Navy OCS Here Halts Processing

The Navy's Officer Candidate School has announced that it will not process applications in the Boston area for at least two months. It expects a sharp decline in the local acceptance rate after that time.

Lt. Cmdr. Samuel A. Waugh Jr., Head of Officer Programs in the Boston area, reported that a flood of applications has swamped his office He called his predicament "typical."

Most applicants to OCS are juniors and seniors who do not intend to go to graduate school and prefer to fulfill their military obligation as officers.

Waugh attributed the rise in the number of applicants to growing anxiety over hints that undergraduates will be drafted. Enlisting in OCS assures deferment until graduation.

The officer training programs of other branches of the military report similar increases in applicants:

*Air Force: No OCS appointments made in the last three months of 1965. Although they have been resumed, officials foresee another suspension by March.

*Army: No acute problem now; a slight rise in applications.

*Marines: Again, no acute problem, but OCS could read Its applicant quota by summer.