Show Army Removing Furniture In Wake of Fort Bill Death The remnants of War department materials loaned to the University of Utah today were being removed from the Annex Fort following death of the Watkins-Thomas bill at the hands of the senate subcommittee on military Under the surplus Fort Douglas would have been partitioned directly to a number of including the which would have received some acres north of Hempstead including the Fort Douglas golf Transfer of the military reservation to the War Assets administration will be made July But as filing typewriters and miscellaneous furniture were being taken from the Annex by the War University of Utah Utah sol-ens and Salt Lake City civic leaders moved to divert disposal of the fort under WAA exclusively to public Arthur V. announced that he will concentrate on this under the surplus property the fort may be sold to the highest although the with third priority may be granted a discount of per University officials today expressed the belief that since the Building is being occupied by the university the Annex will become the property of the Federal agencies have top state Under the Wat-kins the Salt Lake the forest Veterans administration and national guard would have received substantial properties of the The Fort Douglas civic committee seeks to obtain the same disposal terms from the WAA as would have been obtained by special act of A. Ray university president who two weeks ago made a special trip to Washington to argue for passage of the expressed optimism that the ultimate disposal would parallel original Also killed with the Watkins bill were a number of other bills making disposal of surplus army |