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1965 Supplement of SHELTON-MASON COUNTY JOURNAL Sec. B--3 L in, Depawtmen| : (¸7)¸¸ H, pfl y Birth 7 S, impso. mher Company on its 75th AnMversury SRELTOR LmON$ The Shclton tabulating depart- nlent is hke a giant, artery, collecl- inK inforlnation from every vein c)f Simpson Timber Company oper. alions. Want to know how many logs by grade, species and size are in the bay? ttow much of Wile(- a 3ivcn mill produced ? Who sohl what to ~vhonl vehel'c for how tnllch ? Answers to these and a host of other questions ape a mat- ter of record in data processing. Ed Lycan and his staff feed 150 to 209 thousand pro]oh cards a year through the department's fast and efficient IBM equipment to come up with the records and reports Simpson wants. AIglONG THE machines arc a calculating punch, to add. sub- tract, multiply or divide and a re- producing punch, which can re- prodnce identical cards, gang in- formation into a deck of cards, drop out so many colunms ill a card, or, working with an account- ing machine, pick up sublotals from a stack of cards• CARD PUNCH -~ Electronic card handling equipment gets instructions fnom wired boarda such as this nest of wires held by Ed Lycan. The Shelton data processing office turns out a variety of records and reports needed bythe Simpson Timber Company. There. are two accounting ma- chines, ,'-t sorter which can run through 640 cards a minute select- ing or sorting cards. A card col- lator merges, selects and matches cards, an an interpreter prints on the top of a card the same infof mation that has been punched onto Lhe cards. CARDS ORIGINATED from the card punch, which can put infof mationu on the card at the rate of six thousand strokes a minute applied by a skilled operator. The accuracy of these cards i'~ check- ed by a verifier which flashes a red light in case of error and :makes a notch on the side of a verified card. Sixty per cent of the depart- ment's cards come from invoicing, where they arc turned ont by two 632 printing card punches on which about three thousand in- voices are printed monthly DO THE MACHINES make mistakes? "A nlachine is as ac- era'ate as the information fed in- to it," says Lycan, "and perfect timing is'essential to its opera- tion." The largor nqachines are run by electronic boards wired by the staff to fit the particular require- Gircl 0 ments of a given task. On Lycan's staff are Tom Reed, . machine procedures analyist and,,,~i,r_~lt~~in George FuUer, tab operator. || / flrnvna It's been a far cry from the ex- porting of hemlock squares to the Japanese market in the 1920',~ to the globe-girdlirlg opm'ations of to- day's S i m p s o n international, which carries on a sizeable export and import business in nlore than dO foreign nations. Until setting up '~ world trade deparLment in 1960 under the Mar- kcting Division, the Corot)any had done its foregn trade through cx- poring firms. In the fall of 1962, under Har- old W. (Hal) McClary, Simpson International was born to dual ex- clusively with world trade and to operate independently of the dom- estic sales organization. McCLARY HAS SEEN the vof uine of forciRn bHsiac.~s soar since 1960 and projects growth over tile .-A' l.. next several years to continue at a rapid pace. "We're very interested in world trade," McClary said, "and the outlool~ is good. We have failh i~,l countries' ability to get a hmg and a degree of confidence that if yoll start doing bnsiness ill a country you will be able to continue." Simpson Internal.tonal c.urrently e x p o r t s domestically-prodnced products to ,t0 nations and imports I].'O111 25 producers in fonr coun- tries, Japan, the Philippil{es, Tat- wan an(I l(()rca, PRODUCTS EXPORTED in- chide logs, hlnlbcr, plywood, doors, {tcoustical tile, inmflating board, hardboard and other nlinor items. Among the imp('a'ts arc ply- wood, door skins, VCllcer, oricntll] and domcstic hardwoods and product components. BUCK DUMP INTERNATIONAL 2_ Hal Mc- Clary's map of the world, be- decked with bright ribbons, pins, and flags, testifies to the far'- flung operations of Simpson In- ternational, whose export-im- port business extends into more than forty foreign countries. In addition to trade, other aids to foreign countries are offered by Simpson hiternational. Includ- ed arc cnginecring, purchasing and technical assistance services, negotiating of licenses for foreign )rodncers to use Sinlpson-patented processes and acquiring of power )lants and sawmills to be restored and put into productive uses. THE SH ELTON headquarters of Simpson International plays host to nearly 100 visitors ammally. Some come to buy, others for tech- nical assistance, some to see the products and operation. "Shelton is thc place where we can best demonstrate a complete- ly-integrated operati(m---best man- aged, best operated ..... showing conlplete utilization of;[wcsL ,~)l•od- ucts in nmdern plants-with ~lto- mated equipment," McClary said. i i ii i Happy ($¢AS IOH we take the opportunity to thank onr good friends and neighbors at SIMPSON TIMBER COMPANY for thc many fine favors they have done for us and our community over these many decades. , Fred B. Wivell Post TIMB II'll For 63 of these years, Skagit Corporation has served Logging Industry by developing and manufacturing Yarding and Load- ing Equipment to keep pace with the ever-changing methods and requirements for the Harvesting of Trees. IN JOINING the Logging Industry in celebrating Simpson Timber Company's 75th Anniversary, Skagit Corporation wishes to express its appreciation for the cooperation it has reccived from the Industry. ESPECIALLY, we want to take this opportunity to thank Simpson Timber Company for the confidence it has placed in our ability to design and build Logging Equipment to fit its requirements.., which confidence has again been demon- strated in recent weeks when Simpson took delivery of the first of Skagit's new series of Interlock Yarders. Y, impson Timber Company has a long History of Progrcss in the Forest Products Industry. We are proud to be a part of that Hiato}~y. SgA61T SEDRO-WOOLLEY' WASHINGTON EFRCmEHT AII9 DRY A modern electrical unloader, The dunI]), on the northwest Haircu Shaves Given log bundling and a dc,~per dump corner of Shelton Bay, was started have turned Shelton's waterfront in around 1900 by the Bordeaux truck dnmp into a safer, more ef- ficient and splashless operation, brothers. Currently it plays a vi- tal role in receiviug logs bronght in by the many small contract log- gers for use in Simpson Timber Company plants. The increasing number of small logs, mainly due to the thinnh~g program on the Company's see- ond growth lands, resulted in the need to find a more economical way of dumping and rsfting logs. THE NEW OPERATION, start- ed in April of 1.959, works like Tradition adds a warm and hu- this: The log truck comes to the ,, . sealing platform, and steel strap- man touch to a compan)s lela., pin-- put on tionshi with its employees. One is while the load is • P " - " scaled. The truck goes to the un- of Simpson's best is of four dec- loader, a n(i slings pick up the en- adcs' duration: Shave and a hazr- tire load. cut, no bits. on your For 40 years Simpson l]as hired w~rhile the unloader, moves fo.r- a barber {o make regular visits tO loaIU, ,al mtner fine pzcgs tip tne Shelton hosnital~ to uive free ggers trailer and puts it on top shaves and haircuts to employees ~_ hm t!uck so he can be off. Then during their hospital stay. ~nCn_,UmOa.der gently lowers the • • • • . -,,~,n~,~ It(lie OI: logs Into tile Pay. ~llngs 2 he idea m ~ mated in tI~e ,uau • ' "g ....... l are equipped with spring-loaded when Mark Reed asked a ~l~e~roz device • : ~ , " " • " re~ " s that automatically unhook oar~er [o visit the hospital ~"a .... ' .... ' n lo- o o,,(,n as, tellSl01"l. IS renlovea ularly and shave any Simpso t-~" from t~. ~;.,, gcrs there. Reed picked up th, cheek. A 100 by 200 foot pocket in the bay, dredged eight feet deer, per- 'I-te wanted his loggers to look mits dumping of logs regardless good when their families visited of tide.- - them," said Paul Beret, wire has been the official Simpson barber since 1955. BERET VISITS the two Shel- ton hospitals Mondays, Wednes- days and Fridays, inquiring if any new Simpson employee-or-retiree patients have checked in and tl~en calling on the patient to offer his services. Not only do the patients, often incapable of shaving themselves, welcome this opportunity to keep well-groomed, but enjoy Berct's l cheerful personality as a divcrsirm from hospital routine. Beret, in his 70's and retired, also derives great satisfaction from these vis- its. SHAVING THE PATIENTS is quit(' a challenge, esl)ccially in the case of those who lilnst slay ill bed. "Sonlctiillc~'~ mv customers drif!: off to sleep and'I ~.,.e right ahead and work oil thel)]," 1:~,(,ret ex- plalnod. '"Once I was shaving a man with a straight razor and he wont to sleep and had a night- mare in which hc was bei~g chas- ed. Well, all of a sudden he tip and bit at the razor. He missed, but I was so shaken 1: could hard- ly finish the •job." Beret was born ill Fl'ltnce talV{ went to sea at 1,i (m a windjam- nicr, and jumped ship in Seattle because he WalltC(1 to stay [11 America. Hc did logging and time- keeping for Simttsm~ and later learned barbering, and plied his trade in Simpson's Camp One, the Bordeaux camp and in his own barbershops, Equipment For Industry 1035 S.E. Ninth Ave. Portland 14, Oregon On Your 75th Anniversary to from • T * T Garrett Enumclaw Compan3--Enumcl , Washington