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Show 1 uso vm mmm through 1947 ' '- y - I - j ' ' - ? i ' y - ! A I r ..". aA- I a; i A j AT CHOW . . . Franklin P. Adams, John Kieran and Clifton Fadiman of "Information Please," went G.I. and washed their own mess kits while on a USO-Camp Shows tour overseas. Demobilization Set for 31st December, 1947 WNU Features. THE USO will continue through 1946 and until the last day in 1947, when it will complete its wartime, war-time, demobilization and reconversion reconver-sion services Decemmber 31, 1947. Official announcement that USO will conduct its own fund-raising campaign next September and October Octo-ber with a goal to cover minimum service requirements through 1947 was made by President Llndsley F. Kimball at USO New York headquarters. head-quarters. USO came into being on February Febru-ary 4, 1941, when six member agencies agen-cies joined hands to create one organization or-ganization to care for the needs of the men and women of the armed forces. So far the American public has contributed 200 million dollars to the organization. Still Needed, Says Ike. In a message to PresidentKimball, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower stated: "May I earnestly count on your organization and your host of volunteers volun-teers to stay with us through the dangerous and difficult period of transition to final peace? "We still have a pressing need for the services of USO and will be deeply grateful for your continued help in the future as in the past." Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, chief of naval operations, also sent a message of congratulation. For Wounded Veterans. The need for raising a terminal fund in the fall of 1946 is due to the fact that the National War fund will finance USO only through 1946. Tentative, purely tentative, plans for 1947 call for the operation of some 350 to 400 USO clubs in the continental United States, largely in connection with liospitalized but convalescent veterans. Operation of station lounges for troops-in-transit, men on leave, and families of service serv-ice people must continue. Overseas clubs will carry on in Alaska, Canal zone, Hawaii, Philippines, etc. Camp shows will still be seen and heard in 1947 by men In hospitals and men overseas. Coincident with the announcement announce-ment of the USO fall campaign, President Kimball made public his annual report, in which he says: "USO finds that at its peak of activity it was serving 1,000,000 people a day in one capacity or another, an-other, running up to more than 1,000,-000,000 1,000,-000,000 the total served since the organization was created. ' 3,035 Units at Peak. "The number of operations, such as clubs, lounges and similar activities, activi-ties, reached a high point back in March of 1944, a total of 3,035. As training camps closed and the men went overseas this number declined but the over-all volume of work increased. in-creased. "The five-jear peak of activity and cost came after peace in Europe Eu-rope and before the surrender of Japan. Redeployment of troops reopened re-opened many camps, doubled or vastly increased loads of various seaport cities. . . . Expenditures climbed to $5,800,000 a month." New Postwar Problems. Referring to the future of USO, Mr. Kimball says in his report: "The successful conclusion of the war does not, cannot, and will not return the United States to its prewar pre-war status. ... It is clear even now that our armed forces in the postwar period must be numbered in the millions. "USO will complete its wartime, demobilization and reconversion services December 31, 1947." the first effort to co-ordinate all such activity in a central organization. Under the stimulus provided by home economics sections in state departments of education, the American Home Economics association, associ-ation, and home economics schools and departments in colleges, independent in-dependent units have thrived for 15 years, with recognition of the un- y. J V' " 'I ' - . - - . I - s ' k .A i ; A " tjA J : - -.i A -A- ' r - v - -W , i . "A. 1 - y : 1 - V- - 1 : - - t : . . - . - . :-- . 3 ( I i .... : - i ' ' ; ;: . - : . j h .- o .... -- .-;i-. ...i.w.- f r nYmwi THOSE WHO SERVED . . . The USO continues to aid wounded veterans. vet-erans. Above is Junior Hostess Lncille Massa playing checkers with a wounded vet at a Battle Creek, Mich., club outside Percy Jones army general hospital. |