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Let's Go Fishing for Scrap
 An
article in a recent issue of "Business Week" described how Paul
Whitman, a farmer living near Shawano Lake, Wisconsin, has been
contributing to the scrap metal campaign. It seems that "in the
good old days" old automobiles were stripped and then disposed,
of by a local automobile dealer who drove them onto the ice of
Shawano Lake in the winter. When the thaws came, the cars sank.
The dealer estimated that he had disposed of 500 cars in this
manner. With the urgent call for scrap metal Farmer Whitman
strung a cable from a pole to a winch and began hauling the cars
out.
Perhaps here is the kernel of another idea for salvaging scrap.
Rotary clubs can be of great assistance by investigating the
graveyards or dumping grounds for these old automobiles, and
recovering them so they may be turned over to the U.S.
Government.
R.I. The News Letter, USCNB Supplement, No. 7-2 Oct. 1942
 From
the January 1927 issue of The Rotarian from
Wolfgang Ziegler |
