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Show Requests ... Dead or alive, sharks can be a problem. The dead variety was a problem for a Volunteer in the Dominican Republic. With the help of the Volunteer Support Officer in Washington, Wash-ington, he learned that one constructive con-structive means of disposal is to make walking canes out of the backbone of the sharks. The Support Office handles requests re-quests from Volunteers all over the world. However, most of these requests re-quests are a good deal less exotic than the shark problem. The requests for visual aids for teaching, queries about lost mail or a plea for information are all forwarded to this office. One Volunteer wanted a recipe for cooking cactus. Another wanted to know how to grow cashew nuts. The growing procedure was eventually even-tually routed to the Volunteer from India, rather than from the United States, because cashew nuts are not regularly grown here. A Volunteer in Latin America stumped the Washington office and several other organizations with his request for instructions on how to build a kerosene-run egg incubator. Hatchery groups, egg associations associa-tions and the Department of Agriculture Agri-culture had no answer to his problem prob-lem because that particular type of method had not been used in the United States for over 50 years. Eventually a, hatchery came up with an alternate plan for an incubator incu-bator that didn't run on kerosene, but it produced results and chickens. chick-ens. , |