Show Smaller Items of Metal Needed in S. S L. L Drive An urgent call for more metal scrap small items items was issued by salvage officials Wednesday as only three days days' were left in a current program to collect the vit vital l metal Many calls are being received i io to o make sp special clat pickups of heavy and bulk bulky items but more s smaller material to be picked up by garbage garbage garbage gar gar- bage trucks is necessary necessary s said id B. B L. L Brick Wood secretary of ot the Utah general salvage committee Mr Wood said that every effort is being made to answer calls for special collections but that residents residents residents resi resi- dents should be patient since only a a limited number of trucks is available From two to six trucks are beIng being being be be- ing used daily to collect metal weighing more than pounds and bulky items he explained Arrangements Arrangements Arrangements Ar Ar- still are pending for use of army trucks which has been authorized by the war de de- de He said that the army can furnish trucks and drivers but It is indefinite fi ite whether r crews also can be fu abed Co l et l I by by garbage garbage garbage gar gar- bage t I JS w 1 continue j through gh Sati which will mark marlc the close o Ok o- o week two-week metal scrap campaign Goal for the two weeks is 2300 tons and the I amount collected to date I is 1350 1330 Continued on Pare Page Six I Column One SMALL SCRAP ITEMS NEEDED Continued from Pace Pan One tons leaving a long way to go Mr r. r Wood said Trucks will collect collect col coll lect the scrap if residents will set it 11 out separately from garbage on regular garbage collection days If all heavy and bulky material can be picked up the quota willbe will willbe willbe be reached it was indicated To date in the campaign the salvage office has received 1700 calls for special pickups Already received in this part of the program are stoves bedsteads 10 automobile bodies 53 washing machines 13 refrigerators tors 15 furn furnaces ces and hot water water wa wa- ter xer tanks Rate of pickup of smaller items however is running only about half of what it did last week salvage salvage sal sal- vage officials said An example of extra effort In collecting metal scrap was given by Lee Keach son of Mr and Mrs Eckley Keach West Eighth South street who searched the neighborhood and produced an es estimated estimated estimated es- es 2000 pounds of metal Included Included Included In In- were large items such as old rails which Lee hauled to his home with the aid of a friend and two wheelbarrows Meanwhile reports of thefts of metal from in front of homes were received One woman reported that she had set out a a. metal relic from the old Salt Lake theater and that it was stolen during the night Another woman said she obtained obtained obtained ob ob- the names of two boys who took metal from a driveway at ather her home Officials advised her to give the Information to the crime prevention bureau of the police department At the city streets department chops about 50 tons of metal was salvaged at direction of Commissioner Commis Commis- ioner John B B. B Matheson At Lowell school Third avenue and E street an organized scrap hunt was under way with a rapidly rap rap- idly increasing pile of scrap p awaiting awaiting await await- ing pickup Mrs L. L A. A Stevenson chairman of f the women's division in the city salvage drive said that more than 1000 Minute Women members of women's clubs again are being asked to canvass homes this week urging residents to turn in all scrap crap metal The women also will explain to housewives housewives' the fats salvage drive and end urge them to save all fats for sale Bale to stores Mrs Stevenson said I |