The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-08

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 Merchants Victory Scrap Day will be held on October 13. Every store in the downtown area will be closed until noon on Tuesday. How ever all the employees are. being in structed to report to work as usual. While the stores are closed, the eHn- loves will spend the time searching for and gathering together all the scrap in the place of business in this great Merchants Victory Scrap Drive.
 Although the stores will all be closed, it will not be 8 regular holi- day, inasmuch as all the employees will still be working but from 8 diff ferent cause. Many of the stores have already reported hundreds of pounds of scrap on hand to be turned in for the drive
 Prompt Collections
 After the scrap is collected by the employees, it will be placed on the sidewalks to be picked up by scrap trucks. In this manner the scrap can be collected most efiicienty and with no trouble to the customers. Since all of the stores will be closed on Tuesday morning, there will be a minimum of shoppers downtown. Thus the piles of scrap on the side walks will not disturb too many people.
 City trucks will be used in the collection of the metal from the sidewalks. The street and water de- partments will aid with the collec- ton.
 The executive committee of mer- chants met at the Chamber of Commerce this morning to make complete plans for the scrap drive. The closing of stores to collect scrap follows the plan used in many small towns throughout the coun- try where the entire town closed shop" to hunt for scrap.
 The store collection campaign is one phase of the collection drive which will take place all next week. Heavy scrap will be collected from the homes throughout the week with the big neighborhood collec- tions coming on October IT. By re- moving all the scrap from the down town area on Tuesday, more trucks and collectors will be available for the big collection which will prob ably take the whole day.
 More neighborhood scrap depots nave been made to ease the burden of collecting on the final day. The metal can be collected faster and easieg when it is piled up in num- Der eE depots than when it must be collected from house-to- house.
 East End Station
 A new depot has been established for the East End on Beecher street near the StS. Peter and Paul school. It is being sponsored by the East End Community Club and the Holy Name Society of Sts. Peter and Paul church. Another depot has been placed at 1900 Thomaston avenue by the Casper Davis Post American Legion and the Fairmount Com Inunity Club jointly.
 The Quota Club is preparing a de- pot on Hamilton avenue, while sec- tor 50 of the Civilian Defense Sys- tenn is placing one at 68 South mayd road. Another depot is at the Wenzel Gasoline station, Homer street and Thomaston avenue.
 Manufacturers who have pledged 100 per cent cooperation with the drive, are cleaning up the scrap in industry. Many factories have al- ready reported three to five tons on hand for collection.
 People are still notifying the newspapers of scrap bonanzas E. Nelson Canfield reported dump which contained 24 old cars. In ad- dition there was much loose steel scrap lying about the dump and about 1000 pounds of rubber in the