‘HE BATTALION
Thursday, January 20, 1066
College Station, Texas
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Elderly Draft Board Members Cast Fate Of Young
By HAL COOPER
Associated Press Writer
All over America little groups
of citizens, many of them elderly,
decide today which young men
will be drafted into uniform —
perhaps to serve in Viet Nam.
Some young men go willingly,
others only after exhausting
every appeal.
In February alone, the elder
citizens will sift 29,400 young
men out of the nation’s popula
tion for induction.
Members of the 4,000 local
draft boards receive no pay —
and much abuse. Often they
spend wearying hours at their
task. Many of their decisions
are agonizing. Some have qualms
about the whole system.
D. A. Christ, 69, a banker, has
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SCHOLARSHIP^ GRANT GIFTS
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iei $1,000 in scholarship and grant gifts. Clarence Isensee,
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>ertl John E. Pearson, professor and head of the school. Funds
■as a; g 0 j n t 0 an accountancy grant and accounting scholarship.
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Ernst and Ernst, Houston pub
lic accounting firm, has donated
$1,000 to the School of Business
Administration.
| Clarence Isensee, partner in
the firm, presented two checks
of $500 to Dr. John E. Pearson
Wednesday. Pearson is profes
sor and director of the School.
Funds were earmarked for an
countancy grant and an ac
counting scholarship. Qualifica
tions for undergraduate recipi
ents of the scholarship are to be
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accounting, with primary consid
eration given students not re
ceiving assistance from other
sources.
The accountancy grant is to
assist school and accounting fac
ulty in preliminary research
studies, library acquisitions and
maintenance, instructional pro
gram equipment and supplies,
promotional materials and other
activities in support of the ac
counting program.
been on Board 84 in Kansas City,
Kan., since the original draft on
Oct. 16, 1940.
“When they asked me to serve,
I thought it would be my patri
otic duty,” said Christ. “I still
feel the same way. Some people
conscientiously oppose the very
idea of what we are doing, but
it’s a duty that must be fulfilled.”
Another member of Board 84,
who has served since early in
World War II, is Otto Ziegel-
meyer, 76, a retired lawyer.
Drafting men who wind up in
Viet Nam makes him uneasy.
“World War II concerned us
all because we were in it,” he
said. “But you don’t call this a
war. Some board members, in
cluding myself, know that this
has to be done, but don’t hearti
ly approve of it.”
Gray-haired, motherly Wilma
Crane has been clerk of Board
84 since its inception more than
25 years ago.
“We have very little trouble
with our boys,” she said. “It’s
the mothers who give us the most
trouble. These women write in
saying they condemn us for send
ing their boys to be shot at.
“I inducted my own son in
1956. And then I got a Mother’s
Day card that really broke me
up. The sender said she hoped if
I ever had a son he would be
killed in the Army.”
Local boards vary in size from
three to five members, depending
on the area’s population density.
Members are appointed by the
President on the recommendation
of state governors.
There are 95 appeal boards,
one for each federal judicial dis
trict.
Appeal board decisions are us
ually final. But decisions decid
ed by a split vote may be taken
to the national Selective Service
Appeal Board in Washington.
Maj. Malcolm F. Miller is head
of Selective Service for Southern
California.
“Board members are in a tough
spot,” he said. “They have quo
tas to fill, but they also have to
protect the registrant and keep
the community operating as close
to normal as possible.
“They donate their time, sup
posedly about three hours a day,
two days a month. In recent
month?, however, I’ve seen many
boards sit down at 3 p.m. and not
get up until midnight or later.
“Despite this, they stay on and
Tom Thomsen wanted challenging work
pin
&
He found it at Western Electric
it
ice.
T. R. Thomsen, B.S.M.E., University of Nebraska,
’58, came to Western Electric for several reasons.
Important to him was the fact that our young engi
neers play vital roles right from the start, working
on exciting engineering projects in communica
tions including: electronic switching, thin film cir
cuitry, microwave systems and optical masers.
Western Electric’s wide variety of challenging
assignments appealed to Tom, as did the idea of
advanced study through full-time graduate engi
neering training, numerous management courses
and a company-paid Tuition Refund Plan.
Tom knows, too, that we’ll need thousands of
experienced engineers for supervisory positions
within the next few years. And he’s getting the
solid experience necessary to qualify. Right now,
Tom is developing new and improved inspection
and process control techniques to reduce manu
facturing costs of telephone switching equipment.
Tom is sure that Western Electric is the right place
for him. What about you?
If you set the highest standards for yourself,
enjoy a challenge, and have the qualifications
we’re looking for — we want to talk to you! Oppor
tunities for fast-moving careers exist now for elec
trical, mechanical and industrial engineers, and
also for physical science, liberal arts and business
majors. For more detailed information, get your
copy of the Western Electric Career Opportunities
booklet from your Placement Officer. And be sure
to arrange for an interview when the Bell System
recruiting team visits your campus.
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on for years. Of 280 board mem- Selective Service work.” reasons are strange and won- just let me alone. So, don’t send
bers in Southern California, 36 A wide variety of reasons why derful. me no more forms. The service
have served for more than 20 they should not be drafted are “Dear Sir,” read a letter to one is for somebody who has nothing
years. I think it boils down to offered by reluctant dragoons in board. “I am not going to the else to do. I’ve got things to do.”
this: if you like people, you like all parts of the country. Some military service for nobody, so He’s in the Army now.
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