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Show Schools Conducting Tin Can Salvage Drive This Week The enthusiasm of the tin can campaign in the schools of Iron County Is running high, according to I Mrs. Parson Webster, County Sal- vage Chairman. Encouraging reporU are coming in from every section, the says: ( ,, John Rowberry, manager of the Cedar City theatres. Is cooperating I by giving a free show ticket to each rl.ild bringing in 50 or more cans. Mst grades of the local school are neaMng their quto, but Miss Loulsp Manning's third grade and Miss Gwen Anderson's fifth grade are already over the top. To date approximately 28.000 cans have been gathered in Cedai I City and the schools are to be con-'gratulated con-'gratulated on the fine work they are doing. Special mention goes to Jewel I Bess and Jimmic Mulllner of the 'Seventh grade, who gathered 500 Mid 200 cans, respectively. I Mrs. Webster slates that the Sr.l-jvage Sr.l-jvage workers have been Informed that 50,000 tons of tin cans are required each month, and during (the last three months only 25,000 I tons have been collected. Since 'every plece of fighting equipment i Is dependent upon tin In some way. most of the foods shipped to our armies are contained In tin, arid the Indespensable syrette which saves thousands of lives, depends mainly im tin. Mrs. Webster say, It is Imperative that every tin can reaches production. Will your boy suffer on a battle ' flrltj for want of a Surette because ! sou failed to save your tin csns? See that the children In your neighborhood neigh-borhood gtt your cans. |