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Shelton Mason County Journal
Shelton, Washington
April 16, 1964     Shelton Mason County Journal
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Percy Pio 6017 S.E. 86th Ave portland, Ore Working new 1963 * Average anmlal earnings of reported Progress re- Cooperative Land and ses of Strop- Work- es it to the was the Unit, provisions Sustained con- States Tim- pertain- for approved by on zd Put into and Trees" and ex- Shelter on employ. of 1963: ployment in up 126 16 16, 1964 honrly paid employees were $5,320, up $317 from the previous year. Average hourly wage (straight time, excluding all "fringes") was $3.07 in logging, $2.46 in nlanu- iacturing. * Compensable hours for per- diem employees rose from 3,500: 415 in 1962 to 3,886,172 in 1963, with average hours worked per man for the year up 81. * Simpson paid property taxes of $220,807 in Mason County and i $74,087 in Grays Harbor County. * Simpson last year paid $1,181,- 990 for goods and services to its 33 largest suppliers in the area. In addition, thousands of dollars were spent on other purchases and Simpson's expansion program brought in a large construction payroll. * SIMPSON PURCHASES of federal timber in the Shelton Unit yielded additional revenues to Ma- son and Grays Harbor Counties. Twenty-five percent of Olympic National Forest receipts are dis- tributed among adjoining counties. The Forest Service estimates the Shelton Unit accounted for half the $92,794 paid to Grays Harbor County in 1963 and two-thirds of the $94,891 paid to Mason County. In logging, Simpson purchased two portable steel spars for yard- ing logs. The full annual allow- able cut of timber of 135 nlillion bd. ft. was harvested from Unit lands, plus another 48 million bd. ft. not chargablc to the Unit. Road construction in old growth areas totaled 27 miles, bringing to 644 the total road mileage in old growth areas. In forestry, Simpson began a Continuous Forest Inventory pro- gram which will improve manage- ment of Company lands in the Unit by providing more accurate, up-to-datb information. A seed or- chard started near Matlock is ex- pected to improve future tree crops in the Unit. The Company's thinning of second growth lands continued to have an important economic impact on the area, with 15 million bd. ft. thinned from 2,981 acres. This provided a $1: 000,000 payroll in the area. Ill manufacturing, every Simp- son plant registered more produc- tion than in 1962, reflecting im- proved markets. Shelton Sawmills continued to meet changing mar- ket conditions by changing their pl:actices. Dry lumber production soared 26 million bd. ft. over 1962 to 71 million bd. ft. in 1963. The mills also increased utilization of (Continfic'd on page 5) Simpson Timber Company's Shelton Veneer Plant reached nearly full strength this week as another 35 men reported for duty. They began operating tnc eight- foot side on swingshift and also brought the four veneer dry. crs to fully manned status on all" three shifts. There are now 155 produc- tion workers employed at the huge plant, which will peel and dry veneer for Simpson plywood plants at McCleary, Olympia and Sheltcn. Another 10 men will soon be employed in the warehouse portion of the plant, according to Dave Carstairs, plywood production manager, Shelton. Meanwhile, swingshift green end operations at MeCleary and at Olympic Plywood, Shelton, were shut down last week as produc- lion increased at the new ,plant. The shutdowns involved 30 tem- porary employees at McCleary and 15 at Olympic. Curtailments of dayshift peeling and drying at McCleary and Olympic will take place as soon as production at Shelton Veneer increases enough to supply those )lants with veneer, Carstairs said. Entered as second class matter at th~ post office at Shelton, Washington, under Act of March 8, 1879. Published weekly at 227 West Cots. Published in "Christmastown, U.S.A.", Shelton, Washington 10 Cents per Copy 20 Pages -- 3 Sections I Bank Here s Approval -? DesEg W" NNERS GET AWARDS---Forest Festival Pres- ld~nt Clive Troy, left, presents prize awards to t]]~ winners of the button design contest at the g~lamber of Commerce meeting last Thursday The Shelion i*ha,~:lber of Com- [lneree last Thursday heard a talk Ion a unique operation which kept l a pfflp plant in operation after ]a damaging explosion, from Ed- [.ward F. (Ned) Button, with Ray- enter in Hoquiam. ~Thc Shelton City Commission ~tlcsday took preliminary steps .dward the establishment of a city park board. The action came at the sugges- ti0n of Jaycee President Arnold night. Award winners were Claudia Corson, third place, and Dennis Speas and Doris Menigishi, joint first place winners. The ehomber also honored the winners of tile Forest Festival But- ton Design contest. Festival Pres- ident Clive Troy presented bags of silvei" dollars" to Doris Menigi- shi and Dennis Speas, joint first place winners and Claudia Corson third place winner. Thc monthly membership meet. ing was held at the Timbers Rest- tlll]'ant. The May meeting, it: was an- ~lollnced, "wonhi be the ;tllIlll/ll 5uar& Indte Pub& Training Session The Snelton National Guard nn- it is inviting the public to watch a part of a wee.kend training ses- sion it is holding Saturday and Sunday. The public is invited 'to' view the training session Sunday from 10 a Ill tO :loon or fron'l 1 tO 3 p.m. Part of the purpose of the ses- sion is a driver training session to The green light flashed in front of organizers of Shelton's proposed new bank yesterday with receipt of telegraphic preliminary author- ity to proceed with organization of tile National Bank of Mason County. The message came from the Comptroller of Currea~cy in Wash- ington, D.C. which said a letter covering conlplete details is fol- lowiilg. This is the word directors