1.S. Congres. House.COMMITTEE ON
GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS. Special
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Sub

EIGHTY-NINTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

WILLIAM L. DAWSON, Illinois, Chairman

CHRISTINE RAY DAVIS, Staff Director
JAMES A. LANIGAN, General Counsel
MILES Q. ROMNEY, Associate General Counsel
J. P. CARLSON, Minority Counsel
RAYMOND T. COLLINS, Minority Professional Staff

SPECIAL SUBCOMMITTEE ON DONABLE PROPERTY
JOHN S. MONAGAN, Connecticut, Chairman

JOHN N. ERLENBORN, Illinois NORMAN G. CORNISH, Staff Administrator

PETER S. BARASH, Counsel

MABEL C. BAKER, Clerk

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CONTENTS

Statement of—

Arnold, Robert H., president, National Association of State Agencies

for Surplus Property; accompanied by D. W. Latch, vice president;

and W. A. Farrell, director_-

Ausman, Robert K., executive director, Health Research, Inc.; ac-
companied by John Apostolokos, comptroller and general counsel..

Griffin, Robert T., Assistant Administrator, General Services Ad-

ministration; accompanied by Joe E. Moody, General Counsel;

and Howard Greenberg, Commissioner, Utilization and Disposal
Service___.
Kelly, William P., Jr., Assistant Director for Management, Office
of Economic Opportunity; accompanied by Howard Dewey,
Property Officer; and John Donohue, Special Projects Officer, Office
of Management_

Medley, Max, Associate Director for Management, Peace Corps;
accompanied by William Wilkes, Office of Management, and
Anthony F. Essaye, General Counsel's Office_
Paradisi, Roland A., staff, Philadelphia School Board_
Parkinson, George, director, Board of Vocational and Adult Educa-
tion, Milwaukee Vocational Technical and Adult Schools_.

Riley, Paul H., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Materiel

Requirements).

Siegel, Harold B., Acting Director of Field Administration, Depart-

ment of Health, Education, and Welfare; accompanied by J. Lloyd

Taylor, Acting Chief, Division of Surplus Property Utilization;

and Manuel B. Hiller, Assistant General Counsel.

Waters, Herbert J., Assistant Administrator, Office of Material

Resources, Agency for International Development; accompanied

by Jack W. Woll, Director, Government Property Resources Di-

vision__.

Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by―

Arnold, Robert H., president, National Association of State Agencies

for Surplus Property:

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Excerpt from statement of Senator Lee Metcalf before the Senate

Subcommittee on Foreign Aid Expenditures, May 24, 1965 -- 73, 74

Excerpt from House Report 1943, 87th Congress, re evaluation

of the donable surplus property program-

Excerpt from the Federal Property Act of 1949-

Excerpt from the Surplus Property Act of 1944.

Exchange-sale category list..

Letter from Robert H. Arnold, to Hon. John S. Monogan, June

22, 1965.

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List of equipment in excess to be shipped to Kansas State
Forester, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kans., on
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Transfer order report PR 7561_.

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Hazard Vocational School, Hazard, Ky.-The school had no

freight elevator. But it improvised this way of lifting

heavy items of property to the second floor by means of a

surplus electric chain hoist attached to a swivel arm made

of surplus steel pipe...

Cocoa High School, Florida.-The students of Cocoa High

School, with electronic equipment donated from Patrick

Air Force Base, constructed and operated a tracking sta-

tion which followed Gordon Cooper's space flight..

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Bethany College, Oklahoma.-Many colleges, such

Bethany College in Oklahoma, couldn't afford the high cost

of a neutron counter. But Bethany obtained this one at the

surplus cost of only $25.

Orange Unified School District, California.-Twenty-five

Quonset huts which were donated to the Orange Unified

School District in California provided 31 additional class-

rooms when a school opened in September. The huts were

assembled by school personnel..

City of Auburn Civil Defense, Auburn, N. Y.-An important
task of any civil defense unit is the feeding of people when
emergency requires it. A converted van could turn out
to be everybody's kitchen in a distress area_

Norfolk County Public Schools, Chesapeake, Va.—A surplus

typewriter not only stimulates this child's desire "to do,"

but provides the opportunity. Development of manual

dexterity is the objective__

Lapeer State House and Training School, Michigan.—The

"surplus special" takes the happy route at the Lapeer State

House and Training School in Michigan. What child

doesn't enjoy a train ride? These converted warehouse

tractors mean a lot of "heaven on earth" for the handi-

capped students. They also provide transportation needed

by some of the special patients at the school__

Phenix City, Ala. When the city's growth justified a new

post office, the city planners snapped up the old one for

their new library faster than you can turn a page. No

time was lost in the renovating-

Southern Illinois University. The Southern Illinois Uni-

versity Vocational Technical Institute received buildings

of every conceivable type when the property that was

originally the old Illinois Ordnance Plant was conveyed to

them. The administration offices for the vocational

technical institute and the school of welding are housed in

two of the many types of buildings that are in constant use.

Fifty percent of the equipment used in the school of weld-

ing came from surplus property.

University of California, Davis, Calif.-A beta ray spectrom-

eter used in studying radioactivity was constructed by the

physics department of the University of California at

Davis. It took 9 miles of edge wound copper ribbon to

bring its 8-foot-long coil, 30 inches in diameter, to the

necessary tolerances of performance. This is the only

instrument in existence which is absolute in accuracy in its

field of low energy research. Twenty-five percent of the

instrumentation and 50 percent of the raw materials used

in fabricating the spectrometer were obtained from surplus.

Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, Tenn.-Surplus real

property is bringing many worthwile benefits to communi-

ties. The 200-bed Lamar unit of the Baptist Memorial

Hospital, Memphis, Tenn., was formerly a VA hospital...

New Jersey School for the Deaf.-The New Jersey School for

the Deaf had students make street lamps from aluminum

tubing and sheets as a training project. The lamps be-

came a useful addition to the school grounds_--

San Angelo Public School, Texas.—A bicycle rack made from

surplus steel cot ends..

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Union High School, Milwaukee, Oreg.-This is one of two

complete stadiums fabricated from surplus steel. Steel

decking, steel trusses, steel flooring, steel seating supports;

surplus steel from bottom to top---

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Florida College, Tampa, Fla.-A broadcasting station and

sound control booth were made possible for a new auditorium

at Florida College in Tampa through donations of surplus

from several Florida airbases_.-

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