Word: tarr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision especially upset Selective Service Director Curtis Tarr, who predicted that the country's 4,101 local draft boards will have great trouble deciding how to apply the ruling. Tarr quickly issued guidelines stating that every applicant for C.O. status must: - Be sincere in his beliefs. - Be opposed to war in all forms...
...Tarr's view, an already unfair draft system has been made even more unfair. Unless an applicant can display a knowledge of ethics and philosophy, he may be dubbed lacking in "rigorous training." Concluded Tarr: "The young man who has the best chance is a major in philosophy at a first-class college...
Colonel Paul F. Feeney, deputy director of the Massachusetts Selective Service System, said the memorandum of National Director Curtis W. Tarr was dated April 23 but that local draft boards did not receive it until...
...Tarr discovered the shortages after he succeeded Lieut. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey as the head of the draft on March 20. Tarr has given two possible reasons for the deficiencies. He said that...
...Curtis Tarr. the new Selective Service director, has increased monthly draft calls through the month of July because local draft boards have fallen 20 per cent short of their quotas so far this year...