The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-02

anyCnQS IlIlQS CdK6rS. EVeryDOQy III a buying mood hopes to find bar gains. Consequently, private bus mess interests are keeping wary eye on this government competition across the street, and pressure groups are getting pretty insistent in their demands.
 Manufacturers are afraid that dumping all this stuff on the mar ket will ruin sales for new products. Makers of pharmaceuticals want all surplus medical stocks destroyed. Wholesale trade associations want surplus goods sold only through their trade channels. State and To- cal governments want and will get preference on airports, hospitals, schools. The National Grange is telling all it's lodges how to get a hall. Veterans groups want the $2,- 800 limit raised on the amount of surplus materials an ex-soldier can get on priority. Labor and consum- CTS groups are yelling against any possible freezing of goods in ware houses of taking out of production any plants that might provide en- ployment. All the clements are here of a super-duper bargain-counter rush.
 ADVISORY COMMITTEES
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 Is Surplus Property Board has set 4p Industry Advisory Commit tees to steer it on policies that will not interfere too much with private business. Auto and truck manufac- turers, for instance, are meeting with SPB late this month. What these groups particularly fear is that the sudden sale of government sur plus cars, jeeps and trucks, before the manufacturers can get their new models on the market, will ruin a lot of potential customers
 Another complicating factor to that situation comes in August when the Department of Commerce Office of Surplus Property will con- duct the greatest sale of auto spare parts ever held. There will be nine spot sales. Bid on the spot, pay on the spot, take delivery on the spot in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chi cago, Atlanta, Fort Worth. Denver, Salt Lake City, Kansas City and San Francisco.
 With all U. s. automotive equip ment pretty well worn out in the war years when few new models were available, the demand for these millions of standard auto parts will be tremendous. Through normal trade channels these spares will find their way through garages into war weary jallopies and keep them roll ing till the new models are ready. This is obviously the right time for these sales:
 CONVERSION OF MATERIALS A PROBLEM
 The sale of auto parts is fairly simple for they can be used as is. But some of the surplus war ma terials have no known civilian use in their present form. To study how these materials may be converted into consumer goods a Bureau of Products Research for Altered Use" will be set up soon. Already there dAS O ASV CA1AAAR4So VI "AAoG AANSSo sity can invent. Such things as aluminium sheet and tubing, weld ing equipment, rivet guns and drill motors have been converted into lawn chairs, poultry breeders, home heating units, electric hot plates. Gas masks have been made into goggles and the hose used for bicy- cle handlehar prinS
 By showing how swords may be beaten into gadgets in this way, surplus property disposal agencies hope then cay encourage sales and get better prices for what they have to peddle
 The job is just beginning. Willow Run is for sale, and so is baboon which was declared surplus by an army medical laboratory. A thou sand homing pigeons were to be offered recently only by the time the sale was made the number had in creased to 1,500, Nature having taken her due course