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Show MOTOR TRUCKS PARCEL POST TO REDUCE! C. L. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. Plans for an assault on the high cost of living, by extension of rural parcel post through the use of army motor trucks were explained today by Assistant Postmaster General Blakeslco to the house postofficc committoe. Mr Blakeslco In asking for ?S,000,-000 ?S,000,-000 for tho rural service for the year beginning July 1, next, said trucks for the proposed servico would bo turned over by the war department without charge. Truck trains, he added, could make postal rates compote with freight rates |