Selective Service Director
Calls Attention To
Registration Requirements
JUNEAU — Calling attention
to the fact that failure to register :
is a violation of law and makes j
the delinquent liable to penalty,
John L. McCormick, Alaska Di- I
rector of Selective Service out- ,
lined registration requirements j
under the Universal Military J
Training and Service Act, as
amended, which he said he be
lieved were not thoroughly un
derstood by all of the general
public.
“The , obligation to register,”
Mr. McCormick said, “is a con
tinuing obligation and must be
fulfilled. The obligation to reg
ister is imposed by the Act on
every male citizen and every
other male person in the United
States between the ages of 18 and |
26, with the general exception of j
members of the armed forces on
active duty and certain aliens.” j
The young man who becomes'
18 is required to register at a
local board office within five day$
of the date of his 18th birthday.
Mr. McMormick said he could
not overemphasize the import
ance of the registrant giving his
permanent home address as his
place of residence when he regis
ters at a board away from home,
since the place of residence which
he gives when registering deter
mines the local board which will
always have jurisdiction over
him.
The maximum penalty for vio
lation of any of the provisions of
the selective service law, Mr. Mc
Cormick pointed out, is five years
in prison or a fine of $10,000
or both.
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Del. Bartlett Disputes ACS Request
For Rate Increase For Alaska Service
WASHINGTON, UP. — Delegate
Bartlett told the Signal Corps
Thursday he believes it is “mor
ally, if not legally,” obligated to !
explain to Alaskans the reasons |
behind a 30 per cent increase in '
telegraph rates scheduled to go
into effect for civilians there.
July 1.
The increase will be on services |
of the Alaska Communications j
System.
In a letter to Maj. Gen. James 1
D. O’Connell, chief signal officer,
Bartlett took note of a recommen- •
dation by the House Appropria
tions Committee Tuesday that;
further increases in both tele- ;
graph and telephone rates be !
made to offset high operating
costs and the enlarged facilities
made available by completion of
the coaxial submarine cable from
Seattle to Ketchikan.
“Helpful as the coaxial cable
has been in improving telephone ,
service to and from Alaska,” |
Bartlett wrote, “I cannot believe
it was the intention of anyone
that amortization be accelerated
by requiring civilian users to
amortize the investment speed-.
ily.”
He said also that “inflation is
present in Alaska to a degree
which has not been experienced j
in the States,” and has been “not
ably added to by the urgency of
the defense program.”
Bartlett indirectly questioned
whether Alaskan civilians are
being asked to pay a dispropor
tionate share of the ACS opera
tional costs in view of the service
given the military and other fed
eral agencies by the system.
“Human nature being what it
is, an employe in government
sending a telegram is not likely
to be as careful in limiting the
number of words as is a person
paying the charge out of his own
pocket,” he mid, adding:
“Ar.d I have reason to believe
that government agencies use the
telephone service with perhaps
even greater frequency than is
absolutely essential.”
He said he “cannot believe the
Congress would desire civilians'
to pay higher and higher rates if
ACS operational costs are being
added to substantially or even
principally by government usage
of the system.”
Referring to a recent suggestion
by O’Connell that the two meet
so that the proposed rate increase
could be explained, Bartlett said
he would be glad to do so.
“However,” he added, “if such
a meeting were to take place and
you were to convince me abso
lutely ... I should be the only
Alaskan so convinced and the re
mainder of the consuming public
there would remain uninformed.”
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