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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1972
Page
7
Mexico’s annual spring clean-up runs Monday through Thursday with city trucks handling four days of hauling. Residents should place items at street edge the night before, brush must be bundled four feet or shorter, construction debris not accepted.
The city has long held a spring trash collection with some doubt about its continuity during World War II when scrap drives were emphasized. The postwar resumption is noted, but memories don’t pin down an exact start date for the municipal custom.
An Associated Press report describes a town’s three week Operation Junk where residents dropped appliances, tools, chairs, and even a bass fiddle at a town hall site. Items circulated quickly as scavengers repurposed offerings into storage, furniture, or salvage, with debates on calling the waste rubbish.
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