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Included in this folder are clippings from various newspapers and periodicals. Articles appear from such publications as "Business Week," "The News and Observer," the "Greensboro Record," and "The University of North Carolina Newsletter." Topics of discussion include NC Selective Service rejection rates, events held to honor draft board workers, and the National War Service Act. Individuals mentioned by some of the articles include R.L. (Bob) Alexander, Charles J. Gast, and Kay Kyser. Photographs show Ernest C. McLean and J.F. Stevens of the Guilford County War Finance Committee, as well as Virginia Wells, McDaniel Lewis and other members of local draft board No. 2. Of particular interest are the following: an article detailing the opposition of Protestant ministers to participation in war, an article that explains draft classifications and provides answers to draft questions, and a column by Ted Thompson called "Yesterday's Footnotes" that features a letter sent from a departing draftee as well as another letter from a draftee sent in response to it.