to Lt. General Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service, in a plea that he provide local draft boards with "orderly procedures" for the classification of students...
John F. Morse, director of the Council's Commission on Federal Relations, sent three letters to Hershey in December...
...prevails. The problem would be solved by making the boards' system of quotas and reports work in practice as it should in theory. These reports, outlining the number and characteristics of local boards' registrants, are sent to state headquarters, where they are correlated and passed on to General Hershey's headquarters in Washington. On the basis of this information, federal of ficials allocate quotas to the states, and state headquarters then attempt to spread the burden equally among local boards...
...could be imprisoned for five years and fined $10,000. The foursome, accused of burning their cards during a Nov. 6 demonstration, will be defended by the New York Civil Liberties Union, which announced that it would challenge the law's constitutionality. As for Selective Service Director Lewis Hershey's decision to reclassify as 1-A draft-card burners and sit-in demonstrators at draft boards, Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, objected that this "degrades" the system. Replied Hershey: "Any deliberate, illegal obstruction of the administration of the law cannot be tolerated...