Thursday, February 18, 1954
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. Salem, Oreeon
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Oregon to Give State
Bidders 5 Pet. Margin
By PALL W.
Oregon manufacturers and
growers are going to get a
bigger slice of the 16 million
dollars worth of supplies that the
Slate Finance Department buys
each year for state departments
and institutions.
Harry S. Dornian, state finance
director, said Thursday he has be
gun to apply the 5 per cent differ
ential permitted by the law in
favor of products manufactured or
grown in Oregon.
Secretary of State Earl T. New-
Tax Lien Suits
Filed at Albany
ALBANY Foreclosure of tax
liens on 42 parcels of property
some of it highly improved, is
asked in a suit filed Tuesday in
circuit court here by District At
torney Courtney Johns.
The complaint avers that tax
delinquencies against each parcel,
ranging from a few dollars to $500
were in arrears for three years or
more before the 1949-50 tax year
and were still unpaid as of Aug.
15, 1953. At that time the number
of parcels delinquent for more
than three years prior to 1950
was much larger, but owners have
since paid up, leaving 42 now sub
ject to foreclosure.
Williams Reports
Marine Reserves
Sgt. Edwafd E. Williams, mem
ber of Salem's Marine Corps Re
serve unit, the Third 155 mm.
Gun Battery, Wednesday report
ed for active duty with the Ma
rine Corps as a volunteer.
Williams, a veteran of both
World War II and the Korean
conflict, is to report to the com
manding general, Marine Corps
Air Station, El Toro, Santa Ana,
Calif., for assignment.
The sergeant after World War
H joined the old Salem Marine
Corps Reserve unit here, "C"
Battery, Fourth 105 mm. Howitz
er battalion. With that battery
he was called for active duty
after the Korean war started,
and later was one of the men go
ing to Korea for service.
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Volunteers to Fill
County Draft Quota
Volunteers will again fill the
draft quota for Marion County
when men report for induction in
March. Eleven men will leave
that month and date for their de
parture from Salem is March 8.
They will be inducted into the
Armed Forces March 9 in Port
land. March's call for men to take
their prc-induction physical ex
aminations was for all men over
21. but this county has no men in
that age group so only transfers
from out of the county will be
sent in for physicals. They report
March 17.
A highway, 30 feet wide runs
across the top of Grand Coulee
dam.
HARVEY JR.
bry, a Republican candidate for
governor against Dorman's boss.
Gov. Paul L. Patterson, has made
Dorman's purchasing policies a
main issue of the campaign. New
bry claims Dorman isn't giving
Oregon businessmen a break.
Newbry opposed creating the de
partment in the first place. He
said several weeks ago Dorman
wouldn't be an issue in the cam
paign, but now Newbry is blasting
him.
Newbry's deputy. Assistant Sec
retary of State William E. Healy,
accused Dorman of ruining hun
dreds of businesses in Oregon be
cause Dorman wouldn't favor Ore
gon suppliers.
Dorman, whose department buys
155,000 different kinds of items for
the state, said he's now applying
the five per cent differential be
cause Oregon's neighboring states
now are favoring their own firms.
All state purchases are bought
by competitive bids. Applying the
differential means that a firm bid
ding on a product made or grown
in Oregon can bid up to five per
cent more than an out-of-state
firm, and the Oregon firm still
would get the business.
Dorman took over the purchas
ing job Aug. 2, 1951, when the new
department was created. Before
that the Board of Control did the
buying.
The Board of Control and Dor
man always have hesitated about
using the differential. They feared
that if Oregon discriminated
against products of other states,
then those other states might dis
criminate against Oregon produc
ers. It has been used, however, to
buy sugar at Nyssa, Ore., for sev
eral years.
Applying the differential might
not mean too much to Oregon busi
ness houses. Dorman's department
doesn't buy many commodities
from other states when those com
modities are made in Oregon. The
Oregon firms generally submit the
low bid. anyway.
It will mean that Oregon pro
ducers of such items as furniture,
soap, feeds and food will get some
more business.
The purchasing department has
found that use of the differential
reduces competition, and thus
makes che state pay a higher
price. Out-of-state firms are dis
couraged from bidding when they
know that Oregon firms have a
five per cent edge.
"The new policy," Dorman said,
"mifiht cost the taxpayers a con
siderable amount of money, but we
have no choice when the other
states are doing the same thing."
When Dorman took over the de
partment 2 i years ago, there
were many headaches, as might be
expected when a purchasing de
partment is started irom scraicn.
Dorman says most of those head
aches are ironed out now, and that
Newbry's criticism is based on
thincs that happened when the de
partment was struggling to get the
system set up.
He still has some troubles, caus
ed mostly by the inability of some
departments to write proper speci
fications as to what they want to
order.
As to Newbry's charge that his
state department is getting inferior
products from Dorman s division,
Dorman points out that Newbry is
buying through Dorman just be
cause he wants to. The law doesn't
require Newbry to buy through the
state purchasing division, so he
could buy direct from suppliers.
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