The invitation for bids was sent out on August 20, 1953, and the bids were opened on September 8, 1953. This particular invitation involved 75-ton International trucks for which the original acquisition cost was $5,155 each.

They were 1943, 1944, and 1945 models, and it appears that they sold for from $477 to $887.50 each. They were generally the same type of truck that was involved in the previous sale, and they went through the same procedures, and were not repairable, and were from 8 to 10 years old.

Lieutenant Colonel JENNINGS. Yes, sir.

Mr. RIEHLMAN. Were those sold locally?

Lieutenant Colonel JENNINGS. Yes, sir, some of them were.

Mr. COTTER. How wide a geographical area do your bids cover on this type of sale?

Lieutenant Colonel JENNINGS. Invitations for bids were mailed to 296 prospective bidders, ranging from Brooklyn, N. Y., to places like Denver, Colo., Cleveland, Ohio, Upper Darby, Pa., St. Paul, Minn., Glendale, Calif., Austin, Miss., among many others.

In addition, the General Services Administration, and the Surplus Materials Division (Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Department of the Navy, Washington, D. C.), and so forth, were notified.

Mr. COTTER. What has been your experience with regard to the excess material reported on forms 120 being picked up by other agencies, other than the Army? Have you had any percentage on that? Lieutenant Colonel JENNINGS. I do not recall any myself.

Mr. COTTER. In other words, so far as you are concerned, the time consumed screening through the other services and through the other Federal departments has been a waste of time?

Lieutenant Colonel JENNINGS. No, there are a lot of form 120's we have sumitted that we have not heard from. The disposal authority for the trucks came back fairly recently and fairly reasonably quickly. I imagine the condition of the trucks had something to do with that.

Mr. COTTER. How big a backlog do you have?

Lieutenant Colonel NELSON. I have 55 or 56.

Mr. COTTER. Even if you soon receive disposal authority, your peak load for disposal will not be reached until after the camp is inactivated and personnel will be gone.

Lieutenant Colonel JENNINGS. The form 120's will dribble back from time to time. Some of them will authorize disposition by surplus sale and some shipment to other stations.

Mr. COTTER. But you had 10 sale invitations out in fiscal 1953, and you have put out 16 in fiscal year 1954. If you get any substantial percentage of these form 120's returned, it will run a couple of hundred, possibly; is that correct?

Lieutenant Colonel MCCLUSKEY. Camp Drum will be based on Niagara after the end of the year.

Mr. COTTER. You will not ship the stuff up there, will you?

Lieutenant Colonel MCCLOSKEY. We will do as little shipping as possible.

Mr. COTTER. Niagara will just handle the paperwork?
Lieutenant Colonel MCCLOSKEY. That is right.

SALE NO. 8

Mr. COTTER. We will now go to Sale No. 8. The invitation was sent out on September 3, 1953, and the bids were opened on September 21, 1953. This sale included miscellaneous salvage items such as old tires, burned-out motors, wet-cell batteries and field jackets, as well as 69 cafeteria chairs.