One more article about the work the people of this community did for the war effort.
The government wanted all kinds of salvage to be gathered and sent for the war; iron and steel the first priority as they were needed for weapons and scores of other things.
They were also calling for rags, papers and bones. Yes, bones. That had me stumped for awhile, until I read an article on how they make glue out of them and how much glue was needed for an airplane.
The community got going and soon they had an unbelievable amount of everything ready to ship, and The Review proudly printed an article about it.

September 17, 1942
“Mr. Edward C. Fisher, national salvage organizer for the province of Alberta paid Coronation a call this week, and is pleased with the way materials are coming in here.
The purchasing elevator in Coronation is the U.G.G., and Mr. T. E. McColm is the purchasing agent. He and his helpers, Walter Petrow and Ernie Stannard, are loading the last of 95 tons of iron and steel on hand. It is estimated that there is another 100 tons of this scrap yet to come in from this district.
Scrap iron and steel delivered at the elevator from Salvage committees, farmers and others is being paid for at the rate of $7 a ton.
Coronation committee has some five tons of paper at the Salvage Depot sorted and ready for shipment when the time comes.
During the past two years Coronation district has shipped five cars of bones (equivalent to 100 tons) and there are now about four tons on hand.”
They also had 11 1/2 tons of rubber from tires and inner tubes; and 2,880 pounds of it was from rubber boots and shoes.”
Getting that amount of salvage would take an awful lot of people pulling together and working very hard; but they were used to that, they did it all the time,  that’s how they got things done.

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