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Show Washington Snapshots Reports of the Hoover Commission Commis-sion indicate that Uncle Sam could save $30 million to $50 million a i year by sorting official records, throwing away useless papers, rehousing re-housing essential documents, and setting up a "birth control" system for new records. The commission found that U. S. records now occupy 18,500,000 cubic feet of space. Six Pentagons . . They would fill six buildings the size of Washington's Pentagon and thev are accumulating- at the rate of a million cubic feet per year. Even space for housing these records costs about $27 million per year. Experts say it takes another $20 million to operate and maintain main-tain the buildings. Much of it Useless . . . Officials admit that one-third of these records are useless and could be burned without loss to anyone. A lot of them could have been destroyed de-stroyed when new records were made to replace them, but instead, both new . and old records were stored. Experts suggest that acres of space could be saved by using microfilm mi-crofilm for records important enough to keep. Others, it is said, might be stored in shut-down war plants in various parts ' of the country. A lot of people believe the old papers should be cleared away in some fashion before buildings get so crowded with records that there is no room to work. |