The Lincoln Times

Most Fathers Won't Get Draft Call Until October

Washington, July 16.--Most of the nation's fathers will still be in civilian clothes by October, perhaps much longer, say draft officials who are counting on single and childless married men, and the "teen-age" group to meet the armed forces' requirements.

This continued immunity from selective service applies however only to those fathers living with and supporting children born before last September 15 and working at jobs outside the non-deferrable list. About 6,500,000 have those qualifications.

This was the draft picture given reporters by Major Emmett Solomon of selective service's manpower division yesterday.

The 1,566,000 single and childless married men already classified as available for immediate induction will fill the quotas for July, August and September, although some will win reclassification on appeal and about forty per cent will be rejected and put into class 4-F.

50,000 Become 18 Monthly

Supplementing this were these factors:

1. At least 50,000 youths who become eighteen each month can be counted upon with certainty to land in uniform. An even greater number of the total of 90,000 reaching that age monthly may prove inductable.

2. An indefinite number will be "recovered" from the pool of 2,976,000 men rejected before because of physical, mental, educational or moral disqualification.

3. Many of the 705,000 single and childless married men now holding occupation deferment for farm work are likely to be called by local boards after the harvest season ends.

4. Occupational deferments for non-agricultural work expire constantly and most of this group of 1,373,000 are single or childless married men.

Not Immune Through War

On the other hand, it was said, only unexpected developments can continue immunity for fathers throughout a prolonged war because more than half the total of 22,184,000 draft registrants eighteen through thirty-seven either have entered the armed forces already or have been rejected as unqualified.

The armed forces already have a strength of 9,300,000 men and women, and through casualties thus far have been considerably below the allowance made for them in military plans, the officially projected size of the armed forces is 10,800,000 by the end of this year and 11,300,000 by the middle of next year, largely as the result of naval expansion.