impracticability of transporting three daily work shifts from the barracks to the hospital and back again every day of the year. The Post Transportation Section is not staffed to support this requirement. Difficulties in providing adequately and timely transportation would have a deleterious effect on the morale of the men and the overall operations of the hospital. The present eight medical company buildings will be retained for mobilization purposes and occupied by an activity other than the post medical service. Two enlisted men barracks (326-man) ($1,283,000): This project is required to provide an increment of permanent housing for enlisted men assigned to this station for peacetime missions. Battalion mess building ($420,000): This project is required to support barracks in this program, which are a part of the permanent peacetime construction requirement. Battalion administration and supply building ($275,000): This project is required to support the barracks in this program, which are a part of the peacetime construction requirements. Administration and supply building (2 companies) ($116,000): This project is required to support the 326-man barracks in this program. Heating plant ($147,000): This item is required to supply heat and hot water for barracks, battalion mess, and battalion administration and supply buildings in this program. Bachelors officers' quarters, female $(746,000): A permanent and adequate BOQ is required to house the female officers assigned to this installation. Project will be located in the area of the new permanent (500-bed) hospital currently under construction. Present need is being met by the utilization of 5 (HQ 24) MOB type nurses' quarters and a converted temporary type building all built in 1941, located approximately a mile from the proposed new hospital area. Due to age and type of construction these buildings are difficult to heat in winter, intolerably hot in summer, and entirely lacking in private toilet facilities and other conveniences normally provided for female officers. The commanding general, Fort Dix, has declared existing quarters inadequate and substandard, and in order to maintain morale. has authorized rental allowances to female officers assigned to the installation who prefer living off post rather than occupy existing quarters. Deferral of project will require that female officers either continue living in inadequate quarters on the post or find suitable living facilities off post that may require excessive travel to and from their work. Deferral of this project will adversely affect the already difficult problem of recruiting female officers for the Army. If this project is not completed concurrently with the hospital a shuttle bus will have to be maintained on a 24-hour basis with a standby vehicle for emergency calls. Current planning provides for completion of the hospital in January 1959. Existing female officers' quarters will be retained for mobilization uses and to house personnel other than commissioned officers. Seven hundred and two family quarters (Capehart) ($0): This project is required to provide an increment of the permanent family housing facilities for officer and enlisted personnel assigned to this station. In addition to existing permanent facilities there are also 582 substandard units located on the post of which 473 are currently occupied. A total of 1,066 families of military personnel of Fort Dix are now housed in substandard or excess rental homes. The offpost housing situation in the area is critically short. The occupancy rate private housing within 17 miles is 98 to 99 percent on a year-round basis. Average monthly rental for unfurnished units excluding utilities is $60 to $150 for 1 to 4 bedrooms. Private housing in the Fort Dix area is competed for by: Civilians employed in local communities; civilians and military employed at McGuire Air Force Base, Lakehurst Naval Station; and military dependents of personnel shipped overseas. Number of units: Requested by Army: 702. Approved by OSD: 702. Authorization: Public Law 1020, 84th Congress. Current assets: Public quarters_. Wherry Existing Capehart_. Proposed Capehart.. Community support--- Total Requirements (based on long-range troop strength): Officers and upper grade enlisted men. Lower grade enlisted.. Essential civilians___ Total__ 309 700 0 702 500 2, 211 3,102 135 13 3,250 The construction of this project will enable the Department of the Army to provide 71 percent of the maximum gross housing requirement based on the long-range troop forecast. The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the item is approved. Mr. BATES. Mr. Chairman, what are we going to burn down here? The CHAIRMAN. Coal. The next one is Second Army area Mr. KELLEHER. We have Fort Totten, Mr. Chairman. That is page 50. Seventy-two family quarters that have been cleared and are under advertisement today, and 58 family quarters, Capehart, that are new. The CHAIRMAN. Now, those 58 must be justified when we reach that item in the bill. Mr. KELLEHER. Yes, sir. The CHAIRMAN. All right. Now, the next one is Carlisle Barracks. Mr. KELLEHER (reading): Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania: "Hospital facilities, family housing, and real estate," $2,274,000. The items are: A hospital, 50 on 100 bed chassis for $1,920,000; family quarters, in this case appropriated fund quarters, Mr. Chairman, for $1,080,000; and land acquisition, for $354,000. General SHULER. Carlisle Barracks, Pa.: Second Army; installation located, Carlisle; initially occupied in 1776; designated "permanent." Mission: Provides for overall administration and operation of the Army War College and for the command, operations, training, administrative services and supply for units and activities located at Carlisle Barracks, Pa. Provides services and facilities to other installations and activities as directed by higher headquarters. Total cost (based on price when acquired), $8,615,434. Cost of improvements (permanent and other), $8,560,770. Present strength: Military, 968; Civilian employees, 345. Line items requested for fiscal year 1959 authorization ($2,274,000 total): Hospital, 50/100 bed, 50,000 square feet. Land acquisition. Detailed justification follows: Hospital 50/100 Bed-50,000 square feet ($1,920,000): The present hospital serving this installation is a collection of buildings which have been erected over the past 48 years. The permanent part of this plant was built in 1908 and contains 14,770 square feet. With the event of World War II, it was necessary to expand this hospital by the construction of mobilization-type structures. As a result, a very inefficient hospital plant evolved, the administrative offices, obstetrical, outpatient, and laboratory facilities in the permanent building. Bed space, dining facilities, X-ray, surgery, and the dental clinic are in one-story wood buildings of mobilization design sited across a main highway. Supply and service facilities are housed in wood buildings located approximately one-half mile from the remainder of the hospital. The dispersion of the various hospital elements throughout the buildings noted above, is contributory to the inefficiency of this hospital plant. The permanent two-story building has outlived its useful life, in that electrical, plumbing, and mechanical systems were not designed for present-day load or service. Over 48 years, the requirements for various scientific or professional equipment has changed and this building was not designed for this equipment. As a result, many deficiencies in space or facility exists. Also, methods and procedures used in medical treatments have changed over the period of life of this building. This creates many problems and inefficiencies. The wood temporary buildings have long outlived their expected useful life. They were designed for mobilization use and do not have the finishes, appurtenances, or structural stability characteristic for long-range utilization. Also, these buildings are combustible and constitute a fire hazard. The permanent building is separated from the temporary structures by a heavily traveled main highway. The buildings where patients are housed are located less than 40 yards from a main line of a railroad which has considerable freight traffic, thus creating a noise level that is highly detrimental to patients. Also, the cleanliness of the hospital due to fly ash is a constant problem due to location of the post central heating plant, which is approximately 150 yards from hospital buildings. Based upon the local hospitalization rates, experience, and longrange strengths to be served (5,200), and the hospital-bed require ments of the other military services, in this area, the size has been determined. This hospital will provide hospitalization for all military personnel and their dependents, living in the Carlisle-Harrisburg area. The permanent building will be diverted to administrative use, while the temporary wood buildings will be demolished. The denial of this project would cause the continued use of a highly unsatisfactory facility which is both inefficient and costly to operate. Also, it will not allow the consolidation and joint utilization of facilities as proposed by the Department of Defense; therefore, the benefit and economies in materials and personnel, cannot be effected. Family quarters ($1,080,000) (prior authorization): All existing station and Wherry housing units are filled to capacity. Of the existing housing available, 36 sets are of semipermanent-type construction and are occupied by NCO's. Colonels and lieutenant colonels now occupy 52 of the Wherry housing units which are of inadequate size for senior officers. The construction of the requested senior officer quarters will permit the releasing of the 52 Wherry units for use by NCO's and the disposal of the 36 semipermanent units. The permanent strength includes 200 students. These students are all senior officers and are on permanent change of station basis while attending the Army War College. Number of Units: Requested by Army: 36. Approved by OSD: 36. Authorization: Public Law 161, 84th Congress. Current assets: Existing public quarters.. Proposed public quarters_. Wherry Capehart Community support- Total_____ Requirements (based on long-range troop strength): Officers and upper grade enlisted men. Lower grade enlisted.. Essential civilians--- Total. 136 36 152 0 26 350 384 19 8 411 The construction of this project will enable the Department of the Army to provide 89 percent of the maximum gross housing requirements based on the long-range troop forecast. Land acquisition ($354,000): The acquisition of land is necessary to provide the site for the proposed construction of additional units of officer family quarters, station hospital, nurses quarters, and chapel. This particular land was selected to insure a suitable location for new construction which will reduce runs of utility lines, place the new facilities within easy reach of the central post, and reduce interior post transportation costs. It is imperative that this land be acquired at the earliest practicable date in order to insure that the orderly and logical program for construction of additional facilities at this station may progress, and to obviate the necessity for numerous condemna tion actions which will eventually be required if small parcels of the land continue to be sold or leased by the present owners. Small roadside shops such as auto repair shops, tire repair shops, and used car sales lots are now moving in on this land. Further, located on the Barnitz estate is a dwelling which can be converted to four family housing units. Mr. KELLEHER. I want to point out that the land here will cost about $7,000 an acre. Mr. BATES. $7,000 an acre, Mr. Chairman. The CHAIRMAN. Now, let's get a little information on that, General. What have you to say about the acquisition of-how many acres of land there? Mr. KELLEHER. Almost 50. General SHULER. 49.97. The CHAIRMAN. 49 acres, costing $7,000 an acre. General SHULER. The acquisition of this land is necessary to provide the site for the proposed construction of the additional units of family housing requested in this bill, the station hospital in this bill, and future nurses quarters and a chapel. This particular land, sir, is between-if any of you have been to Carlisle the main highway and the post proper, and adjacent to the entrance road. At the present time there are such things as a tire repair shop, a car repair agency, and a used car lot, building up along the highway, right at the entrance to Carlisle Barracks. In addition to that, we propose, if this is granted, sir, to give up, release, farm No. 1, which is presently a part of Carlisle Barracks, 65.10 acres, so the net is giving up of some acres of land at Carlisle Barracks. The reason we cannot use farm No. 1 is because it is off to the side and the utility runs would be prohibitive in cost, sir, to locate these facilities there. So, for two reasons: We would like to preserve the entrance to Carlisle Barracks, and we would like to get a better location for these new facilities to make a more compact post, sir. Mr. GAVIN. It is a very congested area. General SHULER. Yes, sir, that is right. Mr. BATES. Mr. Chairman, I wonder if we could get the gentleman, Mr. Gavin, and Mr. Byrne to go up there and investigate it, so we can have an unprejudiced report on that matter? The CHAIRMAN. Sorry, I can't agree with you that would be unprejudiced. But we will approve it for the time being. Mr. HARDY. One minute, Mr. Chairman. Let me ask one question. The CHAIRMAN. Yes, sir. Mr. HARDY. On this 49.9 acres, is that going to be used exclusively for the new housing that is to be constructed? General SHULER. The 49.97 acres, sir, is going to be used for the family housing, the new hospital, and a future request for a nurses bachelor officers quarters and a chapel. In other words, they are sited on this land in the proposed master plan for the future development of this station. The CHAIRMAN. I wouldn't say, knowing the values of property around great industrial centers and right in prominent communities |