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Shelton Mason County Journal
Shelton, Washington
May 20, 1965     Shelton Mason County Journal
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r See. B---g SERVING THE Ipr Supplement of SHELTON-MASON COUNTY JOURNAL Quicker and better customer service with inventories at a mini- mum--this is the goal of electron- ic data processing, a two-year-old installation headquartered on the fifth floor of the Skinner Building in Seattle. Electronic data processing now serves Simpson. Timber Company's Washington plywood operations and is expected to spread eventual- ly into many other Company divis- ions. The system consists of some 390 thousand dollars' worth of leased National Cash Register machines, whose main frame is a 30-thou- sand-digit computer, which stores what is read into it in memory. AN EXAJ~IPLE of how the sys- tem werks to expedite Company business is the handling of ply- wood. First, a transmitter-receiver from the Shelton Veneer Plant sends to Seattle figures on its production, inventories, what has been shipped and what is in trans- fer plants. This information comes in on tapes and is read into the computer to update its files. Then, when an order comes in, the computer takes a look at the order acknowledgement, checks over the inventories and cranks out production orders for the re- maining plywood panels which will have to be produced to fill the order. The computer even knows how many logs must be peeled to produce the veneer. AFTER ITS calculations are completed, the edp equipment transmits production and shipping schedulesback to the veneer plant. Keeping the edp machinery click- ing and flashing is the work of two computer operators and eight programmers Under the direction of Hugh Schmidt, edp supervisor "EDP gives management a more effective tool to work with," Schmidt explained. "It provides a better-managed goods inventory, i better utilization of raw material l and better customer service. It~ gets the right material to the right place at the right time." TWO FIVE-TON AIR condition- BILL O'NEIL, expert in elec- tronic data processing methods, is shown here looking at the maze of wires which make the machanical monsters tick. The wires are like brain nerves in I the human body. r , k rl 8501 N.E. KILLINGSWoRTH ST., PORTLAND, OREGON P.O. BOX 3704 - PHONE ALpine 2-2441 BRANCH OFFICES: SEATTLE - EUGENE - CENTRAL POINT COQUILLE - ROSEBURG LUMBER, LOGGING & CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES SINCE 1912 g g :ers working alternate shifts pro- vide the electronic equipment with the climate in which it is more efficienct--a room temperature of seventy degrees an d relative humidity of fifty per cent. The question of the accuracy of electronic equipment seems always to be raised, and the answer is • standard: the machines are as ac- curate as the information fed in- to them. An interesting word coin- ed by the computer trade is "glgo," which means garbage in, garbage out! Union Top 4 Percent In its 24 years of growth, the Simpson Employees' Federal Credit Union has become one of the nation's top four per cent in size. , Organized in December, 1941, the credit union opened with ~hares of $1,927 and made loans totalling $975 in 1942. In 1964 savings of 3,417 members amount- ed to $3,280,000, and more than 3600 loans totalling $1,980,000 were made. Since the credit union began, it has made 38,000 loans of ,l value of $16,719,000. Dividends in 1964 were $126,630, •nd the year's interest rebate 1mounted to $26,874. THE CREDIT UNION transacts business from its own building at ~'ifth and Franklin streets under the management of Ken Fredson ~nd six employees. A branch of- rice at McCleary is also open five Jays a week. The self-supporting credit union )perates under supervision of the Bureau of Credit Unions of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The organization has no connec- tion with the Simpson Timber Company, but only Simpson em- ployees and members of their ira- mediate families living under the same roof are entitled to join. Re- tired employees may keep their membership. There are members in states throughout the country. OF THE LOANS made in 1964, $700,000 went for new and used cars, $275,000 for home purchases and repairs and $150,000 for bill consolidation. Other major loan purposes were boats, motors and trailers and payment of medical and dental bills. Do all applicants get loans? l~h'edson says 14 per cent are re- jected. 'A loan must be for a prov- ident and productive purpose and the borrower needs good credit. Amohg the other services of the credit union is counselling to help people in financial trouble. They ~ire aided in setting up budgets and learning to handle money. MAIL "MAN" -- Those aren't groceries in that cart---they're letters and packages Mail Clerk Margery Emsley is bringing to the Shelton office of the Simp- son Timber Company. She makes two trips daily to the plants and P,ost Office, transportingthe written and printed word. HAS Employment, good will and fire protection are some of the by- products of the bustling minor for- est products industry which thrives on Simpson Timber Company lands. Greenery and brush, Cascara bark, cedar prodt|cts, maple burls, moss, Christmas trees, cones and firewood are among the items har- : vested, according to W. S. Looney, management forester. Some 150 persons are self-em- ployed cutting swordfern, salal, huckleberry, Oregon grape and princess pine, Looney said. They work on 53 permits allowing then] to harvest on 77 thousand acres of Simpson land. FORT PERMITS are issued for Cascara bark which is gathered mainly by children. Another forty permits are issued to persons who take out shake boards, shingh'. bolts, fence posts and other small cedar items which they sell to the mills. Christmas trees are a large en- BEHfflCiAL $iDEL tevpmse, with nine organizations f tl]em from harvesting trees from eight thou sa.nd ;:crcs on 15-year contracts with Simpson. buying About sixy persons obtain tern.- Schneider porary work in Christmas tree op McCleary. cratio}m, Looney explained. Last IVIIEN year, 140 thousand trees were cut are compl Land that is slow for Douglas fi~ are given growth--Site IV and V ..... is uti- get firew¢ lized for Christmas trees, creating merely gel incolne and stability from these use, while low-site lands, Looney said. cially. THUG LON(~-'I'ERi~I contracts, "These ' which have been available since manlike c~ ].961, give the operators time to explained, invest in and develop the Christ-. tcction to mas tree lands. One-year con- They tracts are available on the better- they rep( site lands, with Simpson designs- garbage ting the trees to be harvested.Looney More than 20 thousand bushels products of cones were brought in last year, $4 000 in producing six thousand pounds of Thurston seed. Cone-gatherers are paid $,2 ties eacll : a bushel fox' their two-bushel sacks riding en~ How do people get cones ft, om thc tr*:es? "Sneaky squirrels steal HERCULES ® @ HERCULE POWDER COMPANY INCORPORATED WILMINGTON - DELAWARE 19899