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Show Whirlwind Rubber Campaign Getting Results Indications Point To This Section Exceeding Quotas Set Up By Board Acting under the plan announced by President Roosevelt June 12, local oil men are now engaged in a whirlwind campaign to "get in the scrap rubber." The campaign cam-paign started June 15 and will last until June 30. In that time it is expected that all the available avail-able old rubber in the nation will be assembled at service stations sta-tions and oil industry outlets. Stations and collectors are paying pay-ing a cent a pound for scrap. The oil companies will sell their collections col-lections to the federal government at $25 per ton of 2,000 pounds. The difference between that amount and the cost of the scrap is to be donated to the USO, Red CroiS, and Army and Navy Relief. Re-lief. No one will make any profit prof-it from the drive. According to information which has been received by Reed Leigh, local representative of the Utah Oil Refining Company, the necessity neces-sity for gasoline rationing in this part of the country may be averted avert-ed if the scrap rubber drive proves successful. While there is no gasoline gas-oline shortage here and none in prospect, rationing has been considered con-sidered by the authorities in Washington as a means of forcing forc-ing automotive vehicle operators to use their tires less and make them last until supplies of synthetic syn-thetic rubber can be provided. Some experts -have recently declared de-clared that if sufficient old rubber rub-ber can be obtained, even civilian civi-lian cars can be kept running, with retreads on their tires made from reclaimed material. The authorities au-thorities have found it difficult to plan this solution of the problem because nobody knows how much reclaimable old rubber is available. avail-able. Estimates have varied from 35,000 to 10,000,000. By June 30, it is expected that the oil men (Continued on page three) . v. . . |