Sareative Samary (cont'd) three (3) bundles. This requires all whites in one mattress cover, all colors in another, and all khakis in still another. The laundry came back the same way, which for sorting means that each man must have his own bin + in our case two hundred and fifty (250) bins. b= A work order was submitted to Maintenance Control for constructing these bins on 17 September 1952. By 27 September no action had been taken and on 1 October 1952 we ware finally informed that we would have to supply the lunber. It was quite apparent that this agency could not do the job. Solution, we built the bins ourselves. — as, A work order was submitted to Maintenance Control for water coolers to be constructed of a woden frame packed with sawiust containing a twenty-four (24) gallon GI can to be used for all flight line personnel and airmen in the tent area ~ no action had been started by 6 October 1952. Construction ws finally begun on the wooden frame on 8 October at which time the requesting organization was asked to furnish the con- tainer. As of 13 October no -ntatners could be furnished dus to the fact that base supply has none in stock. A summary of the situation leads one to believe that such delays and lack of action by the Mataten= ance Control work order section is due to shortage of personnel and inproper planning and coordination with the base supply office for procure- ment of necessary equipnent with which to accomplish their mission, As a suggestion the following solution 1s tendered for future projects of this natures these. A separate agency could be set up to deal with problems such as Although seemingly insignificant at the time, the two aforenen- tioned problems are most significant from the standpoint of a snooth BEST AVAILABLE Co py