j. OFFICE AND ENGINEERING This equipment includes typewriters, adding machines, calculators, radios, record players, transits, levels, rois, tapes plumb bobs, etc. Equipment in excess of current needs shall be cleaned, treated with rust preventive, boxed, and stored. Engineering instruments shall be placed in the hot locker near the main entrance of Building #208. 4. FURNITURE AND FIXTURES The following types of equipment are included: (a) Housing (b) Mess Hall (c) Office a. HOUSING A certain portion of this equipment will remain in current use. This report deals with that which is excess to this requirement. This heading covers such items as beds, mattresses, pillows, tables, chairs, hot lockers, medicine cabinets, electrical lighting fixtures, etc. Considering each of the above items separately, the following practice is recanmended: BEDS AND BEDDING- -Beds shall be dismantled and cleaned. shall be repainted, crated, and stored under cover. Bedsteads Bed springs shall be cleaned, sprayed with rust preventive of a plastic base and stacked on end in some portion of the aluminum buildings to be used for storage. Stacks shall be covered with canvas. Hospital beds shall be similarly treated, and in addition all movingparts shall be lubricated. All mattresses shall be cleaned, sterilized, and, if necessary, re-covered. Innersprings shall be retied if necessary. Recomitioned mattresses shall be packaged and stored under cover, preferably in an alumimm building. Care -ehall be taken that they are off the floor enough to avoid water damage and to provide air circnlation beneath them. Pillows shall be sterilized, repaired, if necessary, packaged, and stored with the mattresses. Both mattresses amd pillows shall be stacked so as to provide air spaces between layers. Renovation before storage will, it 1s felt, result in substantial econany. TABLES~ - The small tables used in each roam shall be cleaned, treated with rust preventives on the metal parts, packaged, and stored under cover. Recreation tables shall be processed in accordance with their types. Those requiring painting or oiling shall be gone over before storing. Those of metal and composition shall be repaired, treat- ed either with paint or plastic coatings, packaged, and stored under cover. 18-21