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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1960)
Government Contract Policies Often Bring Complications I By ELMER C. WALZER UPI Financial Editor New York -UPD- The U.S. Government insists when it asks for bids for supplies there must be at least two sources seek ing the con- ,sS tract. This brings i n complica tions when a concern has a n exclusive patented d e- Elmer YValzer vice and tries to get a government contract. In that case there could be only one bidder. George Pandapas, founder and president of Electro Tec Corp. of South Hackensack, N.J., has run into just that predicament. Pandapas holds that the government looks with favor on only one kind of monoply the legal monoply over a production idea or a process that is granted to an indi vidual or corporation by is suance of a patent. Conflicting Policies "It seems incongruous," he says, "that the procurement policies of the same govern ment that grants patents should be in direct conflict Sweelland Asks Reorganization Of Tax System La Grande -(UPD-State Sen. Monroe Sweetland (D-Mil-waukie) Tuesday night called for a "reorganization of our Oregon tax system in order to effectively cope with the cru cial demands of the next decade." Sweetland said the State Tax Commission, the Legisla tive Interim Tax Committee and the governor should give immediate- attention to "the urgent revenue needs of Ore gon's local taxing districts and to the serious plight of some of Oregon's property taxpayers." Sweetland, chairman of the Senate Education Committee, called "unfair" the technique by which Oregon has distri buted the obligation of financ ing public elementary and secondary education. He said it "has literally starved local units of government such as schools, cities and counties at a time when public demand and need for their services has become most urgent." He urged a greater portion of public school support be shifted from the local prop erty taxpayer to the income and corporation excise tax payer of the state's general fund. He also called for fed eral aid to education to help meet the problem of schools and taxes. Sweetland spoke to the Ki wanis Club here. with this system of protec tion. "Surely the fact that a development - whether a bet ter slip ring or the proverbial mousetrap. is worthy of a patent indicative of a certain measure of superiority. "It is a sad and somewhat discouraging fact that govern ment procurement policies are such that all too often the proprietary, patented product is shunned simply because it is proprietary and patented." He holds that by insisting on two sources of supply the government "is depriving the defense effort of such equip ment that could perform bet ter with greater dependa bility." Electro Tec Corp. holds a patent on slip rings which are essential in the making of missiles. There are others in the field but their product differs in performance from Electro Tec s. A slip ring, as Pandapas ex plains it, is a precision rotary conductor of electricity be tween a moving part and a stationary one, "without which no U. S. missile would ever leave its pad." Asks Investigation Pandapas has asked for a congressional investigation of what he calls "policies, dangerous and deleterious to the work of our scientists in probing outer space and de veloping space programs." Electro Tec was founded in 1945 by Pandapas on 450 square feet of space in Little Ferry, N.J., as an electroplat ing shop. He spent five years perfecting his slip.r.ing which now is the company's major project. The business has grown to where it now operates three plants - South Hackensack, N.J., Blacksburg, Va., and Ormond Beach, Fla. Pandapas estimates his 1959 volume "in excess of S5 million." The company's rings vary in size from less than one sixteenth 'inch to more than 16 feet with as many as 300 circuits. Pure Gold Used Manufacture of these com plicated instruments, used especially in space vehicles, involves use of pure gold and pure silver. The company is working on two separate million dollar contracts for the rings General Motors and theon. from Ray- Pandapas says his Greek name means "always going" and he feels that could just about describe U.S. space ve hicles if only the procurement policies of the defense de partment could be modified to give more liberal consid eration to patented proprie tary products. He says his case against government ' policy is being made not only for his firm but for many others with patented products. Librarian Author Of Magazine Item Omar Bacon, head librarian to Medford last December. In of the Public Librarv of Med-: a footnote to the article the i , . . and Jackson county, is MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Wednesday, Feb. 17, 1960 ford author of an article published in the February issue of the Senior Citizen magazine . The magazine is a national publication serving the inter ests of older persons. Bacon had been asked by the magazine to write an article on the book mailing program, the- Huntington, West Va., library offered for the use of elder citizens in that city of 100.000 persons. He was head librarian at Huntington prior to coming magazine mentions that Bacon is now the head librarian here. The mailing program, which Bacon describes in his article, consists of offering elderly persons the use of books through the mails. Persons requesting this service are sent a book list by mail, they then request by phone and receive and re turn the books, also by mail. Bacon pointed out that it cost from 4 to 6 cents to send each book due to the special mail rates on library ma terials. He pointed out that the program was well received by the citizens of Huntington and said the library here is consiricrina adopting a similar program if there is a need for it. 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