Show morgan mn assessor says old jalopies will be taxed A united effort to get all the old jalopies and worn out automobiles in morgan county into the crap heap will be made by the office of county assessor of morgan cooperating with the county salvage committee A R turner recently attended a meeting of all assessors in the state at salt lake city at which plans were outlined for the assessing of at old automobiles regardless of 0 whether they have a license state salvage officials told us at the niec meeting ting he said that many people are aie not getting their old automobiles into the scrap heap even though valueless ns as tar far as transportation is concerned we agreed that if they were valuable enough not nob to tell sell or jibe give to the government as scrap they are valuable enough to assess and that Is what we are going to do owners of these old automobiles will also be reported to the state salvage office dale schott chairman of the county salvage committee praised the action of the county assessors as one way of increasing inci casing the coun tys scrap pile A lot of people dont stop slop to consider that there is three quarters of a ton of scrap iron and steel in an old automobile lot let alo alone nethe the variety of other critical materials which can call be salvaged he said the jalopies have been a principal source of the scrap shipped in iii utah but the supply of cars in the auto graveyards where they are demolished dished is now so low that we must concentrate efforts on getting somo same more automobiles to them he said the state salvage office had advised him that the conservation division of the war production board has authority to requisition the old automobiles it if necessary 1 I dont believe any such procedure will be necessary in morgan county 14 nae p people copple hecq have elou enough gli ana to win this war to see sec that jat alis the se machines get into the scrap heap without requisitioning them thein |