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SERVING THE
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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.
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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
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: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
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WILMINGTON - DELAWARE 19899