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D14546-2
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- 1943-05-23 (Creation)
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On Sunday May 23, 1943, a delegation from the Civilian War Council was presented with a check for $1,000 by the Tacoma Victory Salvage Committee. The check represented the proceeds from salvage turned into war materials. Posed left to right in front of a background of mixed scrap at "Scrap Iron Acres" are E.M. Wetherell, Rev. Harold M. Booch (both of the Council,) Lloyd Thorpe ("yard boss" of the Salvage Committee,) Ed Wahlquist and B.G. Floyd (Masons.) Each Sunday, a different organization gathered at the Acres, Pierce County's salvage depot near the Pacific Match Co. at 3223 So. Union, to sort the scrap gathered by County residents. The check represented countless hours of volunteer labor sorting and loading out the scrap that was re-manufactured back into war materials. (T. Times 5/24/1943, pg.14)
World War, 1939-1945--Economic & industrial aspects--Tacoma; Fraternal organizations--Tacoma--1940-1950; Scrap drives--Tacoma--1940-1950;