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ChoosePrintedGabardSandmaidOtherHOUSECLEANINGDAYS ARE HEREmittee appointed by the Galveston chamber of commerce and headed by Sam Davis, are turning several hours weekly into a plant scrap hunt.part, and continues to send toWPA workers expect to beginFOR GALVESTON(Editor’s Note: This Is a story on how a Texas city is gathering scrap metals.)By Mourine Huepers(Galveston News Staff)GALVESTON. Oct 3 (V. It’s fall house-cleaning time for this city by the sea—an attic-to-celiar campaign to ferret out every piece of scrap metal in town.Since Jan. 1 Galveston has produced some 4000 tons of scrap which means about 85 pounds per capita.8,000,000 PoundsiThe current, renewed drive, Galveston hopes, will produce another 3.000,000 pounds by year’s end. To that end some 15C0 air raid wardens and 9000 school children are out fine-combing homes and businesses.You can see that this is not a short-few-weeks matter here. The drive has been under way for months.Paul E. Nicholls began a determined campaign for scrap collection following his appointment in February as chairman of the salvage for victory committee here.Scrap tonnage increased by heaps and pounds from that time.Nicholls Makes AppealThrough the medium of newspapers, Nicholls appealed to Boy Scouts, AWVS and civic organizations to “get in the scrap.Salvation Army trucks were donated for use in picking up scrap metal which Galvestonians salvaged from attics and garages. Old German and American cannons, relics of World war I, were yielded from city property; slot machines smashed at police headquarters were sent on the route to be turned into fighting guns and tanks; patriotic citizens donated prized collections of swords and bayonets which included Japanese and German navy swords; Texas’ oldest bank safe was added to the scrap pile through contribution of the First National bank here; and ornamental iron fences, decades old, began their roll to steel mills.Plant Scrap HuntEmployes of industrial plants, prodded by an industrial scrap corn-soon digging up old streetcar tracks throughout the city, and an abandoned oil pipe line seven miles long will be .salvaged.Fort Crockett army trucks have been operating for weeks collecting thousands of pounds of scrap metals.Children's CanvassAmerica’s steel mills an avalancheof scrap metal labeled—“Especiallyfor the Axis.Four LocalIn Aircraft PlantFour Port Arthur young women who began machinist trainingin the National Youth administra-A house-to-house canvass by children and air raid wardens has spurred housewives to look over domiciles for idle metal which can be tuined into active war machines to fight the Axis.All in all, Galveston has done itstion shop here have completedtraining in an NYA shop at Wacoand are now employed by Consolidated Aircraft corporation at Fort Worth, it was reported Saturday. They are Lucille O’Quinn, Mary Maxey, Erma Fay© Jones and Ethel Goudreaux.Make Inexpensive New FrocksAnd Sportswear From TheseRAYONSIn EveryShadePattern!From These:Spuns in a sheer wo ol-likeweave shown in many patterns.and Serges in completecolor assortmentCrepes and Verifirm Rayonfabrics in every popular color... All39 inches wide and washable!Rayons Priced up to $1.19 Yd.Npw Washf 111111111111111! 1111111111111 i 11 n 111111 i 111111111111! 1111111111 1111111111 ii 11 r 11 i 11111111111111111 m 1111111 ft 11111H11111111111 i 11111M1111111111111111 i 111111111 i 11111 i i i 1111111111111 lULi I i 111 i 11111 i 111111 i I
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Port Arthur News
Port Arthur, Texas, US
Sun, Oct 04, 1942
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