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HOUSECLEANING DAYS ARE HERE FOR GALVESTON(Editor's Note: This Is a storyon how a Texas city is gathering scrap metals.)By Mourine Huepersi1i15(Galveston News Staff)GALVESTON, Oct 3 UV 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 PoundsThe 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.e»,etsYou can see that this is not a short-few-weeks matter here. The drive has been under way for months.tPaul 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, AVVVS 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 wlvch included Japanese and German navy swords; Texas’ oldest bank safe was added to the scrap pilethrough contribution of the First National bank here; and ornamental iron fences, decades old, began their roll to steel mills.lPlant Scrap HuntEmployes of industrial plants, prodded by an industrial scrap committee appointed by the Galveston chamber of commerce and headed by Sam Davis, are turning several hours weekly into a plant scrap I hunt.part, and continues to send to America’s steel mills an avalanche of scrap metal labeled—“Especially for the Axis.”WPA workers expect to begin soon digging up old streetcar tracks throughout the city, and an abandoned oil pipe line seven miles long will be .salvaged.Four Local Girls In Aircraft PlantFour Port Arthur young ten who began machinist train the National Youth admirtion shop here have contraining in an NYA shop a'and are now employed by y dated Aircraft corporation Worth, it whs reported F They are Lucille O’Quir Maxey, Erma Faye Jc Ethel Goudreaux.Fort Crockett army trucks have been operating for weeks collecting thousands of pounds of scrap met-all, ' 'Children’s CanvassA house-to-house canvass by children and air raid wardens has spurred housewives to look over domiciles for idle metal which can blt;* turned into active war machines to fight the Axis.All in all, Galveston has done itsit ir it Buy U. S. Wor Bonds ond StompsMake Inexpensive New Ft And Sportswear From TRAYfFALL
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Port Arthur News
Port Arthur, Texas, US
Sun, Oct 04, 1942
Page 4
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