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Show 4A Thurjdoy, December DESERET NEWS, com-pani- cs Pentagon Orders properly disposal yards were not yet on the Pentagon com-p.tnetwork. Property disposal officers are resonsible to the individual services, the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, while tne defense surplus sales offices they work with are part cf the Defense Supply Agency. Apparently lines of resonsibil-it- y beand communications tween the disposal officers and the DSSO are one part of the problem which sees millions of dollars in useful equipment sent to scrap yards rather than sold for its actual value. Zaretsky said that defense officials should have noticed that FL Belvoir was dumping laige quantities of electronic e and other equipment as scrap when it could have been sold as usable material His deputy, Col J. E. Thomas, said that if reports by the Deseret News were ti the inspectors, true, accountants, and the whole defense surplus management system had broken down at that base. The Deseret News had indicated that the problem of expensive material being cold for little or nothing was with inadequawidespread, cies at Ft. Belvoir only symptomatic of waste throughout the disposal system. Zaretsky said it was possible that material costing $100 million or more was wasted in defense disposal operations, but he said that that amount. By GORDON ELIOT WHITE Oteerct News Vtft&mrtftan - er Bureau 'WASHINGTON The lop Pentagon official responsible Ufr the disposal of billions of dollars worth ' 'of surplus ; equipment has lor dered an Immediate vestigation ' I in- -. of the scrapping of large quan-- ; ; i titles of valua-J b 1 e technical and electronic at equipment -F Belvoir. t 'Va., reported last week by the Deseret News. The Ft. Bel..voir ca-- e has already been ; tinder scrutiny by the Federal -' ' Bureau of Investigation. H. S. Zaretsky, chief of the Vipply management policy d rectorate in the office of Secy. Melvin Laird, said .that property disposal opera-tioiir such as those at FL w ere the weak link in the which handles excess defense stocks. is Bel-,vo- la a ; interview, two-ho- Zaretsky said that the Defense Department had programs to reuse or sell virtually everything the military discards,. ;but that most of the waste re-.ported by 3ie Deseret News .'was the result of inadequacies -- the working level at individual military base dispoal yards. He said computers were .already being used to save billions in excess property stocks, bnt admitted that at r a-- non-prof- it id ferred to other federal agencies. He said $791 million in material was sold, up from $584 million in fiscal 1968. About $118 million in material was lost in fires, destroyed, or abandoned. The current fiscal year disposal total he said, might top $7 billion because of a large number of expensive aircraft which will be dropped from have incentives said, to put 0f 5 P.M. - MIL THRU FRI. 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Enough for 10 lb. turkey. r $1,300 PAW BEAR ; SKI LOCKS BfSOSiil E wa a vast operation, handling more than four million stock number items. Studies showed, he said, that it cost $7.50 Just to write up an item for reuse. Independent exam BOG? HOT VERSATILE SKI PARTS i 3 a 1 now he 1 i i i I Using agencies, SHOP SUNDAY 12 TO i l past ammunition and many other military commodities could not be sold after use. DSA spokesmen indicated to the News that last year the Pentagon sold property which cost $584 million and received $5L2 million in return, out of a total of about $5 billion in overall disposal. The supply management chief said the disposal system excess material back into the system, sometimes at savings to themselves, and could sometimes draw other bases excess stocks at no cost to their own accounts. He estimated that only about half the redistributed excess items were charged at the same value as regular defense stocks. Zaretsky said that io say that an overall figure of a quarto of a cent on the dollar was realized in the disposal of defense surplus was unrealistic and unfair. He noted, as the News said earlier that NUMBER ECFFE IHSERT i Air Force stoJks. Zaretsky did not give a total figure for excess property that is refused, but he said that computerized stock systems put about 75 percent of potentially excess material back into use. He said that computers were revolutionizing Pentagon controls and were makig it in possible for supply officers to board equipment and supplies, something that contributed to large quantities of surplus material in the Sail Lake and Ogden :a ; Another $280 million in material was given away to the states institutions, and $45u million was used in military assistance programs overseas cr trans- less than two percent, was small in relation to the $31 billion worth of equipment that the Pentagon must get rid of each year. The top Defense Department supply officer said the Pentagon had gear worth $107 billion in use and smother $47 billion In the supply system. Another $40 billion in new procurement has been authorized by Congress for the current fiscal year. In the last fiscal year material costing $15 billion was scrapped, much of it in weapons that are never sold intact : : Probe elvoSr high-valu- De-Ten-se inations by management have been used to set a minimum value for $25 screening items before disposal, on the basis that it was more economical to junk small parts than to handle them. The minimum "report-abl- e value caries on dxfier-en- t Lems, with some as costly as $3,000 deemed not worth trying to reuse. CoL Thomas said the Pentagon had appraisers studying material being disposed of. but be indicated they were not providing accurate estimates cf the commercial value of surplus items. 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