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Letter from Charles N. Young to President Harry S. Truman with Attached Newspaper Clipping
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you niles
131 C St., S.W.,
7-19-50
Ephrata, Wash.
July 19,1950.
His Excellency Harry y S. Truman, President,
The White House,
1600 Pennsylvania ave.,
Washington, D.C.
Sir:
Washington Paperland
RAIL freight shipments in and out of Washington were checked recently.
The biggest export item was baled wastepaper. The largest inbound item was
stationery.
- Cedric Adams in Minneapolis Star
THE House Appropriations Committee has discovered that the Internal
Revenue Bureau in 1946 printed 500 million tax forms and 115 million in-
struction sheets to supply 47 million taxpayers. The bureau had so many
left it had to lease a building in which to store them - forms for which
there was and could be no use.
- Editorial in Oakland Tribune
WHEN Jess Larson, Administrator of General Services, appeared before
the House Appropriations Committee, he was questioned about alleged ex-
cessive inventories in some of the departmental warehouses. In reporting on
"Agency A," he gave this bill of particulars: "We found that they had a
supply of fluorescent light tubes that would last 93 years. We found that
they had packages of ruled filler paper that would last them 168 years, at
the current rate of use. We found that they had a supply of tracing cloth
that would last them nine years, and loose-leaf binders enough to last them
for 247 years."
- From transcript of Hearings on Independent Offices Bill, 1951
Would you mind repeating your
comments of this evening relative to
excessive spending and hoarding? I was
so interested in reading the above
clipping that I did Respectfully, not quite get them.
Charles N.Young