The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-25
Rubber Drive
GoesForward
IS Tons Already
in Sight Here

IN SIqht mere
Returns from oil dealers the
county over today indicated that
with so tons of scrap rubber on
hand i'm the bulk stations of the
county last Saturday night, there
is another 35 tons in sight right
now that will swell the total to
close to the goal of more than
100 tons that was set by the
dealers when they undertook
the collection, Russell Murphy,
rubber salvage chairman dc
clared.
Fred Miller's Hi Speed will
turn into the general stock
about six or seven tons before
the drive is over, having five
tons on hand at the bulk station
and the remainder waitin G
haulage from the several sta
tions of the Mount Clemens Oil
Co. in this city. Leading the Hi
Speed group of stations in the
salvage drive is that Of John
Kraft at Gratiot and Church
street.
LARGE COLLECTION
With stations d OF ting the
county Standard Oil company is
counted upon to deliver the
largest single contribution to the
county + u b b cr collection. In
Mount Clemens alone that COM
pany has about l tons of scrap
rubber on hand at the moment
and about five or six tons more
( a n d ng out for collection.
Leading the Standard group in
this city is the Frank Duprcy
station at Gratiot and Jones
street which has already deliv-
cred two and one half tons to
the bulk station Of the firm.
That figure is what the other
stations are shooting at, it was
stated by j. d. Reynolds, dis
tributor.
Rubber gaskets and rubber
rollers, the one from the Frank
lin County Sugar company and
the other from the Mount Glenn
ems Pottery are among the items
in stock at the Standard pile
The gaskets were found by the
merest chance at the sugar fac
tory and weighed $50 pounds
in the aggregate. The company
has at least three tons Of scrap
rubber without including the
discarded castings on hand and
on station stock piles.
TWO TON LOT
Among the dealers for the
Murphy Brothers Oil company,
Gulf oil distributors, Smitty'S
East Detroit station was leading
all others in the amount Of rub
Der it has on hand, about two
tons already hauled in.
The Maetan Sand and Gravel
Co. at Utica is leading all sta
tons of the White Star division
Of Socony Vacuum Oil company
in scrap rubber collection with
about $500 pounds turned in
and with Stan Swanton's station
at South Gratiot avenue near the
IS Mile road running a close
second with about 5000 pounds.
In all White Star has about 10
tons at its bulk station and with
10 tons more ready to be hauled
in from the sub-StationS.
Forest Kindra, Sinclair dis
tributor, to whom Ross AFFORD,
manager of Gowanic Golf Club,
contributed more than 500
pounds of rubber hose and rub
Der mating salvaged from the
golf course and clubhouse re-
spectively, said that he hadn't
yet weighed his stock on hand
but that he would be COntribut-
ing his share.
EYE FELLOWS
The keenest competition be-
tween oil stations of a single
string is being witnessed among
the Francis Goodar sub-agents
for Texaco. According to Ray
Brandenburg Of that outfit, Har-
vey Gerlach Of the Nine Mile
and Hoover roads shares the lead
with Elwood Duncan, Of Romeo,
with two tons as top figure:
T. X. Anderson, at Gratiot and
c ems avenues in Mount
Clemens has about one and one
half tons; Earl RohrbeCk, of
Waldenburg had about three
quarters Of a ton, and Goodyear
Service has about $50 pounds
Of rubber on hand after having
had its original stock hauled