Draft Boards to Permit Students Summer Voyages

Local draft boards will grant students permission to leave the country for the summer, according to a report received yesterday from the Washington headquarters of Selective Service.

The regulation authorizes draft boards to issue the permits to selective service registrants. Unless the registrant's absence from the country "is likely to interfere with the performance of his obligations under the Selective Service Act of 1948," the local boards are instructed to grant the permits.

Before leaving the country, students who have not yet filled out their questionnaires may be requested to do so. Draft boards are also instructed by the regulation to classify registrants before they issue the permits, if the boards deem it advisable.

Information on travel regulations for men of draft age was made public by the Council on Student Travel. The council is a non-profit organization which coordinates the efforts of 50 groups interested in sending students abroad.

Among the organizations it represents are the American Friends Service Committee, and the American. Youth Hostels.