USO has job to do despite Jap surrender
CHICAGO, Illinois (Sept. 1) – A vast job remains to be done by USO and its thousands of volunteer workers, even though hostilities have ceased, I. B. Rhodes, USO regional executive, announced today, following a report made by President Dr. Lindsley F. Kimball to the national USO executive committee.
The task of serving men and women in uniform, in accordance with the requests of the U.S. Armed Forces and the wishes of the American people who have supported it through their contributions to the National War Fund, has not yet been completed, the report said.
“It seems evident that the USO program will continue with some volume until September 30, 1946, and on a reduced scale well-into 1947,” Rhodes said, adding that USO will make adaptations to meet changing conditions and that a comprehensive program to meet diminishing needs has been developed.
Continued service to troops in transit, in Alaska, Hawaii, in the Pacific area, in areas adjacent to military hospitals and to permanent bases along the Atlantic seaboard is foreseen. Training camps and separation centers will require minimum service and mobile services to isolated Army and Navy outposts will be greatly reduced. With the end of the war, USO is relieved of its responsibility for services in war production areas.