SELECTIVE service ends
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John L. MeCormickj Territorial Director of
Selective',Service, announced today that ai;
Local Boards throughout Alaska uill be liq
uidated by L!ay 31st and that the Selective
Service Headquarters uil-1:be closed on
July 31st. In the meantime all property
is being disposed of and records of the
Local Boards as veil as those of Headquar
ters are being brought up to date,
Mr. McCormick also announced that effectiv<
May 1, 1947, he has been appointed Direct
tor, Office of Selective’Service Records,
by Major General Levis B. Hershey,vhose
nor title is National Director of Selective
Service Records.
Mr. "cCcrmick stated the purpose of tho
nor office rould be to furnish information
to Covernment or Territorial agencies or
to individuals entitled to .receive tho sam<
and to keep tho files of the more than
22,000 men registered in Alaska in a state
of readiness in’the event that they should
be needed again. All of those records
pill be maintained in one office in Juneauj
Major TTilliam E. Hallman, rho has boon Pro
curement Officer for Selective Service in
Alaska since January 1946 v;ill be relieved1
on JUly 1, ,'1947.
Mr. McCormick further stated that rhen the!
ne- Office of Selective Service Re.cords is'
set upj further information mill be pub- I
lished. '
SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM — JUNEAU,ALASKA i
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nenana
NENANA ICE POOE BIGGER THAN EVER
Except that it is "bigger than last year’s"
is all the figures t:o have on the size of
this year’s pool. Manager George Ball ex
pects to have the figures soon. Last year
there ras $108,000. for distribution after
expenses had been deducted.
NENANA STILL 40 inches 'THICK LAST "’ZHK
George Ball, manager of the Nenana Ice Fool,
reported that thawing weather last waok
Rut water on top of the river ice but ■‘•hat
it was' still 40 inches thick and solid with
heavy freezing every night. Most of the
snow is now gone around Nenana but thawing
has mado only surface water.
Work on the Ice Pool books is progressing
full speed, ho said, thanks to the cooper
ation of distributors in getting in their
tickets.
OVER 4300 ALASKANS SERVED IN
THE ARMY
A total of 43C7 Alaskans served in the
Army'between November 1, 1940 and July 31,
1946, according to a final Nar Department
report. Seven of the total were women,
five of whom had'been separated last July
SI. Of 4300 men, 22^0 had boon discharged
by last July and 2100 Alaskans were still
in tho Army.
The girl who thinks no man is good enough
for her is right—and also'loft.
God forgives, man forgets, but a woman
remembers forever.
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