Evening star., 1943-10-08
Schools Map Plans
For Star-P-TA
Waste Paper Drive
20 Of Large Producers
Last Year Join Up;
Collections Arrunqed

The response TO the reopening of
The Evening Star-P-TA saliva ce-
Ior-Vlctory program for the collec-
ton Of waste paper at the schools
which has the approval OF the
Board of Education has been graft
flying with more than a score of
the larger producing schools in last
years campaign joining in imme-
diately.
From District l, where Collec-
tionS are made on Mondays have
come requests for inclusion in the
campaign from the 10 schools which
produced the most paper in their
district last year. Among them are
Jefferson Junior High School. which
was fourth in the city with a total
Of l09,902 pounds; Buchanan which
was ninth in the city, and Randall
Junior, which was Goth.
Others which ranked high and
will be back in again are Hine
Junior, Giddings, Wallach. BRYAN.
ketcham, Van Buren, Paye and Am
bush.
From District 2, where collec-
tons will be made on Tuesdays. re-
quests for inclusion in the program
have come from Garrison. second
in the city-wlde rating with a total
OF 1892 pounds; Grimke, fifth
with l022l4, and Garnes-Patterson
which ranked 18th in the city.
Others in the Tuesday list will in
clude Woodbridge, Brookland, Moves,
Bunker Hill, Taft Junior, Shaw
Junior, and Cleveland. Garnet
Patterson probably will not be ready
to start until week after the cam
palgn gets under way.
Collections Begin Monday.
Third district schools, where COL
, lectlonS are made on Wednesdays,
which will be in the program start
ing next week include Adams, 10th
last year; Petworth, 11th; Morgan,
18th; Barnard, 18th. and Whittier,
Rudolph, Keene. Mott and Bruce.
H. D, Cooke also will probably be
in although final details are not
arranged.
Collections will get underway
/ Monday and as fast as schools
notify the Salvage Editor of The
Star Of their desire to participate,
they will be added to the schedules.
All schools taking part will re-
celve top price for their paper
which at the present time is so cents
per hundred pounds for newspaper
and Is cents per hundred for maga-
zines and cardboard.
The paper this year must be
weighed at the schools and be tied
in bundles of 40 pounds each, news
paper, magazines and cardboard all
being bundled separately. Because
OF the shortage of gas and man.
power, 1t will be necessary for 4
school to have a minimum of IL
bundles to be collected
Schools in District ! which COW
ers Southwest and Southeast Wash
lngton which notify The Star bv
Saturday noon that they will be
ready will be added to the Monday
collections. Those desiring inclu-
sion in District 2 collections on
Tuesday must make that fact known
by Monday at noon.
The districts are laid out as they
were last year so that schools re-
| questing collections can determine
which district they fall in.
Starting Sunday, The Star will
carry daily schedules of the COL
lectlons set for the following day
and, as figures are available, the
ranking of the first five schools in
each district.
Last years record of 100000
pounds of paper collected and $40
900 revenue earned for the use of
the various P-TA and home anc
school groups should be exceeded
easily for each month nearly 12,-
100000 pounds of newsprint alone
come into Washington and there
is wide-open opportunity to find
the waste paper so urgently needed
by the mills now working almost
| on a hand-tO-mouth basis