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rtsmouthPORTSMOUTH, N. H., MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBERalls On RiObligatiot1Don't Forget, Kids-You've Got A Date With U. S. ScraptiiVlrs.PassthetSay, kids, have you gat your 16 pounds of scrap yet?Better hurry and be at the Arcadia theater at 3 pm. sharp tomorrow for the Kiddles Scrap Matinee. The whole neighborhood gang is expected, no be sure everyone has the price of admission—10 pounds of salvage.An army truck will be stationed outside the theater from 3 to 5 pm., and two men assigned by Col. Raymond Watt of the 22nd Coast Artillery, Harbor Defenses, will be on hand to weigh the metal or rubber and certify it as an admission ticket.All you kids will want to contribute to your country's junk campaign and you’ll be able to see your hero Buster Crabbe In a jungle thriller, too. If you are any age up to 17 years, be sure to be on hand. And don’t forget your 10 pounds of scrap!PortsmouthScramblesIn All Out Junk DriveFFFHeights Pupils Lead Scrap Race:ine s a im-the per eryOut In front at the first tabulation of scrap weights, the Atlantic Heights school Is still working to come out on top in the final count In the children’s salvage drive. Pupils there have con-ributed and estimated two and a half tons.A close second and still going strong, St. Patrick’s Parochial school has piled up about 5.800 pounds of Junk. Stoves and tools have poured into the depot with such speed that already one truckload has had to be carted away to moke room for'more.The Atlantic Heights school end SI. Patrick’s Parochial school, as the leaders, are now vying for cash prizes offered by the Portsmouth Herald for the three winning schools. TheThBy’re off today on the greatest salvage pick-up campaign Portsmouth’s ever seen. Ward one's racing toward Its goal of junk roundup leader as city trucks comb the area for scrap metal, waste cloth and other salvage, as the Newspapers' tnited Scrap Metal drive gets underway. Front yards and doorsteps are piled with old meat grinders, roller skates, radiators, bathtubs and other pieces of junk.Children herald the trucks as they round the comer of residential streets. They scramble to help workers load the scrap.[Rceritofciansa:ondithprw:fainfitacdithevFContlnued On Page Six)Smack ’Em With ScrapuiHerald PrintsWard Two Hustles TonightTomorrow it's Ward two’s turn. Tonight all the families there will scour cellars or garages fcr scrap that’s needed by the government. Everyone co-operating to make tomorrow's drive in Ward two even better than today’s.If you live in the area, make sure your scrap is out ready for the city trucks to pick up first thing m the morning. Leave it cn your front : yard or on the steps and the drivers : will collect it. The earlier you get j your scrap out the better.Ward two Is that part of Portsmouth lying in an area included within a line beginning near the foot of Daniels street, running through the center of Market square to Congress street to Islington street to two feet west of the westerly corner of Mrs. Susan H. Ackerman’s property. Then the line runs to the southeasterly end of the Sheldon house to the center of Cass street where State street intersects it, then to the center of the intersection of Lafayette road and Middle road to Richards avonueFrom there it goes in direct line to Wentworth street to the intersection or Wentworth street and Pleasant street until it reaches a point opposite the westerly corner of hte land on the corner of Pleasant and Court streets and then fol-thmccHunter's Special Section TomorrowWinis(f/(Continued On Page Six)Scrap The Axis NowBrown Wins
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Portsmouth Herald
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, US
Mon, Oct 05, 1942
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