Forum Newsfront

February, 1985

Caught in the actSan Francisco--The Selective Service System has been caught in the slightly embarrassing position of sending draft-registration warnings to names on a "birthday list" compiled seven years ago by an ice-cream parlor. Some of the names were fake, cooked up by kids trying to score free ice cream, but the notices went to their real addresses. When the youngsters' parents figured out the connection, they jumped on Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor, one of whose executives conceded...