The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-23
TASK OF PREPARING
LOCAL DRAFT CARDS
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the key organization in the huge
machine which has been put into
action over the nation to put the
youth Of the country into the ma,
ttonal defense program.
Those attending the meeting were
Z. L.. Tate, Chadbourn; G. L. Bailey,
Fair Bluff. A. L. Griffin, Cerro Cor.
90; Miss Alice Lowe, Chadbourn
Mrs. Bess Koonce, Fair Bluff; c.
II. Trask, Wilmington: Marsden
Bellamy, Wilmington; Fred Pois.
son, Wilmington; H. Edmund Rodg.
ers, Wilmington; H. G. Carney, viii.
mfngton; William B. Campbell, Will
mington; J. r. Wells, Burgaw;
George H. Highsmith, Atkinson; H.
Men. Johnson, Willard; T. J. Belts,
Burgaw; ]. B. Wyche, Hallsboro;
L. T. Landen, Wilmington; H. H.
Clark, Elizabethtown; Ralph Boring,
Elizabethtown; c. s. Clark, Clark.
ton; j.. A. Melvin, Fayetteville Route
S (Bladen county,; W. w. Wood
house, Elizabethtown; DR.. w. I. Tay-
lor, Burgaw; Clifton l. Moore, Bur-
gaw: r. J. Lamb, Whiteville: B. A.
Marlowe, Whiteville; Lands Formy-
Duval, Whiteville; G. j. McClelland,
Wilmington; Mrs. T. H. Raspberry,
Wilmington; T. J. Loughlin, South
port; Price Furpless, Southport; H.
M. Shannon, Southport; Mrs. vicky
Wells, Southport; Mrs. G. X. Dosh-
er, Southport.
Lieut.. CULLEN explained that now
that registration has been completed
the boards will shuttle the cards and
then begin to number them from the
number 1 to the highest number
which they have. These numbers,
known rs serial numbers, will be
placed on the registration cards in
the offices Of the boards and will be
posted at the office of each board,
where each registrant may find what
his serial number Is.
On next Tuesday when the mum.
bers r drawn, he explained, there
will be placed in the famous goldfish
bowl in Washington blue capsules,
each containing a number between
the number I and the highest num-
Der of registrants which any board
in the nation has.
Determines Order
These numbers, as they are drawn
from the goldfish bowl next Tues
day, beginning at noon, will deter.
mine the order in which the regis
trants are to be called before their
respective draft boards.
For example, If No. 327 should be
the first number drawn from the
goldfish bowl next Tuesday, the card
in every draft board office in the
nation bearing serial number 1927
will be given order number 1 and
the holder of that card in each draft
board office will be the man to first
be called before his respective draft
board.
Lieut.. CULLEN pointed out that
each registrant is charged with the
responsibility of learning his own
serial number and may obtain that
information from his local draft
board.
Today New Hanover county's draft
board No. 2, which will serve that
section Of the county outside the
city, plans to complete the assign.
ing Of serial numbers to its cards.
Draft Board No. /, according to the
clerk Of the board, will start its
work on that line today and will
probably have it complete by Fri
day. As the lists are completed they
will be posted at the draft board Of
fices, which are located In DON 124
of the customhouse. There e a C h
registrant in the county may learn
his serial number.
When i; becomes time for a regis
trant to be called before his local
draft board for classification Ito
determine If he is to be called to
service now or whether his service
is to be deferred) the board will mail
him a QUESTIONABLE. The date this
QUESTIONABLE is mailed to him will
be posted in the local draft board
office and five days later it must be
filled out and returned to the draft
board.
Failure Not Excuse
Should the registrant fail to re-
ceive his QUESTIONABLE, Lieut.. Quill
len pointed out, he should go to his
draft board office and secure one,
for failure to receive such a ques-
tionnaire is not, under law, an ex-
cuse for failing to appear before the
draft board when called.
Should the registrant, when his
QUESTIONABLE is mailed him. be III in
a. hospital or if there is some other
reason why he cannot appear before
his local draft board as required, re
should return the QUESTIONABLE to
the draft board with a request that
the date of his appearance be post
poned. Whether or not the date IL
postponed is in the discretion of the
draft board.
When the registrant goes before
his draft board he will be classified