16 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon Friday, July 8, 1949
MEET THE BOARD OF CONTROL
Who Runs State Affairs?
Three Men and Staff
By WILLIAM WARREN
(United Prejw Staff Correspondent)
Whether it's pencils or penitentiary, safety pins or sanitarium,
isphalts and oils or feed and seed, if it has to do with state in
stitutions or departments, it's a safe bet the board of control is in
there pitching.
Before coming to the capitol, you think hazily of the state
board of control
William Warren
Oregon:
three top men
governor, secre
tary of state and ,
state treasurer;
meeting f on
an hnnr or two?
once a weekk
and making de-J
elsions of state
Actually, the
board of control
lis a hard-work
ing, always-on-the-go organiza
tion that handles all state pur
chases except for the liquor
commission and watches after
the upkeep and welfare of Ore
gon's 10 top institutions. Not to
mention handling all bids for
major building construction for
Oregon.
Secretary of the board and
state purchasing agent is Roy H.
Mills, usually smiling but al
ways serious. He and his aides
buy about a million dollars
worth of supplies and provisions
month.
They go to the stale hospitals
here and at Pendleton, tuber
culosis hospitals here and at The
Dalles, state penitentiary. Fair
view home, blind school, deaf
school and Hillcrest home all
of Salem and Woodburn boys
school, and to various state de
partments from highway to
police, from agriculture to util
ities commission.
Roy Remington handles buy
ing when it come to building
materials, construction mater
ials, automotive equipment and
supplies. And contracts involv
ing labor on the job and those
requiring performance bonds.
Dairy equipment and supplies,
feed and seed, farm equipment,
fuel they are among his pur
chasing chores.
Joe E. Wood handles alcohol
and spirits but not for the
liquor commission which buys
Its own burbon and brandy. He
handles bedding and carpet,
biological supplies and animals
a consignment of rats recent
ly for the University of Oregon
Medical school. Crockery and
Sassware, dental equipment,
rygoods, drugs and notions.
Tea, coffee, spices and food
Ituffs and others.
Alva N. Wysong is the man
who buys ammunition and musi
cal instruments, brooms, brushes,
grinding wheels, janitorial sup
plies and flags and a host of
other articles including glass
window, plate and looking.
Timothy J. Burke, new assist
ant purchasing agent, has taken
over electric purchases. He buys
the electric ranges, light globes,
and watches after refrigeration
and traffic signals. He also
looks out for fire fighting equip
ment and supplies, oxygen and
pumps.
...
To give you an idea of what
goes on in the purchasing de
partments, in the six months
from July 1 to December 31 in
1B48, the state bought some
$320,000 worth of asphalts and
road oils; $302,000 worth ot
autos and trucks; $112,000 worth
of feed and seed; $40,000 worth
of clothing, boots and shoes;
$1S2,000 worth ot drugs.
Not to mention $227,000 for
hardware and plumbing, $152,
000 for printing and paper and
$223,000 for meat.
Only about one per cent ol
the business handled by the
board of control by the pur
chasing agent and his aides
gets tip to the three top men
who make up the board itself.
The rest is handled either by
bids for larger or competitive
items, or by rotation to firms
through the state on items where
prices are about the same for
all brands or makes.
The property control division
of the board, supervised by C.
B. Mudd, keeps a master inven
tory of all personal property of
the various institutions and de
partment equipment and
everything but buildings or
other real property. Each in-
titution and department keeps
its own list of Inventory and
sends a detailed revision to the
property control division every
three months.
The collection division of the
board of control, supervised by
Mrs. Beverly Armstrong, gets
information about repatriation
of state hospital patients to
other states, and also helps get
Oregon patients from other
states back to their home state. .
The division also sees to col
lection of money for care of
patients at the state hospitals,
tuberculosis hospitals and Fair
view home. The law sets a
maximum of $25 a month for
the state hospitals and Fairview,
and $65 a month for TB
patients. Next of kin are re
quired to pay up to that maxi
mum according to their ability.
Just to show you that this is
no small business, the board of
control through this division
collected $750,000 for state and
TB hospitals In the last bien
nium. Over 1,500 patients have
part of their care paid for by
relatives. The total number of
inmates is over $5,200.
Management of the institu
tions is under supervision of
William C. Ryan. He co-ordi
nates the farm activities of the
state prison and state hospitals
and Fairview home. He works
out details of the needs of the
various institutions, and sees
that they are supplied with what
they need most, first, and what
they need otherwise, as soon as
he can.
The board of control also has
supervision of the state tele
phone exchange board, which
employes three operators now.
The state phone bill is a whop
per around $6,000 a month.
That's a lot of line conversation,
but it attends to a vast multitude
of big business state business.
Secretary of mills is Mabel
Marquis, and the woman in
charge of voucher! is Miss Ruth
Reed.
As for the state purchasing
agent himself, asked who does
the purchasing for his house
hold, he admitted he leaves it
up to Mrs. Mills, mostly, though
he does buy a "buck's" worth of
groceries now and then, just to
keep his eye in shape for the
bargains in small quantities, too.
Bail Cancelled
On Communists
New York, July 8 (IP) For the
second time in two days, Immi
gration agents have cancelled
the bail of alleged alien commu
nists and placed them under
custody on Ellis island.
The action, the New York
Times said today, stems from a
new "get tough" policy of the
justice department, which does
n't want such persons to imitate
Gerhart Eisler and jump bail.
George Pirinsky, 47, execu
tive secretary of the American
Slav congress, free in $1000 bail,
was arrested yesterday by immi
gration agents and taken to El
lis island.
He had been free pending a
review of a deportation order
given by an appeals board in
Washington.
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Required for Pelton Dam"
The state hydroelectric commission has ordered the Northwest
Power SuddIv comrjanv to get aoproval of the state fish commis
sion before the company can get permission to build its $12,000,-
000 power dam on the Deschutes river.
it h. nn,mi..inn ( .ntisfioH that the company's Diana
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to maintain fish life, then the?00,4" the three years since the
Dallas Architect's drawing shows the proposed Lyle ele
mentary school, Dallas, which will be under construction soon.
The building Mil be eight rooms and include a gymnasium. '
To be erected at Ellendale avenue and Levens streets, the
school will serve the north side of 'town. School buses will
drive up to the doorway and children will unload under the
protection of the canopy that is shown in the picture. Francis
Jaccobberger of Portland is architect.
FREAK TORNADO
Witness Reports Boat
Tossed 100 Feet in Air
Spokane, Wash., July 8 (U.R) An almost unbelievable story of
a 460-pound boat being tossed more than 100 feet in the air by
a freak "tornado" at Loon lake near here was reported today.
C. E. Stephenson, Spokane,
owner of the boat, said it hap
pened Sunday. Here's hit ac
count: "We noticed the air was so
still and almost stifling. Just
as I reached for the door to
leave our cottage, the storm
struck. The boat suddenly was
lifted into the air as though by
invisible hands.
Alcoa Surveying for Huge
Plant in British Columbia
Vancouver, B. C, July 8 (U.R) The Aluminum Company of
Canada today was' engaged in preliminary surveys to start the
largest aluminum industry on the continent which would eventual
ly create a new North American city of 50,000 persons.
Officials said the undertaking was so vast it would be some
years before the company would-
know if it could put its plans
into effect. The project would
cost from $350,000,000 to $500,
000,000 in five years. ,
The industry depended pri
marily upon cheap water power
of which British Columbia has
an abundance.
It was estimated the prov
ince's Columbia river basin
alone could develop more pow
er than the whole of North Ame
rica was now producing. Con
servative estimates placed this
potential at 30,000,000 horse
power.
There were several schemes!
afoot and each would have to be
investigated in detail, officials
said. One would develop 1,000,
000 horsepower of electrical en
ergy and bring it out to Kitlmat,
in the Tweedsmuir park area
of northwest British Columbia.
Another would develop 900,000
horsepower to Kimsquit, at the
head of Dean channel, which
empties into the Pacific, 400
miles north of Vancouver, B.C.
Engineers said it might be
possible to develop 1,500,000
horsepower with a townsite at
either Kimsquit or Kitimat, at
the head of Dean channel.
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In each case the project would
entail drilling a tunnel through
coastal mountains and dropping
water from large interior lakes
and watersheds to the sea. This
would provide power sufficient
to operate a plant larger than
the huge Saguenay river devel
opment of Arvida, Quebec.
The Aluminum Company of
Canada has opened an economic
survey at Vancouver and from
it experts are making an ex
haustive survey. There will be
too much water power for an
aluminum plant and studies are
being made to see if it might
not be also possible to have a
chemical industry, pulp mills
and iron smelting at the same
locale.
"It turned end over end
soaring higher and higher and
we could see cushions and other
paraphernalia sailing through
me air. we saw the motor
Dreak loose and plummet down
ward into the lake. Then the
Doat crasned into the water.
xne whole thina conlrtn't
have lasted more than a minute.
And wen the air was dearllv
still again."
George Sotten Jr.. Snnkr.
policeman, was almost caught In
the "tornado" and nearly struck
by the flying boat. He crashed
into a dock while eseaninir
Randall Cauvell. SDokane
who witnessed the amazing
freak of nature, said he believed
me Doat soared between 100 and
200 feet into the air.
Stephenson said the boat was
a total wreck.
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Huge Air Liner
Returns Safely
Now York, July 8 OP) A Pan
American Airways stratocruiser
returned here safely early today
after engine trouble developed
as the plane started on a flight
to London.
It was the second such inci
dent in two days.
The stratocruiser, with 57
passengers aboard including for
mer Washington .state Governor
Mon C. Wallgren, landed at New
York International airport about
30 minutes after the takeoff.
Capt. C. R. Titus, the pilot,
said one engine of the four-mo
tored craft "acted a little rough,"
and he decided to turn back. Be
fore returning, 1200 gallons of
the plane s heavy gasoline load
for the trans-Atlantic trip was
dumped into the Atlantic.
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hydroelectric commission would
consider granting a preliminary
permit to build the dam.
The hydroelectric commission
order said that the dam, 150 feet
high, would be too high for fish
ladders, and -that a hatchery
would be the only solution. -
The fish commission has op
posed building the dam, assert
ing it would harm the Columbia
river fisheries and plans to re
habilitate them.
The hydroelectric commission
said:
"The fish commission In Us
discretion is authorized to grant
such a permit if the company
builds a hatchery and hatchery
residence constructed according
to plans prepared by the fish
commission, and conveys the
land upon which the buildings
are located to the state.
The hydroelectric commission
also advised the company it
would have to maintain a steady
flow of water below the dam,
asserting a fluctuation of the
water flow would endanger hu
man life and injure young fish.
Both commercial and sports
fishermen opposed the dam.
They failed in their attempt to
get the recent legislature to
block construction.
The assets of life Insurance
companies have expanded at an
annual rate of nearly $3,500,000,-
end of the war, according to the
Industrial Conference board.
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