Selective Service
KANSAS STATE ..SADQUARTERS
Topeka
700~000~-10 22.452
October 2, 1945

Subject: Veterans Information Center Posters
Tos Local Board Addressed

1. Posters identifying your Local Board as a Veterans Information
Center are being shipped direct to you by the National Headquarters.

2. I understand that this poster is printed in four colors and fcatures
the gold discharge emblem with the words "Veterans Information Center" in
large red letters. The poster is designed to identify your Local Board as
an information center where veterans and the public can obtain information
in accordance with the Selective Service Veterans Assistance Program.

3. The Veterans Information Center poster is an identification poster
and should be placed in a window or door or similar location facing the street
wher possible, where it may be scen by the largest number of passers-by.

4, It is recommended that as many of the following steps as possible
be carried out to tie in with the Local Board's activities as a Veterans
Information Center:

(a) Retype the attached news release (item A) with the
correct information inserted and .ske any other changes de=
sired and submit a typewritten copy to the editor of each
local newspaper in the Local Board's territory.

(b) Address letters similar to the attached (item B) to
each of the following in the community:

Travelers Aid Society

U. S. O. Manager

Chief of Police and all police stations

Newspaper offices

Community Information Bureau

Chamber of Commerce

Manager of each hotel in the community

Station agent, all railroad, bus, and
interurban stations |

Such other agencies as are appropriate

(c) Contact all local radio,stations, informing thon of .the
. functicns of the Local Board as a Veterans Information Center
and suggesting spot announcements on the nature of the Local
Board's services to veterans. Such announcements would be
particularly appropriate adjoining programs about veterans or
about veterars assistance.

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