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Berkeley, A Look Back Curbside recycling is implemented in 1942.
center mayor of Berkeley Historical Society, Berkeley Fred Gaines was persuaded to stand ankle tin cans crushed atop a railcar in this publicity photo for tin during the war can recycle Berkeley on April 12th player, 1942.
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Berkeleyans provided an avalanche of tin cans for recycling during the war 75 years ago in April 1942 Official Journal of Berkeley reported April 13 that one day may lead box 12 April provided more than 50,000 pounds into the coffers of de-tinning plant, for balls, for army jeeps, new boxes of fruits and vegetables for the men overseas, for all the many uses of war production program, it was 50,000 war effort books united by the residents of Berkeley.
The freight cars were loaded on a railway track by former incinerator city in west Berkeley a fleet of garbage trucks and a treadmill afternoon a money flow continuously emptied into the freight cars Gondola to the incineration plant.
The drive was so successful that Owen Dyer, co-chairman of the Defense Council Committee Salvage Berkeley, announced today that his ministry has made arrangements for the weekly collection of cans, bottles, rags and scrap.
Thus, weekly recycling bordering organized street began to Berkeley a quarter century before the modern municipal recycling began in Berkeley in the 1970s and it goes back even further, since recycling was a base of the Mobilized Women program in World War II, there is a century.
The war had not been going to stop many Berkeleyans their traditional summer camp, the Gazette reported on April 15 with the official approval of government agencies already given to civilian furloughs, Berkeley preparing for record attendance at the summer city holiday camps.
Berkeley adopted a slogan for furloughs forests, and intends to open Tuolumne and Camps Cazadero June 13 and Echo Lake Camp two weeks later.
On April 15, 1942, the Berkeley City Council named Bolivar, walk in the water park, a welcoming liberators most revered Latin America This was done, in part, in honor of the Pan American Day on April 14.
Take the plans of your dream home and forget these well laminated plans to remodel the old farm, the Berkeley Gazette reported April 9 Production Board The war shattered the hopes of today ordering almost all non essential building materials suspended for the duration of the work and equipment must be dedicated to the war effort.
In Berkeley, it would mean an end to most new civilian development such as construction of speculative single family home, but many simple wooden housing for war workers building would be built in the Rocs and order n ' not affect the work of maintenance and regular repairs to return a sound operating state structure without a change in design.
On April 9, the US military forces on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines surrendered to Japanese forces after fighting three months This left the island fortress of Corregidor Manila Bay as the remaining US American generals outpost promised fight to the end Corregidor can and will be held General Jonathan M Wainwright said today April 12 in an agenda for the garrison He would fall, however, less than a month later.
A local connection was reported April 10 Warren, Ms. Zeralda Wall Owsley son of the Defense Council Berkeley, was a Marine for Bataan.
On April 14, thousands of people on the edge of Jacksonville, Florida, saw a German submarine torpedo a merchant ship off the coast, it sank with 19 crew members killed.
Mandalay, in what was then Burma under British rule, was strongly attacked by Japanese bombers on the night of 3-4 April 1942, killing or injuring thousands and destruction of square miles of the legendary city of Burma.
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