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Show Drive Underway ForScrap Rubber Acting under the plan announced announc-ed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt Roose-velt on June 12, and with the Utah Oil Refining company taking the j lead in Beaver county by means of i paid newspaper advertising, local j gasoline dealers are now engaged in a whirlwind campaign to "get in the scrap rubber" and some good records are being chalked up locally, according to report. The campaign started June 15 and will continue until June 30 and perhaps longer though a concerted con-certed drive is being made to get all possible in by that date, so that those in charge of the drive will know how Utah stands at that time. It is asked that every yard, home, attic, cellar, barn, hill and hollow be searched in an effort ef-fort to assemble every available bit of rubber in the county. The necessity for gasoline rationing ra-tioning in this part of the country I may be averted if the scrap rubber j drive proves successful. While j there is no gasoline shortage here I and none is in prospect, rationing j has been considered by the au-i au-i thorfties in Wiashington as a means of forcing automotive ve-, ve-, hide operators to use their tires iless and make them last until sup-I sup-I plies of synthetic rubber can be j provided. i With the exception of only a , few articles from which the rubber cannot be reclaimed, such as old j battery boxes, everything is being ling accepted from old jar rings I and crutch tips to raincoats, ten-1 nis shoes, mats and pieces of rub- ber flooring. Stations and collectors are paying pay-ing a cent a pound for the scrap. jThe oil companies will sell their collections to the federal govern-Iment govern-Iment for $25 a ton, the difference i between that amount and the cost I of the scrap to be donated to the USO, the Red Cross, and Army jand Navy Relief. No one will 1 make any profit from the drive, i V |