Oil Men Set One Million Ton Goal For Scrap Program
The Scrap Salvage program of the Petroleum Industry calls for a complete survey of all existing plants and oil fields to reach a one million ton scrap target for 1942. In five months the program produced over 400000 tons as second hand equipment underpins new refineries. Texas oil fields yielded over 5000 carloads of scrap. Bayway plant dismantling reclaimed 35000 tons. Shell and Pacific Coast units added thousands more. Cooperation with WPB Conservation Division underpins national scrap drives as unused equipment is reclassified as scrap to support war production.
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Ashington
Sayway
Texas
Industrial Salvage Section
War Production Board
WPB
Conservation Division
Bayway
Standard Oil Comp
New Jersey
Bayonne
Bhell Oil Company
Pacific Coast
San Marino woman donates lamp for salvage drive
Mrs Benjamin J Shepard of San Marino Tuland donates a large wrought iron Japanese lamp to the local salvage committee. She calls it pretty but says she wants no part of it now as Japan seizes rubber and tin supplies used against the U S.
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Benjamin J. Shepard
San Marino
Tuland
Japan
Junked Locomotive Now In Navy Service
Tacoma paper reports old West Fork Logging locomotive One Spot, retired after 31 years hauling logs, was scrapped for war steel and remelted into plates for a destroyer at the Seattle Tacoma shipyard. The process highlights scrap drives led by the War Production Board and Washington Industrial Salvage Committee, with over 14 000 tons salvaged by the Manufacturers Association of Washington.
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Tacoma
Wash
West Fork Logging Company
War Steel
L. T. Murray
Irom
Seattle-Tacoma
Seattle
War Production Board
Washington
Manufacturers’ Association of Washington
Festive Mule Wagon Heralds Scrap Drive
In Gastonia North Carolina women spearheading a local scrap collection campaign parade a decorated mule and wagon through streets to publicize the drive. The eye catching vehicle uses a cow bell to announce its approach as scrap collection ramps up nationwide with millions of tons of iron and steel believed idle in homes farms and plants.
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Gastonia
N. C
Mills Novelty Boss Urges Scrap Salvage Drive
Fred L. Mills president of Mills Novelty Company now in war production notes a salvage lot of about 1000 tons of machinery tools and parts was dumped into the scrap drive. He emphasizes idle metal from peacetime plants should be turned in to aid steel needs and war production. He cites rubber use in ships bridges and Scout cars to illustrate resource demands and ally support.
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Fred L. Mills
Mills Novelty Company
Mills
Phar brothers salvage scrap from Monongahela River
The three Phar brothers Paul John and Jysse operate as professional salvage divers under WPB sponsorship. They have recovered 167 tons of first class scrap from the Monongahela River mud near Jones & Laughlin Steel and could total 350 tons at this site. They plan to move to Hays Bridge after cleaning J and L yard area to salvage six nine inch pipes weighing 24 tons under Equitable Gas Company permit.
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Pittsburgh
Phar Brothers
WPB
Monongahela River
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation
Hays Bridge
Monongahela
Equitable Gas Cam
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Petroleum Industry
John
Woate Reed
Navy
South Stafford
Conn
Marshall Bradway
Frank Johnson
Bradway
Willimantic River
Diving Brothers Mills
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