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Show M School Promotes 'Taps' lor Farmers I TULSA. OKLA.-lt sounded all wet when the Chamber of Commerce lilted a "Hot and Cold Running Water School" In Its calendar of coming events. But all was clear after Farm Manager Man-ager C. A. Border offered his explanation. ex-planation. His idea, It appears, is to replact the "old oaken bucket" with a newfangled faucet by Installing Install-ing water systems In farm homes. Figures compiled by Border show that 204.000 Oklahoma farm families ' have to tote their water In buckets from wells. Members of each farm family which must resort to well water for Its drinking supply travel a total distance of 152 miles yearly tugging water, he reports. The one-day school here Is designed de-signed to bring state agricultural and Indian service leaders together with water system manufacturers to promote "taps" for farmers. |