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Show Waste Paper Drive Slowly Getting Set Oley Dekker's Explorer Scout Group Will Bale Paper for Shipment There is very little activity in West Millard on the recently inaugurated in-augurated waste paper drive. No chairman has been appointed. No place of delivery has been announced an-nounced and no workers have been contacted for this vital war program. pro-gram. In recent letters from State headquarters it is stated that the paper will have to be baled and saved up in Delta so that large quantities may be shipped at one time. The price for this waste paper pa-per is so low that it will take large quantity shipment in order to make it pay. Early in the war the Boy Scouts gathered up a large amount of paper, pa-per, but at that time it was not needed. It was stored in the sugar factory warehouse and when that was rented to the WRA all the paper pa-per had to be taken out and burned. This was a lot of wasted effort both on the part of the Boy Scouts and on the part of those who had to burn the paper. For this reason the Boy Scouts are reticent re-ticent about taking on another paper pa-per drive, and we can't blame them. Scoutmaster Oley Dekker says that his group of Explorer Scouts will gladly bale the paper and pile it in storage waiting shipment, if some other civic minded group will take over the collection. The necessary neces-sary workers to collect the paper and a place to store it are still required re-quired to get the drive rolling. In bulletins from paper mills it is pointed out that we are continually con-tinually going in the hole as regards re-gards to paper. The mills are using the waste paper up much faster than it is being sent in to them, which end in a drastic curtailment of paper in all forms. People are asked to save their waste paper until the details of collection and storage are ironed out, and then be ready to turn it in when the forthcoming drive gets underway. |