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Welfare Agencies ToAssist Draft Board_Mr. 0. J. Salo was recently ap-s pointed by Col. S. H. Mitchell,* State director, to assist the Local Selective Service board in a new1 program to insure more careful* consideration and classification of all persons inducted/ into the Arm-* ed forces, according: to Chairman C. F. Chamberlain of the CarbonI Ccunty board. “Local high school ) principals £/nd teachers alsc will s assist”, he stated.“The Selective Service Admin-' istration is most grateful to the Sfrate Supe^iritendent of Public Welfare of which J. B. Convery is ' administrator, for the wholeheart-: ed cooperation of educators and* welfare agents in Montana,” Col.* Mitchell said, regarding the new : program. “Without their help it ! could nofo he successful. The publicis asked to give these voluntary workers every oon^id^raUion in* gathering confidential information.”The information obtained by social workers and educators will be primarily for use at Armed Forces' Induction Stations. The new plan is to provide those in charge of inducting men into the Armed Forces with an adequate medical, social and educational history of each one.The new program is under the direction of Major C. F. Jump, State Medical Officer. G. F. Price, of the State Department of Public Welfare and Leo Smith of the State Department of Public Instruction are assisting State Se-J lective Service headquarters in I establishing the program. {
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Carbon County News
Red Lodge, Montana, US
Fri, Jan 07, 1944
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