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NORTH PACIFIC LUMBER CO.

August 10, 1977

The Honorable Robert Packwood.

United States Senate

P. O. Box 3621

Portland, Oregon 97208

Dear Senator Packwood:

We have received your letter of July 29 regarding the hearings to
be held here in Portland by the Senate Select Committee on Small
Business on August 26. We do not know what we can add to the
comments made in your letter other than that we most certainly
agree with them.
A very brief analysis of our own experience

over the last couple or three years indicates sales made to
government agencies on terms comparable to sales made to private
industry result in receivables being tied up approximately twice
as long. Anything you can do to correct this situation should be
done.

We strongly endorse your efforts and hope they will be successful.

Yours very truly,

NORTH PACIFIC LUMBER CO.

Ken Fleischman

K. D. Fleischman

Executive Vice-President

KDF:bs

THE

MOBT

TRUSTED NAME IN FOREST PRODUCTS

P.O. BOX 3915 PORTLAND, OREGON 97208 •PHONE 503-234-8241

I have enclosed a news clipping from our local newspaper,
in which you indicate you may propose legislation to require
governmental agencies to pay interest on delinquent bills.

I felt I had to write to you, to voice my complete support
for such legislation. Being in credit myself, I have
constant dealings with governmental agencies, and in very
few instances, do payments come through according to terms.
Not only are the payments late, but unwarranted discounts are
taken. To retrieve the unearned discounts, is virtually
impossible, therefore added burden is placed on the businessman.

Should you decide to put together a bill pertaining to the above, you can rest assured you will have my complete support. I shall also make certain that our State representatives in Washington know my feelings, and urged them to support your bill 100%.

Respectfully,

Lar Aplend

Susan Asplund

ASPLUND SUPPLY, INC.

CREDIT MANAGER

Cc: File

Loomis chemical

Telephone (503) 283-2403

company

p.o. box 17342/2011 north columbia boulevard / portland, oregon 97217

August 22, 1977

Senator Robert Packwood 1002 N. E. Holladay Portland, Oregon 97232

Bear Mr. Packwood:

Your letter of August 1, 1977 regarding "slow pay" governmental agencies arrived at my desk August 15, 1977 which is excellent service on the part of the postal people.

To me your proposed solutions to the "slow pay" problem are unbelievable, and could only be made by someone who simply doesn't comprehend the situation. I do not understand why the managing director of these agencies is not simply directed to have his agencies pay "as agreed". He has enough people. If he can not arrange it, replace him with someone who can. The tax payers just can't be expected to just go on and on paying and paying.

Loomis Chemical will still refuse to do any business with the Federals because of the excessive amount of paperwork involved. You have no idea of the volume of paperwork required by any Federal Agency.

You don't remember our writing to you November 3, 1976 about the forms required by the IRS and DL for our profit sharing plan. (In our 6 employee firm 3 employees are eligible) I don't believe you acknowledged the receipt of our letter, but perhaps if didn't arrive at your office.

Anyway we're going to drop the plan. We just don't have time to execute complicated forms almost continually. Mr. Kurtz must be a real incompetent if he is alarmed that perhaps 30% of the small firms with plans have dropped them. Loomis Chemical is just one more little firm who has to quit.

Mr. Packwood, I realize that you don't care, but it makes me feel like a more decent citizen when I write.

Very truly yours,

Richard Gromi

Richard Loomis

ROSE VILLA, Inc.

13505 S. E. RIVER ROAD - PORTLAND, OREGON 97222
SPONSORING, ENDORSING OR ACCREDITING AGENCIES:
American Baptist Churches of Oregon

Oregon Annual Conference The Methodist Church
American Baptist Home Mission Society
August 9, 1977

The Honorable Bob Packwood
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510

Dear Senator Packwood:

Thank you very much for your letter concerning the payment of
bills owed by the Federal government.

I understand what you are saying but I am very much concerned
at the attitude of our Congressional representatives wherein
you have indicated in the bill you propose to present to
Congress that if a bill isn't paid within a 30-day period
the company or individual to whom this payment is to be made
would receive interest at the going rate.

You know, the money you have to pay the bill in the first place
comes through the tax money you get from the rest of us, and
now you propose to pay more of our money out in the way of
interest just because one of the Federal department heads cannot
properly do his job. In our business, if we had an individual
like that, we would discharge him or her and put someone in
charge that could do the job.

It really provokes me to see our Congressional people thinking
that they can run the Federal government, the biggest business
in the world, in a political way instead of a business basis.
There is one element I know which is of concern to you and that
is Civil Service. It is about time that Congress was cleaning
up Civil Service so that an individual can be discharged for
cause without having to lay months or years of groundwork to
prove that the individual should be discharged.

This is my opinion. I disagree with your approach and recommend very strongly that we start discharging people out of government employ where they are not capable of carrying on the duties that are expected of them.