Tutor Here Will Refuse His Induction

A Harvard tutor and an M.I.T. research associate declared yesterday their intention to refuse induction into the army this Friday.

Roger Wertheimer, 26, tutor in Philosophy, and Michael J. Zigmond, 26, research associate in Nutrition at M.I.T., are both scheduled for induction 8 a.m. Friday at Boston Army Base.

Their draft boards declared them delinquent and classified them I-A after they turned in their draft cards at separate anti-draft rallies here last fall.

They declared their intention to refuse service at a press conference in M.I.T.'s Hayden Library. Zigmond's father, Rabbi Maurice L. Zigmond of the United Ministry, and Hilary W. Putnam, professor of Philosophy, attended the session to support the two men.

20 Per Cent

Martin Diskin, professor of Anthropology at M.I.T., read a petition of support that he said was signed by about 20 per cent of the M.I.T. faculty. Also distributed were statements of support by Putnam, Rogers G. Albritton, professor of Philosophy, and Stanley L. Cavell, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value.

Wertheimer is married and has one child. He held a 3-A (family) deferment until shortly after he turned in his draft card at the Arlington St. Church draft card "turn-in" last October 16.

Federal Indictment

His Buffalo, N. Y., draft board is the same one that has reclassified Michael K. Ferber 1-A. Ferber, a second-year graduate student here in English, is also under federal indictment for counselling others to resist the draft at the Oct. 16 protest.

Zigmond is also married--to Naomi P. K. Zigmond, instructor in Psychology here. He had been temporarily unclassified when he handed in his draft card Nov. 16 at another "turn-in," having lost his 2-S after leaving graduate school. A notice of delinquency for handing in his card accompanied the 1-A he subsequently received from his Arlington draft board.

Zigmond's lawyers are seeking a restraining order that would postpone his induction from Friday. Both men have filed suits against their draft boards, charging unconstitutional use of the draft to punish anti-war protestors.