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can be directed towards the establishment of better titling laws 

 and identification procedures to reduce car abandonment and 

 toward the liberalization of statutes requiring local governments to 

 hold abandoned cars for lengthy periods. This will greatly reduce 

 delays in the movement of abandoned cars into the scrap cycle. 

 In any local or State government decision, care must be taken to 

 avoid actions which may later prove to be unsound. Such organiza- 

 tions as the Council of State Goverments and Mayors' Conference 

 can be helpful in this regard. 



There are, undoubtedly, many other ways in which government 

 and industry can act cooperatively toward a solution of the junk 

 car problem. I know I speak for all parts of government when I 

 extend a sincere invitation to you to present your ideas on solutions 

 to this national problem. 



Mr. MORRIS. When we consider the problem of junked and 

 abandoned cars, it is imperative that we define the various industries 

 which have been grouped under the junkyard category. 



1. The junkyard is the place where items which have lost their 

 original usefulness are collected and stored for future sale as 

 secondary or waste material. 



2. The scrapyard is where scrap materials are purchased for 

 processing and sold to the steel mills as an important ingredient in 

 the making of new steel. 



3. The auto graveyard, properly defined, is where cars have been 

 abandoned and left to disintegrate, such as at gas stations, body 

 shops and garages, streets and highways, farms and open spaces. 



4. The auto wrecking yard is where cars are purchased and dis- 

 mantled for the main purpose of salvaging good usable parts for 

 resale. It also provides the main source of supply for the automotive 

 parts rebuilders. The residue, those parts of the car for which there 

 is no further parts reclamation, is sold as scrap. The auto wrecker 

 is primarily in the retail business. Seventy-eight percent of the cars 

 in his yard are purchased for their parts value. 



The National Auto and Truck Wreckers Association is quite 

 cognizant of the necessity of keeping America beautiful. Four years 

 ago, it inaugurated its own beautification program, encouraging its 

 members to improve the appearance of their places of business by 

 means of fences, planting of trees, painting buildings, etc. It has 

 been instrumental in setting up community programs in many cities 

 and towns. 



