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Show Local Scrap Drive Gets New Impetus .For the purpose of driving home the importance of heaivy iron and steel scrap to our war e'ffort, an important meeting was held Thursday afternoon of last week in the Beaver library basement, base-ment, with three key figures from Salt Lake City, and various county and local officials in attendance, according to last week's Beaver Press. The Salt Lake visitors were: Captain W. L. Shattuek 'and Captain Cap-tain R. H. Palmer of the Ninth Seijvlice command at Fort Douglas, and Frank Brown of the War Production Pro-duction board of Salt Lake City. Theodore Kronholm, county chairman chair-man of the salvage committee, residing re-siding at Milford, and Warren At-kin, At-kin, the Milford chairman, were also present. Mayor H. D. Thompson, Thomp-son, Superintendent Walter Joseph, Jo-seph, and a number of other representatives rep-resentatives from Beaver were at the meeting: According to the program outlined, out-lined, a vigorous drive is to be made throughout the state and county for the collection and delivery de-livery of much-needed scrap, that will be collected into piles of not less than two tons each, after which army trucks will be sent to load same and transport it to the railroad at Milford. Wornout and outmoded farm machinery, discarded dis-carded and abandoned mining machinery, ma-chinery, old sawmills and other heavy metal junk will be carefully careful-ly investigated and wherever possible pos-sible diverted to the essential war effort. The meeting was briefly addressed ad-dressed .by all the visitors, and the campaign fully outlined. Captain Palmer in his remarks explained that due to the shortage of man? power and transportation facilities, facili-ties, a pound of scrap iron at the fumace represents approximately four pounds of material required to produce an equal weight of pig iron from iron ore, coal and lime flux; so that the big saving is in the matter of man-power and hauling. The vrisitors also stated that there is a great dearth now of all useful scrap metals. It was also explained that the army trucks could be used only where the scrap is assigned to some civic, patriotic or charitable organization. Scrap collected by individuals for sale, must be transported at the expense of the collector or owner. The county and local scrap drives are to be organized and pushed with vigor the coming spring, and all information in relation re-lation to the whereabouts of important im-portant scrap will be gratefully received by the various officials. V |