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Show EMPTY CANS TO BE BROUGHT TO GROC. STORES The tin can collection program will be made state-wide, including Springville, effective March 1st, Emil Ostlund, local salvage chairman, chair-man, said today. Mr. Ostlund was advised by B. L. Wood, executive secretary of the state salvage committee, that grocery stores will act as depositories de-positories for the tin cans, with housewives asked to bring in an empty can for each can she buys at the store. Brewers and bottlers, making regular delivery trips through the state, will pick up the cans, taking tak-ing them to central shipping points at Provo, Ogden, or Salt Lake City, Mr. Ostlund said. "This is an ideal arrangement," he explained. "It means that cans from this area can be sent to de-tinning de-tinning plants where both tin and iron will be prepared for further use in the war effort. "It is up to the housewives to cooperate now by preparing their tin cans properly and getting them in to their grocer." He said the cans should be cleaned, the labels ' removed, top and bottom cut out and then pressed flat by stepping on them. This preparation, he asserted, increases in-creases capacity of the detaining plants as much as 40 per cent. In addition, it saves considerable shipping space. The quota for Springville is 5000 lbs. per month. |