Palmer. Alaska - Ootober 30« 1942
No. 43
U. S. STEEL PRODUCTION LAGS FOR LACK
OF SCRAP MATERIAL
L« C. Stock, Harold W. Rice, and Harold L. Thuma and
V, C. Mau are directing a Scrap Metal drive in Palmer
and vicinity by the Matanuska Valley Farmore Cooperatin ;
Association, students of the High school and the Mata*
nuska Sleotrla Association* A railroad freight oar
is to be spotted at Palmer today and loading will con
tinue over Saturday, Sunday and Monday*
Adults are asked to pile small pieoes of scrap which
they collect, in a heap in a conspicuous plaoe so that
it may be easily found if snow falls during the days
of collection.
Any funds derived from the drive, it has been deci
ded, will be given the High school and the manner of
their use will be determined by the Student Council.
IT IS NOT DESIRABLE THAT ANY PIECES OF SCRAP 1HICH
CAN BE USED IN REPAIRING FARM MACHINERY OR OTHER NECES*
SARY EQUIPMENT BE DONATED TO THIS DRIVE.
A cleo.r picture of the importance of scrap in the
war may be had from the following data, prepared fby
the Conservation Division of the Har Production Boardi
1-SCRAP IRON AND STEEL
(The following items will provide an amount of scrap
equivalent to the scrap normally required to oroduce
the steel used in the opposite military item.)
1 old Flatiron equals 2 steel helmets or 30 hand
grenades.
9 old flatirons equals 6-inch shell.
1 Eleotric iron equals 5 37-mm antiaircraft shells
9 •* mm 1,300 ,50 cal, cartridges.
Old wood or coal kitchen stove equals 10 4-in shells
10 stoves equal a so out car
Set of skid chains equals 20 antiaircraft
shells
5 bathtubs
Lawn mwor •
Old radiator
one f ton truck
six 3-inch shells
17 .30 cal. rifles
Kitchen sink • .25 3-inch shells
Large garbage cab .2 .30 cal. rifles
'* " " . 1,000 .30 cal. cartridges
Old wash pail • 3 bayonets
Old disa(420 pounds) . 210 semi-automatic light
carbines.
Old plow(05O pounds) • 100 75-mm projectiles
Discarded tractor . 580 nachino guns (30 cal.)
Half the material used to make stoel is scrap.
If l£ million tone(2,500,000,000 lbs,) of scrap
were collected, this would provide the scrap necessary
to maket
a More than twice as many battleships as there are in
the whole world today.
b. Snough 2»000 pound bombs to drop 3 per minute from
Flying Fortress bombers incessantly for over 3
years, or
c Snough 100-pound bombs to drop one every second of
every minute of evory Hrvjr of overy day for over 3
years.
AUTOMOBILES
(containing on the average, 1500 pounds of steel)
If used with an equivalent amount of pig iron one
automobile will make more than- (Cont. Pago 6).
DIM
OUT!
We are asked to remind
ourselves and others
that dim-out regulations
prevail for a 12-hour
period each day between
the hours of 6130 p.m.
and 6t30 a.m« Shades
should be lwered in all
rooms that are lighted^
The following classifi
cations were given by the
Palmer Local Selective Ser
vice board at a meeting
held on October 27i
William Herman 1-A
Walter Sipprell 1-A
Joseph A. Kurtz 1-A
John 0. Flolo 1-A
Hugh Leslie Davis 4-F
Harry Chilligan 4-F
Henry Host 2-B
Henry Malmberg 2-B
Dorr N* Holloway 2-B
Clyde W. Heaton 1-C
Arnold Jarvimaki 1-C
Walter Cioffi 1-C
Kosti Nieminen 1-C
N. N. Skjoldi 1-C
Calvin Aiken 1-C
Clarence Felton 1-C
Roy L» Wall 3-B
Genevieve Moffitt,Clerk
Local Board No, 9, Palmer,
Alaska,
Jan Koslosky and Herbert
Baird, who drove an Inter
national Panel Delivery
truck from Palmer to Fair
banks over the new Glen
Highway, 145 miles from Pal
mer to Gulkana where the
Glen Highway emerges on the
Richardson Highway and then
on to Fairbanks, are emphat
ic in their praise of modern
road-building. They assert
that the new highway is in
its infancy better than the
long-built Richardson High
way, There is better grade
and fewer curves.
"It is a beautiful drive
so for as scenery is concern
ed," said Mr. Koslosky, "Es
pecially from Lila Lake on.
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