Evening star., 1942-09-22

closing special drive at a meeting
last night in the United States
Chamber of Commerce Building.
Leaders in the drive expressed
| the opinion that the drive in the
western half of the city would yield
even more than the 1855, 900 pounds
collected in the Northeast and
Southeast sections of the city two
days ago.
8 am. Stressed by Xanten.
From William A. Xanten, super
visor OF city refuse, came an urgent
appeal that householders have their
scrap at sidewalks by 8 am. on
| Sunday. Because many persons
| did not do this until as late as
pm, number of trucks was
forced to go over the same route
three times.
Il can say now that trucks will
make a maximum of two round
trips Sunday" he told the civic
leaders last night. And if scrap
Is placed on streets after / o'clock,
| it stands a chance of not being
collected"
Horace Walker, secretary to the
Commissioners Special Salvage
Scrap Committee, stressed the i'm
portance of selecting emergency de-
pots sufficiently large to accommo-
date as much as Is to 80 truck
loads OF scrap. Salvage depots al
ready in operation in various sec
tions for the continuing collection
of rubber, metal and other ma
terials will not be large enough,
he said.
Must Be Approved.
Scrap chairmen were given until
Thursday morning to select a site
for their emergency depots. Mr..
Walker pointed out that each site
must be inspected by Mr.. Xanten's
ofhce, and that in the event it
proved inadequate, another would
have to be found.
Il can not stress too strongly the
need of finding your depot early"
Mr.. Walker told the group. He said
it should have one or more en-
frances and be located on level
ground so that loaded trucks would
not have too hard a pull.
In answer to a question. he said
volunteers-air raid wardens, Boy
Scouts, auxiliary police and f1remen
and other defense groups-should be
encouraged to go from house to
mouse on Sunday morning to see if
householders require assistance in
getting scrap from Easements and
other places in the home.
Mr.. Xanten estimated that the
emergency depot must be at least
an acre in size. He also warned
against placing scrap out the night
before collection, but stressed that
collectors could not come into homes
to pick up scrap. Such procedure
would slow the drive down, he said.
2 Scrap Meetings Today.
Two hundred and twenty trucks will
be used again this Sunday, with a
backing of Army trucks in the event
OF bottlenecks developing at any
depot.
On the agenda today are two
important scrap meetings and a
ceremony at Eleventh street and
Alabama avenue Sc, where a water
tank con tanning approximately
100000 pounds of scrap metal will be
demolished by the District Commits
sioners.
At 2 O'Clock this afternoon, Mr..
Walker will call meeting of all
! property officers of the District
Government at the departmental
auditorium to formulate plans for
scrap collections in District
| buildings
Mr.. Walker will present the Off
GERS with list of items needed in
the current drive and will ask that
survey of scrap possibilities in
buildings under their operation be
returned to the Commissioners
within Is days.
At o'clock this afternoon in the
District Building the special SAL
wage committee, headed by Col.
Beverly C. Snow. assistant engineer
commissioner, will convene to dis
cuss the results of Sundays drive in
the eastern half of the District and