This office was also responsible for maintaining records of temporarily on-hand materials as well as actual shipping data. Extra copies of packing lists were forwarded from the Los Angeles warehouse home office to be marked at the Oakland office with advance shipping information. This information was then forwarded to Jobsite to aid in construction scheduling. The Los Angeles warehouse was the focal point for correlation of all shipping information. Receiving reports covering each purchase order and shipment, regardless cf origin, were prepared at this office and forwarded tc the Jobsite for use in work-programming. Certified true copies of all bills of lading and packing lists were required to be sent to the les Angeles warehouse office immediately upon shipment of any material by any vendor consigning material directly to the Naval Supply Center. These bills were then checked against purchase orders and the information relayed to all interested departments. The warehouse office documented over, short, and damage reports for ultimate credit and claim action; acted as an agent in traffic matters; expedited special orders within its province; and compiled various current-status reports on both water and air cargo shipments. It soon developed that the original plan to have the bulk of material export packed and shipped directly to the Naval Supply Center by the vendor would have to be modified. It was found that individual vendors lacked the experience and facilities to satisfy the packing requirements of Naval Export Specifications, and were subjected to exorbitant charges when they had this work contracted. Because the Los Angeles warehouse export packing facilities were not sufficient to supply this added need, an experienced packing concern was selected to handle the export packing for such vendors as required this service, and warehouse personnel were assigned to supervise receiving records and packing. Air lift quotas were established early in the program, and priority items were transhipped via Naval Air facilities through the Naval Supply Center, Oakland, California. Originally, air freight quotas were necessarily small due to prior military commitments. At this time quotas were to be held to a maximum of 3000 pounds per month with the request that this maximum not be used except when absolutely necessary. While the press of emergencies sometimes necessitated increased quotas, all emergency re- quests for air priority shipments were carefully screened in compliance with this request. With the same request in mind Holmes & Narver inaugu- rated a plan to transport many critical small items by air making use of unused baggage weight allowances of personnel departing via air for the Jobsite. Thousands of items of various types were hand-carried; the total weight of items thus transported was in excess of five tons as of May 1951. During the early part of 1949 while the establishment of the state- side procurement facilities was in progress, the work of satisfying the camp equipment needs of the first small group of Jobsite personnel was also in progress. Arrangements had been made for the initial personnel to be housed and fed at the Army garrison during the preliminary phase of construction, and therefore the first shipment of Holmes & Narver sub- aistence supplies was not made until May 1949. The formla for this oper- ation was to proyide not cnly the immediate requirements for the initial 13-7