Saturday Tidbits

1940 Military Draft

Courier Tribune
January 20, 1941

To Call 14 in February
For Army Service

Quota for Nemaha
County is Part of State
Total of 2,884 Men

Nemaha county’s quota of
one many for the January
draft is being filled today
and a new quota has been
announced for February.
The February call is much
larger. It is for 14 men. The
exact date they will go is
not certain.
Reception center for Nemaha
county men is Fort Leavenworth.
Leavenworth will receive men
from a large number of draft
areas, on the period beginning
February 10 and ending Feb.
28.
Leavenworth will receive a total
of 1,817 men, 884 will report
to Wichita and 183 will go from
Kansas to Omaha, to make up the
state’s February total of 2,884
men.
Arthur B. Harrter of Sabetha,
who fills the county’s January
quota, was given opportunity to
go to Leavenworth by train,
starting from Seneca tonight, but
is planning to go today by car.
Harrter works for Cook-Jones
Motor Co., at Sabetha and will
be taken to Leavenworth from
there.
Half Pass Physical Exams
How far down the draft order
list will Nemaha county’s quota
of 14 for February reach? Your
guess is as good as that of any
one else. The answer is likely
to No. 140 or 150.
Of the first 340 men classified
by the Nemaha county draft
board 69 were placed in Class
1-A as being subject to immed-
iate call, if found medically fit.
This is a proportion of approxi-
mately one out of five. However,
about half of the men placed in
1-A are being rejected in the
medical examination, making the
proportion of those who are
ready to go and fit as-well, ap-
proximaately one man to every
10 registered. Selection of 14
men for February call may
thus sift the lest as far as Order
No. 140 or farther.