Askov American., 1943-05-13
Salvaging Plans
Talked BY Askov
Commercial Club
Scrap Metal Drive, Fats
and Tin Can Collecting
Plans Being Perfected.

In an effort to better even the fine
drive made here last fall and to meet
the new demands being made for
scrap metals of all kinds by the busy
war factories an intensive two-day
drive is being planned for the Askov
community June 4 and S.
Preliminary plans were discussed
at the regular monthly meeting of
the Askov Commercial club Monday
evening of this week and a commit
tee was appointed to work out the
details.
Will Collect Tin Cans.
The matter of tin can and fat
salvaging was also taken up. Waste
fats from the kitchens are already
being collected by Askov merchants
but no arrangements had been made
for handling tin cans. The various
grocery stores here will now collect
them and the consumers are asked
to bring in the used cans as fast as
possible. Each store will have box
or other receptacle where the Gus
toners can dump them, and it is ex-
pected that the cans will be picked
up about once a week.
The cans must be washed, all
paper and labels taken off, and both
ends removed The ends can be
placed inside the container and the
can neatly flattened to take up less
room in transportation. The tin that
is used on the cans is reclaimable
and the steel is also used in the
war effort.
Half Ton Scrap Per Farm.
The salvage division of the War
Production board has set the farm
scrap quota at approximately 3,0O0,-
900 tons for the first six months of
1943, or an equivalent of 1000 pounds
of scrap from every farm in the
United States. This must be collected
before July /. Most of the scrap
collected during 1912 has now been
used up and the falsity of the rumor
that there will be plenty of scrap"
is apparent when some of the follow
ing reasons for shortage are con-
sidered:
New steel-producing capacity will
require scrap and pig iron hereto
fore available to other consumers.
The dormant scrap program in in
dustry may not yield as much ton
mage as was hoped for because,
generally speaking, new machines
are not available to replace old ones
which in normal times would be
scrapped.
Overseas ingot shipments carry
with them the by-product production
scrap normally available to domestic
mills.
Fewer Used Cars.
Auto graveyards are receiving and
therefore producing far less jalopies
than during new car manufacturing
periods.
The fact that the manufacture of
farm equipment is curtailed makes
farmers hesitant to scrap machinery
which might eventually "come in
1IlC SOA CAit AoAih Oh AoH
Weld can be said to be almost nom
recurring"
So-called special projects-build-
ings, bridges, rails, etc.-are non
recurring. Almost obsolete struc-
lures which might normally be
scrapped are being repaired and pre-
served for the duration.
The current wartime manufacture
of ships, guns and tanks, unlike the
peace-time manufacture of automo-
biles, refrigerators, ETC., becomes
somebody else's scrap overseas in
stead of being returned as scrap to
our own mills.
These are a few of the most OBJ
vious factors now being considered
by those experts attempting to fore
cast the scrap situation.
The task of collecting scrap is far
from finished If the Allied Nations
are to be victorious many more
mountains of scrap are needed.