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Show Plans Complete Uilford Scrap Rally Next Tuesday a , . . Parade and Band Concert Will Climax Drive In Western Beaver County Milford and western Beaver county this week are bending strongest efforts in the nation's most urgent need as the National Scrap Harvest gets under way. With a momentous Junk Rally set for this coming Tuesday, September Septem-ber 15, it is asked that every ounce of scrap metal in homes and on farms be gathered and placed in the Milford scrap pile, west of Shorty's garage, from where it will be taken and converted into planes, tanks, guns and ammunition ammuni-tion for the nation's armed forces. Featuring the rally in the afternoon after-noon will be a big parade and a band concert from 4 to 6 o'clock in front of the new library. Warren Atkin and Mrs. Fred McKay are co-chairmen of the Scrap Harvest in Milford, working under the county chairmen, Theodore Theo-dore Kronholm and Mrs. Rudolph Nielsen. Co-workers with Mrs. McKay on the local women's committee com-mittee are Mrs. W. E. Martin, Mrs. Ernest Uren, Mrs. J. R. Mur-dock, Mur-dock, Mrs. Fred O'Leary, Mrs. Max Baxter, Mrs. F. A. Bingham, Mrs. Ross Palmer, Mrs. Max Gil-lins Gil-lins and Mrs. Ross Patterson. On the men's committee, serving with Mr. Atkin, are John Lofthouse, Ross Patterson, Jay Christensen, Delmar Kesler, Monte Griffiths, John Mozingo, Russell Ferguson, and William Kinrose. "The entire nation," Mr. Kronholm Kron-holm says, "has turned to the farms and smaller communities to raise enough scrap metal to successfully suc-cessfully carry through America's tremendous armaments! program. It's our patriotic job to collect every piece of scrap metal in Milford, Mil-ford, on our farms and from our junk piles." Comb your attics, your cellars and your garages; go over your farms, look into every nook and corner of every outbuilding, watch for metal scrap along roads and lanes. IGathering scrap is the most important job fpr all of us right now. Half of every plane, every ship, every tarfk, every gun is made from scrap metal. There isn't a home or a farm that cannot contribute to this drive. In Milford and vicinity, it is expected that an average of a ton of junk metal will come from each farm, and that several hundred hun-dred pounds can be found around most homes. Leaders in the steel industry and government officials are joining join-ing in fervent appeals to the citizens citi-zens of this nation to dig out every bit of scrap steel and iron and see that it gets into the hands of salvaige workers. It is not a "morale building" campaign but a vital war activity upon the success suc-cess of which may depend the course of the conflict. Captains of the steel industry have announced that scrap piles are at such a low level for the first time in its history that they face a crucial shortage of a major raw material. Modem steel-making requires scrap iron and steel along with newly smelted pig iron from the blast furnaces. Continuous demands made in the past two years have so depleted scrap piles that the industry is now facing a crisis. I Many other materials are need-j need-j ed for which drives have been ! started. All are vital to the war effort, but the most important one right now seems to be scrap iron and steel. How vital and how immediate im-mediate is the need for this kind of scrap is indicated by a statement state-ment made the other day by R. W. I Wolcott, chairman of the steel in-' in-' dustry's salvage committee, to a : group of newspaper publishers in ' the nation's capital. ! "Unless a miracle happens." Mr. i Wolcott said, "two furnaces are closing dvwn over the wvek end in Chicago. San Francisco is in bad 'shape and Pittsburgh and Younsrs-town Younsrs-town are in horrible shape." He ;went on to issue a warning that when steel capacity drops one per cent in a year the country is losing j the equivalent of 140 cargo ships of 10,000 tons each. |