The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-12
DEFERMENT PLAN IS EXPLAINED IN
 ORDER JUST MADE

 ure for making requests for defer ment of limited number of men under 30 years of age who hold key positions in war industries were contained in a memorandum sent to local boards by National Head quarters of Selective Service. The new procedure calls for the filing of new form, known as the Form 42A Special Revised, for registrants under 30 whom occu- pational deferment is sought, and for certification by agencies in the Government responsible for pro- curement and production of war goods and those responsible for the maintenance of essential services, in order to aid local boards in de- termining which registrants. in the interest of the war effort, should be given the most serious consid- eration for occupational deferment. Up To Employers
 Selective Service officials empha- size, however, that employers may ] file the new form with the local board even though certification has been denied by the Federal Gov- ernment agency having jurisdiction. It may also be filed if the em- ployer does not come within the jurisdiction of any Federal agency. The local board will be empowered to grant or deny the deferment request as it's judgment of all facts available dictates, but the boards are instructed to give the certified requests the most serious considera- tion.
 Under the new regulations regis trants of the ages 30 through B to be eligible for deferment must be necessary to and regularly engaged in" an activity in war production or in support of the national health, safety or interest.
 Previously it was cnly required that registrants in this age group i to be eligible for deferment be regularly engaged in" an activity in support of the national health, safety and interest or an activity in war production.
 Additional Factors
 The memorandum states:
 If all other factors are equal, father should be given greater consideration for occupational de- ferment than a non-father in this are group"
 Concerning registrants of the ages 34 through 37, the memoran- dunn states:
 1 Merely the determination is re- quired that the registrant is 'regu- larly engaged in an activity in war production or in support of the national health, safety or interest
 The plan was worked out by a committee appointed on January IT by James F. Byrnes, Director oi War Mobilization and Reconversion. The committee included Maj. Gen Lewis B. Hershey, Director of Se- lective Service; Paul v. McNutt i Chairman of the War Manpower Commission, J. D. Small, Executive Officer, War Production Board Howard Bruce, Acting Director of Material, War Department, and Rear Admiral F. G. Crisp, Director of Shore Establishments and Civili- an Personnel, Navy Department. Combat Requirements Stressing the fact that the re- quirements of the armed forces for combat replacements have sharply increased, that the supply of physically fit men in the age group 18 through 25 is practically ex- hausted and that the supply of men 26 through 29 is extremely limited, the memorandum to the local ] boards states the prospect for registrants IS through 29 is that they will be inducted unless the information submitted to local boards by employers -. indi- cates that they are necessary to and regularly engaged in and that they are indispensable and ire placeable in an activity in war production or in support of the national health, safety and in- terest."
 Physically fit men in the 30- through 37-year-old group-especi- ally those under the age of 34- are confronted with the prospect of induction ito the extent to fill the calls"
 Separate procedure is continued for the processing of men IS through 29 in the Merchant Ma rine whose deferment is requested. Procedure applicable to Federal Government employees, ages 18 through 29, will be similar to the procedure for registrants in private employment. provided that every deferment request must continue to be made in accordance with Public Law 8 and must bear the prescribed authorized Government Request stamp or notation.
 File New Form
 Certain employers, the memoran- REGISTRATION OF VOTERS
 Citizens who are not registered