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Show Challenge to Other States Pace of President's Roosevelt aational Scrap Rubber Salvage Campaign got the "speedup" last week when the state of Utah challenged chal-lenged every other state in the union to a collection contest on a per capita basis. Within an hour after N. J. Greenwood, Utah chairman of the campaign, sent out his telegraphic telegraph-ic challenge, he had acceptance fiom three states, two of them Colorado and Wyoming. By Wednesday Wed-nesday night, nearly every state in the union had picked up the Utah gauntlet, and William R. Boyd. Jr., chairman of the Petroleum Pet-roleum Industry War Council, has offered a prize of a ten-gallon hat, with synthetic rubber sweat band, to the chairman of the state winning . the contest. Reports of great initial success in the drive of the American citizens cit-izens to keep 'em rolling are reaching Denver regional headquarters head-quarters of the campaign. Montana Mon-tana is hailed as one of the states in the vanguard of the drive. In Colorado, the first four days of the drive produced more than 100 tons a day officially weighed-in at petroleum company bulk plants and warehouses. The campaign opened June 15 and will cloe at midnight June 30. The petroleum industry and the War Board, joint sponsores of the drive, urge every citizen to sell or donate every ounce of scrap rubber between these dates. Corner filling stations are paying a penny a pound for all rubber items brought to them. |