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1965
Supplement of SHELTON-MASON COUNTY JOURNAL
Sec. B--3
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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
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