Bridges, Book Ends & Blades

Scrap-conscious OPM conservationists last week saved for defense the rusting skeleton of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge ("Galloping Gertie") from a watery grave in Puget Sound. Scrap dealers had not been interested until OPM stirred them up. Now they figure they can salvage it at a. profit even under the $20-a-ton scrap ceiling. Result: addition of 3,500 tons to tne shrinking U.S. scrap-steel stockpile, enough to build 500 light tanks.

Other conservation items:

P: From the dim recesses of the Library of Congress, the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, Capitol Architect David Lynn recovered 285 tons of scrap--old motors, brass book ends, aluminum and steel strips, copper scraps.

P: To boost pulp supplies WPA is mangling 25,000,000 folders of World War I draft records, baling the shreds.

P: But, complained the Conservation Division, the equivalent of 400 Army tanks in used razor blades is still being thrown away annually--not, unfortunately, into the Grand Canyon or any other one place.

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