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Show Boy Scouts to Get Army Surpluses ! -1 1 I fur use ill tlie Alps. It is both fire and wet proofed and is 51 by 82 inches in size with a height of 43 inches- The sale was made in line with the provisions of regulation regula-tion SPA 11 under which Boy Scout Councils are classified as non-profit institutions and as such are entitled to purchase surplus property at wholesaler 5 prices at a special priority. The OSP indicated that further fur-ther sales of recreation equipment equip-ment to the Boy Scouts might be announced shortly. J Sale of more than one mil-, lion dollars worth of army sur-1 plus sleeping bags and two-man j mountain tents to the Boy j Scouts of America has been j announced by the OSP, con-1 sumer goods division of RFC. The sale includes GG.000 new sleeping bags and cases, and 52,-500 52,-500 new and 13,000 used nylon and cotton tents- This merchandise mer-chandise originally cost the armed forces SI. 263,000. The sleeping bags included 11.557 mountain type, 40.000 arctic arc-tic type and 70G4 wool blanKe? type. More than 9000 liners and 7000 sleeping bag cases are also a part of the purchase. The two-man tent was especially espe-cially designed by the military |