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Show Save Your Scrap and Cans Iron, of Paper Scrap Salvage Carried on Efficiently at OATSC Whip the Jap Saving Material A Big Contribution OuT( Weighty Problem The ) To War Effort 0 "I JUNK TO YOU . . . DESTRUCTION TO THE ENEMY . . The pile or scrap Iron' and steel pictured above will be consumed by furnaces, and foundries all over the United States and later converted into materials so desperately needed by the armed forces in combat zones. at Approximately 5,093,965 pounds of salvage material was sold in $58,630.22. OATSC during 1944, bringing By Pfc Elizabeth Anne DePew To: most of us a piece of scrap iron is just something to clutter up our surroundings, but when one considers that 122,822,240,000 pounds or 54,876,000 gross tons of scrap iron and steel were consumed by furnaces and foundries in the United States during 1944 alone, the issue ceases to be one of minor im portance and is now classified as a most Vital contribution to the war effort.' " Worl ,Hug 'Sip While you are busy at your daily this ereat united war ef fort stnn to consider for a moment 7Viat of that piece of scrap iron you put into tne toscrap the iron" can or what happens tin' can you emptied this morning or what happens to that piece of paper you tossed into the basket Firsts tooirc in hPi-nm- labeled fshreddable paper." The waste material at uaiso is collected and delivered to the base salvage yard. There it is properly for sale segregated and prepared who to the various dealers buy material of all kinds. scrap ' "Why," you ask, "do they sell it to a junk dealer?".. For the simple reason that they, are in this sort of business and better able to see that the, scrap you throw away is put back into the fight in the quickest possible time. .. Tin Salvaged From Cans That tin can you cleaned and flattened, is only one of thousands which- found its way into a carload of tin cans on the way to a detin- In Utah ning plant in California alone during the month of D ebru ary, approximately ' 3,289,024 cans were collected. And that piece of paper it went It is shipped to the. salvage WHERE DOES THE PAPER GO? material or baled along with other pieces of paper to paper house where it is shredded for use as packing and shipped to - a the salvage paper house, where it by the enormous baling machine pictured above was shredded for use as packing , paper factory. material, or baled and shipped to a paper factory. There it will be transformed into numerous' other desperately needed items. Just to give you a vague idea of how far 100 pounds of scrap paper 1 will go . . . 20it will make any of the following: protective bands for bombs; 100 fin lock-nprotectors for bombs; 50 cases for a crane to a flying position, this 7 is beii , weight and balance program asa Arthur L. Burr,flit weighed test inspector, marks for measurements with plumb bob. Directl below Burr in the flight test hangar floor are the large scales will be weighed. which the P-. . On hoistedin. the P-4- oi The aerial agility of a or C-6- 4; ... . er Meat Mauler er ut 75-m- th?8j P-4- 7, w - AAale Call by Milton Caniff, creator of "Terryand the Pirates" J Iributir iblearl ollecti Alread and are well qualified act in any capacity in the weiff and balance program. To take a concrete example their work, let us say that a B has been received at flight ta from one of the hangers. In a cases, before this plane can actual lv be test hopped, it must recem a weight and balance clearance The inspectors immediately a to work and check the fixed equil ment in the plane, inventory it, aa later 1 check its weight so that added a a piece of equipment is removed, the plane load can K adjusted accordingly, mis equ ment includes, bombsights, turrets, radio and oxygen w mnt and other items. After this survey has been maosm t.h nlane is leveled, wnicn in it is placed ply means that OT horizontal Up nnmnlotslv " WVA.'.V'17 e ati WW en tnai exact. urc , pWlVlUU ments can be made by means plumb bob, chalk , line, ana tanp plane At this stage the tVDe clpthi M cloc Kicer's sw visio nee : 1 K - I ioo.ooo Weight and Balance Test Aids In Controlling Plane s Actions the intricate system of which serves weight and balance as a correlated " activity of flight test inspection at OATSC these things go hand in hand, for upon the exacting labor of weighing and balancing depends to a large ex tent the maneuverability of any plane. The principle of balance involved here finds a rudimentary equivalent in the teeter-tottof childhood. As everyone knows, if the teeter-tottwas perfectly bal anced, it dipped neither to one side or the other. Likewise if a plane is perfectly balanced, it is neither tail heavy nor nose heavy. However, an im properly loaded or overloaded not only uses more gasoline, shells; 1105 cartons each plane but invites disaster, says Flight . 15 .50 caliber bullets; containing 1 2128 cartons each containing. 15 Test Inspector Raymond A. Moore .45 caliber bullets: 200 containers of Fort Collins, Colo. It may crash . H for blood plasma; 50 boxes for food trying to scale mountains or teleand equipment; 1470 boxes for phone wires, or become completely , ft emergency lifeboat rations: 2041 unmanageable in case of a storm. The fact that airplane crashes cartons each containing one light 2911 cartons con decreased 35 per cent within the r taining 10 cartridges for inflating U. S. during the first five months lifeboats; 650 cartons for United ffollowing the establishment of the States army "K" rations; 1087 car- weight and balance program - for tons each containing 10 dozen aircraft ,is a telling, point boxes of yellow fever vaccine or military .f in us lavur. 00 containers for field rations. Divorced from technical terminSalvage Yard Workers ology, the chief function of the Lt. John A.- Dooley, chief of the weight and balance men of flight OATSC base salvage yard, is as- test inspection is, quite simply, to 3 sisted by Raymond C. Giauque, provide a .basis for all load adchief civilian supervisor: Miss justments on a plane by determinDorothy Helms, typist; Pvt. Riley ing the center of gravity in the Bushnell, salvage technician, and empty plane. Pvt. Elizabeth. Neuenhaus, clerk. Accuracy here "cannot be itressed Regardless of how slight you too much, for if an erroneous calfeel your contribution of scrap iron culation is made at this point, alt or paper might be, when placed subsequent calculations will be in to end end with like contributions error.- : it from your fellow employes,. it can Weight and balance officer is Lt. be wrought into vital materiel and J. Repich. placed in the fight against the ene- Stephen - who Key personnel sdpervise Save my. your scrap and whip weight and balance activities - at me ttay: flight test inspection are, in addition to Moore, Arthur L. Burr of JAP WEAPONS STUDIED Park City, Utah, and Charles F. Nipponese war fmnlom of Tennessee, uatey which were captured in the Philip ihese threeNashville, employes recently WRIGHT . . . You're right, that's Wright! Besides holding a most Pines i v. are hp nixo toctoi au of ."vvu Hit nirei- completed a specialized course of anusual army record, Sgt. "Cookie" Wright is an excellent butcher deen Proving Grounds, Maryland, instruction in weight and balance and cook in the 4513th mess hall. "J mutea piates Army officials control at McClellan field at 1 kied. 47 - 250-pou- lippiy flush in the iioor oi u nn located licai V,nnnor tVio SC Un SCaieS from a tn a Tne weignv ut. main wheels and tne nose is calculated here . ; complete measuri ThMC - vrvthin lira icfViori B-2- 9. whn nose have been taken from the the plane to the main to the nose or the tail wheel i the rotating momentum .MorrainpH. the U1SP ...kla further complex juBBlws by determine figures, known .. ...uihr ff ththeaPn" in final step o this, the cedure is to determine a basic" B Hoy nn the load adlUStOf, t est instrument for all; itsa WW is placed in ie ance, which W) I k.nmaa- 9fi -mUCIl vase aitu w.v.as w of the pilot's equipment his radio apparatus or .. Vm m Panel'' 1 .S.imiIarI sheet I to which previous calculationsw witn bound is been made, of otherweight and balance ana preserve of his equipment. Snoppy5!2Qt F P I n i C P K (i II : v . |