"Salvage Officials--Soldiers--Firemen Round Up Forty Tons of Waste Paper."

"Salvage officials estimated that nearly 40 tons of waste paper were collected in the last regular two week pick up in the city of Montgomery. On August 1st, Army trucks began unloading in the Central of Georgia Railroad yards. Mrs. J. Y. Brame, Director of the Citizens Service Corps and Mrs....

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Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Summary:"Salvage officials estimated that nearly 40 tons of waste paper were collected in the last regular two week pick up in the city of Montgomery. On August 1st, Army trucks began unloading in the Central of Georgia Railroad yards. Mrs. J. Y. Brame, Director of the Citizens Service Corps and Mrs. George Cleere, Home Salvage Chairman are on the spot. They are shown above with soldiers from Maxwell Field and Gunter Field, who drove the Army trucks used to pick up the paper and firemen, who acted as route men, directing the drivers through the city highways and byways." This image and caption appeared on page 2 of the August 1944 issue of Home Front, the monthly bulletin of the Alabama State Council of Defense.