States Turn to Married Men to Fill Draft Call
NEW YORK — (UPI)—Draft boards throughout the nation will start mailing callup notices to childless married men within days and the first groups should be in uniform by Christmas, a UPI survey indicated today.
The Selective Service system gave local draft boards a goahead Tuesday to start using the previously low-priority classification to fill quotas depleted by the manpower drain of the Viet Nam war.
THE LOCAL BOARDS wasted no time in carrying out the new rule. At least 10 states — Kansas Oklahoma, South Carolina, Arkansas, Texas, Maryland, Illinois, Utah, California and Minnesota —
Married-Men Are Subject to Draft Call
TOPEKA—(UPI)—The Kansas Selective Service headquarters said today-that childless married men may be called into service in December.
A spokesman said childless married men are now being examined by the various county boards, but the board would not be able to tell until November if any of the men will be subject to call.
indicated they may have to draft the first of the married — but — childless pool in December.
Other states indicated they may be able to get by the first of the year.
OREGON Selective Service Director Sprugle Carter put it this way: There is a strong possibility married men will be called to fill January or February induction quotas.
A spokesman for the New Jersey Selective Service system said married men without children may be used to fill quotas starting in January. Rhode Island is expected to do the same. So is Alabama and possibly South Carolina.
Erig, Gen, Henry M. Gross,
Pennsylvania's Selective Service
director, said his state still had
enough men to fill its December
quota. However if it does run
short "we probably will have to
induct married men," he said.
New Jersey officials said severa al thousand married men already had been asked to come in for physicals. Maryland will call about 500 childless married men in December to meet a 669-man draft quota.
BUT THE ANSWER to the big question — how many will be called? — is vague. Tennessee officials said they expected about 6,000 married men between 18 and 25 to be called for physicals in November and possible induction "about the first of the year." Another 6,000 might be called for physicals in December.
ILLINOIS officials said no exact figures were available, but the draft call for the state would involve "quite a number."
The reason why it is impossible to quote accurate figures is the complexity of the draft pyramid itself.
to 26 bachelors, followed by childless married men. There are no present plans to draft fathers
UNDER THE system of priorities used, the first to go are draft delinquents — those who deliberately tried to evade service. Next come the volunteers. Then the 19
Below these, and interwound with some of the top priority groups are other classifications, ranging all the way from students, to doctors, all 4-f's to 18-year-olds, who can't be drafted until all other 1-a's have been called.
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