Evening star., 1942-11-13
Fence Scrap Expected
To Yield at Least
500 Tons ind. T..
Owners Are Asked to
Offer Material THROUGH
Accompanying Form

A thorough. carefully planned
fence-scrapping campaign will net
the District at least 500 tons of sal
vageable iron and steel, William
Smith, local junk dealer, estimated
this morning as the Commissioners
Emergency Scrap Metal Committee
moved swiftly to put the program
into effect.
That's a minimum estimate"
said Mr.. Smith, supervising a de-
molition job on his fathers prop
erty at 7l9 Mount Vernon place
NV to claim 1l2-foot iron fence
for an approximate 1,000-pound ad-
dition to the city's scrap collection.
The metal wholesaler, brother of
Philip and Mark Smith, is one of
the operators of the Joseph Smith
& Sons yard at 36l9 Benning road
NE, site of one of the Easts major
processing plants.
Many Only Ornamental.
There are plenty of fences
around this town serving no purpose
other than ornamental" he added.
And their dismantling would not
necessarily detract from the beauty
of the city. I'd say 500 tons-or
100000 pounds-is a most con-
servative guess
The Smith fence on Mount Yer
non place, one of about four to be
demolished during the last four
weeks is expected to precede to
open-hearth furnaces at nearby
steel mills several hundred-per-
haps thousands--of similar de-
scription within the next few
months.
A plan for local collections, the
major details of which already have
been worked out, was approved by
the District Commissioners yester-
day on the recommendation of Col.
Joseph D. Arthur, jr., Assistant En-
gineer Commissioner and chairman
Of the Emergency Committee.
All persons with fences, railings,
gates, grillwork. etc, to donate to
the District drive are asked to fill
out the form appearing daily in The
Star and other newspapers.
According to the plan, as approved
yesterday the Repair Department OF
the District will dismantle all ma
terial donated to the Government,
satisfactorily to the donor"
The Star and other papers, in CO.
operation with the District Salvage
Committee, will act as a clearing
house for information concerning
the availability of the materials re-
Quested.
Readers are asked to mail The
Star form to the Salvage Committee,
412 Albee Building, Fifteenth and G
streets NV, where collection pro-
gram. based on the response among
private househclders to President
Roosevelt's latest plea for scrap
metal, will be organized.
Because Of the vastneSs of the
project, one of the most compre-
hensive undertaken to date in the
Districts quota -shatterlng scrap
metal drive, collections must await
the ironing out of complete details.
a matter which may consume several
weeks
Early Offers Asked.
Salvage leaders pointed out, how
ever, that the sooner available fences
are donated, the easier it will be to
work out collection schedule. Res
1dents are asked not to grow impa-
tient if they do not receive imme-
.Giate response to their offer of the
metals.
The fence-scrapping program
among private dwellings will be pre-
ceded in the immediate future by
District Government campaign
aimed at accumulating approXi
mately $1,000 pounds of fences and
railings.
The fence-scrapping plan ap-
proved by the Commissioners asks
for fences, ratings, gates, grillwork
and similar articles not needed for
real protective purposes, or not 9TH
erwise performing an essential
function and not of lrreplacable
historic or artistic value"
Sources for these, the announce
ment says, are private dwellings,
grounds, gardens, institutions,
churches, buSinesshouses commercial
establishments and private schools.