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Show Scrap Metal Drive Starts In Vashingon County Boy Scouts Asked to Take Over Project Which Government Is Backing A county-wide drive for scrap iron, aluminum, brass, old rags and scrap rubber, particularly old inner tubes, was announced Monday Mon-day by Wilford Schmutz following a meeting of the county defense board and other civic leaders on last Sunday afternoon. The meeting meet-ing was called by County Attorney At-torney Andrew Pace, who is chairman chair-man of the county civilian defense board. Mr. Schmutz stated that the government was making a strenuous stren-uous effort to gather up all old iron at once due to the fact that it was vital to the national war effort. While Mr. Schmutz said he realized that scrap metal dealers deal-ers had been active for sometime and had undoubtedly collected most of the available metal, he felt sure that if the people of this section would make a thorough thor-ough survey of their premises that they would find scrap, which, in the aggregate would amount to a considerable sum. After a discussion or the problem prob-lem it was decided to ask the Scouts to handle this collection. They will gather the metal and when they have secured enough to warrant it, will contact scrap metal dealers. Money secured from the metal will be used by the Scouts in their activities. "We have called upon the Scouts to do so many things that had little remuneration, that we are glad to offer them this plan, since it should give them an opportunity oppor-tunity to make some money. Prices allowed for the metals are as follows: fol-lows: $6 to $7 a ton for old iron and cast iron; Rc a pound for aluminum; 4c for brass, stated Mr. Schmutz. Scrap dealers point out that the present prices are as hie,h as can be expected in that the government govern-ment has placed a ceiling on prices (Continued on page eight) Scrap Metal Drive ! (Continued from first page) for this metal and has warned anyone hoarding metals to immediately im-mediately make them available or be liable to Federal action. Farmers, businessmen and private priv-ate citizens are urged to check their premises at once and see if they can't find old metal that can be made available at once. A letter notifying the Scout masters of the action of this group was mailed out this week to all scout leaders of the various troops. |