Mrs. Grace Rucker, an employee with the J.C. Penney Co., won the weekly “Most Courteous Clerk” title in a weekly contest sponsored by the Clovis News Journal. ... According to the American Fat Salvage Committee, Inc., housewives would be given two meat ration points in addition to 4 cents for each pound of used household fat turned in for salvage. ... The Santa Fe Railway Co. advised citizens to postpone holiday trips in favor of men and women in the service who were traveling.