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Show ir . - 1 Army Recreational Equipment The army is spending more than a million dollars a month for recreational recrea-tional and athletic equipment for its fighting men at home and overseas, the war department announces. More than $13,000,000 worth of such merchandise has been purchased pur-chased by the quartermaster corps since July, 1942, in a program that is paying big dividends in morale and well being. The purchases are made by the quartermaster corps for the special service division, army service forces, which is charged with distribution of the various items. - Equipment is provided for the favorite fa-vorite outdoor sports of the fighting men. particularly baseball and football. foot-ball. A partial list of other items supplied includes javelins, badminton badmin-ton medicine balls, striking bags, fencing equipment Those preferring less active recreation recre-ation have the choice of cards, dominoes, domi-noes, backgammon, darts, chess, checkers or bingo. Included among the purchases are various musical instruments, large and small, such as pianos, phonographs, phono-graphs, radio sets, also harmonicas, ocarinas and tonettes. Distribution is regulated by requisitions requi-sitions made on the basis of allocations alloca-tions of $1 a man for domestic troops, while "kits" valued at about $180 each are issued ' to overseas units on the basis of one kit for each 100 to 200 men. There are three types of "kits." These are the "A" kit, a collection of athlstic equipment, small games, including 85 sets of cards and other games of which 36 have card decks; a similar "F" kit primarily used on transports and in overseas rest camps and hospitals, and a special "B" kit for the musically inclined. The 'B" kit supplies a radio set, a phonograph, 48 records, and 25 one-half one-half hour transcriptions, for use when radio reception is not possible. This kit also contains paper-bound song books and small musical instruments. instru-ments. Released by Western Newspaper Union. |