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Show Give Scrap And You'll Send Fighting Men Christmas Gifts Utah has become as one community with but a single thought "Get In The Scrap". Bingham Canyon will go all. out for scrap the week of September 28 to October 3 with this idea giving impetus: 'Throw your scrap at the axis and at the same time send Christmas gifts to Bingham's boys in service." A proposal to use proceeds from scrap sales to buy; Christmas gifts for service men from Bingham district was approved Friday night at a meeting of 26 representatives of women's groups convening at the City hall under chairmanship chairman-ship of Mrs. J. Dewey Knudsen, head of the women's division divis-ion of the National Salvage committee. Thorough organization and precision pre-cision planning will be employed employ-ed by the women's groups in their efforts to gather every article of metal or rubber which can be spared. Earl T. James, chairman of Bingham district's scrap drive, acting under Instructions of Frank Orton of Sandy, county chairman of the national scrap drive, listed these articles as examples ex-amples of the type material desired: de-sired: old irons, grates, golf clubs, garden hose, washing machines, ma-chines, anything containing copper, cop-per, brass or aluminum, rope, tooth paste tubes, tin cans and rags. 'Mayor Ed W. Johnson, representative, repre-sentative, selective service, said there are approximately 200 boys from Bingham in service. 93 boys are to be inducted by local board No. 16 on October 5 and the quotas quo-tas have been ordered increased 30 per cent each month. Exactly how many of this number will be from Bingham has not yet been determined. After discussion it was decided decid-ed that since Christmas gifts destined des-tined for overseas delivery should Ka TnnilAfl Kir fti4sVA 1 K nn4 -k rv later than November 1, gifts would be purchased and sent to boys overseas first and boys now in training camps and those inducted in-ducted in October, November and December will be remembered remem-bered later by Binghamites serving serv-ing on the home front. Everyone can aid their country coun-try in the salvage for victory program. At a meeting Wednesday Wednes-day night at the City hall Bingham Bing-ham district was blocked off into in-to small sections and 120 women designated to canvass thoroughly their home sections. Instructions were to call on each family and enlist help in getting out all scrap as an aid In winning the war. Minute Woman cards will be posted in the windows of homes of various committee members, those who are authorized to collect col-lect tin cans. Every family is urged to gather cans, wash them and save them to be collected for sale through Minute Women. Each committee member calling call-ing at homes will have a signed i identification card, showing that , she is an accredited member of the Bingham volunteer salvage corps. For any additional information desired on the drive, the public is urged to contact one of the chairmen chair-men of the board: Mrs. John F. O'Brien, Bingham; Mrs. Mike Brisk, Copperton, Mrs. Joseph McDonald, Copperfield, Miss Ada Duhigg, Highland Boy or Mrs. Nick P. Floros of Lead Mine., |