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(a) Junk centers should be set up in every State so that junked 

 automobiles, vehicles, and other scrap metal may be processed. 

 These centers should be established by cooperating city-county agen- 

 cies, and should be financed by these governments, following coor- 

 dinated State planning. 



(b) Mobile junk shredders should be developed by competent 

 engineers and then made available to junk centers on a rotating basis. 

 Such mobile junk shredders would probably have to be located in 

 conjunction with railroads because of their weight, need for a solid 

 base, and the need for ancillary equipment to smash car bodies flat, 

 balers, cranes, etc. 



The mobile junk shredders should be researched and developed 

 under the auspices of the Federal Government, and thereafter oper- 

 ated and financed jointly by Federal and State agencies on a matching 

 basis. 



(c) A natural beauty service corps of young men should be estab- 

 lished. This corps would cooperate with local city, county and 

 regional volunteer groups to collect and assemble abandoned and 

 junked cars into holding lots located immediately adjacent to estab- 

 lished junk centers. Cars would be retrieved from bodies of water, 

 streams, lakes, roadsides, streets, alleys, vacant lots, backwoods, etc. 

 They would be held in the holding lots for one month for purposes of 

 stripping and for legal clearance before the shredding process would 

 begin. The service corps would work well in advance of the mobile 

 junk shredder. 



The natural beauty service corps could be financed from the sale 

 of automobile parts recovered, scrap metal, and subsidies from State- 

 Federal funds. 



2. To obtain legislation for future control of junked automobiles, 

 legislation should be proposed to all State legislatures (i.e., model 

 law), and encouraged by appropriate Federal legislation and appro- 

 priations along the following lines: 



(a) Persons, corporations, and other legal entities must deliver 

 all abandoned and junked vehicles either to scrap metal dealers or 

 to established junk centers. Owners should be paid the junk value 

 of the vehicle, but should be allowed a certain period of time- 

 perhaps 24 hours to strip the vehicle for parts. It would then be 

 turned over to the center to be made into scrap metal. 



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