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Your life may have been saved

Your life may have been saved
View smaller version of image Catonsville Library, Baltimore County Public Library
Collection: Friends of Catonsville Library
Date: 1968-05
Date of Digitization: 2004-03-29
Source: Catonsville Library
Original Dimensions: 28 x 22 cm
Creator: Baltimore Interfaith Peace Mission
Transcription: 
 YOUR LIFE

 MAY HAVE BEEN SAVED!                 


                  DRAFT BOARD #33 in Catonsville is missing 
                  about 600 records.  They were burned last
                  Friday.  One of them could have been yours.

     The Baltimore Interfaith Peace Mission is an anti-war, anti-draft
organization.  We oppose the Vietnam war.  We oppose the draft.

     Last Friday, nine persons -- seven men (including two priests) and two
women -- destroyed about 600 draft files at Local Board #33 in Catonsville 
by burning them with homemade napalm. We support their action.

     If you are a young man of draft age, the destruction of these records may 
have saved your life. NO ONE REGISTERED WITH DRAFT BOARD #33 WILL 
BE INDUCTED INTO THE ARMED FORCES UNTIL THE FILES WHICH WERE 
DESTROYED HAVE BEEN REPLACED.

     However, this disruption of board 33's operations is only temporary.  As
soon as they replace their files, they will start drafting men again.  If you are 
of draft age -- 18 1/2 through 26 -- and if you are worried about being ordered to 
kill and perhaps be killed in Vietnam, you owe it to yourself to find out what 
your rights are under the Selective Service law.

     The Interfaith Peace Mission offers free, competent draft counseling at:

                                   Peace Action Center
                                    2525 Maryland Ave.
                                     Baltimore 21218 
                                         889-0065

     Also, you may be interested in knowing just exactly who the draft board 
members are in Catonsville. You ought to be, because these four men are in 
a position to sign your DEATH WARRANT.

They are:         Edwin A. Steinwedel          26 Holmhurst Ave.           747-9390
                        (Steinwedel is ill and presently not active on the board.) 
                  Vivian T.  Douglas           1603 Ridge Rd.              747-4525
                  Anthony T.  Orban            100 Locust Dr.              747-2322
                  Henry H.  Helfrich           4 Dutton Ave.               747-7477 


             END THE WAR                              END THE DRAFT