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Show Fine Results Come Of 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 materials have generated in the state of Utah as a direct result re-sult 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 materials: During the year there were 10,164 tons of waste paper collect-eh collect-eh and shipped to paper mills. This compares with 7,225 tons collected during 1934 and reflects an increase in-crease of 40 percent. There were 2,707,091 pounds of tin cans shipped, as compared with 2,085,895. pounds in 1943. This shows an increase of 621,196 pounds or 29 percent. There were 865,130 pounds of fats collected during the year as compared with 714,193 pounds of fat collected! in 1943, which shows an increase of 21 percent. During the first six months if 1944, Utah was 'One of the leaders in the nation na-tion on fat collections. Since that time we have been steadily going downward, which has caused considerable con-siderable concern to the state salvage sal-vage committee. The trend must start upward beginning January, 1945, and every pound of available fat grease must be strained and taken to the butcher shop without delay! There were 87,095 pounds of rags collected during 1944, as compared com-pared with 79,247 pounds in 1943. This shows an increase of 10 percent. per-cent. The industries of Utah produced 47,620 tons of scrap metal material, ma-terial, against a quota of 26,950 tons, which represents 178 percent of the quota. This is one of the outstanding accomplishments i n 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 pounds of non-ferrous metal shipped during the year and as of December 1, there were 2,143,268 pounds of non-ferrous metal in the hands of the scrap dealers in Utah. The volunteer salvage committee in Utah produced 2,481 tons, or 48,966,344 pounds of scrap metal. The total amount of iron and steel scrap shipped out of Utah by industries, auto wreckers, and 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. di-vision. In addition to these, there are 7,654 Minute Women engaged in salvage work throughout the state of Utah. There are 100 industrial in-dustrial salvage 'managers in the Utah industrial plants and 15 members of the state industrial salvage committee. There are 15 men and 8 women on the state salvage sal-vage committee. All of this vast army of salvage workers have given of their time freely, without any compensation, and have been directly responsible for the success suc-cess of our salvage activities in the state for 1944. Theodore Kronholm and Mrs. Rudolph Nielsen, both of Milford, are county chairmen for the salvage sal-vage work in Beaver county. Warren Atkin is Milford chairman for the men's division and Mrs. Evalyne Whisler and Mrs. Bernice Smith head the women's organization. |