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Only six months ago a special committee appointed by the President submitted a top-secret report proposing that the Selective Service System in its present form should be eliminated in 1967. "Those fellas in Washington pronounced us dead and were preparing for the funeral," says General Lewis B. Hershey, national director "Well we fooled em--We're back in business...
...Hershey continues to insist that "there's really no reason to expect that we'll have to begin taking full time undergraduates." He expects an increase in voluntary enlistments that will enable the Selective Service to cut its monthly calls from...
...boards should wait as long as possible to induct men whose activity is in the national interest. And although the boards are requested by state and national headquarters to grant 2-S deferments to students, they are not required by law to do so. "The 2-S status," says Hershey, "is merely a courtesy that the boards grant students because they believe they will be more valuable when they complete their courses." Even in granting exemptions, the law is so vague that local boards are almost completely autonomous...
...system of quotas formulated by national headquarters on the basis of reports prepared by local boards. These reports, outlining the number and characteristics of the board's registrants, are sent to state headquarters where they are correlated on a statewide basis and passed on to national headquarters. In Washington, Hershey and his staff allocate quotas to the states, aiming as Hershey says "to spread the burden evenly." These quotas are then divided among the local boards...
...Hershey argues that these inconsis...