NAVAL SUBMARINE BASE, NEW LONDON, CONN.

(500 UNITS)

The basic housing requirement for eligible personnel at this station is 3,770 units. There are 1,025 units available and previously authorized for construction. Completion of the proposed 500-unit increment will provide 1,525 units, or 40.5 percent of the requirement. The submarine base supports submarine operations and training. The Polaris missile program results in additional homeporting of ships and training facilities for crews, with an increase of 596 officers and 2,835 enlisted men above the 1958 base loading, thereby increasing the family housing requirement by approximately 1,400 units. Inadequate Government housing consists of 431 units; 330 of which are low-cost rental units (World War II), 30 units are quonset huts (15) huts, 2 families in each), and 71 are Lanham Act housing.

NAVAL STATION, NEWPORT, R.I. (500 UNITS)

The basic housing requirement for eligible personnel at this station is 11,142 units. There are 962 adequate units now available. Completion of the proposed 500 units will provide 1,462 units, or 13 percent of the requirement.

Newport provides support facilities for operational forces, various naval schools including the Naval War College and other dependent activities. This project consisting of 500 units will replace 205 sets of public quarters which have been declared and must be disposed of, and 327 low-cost rental units and trailers which have reached the end of their useful life. In September of 1958 there were 850 eligible families desiring to move into the area but were unable to find housing. A survey taken during 1958 indicated 2,105 inadequate community rentals consisting of substandard units, 1,371 units in excessive costs, and 370 located at excessive distances.

NAVAL MINE DEFENSE LABORATORY, PANAMA CITY, FLA. (42 UNITS)

The basic housing requirement for eligible personnel at this station is 221 units. There are 25 units available. Completion of the proposed 42 units will provide 67 units, or 30.3 percent of the requirement.

The laboratory at Panama City studies and analyzes mines, torpedoes, and minesweeping equipment. Panama City is a tourist resort area, therefore very high seasonal rents prevail. Those rentals available for rent to military personnel on a year-around basis at reasonable rates are substandard due to poor heating facilities and inadequate living and storage space.

MARINE CORPS SCHOOLS, QUANTICO, VA. (450 UNITS)

The basic housing requirement for eligible personnel at this station is 2,715 units. There are 1,244 adequate units available. Completion of the proposed 450 units will provide 1,504 units, or 55 percent of the requirement.

Quantico trains officers in the tactics and techniques of warfare, with particular emphasis on amphibious operations. This project of 450 units is badly needed to house young student officers and their families and as replacement for 83 sets of public quarters which have been declared inadequate and must be demolished, and 117 World War II rental housing units on which the maintenance costs are prohibitive. There are now about 150 assigned eligible personnel who are separated from their dependents because of inability to find housing. NAVAL RADIO RESEARCH STATION, SUGAR GROVE, W. VA. (142 UNITS)

The basic housing requirement for eligible personnel at this station is 542 units. There is no housing available now. Completion of the proposed 142 units will provide 26.2 percent of the requirement.

This station will be commissioned in June 1960 and will perform communications functions as directed by the Chief of Naval Operations and research functions as directed by the Chief of Naval Research. The research to be conducted requires extreme isolation, therefore there are no private housing facilities available.

MARINE CORPS BASE, TWENTYNINE PALMS, CALIF. (150 UNITS)

The basic housing requirement for eligible personnel at this station is 1,117 units. There are now 493 Wherry units available. Completion of the proposed 150 units will provide 643 units, or 57.5 percent of the requirement.

Twentynine Palms is located in an isolated desert area in a community with a population of 1,000. The nearest large community is 75 miles away. In April of 1958 there were 115 families desiring to move into the area but who were unable to find housing. There are 278 inadequate Government rental units and trailers at this location. NAVAL AUXILIARY AIR STATION, WHITING FIELD, FLA. (229 UNITS)

The basic housing requirement for eligible personnel at this station is 1,000 units. There are 118 adequate units available. Completion of the proposed 229 units will provide 347 units, or 34.7 percent of the requirement.

Whiting Field maintains and operates facilities for training naval aviation cadets to provide aviators for fleet carriers. It is located 33 miles from Pensacola, which is the closest large city capable of providing private housing support. This project of 229 units will provide partial replacement for 346 low-cost rental units (World War II), which are approaching the end of their useful life, and 23 units in converted World War II barracks.

MARINE CORPS AUXILIARY AIR STATION, YUMA, ARIZ. (100 UNITS)

The basic housing requirement for eligible personnel at this station is 540 units. There is one unit available. Completion of the proposed 100 units will provide 101 units, or 18.7 percent of the requirement. It will also provide the necessary on-station quarters for key and essential personnel.

Yuma will provide support for Air Fleet Marine Force Pacific units and one Air Force air control and warning squadron. This station was transferred from the Air Force to the Marine Corps in January 1959. Yuma Housing Authority operates 204 units of former Lanham Act houses which are in extremely poor condition and the city plans to demolish these in the near future. Other than these, maximum community support has been estimated to be 150 units.

RENTAL GUARANTEE HOUSING

NAVAL STATION, ARGENTIA

Military controlled housing consists of 562 adequate public quarters, 18 inadequate public quarters, and 16 inadequate rental units. This item will provide housing for 321 enlisted men and 13 officers. Private support housing consists of makeshift structures which are considered unacceptable on the basis of even minimum standards. Photographs of these structures indicate that they are comparable to what is considered slum-type housing within the United States. Many of the units do not include inside plumbing with the exception of old-fashioned sink and faucet. Electrical wiring installations are not governed by code and as a result consist mostly of running wire from one part of the house to another and papering or painting over the exposed installation. In some cases, water is furnished to the houses by garden hoses which lay on top of the ground in pools.

NAVAL AIR FACILITY, NAHA, OKINAWA

The basic housing requirement for eligible personnel at this station is 529 units. There are now 31 units (quonset huts) of Navy housing which have been declared inadequate. Completion of the 200 units of rental quarantee housing, will fulfill only 38 percent of the requirements for naval personnel.

The Navy air facility provides facilities to support regular operation of fleet reconnaissance, antisubmarine, and utility aircraft. This item will provide housing for 175 enlisted men and 25 officers. NAVAL FACILITY, ANTIGUA, BRITISH WEST INDIES The housing requirement for eligible personnel at this station is 62 units. There are no housing assets available at the present time. Construction of 30 units will fulfill 50 percent of the requirements. The Naval Facility, Antigua, conducts oceanographic observations in selected areas in order to provide the U.S. Navy with more extensive information on oceanographic conditions in those areas. This item will provide family housing for 24 enlisted men and 6 officers.

Captain CHEW. I have a very short statement on housing, sir.
Senator STENNIS. Proceed, Čaptain.

Captain CHEW. As you know, section 204 (a) of the bill would authorize construction of 100 units of family housing at Bermuda utilizing commodity credit funds, and section 204 (b) of the bill would authorize a total of 4,322 units in 17 projects to be constructed in the United States.

We ask approval to increase this total to 4,522 by the addition of 200 units at the Marine Corps Schools in Quantico.

These would be financed under the Capehart legislation, if extended. No housing financed by appropriated funds is proposed in this program. All of the housing proposed falls within one or more of the three categories which require construction of public quarters. Quarters will be constructed at stations which are new or undergoing major increases, at isolated stations where otherwise no housing will be available, or to replace temporary or inadequate housing. Those are the three categories.

Most of the latter is World War II temporary housing which is now substandard and is costing us too much to maintain.

In at least two locations where the Navy has large new housing requirements for fleet personnel, we have indications that private industry will provide the housing. The Navy considers this a most favorable development and one that should be encouraged. Of the 18 projects submitted, 16 will bring the military housing up to less than 55 percent of the requirements for officers and senior petty officers. In the two cases that will exceed the 55 percent, at China Lake and Twentynine Palms, Calif., the excess is required by the extremely isolated desert locations of the installations. That completes my statement, sir, as regards the housing. We will attempt to answer any detailed questions, sir.

Senator STENNIS. I haven't had a chance to look at your statement. What was it you said about-in answer to the questions, what was it that you said about 55 percent of your eligible officer personnel and petty officer personnel?

Captain CHEW. Yes, at 16 of the 18 stations this housing will bring it up to less than 55 percent of the eligible personnel.

Senator STENNIS. At the two of them it will bring it up to 55 percent?

Captain CHEW. On two of them it would be slightly more because of the isolated nature of the stations, sir.

Senator STENNIS. Now you have other installations where you have had housing authorized and built in the past.

Captain CHEW. Yes, sir.

Senator STENNIS. How many additional installations do you have where it has already been brought up to 55 percent or above? Do you know offhand?

Captain SCHUMACHER. No, sir, I don't know.

Senator STENNIS. We have to get something like that to get a picture as to the progress of this program.

Captain CHEW. I think that could best be answered, sir, with the total Navy housing requirements as we see them today versus the num

ber that we now have, and I can give you those figures fairly accurately.

Senator STENNIS. That is rather general. I would just like to get the number of installations that have already reached or will be reached with this program 55 percent.

Captain CHEW. We will furnish that for the record.

Senator STENNIS. Then you might put an asterisk on those that for special reasons are above 55 percent.

Captain CHEW. Yes, sir.

(The information requested is as follows:)

At 145 major areas where housing is programed for military personnel, 37 of these areas had military housing assets of 55 percent or more of their housing requirement. In 18 of the 37 areas large numbers of housing units were constructed to meet needs in time of war. Some of this housing is no longer considered as long-term assets, and efforts are being made to dispose of it. Changing military conditions have reduced the activity at many Navy installations. The remaining 19 areas with 55 percent or more are extremely isolated, or located in overseas and foreign areas where adequate housing cannot be obtained in the local economy.

Senator STENNIS. And that give us a guideline. Let me put this problem to you. Where we have these installations now, this change in the program, the weapons program, missions program and everything, it shifts around so fast in 5 years there is a possibility that the housing will be in the wrong place.

What is your response to that? What do you know about this program?

Captain CHEW. I would say that we have been as careful in the consideration of housing as we possibly could.

We have screened it with a fine-tooth comb and we have looked into that aspect of it. I can't answer, sir, as to the permanence of a base beyond 5 years with the changing weaponry. There is always that possibility. We try to include it in our plans, sir. We do our best to do that.

Senator STENNIS. I know there are possibilities but we have to talk about probabilities. Do you think according to this scheduling that the probabilities are that they will still be needed?

Captain CHEW. Under the current plans, the housing that we have programed is to meet the current plans as we now see them, sir.

Senator STENNIS. Are there any particular locations that you want to point out? Don't assume we are going to approve this program in its entirety. I don't know what we may do. But you might have some critically needed items on here.

Captain CHEW. Yes, I would say that critical housing, particularly Key West is critical. It has been the subject of a great many newspaper articles. I would say China Lake, an isolated station, is also critical.

Senator STENNIS Where is that?

Captain CHEW. Naval Ordnance Test Center, China Lake in California, sir, that is critically needed. That is needed for the type work we do out there, the caliber of the people who live there, and it is an isolated station, sir.

Senator STENNIS. You might want to supply a list of critical locations, asking for more consideration of this matter.