These Transfer boards have been approved and requested by the State Director for Selective Service, and are intended primarily to eliminate the necessity of workers contacting their local boards, which usually results in loss of from one-half to a full day's work.

Men 18 to 45 years of age, and those about to become 18 will be able to use the yard Transfer boards for the following purposes: change of address form to be forwarded to the registrant's own .local board; application for duplicate registration certificate; application for duplicate classification card; acknowledgment of signature on any selective service form; application for transfer of an order for induction if the original board is outside of this area; application for transfer of pre-induction physical examination if the original board is outside of this area; and registration of men reaching their 18th birthday.

In the Oregon yard, Transfer clerks will be located in the Personnel office for the day shift, and in the Clearance office for the day and swing shifts. At Swan Island and Vancouver, clerks will be located in the Personnel and Clearance offices for both the day and swing shifts.

Vollbrecht commented that men 18 to 45 should be fully aware of the importance of keeping their local boards advised at all times of any change of address or other change in status within five days after such change occurs. The deferment supervisor said that there has been a distinct tightening up?within Selective Service in regard to delinquency, and the requirement that every registrant must at all times have in hip possession his registration certificate and his latest classification card, is being rigidly enforced.

At that time the yard was approximately six months old and there were 2500 men on the payroll. The first Whistle was composed of 12 small pages in one color. Its purpose, as slated in the first issue, was to "strive to become an effective medium for the broadcasting of information and the exchange of ideas."

It remained in the small size but with an added color, until March 26, 1942, when it appeared in the now familiar size and format. Circulation has kept pace with the growing number of workers. During 1942, 880,000 copies were printed. This jumped to 2,229,000 in 1943. Adding in the present total so far in 1944 this makes a grand total of 3,412,000 issues-enough to paper the walls of every one of the 30,000 public housing units built in the Portland-Vancouver area since the war began, if you were so minded.

YARD CONTRIBUTORS WANTED

The new Bo's'n's Whistle will be a newspaper for every department on every shift working in the three yards. Correspondents from every department will be needed. Particularly valuable will be men and women working in expediting, time checking and messenger positions, whose work takes them to various departments. If you can contribute news items regularly, phone or write your office.

Oregon Ship, Public Relations Office
Ext. 764
Swan Island, Public Relations Office
Ext. 1221
Vancouver, Yard Activities Office
Ext. 644