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...Paul Sheaffer ran a cafe in Lancaster...
Solid Citizens Yacko, Sheaffer and Day, fathers all, last week met the draft...
Yacko and Day had been warned, along with every other U.S. ablebodied, draft-age father, either to find a war-essential job or else get into the Army. The warning did not affect Sheaffer. He had just been made a buck private...
...Said Cafe-Operator Sheaffer, 34, father of six: "I don't have a trade, so what could I do in war work to make a com parable living...
Thus Citizens Yacko, Sheaffer and Day outlined the dilemma of draft-age fathers caught between the demands of family responsibility and the mounting crisis in U.S. manpower. Nor did a series of conflicting statements from Washington help them any. Selective Service had warned that fathers in nonessential jobs would be drafted beginning in October. But the cases of Fathers Yacko, Sheaffer and Day sharply underlined the many local exceptions to this general rule. Many a draft board unable otherwise to meet its quotas is already dipping into its supply of family heads aged...