Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-02-13
Graduates Get
Service Choice
In New Rules
College Men Given
80 Days to Enlist
After Graduation
By GEORGE Beveridoe

BY George Beveridee
Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey
today announced new policies to
give more than 100000 draft elig-
ible college students a chance to
enlist in the service of their choice
after their school terms end next
summer.
Gen. Hershey also ruled that
graduates this month who are
slated for induction be given the
same right to enlist where they
choose.
The policies make possible the
new plan of Defense Secretary
Marshall to keep college students
from quitting school in midterm
in order to volunteer and beat
the draft"
Under previous policies prospec-
tive draftees were not able to
enlist after they were earmarked
for induction into the Army. As
a result, thousands of college
students whose draft orders were
imminent have been quitting
school and enlisting in the Air
Force, Navy or Marine Corps.
3O-Day Leeway Given.
Under law, inductions of STU
dents called up while they were
in school automatically are post
poned until the end of the school
year. But at that time they here
tofore would be called Immediately
into the Army.
Under the new policies an
nounced today, this situation will
apply:
The student. even If he has
been ordered for induction, will be
allowed at the end of the school
term to apply for a 30-day holdup
OF his induction notice. Draft
boards will wait this long before
taking any draft action. Thus, the
draft-liable college student who
graduates next June 6, for exam
pie. should notify his draft board
on June Z that he wants his in
duction held up 80 days so he can
enlist. Then, at the end of 80
days the draft board will check
up. If he has enlisted, his case is
closed. If he hasn't he will be
drafted.
Applied to February Group.
Earlier, Gen. Hershey had said
he would reopen cases of such STU
dents during the last month of
their school terms.
The new order, officials feel, will
allow the student to devote the
entire final month to his studies,
instead of spending time scouting
around recruiting stations.
Applying the new policy to
February graduates, the draft
chief said no new induction Or
ders should be issued before
March l if the students request
that induction be held up so they
can enlist.
Draft officials estimate that
about $4,000 college students
now in school either are deferred
or have had their induction Or
ders postponed until school terms
end.
Industry Order CHARMED.
At the same time Gen. Hershey
also clarified his recent order
postponing induction of February
graduates who might be able to
find essential jobs in industry.
The general said the order was
issued because many graduates
have technical or scientific skills
which are needed in the defense
effort and can't be met from other
sources.
He stressed, however, that the
order will not result in wholesale
deferments." In order for defer
ments to be allowed, he said, draft
boards must be convinced that the
jobs obtained really are necessary
to the defense effort and cannot
be filled by others.
Bill Before Full Committee.
MEANWHILE the full Senate
Armed Services Committee TODAY
took up subcommittee proposal
to set up permanent universal
military training program and to
draft 18-year-olds if they are
needed.
The seven members of the Sen.
ate Preparedness Subcommittee
who approved the proposal make
up a majority of the full commit
tee, virtually assuring it's indorse-
ment. In addition, other commit
tee members have been kept in
formed of the subcommittee
arguments.
But Senator Morse. Republican,
OF Oregon. who dissented from the
subcommittee report, said he will
insist on more congressional con-
troll over the program.
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