Government Contract Policies Often Bring Complications
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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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Ike May Air
Views on Defense
Washington (UPD Presi
dent Eisenhower may go on
radio-TV to defend his mili
tary policies against criticism
from what he considers poli
tically motivated Democrats
and money-hungry generals.
Eisenhower wrote Rep. Jes-1
isica McC. Weis (R-N.Y.) he
was "carefully considering
her proposal that he make a
nationwide radio -TV report
on the state of U.S. defenses.
He said the suggestion "may
well have merit." The con
gresswoman made public the
President's letter Tuesday
night.
In another phase of the de
fense controversy, the Senate
Defense Appropriations sub
committee planned to ques
tion the budget directors of
the Army, Navy and Air
Force today.
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