Iron County Record | 1953-05-14 | Page 10 | If Cans Were Autos There Would be 7800 within State

If Cans Were Autos There Would Be 7800 Within State The 86,449,272 cans used to pack Utah fruits and vegetables i last year required 10,064 tons of steel enough to manufacture 7,800 automobiles. Although popularly known as. "tin cans", the food containers! housewives buy at the grocery store are more than 99 per cent steel, Dr. Glen Cunningham, eco nomist for American Can company, com-pany, pointed out. "Utah's thriving processing industry in-dustry has created a demand for so many cans that the materials mater-ials required for one year's supply sup-ply of containers mount into the thousands of tons," he said. The Beehive state's 1952 food pack required almost 100,000 pounds of enamel, which coats the inside of most cans to preserve pre-serve the taste and attractive color of the food, Dr. Cunningham Cunning-ham said. The 56,000 pounds of paper used for labels would turn out 449,000 eight-page newspapers, and It took nearly 44,000 pounds of glue to paste the labels on the cans," he said.