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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...
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...
Careful Enough. The talents most needed by the director of Selective Service are tact, discretion and a sense of fairness. In his later years, Hershey, who was draft chief from 1941 until last month, became a symbol of the arbitrary imposition of punitive regulations on the young. Tarr seems careful enough to avoid being labeled doctrinaire. For example, on the question of Richard Nixon's proposed all-volunteer army-about whose virtues Congress is split-he has scarcely said a word, suggesting that a matter so important should be the decision of the President. The Administration has taken soundings...