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Show District Salvage Meeting To Ma?) Work JL Copper and waste kitchen fats top the general salvage program in Utah this year, according to an outline B. L. Wood, executive secretary, and Mrs. John T. Wahlquist, state women's chairman, chair-man, are presenting in a scries of meetings which opened this week. A meeting will be conducted in the Provo High School Auditorium Auditor-ium Friday, April 1G, at 8 p. m. for Utah and Wasatch counties. Mrs. Wahlquist reported that fat salvage for Utah during Feb- ruary totaled 43,542 pounds, or 60.3 per cent of the state's quota. Utah was one of 15 states in the nation to gather more than 50 per cent of its quota during February, but Mrs. Wahlquist asked that state collections be stepped up even more. "We showed a consistent gain from the 45,514 pounds collected in January," she said, "but we must do even more in the months to come. Women are beginning to realize that unless they save their waste kitchen fats, their husbands, brothers or sons on the firing line may go without needed ammunition or medical supplies. I am confident they will meet this challenge." She said the women should also be concerned with the silk and nylon hose collections and with tin cans, which are now being be-ing shipped from Utah to the Pacific coast. Mr. Wood said that while all phases of salvage, including iron and steel, would be taken into consideration during the campaign, cam-paign, collection of copper scrap is of extreme importance. Despite the unprecedented production pro-duction of raw copper by the mines of Utah and elsewhere, more is needed and the only place to get it is through salvage, he said. |