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Show Cedar Cifcy Oil Dealers Meeting Success In Scrap Rubber Drive Acting under the plan announced announc-ed by President Roosevelt June 12. local gasoline and oil dealers are now engaged in a whirlwind campaign cam-paign to "get in the scrap rubber." Already the seven oil companies operating in Cedar have collected approximately 48 tons of old rubber in this city alone. The companies each cover several counties and are colecting s.rap rubber In each with the result that thousands of pounds of this vitally needed product is pouring in daily. The campaign started June 15th. and will continue until June 30th. A concerted drive will be made in the few remaining days before the end of the month to comb every yard, home and attic, in an attempt to assemble every available piece of rubber in the entire city. Stations and collectors are paying pay-ing a cent a pound for the scrap. The oil companies will sell their collections to the federal government govern-ment at $25. per ton. The difference between that amount and the cost of the scrap la to be donated to the USO, Red Cross, and Army and Navy Relief. No one will make any profit from the drive. The necessity for gasoline rationing ra-tioning in this part of the country may be averted if the scrap rubber drive proves successful. While there ls no gasoline shortage here and none in prospect, rationing has been considered by the authorities in Washington as a means of forcing automotive vehicle operators to use their tires less and make them last until supplies of synthetic rubber can be provided. With the exception of only a few articles from which the rubber rub-ber cannot be reclaimed, such as old battery boxes, the collectors are accepting anything from old Jar rings and crutch tips to raincoats, tennis shoes, and pieces of rubber flooring. While the rubber is being collected and weighed and prepared for sale to the government, delivery deliv-ery to factorls may not be carried out until some time later as lt ls needed. The dealers urge local residents to search their attics, cellars, garages, and outbuildings, as well as backyards back-yards and refuse heaps for any articles containing reclalmable rubber. rub-ber. They can do a pariotlc service, ser-vice, they reclare, by delivering all such scrap to the nearest service station, oil company agents serving serv-ing farms will pick up farm collections col-lections and haul them to town on their trucks as they make their rounds. Utah was set a quota of 2,000,000 pounds of scrap rubber to collect. This amounts to approximately four pounds per person in the state. On this basis, Cedar City's quota Is 18.780 pounds, and the quota for Iron County is 32,680 pounds.. |