Evening star., 1942-10-21
Scrap
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Board, and the Commissioners of
the District of Columbia desire to
call attention to the special scrap
drive for commercial and business
houses to be held during the period
October 22-28, inclusive.
THE Commissioners call on all
commercial and business houses in
the District of Columbia to make
careful search of their premises for
scrap with view to cooperating
Fundamentally in this special drive.
individual donors are requested
to transport all scrap to the central
depot at the Municipal Center park
ing lot during this period"
Terminal Adds 1,56O Tons.
The District is more than 3,000,0 900
pounds nearer its goal of $4,000 900
pounds of metal scrap by December
81 than previous figures have indi-
Gated, it was revealed earlier with
the disclosure by w. r. Ganser, en-
gineer for the Washington Terminal
Co., that $500 tons of ferrous scrap
have been salvaged at Union Station
and in adjoining yards since July l.
In addition to the ferrous metals
returned to the mills, Mr.. Ganser
said, the terminal company has
turned in as scrap approximately 100
tons of non-ferrous material, bring
ing the estimated total amount of
Salvageable metal collected to
100000 pounds.
A large portion Of the non-ferrous
scrap turned in at Union Station
was valuable brass and bronze.
Yesterday seven brass rails, on which
travellers for years have rested lug
gage while purchasing tickets, were
removed from in front of ticket win
dows. They added $50 pounds to
the station scrap pile, Mr.. Ganser
said. Many tons of heavy brass pipe
have been turned into scrap, too,
he added. +
The Washington Terminal scrap
drive-to gather all the salvageable
metal and rubber that could be
found on the premises-was inaugu-
rated by B. r. Tolson, manager Of
the terminal. Men walked all over
the property, Mr.. Ganser said, pick
ing up every bit of scrap metal they
could carry and noting that which
they could not pick up.
Much of the scrap was In the
form of heavy rails, and a large
portion came in pipe form. Ten
carloads of rubber hose and other
rubber items were salvaged.
I'VE have cleaned out a lot of
stuff we would have been shot for
trying to call scrap in past years."
Mr.. Ganser said. But If the Gov
ernment needs scrap, it's up to
those who can turn in scrap to
do it,"
The Washington Terminal con-
tribution of approximately 100000
pounds to the scrap drive brings
the District total to date to st.
1868 pounds of salvageable metal
collected. This figure is based on
the estimates Of the amount OBJ
tanned toward the July December
six-month quota by Sunday, which
were compiled by The Star.
Much Heavy Scrap Forecast.
| With the Districts intensive drive
to collect heavy" industrial and
commercial scrap metal due to get
under way tomorrow, there were
indications that a vast amount of
such material will be forthcoming
At the warehouse of Georges Radio
Co., in Georgetown, for example,
workmen started yesterday to pile
a truck with the first load from
a 20-ton scrap pile that is to join
the battle against the Axis.
Though 1t comes ahead of the
drive starting tomorrow. the
Georges Radio scrap will be espe-
cially welcome, since much Of It Is
urgently needed copper and afumi