Evening star., 1942-09-10
Plans to Collect Scrap Swiftly Will Be Worked Out Today
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are conflicting. We've got to get
the facts first. 1t would be unfor-
unate to ask people to do anything
that is not necessary. AS soon as
we are sure about the best way to
proceed, we have no doubt about
sWashington's full promise of COOP
.eration."
Plans Under Consideration.
One plan under consideration Is
the Salvage Committees proposal to
have volunteer workers undertake
neighborhood collections, continu-
ing regularly throughout the winter
~ The other plan is to make whirl-
wind city collection of scrap, using
all available truck and automobile
facilities, piling the metal high in
designated spots to be shipped out
as fast as it can be handled This
follows the now-famous Nebraska
tplan, which was worked out by the
newspapers and resulted in a gen.
eral call by WPB last Friday for
ithe newspapers of the country to
take the lead in organizing scrap
idrives in their communities.
! Those invited to attend this aft
ternon's conferences include: James
E. Collif1ower, chairman of the Dis
strict Salvage Committee; Horace
walker, executive secretary of the
COMMITTEE; Brig. Gen. John T.
Lewis, commanding officer of the
Washington Military District; Paul
Cabot, conservation officer for the
War Production Board.
S Also invited are William ]. Mile
ham, District chief AFRAID warden
YBeverly c. Snow, Assistant Engineer
commissioner: William Xanten,
superintendent of the City Refuse
EDivision: Maj. John Blake Gordon,
#director of sanitary engineering for
@the District; Capt Herbert G. White
Ehurst, director of the Highway De-
3partment; representatives of all the
newspapers, and a representative of
gthe District Trucking Association,
sand three scrap dealers.
Z May Ask Army Aid.
Z Gen. Lewis, it Is understood, will
sbe asked whether the Army could
furnish trucks to collect salvage ma
terials if there is a shortage of
hauling facilities.
Mr.. Xanten said that the Refuse
Division could allocate its trash COL
lection trucks over week ends to
bring in great quantities of salvage.
He pointed out that the division was
willing to use its trucks for this
purpose and delay the trash col
lection schedule, if necessary. He
intimated, however, that the great
est difficulty was in getting the
materials sorted after they had been
collected. This, he said, involves the
use of considerable equipment such
as cranes, baling machines, acetylene
torches, shears, and that such equip
ment is available in the yards of only
a few dealers.
Only IL Per Cent of Quota.
Paul G. Cabot, deputy director
of the Conservation Division of the
War Production Board, pointed out
in statement that the Bureau of
Mines has reported iron and steel
scrap shipped from the District dur
ing July amounted to only II per
cent of the--Capital's six-month
quota. This quota is 1900 tons.
Collection facilities appear to
have been the bottleneck," Mr.. Cabot
commented "This bottleneck must
be removed. 1t behooves the Dis
trict Commissioners, the Salvage
Committee, the District executive
secretary, the newspapers, the peo-,
pie and the organizations, both pub
lie and private, of Washington to
break this bottleneck as it has
been broken In many other places.
"In other cities metropolitan
authorities have made available
their collection facilities. Private
firms and individuals have donated
cars, trucks and manpower to make
the necessary pickups. Certainly
in the Nations Capital there must
be available as much or more OF
these facilities than there are in
many other parts of the country
where this difficulty has been sur
mounted.
"As Donald Nelson said, The need
Is urgent We cannot afford to
have leisurely campaign. We must
have the iron and steel scrap now.
I urge all public and private indi-
viduals and organizations to help
and particularly to make available
to the local Salvage Committee the
necessary trucks and manpower to
make this collection"
Meanwhile, public-spirited citi-
Gems continued to rally to the sup
port of the Nation wide war meas
ure.
Several hundred citizens of the
Hillcrest area in Southeastern
Washington last night attended
ceremonies at Alabama avenue and
Branch road to dedicate what has
been termed by local salvage Off
eials a model depot for the collec-
ton of scrap metal, rubber and rags.
Has Four Tons on Hand.
Fenced in on a vacant lot, the
collection station already has more
than four tons of materials piled IN
barrels and on general heap in
the center of the lot. The Hillcrest
depot is one of 670 which are to be
set up in the city eventually.
Horace Walker, executive secre-
tary of the District Salvage Com
mittee, was on hand last night to
praise the Hillcrest citizens for their
zeal in setting up the depot.
"You people" he said, have made
a fine contribution to this important
national program. Your example
should stir all of Washington to
greater efforts in the drive for
salvage materials"
Organizations Co-operated.
The depot was turned over" to
the District committee by Willis
Perry, chairman of the area S
Salvage Committee Also participat-
ing in the ceremonies was Henry l.
McCabe. president of the Hillcrest
Citizens Association.
Mr.. Perry pointed out that the
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