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Show BRIEFS ... 6y Baukhage Eating out to beat rationing won't help, says OPA, because restaurant supplies are being cut about in half. American fighting men serving outside the country now can say it with flowers! Three dollars per order or-der is cabled to the Red Cross and the Red Cross selects and delivers the flowers to Madame. No longer "out of sight, out of mind." . Oklahoma's extension forester Is urging farm woodland owners to cut fuel during their spare time. He figures that if 50,000 farmers each cut five cords of wood, using only Inferior and dead trees, they will release 5,000 freight cars that ordinarily ordi-narily haul coal to move munitions ; and men. Twenty-five times as much wool was baled last year as the year before, be-fore, when baling instead of bagging wool was demonstrated at wool concentration con-centration points in the West. About 25,000 books have been sent from Sweden to prisoners of war held in camps in Germany. They are distributed through the Red Cross and the YMCA. Indications are that both hog and cattle slaughter this year will surpass sur-pass that of last year, while supplies sup-plies of fed lambs this winter and spring will equal the 1942 crop. Uncle Sam's fighting men are receiving re-ceiving more letters than they are sending. Postal officials disclosed during hearings on the post office appropriation bill that for every letter let-ter sent out of .service camps, two are sent in, and on the basis of selected tests in army camps, the average soldier sends out 4.6 pieces of first-class mail weekly. USDA foresters advise farmers to line up definite markets before cutting cut-ting their timber, practice selective cutting, and allow no clear cutting. |