Lions Sweep City in Miami Scrap Drive Rally
Lions Clubs of Greater Miami with Boy Scouts and volunteers led a 30 day salvage drive collecting 2,000,000 pounds of scrap. About 3,000 volunteers aided, with 140 trucks plus 60 more at peak. Funds from scrap go to the Dade County War Chest via the Dade County Defense Council.
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Lions
City
Miami
Fla
Lions Clubs
Greater Miami
Dade County
Mark R. Chartrand
Lions Publcity
C. H. Reeder
Dade County Salvage Committee
Boy Scouts
Junior Commandos
Coral Gables
Greater
Hea
Wometco
Plana
Hal Pelton
Salvage
H. B. Jackson
R. F. Lewis
Hialeah
Jack Erneman
Miami Club
Allapattah
Miami Beach
Miami Springs
Dade County Defense Council
Dade County War Chest
Modernize Your Bed For Uncle Sam
Ottawa Kansas, Robert Muecke shows how to convert an iron bed for salvage. He removes the head with a hacksaw and plugs ends with wood or concrete then paints for a neater bed. His family credits the idea to salvage and shows five to twenty pounds of scrap from each bed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Kan
Robert Muecke
Robert
William
Muecke
Salvage Program booklet offered free in SCRAPPER issue
The Coatesville pamphlet now available free of charge in booklet form includes program descriptions, photos, charts and other salvage drive information. Copies can be requested by writing to The rapper Room. S40dA 390 km Avenue, New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coatesville, Pa
Rapper
Km Avenue
New York
Italian Scrap Drive by Lincoln Society Invades Homes
A 117 member Italian Lincoln Society in St Louis operates a Sunday scrap collection, entering basements and attics to haul away salvage. They report nine tons in seven blocks plus twenty tons from prior forays, planning to turn profits to Army and Navy relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Uncle Sam
Lincoln Society
Sam Rain
Army
Rain
Army and Navy
Merit Emblem Honors Scrap Dealers Aimed at War Supply
The Merit Emblem program continues through 1942 to reward scrap dealers meeting WW2 needs. Conservation Division inspectors survey 10 000 yards monthly, checking books, yard conditions, and staffing to ensure adequate scrap was processed. Yards meeting targets earn the emblem. poor performance can lose it. first awards were given August 31.
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Conservation Division
WPB
Detroit Kids Form Junior Commandos on Woodingham Drive
All children in a Woodingham Drive block pledged to become Junior Commandos. Sponsored by a mother, they meet regularly and educate housewives on salvaging tin cans fats and other salvageable material while gathering iron rubber and other items neighborhood wide.
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Jyetrgs
Woodingham Drive
Scraplapper: State Secretary Starts Salvage Newspaper
Columbia reports Toaquin E Lagrone, executive secretary of South Carolina Salvage, has launched a state scrap newspaper named The Scrap Lapper. The paper chronicles salvage activities, aims to inform workers, and shares successful methods from other regions. Sign Your Name to a Shell.
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Columbia
8. C
Toaquin E Lagrone
South Carolina
Scraplapper
Lagrone
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Detroit Kids Form
Scrap Commandos
Rosssen
Tor the Scrapper
DeSoto Ave
St. Louis, Mo
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