Bisbee daily review., 1918-11-28
COCHISf BOARD
 WILL QUIT ON
 DECEMBER 10TH
Dr. C. H. Hunt, County Re corder Krebs and Secretary Hutchinson Have Rendered Efficient, Patriotic Work

XII LCiCilt3 I obANOtiN w OAh
 The Cochise county local selective board is in receipt of telegraphic in-
 structions from Provost Marshal Gen. eral CrOwder, via the adiutant gen erals office at Phoenix to seal all its records" on December 10, and as the board cannot very well do business without reference to it's records, the order is considered by the members
 as in effect a dissolution of the body.
 The same order has been transmit ted to all the boards in the state and
 it is assumed throughout the country
 Whether all the boards in the state will be able to place their records in shape as to close them on the date or derad is another question. The Co chise county board is one of the few boards of the state that has completed it's work of filing all of it's question naries and classifying all of the men that were to be classified. The rec ords will be complete when they are filed away.
 For the present the records will remain in the office of County Record CT Krebs in Tombstone. where the board transacted it's work, but 1t is probable that in due time they will be sent to Phoenix and probably then to Washington. The orders of the pro vost marshal general do not go fuTth- CT than direction Of cessation Ot work on the records and matters are still in such indefinite shape that the chief clerk of the board will probably con tinue in charge for an uncettain time after December 10.
 The COchise county board was con- stituted in May, 1917, following the enactment of the selective service act by congress and was in readiness for the first registration which occurred on June 5 of that year. AS first con stituted, the board consisted of Sher- if Harry c. Wheeler, chairman; County Recorder Ray E. Krebs, secre- tary, and DT. Fl. C. Hunt, county health officer. Upon the resignation of Sheriff Wheeler to go to France, W. K. Meade was appointed to fill his place. The board was reorganiZed and Dr. Hunt was made chairman and Krebs still acted as secretary. After serving a few months MT. Meade died and Ray B. Hutchinson was ap- pointed i'll his place. The board was continued in this order for the ma jority of the time until the latter part ,f September when the new registra- ton was ordered and c. NJ. Roberts of Wilcox was appointed as an addi- tional member.
 Hard work has been done by all the members. out of all proportion to any compensation which they may have accepted from the governments small allowance. Their labor was inspired oy patriotism alone. Dr. Hunt par ticularly has sacrificed much of the time ordinarily devoted to his practice to the cause, his duties being paTticu- larly heavy owing to the chairman ship and the medical examinations. Mir Krebs handled all the entrain- ments and MT. Hutchinson the clerical work and the registrations.
 The board had in it's jurisdiction more square miles of territory than any otheI board in the west and in the number of registrants was second in number of all the boards of the United States, only being exceeded by a dis trict in one of the largest eastern cities that took in only about six blocks square, in the first draft and was second or third in the last draft.
 The board has just completed it's annual report as well as a monthly re- port and will have its final report ready on the 10th of December. All of the men have been classified up to the age of 36 as was required by the provost marshal general.
 The board since its organization has handled the registration of 16,469 men of the draft age. Of this number 6S30 were in the first registration of June ,, 1917; 146 in the registration of June 3. 1918; PTS on August 24, 1918, and 9215 on September 12. There were TIPS men sent from Cochise county by the board to the various cantOnments. There were 2264 men examined by the board There were 512 appeals from the ruling of the local board to the district board and no appeals to the president The most disgraceful set of figures that the board had to com pile is the fact that out of the regis ! uations in COchise county there were listed S4S slackers and deserters. This 1 number has been reduced by the ar rest of several but the majority still 1