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Show Report Shews i Utah Does Well In Salvage Drives The people of Utah and those who have been active in the salvage sal-vage program can be very proud of the record made during the year 1944. Considerable amounts of urgent ur-gent materials have generated in the state of Utah as a diret result of the response by the people of Utah and the untiring efforts of the Minute Women and the Salvage Sal-vage Committees organized in each city throughout the state. A combination com-bination of these two factors has made possible the shipments of the following critical war mataerials: During the year there were 10, 164 tons of waste paper collected and shipped to paper mills. This compares with 7,225 tons collected during 1943 and reflects an increase in-crease of 40 percent. There were 2,707.091 lbs, of tin shipped, as compared with 2.0S5, 895 lbs. in 1943. This shows an increase in-crease of 621, 19G lbs. or 29 percent. per-cent. There were S65, 130 lbs. of fats collected during the year as compared com-pared with 714,193 lbs. of fats collected col-lected in 1943, which shows an increase in-crease of 21 percent. During the first six months of 1944, Utah was one of the leaders in the nation on fat collections. Since that time we have been steadily going downward, down-ward, which has caused considerable consider-able concern to the State Salvage Committee. The trend must start upward beginning January 1945, and every pound of available fat grease must be strained and laken to the butcher shop WITHOUT DELAY! DE-LAY! There were 87,095 lbs, of rags collected during 1944, as compared with 79,247 lbs. in 1913. This shows an increase of 10 percent. The Industries of Utah produced 47,620 tons of scrap metal material against a quota of 299.950 tons, which represents 178 percent of the quota. This is one of the outstanding out-standing accomplishments in the United States. The Auto Wrecking firms in the state of Utah produced 17,807 tons of scrap metal material as a result of old cars that were wrecked. There were 5,028,199 lbs. of non-ferrous non-ferrous fnetal shipped during the year and as of December 1, there were 2,143, 2GS lbs. of non-ferrous metal in the hands of scrap dealers in Utah. The voluntevr salvage committees commit-tees in Utnh produced 2,481 tons, or 48,066,344 lbs., of scrap metal. The total amount of iron and steel scrap shipped out of Utah by Industries, Auto Wreckers, nnd the Salvage Committees amounts to " 67,908 tons. There are 31 County Salvage Directors Di-rectors in the Men's Division and 32 in the Women's Division. There are 275 City Chairmen in the Men's Division and 325 in the Women's Division. In addition to these, there are 7.G54 Minute Women engaged en-gaged in Salvage work throughout the state of Utah. Thee are 100 Industrial Salvage Managers in the Utah Industrial Plants and 15 members mem-bers of the State Industrial Salvage Sal-vage Committee. There are 15 men and 8 women on the State Salvage Committee. All of this vast army of salvage workers have given of their time freely, without any compensation, com-pensation, and have been directly responsible for the success of out-salvage out-salvage activities in the state for 1944. The Delta City Chairmen are C. M. Pace for the men, nnd Mrs. I-rene I-rene Little for the women. |