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Show Scrap Metal Campaign Lags In County Reports Irvin Milne People of St. George and surrounding sur-rounding area must step up their contributions of scrap metal and rubber if they keep pace with the remainder of the state and nation na-tion in the "Salvage for Victory" campaign, Irvin Milne, local chairman, chair-man, said this week. Just as there is an ever-increasing flow of arms, munitions and other supplies from the United States to the world's fighting fronts, so there must be an ever-increasing ever-increasing flow of salvage materials ma-terials from the homes and farms over the nation, to augment available avail-able raw materials in the nation's war plants. Salvageable materials include anything not in practicable use made of iron, steel, brass, copper, aluminum or lead. The big exception ex-ception in metal salvage is tin cans. Tin cans are not wanted in Utah at the present time, Mr. Milne said. Any article containing rubber is wanted. Rubber is one of the most critical items on the War Production board list today and every home should be searched from top to bottom for those old rubbers and galoshes, hot water bottles, rubber mats and even rubber rub-ber heels off discarded shoes. They all go into the nation's supply sup-ply of reclaimed rubber. Old rags, especially those containing con-taining wool, which might be reclaimed, re-claimed, are also acceptable. Not wanted, in addition to tin cans, is any form of, waste paper. So well have the people responded res-ponded to this particular phase, Mr. Milne said, that paper mills have such a supply of waste paper that their storage facilities are over-taxed. Scrap collections are being made in rural areas by the WPA although al-though farmers finding some salvage sal-vage materials after the WPA trucks have made their rounds, should make an effort to get this extra scrap into the nearest salvage sal-vage depot. For those who feel that their small collection of scrap metal or rubber is not worth while, Mr. Milne suggests, that no amount, however small, is too small for the Scouts to collect nor for the Government to make good use of. The Scouts are doing their pa-trotic pa-trotic duty in calling at the homes this coming Saturday (June 13) to collect whatever materials people have assembled for them, and it is believed the citizens will cooperate in a like patriotic spirit in giving whatever they have that will help push the boys at the front to a more speedy victory. |