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Painer. Alaeka
September 11. 1942
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TO DISCUSS CLASS 1-B
At a meeting of th9 local
Selective Service board to
be held tonight* there will
be discussion of the elimin*
ination of Class 1-B, the
Selective Service designa
tion for registrants consid
ered fit for limited mili
tary service only. All
registrants v/ho are not to
tally disqualified' will be
reclassified in Class 1-A
and the Army will decide,
after induction, on their
individual assignment to
full or limited military
service. Registrants found
to be unsuited for any mil
itary service will be placed
in Class IV-F.
Instructing local boards
on the reclassification of
limited service men v/ho had
been placed in Class 1-B,
which was started thruout
the country on September 1,
National Headquarters stress
ed that not to exceed one
fourth of the present Class
1-B men in each local board
area may be reclassified
each month. It is expected
that the reclassification
will be completed by January
1.
In the reclassification
of Class 1-B registrants,
where the individual is not
deferred for reasons other
than physical, he will be
reexamined by the local
board examining physician to
determine whether he has any
obviously disqualifying de
fects which would prevent
him from rendering any mili
tary service. If he has
none, he will be sent to the
Army induction station on
the appropriate call.
Reclassification proced
ure requires that local
boards place registrants not
believed totally disquali
fied for military service in
Class 1-A pending examina
tion at Army induction sta
tions. Those men who are
obviously physically dis
attention I
TERRITORIAL GUARD
It is desirable that there
be good attendance next
Monday evening at the reg
ular meeting of the local
unit. Some information
has arrived which it is
wise for us to discuss,
Seth Cook,
Commanding Officer.
qualified will be given the
Class IV-F classification,
as will those who are re
jected by the Amy.
The Selective Service
action follows closely the
recent decision of the iVar
department to induct men
with minor physical de
fects. Future calls for
selectees v/ill be for Class
1-A men only. Ken, having
minor, but not disqualify
ing defects, will be for
warded to Amy induction
stations along with those
having no known defects.The
inducted men v/ill be assign"
! ed by the Army to general
or limited military service
according to their physical
qualifications. .
Conscientious objectors
who heretofore have been
classified in Class 1-B-O,
if fit for limited service
in noncombatants units, or
in Class IV-E-LS,if fit for
limited service in civilian
work camps, now will be
classified Class 1-A-O if
fit for noncombatant mili
tary service, or in Class
IV-E if fit for induction
into work camps. Those
physically unfit will be
classified in Class IV-F.
Instructing JLocal boards
to reclassify limited ser
vice registrants, National
Headquarters cautions that
full consideration must be
given to Selective Service
policies governing defer
ments for dependency* famil}
relationship, and occupntior
Vjhile limited service regis
trants were not considered
NET INTAKE AT DANCE
NEARLY HUNDRED DOLLARS
At the dance sponsored by
the Health Council Saturday
night, for the purpose of
securing funds with which
to buy a car for the Public
Health Nurse for the Mata
nuska Valley, there was ex
cellent attendance and near
ly one hundred dollars were
realized. According to
Oscar Kertulln, who acted
as comptroller of the treas
ury, when all bills were
paid the net balance was
$92.80.
At its meeting last Fri
day evening, the local Sel
ective Service board gave
the following classifications
to the registrants named:
Ward E. Beaty 4-F
Elmer John Reiter 4-F
Leo Kavanaugh 4-F
Alvin 0. King 4-F
William J. Quoss 1-C
J, P. Higgins 1-C
Lloyd Lee Kimble 2-B
Delimar Sobol 2-B
Rudolph Durnac 2-B
Gwilym Johns 2-B
S.D.Fleckinstien 3-B
Thorvald Ohnstad 3-B
Charles W.Burdick 1-A
The city water system is
being overhauled thoroly.
Palmer and vicinity knew
just exactly why Hong Kong
and Singapore surrendered to
the Japs after Palmer resi
dents had gone bathless,
shaveless, and clean-clothes
less for several day,s. At
that, Palmer people had good
water to drink, supplied
from wells.
by their local boards to
have any basis for depend
ency or occupational classi
fication at the time they
were originally classified,
National Headquarters points
out that in some instances
their status may have
changed.