General Would Up Deferment Grade

Major General Lewis B. Hershey Director of Selective Service, wants jack the college deferment grade from 70 to 80, a spokesman for him said yesterday.

Liutenant Colonel Irving W. H Chief information Officer for the Selective Service System, told the CRIMSON last night Hershey would raise the passing mark of there was a need for man power.

Hart and that Hershey had insisted when the Student Classification Plan being worked out that "the criteria sliding scale proposition, so that standards could be adjusted upward or do ward as necessary."

High Quota

Although the draft call for January the highest since spring. Hershey given no indication that he plans to raise the draft deferment grade just yet. If does, Hart stated, he would first give advance warning.

At present, a student may be deferred if he gets a 70 on the deferment exam or has a satisfactory rank in the class Seniors who plan to enter graduate school must make 75 or better. Student already in graduate schools are deferred as long as they stay in good standing.

Hershey did not say how this would affect seniors and graduate students.