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About The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195? | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1948)
7 0. S. £, G. Members Muy Get Discounts in Buyers* Murket By È. HL C lymer Most 'retail stores allow a discount on purchases to certain groups of buyers. Practically all stores and business^ es tablishments allow a di|c|>unt to large cbmpan'es, contractors and other deal ers. Also manyMyill extend the discount privilege to company, federal, »state, county and city employees"' I The usual discount- will vary from about 5 % to 50%, depending upon the class of merchandise and the merchant. When there is^à' sellers market, that is, when there is a scarcity of merchan dise and buyers will buy what they can get at any price as during the past f iv ||| years, it is difficult to get a d is c o u n t When there is® buyers market’, that is, when there is an ab u n d a n ^Sbf mer chandise and the buyer can be sew tive both as to quality and price, it is usu ally fairly easy to get a discount. During the past few months, mer chandise/ in certain lines has become plentiful enough so that some mer chants are willing to extend discount to the Oregon State Employees Asso ciation membership. In order to know which merchants, will give discount , to OSEA members it will be necessary’ to ball and talk to the managers of the various stores and business establish ments in all the ci^ilSi throughout the state. This can be accomplished if each Chapter w ill ap p o in ta Committee to contact merchants in their immediate vicinity* The n am O n d address of mer c h a n ts 'th a t will give discountsaBto OSEA members, should .begq|warded to -the Executive Secretary Forrest Stew- ' art, 311 Oregon Buildingy|Salem, Ore gon, /so that all membersWf the Asso c ia tio n can be informed. I In Salem a few: merchants were con tacted with fair results, considering that H many lines-' we have a sellers market. The State Tire Service, a state wide organization, will give a discount to OSEA members in any of their stores. Their Salem store and servic^ ||ta tion is located, at the tcorner of'¡State an4£Got- tage, a" convenient^ location fo rB |l||e employees. A credibWard for identifi cation may be obtained through the OSEA executive I secretary, Forrest- Stewart. 7 The Pittsburg Plate Glass and Paint Company,; 254' N orth Commercial Street^ Salem, will give a 1 K ||| discount to. OSEA members. A membership card will be sufficient identification, The work of finding merchants who will give; discounts to OSEA members has only started and with 'suffieght effort and time all classes of merchan dise will be purchased at a discount. The .effort of- eveVy member will be re- Lq^ired to meet this goal. Benjamin Franklin once said, "A dol- at saved is%F dollar earned.” This is as true today as it was one hundred and seventy-five - years ago, •' Set I aside to preserve a Sequoia tree planted by an Oregon pioneer of 1843,-- William - Waldo, the nation’s ¿smallest city park is located almost" in the mid dle of N orth Summer Street, Salem, Ore. The park Q barSly "large enough to protect theflbase: of the tyee and may hJSE&o-be enlarged-as the tree grows. Linknriver, which joinC-Upper Klam- ath lake with Lake Ewauna, is one of the nation’s shortest stre*a;frts!. Less than a mile long, it flowsentirely within the city limits b f Klamath Falls, lumber ing and agricultural city of southern Oregon. The nation’s shortest’ river is the D, 400 feet long, flowing’ from Devils lake into-the sea along the Ore gon coast.
