Yacko to Sheaffer to Day

>Andrew Yacko is a policeman in Yonkers, N.Y.

>Paul Sheaffer ran a cafe in Lancaster, Pa.

>Stuart Day clerks in a Nantucket, Mass, drugstore.

Solid Citizens Yacko, Sheaffer and Day, fathers all, last week met the draft.

Yacko and Day had been warned, along with every other U.S. ablebodied, draft-age father, either to find a war-essential job or else get into the Army. The warning did not affect Sheaffer. He had just been made a buck private.

>Said Policeman Yacko, 36, father of six: "If I quit here, I lose my seniority and everything I've been working for for twelve years. If I stay and get drafted, who is going to support my family?"

>Said Cafe-Operator Sheaffer, 34, father of six: "I don't have a trade, so what could I do in war work to make a com parable living?"

>Said Clerk Day, 36, father of five: "If my country needs me, I'm willing to serve and I won't try to evade service by going into war work."

Thus Citizens Yacko, Sheaffer and Day outlined the dilemma of draft-age fathers caught between the demands of family responsibility and the mounting crisis in U.S. manpower. Nor did a series of conflicting statements from Washington help them any. Selective Service had warned that fathers in nonessential jobs would be drafted beginning in October. But the cases of Fathers Yacko, Sheaffer and Day sharply underlined the many local exceptions to this general rule. Many a draft board unable otherwise to meet its quotas is already dipping into its supply of family heads aged 18 to 38.

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