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Volume VII No. 9 MILLINOCKET, MAINE Friday, December 20, 1968

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Great Northern Gives Land In Great Northern Closes Some Roads Allagash. . . . Peter S. Paine, to Snow Sleds. . . . Management con­ Chairman and Chief Executive cerned for the safety of operators Officer, announced Friday, November and passengers of snow-travelling 22, that the Company will give vehicles has prompted the Company to the people of Maine 700 acres to close some of its roads to the of lake and river frontage in the motorized sleds. Allagash River Valley to be Effective December 16, the follow included in the Allagash Wilderness ing roads will be closed Monday Waterway. (Cont. pg. 2, col. 1) through Saturday: (Cont. pg. 2, col. The land gift will include Ripogenus Dam Road to Sourdna 207 acres in Township 15, Range 14 hunk Lake, New Harrington Lake near the northern extremity of the Road to Telos Lake, Pittston to waterway park, including Allagash Seboomook and Caucomgomoc Roads, Falls and 563 acres along the south the North Branch Road, the Johnson shore of Allagash Lake in Township Pond and Church Pond Roads west of 7, Range 14. The two tracts are Jo-Mary Lake Compound in Piscataquis more than 60 miles apart and approxi­ and Somerset Counties and the mately at the opposite ends of the American Realty Road and Fish Lake newly created riverway park. Road in Aroostook County. John T. Maines, Vice President - The Company announcement explains Woodlands, said the gifts of the two that heavy logging and pulp trucks land tracts had been under consider­ using the roads weekdays pose a ation by Company officers since the constant threat of danger to the Allagash Park was created by the snow vehicles because the snow deadens Maine Legislature in 1966, and was the sound of the on-coming trucks, not involved in a separate decision and also because the snow vehicles to sell 20,000 acres in another section are unable to climb quickly over the of the proposed riverway area high-banked shoulders. announced by the State Parks and Great Northern points out Recreation Commission. that there are several hundred Mr. Maines said giving the land miles of unplowed roads available to the people was entirely in accord for use by snow-travelling enthusiasts, with the Company's policy of making and that there are no restrictions its forested holdings available to on the road from Sourdnahunk Lake the public for their highest type of to Telos Lake and Chamberlain Lake. use whenever feasible. He added that Cars and trailers may be parked in in the case of the two key spots a plowed area at Sourdnahunk Field. along the Allagash waterway, the Also unplowed and open to the snow highest type of public use was sleds is the Ragged Lake Road to unquestionably recreation. Lobster Lake and Chesuncook Lake. The northern section donated Cars and trailers may be parked includes the famed Allagash Falls near the state campsite at Ragged and a 400-foot-wide strip along Lake Dam. Jo-Mary Lake Campground both banks of the river for about is also available for use, but the two miles. It is part of a 640- Company urges motorists to park acre timberland block owned their cars and trailers off main entirely by Great Northern. roads so as not to interfere with The second section, about 60 main road traffic. miles upstream, lies along the In Aroostook County, the Red southern edge of Allagash Lake River Road is available with parking and includes some acreage in the facilities at St. Froid and sections lake itself. It represents Great of the American Realty Road after Northern’s 41 percent holdings in reaching Middle Elbow Ponds in Town an area owned jointly by the ship 10, Range 10 where parking is Company and heirs of Daivd Pingree. available. The land gift by Great Northern The Company also points out that is the first voluntary transfer all persons using Great Northern Paper announced in connection with the Company roads do so at their own risk. acquisition of more than 55,000 acres of lakeshore and riverfront property by the State Parks and Recreation Commission in compliance with a directive from the 102nd Legislature. 3. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1968

Paper production for eleven weeks ended December 15, 1968 .

1969 1968 Production: Tons Daily Avg. Tons Daily Avg.

Cedar Springs 147,594 2,264 119,933 1,746 East Millinocket 83,900 1,090 84,817 1,102 Millinocket 70,511 916 65,521 851 302,005 4,270 270,271 3,699

CEDAR SPRINGS MILL EAST MILLINOCKET MILL

A maintenance shutdown is scheduled A front wall tube in No. 1 to follow the Christmas Holiday shut­ boiler burst at about 7:15 a.m. down . on December 9. All paper machines No. 1 paper machine will start up had to be shut down until boiler on December 27. loads could be stabilized. A new No. 2 paper machine will start up section of tube was installed, and on December 31. the boiler was returned to service No. 3 paper machine will start up at 2:15 p.m. on December 10. Although on December 30. five of the six paper machines were During the shutdown , No. 2 paper started up during the morning of machine secondary headbox will be December 9, one of the small machines modified to give a cleaner and more remained down throughout the entire uniform sheet. boiler outage. All necessary tie-ins for the new NSSC secondary refiners will be A shipment of core paper has made. been received from Appleton Manu­ facturing Company to be used in con­ Erection of the 210,000-____ junction with our paper in an gallon weak-wash storage tank is attempt to produce a stronger tube complete, and tie-ins will be made stock for nonreturnable usage. A during the Christmas shutdown. trial will be scheduled after the Christmas shutdown using a combi­ Work is continuing on the new nation of GN and Appleton produced No. 2 truck-purchased chip system papers. Investigation is to be after a short delay with underground made on the next scheduled run of water problems. core paper by our wrapper machine in an attempt to determine if No. 2 chipper foundation failed recent changes in stock preparation on December 2. A new foundation are producing a stronger core paper was installed in record time, and which should result in greater crush the chipper was running again on strengths. Tuesday, December 17. The Wood Room was shut down on Preliminary engineering is November 28, and we started reclaiming underway on several approved 1969 wood from the piles. budget projects.

Air Force Officers visited the MILLINOCKET MILL plant to talk to witnesses of an Air Force jet plane crash that occurred An automatic valve in the sulphite Monday, December 2, across the river thickening system at the East Millinocket a short distance from the plant. mill suddenly failed and closed, Friday Complete cooperation was extended to night, December 6. The resulting shock their efforts. caused an expansion joint on the inter- Millinocket Mill Cont. the Pittston area where horses are still used for yarding. About mill sulphite pipeline at the Rice fifteen inches of the white stuff Farm to burst. Although the leak was fell on top of approximately twenty- detected and repairs were made in four inches already on the ground. approximately four hours, it created Embedded in the accumulation are a situation in the Sulphite Mill at two heavy crusts that are hard on Millinocket which caused a temper­ horses’ legs and difficult for men ature decline in the sulphite wash­ to wade through. The storm was all ing system. Before the problem rain in the Bangor area, while could be determined, the sulphite Millinocket received around three to inventory was completely exhausted, four inches of snow. and No. 1 through No. 6 paper machines at the Millinocket mill were shut Lionel Long, cook at the Pittston down for lack of sulphite. Combined Farm, sustained a serious heart total downtime for all six machines attack on October 5 while on vacation amounted to 13.2 hours. at Fort Kent. Many Company employees and guests have enjoyed his terrific Project 09 - MgO Recovery System. . meals while staying at Pittston and . . The major portion of engineering hope he will soon be back on the job and design work for the MgO recovery with his many talents and ready system project has been completed, smile. He is recuperating at his leaving only the miscellaneous details home in Greenville. that develop during the contractual phase of a job. The termination of An intensified effort is under- engineering was highlighted by the way in the field of total road plan delivery of a scale model of the ning. The objective of this project entire MgO recovery system. The is to coordinate more closely the scale model was set up in the Multi- road planning activities of purchased Purpose Room, and a detailed three- wood with those of Company operations. day review of system flow sheets Renewed emphasis will be placed on was conducted, using the model for recreation and aesthetic considerations a physical check of equipment layout. for all roads--main truck hauls and Sirrine, Babcock & Wilcox, and operational. This will be helpful Unitech participated in three to our public relations endeavors, meetings along with Great Northern as well as for our own personal Research, Engineering, and Manu­ satisfaction. facturing personnel. The model was constructed by the J. E. Sirrine Frank Morris, Pulpwood Buyer in Company, Greenville, S. C. the Ashland District, has moved his The construction of the MgO office from a rented building in Ash­ recovery boiler and evaporator land to our Company storehouse in building is nearly completed. The Sheridan. This move was made possible erection of equipment has just by the expansion of office space in started with four of the six evapo­ the storehouse that began last Spring. rator heating elements and the two Moving supplies directly from the boiler drums presently in place. wholesaler to our woods camps cut down The project is on schedule for on the space needed for storage. startup during the Fall of 1969. The Portage Chip Plant is now high-grading logs full time and selling FROM WOODLANDS - NORTH them to T. S. Pinkham Lumber Yard. Results and profits will be analyzed More heavy snow mixed with rain within three months to determine jus over the weekend of December 14-15 how profitable this venture is. just about curtailed all cutting in 5. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1968

FROM WOODLANDS - SOUTH Sales Trainees Complete Assignment at Mill Location. . . . One Sales The Sixth Annual Wood Dealers Service and three Sales Trainees Meeting was held December 4 at the have completed their programs in Houston Hotel in Dothan, Alabama. operations and their assignment at Seventy wood dealers attended the New York. meeting which included a formal George R. Schnauffer of West program, social hour, and dinner. Caldwell, N. J., a 1960 graduate of Guests included Company President, Upsala College and former employee Robert A. Haak, who spoke briefly of Arcinco Popular Merchandising to the group, and Vice President, Company, has been involved in an Bruce P. Ellen, who discussed the excellerated program to acquaint him outlook for paper sales in 1969. with our plant facilities, personnel, Other guest speakers included and basic processes. George will Traffic Manager, E. Reid Smith, be assigned to the Sales Service and Mr. Jim Aultman of the Group immediately. American Pulpwood Association. Stephen G. Hobson of Marblehead, Considerable interest was shown Mass., a graduate of Burdett College; in the panel discussion of pulpwood Edward J. Burke, Jr., of Jamaica Plain, production problems, the panel Mass., a graduate of Boston College; being made up of six wood dealers. and Michael P. Alford of Syracuse, A lively question and answer session N. Y., a graduate of Ricker College; resulted in further participation all arrived in early summer and have by wood dealers in the audience. completed their regular program at the mills. Their experience involved Wood production at Cedar Springs assignments in the Research Department, has increased, and a gradual build Quality Control, Product Development, up in inventory is expected, provided Woodlands and the mills. They have reasonable weather is experienced also attended Central Maine Vocational during the next few weeks. Training Institute for a special seminar in Graphic Arts Techniques. Company tree planting crews began reforestation activities during the month of December. Planting activities will increase during January and The following news item appeared February. Approximately five thousand in CELLU-LETTER, the Rice Barton Corpo­ acres are scheduled for planting ration’s monthly newsletter on what during the 1968-69 planting season. is happening in the pulp and paper industry: Foundation work has been completed "Seventh Annual Marketing Seminar on the long-log slasher system at held last month by API at the Hotel Elba, Alabama, and several major Pierre, New York City, was a crashing pieces of equipment have been installed. success -- and a heavy scent of things Plans are to begin purchasing long to come in pulpaper. It was one of logs early in January. This slasher the most far-scanning industry meetings will be capable of reclaiming the in the history of the industry. When near quality logs for GN Plywood. the next one comes around, some of your upcoming executives should be there." Howard Willets, Jr., Great Northern’s The first newspaper in the United Director of Marketing, acted as chairman States was the Present State of the of the API Committee which planned this New English Affairs, a broadside, seminar; and, in addition, presided over published in 1689 by Samuel Green in this two-day meeting held on November Cambridge, Massachusetts. 19 and 20. FROM RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT. . is designed so that the fuel must pass through the filter system before When Great Northern purchased an it enters the main tank. If particu­ Aero Commander turboprop aircraft, late material should break loose and it was necessary to change from be discharged from the tanker, the aviation gasoline to Jet A turbine filters will not allow it to pass through fuel (kerosene). and contaminate the main tank. Turbine fuels must be several Our installation is the same as times cleaner than aviation gasoline. you would find at any modern commercial Two of the stringent specifications airport, only on a smaller scale. that Jet A fuel must meet are the quantity of particulate matter present in the fuel (.001 grams/liter), and Tibetan Family Joins Maine Woods the quantity of water present in Trainee. . . . Mrs. Ngawang Jigmey the fuel (less than 30 ppm). Either and her thirteen-year old daughter, of these contaminants could lead to Dochen Choedon, were reunited with serious trouble for the aircraft if their husband and father November 29, they are present in the fuel system. following a twenty-four hour journey Because of the close tolerance mecha­ half way around the world. nisms in modern turbine engines and The mother and daughter arrived fuel systems, considerable damage in Bangor, November 28, in time for could result from particles as small a New England Thanksgiving dinner as l/20th the diameter of a human as guests of the Leo L. Thibodeau hair. Water present in Jet A fuel family. The following day, Mr. and in fine droplets can meld together Mrs. Thibodeau drove Mrs. Jigmey with violent agitation and form ice and her daughter to Portage, Maine, crystals in the fuel tank; this in for the reunion. Leo is Employment turn can plug the fuel system and Manager and Director of Public Relations, starve the engine. Even with built reporting directly to J. T. Maines, in heaters in the fuel line, an Vice President - Woodlands. excessive quantity of water in the Mr. Jigmey is one of six Tibetans fuel could be more than the heaters to come to the United States nearly a could handle. year and a half ago to participate With the above facts in mind, in an experimental work project arranged Research assisted in the design and by the Company in trying to solve an startup of a modern jet fuel loading acute labor shortage in the woods. and unloading station to service our Mr. Jigmey is the first to bring aircraft. It became operational on his family to the United States. May 29, 1968. The system consists of a 10,000 gallon tank, a Fram filter/separator (to remove solid matter and water) and a Bendix go-no-go filter (used as a back-up Great Northern Participating In filter for the main Fram filter. If Southeast TAPPI Letter-Writing Contest. the Fram filter should allow water Contacts have been made at Blakely to pass, the go-no-go filter will and Donalsonville High Schools for shut down the installation and allow the purpose of encouraging Junior and no fuel to pass until all the filters Senior students to write essays are replaced.) A pump is used to relative to the paper industry. Re­ transfer the fuel from the main print material from the American tank to the aircraft or to unload Paper Industry on "Challenging Careers the fuel from the jet fuel transport In An Important Industry" was provided into the main tank. to high school students. The contest Fuel is not unloaded from a fuel winner will receive a $50 savings transport until it is checked and con­ bond and a chance to enter the winning sidered OK for unloading. The system essay in wide-area competitlion. 7. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1968

Social Security Taxes Go Up! The Score, a monthly newsletter to management describing developments Starting with the first paycheck in employer-employee communications, you receive in January, 1969, your has awarded Great Northern two "certifi social security contributions will cates of recognition" for, in their be increased to 4.8 percent of the words, "the planning, preparation, first $7,800 of salary. The new and production of an Annual Report 4.8 percent rate applies to employees to Stockholders of high quality and and employers alike; therefore, the unusual distinction." The Reports Company shares with you this increased of four other paper companies -- tax burden. Consolidated, Mead, Oxford, and On December 15, 1967, Congress St. Regis -- were also judged. Great passed a law amending the Social Northern's efforts were second to Security Act. This new law provides The Mead Corporation by 4/10ths of a 13 percent across-the-board in­ one percent. crease in social security benefits for 24-million Americans, including One out of every seven employees retired and disabled workers, and in Maine's logging industry sustained widows and dependents. a lost-time accident in 1968. Ten Part of your social security employees were killed. Seven have sus­ taxes are for hospital insurance tained permanent injuries with either benefits, or Medicare, which will total or partial impairment. According also experience an increase January to figures released by the State Indus­ 1, 1969. trial Accident Commission, with 251 In a speech at the 70th Annual firms reporting, the industry has 13 Meeting of the American Hospital percent of the state’s lost-time Association, the Secretary of Health, accidents, while employing only 3.9 Education, and Welfare, Wilbur J. percent of the labor force. Cohen, announced a ten percent Spurred by these facts, the Cooper­ increase in the amount patients ative Extension Service and Extension will pay for hospitalization under Agents of Maine, in cooperation with Medicare, effective January 1, 1969. the State Department of Forestry, met A department spokesman gave with representatives of forest-based these details: wood industries and their suppliers on — A patient now pays the first December 5 at the University of Maine. $40 of his hospital bill, Medicare Representing Great Northern were John T covering the balance through the Maines, Vice President - Woodlands; 60th day of hospitalization. Begin­ Henry J. Deabay, Personnel Supervisor; ning January 1, the patient will and Louis H. Colgan, Safety Supervisor. pay the first $44. The discussions were centered -- The patient pays $20 daily around ways to reduce the number of for the next 60 days. This will preventable accidents, and the feas­ be raised to $22. ibility of establishing a Forest -- Should the patient enter a Industries Safety Association within nursing home after hospitalization, the state. The purpose of this would his first 20 days of care cost be to assist all companies in the field nothing. After that, he pays $5 a with their safety problems, especially day from the 21st day to the 100th those who do not or cannot afford a day, with Medicare taking care of formal safety program. It was reported the balance. The $5 rate increases that the smaller industries, with to $5.50 a day. the fewer number of employees, had the Secretary Cohen attributed greater incidences of lost-time acci­ the rate rises to increasing hospital­ dents. The industry as a whole had a ization costs, which he blamed on frequency of 70.4 per million manhours "multiplicity of reasons." He said and a severity of 7403. By comparison, a hospital stay of an elderly Medi­ GN’s frequency is 16.6, and severity care beneficiary averages about $600. is 6716. Flameproofing trees and greenery Gulf Coast TAPPI Meeting Held can be part of your Christmas safety Friday and Saturday, November 22 program. Mix 9 ounces of borax, 4 and 23. Dinner and program were ounces of boric acid, and 1 gallon held at the Elks Club in Dothan, of water (to aid penetrating qualities Alabama. A plant tour of the Cedar of solution, add 1/4 tablespoon of Springs’ operation was given on low sudsing detergent). Spray tree. Saturday, November 23. Approximately Saturate it. Let dry, then decorate. seventy-five TAPPI visitors toured There is no change in color or texture the plant. Great Northern acted as of the tree. host company for the TAPPI Meeting.

"PERSONNELITIES"

NEW EMPLOYEES

PETER HAAREN, newly appointed the Boeing Company in Huntsville Corporate Officer, will join the Alabama, on the Apollo Project. Company as Treasurer early next month when he leaves his present position of Assistant Treasurer at PERSONNEL CHANGES AND TERMINATIONS Pan American World Airways, Inc. AT CEDAR SPRINGS Mr. Haaren is a graduate of Hotchkiss School, Princeton Uni­ DONALD E. BLACK has been promoted versity, and New York University. to Data Processing Supervisor at His degrees are BA - Economics, Cedar Springs, reporting to Charles and MBA - Finance. He was asso­ Chandler, Manager of Accounting. ciated with the Chemical Bank New WINSTON D. SPiVEY resigned from York Trust Company for eight years this position after being with the as Assistant Treasurer and later Company since August, 1963. as a loan officer with the title of Assistant Vice President. He STEPHEN T. DUNNING, JR. has joined Pan American in 1961. been promoted at GN Plywood to fill the position of Finishing and Ship­ STEPHEN F. SCOFIELD has joined ping Supervisor due to the resignation Great Northern as a Sales Trainee. of WILLIAM L. MOSELEY, reporting to Mr. Scofield is a 1968 graduate of Bill Gardner, General Superintendent. Syracuse University where he attained Bill had been with the Company since a BA degree in Economics. December, 1965; and Steve started with the Company when plywood ope­ JOSEPH E. TINKHAM joined the Com­ rations began in March, 1968. pany as a Rate Analyst in the Milli­ nocket Transportation Department, CHARLES G. SPOONER resigned reporting to P. P. Paul, Acting from his position as Mechanical Traffic Manager. A native of Supervisor, Southern Division Wood Millinocket, Mr. Tinkham comes to lands. Charles had been with the us with 18 years experience with Company since July, 1967. the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad where he was employed as Chief Clerk. Enclosed with this month's RICHARD A. VENDITTI has joined Newsletter is an interesting article the Company as Applied Math Group entitled "Levesque Has Changed to Leader in the Research & Development Tree Lengths" taken from the October Department. He graduated from the issue of Pulpwood Production University of Massachusetts with a Magazine. Mr. Levesque is an Masters degree in Applied Statistics. independent contractor supplying Prior to joining GN, he worked for pulpwood to our two Northern mills. A slasher designed and built by Levesque personnel processes tree lengths into four-foot pulpwood at a rail yard. Short wood is handled from slasher directly to rack car by a Prentice HOBC loader. Four crewmen process an average of 500 cords weekly.

Levesque Has Changed To Tree Lengths

Visits to same job in 1964 and again in 1968 gave Pulpwood Production's reporter excellent example of how methods are changing in Maine's woods.

• Techniques employed by Antonio tree lengths and process it into four- being a total of 30 to 40 cutters on Levesque & Sons on timber harvest­ foot lengths for shipment by rail to the job at any one time. Workmen ing operations in Aroostook County, the mill. Tree lengths are processed own their chain saws and are paid a Maine, are among the most highly into short wood by a slasher located at piece-rate for tree lengths put down mechanized to be found any where in a rail siding and loaded directly onto on woods yards. pulpwood rack cars. Of the fourteen skidders working America. To be specific, Levesque has a to­ on the Levesque job, nine are owned In 1968, in addition to three to five tal of fourteen cutting crews working by the company (five Timberjacks and million board feet of saw timber for its in the woods. A crew’s mission is to four Tree Farmers) and five are hired own mills located near Ashland, the fell, limb, and top trees and to yard units belonging to owner-operators. Levesque job will deliver approximate­ them out in tree lengths to a point Owners are paid a piece-rate for the ly 20,000 cords of four-foot spruce where they can be loaded onto haul hired skidders in addition to rates re­ and fir pulpwood to Great Northern trucks for delivery to the slasher lo­ ceived for chain saws and labor. Paper Company’s mills at Millinocket. cation. Hauling is accomplished by five And it is conceivable that not a single Each crew is equipped with a rub­ Levesque-owned truck tractors (a mix ber-tired skidder. Some crews are piece may have been touched by hu­ of Macks, AutoCar and GMC’s) pull­ made up of only two workmen while ing pole-type tandem-axle trailers man hands! others have three; and individual rigged to carry payloads of 12 to 14 The broad concept of Levesque’s crews may vary as to the number of cords. Additional trucks are hired as operations is to harvest pulpwood in workmen from time to time, there needed. Loading in the woods is with

PULPWOOD PRODUCTION a Prentice D-600 and unloading at Levesque mill eight miles south of mately the same number are involved the railhead is with a second machine Ashland. in the current year's out put of 20,000 identical to the first. Hauling distance The area is a rugged timberland cords. In 1964, the number of cutters is from five to eight miles. laced with eskers and creeks. The tim­ averaged about 30 as compared to The tree lengths are piled down in berstand is a mixture of spruce, fir and about 35 in the present operation a yard laid out parallel to the railroad hardwoods and is considered to be addition to 7,500 cords of production siding so that there is an open way quite good as pertaining to tree size added, this year the cutters are ex­ about 40 feet wide between the wood and volume per acre. pected to finish about four months ear­ and the cars on which short wood is lier than in 1964. loaded. A self-propelled slasher moves • This reporter visited the Levesque Pointing out contrasts between old along the way, recovers the tree job four years ago while it was cut­ methods and their present system, lengths with its integral loader, and ting at a site about ten miles south­ Frank Levesque said: processes them into four-foot lengths. east of its present location. ("Mechani­ “If we had to use horses for skid­ As the short wood collects in a box­ zation Is Theme On Levesque Show',” ding, it would require 100 to 125 cut­ like frame that is part of the slasher, Pulpwood Production, November ters to fill our contract for 20,000 a Prentice HOBC mounted on the 1964.) A brief comparison of the op­ cords. That kind of manpower simply rear of a truck tractor removes it and eration then and now should illustrate is not available; and if it were, elimi­ deposits it directly onto railroad rack the rapidity with which change is oc­ nation of horses has helped us reduce cars. curring in Maine's woodland. our support functions—quarters and The slasher was designed and built In 1964 the Levesque operation was eating accommodations for the men, in its first year as a completely mech­ by Levesque personnel. It utilizes a feeding and care for the horses, and anized job; that is, 1964 was the first 671 GMC Diesel engine to generate road building. year there were no horses used on the electric power, which in turn drives “Skidders have changed our road show. It had been all horses in 1962 the saw and an assortment of hydrau­ program greatly. With horses, it is nec­ and a combination of horses and ma­ lic pumps by which various compo­ essary to push a trail about ever 500 chine skidding in 1963. (Production in nents are powered. Principal compo­ feet. Now we lay out woods roads at 1963 was 21,000 cords as compared to nents include a Prentice D-100 hydrau­ 1,000-foot intervals. Because we move only 12,500 in 1964, but the smaller lic loader; an infeed conveyor de­ more wood over each road, we can output in ’64 was not due to changes signed to handle lengths up to 50 feet; afford to build better roads. These in methods.) a stop-plate to index the stems at four- reduce trucking costs because we get foot lengths; a circular cut-off saw; The job, in 1964, was a hodge­ better truck and tire life, and be­ and a system by which short wood is podge of equipment and methods. Of cause we are able to move larger pay discharged from the slasher and col­ ten yarding tractors, only two were loads. Also, because we have good lected in the box-like receiver. rubber-tired skidders. There was no roads, we can haul more wood in the homogeneity as to make or model Four workmen compose the crew summer; which means that we h (two Case 310’s, two John Deere of the slasher operation: One to op­ less road to keep open in the win. 1010’s, four J-5 Bombardiers, a C-4 erate the Prentice loader mounted on Handling production in tree lengths Tree Farmer, and a model 205 Tim­ the slasher, used to recover tree lengths berjack). has several advantages. In traditional from storage and to place them into shortwood systems, wood may be han­ the infeed system; one to operate the The Bombardiers were used to dled five times: When it is piled by cut-off saw; one on the Prentice HOBC yard out four-foot wood for load­ hand in the wods; when it is loaded used to transfer short wood from the ing into pallets set down on a road. onto a haul truck in the woods; when slasher to the railroad car; and one All other skidders were used to yard it is off-loaded and piled down onto man to smooth out the wood as it is tree lengths, which were bucked and the ground at a railhead; when it is placed on the car. piled in the traditional manner of the picked up for loading onto the rail Slasher crewmen are paid an hour­ Northeast. The entire production car; and finally when it is placed on moved out of the cutting area in four- ly rate plus an incentive bonus of 25 the car. foot lengths. cents a cord for all production in ex­ “In our present system, even though cess of 480 cords a week. Production As pointed out already, today there we ship short wood, it is handled as has averaged about 500 cords weekly are fourteen rubber-tired skidders on short wood only once—when it goes over the two years the machine has the Levesque job—all Tree Farmers onto the rail car immediately follow­ been in use. or Timberjacks. Everything is skidded ing the slasher operation.’’ and hauled in tree lengths. There is no Such has been the progress of the • As its name indicates, Antonio Le­ handling in short wood form until it goes onto the rail car. Levesque operation in the past four vesque & Sons is a family enterprise. years.—CEC • The principals are the father, Antonio, The change from short wood to tree and two sons, Frank and Paul. Antonio lengths necessitated complete renova­ oversees the general woods operation, tion of loading and hauling systems. including a camp and road construc­ Two Prentice D-600 hydraulic load­ tion. Frank is an equipment specialist ers have replaced two cranes rigged and functions as superintendent of me­ with clam-grapples and formerly used chanical operations. Paul manages the to handle short wood. Ten-wheeler saw mill and serves as administrator. trucks which carried payloads of 6.5 The Levesques’ woods operations to 7.5 cords in pallets or on stake are located in southeast Aroostook bodies have been replaced by semi­ County, about 25 miles northwest of tractor/trailer rigs carrying payloads Monticello and 25 miles southeast of of 12 to 14 cords each. Ashland. Pulpwood moves on the Regarding manpower, about fifty Bangor and Aroostook Railroad and workmen were involved in the 12,500- saw logs are trucked directly into the cord year of 1964; whereas approxi­ GREAT NORTHERN PAPER COMPANY NEWSLETTER

FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES

Volume VII No. 8 MILLINOCKET, MAINE Friday, November 22, 1968

Retired Executive Vice President, Board of Directors Authorize at Roy V. Weldon, died Monday morning, Their October Meeting an Eight Percent November 18, following a long illness. Contribution Under the Incentive Mr. Weldon, an active executive in the Profit Sharing Plan -- paper industry for over 38 years, began This announcement was reported his career with Great Northern in to all eligible participants of the Millinocket after graduating from Incentive Profit Sharing Plan by Tufts College in 1922. Over the years, Company President, Robert A. Haak, he served as Assistant Chief Engineer, in his letter of October 30. Construction Engineer, Superintendent Cont. on page 8, col. 2

GREAT NORTHERN PAPER COMPANY ANNOUNCES RECORD SALES, EARNINGS FOR FISCAL YEAR Great Northern honored by visit ENDING SEPTEMBER 29. . . .New York, N.Y. of Miss Priscilla Schenck. Priscilla Great Northern Paper Company arrived at Millinocket on October 22, announced October 30 record sales and unannounced and unexpected, accom­ earnings for the fiscal year ended panied by her chauffeur, Mr. Joe September 29, 1968. Marris; her companion, Miss Florence Peter S. Paine, Chairman and Carlson; and Mrs. Elizabeth McLaughlin, Chief Executive Officer, said net a former resident of Millinocket. income after taxes, including the Priscilla is the granddaughter new 10 percent Federal income surtax, of Garret Schenck, Sr., the founder rose 9 percent to $14,976,000 or of Great Northern Paper Company. $5.21 a Common share, up from Although confined to a wheelchair $13,745,000, or $4.83 a Common share all her life, she showed the same in fiscal 1967. determination as her granddad who Assuming the conversion into carved an industry out of a wilderness. Common stock of all outstanding con­ She toured the Millinocket mill and vertible securities, pro forma net the Engineering & Research Center, income becomes $4.43 per Common and then spent the evening at the share, as compared with $4.09 for Guest House - where she was born the previous year. The investment fifty-two years ago. It had been tax credit resulting from the Company’s twenty-eight years since she last expansion program totalled $3,350,000 visited Millinocket. On her depar­ in 1968, up $986,000 or 34 cents per ture, she joyfully accepted an share from 1967. The new Federal invitation from Mr. and Mrs. Shinners income surtax effective January 1, to make a return visit in the very 1968, lowered per share earnings by near future. 26 cents. Cont. next page. Earnings for the last quarter GREAT NORTHERN EMPLOYEES ACTIVE IN of 1968 were adversely affected by POLITICAL AFFAIRS. . . . reduced operations in the Company's Southern mill, Mr. Paine said, Overshadowed by the importance because of a maintenance shutdown of and the closeness of the results of one turbine for ten days. The mill the National elections, nonetheless, is currently operating near capacity, the increased activity and success however, and has a good order backlog. of Company employees in politics Sales in 1968 increased 15.6 reflects the policy of encouragement percent to $154,557,000, and ship­ by Great Northern in this direction. ments reached an all-time high of Roderick E. Farnham, Adminis­ 1,308,000 tons. However, profit trative Assistant to J. T. Maines, from operations totalled $24,627,000, Vice President, Woodlands, won his an increase of only 6.6 percent. bid for the office of State Repre­ Reviewing the results of the year, sentative . Mr. Paine said that one of the Walter A. Birt, Station Operator principal factors for operating at the East Millinocket mill, won profit not keeping pace with sales reelection as State Representative was the lower price this year of over Paul J. Baker, Turbine Operator linerboard and corrugating medium. at East Millinocket. He pointed out, however, that recent Philip H. Bartram, Public announcements of price increases on Relations Supervisor, Woodlands, newsprint and printing papers and was elected County Commissioner for a firming of the linerboard price Piscataquis County, Maine. would have a favorable effect on In the South, Lenward M. Eubanks, 1969 operations. Repairman at Great Northern Plywood, was elected County Commissioner for Fiscal Year Ended Seminole County, Georgia. HIGHLIGHTS Sept . 29, 1968 This type of activity is not limited to active employees. Retirees have Net sales $154,557,000 been increasingly active in political affairs as evidenced by the following Profit from 24,627,000 result: Operations Leon J. Crommett, retired Wood Handler in the Groundwood Department Income before 21,746,000 at the Millinocket mill, won his Taxes second term as State Representative over Thomas R. Simpson, Paper Service Provision for Engineer in the Millinocket Control Taxes on Income 6,770,000 Department, retired. In addition, many Company employees Net Income 14,976,000 are serving as elected or appointed officers on the local level. Net Income Per - $5.21 - Common Share *

Pro forma net - $4.43 - Bruce P. Ellen, Vice President - income per Common Southern Division and Edward L. Cowan, Share assuming con­ President of the Chattahoochee Indus version of all out­ trial Railroad, were elected directors standing convertible of the Georgia Business & Industry securities Association at the annual meeting of that group held October 25. Mr. Ellen *Based upon average number of will represent the pulp and paper mills shares outstanding during the year. in the state; Mr. Cowan, the railroads. 3. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1968

Paper production for seven weeks ended 11/17/68.

1969 1968______Production: Tons Daily Avg. Tons Daily Avg.

Cedar Springs 93,016 1,902 73,819 1,532 East Millinocket 53,865 1,099 54,217 1,107 Millinocket 44,857 915 41,304 843 191,738 3,916 169,340 3 ,482

CEDAR SPRINGS MILL system. When complete, this system will handle thirty cords of pine or The 12,000 gallon spent-acid hardwood chips per hour. surge tank and pump installation at the Tall Oil Plant is approxi­ Erection of the 200,000 gallon mately eighty-five percent complete. weak-wash storage tank in the When complete, the Tall Oil Plant recaustizing tank farm is fifty percent will have the capacity to hold spent complete. acid when the recovery boilers are down. EAST MILLINOCKET MILL Installation of two Sprout-Waldron 42" twin-flow refiners for secondary An electrical transmission line refining in the NSSC pulp mill began outage due to heavy, wet snow caused the week of November 11. The new all six paper machines to go down on efiners are scheduled to be shipped Saturday, November 9. Total downtime the week of December 30 and will be for all machines due to the power installed in the system between the failure was nearly twenty-three hours. existing refined stock chest and the NSSC washers. Construction has started on the new conveyor system at the Wood Room. Long-range painting of No. 1 This new conveyor system will make power and recovery boiler and it possible to eventually debark wood equipment is approximately sixty on a year-round basis. percent complete. No. 4 waterwheel overhaul at Dolby A scheduled shutdown in the power station is progressing slowly. NSSC pulp mill is planned for A new shaft has been manufactured and Wednesday, November 20. ‘No. 1 Bauer mounted, and the draft tubes and refiner, which was rebuilt at the wheels have been thoroughly cleaned Bauer shop, will be installed along and painted. Reassembly will take with the rebuilt chip feed valve on about two more weeks. the Esco continuous digester and a new digester blow cyclone. No. 1 paper machine second press was converted to a Venta-nip operation Foundation work has begun for on November 13. This completes the the installation of a long-log conversion of all second presses to slasher operation at Elba, Alabama. Venta-nips on Nos. 1-4 paper machines. This operation will supply the ply­ wood plant as well as the paper mill Nos. 1, 2, and 3 grinder motors at a combined rate of 750 cords per recently went on Great Northern 60- week. cycle power. This now completes the conversion of all grinder motors in Installation work has begun on the Old Grinder Room to 60-cycle No. 2 truck-purchased chip unloading MILLINOCKET MILL down operations in all camps. Especially hard hit were the Marcoux, The chip unloading system which Gosselin, and Paquet camps where started up October 25 is expected to horses are still used for skidding. increase the chip unloading capacity Slippery footing and trees loaded at the mill from the present 75,000 with snow have made cutting much cords of purchased chips per year more hazardous. "Widowmakers" and to 200,000 cords per year. This stubs are more difficult to detect. system will also include a 5,000 cord chip storage pile, reclaim A second shift was put on Wednesday, system, and truck dump. November 13, at the Portage Chip Plant. Hours are from 5:30 p.m. to A new and heavier rider roll for 3:00 a.m., five days a week, with No. 6 machine winder was put in one-half hour for lunch. It is antici­ operation on November 8. This roll pated the plant will have rotating has improved quality by giving shifts as soon as details are worked tighter starts and by reducing the out. incidences of "dished" rolls and offset winding. Ralph Clifford, Manager of Woodlands, Lester Hazelton, Superin­ Due to an electrical disturbance tendent of Operated Wood, and L. Paul caused by heavy, wet snow on November Bossie, Wood Room Foreman, hosted 9, all paper machines went down at nine supervisors from the Millinocket approximately 9:52 a.m. Combined and East Millinocket mills, Friday total downtime for all ten machines and Saturday, November 15 and 16, at amounted to sixty-six hours. the Portage Chip Plant and Kenneth Bartlett’s woods operation near Fish A new record coater production Lake. They were joined in Ashland of 6,271 tons was made in the first by 0. K. Tripp, Area Superintendent, accounting period. This breaks the and Assistant Superintendent, Edward old record of 6,025 tons set in the Chase. fifth period of 1967. Attending from the Millinocket mill were: Win Brooks, Jack Nicholson, Charlie Bears, Waldo Preble, Harry NORTHERN WOODLANDS Packard, and Fred York; and from the East Millinocket mill were: Dick The Dover-Foxcroft pulpwood Goodridge, George MacDonald, and Jack district has been added to the Neal. A little hunting was enjoyed Mattawamkeag area under the super­ Saturday in the Fish Lake area, and vision of Vernon Robichaud, Pulpwood it seems the East Millinocket mill Buyer. Vernon has successfully held group came out the winner, with Dick this buying position for several Goodridge getting the only deer. years.

Approximately sixty-seven acres of land were recently purchased by Woodlands to serve as a concentration According to an article by Frank yard for pulpwood at Glendale Siding, Sleeper in the Maine Sunday Telegram about four miles west of Fort Kent. dated October 27, 1968, the Town of This should reduce the cost of Millinocket topped the list of Maine rehandling by the contractors and communities with an average annual make wood available for loading gross wage of $8,090 in manufacturing during seasons when trucking is in 1967. By way of comparison, other impossible. paper industry towns, Bucksport and Two storms within a period of four Madawaska, reported $6,759 and $6,369 days--with an accumulation of about respectively. The city of Portland eighteen inches of snow—have slowed averaged $5,168. 5. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1968

FROM RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FROM TRANSPORTATION - SOUTHERN DIVISION

MgO Recovery System Progress. . . . The Chattahoochee Industrial Rail . . The large, grey structure on road has recently purchased and placed the east end of the Millinocket in service six "jumbo” chip-hopper Boiler House is now closed in and cars each capable of transporting 4,800 the equipment erection phase has cubic feet of chips from the plywood already begun. The evaporator heat plant to the paper mill. This equip­ exchangers are already in place. ment is a pleasing addition to the The recovery boiler erection will present CIRR freight equipment con­ start with lifting of the steam sisting of four diesel switch engines drum during the week of November 25. and one hundred and ninty-eight DF Less visible, but important, 50’, high-cube boxcars. portions of this project are underway in the sulphite mill. Trials were A bulkhead flatcar with an inside run in late October and early length of sixty-one feet was shipped November to confirm the dissolved to Indianapolis, Indiana, containing solids recovery and concentration sixty bundles or units of plywood we expect with our washers. weighing 183,000 pounds. Since we A 16-hour absorption tower trial have incentive freight rates on plywood on November 7 proved that we could for the excess over 60,000 pounds, make magnesium base bisulphite the freight savings on this car amounted cooking liquor in our present tower. to approximately $130. According to This is necessary to minimize the Tom Lockett, Sales Manager, GN Plywood affect of temporary problems during Corporation, there is a trend towards startup of the recovery boiler on shipping more sheathing grade plywood the sulphite pulp production. It is on bulkhead flatcars. Iso necessary to supply the first magnesium base spent sulphite liquor Reid Smith, Traffic Manager, to the recovery boiler. All sodium recently spoke to the Railway Traffic base liquor must be purged from the Clerks Club of Atlanta at their Annual pulp mill system before firing Bosses’ Day Luncheon. The topic of liquor in the boiler to avoid the talk was "Great Northern - growing pluggage of the superheater section greater North and South." He also with sodium sulfate slag. spoke on the functions and responsi­ Making magnesium bisulphite bilities of the Traffic Department cooking liquor in our present at Cedar Springs. absorption tower is required for a one week pulping trial starting on November 20. This trial will be used to confirm the time - termper- ature - liquor concentration con­ The following letter, which is ditions that were developed in a self-explanatory, was received recently year of research work in the pilot from Dorothy E. Allen, Women's Activ­ plant. ities Specialist, United States Depart­ The startup of this recovery ment of Agriculture, Forest Service, system in the Fall of 1969 will be Eastern Region: the biggest single step in pollution "Thanks for the copies of the abatement by the Northern Division booklet ’Trees’ that we recently mills. It will also be considerably received from Great Northern Paper ahead of the October 1976 deadline Company. Women who are conservation set by the State and Federal govern­ leaders in their organizations always ments. In addition to pollution seem pleased to receive this beautiful Abatement, the system will recover publication." cooking chemicals. It will also produce steam and electrical power over and above its needs. FROM THE SALES DEPARTMENT KNOW YOUR BENEFITS

All Great Northern linerboard Judging by the number of letters sold abroad is handled by the Export and phone calls received by the Sales Department in New York and Salary and Benefits Department, the accounts for approximately twelve new Group Life Insurance certificates percent of the total output of liner­ recently mailed to all monthly salaried board produced on Nos. 1 and 2 paper­ supervisors have created some con­ machines at Cedar Springs. Domestic fusion by the deliberate omission of sales are handled through Great the total amount of group life insurance Northern Board Sales Corporation. for a particular individual. At one time or another, paper The formula to remember is spelled produced at Millinocket and East out in your group insurance plan Millinocket has found its way into booklet. The amount of life insurance every continent of the world. to which an employee is entitled is: Because of the steady increase in (a) The total amount of life domestic sales in recent years, insurance the employee had on paper produced at our Northern mills September 1, 1967; or now represents a very small part of (b) one and one half times his our export product. At some future current annual salary, date when we have additional pro­ whichever is greater. The duction capacity in the North, we minimum amount is $10,000 and the expect to redevelop our overseas maximum, $50,000. sales, particularly in lightweight Those to whom provision (a) applies grades where world-wide demand is should have received certificates rapidly growing for this type of stating the actual amount of insurance paper. to which the individual is entitled. In the meantime, the Export Department devotes virtually all of FROM THE CONTROLLER’S DEPARTMENT its efforts to the sale of linerboard. Great Northern Paper Company is now For many years the Shipbuilding, an important factor in the inter­ Aerospace, and Automobile industries national trade of this product; and have used scale models to test aside from the main consuming areas products prior to actual manufacture. of Europe, Great Northern linerboard These scaled-down physical models is shipped regularly to other markets, are tested in wind tunnels and tanks which include such far away places to predict performance of the as the Ivory Coast in West Africa, finished product. This is a rela­ Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Phil tively simple and inexpensive method lipine Islands to mention a few. of forecasting results prior to A contract for the shipment of commitment of resources. Business linerboard to the Cameroons becomes men face a bewildering variety of effective in January, and negotiations other problems about which they would are currently going on for the also like to know the results of a eventual shipment of board to Somalia. decision before commitment of The steady development of this type resources. Some of these are con­ of business brought about the decision cerned with plant sizes and location, to station one of our own men in equipment procurement, product mix, Europe. production scheduling and marketing Great Northern Paper Company is strategy. Computer technology has today a highly-regarded supplier to made model building feasible for the world markets. application to these business prob­ lems. As with an airplane or a ship, a business model is a scaled-down replica of a real problem. However, since it is not a physical thing, 7. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1968

the business model must be con­ "PERSOnnELITIES" structed in mathematical terms. Building the business model NEW EMPLOYEES requires that the problem to be solved be unquestionably defined JAMES A. GLOAG joined the Milli­ (not always easy). Then it must be nocket Plant Engineering Department analyzed and data that affect the as a Mechanical Engineer, reporting solution collected and put into to J. M. Giffune, Senior Area Engi­ the model, e.g., capabilities of a neer. A native of Scotland, Mr. paper machine in tons per hour by Gloag received a diploma in Engineer­ grade, stock formulas, cost of ing Design through an engineering furnish, prices, etc. Once defined apprenticeship program with a paper and operating, a business model can machine manufacturer in Edinburgh, then answer ’what if’ questions — and has held various project and 'What if’ we made Jet Printing on plant engineering assignments in No. 1 paper machine instead of England. He came to the United Directory?; or 'What if' we increased States in 1965 and has been employed machine speed on No. 5 paper machine?; as a Senior Project Engineer of or ’What if’ for any question that paper machine and auxiliary design comes to mind concerning mill capa­ in Massachusetts. bilities or grade structure that affects profitability. It is true BARRy RUMAC has joined GN as a that simple models can be constructed Market Research Analyst, reporting and a computer is not always required to Wayne L. Mangels, Director of to arrive at a solution. However, Market Research. In this position, in a complex problem with hundreds Mr. Rumac will be performing statis­ of variables to be analyzed (ten tical analyses of our markets and paper machines, 35 grades, ten basis conducting market studies for oppor­ weights, various stock formulas, tunities related to our current varying machine speeds, etc.) solutions business. He is currently attending to problems that take weeks by hand Pace College and will earn his can be solved in seconds on a degree in marketing next year. His computer. This speed allows many previous employment was Supervisor, more of the aspects of a problem Statistics Department with Renfield to be investigated in a very short Importers, Ltd. time span. Hopefully, better decisions for business problems are the result. SAMUEL J. SIEGEL has joined the The validity of decisions is completely Company as an Assistant Manager, Rates dependent on how well the model repre­ and Research, reporting to J. D. sents the real-life situation. If the Perkins, Director of Transportation. model is constructed with faulty or Mr. Siegel is a graduate of City incomplete data, it will give faulty or College of New York with a BA degree incomplete answers. Depending on the in Business Management, and is a complexity of the problem, it is Registered I.C.C. Practioner. Prior possible to build some models in to joining the Company, he was Pricing minutes, or it may take many months; Staff Assistant in the Marketing Depart but once constructed, it can be used ment of the Penn Central Railroad. over and over by varying the data and In his new position, he will be respons provide results in seconds that would ible for handling rate adjustments and otherwise be impossible to calculate. negotiations with carriers. The above approach to problem solving goes by many names, the most JOHN B. WALLS has been reemployed, common of which are Management Science after an absence of two years, as an r Operations Research. This approach Area Foreman in the Millinocket mill, is being used in the PACE project which reporting to 0. B. Pound, Assistant will help solve our marketing strategy, Maintenance Superintendent. Ben was production scheduling and plant expansion questions. New Employees Cont. TERMINATIONS: employed by Great Northern for 17 NORMAN F. COOK resigned from his years as a machinist before being position of Area Foreman at the East promoted to Area Foreman in April, 1958. Millinocket mill. Norm had been with the Company since February, 1946. NORMAN J. RICHARdS joined the Research and Development Department JEROME L. BLANKENSHIP resigned as a Research Associate, reporting from his position with the Southern to W. A. Richardson, Pulp Research Division Transportation Department. Group Leader. Mr. Richards is a Jerome’s employment dates back to graduate of Yale University and holds October, 1963. a PhD degree from Lawrence University, Institute of Paper Chemistry. He will be working initially on the problem of groundwood quality measure­ DEATHS: ment and on MgO recovery. roy V. WELDON (Cont. from page 1.)

PERSONNEL CHANGES of the Technical Department, and Assistant Manager of Woodlands. PHILIP BARTRAM, Pulpwood Buyer in In 1950, he was made Vice President the Dover-Foxcroft area, transferred of Engineering and Research. It was in to the Bangor office where he will this capacity that he directed the assume the duties of Public Relations design and construction of Great Supervisor. Phil joined the Company Northern’s major expansion program at as a Test Assistant in the Research East Millinocket. Concurrent with the Department in March, 1947, and in completion of the first phase of 1948 transferred to the Woodlands that project in 1953, Mr. Weldon was Department as a Pulpwood Buyer. In elected to the Great Northern Board his new position, Phil will work of Directors. In December, 1954, he with Leo Thibodeau, who retires next was named Executive Vice President, August. Phil will be working on plans the position he held until his retire­ to further develop the recreational ment in 1960. possibilities on Great Northern During his years with the Great lands. Northern Paper Company as Assistant Chief Engineer, many of the companies ERNEST B. HARVEY returned to the hydro-electric and water storage Department of Forest Engineering as projects were developed. One of the a Forester after completing two larger such developments, completed years of military service. 'Bart' in 1939, was 24,000 KVA generation served in Viet Nam as a Captain station and dam on the Penobscot in an engineering company. He holds River at Mattaceunk. a Master's degree in Forest Economics In 1961, one year after illness from the University of Maine. forced him to retire, Great Northern Management honored Mr. Weldon at E. HARRIS MERCER has been promoted ceremonies held at Mattaceunk where the to Assistant Traffic Supervisor, report­ generating installation was renamed the ing to Reid Smith, Traffic Manager - Roy V. Weldon Hydro-Electric Station. Southern Division. Harris has been with the Company since December, 1965. GEORGE E. (’Pat’) WALLS, 56, Day Foreman-Paper at the Millinocket mill, CHARLES F. GARRETT, JR. has been died after a long illness. Pat was promoted to Yard Master, reporting to first hired with GN on October 1, Harris Mercer, Assistant Traffic 1927. He was promoted to a super­ Supervisor. Charles has been with visory position in the paper mill in the Company since December, 1965. April, 1958. GREAT NORTHERN PAPER COMPANY NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES

Volume VII No. 7 MILLINOCKET, MAINE Friday, October 18, 1968

DIRECTORS OF GREAT NORTHERN PAPER COMPANY HAVE DECLARED:

A semi-annual dividend of 20 cents per share on the Series A Preferred Stock, payable April 3, 1969, to holders of record at the close of business March 3, 1969. A quarterly dividend of 35 cents per share on the Company’s Common Stock, payable December 10, 1968, to holders of record at close of business November 20, 1968.

PRICE INCREASES ANNOUNCED BY GREAT OUTSTANDING PROMOTION NORTHERN PAPER - New York, N. Y., October 15 -- "The most successful promotion Great Northern Paper Company we have ever done." — that was how announced that it will increase the Business Week described the joint sales price of selected groundwood BW-Great Northern promotion last publication grades an average of April in which some 18,000 live 4 percent, as of January 1, 1969. spruce seedlings were mailed (at John H. Staples, Vice President - Business Week’s expense) to a special Sales, said the increase was due to list of government officials, business continued rising costs of labor, and labor leaders, advertising agency pulpwood, transportation, chemicals presidents, and company executives. and other mill supplies. The purpose, to promote more advertising Historically one of the world’s in Business Week, is SOP in the publi­ largest newsprint producers, Great cation field -- as every magazine Northern in recent years has broadened does it in some form or another -- but its operations into coated and BW tries to make their sales pitch uncoated printing paper for magazines, more memorable and different. catalogs, directories and specialty The results of this "tree mailing" uses, as well as linerboard and were so outstanding the publisher of corrugating medium shipping containers Business Week, Mr. C. C. Randolph, and plywood for home construction. decided to commemorate the event and The move follows the increase invited Mr. Paine, Mr. Haak, Mr. Staples, announced September 17 by the Inter­ and Mr. Vivian to a special get-together national Paper Company. All the luncheon at the McGraw-Hill Building other Canadian producers also increased in New York, October 9. Mr. Paine their prices. was presented with a leather binder The increase will bring the containing some of the more interesting price of newsprint up to $147 a ton letters Business Week received from east of the Rockies. It will be the such people as Eddie Rickenbacher and third boost in 31 months. A $5 a Margaret Chase Smith as a result of ton increase was levelled in June, the mailing. Mr. Vivian received a 1966; and in July, 1967, it was plaque especially prepared for the increased by $3 a ton. occasion. Paper production for fifty-two weeks ended 9/29/68. . . .

1968 1967 Tons Daily Avg. Tons Daily Avg. Production:

Cedar Springs 607,612 1,831 389,945 1,533 East Millinocket 393,153 1,100 383,912 1,078 Millinocket 305,669 857 305,781 860 1,306,434 3,788 1,079,638 3,471

EAST MILLINOCKET MILL MILLINOCKET MILL

On October 1, a trash boom broke Steam was introduced to the down above Weldon Dam at Mattawamkeag turbine generator on Friday, September and became lodged under the roll 27. The AEC turbine generator was gate. Water loss was severe. The started up and connected in parallel boom had to be cut upstream. Then with the local public utility elec­ the gate was opened wide and the trical system on September 29. At boom floated free. It will be 7:45 p.m. the public utility was dis­ replaced later. connected and the AEC turbine generator assumed the 60-Hertz load of Nos. 5 Nos. 5 and 6 grinder motors in and 6 grinder motors at East Millinocket. the old grinder room started operation Because of excessive steam leakage on October 8 off the recently installed by the eight main throttling valves, high line from the new 60-cycle the unit was shut down and the valves generator at Millinocket. These reconditioned. The turbine generator motors had been run previously on went back on the line permanently Bangor Hydro-Electric Company- Tuesday, October 8, at 6:30 p.m., supplied power. No. 4 motor was supplying approximately 3,000 kw of switched over on October 15. Present 60 CPS power to the East Millinocket plans call for converting Nos. 1, 2, grinder room. and 3 grinder motors to 60-cycle This unit has a capability of operation in the near future. 25,000 kw which will be used to supply future installations with On October 9, piling out wood 60 CPS power. The new recovery system to the outside softwood piles was for the Millinocket mill will be completed. Between 85,000 and 90,000 powered from this unit. cords have been stored for winter use. It is expected this will last The long log slashing operation until April 1, 1969. is in full swing at the Millinocket woodyard. New access roads are A new type monofilament plastic now usable, and the truck scale instal­ woven forming fabric, made by lation is scheduled for completion for Eastwood-Nealley and marketed under the week of October 21. When these the name Enfab, was installed on jobs are completed, consumption of No. 1 paper machine on October 2. long logs is expected to reach 3,000 This is the first one supplied by cords per day. this manufacturer. Preliminary reports indicate that performance Total head controls have been is very satisfactory. installed on Nos. 7 and 8 paper machine. 3. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1968

Millinocket Mill Cont. sufficient storage, and an increase in long wood deliveries. Basis weight control has improved with this modification. Negotiations for cutting the right- of-way and construction of the last six The series screened groundwood miles of road on the Big Eddy-Telos system has been equipped with temporary Road were completed this week. Work bleaching equipment. This equipment will begin next week. will assist in attaining higher coater basestock brightness while The safety tag-out procedure was also controlling the acidity on the made effective as planned at the machines. A more permanent system Portage Chip Plant on October 1. A has been designed to relieve the unique feature of the plan, developed manpower and material handling by A. C. Michaud, Personnel Assistant problems associated with the tempo­ at the East Millinocket mill; C. H. rary setup. Sheehan, Engineer with Central Engi­ neering; in cooperation with 0. K. On Sunday, October 6, a fire Tripp, General Superintendent; and broke out in the Millinocket bark pile. C. L. Sherman, Millwright at Portage, Although this was the worst fire in is the confining of the tag-out recent years, it was contained and responsibility to two men on each shift, controlled in 20 hours. Much of the the supervisor and one other man dele­ credit for this has been accorded to gated by him. Meetings were conducted the cooperation of the Millinocket with all plant personnel by C. Duperry, Fire Department and the coordination Safety Director - Woodlands, and L. H. by portable radio communication of Colgan, Safety Supervisor - Woodlands, the efforts to extinquish the blaze. to acquaint everyone with the procedure. This could have been a serious threat to the surrounding woods, as well as Hastings Bartley, General Superin­ the mountain of bark at the site. tendent from Millinocket, Orville Tripp, General Superintendent from Sheridan, John Colgan, Safety Super­ visor, and Al Ingalls, District Forester WOODLANDS NEWS - NORTH at Millinocket, attended the Fall Meeting of the Northeastern Technical A test of the load capacity for Division of American Pulpwood Associ­ tree-length wood on rail cars was ation at Tupper Lake, New York, from conducted at McDonald Siding at October 14 through October 16. The Portage on Wednesday of this week. following companies hosted field trips Results of this test will be known all day Tuesday, October 15: Finch, in two or three days. Capacity Pryne and Company; Managed Woodlands; potential appears promising, par­ Elliott Hardwood Company’s Tree Length ticularly with these car improve­ Hardwood Operation; and Northern Hard­ ments suggested by Bangor & Aroostook wood Company’s Chip ’N Say Installation. Railroad Engineers: bunks, fewer stakes, additional width to eleven and one half feet, and increase in car heights. WATER IN MAINE —

A severe tie-up of long wood The Penobscot West Branch storage trucking occurred Thursday morning is now at 22.4 billion cubic feet. at Ferguson Pond in Millinocket due This is 39,4 percent of full storage to three principal causes — more and 6.9 billion cubic feet below down time on the slasher, lack of average for this date. WOODLANDS NEWS - SOUTH To continue plywood log procurement at its current high level of production, Plywood log production at Cedar the Company finds it necessary to: Springs has continually increased during the last thirty days. Mill 1. Acquire additional plywood inventory has picked up from a low stumpage as close as possible to the of 500,000 Board Feet in August to mill. the present level of 1,700,000 BF, 2. Modernize and mechanize both with an additional 250,000 BF banked harvesting and transporting systems. on outlying Company woodyards. 3. Provide additional aid to Several factors have influenced log suppliers. this production increase. Recently, four Company woodyards, each approxi­ The southern pine lumber market is mately 60 miles from Cedar Springs, currently enjoying its strongest sales have started purchasing plywood logs. position in a decade, competing strongly These logs are held in inventory and for high quality pine logs. This tre­ later rehauled to Cedar Springs by mendous demand for quality logs has contract truckers with large double­ placed a heavy responsibility to the deck trailers, each trailer having Southern Woodlands organization, but a capacity of 4,500 to 5,000 BF per with the continued enthusiasm and hard load. Delivery of 800,000 BF weekly work already displayed by each employee, to Cedar Springs requires 18 such the veneer log requirements will con­ trailers. Of the trailers now in tinue to be met. service, Great Northern is the principal owner; however, title to these trailers will pass to the GREAT NORTHERN PLYWOOD CORPORATION shippers as rapidly as possible. After a successful startup, plywood Plans for a Company logging crew plant production has increased steadily. are currently being investigated in Designed capacity was first attained in an attempt to lower the cost of plywood the twelfth period. The plant is cur­ logs F.O.B. Cedar Springs. Currently, rently producing at slightly above 50 percent of the log receipts are designed capacity six days per week. from Great Northern timberlands. This The product has been well received figure is to be reduced as quickly in the market, and current demand is as possible by the purchase of more strong. privately-owned tracts of timber. Core processing equipment is scheduled Great Northern Plywood anticipates for delivery in late November. This consuming an average of 600,000 to machinery will bind core veneers together 650,000 BF per week to fill the previous to panel layup to improve press strong demand for its plywood. To production rate and panel quality. maintain this rate of consumption, and to build a comfortable inventory of logs, the procurement system is NATIONAL FOREST PRODUCTS WEEK being geared to produce 800,000 BF per week. This will require an Lyndon B. Johnson has proclaimed average of 50 truckloads of logs the week beginning October 20, 1968, per day. To date, the highest National Forest Products Week. In mill consumption has been 640,000 BF his proclamation he called upon the for the week ending September 16, people of the United States to observe and the highest production was the week "with activities and ceremonies 1,050,000 BF for the week ending designed to direct public attention September 29, including 200,000 BF to the essential role that our forest purchased and banked at Company resource plays in stimulating the woodyards. advancement of our rural economy and the continued growth and prosperity of the entire Nation." 5. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1968

FROM THE CONTROLLER’S DEPARTMENT knowledge of the computer's capabilities. This language was used to program the ALGOL, BAL, COBOL, FORTRAN, JOVIAL, System 360, Model 20, at the Southern and RPG. You have just read a Division. partial list of the languages used BAL (Basic Assembly Language) to program computers. People who requires in depth knowledge of the com­ program computers are not trying puter’s capabilities. A much more to be secretive, it's just that difficult language than COBOL or RPG. these acronyms save them time in it is used in both business and scien­ communicating with one another. tific applications, particularly for Since it is not uncommon today to communications programs. see these acronyms in print, it was In summary, Great Northern programmers felt that some of the mystery should will write programs for commercial appli­ be taken out of these terms. cations in COBOL, on-line communications Any language is a defined set programs in BAL, and engineering and of characters that is used to form research programs in FORTRAN. In case symbols, words, etc., and the rules you wondered, JOVIAL is Jules Schwartz’ for combining these into meaningful Own Version of the International Algebraic communications; e. g., English, French, Language. ALGOL, FORTRAN, COBOL, etc. Simply A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A stated, English is used for human to human communications and COBOL is NEW AD AGENCY FOR GREAT NORTHERN used for human to computer communi­ cations. Just as we use specific In a move to improve further our languages to communicate with specific investment and communications, Turner nationalities, specific languages are and Feeney, Inc., New York, has also used to communicate with specific replaced Gaynor and Ducas, Inc., as types of computers. Further, computers Great Northern’s advertising agency. are now developed to the point where The changeover took place October 1. one computer can be instructed in While Gaynor and Ducas prepared various languages. excellent ads over the past four years The computer system being installed and our corporate program in Business by the Administrative Services Depart­ Week, The Wall Street Journal, FORBES, ment is being programmed in the etc., has been well received, the following languages: agency was unable to provide the other COBOL (COmmon Business Oriented services, particularly merchandising Language) is a standard computer support, which we require. language used for the programming In addition to advertising, Turner of business applications. COBOL was and Feeney will assist in sales pro­ developed at the insistence of the motion, product publicity, and public U. S. Department of Defense for a relations areas. As a result, Great standard language that would be com­ Northern will be able to do more for patible with computers made by various the same money, and our communications manufacturers. COBOL comes closer program should become not only more to communicating with the computer comprehensive, but more effective. in English than any of the existing languages. FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslating) is MULTIPLE USE FOREST MANAGEMENT used to write programs that are pri­ marily mathematical in nature and is How can people make the best use especially useful for scientific and of land, forest, and water? Do these engineering applications. green acres offer people the greatest RPG (Report Program Generator) is benefits when they grow, again and designed for report writing and file again, the tree harvest that feeds maintenance applications. The RPG the nation’s needs for lumber, pulp language does not require detailed and paper? Or is their best use a recreation area for people who love individual prospectors who have conducted the outdoors, the beauty and the mineral exploration work on Great Northern sports that only Maine’s North Woods lands. It all began in 1938 when the can offer? Company authorized examination of certain Great Northern Paper Company has lands by a geologist named Paul F. Eckstrom. a policy of making the Maine woodlands Kennecott Copper, Canadian Johns-Manville, it owns serve both these important St. Joseph Lead, New Jersey Zinc, American needs in a completely harmonious way. Smelting & Refining, Bear Creek Mining, One facet of our carefully planned Mines, Inc., and Freeport Sulphur, are, forest management program keeps a just to name a few, some of the companies steady flow of raw materials avail­ who have tramped, trenched, and drilled able to Maine’s and the nation’s in the hopes of finding an ore body of vital forest products industries, in commercial value. To date, it has all turn, providing jobs for people all been in vain, but geologists are optimists over the state and country. At the and will keep looking until they satisfy same time, Great Northern’s "open themselves "there’s no gold in them roads" attitude assures the constantly there hills." increasing number of campers, fisher­ men, hunters, hikers, boaters, and sightseers a welcome to large areas of the state’s great outdoors. The above was taken from a folder Great Northern has received some entitled "Recreation in Northern excellent comments on its election Maine." Copies of this folder brochure. In the September 21 issue featuring a recreation map of of "Editor and Publisher," George Northern Maine are available from Wilt states, Great Northern Paper Company, 6 State "It's interesting to note that Street, Bangor, Maine. Great Northern Paper Company, a leading independent manufacturer of newsprint in the U. S., has produced HUMBLE AND GNP SIGN AGREEMENT a handsome, 16-page, two-color brochure, 'Newspapers and Presidential Great Northern Paper Company Elections,' as part of its continuing announced Tuesday, October 1, that advertising and promotion program. it had entered into a minerals explo­ And what’s more, Great Northern- is ration agreement with Humble Oil and making copies available to newspapers Refining Company of Houston, Texas. for their own promotion. The pact covers three blocks of According to Robert Vivian, Director Great Northern timberland in Maine. of Public Relations and Advertising One is near Jackman in the western for Great Northern, it was decided part of the state; another at the that the brochure should cover the Company mill at Millinocket, and the unique contribution newspapers make third is located in northeastern in the American electoral process. Maine. The booklet, with a specially- Under the agreement, Humble will designed mailing envelope, is a continue intensive exploration and ’portofolio of Presidential elections, evaluation of land. Arrangements and how they were reported.’ Eight for mining and mineral deposits found elections, from 1800 to 1960, are will depend on the results of this recalled with quotes taken from program. - Bangor Daily News, actual newspaper accounts of the time. Wednesday, October 2, 1968. Each election is illustrated with COMMENTS - Mineral exploration pictures of campaign scenes, election agreements are not new to Great posters, buttons, and other memorabilia. Northern Paper Company. Over the The booklet contains an extensive years, there have been literally collation of general information on dozens of mining companies and elections and their news coverage and some 7. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1968

quotes that newspapers would find "PERSOnnELItIES" useful in election coverage pro­ motions. For instance, it recalls Jefferson’s words: ’The press is the NEW EMPLOYEES best instrument for enlightening the mind of man.’ ” Cedar Springs Mill ....

ROBERT L. GARDNER joined the YOU CONTROL COSTS TODAY, OR NOT AT Southern Division as Process Engineer, ALL. . . . One reason why the financial reporting to Dick O’Donnell, Technical reports of so many companies have made Services Superintendent. Mr. Gardner good reading, of late, is the fact is a 1961 graduate of North Carolina that management has become exceedingly State University where he received a cost-conscious in its day-to-day BS degree in Chemical Engineering. decisions and actions, as well as in Prior to joining Great Northern, he its annual budget decisions and plans. was employed as Project Engineer at And, when management gets cost-conscious Georgia-Pacific Corp. in California. in its day-to-day decisions and actions . . . . it expects supervision to Millinocket Mill .... assume its share of cost control responsibility. PERLEY A. BOUCHER joined the Unless we miss our guess, many a Company as a Control Engineer in the supervisor is, today, under real Millinocket Control Department, pressure to help control costs in reporting to Harry N. Packard, Control his department. And many more super­ Superintendent. Mr. Boucher is a 1967 visors are likely to be under real graduate of the University of Maine with cost control pressure tomorrow. So a degree in Mechanical Engineering. . . . let’s do a little thinking His previous employment includes about an important management art - Charmin Paper Products in Pennsylvania effective cost control. and Oxford Paper Company in Maine. 1. In order to control costs, you must control what happens today. New York - Sales .... Cost departments, cost systems, records and statistics do not really GEORGE SCHNAUffER joins Great control costs. They deal with history; Northern as a Service Representative, with what happened yesterday, last reporting to J. P. DeMarrais, Regional week, last month. On the other hand Manager - Commercial. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Schnauffer 2. The supervisor deals with was employed by Popular Merchandise what happens today, and he deals with Company as Printing Production Manager it when it happens, or -- at least and brings with him eight years of he should. This gives the supervisor experience in the graphic arts industry. a key role in the task of controlling costs in his department. He must Cedar Springs - Woodlands .... deal with idle manpower today. . . when it happens. He must deal with W. JERRY PERKINS joined the Southern materials waste today. . . when it Division as Acting Unit Forester, report­ happens. He must deal with poor ing to Hoyt S. Grissom, Area Superin­ quality or rejects today. . . when tendent. Mr. Perkins received his AS it happens. He must deal with degree in Forestry from Abraham Baldwin inventory shortages today . . . when College and attended the University of it happens. He must deal with Georgia for a year majoring in Forestry. inefficiency of machines, manpower Prior to joining Great Northern, he was or planning, today. . . when they employed by F&W Forestry Services, Inc., happen. ’Author Unknown’ Albany, Georgia Personnelities Cont. LOUS M. COOPER has been promoted to Acting Unit Forester, reporting to Wendon W. Warr, Area Superintendent. PERSONNEL CHANGES JAMES C. ROGERS has been promoted Millinocket Mill. . . . to Assistant Head Scaler, reporting to Hoyle McLendon, Head Scaler. GALEN M. LANDER has been promoted to the position of Process Engineer Transportation Department. . . . at the Plant Engineering Department in Millinocket, reporting to J. M. PHILIP P. PAUL has been promoted Giffune, Senior Engineer. This to the position of Acting Traffic newly created position is part of Manager - Northern Division, reporting the reorganization of the engineer­ to R. J. Shinners, Vice President - ing section of Millinocket mill’s Northern Division. Phil has been with Plant Engineering Department and the Company since October, 1959 and will be responsible for process and his most recent position was Traffic mechanical trouble shooting, engi­ Supervisor. neering and project work at the mill level, plus liaison with Central Engineering on new projects. TERMINATIONS

Cedar Springs - Woodlands Department FREDERICK A. BLOMBERG has resigned from his position with the Controller’s HENRY J. MALSBERGER, JR. has Department to accept employment with been promoted to the position of another paper company. Assistant Woodlands Manager, WARREN E. DENBOW resigned from CHARLES W. ANDERSON has been the Company to accept a sales position promoted to the position of Operations with Portland Rubber Company. Superintendent, and CHARLES R. GRANTLAND has resigned NOEL H. HASKINS has been promoted from his position as Traffic Manager - to the position of Timberlands Northern Division to accept employment Manager, with Carl F. Fischer & Associates.

with all three reporting directly JOHN B. ROGERS, Director of to James W. Richardson, Woodlands Personnel Administration, has accepted Manager. a position with the Bangor Daily News.

NATHAN F. MULLIS has been promoted LARRy E. DyER, Unit Forester at to Area Superintendent (Manchester), the Southern Division, left recently for military service. JAMES R. BUSH has been promoted to Area Superintendent (Americus), MHO'S NEWS J. HARRELL TRICE, JR. has been promoted to Technical Supervisor. Howard Willets, Jr., Director of Marketing, has been appointed Chairman Nathan, Jim, and Harrell report of the 1968 API Seminar to be held at directly to Jim Malsberger, Assistant the Hotel Pierre in New York on November Woodlands Manager, in their new 19 and 20. The main theme for this positions. year’s seminar is an intensive look at the next ten years and the changes which will affect the paper industry. NEWSLETTER

GREAT NORTHERN FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES

Volume VI No. 6 Millinocket , Maine Friday, September 20, 1968

CONTROLLER NOW CHAIRMAN OF PACE a total of 3,124 visitors toured the REVIEW COMMITTEE two mills. This total includes 2,125 from outside the State of Maine, with Robert A. Haak, President, 34 states and 3 foreign countries announced the change of Chairmanship represented. of the PACE Review Committee from The East Millinocket mill set the Joseph V. Carena, General Sales pace with nearly 1,600 people receiving Manager, to Peter F. Yacavone, Con­ guided tours through the plant. This troller, effective September 5. has become one of the regular stops The program of Profit Analysis of Casa Tours, Inc., a New York and Control Evaluation (PACE) is company specializing in providing tours devoted to the development of a com­ from the New York area to the Canadian prehensive system which will identify Maritime Provinces. the profit impact of alternative methods for scheduling the Northern mills. Included in the scope is demand sales Add Palette Plus to the list of forecasting, identifying the factors paper grades now produced by Great affecting manufacturing costs, report­ Northern. Developed with the advice ing systems to collect production per­ and cooperation of the DuPont Color formance data, exception reporting, Council, this new line of colored and the institution of profit maximi­ papers is aimed at capturing some of zation procedures. the rapidly growing magazine insert In making the announcement, business. Colored inserts are Mr. Haak stated that "The results to starting to appear in more and more date have been dramatic, thanks to the magazines as publishers become aware efforts put into the program by Frank of the dramatic effects that can be Dunne and his group, other personnel produced by using various colored of the Company involved in this work, paper and colored ink combinations. and the periodic review of the Commit­ Great Northern is promoting three tee. Since the PACE Project, when primary colors (yellow, red, and fully operational two or three years blue) and three secondary colors hence, should be the responsibility of (orange, green, and violet) as its a non-operating division, the natural basic Palette Plus color line. Each reporting line in the present organi­ of these six colors is available in zation should be the Controller.” three depths of shades, thus giving a total of 18 colors that we manu­ facture. In addition, the color line is so designed that, if required, The Northern mills report a record it is possible to produce any hue in number of summer visitors. During the the spectrum by combining two, or eleven-week period ending August 30, three at most, of the basic colors. Paper production for fifty weeks ended 9/15/68. . . .

1968______1967______Tons Daily Avg. Tons Daily Avg. Production:

Cedar Springs 589,041 1,828 365,109 1,512 East Millinocket 377,735 1,100 368,613 1,077 Millinocket 292,841 854 293,992 861 1,259,617 3,782 1,027,714 3,450

CEDAR SPRINGS MILL EAST MILLINOCKET MILL

While the mill is down for mainte­ The second in a series of four nance repairs, several major jobs dry end broke pulpers has been installed and inspections have been scheduled at East Millinocket. These will and will be completed during the eventually eliminate the old broke week. Included are the following: beaters and will significantly reduce yearly inspection of No. 2 turbine stock losses. generator and No. 3 paper machine drive turbine; installation of a No. 5 grinder motor was recently new backing wire on the first stage changed to 60-cycle. The change was of the NSSC washer; replacing the made in preparation for the new 60- rebuilt Bauer refiner in the pulp cycle generation unit to be put into mill; and installing the spare operation soon in Millinocket. rotary chip feed valve on the digester in the pulp mill. A committee of railroad and American Association of Railroad No. 3 machine is scheduled to representatives visited the East startup Friday, September 20, if Millinocket mill on September 10 and power and steam are available, and 11 to meet with Transportation and No. 1 on Monday, September 23. East Millinocket Finishing Room personnel for the purpose of install­ No. 2 Bauer refiner, which was ing a new type impact recorder to test completely rebuilt at the Bauer shops, the handling of newsprint shipments has been beefed up with the instal­ in double tier loads using cushion lation of larger shafts, bearings, underframe cars. and a reinforced base. No. 1 refiner This new instrument, a "Model RM will be returned to Bauer in late Three-Way Accelerometer” designed September for a similar rebuild. by the Savage Impact Register Company, Champaign, Illinois, monitors the Engineering is in progress for forces and shocks transmitted to the the No. 2 truck-purchased chip paper in transit. This instrument unloading system. Equipment for contains three styli that record the system is on order, and bids vertical, lateral, and longitudinal will be obtained when installation movements in ”G” forces. drawings are completed. These accelerometers were attached to boards which were then mounted on The new Link-Belt LS-78 log rake the ends of doorway rolls and secured was placed in service on No. 1 log to plugs in the cores. Tapes from flume during the week of September 9. these recorders are to be removed at 3. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1968

destination and forwarded to the The new saveall systems on No. 3 instrument manufacturer for interpre­ and No. 4 paper machines came on line tation. If these tests are success­ this month. These installations have ful, they will provide us with a increased our closed-machine grade more accurate tool for checking ship­ capability to four machines. ments in cushion underframe cars. Project 09 - MgO Recovery System and Turbine Generator. . . .All MILLINOCKET MILL structural steel for the MgO boiler building has been received and about Labor Day startup brought the eight hundred fifty tons (70 percent) new sulphite mill screening and have been erected as of September 13. thickening system on line. The Approximately two hundred square feet startup was fair with a few mechanical of concrete has been poured for the problems. Primary components of the floors, and the ash pond has been new system include: completed as of September 13. All A sulphite washed-stock screen phases of work are progressing on system which is designed as a primary­ schedule. secondary system for handling peak A pre-startup checkout of the flows. It will increase screening turbine generator is in progress and quality and efficiency, centralize startup is scheduled for week of the location of equipment, reduce man­ September 30. power requirements, and increase The 60-cycle intermill electrical capacity. transmission system was successfully A vacuum decker for Mill One energized and started up on pulp which is expected to increase September 14. deckering capacity, improve washing efficiency, centralize manpower, and be suited for immediate conversion The following letter, received to MgO recovery in the washing system. by the Personnel Department, Northern A sulphite cleaner installation Division, is typical of the thoughtful which is designed to provide a three- consideration all Great Northern stage cleaner system to clean 300 employees bring to their jobs: tons per day of accepted stock from "During the middle of August, I the sulphite screening system for took a camp group on a canoe trip and Mill One pulp. we stopped to visit your mill which A vacuum decker for Mill Two also happened to be your Annual Open pulp which is designed to thicken 270 House. We had an excellent guided bone-dry tons per day of primary tour, and it was a fascinating screen accepts and deliver to No. 8 experience for all of us. outside storage tank via the new stock A week later, half of our group pumps. The white-water system is was caught on Gero Island by high designed to take the effluents from winds, and late that evening they both Mill One and Mill Two vacuum paddled over to Chesuncook Village. deckers and distribute to the screens Your man at the Inn very kindly brought and cleaners for consistency control, them down to our take-out point at which will be essentially a closed Chesuncook Dam aboard your tender. system. I tried to reimburse both he and you for the trip but he refused, saying No. 3 boiler went off the line on ’It’s a courtesy of the Great Northern.’ September 11 for its annual overhaul Needless to say, we are extremely and acid cleaning. It is expected to grateful to you for both the start and be back on line by September 20. finish of our trip." WOODLANDS DEPARTMENT - NORTH Timberjack skidder with automatic transmission at the Jo-Mary operation A safety tag-out procedure is on Thursday, September 12. A box being written up for the Portage lunch was served to fifty woods industry Chip Plant at MacDonald Siding. people who attended. Arthur Michaud, Personnel Supervisor at the East Millinocket mill, and Seboomook Dam was improved in Charles Sheehan, Engineer in Central appearance this summer by replacing Engineering, are working with the some of the deteriorated superstructure Woodlands’ Safety Department and concrete. Gate hoist support beams supervisory personnel in that area were replaced in two of the six bays. to come up with an effective plan. Repairs will be continued next summer. The procedure will be in force no later than October 1, 1968. Pulpwood Procurement moves to Millinocket. . . . As of September 3, A more efficient and rugged this department moved its staff from skidder chain has been developed by Bangor, Maine, and will be functioning one of the employees at the Kenneth from their new location in Millinocket, Bartlett operation in the Portage Mr. R. Clifford, Woodlands Manager- Lake area which will enable skidders Northern Division, brings with him to work in steeper terrain than is his two Superintendents - L. W. Hazelton, possible with conventional chains. Superintendent - Operated Wood, and Two sets are now is use, and close R. A. Leadbetter, General Superintendent supervision will prevail to see if Purchased Wood, and E. A. Lumbert, they have any effects on the tires Administrative Assistant. or the skidders. H. J. Deabay, Personnel Supervisor- Woodlands and C. D. Duperry, Safety The Big Eddy road system is under Director-Woodlands are on hand to construction. At the north end, three perform the personnel functions. miles of right-of-way have been cut, two miles have been bulldozed, and the first mile is being gravelled. WATER IN MAINE. ... The Penobscot At the south end of Telos, two miles West Branch storage is now at 28.5 of right-of-way have been cut, and billion cubic feet. This is 50 percent one mile has been bulldozed. This of full and 13.3 billion cubic feet road will shorten travel time from below rule curve. Precipitation over Millinocket to the Telos Lake oper­ the drainage area is 10 inches below ation by 40 minutes and will elimi­ average for the year to date. nate the routing of pulpwood through Baxter State Park.

The National Park Service has Apprentice programs for first, approved Gulf Hagas as the 89th site second, and third year papermaker in the Registry of Natural Landmarks. apprentices have begun at the Northern Gulf Hagas is a three-mile gorge cut mills. This year, 180 participants by the West Branch of the Pleasant will attend classes in the papermaking River and contains many interesting field. Six thousand hours are required geological features. It is located for graduation. in East Bowdoin Township just north In addition, seven new apprentices of Katahdin Ironworks, and the have been enrolled in the mechanical Company is part owner of this land. trades programs. Graduates must have completed a total of eight Timberland Machines, Inc. held a thousand training hours on various demonstration of their 330 Series required jobs. 5. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1968

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT REALIGNS DEPT. The four Sales Trainees, Mike Alford, Steve Hobson, Ed Burke, and Several organizational changes Bob Walls, have completed the first have been made in the Research Depart­ half of their four-month training ment . This streamlining is aimed at program with the Research & Develop­ setting up a department which can ment Department. These Trainees most effectively handle the Company’s worked in the Paper Evaluation and changing technical problems. Product Development groups. Their The realigned department is on-the-job training is designed to divided into four sections containing give them an understanding of Great ten research groups as follows: Northern’s grade structure, our manufacturing processes and problems, PULP RESEARCH SECTION paper properties and defects, and (R. C. Johnson) pulp and paper testing procedures, including printability testing. Pulp Research Grp.- W. Richardson Mike and Steve completed their work (Pulping, recovery, and with the Paper Evaluation Group and bleaching) passed their exams with flying colors. Resources Research Grp.-R. Thaxter Ed and Bob finished their trial order (Water improvement, waste control, coverage assignments with the Product and wood utilization) Development Group. Mike and Bob recently spent three PAPER RESEARCH SECTION weeks with the Order Processing Depart­ (P. D. Hubbe) ment in the New York office with the Schedulers and Order Writers. Ed Paper Research Grp.- R. Leavitt and Steve are currently undergoing (Papermaking) the same indoctrination. Coating Res. Grp.- H. P. Gore Bob Walls is back at the University (Coating) of Maine to complete the requirements Process Dynamics Grp.- 0. Merrill for a BS in Business Administration (Process control and in February before completing his instrumentation) training program with us. Applied Math Grp. - (Statistics, computers, mathe­ matical analyses) The Great Northern World Series PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT SECTION .... On September 8, a softball (S. Kozlovich) game was played between Order Processing and Sales Departments. This was a Product Devel. Grp.- R. Sweet sparkling pitchers’ dual as indicated (Product improvement studies) by the final score of 26-26. J. Pintard New Product Res. Grp.- C. Mosher played well in the field, making only (New product studies) seven errors on three fly balls, three grounders, and a bunt. One additional RESEARCH SERVICES SECTION grounder was stopped by a beer can (P. H. Welch) John left in the infield. The game was played at Tailman Analytical Grp.- D. Phenicie State Park in Rockland County, (Chemical and microbiological New York. About thirty people attended, testing) and lunch and refreshments were Paper Eval. Grp.- W. Hodgkins enjoyed in mid-afternoon, after (Physical testing, print­ which people left for home, a hot ability, specifications) bath, x-rays, and Ben-Gay! CONTROLLER’S DEPARTMENT by the Administrative Services Depart­ ment in designing Great Northern’s The increased use of communication system on a modular or building block to, from and between computers has basis. This approach will enable our prompted a switch from analog signals system to keep abreast of the communi­ to digital signals within the communi­ cations industry, yet remain compatible cations industry. This trend is with our existing equipment. being well heeded by the Admini­ strative Services Department in creating the new IBM 360 Teleprocess­ ing and Communications system. F. C. Morrison, Director of Profit Digital signals are composed of Planning, Northern Division, has only the presence or absence of a announced that the Profit Improvement pulse. If a pulse is present it is Program has shown very satisfactory an "on” or a ”1.” If a pulse is progress with reported savings of absent, it represents an "off” or a $1,111,156 for the first three quarters, "zero." There is no "maybe" in with some groups already exceeding digital communications. The computer their savings targets for the year. itself makes use of digital trans­ This month the various groups ference internally in mathematical will be getting together to explore operations, performing logical steps new cost saving ideas and take on and in the movement of data. new commitments for the coming year. The greater portion of communi­ The Woodlands Department will also cations traffic consists of speech be meeting soon for their initiation and television pictures, both of which into the program. are analog signals. Analog signals are waves transmitted over electrical circuits. The voltage of these waves varies continuously as analogs of the acoustic sound pressure or the picture With summer at an end, so ends element brightness. this year’s Newsboy Program. A total At present, 80% of all communi­ of 331 newsboys and chaperones, repre­ cations are analog in form. By the senting 66 newspapers throughout the end of the 1970’s, this ratio is Northeast, from Maine to the expected to be reversed. Carolinas and Kentucky, visited our The advantages of digital trans­ operations in Northern Maine. Great mission over analog are its accuracy Northern played host to these boys and economy. The reason for its for 5-day periods stretching from accuracy is simple; with the "yes" June 20 until September 2. or "no" state of digital transmission, Upon arrival at the E & R Center, the data is either completely present the groups visited the East Millinocket or absent. This lack of ambiguity mill and the coating plant at Milli­ makes it possible to transmit a less nocket. The remainder of their visit powerful signal. This amounts to a consisted of an overnight trip to considerable cost savings. Johnson Pond Lumber Camp where they In advance of the day when all viewed our logging operations first communications are via digital signals, hand and a trip to Rainbow Lake Camp many developments in techniques and for some fishing, hiking, swimming, etc. equipment will be introduced. This The thank-yous received from creates a problem for the user in our customers and the boys themselves designing his system to take advantage are too numerous to mention, but they of new developments and yet operate do serve as proof that all the work with existing and proven equipment. was not in vain. Emphasis is being placed in this area 7. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1968

The 41st Annual Maine State Russell W. York, Education and Safety Conference is in session Training Director, addressed the this week at the Samoset Hotel in ASTD’s 24th National Conference Rockland, Maine. Approximately on Pulp and Paper Day on the subject, eight hundred representatives of all "Long-Range Machine Crew Training." industries and utilities in the In the talk, which was reprinted state attend regularly. Repre­ in the July 15 issue of Paper Trade senting Great Northern are John Journal, he stressed that "training Hickey, Personnel Assistant, Gordon needs must be determined from Cook, Safety Supervisor, and Mrs. employees' performance inadequacies" Joan Ippoliti, RN, from the Milli­ and that "it must be a joint effort nocket mill; Arthur Michaud, Per­ of Management, unions, and other sonnel Assistant, Gordon Jarvis, personnel." Safety Supervisor, and Mrs. Loretta Highlights of the talk were Goddard, RN, from the East Milli­ an outline of achievement measure­ nocket mill; and Henry Deabay, ments , a brief history of the develop Personnel Supervisor, Louis Colgan, ment of the papermaker training Safety Supervisor, and Alfred Cowett, program, and an explanation of what Foreman, Portage Trucking, from he termed the key to the success of Woodlands. Mr. Cowett participated the program, "Implementation.” in the Logging Safety Program with He emphasized the joint approach a paper on "Safety in Tree-Length with Management "being alert to their Logging." employees’ inadequacies in on-the- job performance” and making reason­ able judgments regarding "employee "We Send People Packing and They recommendations." Love It," the headline from our latest corporate advertisement promoting Independence linerboard and corru­ An unusual "fish eye" photograph gating medium,has been one of the of Great Northern's No. 3 machine at best headlines of the past several Cedar Springs appears as the cover months selected by Advertising picture on the August issue of Paper­ Headline Service, Irvington, New York. board & Packaging.

Future American Business (FAB), Filing Your Comprehensive Medical the Junior Achievement Corporation Expense Claim. . . .With the end of the sponsored by the Company in the Milli­ calendar year approaching, the number nocket and East Millinocket area, was of CME claims will be increasing many- represented at the National Junior fold in the near future. To insure Achievement Conference held at prompt payment of your claim, you Bloomington, Indiana, the week of should be sure that you are submitting August 19. itemized bills showing the name of the Joan Paoletti, daughter of patient, the date of the purchase, ser­ Anthony Paoletti of East Millinocket vice, or treatment; the amount of the and David Dickey, son of George bill and what the charge was for. Dickey, Jr., of Medway, accompanied Statements showing "balance due,” by J. A. advisor, Omar Raymond, paper­ "balance forwarded," receipts, can­ maker apprentice trainer at the East celled checks, etc. may not be accepted Millinocket mill, attended five days in lieu of itemized bills. You may of meetings and other activities on receive a "Statement of Claim” which the Indiana University campus. They should be completed and submitted as returned tired but full of enthusiasm soon as possible after your claim is for the coming year. filed. Weekly meetings at the J. A. Center Attention to these details will in East Millinocket will begin in help avoid the unnecessary delays in October and continue through May. the processing of your claim. "PERSONNELITIES"

NEW EMPLOYEES PERSONNEL CHANGES

Edward W. HAMBY, JR. joined the Harold A. LYONS has been promoted Southern Division Woodlands Depart­ to the position of Day Foreman Paper ment as a Unit Forester, reporting 1-4 at the East Millinocket mill, to Wendon W. Warr, Area Superintendent. reporting to R. D. Violette, Mr. Hamby received his BS degree in Assistant Paper Mill Superintendent. Forest Management from the University Harold has been with Great Northern of Georgia. He was previously employed since June, 1937. by Forest Enterprises, Inc., Richland, Georgia, as manager of pulpwood GEORGE K. CASEY has been promoted dealership. to Day Foreman Paper at the Millinocket mill, reporting to C. R. Larlee, GRANT T. SHELFER joined the Southern Assistant Paper Mill Superintendent. Division as an Electrical Engineer, George has been with the Company reporting to Wayion Lacey, Plant Engi­ since June, 1946. neer. Mr. Shelfer is a 1968 graduate of the University of Florida where he JACQUES L. PARPENNE was recently received a BS degree in Electrical promoted to the position of Commercial Engineering. While attending school, Salesman, Chicago, reporting to he was employed on a co-op basis as George L. Nystrom, Regional Manager. an Engineer Trainee with National Jacques has been with Great Northern Aeronautics and Space Administration, since January, 1956. Kennedy Space Center, Florida. WARREN A. RICHARPSONd has been GEORGE S. STOUGH, JR. joined the promoted to Pulp Research Group Leader Southern Division Woodlands Department reporting to R. C. Johnson, Supervisor - as a Unit Forester, reporting directly Pulping Research. Warren has been to Hoyt S. Grissom, Area Superin­ with the Company since July, 1960. tendent. Mr. Stough received his BS degre in Forestry from Mississippi State. Prior to joining Great Northern, he was employed as a TERMINATIONS Forester with St. Regis Paper Company, Jacksonville, Florida. H. MILTON WILLIAMS, JR. resigned from his position of Manager, Rates NORMAN WIENER joined the Planning and Research to accept employment Department in New York as a Market with Carl F. Fischer & Associates. Research Trainee, reporting to Wayne Mangels, Director of Market Research. MAC R. AYERS resigned from his Mr. Wiener is a recent graduate of position as Assistant Area Superin­ Baruch College of the City University tendent in the Southern Division of New York with a MBA degree. He Woodlands Department to accept a was employed by Great Northern on a position with Taylor Clete Company. part-time basis while attending Baruch.

TITLE CORRECTION: A Black Clawson ad featuring Great In last month’s Newsletter, Northern’s coater (we provided the photos) Harold D. ACRE'S title was announced has won the top Readex score for reade as Chief Engineer. Mr. Acre’s title interest in the May 27th issue of should be Manager of Engineering. Pulp & Paper NEWSLETTER

FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES GREAT NORTHERN

Volume VI No. 5 MILLINOCKET, MAINE Friday, August 23, 1968

GREAT NORTHERN PAPER COMPANY POSTS percent ahead of the comparable RECORD SALES, PROFITS FOR THIRD period in 1967. FISCAL QUARTER In his interim report to stock­ holders, Peter S. Paine, Great New York, N.Y., July 25 -- Great Northern’s Chairman and Chief Execu­ Northern Paper Company today reported tive Officer, noted that while the record earnings, sales and shipments market for linerboard this year has for the first 40 weeks of its fiscal recently been influenced by new year ended July 7, 1968. board machines coming into production, Net income for the period rose board consumption has remained at 12.8 percent on sales of $118,008,000, a high level, and it is expected to to $11,455,000. This is equivalent continue there throughout the rest to $3.95 a Common share after Pre­ of the year. ferred dividend requirements. During the corresponding period last year, Mr. Edward L. Cowan, effective Great Northern earned $10,157,000, August 12, became a consultant exclusively or $3.55 a share. for the Company, reporting to the Presi­ Earnings for 1968 take into dent, and will be available for special account the new Federal income tax assignments. He will continue as Presi­ surcharge which is retroactive to dent of the Chattahoochee Industrial January 1, 1968. Without the sur­ Railroad and Vice President of Great charge , earnings would have been Northern Plywood Corporation, but will greater by $461,000, or 17 cents a relinquish his title as Vice President, share. Engineering and Research of Great Investment tax credit reflected Northern Paper Company. in Great Northern’s earnings totalled Mr. Cowan will establish his office $2,280,000, or 86 cents a Common at the Company’s present office in share as compared with $1,576,000, Atlanta. or 59 cents a share for the same Mr. Shinners, Vice President - period a year ago. Northern Division, will henceforth be Assuming conversion into Common responsible for the engineering and stock of all outstanding convertible research functions and all personnel securities, the pro-forma net income of those departments. Mr. Hellendale, becomes $3.39 per Common share for Vice President and Secretary, will be the first forty weeks, compared with responsible for the corporate trans­ $3.02 for the same period in 1967. portation function. Sales for the first 40 weeks Messrs. Grantland and Smith, amounted to $118,008,000, 17 percent divisional Traffic Managers, will con­ more than in the previous period tinue to report administratively to last year. Shipments of paper and Mr. Shinners and Mr. Ellen, the divisional board totalled 1,004,653 tons, an Vice Presidents in charge of the Company's increase of 201,541 tons, and 25 Northern and Southern operations. Paper production for forty-five weeks ended 8/11/68 .

1968 1967 Tons Daily Avg. Tons Daily Avg. Production:

Cedar Springs 528,461 1,837 330,528 1,483 East Millinocket 342,328 1,103 333,532 1,078 Millinocket 263,257 850 265,893 862 1,134,046 3,790 929,953 3,423

EAST MILLINOCKET MILL No, 6 grinder motor switchgear was converted which is the first step No. 6 paper machine went down on in this area to provide for the load August 9 due to a low pressure bearing of the new turbine generator. failure. During the 32-hour shutdown, a new bearing and bearing bracket A potentially serious injury was stand were installed. narrowly missed when the boom of a crane-type truck struck an overhead The tube winder was dismantled power line carrying 6900 volts in the at the Millinocket mill on August East Millinocket mill woodyard. The 12, and erection began at East Milli­ driver, an employee of E. S. Boulos nocket on August 13. As of August 19, Company, contractors for a new substation the project is nearly complete with the being built at the mill, was operating exception of instrumentation and glue the truck with the boom elevated and handling. failed to notice the power lines. The power line burned in half on The tube drying system is under­ contact. All six paper machines were going trial runs to determine tempera­ shut down and lights were out for a ture settings and necessary curing period of one and one-half to two hours. time using tubing which has been premanufactured. MILLINOCKET MILL No. 4 paper machine was started up on August 14 after installation No. 3 paper machine broke and white of new centri-cleaners. The startup water closeup was started August 19 went well, and the cleaners will enable with no difficulties. Included in the us to produce a cleaner sheet of installation of this closed white water paper. and broke system were: save all with repulper; sealbox and broke chest; A new Venta-nip arrangement and furnish refiner and thickening equipment; two new dryers were installed on dry broke pulper; clear white water pump; No. 2 paper machine second press on save all stock pump; and broke chest August 13. In addition to eliminating pump. It is expected that this system the need of a vacuum pump, the combi­ will utilize colored broke and conserve nation has resulted in an increase in additives, stock and heat. speed for the machine. The relocation of the Kamyr deckering Last month's Newsletter reported system will be of interest to the former the installation of a synthetic wire employees of the Sulphite Mill. Three on No. 1 paper machine. This wire units are now in operation providing was installed on July 15 but had to approximately one hundred tons per day be removed on July 17 because of of added groundwood deckering capacity. drainage difficulties and formation problems. 3. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1968

MILLINOCKET AND EAST MILLINOCKET FROM THE RESEARCH DEPARTMENT. . . . MILLS HOLD OPEN HOUSE.... A Jarrell-Ash Atomic Absorption The Annual Open House for the Spectrophotometer has been installed two northern mills was held on in the Analytical laboratory. This August 9. Conducted tours were instrument has the capability to given to 417 persons at Millinocket analyze for 65 metals in solution. and 339 persons at East Millinocket. Sensitivity of the instrument is in (A record number of 1,215 visitors the parts per million range and have toured the Millinocket mill sample preparation is greatly sim­ this summer.) plified over that required for con­ As is customary, A. E. Dentremont, ventional analytical techniques. Mill Manager - Millinocket, presented The instrument requires special a set of Great Northern glasses to the vacuum tubes known as hollow cathode 100th visitor - Mr. Edward Raymond of lamps for analysis of each metal of Millinocket. interest. Currently we have hollow At both mills, refreshments of cathode lamps for 14 elements which doughnuts, coffee, and cold drinks occur most commonly in day-to-day were available to the visitors at problems. These are: iron, copper, the conclusion of the tour. cobalt, nickel, manganese, chromium, In addition to Maine, there were vanadium, tin, calcium, magnesium, fifteen states and Canada represented, aluminum, sodium, potassium, and zinc. the most distant states being Florida, California, and Wisconsin.

The Annual Outing for Company SOCIAL SECURITY: MORE TO COME supervisory personnel in the Northern Division was held August 8 at the Whether the new President is a Rice Farm in Millinocket. More than Republican or Democrat, the next Con­ three hundred people were in gress is certain to increase social­ attendance, including several retirees; security benefits. Wilbur Cohen, Mr. M. C. McDonald, member of the Secretary of Health, Education and Board of Directors and retired Welfare, has called for a $15-a-month President, who resides in Bangor, increase, which would raise minimum Maine; and Messrs. Paine, Haak, Carena, benefits from $55 to $70. Going Dunne, and Miller of the New York along with this proposal, the GOP office. platform—foreshadowing a similar Don Griffee was the lucky ticket recommendation in the Democratic plat holder and won the transistor radio. form--pledges an "automatic cost of living adjustment" for social-security recipients, an increase in the amount of outside earnings they can make The Profit Improvement Program, without loss of benefits, and income- "PIP",introduced last fall in the tax deductions for all medical expenses Millinocket and East Millinocket mills for those over 65. and the Purchasing Department, is going Newsweek, 8/26/68 well. The third quarter report will be issued soon and will claim savings or additional profits of about $1,000,000. The Woodlands Department WATER IN MAINE. . . . The West Branch will be incorporated into the plan storage is now at 35.6 billion cubic this fall. feet. This is 62.4 percent of full storage and 8 percent below last year on this date. WOODLANDS DEPARTMENT

NORTH — weather and labor, it’s either a feast or a famine, and the changes come The West Branch Drive is now quickly. complete except for picking rear on the shores of the lower lakes. This Lester W. Hazelton, Superintendent has not been done the past few years of Operated Wood, recently addressed due to low water conditions. The the Fourteenth Northeastern Loggers’ towboats, W. S. Hilton and the 0. A. Congress on the subject, Loggers - Our Harkness, are in drydock until next Potential. The article was printed spring. in the July 1968 issue of the Northern Logger and Timber Processer. In this, The very dry summer has made it Mr. Hazelton outlined the restrictions possible for wood suppliers to deliver on labor; weather and climate, geo­ wood that normally would not have been graphies, fatigue and safety, indicating available until winter time. Most their effects on logging productivity. pulpwood contractors develop some An interesting feature of the roads for summer trucking and some article was charts comparing produc­ that can be used only in the winter. tivity per manhour using present-day The development of the "skidder” and methods—five-man crews with wheeled its increasing use has made it skidders—with the typical one-man or possible for a woods operator to land two-men-and-a-horse operation of a five times more wood on a road than few years ago. he could with horses. The skidder, He noted that present productivity then, has made it much easier to is up 50% from that of the early 1950’s have wood available for summer and that the Company had set a five- trucking. As a result, we have had year goal of doubling the rate of more wood than was planned for, or increase by 1972. He illustrated was needed, coming in to the mills. the tremendous potential existing in the industry for increasing produc­ The chip plant at Portage con­ tivity of our loggers and pointed out tinues to show an increase in weekly the responsibility of industry to production. As is true with any develop this potential. new plant, it takes time to work out the bugs and to train operators. The use of chips from outside sources SOUTH — has increased at a remarkable rate during the last few years. For A new Company-owned and -operated instance, in 1964 we received 2,256 woodyard was opened near Cuthbert, cords of chips, and in fiscal 1968 Georgia, (approximately sixty-five we expect to have 60,000 cords. miles from Cedar Springs) on July 12, With new chip unloading facilities where both pulpwood and plywood veneer at the mill and the Portage chip logs will be purchased. This yard is plant on stream, we could have over an experimental project in that we 100,000 cords in the form of chips will open a new market for plywood in fiscal 1969. logs for wood suppliers. Our Company will be in a favorable position to be All logging operations are making a strong competitor for all plywood excellent progress. Labor supply is logs which meet our specifications in the best in three years, and this has the general area where the yard is resulted in a very low turnover rate located. Should this yard prove in the operations. Canadian companies successful, no doubt other Company- have not been operating at maximum owned woodyards will be opened for capacity and have cut back on wood receiving plywood bolts. production, thus making more men available to work in Maine. Between 5. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1968

Seven college students were FROM THE CONTROLLER’S DEPARTMENT. . . . employed during their summer vacations to kill culled hardwood trees in The Administrative Services Depart­ pine plantations. With the scarcity ment is creating a BANK. However, of good local labor, this arrange­ instead of money, this bank will handle ment is beneficial to the Company in management information and is referred filling our temporary labor require­ to as a DATA BANK. The data bank ments, and, in turn, gives the students concept has been developed by manu­ the opportunity to earn money for facturing companies to speed up infor­ their college educations. mation flow and improve the efficiency of systems that have related functions. Longwood purchases for the Classically, the first attempt to McRaeville Woodyard slasher have in­ consolidate data is in the order creased to the point that plans are entry, production, invoicing, sales being made to operate a second eight- analysis, and transportation systems. hour shift. The second shift would With the introduction of second double production of both pulpwood generation computers, separate systems and pine veneer bolts and should were developed to service these reduce operating costs of the slasher. functions. These stand-alone systems used the same information and required Timber from a 28-year-old pine that many items of data about a plantation was recently purchased customer or a product be repeated by the Company from an Early County in each system’s data file. Changes landowner. The trees were planted in base information required the in an old field in 1940 by the updating of several data files. With Civilian Conservation Corps, com­ the advent of modern computer memory monly known as the CCC. Control devices and the faster processing plots were established to accurately speed of third generation computers, determine the volume cut from this the data bank concept was developed. plantation, and data from this Simply stated, the data bank receives, study are as follows on an average stores, and makes available data per acre basis: required for multiple systems. Users of the data bank can have access to Products the information either through printed reports or by inquiry from 1.77 telephone poles $ 11.95 remote terminals. 18.03 cords 144.26 Although the concept is straight­ 3,430 bd.ft. veneer 137.22 forward, implementation of a data Net Income bank requires considerable planning on average acre $ 292.43 and study. Great Northern’s file is modest by comparison with some developed An average gross annual income by the banking and insurance industries. of $10.48 per acre! However, the initial data bank will contain data sufficient to satisfy Labor scarcity continues to the order entry, production reporting, adversely affect wood production invoicing, sales analysis, trans­ throughout the South as the harvest portation, and cost systems, as well of peanuts, tobacco, and other crops as provide the data requirements for begins. This condition will not the medium-range profit model being improve until November and requires developed by the PACE effort. As intensified effort on the part of presently developed, this data file our procurement organization to will contain approximately six million maintain an adequate wood flow of characters of information to support both pulpwood and plywood logs. the above systems’ needs. Pulpwood Cutting in Baxter State During the fall of 1963, nearly Park Illustrates Opinion Gap. . . . 4,000 cords of spruce blew down across Concern that pulpwood harvesting the Abol Trail in Baxter Park in a in the 200,000-acre Baxter State freak windstorm. The Park Authority Park may impair aesthetic values was obliged to close the trail, scurry points up a long-standing difference around to find someone to salvage the of opinion between foresters and wood, and to protect the remainder supporters of the "forever wild" of the park from a serious fire concept in the management of lands hazard. The "killer-wind" that wild reserved for public use. October night didn’t practice selective In this case, the Natural Re­ cutting. sources Council of Maine voices the Great Northern is likely to be hope that the Great Northern Paper deeply conscious of public feeling Company, which will conduct cutting as it works in Baxter Park this operations on about 6,000 acres of summer. The Company has even sug­ prime spruce-fir woodland in the gested that the logging roads it will park this year, will use discretion. build can be retained as part of the Under the terms of the sale to park system and used by vacationers ex-Governor Percival Baxter, who in years to come. later gave the land to the state, But real dyed-in-the-wool pro­ Great Northern Paper reserved the tectionists will breathe easier when right to take mature softwood from the reserved cutting rights in Baxter these lands until 1969. (Another State Park finally expire with age. tract is slated for cutting before Condensed from an article by 1972.) The NRC has been assured that C. M. Washburn in the Bangor Daily News. proper precautions will be taken to preserve scenic attractions in A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A the area of Township 4, Range 10; and it concedes that the Company The July 10 issue of Southern has for years recognized the interest Pulp and Paper Manufacturer contains of the public in management policies a 12-page article with accompanying affecting its own land. color pictures on the Cedar Springs Cutting timber on lands frequented mill. SP&PM is the third industry by advocates of outdoor recreation publication to feature the Company’s is at the heart of the whole contro­ Southern Division expansion program. versy over public acquisition of Paper Trade Journal and Pulp and private woodlands. It brings up the Paper published similar stories dur­ tough question as to whether standing ing Paper Week last February. timber is more important in Maine economy than outdoor-oriented recreation. Contentions are sharp— A recent Great Northern promotion on both sides. piece, prepared for the export con­ Experienced foresters, however, tainerboard market, has been awarded even if they have strong protection­ a "Certificate of Merit" by Curtis ists leanings, know that only care­ Paper Company whose paper was used. fully managed woodlands can present In a newsletter circulated to to the public the bright green and Curtis merchants throughout the healthy image that people have come United States, the company said in to know as a working forest tract. part: "Great Northern Paper Company Nature soon obliterates the scars has excelled again!. . . .Done in five of most of man’s handiwork in the languages, "On Liberty and Independence" woods, but it takes longer to wipe out is superb from every point of view - windfalls when overmature trees give the original idea for the contents, up the struggle, or disease or fire the design, the printing, and the sweeps in. overall finished product." 7. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1968

"PERSONNELITIES "

NEW EMPLOYEES Accounting - Northern Division. Elliott joined the Company in June, 1966. HAROLD D. ACRES will join Great Northern as Chief Engineer, reporting DOROTHy M. OUELLETTE'S title to R. J. Shinners, Vice President - has been changed to Supervisor, Northern Division. In this position Office Services in conjunction with he will be responsible for all corporate her new responsibilities of the Central Engineering functions for both stationery stores and telephone the Northern and Southern Divisions switchboard functions. and will be located in Millinocket. Before joining the Company, Mr. Acres In the Woodlands Department - North was Manager of Engineering, Paper Division, for Weyerhauser Company. RODERICK E. FARNHAM has been promoted to Administrative Assistant, reporting RONALD H. ALLEN joined the Southern to J. T. Maines, Vice President - Wood Division Woodlands Department as a Unit lands and will continue to be located Forester, reporting directly to Charles in the Bangor office. Arnold, Area Superintendent. Mr. Allen is a 1968 graduate of the University of HENRy J. DEABAy has been pro­ Florida where he received his BSF moted to the newly created position degree in Forest Management of Personnel Supervisor - Woodlands, reporting to J. R. Adams, Manager ALDEN C. RICHARDS has joined the of Personnel. Thus far, Henry has Company as Systems Supervisor, reporting 22 years of service with the Company. to W. O. Wagner, Manager of Administrative He now will be located in Millinocket. Services. In this capacity, he will be responsible for supervising the develop­ MERLE E. FENLASON was promoted ment and implementation of Company data to the position of Pulpwood Buyer, processing systems and methods projects. reporting to R. A. Leadbetter, General Mr. Richards’ background includes BS Superintendent Purchased Wood. Merle’s degrees from Maryland University in company employment dates back to both General Business and Accounting April, 1951. and ten years’ experience in the systems field. In the New York Order Processing Department

PERSONNEL CHANGES EDWARD J. LEONICK assumes the responsibilities of Order Processing In the Controller’s Department - North Supervisor covering both the Northern and Southern operations. HAROLD A. GRANT has been promoted He will report to F. J. Dunne, to Manager of Accounting - Northern Sales Coordinator. Division, reporting directly to R. F. Bartlett, Assistant Controller. ’’Pete” RICHARD L. GREENE has been pro­ joined Great Northern as an Internal moted to Scheduler covering liner­ Auditor in 1963 immediately after gradu­ board operations in Cedar Springs, ating from Bentley College of Accounting reporting to E. J. Leonick. and Finance. Purchases & Stores - Cedar Springs ELLIOTT R. Boyd has been promoted to the position of Staff Accountant, J. DERRELL CLARK has been pro­ reporting to H. A. Grant, Manager of moted to Superintendent - Stores, Purchases & Stores - C.S. (Cont.) His most recent position was Purchasing Agent at Millinocket. reporting to Bob Epperson, Manager, Purchases and Stores. Derrell has PETER R. PERPALL resigned from his been with the Company since September, position of Unit Forester at Cedar 1963. Springs to go back to college.

(V. VERNON WIDNER was promoted ROBERT F. ESTES has resigned from to Buyer, reporting directly to his position of Superintendent of Motor Howard Pugh, Purchasing Agent. Vehicles and Project Engineer - Woodlands, Vernon has been with the Company Northern Division. since July, 1963.

At the Cedar Springs Mill MILITARY LEAVE OF ABSENCE

VERNON EVANS was promoted to the H. RICK OILER, Junior Salesman, position of Power House Foreman, will return to the Chicago Sales Office reporting directly to Charles Jacob, the first of January after completing Assistant Power House Superintendent. his military obligation. Vernon has been with the Company since August, 1963. RETIREMENTS In the Air HARALD CLyvE retired from his MAURICE C. MC LEAN, Instrument position of Assistant Operations Engineer in the Central Engineering Superintendent in the Aroostook Area. Department at Millinocket, has become, Born in Cape Town, South Africa, and as of July 19, the substitute Co-pilot educated in Norway and Sweden, he for the Company aircraft. He will be began employment with Great Northern available for this assignment in the as Operations Inspector in March, 1952. absence of Chief Pilot, Dick Martin, at which time the Co-pilot, Lloyd WELLIE CAOUETTE retired from Jones, will act as Chief Pilot. the position he has held for 22 Maurice brings to this position years. He came with Great Northern 18 years of flying experience and as Contractor Foreman in the holds the necessary qualifying ratings. Woodlands Department in September, 1946.

TERMINATIONS LOTHROP B. BARTLETT, Technical Staff Assistant, Millinocket, will RICHARD F. KNIGHT has resigned retire next month after having worked from the Commercial Sales staff in for the Company for 35 years. New York to return to his home in Savannah, Georgia. Dick has accepted Their many friends wish Harald, a position with Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Wellie, and ’Chub’ many years of Fenner & Smith, Inc. happy retirement.

ANDREW W. ELCIK resigned from DEATH his position of Area Engineer at the Millinocket mill to accept employment CHARLES M. DURKEE, 69, died on with Brown Paper Company. Andy joined August 11 at Millinocket of heart disease. GN in September, 1966. He retired April 1, 1964, after 12 years with the Company from the position of EUGENE V. FAIRLEY resigned from Manufacturing Assistant. He served as Great Northern after 23 years of service. Production Superintendent for 4 1/2 years. NEWSLETTER PAPER company FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES

Volume VI No. 4 MILLINOCKET, MAINE Friday, July 19, 1968

A new IBM 360 Model 20 computer Great Northern represented at is now on line and operating in Pulp and Paper Institute. . . .The the Controller’s Department at Ninth Pulp and Paper Summer Institute Cedar Springs. The conversion from opened at the University of Maine on tabulating equipment went very July 8 with 135 registrants enrolled smoothly and was accomplished in in the paper technology and pulp record time. The Administrative Ser­ programs. vices Department supervised the pro­ Visits to two mills will coor­ gramming and installation of the dinate instruction and mill practices, new computer. and the two-week program will conclude The new system gives badly with a panel of three mill executives needed relief to the tight Data who will discuss and answer questions Processing schedule due to the about general policies of management recent expansions at the Southern and administration. Division. Computer processing time Attending from Great Northern, for major applications has been which has the second largest repre­ shortened dramatically. For example, sentation, are: D. Brown, G. Lander, the mill payroll application was T. Griffin, C. Roberts, A. Brown, reduced from 8 hours of processing and D. Smart, all from Engineering, time to 1 1/2 hours. Along with and C. Larlee and C. Ambrose from the installation of the Model 20, Manufacturing. Data Processing services are being provided to Great Northern Plywood Corporation. A copy of the address given by The 360/20 installation is the Peter S. Paine May 7, 1968, at the first phase in the implementation 21st Annual Conference of the of the Company's communications- Financial Analysts Federation in based computer system. When the Boston, Massachusetts, is enclosed 360 Model 40 is installed at Milli­ with this issue of the Newsletter. nocket, a communications device will Five charts, beginning on page 13, be attached to the 360/20 at Cedar compare Great Northern and 15 other Springs. This device will allow paper companies on the basis of 1967 access, via telephone lines, to the Industry Operating Income Pre-tax larger computer’s more powerful Earnings and After-Tax Earnings as processing facilities and infor­ a Percent of Sales, as well as on mation files. Access devices to Return on Equity Capital and Total the central computer will also be Invested Capital. The advertising on placed in the New York office for pages 18 and 19 entitled, "If You order entry and inquiry either by Think Great Northern Just Grows Trees using video display, typewriter . . . ,” was originally prepared for console, or a high speed printer. the Financial Analysts Journal. Paper production for forty-one weeks ended 7/14/68 . .

______1968______1967______Tons Daily Avg. Tons Daily Avg. Production:

Cedar Springs 480,404 1,844 289,188 1,470 East Millinocket 312,644 1,107 303,456 1,079 Millinocket 239,436 850 241,739 862 1,032,484 3,801 834,383 3,411

CEDAR SPRINGS MILL Shipped rotating assembly off No. 1 chipper to Carthage Machine Company During the scheduled three-week for rebuild. maintenance shutdown of the mill, Installed rebuilt chipper. starting July 1, many major jobs were completed. Thirty forestry students and In addition to inspections and faculty of the University of Georgia general maintenance repairs of School of Forestry were given an machinery and auxiliary equipment, orientation of our plant operations the following were also completed. and a tour of pulp, paper, and plywood operations at Cedar Springs, July 10. In the Paper Mill...... Repaired lift doors and side panels Contracts have been let for the on paper machine hoods. Made annual following projects: long-log slasher inspection and repairs on paper to be erected in Elba, Alabama, filter machine drive turbine. plant sludge disposal at the mill, and an additional core conveyor for truck In the Pulp Mill...... loading facilities and for an overage Installed 40 feet of brick in the chip conveyor at the Plywood plant. hot end of No. 2 limekiln.

In the Power and Steam Plant. . EAST MILLINOCKET MILL Performed five-year inspection of No. 1 turbine generator. A synthetic wire of polyester On No. 1 power boiler, the steam construction was installed July 16 air preheater coils were replaced; on No. 1 paper machine. Benefits the air heater repaired; and boiler expected are longer wire life and tubes replaced as required. fewer stock jams. Installed three new coal burners in No. 2 power boiler. Excellent results were obtained On No. 1 recovery boiler, the from the new design wet felt recently refractory was replaced in the removed from No. 5 paper machine. furnace bottom; six additional soot Reportedly, it is the first time such blowers were installed; new brick a felt has been used on a machine was replaced as required in the running in the 2500 fpm range. dissolving tank; and the precip­ itator was inspected and repaired. A new broke pulper for No. 4 Stainless steel tubes and tube paper machine was started up on June 28. sheets were installed in the fifth The unit has performed very well under effect on No. 1 set evaporators. slabbing conditions, as well as handling full machine production. Three In the Woodyard...... more units are planned for Nos. 1, 2, Installed new stainless steel rake and 3 machines. on No. 1 slaker. 3. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1968

East Millinocket Mill Cont. WOODLANDS NEWS

The dismantling of the tube winder NORTH has been postponed until August 23 because of a delay with the delivery The rear of the West Branch drive of materials. Work on the wiring, cleared Seboomook Dam on June 20 and ductwork for the oven dryer, tube arrived at the head of Chesuncook on cart rails, sprinkler pipes, and June 27. Present expectations are doorways has begun and is progressing that the rear will clear Rip Dam by well. the end of July; and with good water conditions, some time will be spent picking wood off the shore of Ripo MILLINOCKET MILL genus and the lower lakes.

During the scheduled shutdown from The Paquet and Gosselin Camps 8 p.m., July 3, to 8 a.m., July 5, an opened July 8, with all eight Company extension was welded to the 1250# camps now producing. steam header in the Power Plant. Because of problems with the weld, the mill was forced to delay startup Tourist traffic on Company roads for 16 hours. The final weld was has picked up considerably since completed at 5 p.m., July 5. Due to July 1. Some 5,300 tourists have slow warm-up requirements, eight checked through 20-Mile gate, 2,600 machines started up at midnight. at 9-Mile gate, and 1,600 at the Fish The other two machines were put River gate. back on the line at 8 a.m., July 5. A rash of accidents in May and No. 1 boiler was taken off line June raised havoc with what was a for its annual inspection and acid reasonably good Woodlands’ safety cleaning on July 8. Startup is record. The most recent accident scheduled for July 19. involved two men who were badly burned when the boom of a pulp loader Two long-log slashing trials have came in contact with high tension been made in the Millinocket mill wires at McDonald Siding. yard. Based on the results of these trials, plans are now being formulated The Department of Forest Engineering to move the operation into the mill is investigating the possibility of yard in order to take advantage of constructing a truck road that would the fresh wood at the Millinocket leave the existing Grant Farm road mill. This arrangement will keep the near Ragged Lake and go in a north­ wood out of the river and from ending easterly direction, crossing the up eventually on the East Millinocket West Branch of the Penobscot River winter pile. below Lobster Stream, and then due west and north of Seboomook Lake to The No. 4 Manchester headbox the Pittston Farm area. This inves­ inlet has been modified to eliminate tigation is being done with the idea a problem with filler and fines that the wood in this area could be accumulation in the inlet to the box. delivered to the mills in tree lengths, This modification appears to have thus saving on labor costs and assuring solved the problem. A new fly roll the mills of fresh wood. At present, installation on No. 4 machine’s four some of the wood cut in this area is roll stack is debugged and trials of two years old before it is used in the lightweight, high-finish catalog sheets mills. In addition, this road would ser­ will be made during the next few weeks. vice a large block of Company-owned land. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT was quite a competitive challenge to the paper and printing industry. With the current "stink" being To meet these challenges, printing raised on the Canadian border about must give a quality edge and offer the the polluted condition of Prestile advertiser a lower cost to reach the Stream, some people in Millinocket consumer. In this color conscious are concerned about the odor problems world, color printing must be com­ the magnesium oxide sulphite recovery petitive with color TV. Therefore, process will have. the printer requires a paper with The MgO recovery process is constant color and uniform ink completely different from the kraft receptivity. To keep costs in line, recovery process, and Millinocket Mr. Ewing sees a trend toward lighter will not have an odor comparable basis weight coated papers; however, to other mill towns where the kraft he maintains that the cost per ton recovery process is used. The of paper should not increase. Web gases coming from the recovery breaks must also be reduced to one boiler stack will actually have third of the present rate. less odor than the exhaust from C. A. Auerbach, an advertising our boiler stacks. The only odor vice president, thought that coated will come from the evaporator paper provided an ideal communi­ condensate (the water removed from cations medium. The feel, slickness, the spent sulphite liquor which gloss, and eye appeal of a paper smells like hot vinegar), and this are used as a setting for presenting will be disposed of in a manner a particular product or idea. For which will not produce any detect­ high fidelity reproduction, a able odor. texture free coated surface is gen­ erally required. The print should give the same designed effect in TAPPI Coating Conference — each competitive magazine (i.e. Time Challenges for Coated Paper . . . and Newsweek). The "space-buying . . Representatives of Research & girl" in the advertising agency Development participated in the 19th tends to resolve the problem by TAPPI Coating Conference last May. "going to the magazine with the best Our purpose at the meeting was to paper.” keep up with developments in the paper coating field by attending prepared lectures, round table discussions, and informal gatherings. Discussions Your take home pay will be less of blade coating technology, starch because. . . .The new Revenue and conversion systems, coating binder Expenditure Control Act of 1968 pro­ migration problems, print tests, vides for an annual 10 percent in­ and coating tests all can be extended come tax surcharge. For individuals, and applied toward improving coated the surcharge applies to wages and paper at Great Northern. salaries earned April 1, 1968, The keynote panel was concerned through June 30, 1969, or for with the position of coated paper in three-fourths of calender year 1968 1978. A broad viewpoint was pre­ and one-half of calender year 1969. sented by representatives of elec­ Individuals, therefore, will pay tronic telecommunications, printing an effective increase in tax of and advertising. K. Fishback of 7.5 percent for 1968, and 5 percent RCA predicted, "There will be no for 1969. more printing presses in 1978." The individual is not the only Homes supposedly will be equipped one who will feel the effect of with devices allowing selective the income tax surcharge. All printout. Prototypes already exist. corporations must pay an additional G. Ewing of R. R. Donnelley, repre­ 10 percent surcharge on the income senting printers, agreed that this from January 1, 1968. 5. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1968

The Fifth Annual Great Northern The following is the conclusion Open Golf Tournament was held at the to the series of articles that have Hillcrest Golf Club in Millinocket appeared in your Newsletter under during the Fourth of July holiday the main heading, ON BEING A DEPARTMENT weekend. HEAD. Ted Allen of Hillcrest Golf Club defeated fellow club member and last So That Is Management year’s champion, Dean Chase, Jr., in a sudden-death overtime playoff to Management does not consist in win the green blazer. having an autocratic mind, leading In regulation play, T. Allen had to arbitrary government, but in a 34-34-68, while D. Chase had a 33 judgment and reason and knowledge of going out and came in with a 35 to people. gain the tie. T. Allen then birdied It is among the most interesting the second hole with a deuce to win occupations in the world, because the playoff. it challenges the manager to admin­ Clair Grant took third with a ister the most difficult creatures 71. on earth—men and women. He has to The annual tournament drew 81 do so with fair play, appreciation of entries this year to Hillcrest’s people’s problems, and knowledge of 5,400 yard, par 66 course. business principles and practices: planning, organizing, controlling and supervising so as to mesh these THIRD ACE in his company’s interests. This is not a life of ease, M. C. McDonald, member of the whatever status may attach to it. Board of Directors and retired Presi­ There is still a connection between dent , scored his third lifetime effort and reward. hole-in-one, Sunday, June 9, at the The manager is judged by his Penobscot Valley Country Club. Using skill in effective action under a four wood off the fourth tee, he varying conditions. He must avoid aced the 155-yard fourth while what is unfit as diligently as he playing with golfing partners Mitchell observes what is suitable. He finds Sleeper, Frank Taylor, and E. R. like the plane-master in de Saint- Drummond. Exupery’s Night Flight: "If I slack His first ace came in 1941 at and let events take charge trusting Shrevesport, La., and the second on routine, always mysteriously something the fourteenth at the Penobscot seems to happen.” course. The standard for both management and staff is to do your best with enthusiasm. That gives zest in living, ************** and makes many things bearable which otherwise would be unendurable. Maine’s pulpwood harvest in 1967 When all is said and done, when was 2,843,558 cords, an increase of you have read the books and essays on 2.8% over 1966. Article also reports how to do it, you come down to the pulp chip production from mill moment of action. Recall what Admiral residues also increased to 176,015 Lord Hawke, aboard the Royal George, cords, a jump of 18.1% over 1966. said to his pilot at the battle of Pulp and Paper-5/27/68-pg. 10 Quiberon Bay in 1759: ’’You have done your duty in pointing out the risk; and now lay me alongside the French ************** flagship.”

"Positive” means being mistaken at the top of one’s voice. —Ambrose Bierce "PERSONNELITIES"

NEW EMPLOYEES Prior to joining GN, he was employed by International Paper in Jay, Maine. LONNIE V. TEMPLE, effective June 10, joined Great Northern as a STEPHEN G. HOBSON, effective Trainee in the Millinocket Control July 1, joined great Northern as a Department, reporting to H. N. Sales Trainee. Steve attended Boston Packard, Superintendent Control. University and is a 1968 graduate of Lonnie has worked for the Company Burdett College where he majored in three summers in the Summer Appren­ Business Administration. tice Program. He is a 1968 graduate of Husson College. ROBERT M. edgecomb, effective July 8, joined the Research and Devel­ JAMES W. GRANT, effective June opment Department at Millinocket as 15, joined Great Northern as an Area a Research Engineer in the Product Engineer in the Millinocket mill, Development Group. Bob was a summer reporting directly to J. M. Giffune, apprentice with GN in 1964. He is a Senior Area Engineer. Previously, graduate of the University of Maine Jim was employed by General Electric, where he received his BS in Chemical San Francisco, California. Engineering. Prior to coming with the Company, he was employed by Oxford MICHAEL P. ALford, effective Paper Company. June 17, joined Great Northern as a Sales Trainee. Mike attended Hartwick College and is a 1968 graduate of PERSONNEL CHANGES Ricker College. WESLEY A. NASH, effective May 1, edward J. BURKE, JR., effective was promoted from Junior Engineer to June 17, joined the Company as a Engineer in the Central Engineering Sales Trainee. Ed is a 1968 graduate Department at Millinocket. Wes has of Boston College where he obtained been with the Company since June, 1966. a BS degree in Marketing. CHARLES H. SHEEHAN, effective JOHN W. BIGGS, effective June May 1, was promoted from Junior Engineer 24, joined the Company as a Mechanical to Engineer at Millinocket. Charlie Engineer at Cedar Springs, reporting has been with GN since February, 1959. directly to W. A. Lacey, Plant Engineer. John is a 1963 graduate EvELyN M. MC GREEvy, effective of the University of Georgia where May 20, was transferred from Group he received a BS degree in Physics. Leader Statistical to Control - Prior to coming with Great Northern, Statistical at the Millinocket mill, he was employed as a Mechanical reporting to Harry Packard, Superin­ Construction Engineer with Rust tendent Control. Evelyn’s employment Engineering at Pine Hill, Alabama. dates back to May, 1945, and she was promoted to Group Leader in May, 1953. THOMAS W. KELLy, effective July 1, joined the Company as a Budget ROBERT A. MACKIN, effective June Analyst, reporting to H. A. Grant, 10, was promoted from the position of Budget Supervisor in the Controller’s Supervisor - Stores at Millinocket to Department - Northern Division. that of Buyer. In his new position, Tom graduated from Husson College he will be reporting directly to with a BS degree in Accounting. J. W. Dobson, Manager of Purchases 7. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1968

Personnel Changes Cont. DON E. CANNON, effective July 1, has been promoted from the hourly and Stores, Northern Division. Bob Shift Operator classification to has been with the Company since June, Technical Services Foreman at the 1948. Cedar Springs mill, reporting to R. W. O’Donnell, Technical Services Super­ C. ROBERT EPPERSON, effective intendent. Don has been with the July 1, was promoted from Purchasing Company since September, 1963. Agent to the position of Manager of Purchases and Stores, Southern H. MILTON WILLIAMS, JR., effec­ Division, reporting to B. P. Ellen, tive July 1, was promoted from the Vice President - Southern Division. position of Assistant Manager, Trans­ Bob joined GN as Assistant Purchasing portation Research to that of Manager, Agent in December, 1964. Rates and Research at Cedar Springs, reporting to J. D. Perkins, Director HOWARD D. PUGH, effective July 1, of Transportation. Milt has been has been promoted from Superintendent - with the Company since August, 1966. Stores, to Purchasing Agent, report­ ing to C. R. Epperson, Manager of PATRICK L. MC ADAMS, effective Purchases and Stores at Cedar Springs. July 1, was promoted from Traffic Howard started with the Company as Analyst to Assistant Manager, Rates a Storekeeper in November, 1962. and Research in the Southern Division Transportation Department, reporting CHARLES E. HEATH, effective to H. M. Williams, Manager, Rates July 1, has been promoted from a and Research. Pat has been with GN weekly Expediting Clerk classifi­ since April, 1967. cation to the position of Assistant Buyer at Cedar Springs, reporting WILBUR R. NICHOLS, effective directly to H. D. Pugh, Purchasing July 1, was transferred from an Agent. Charlie was hired in January, hourly Senior Storekeeper "E” classi­ 1966, as an Engineering Clerk. fication to Supervisor - Stores, reporting to R. R. Robinson, Super­ MELTON W. DiLMORE, effective intendent - Stores, Northern Division. July 1, was promoted from an hourly ’Nick’ has been with Great Northern lathe Operator-A classification to since June, 1957. the position of Green End Foreman at Great Northern Plywood, reporting J. MARTIN EVANS, effective July 1, directly to Bob Gardner, General has been promoted from an hourly classi­ Superintendent. Melton has been fication to Supervisor - Stores at with the Company since March, 1968. Cedar Springs, reporting to C. R. Epperson, Manager of Purchases and WAyNE F. CROWELL, effective Stores. Martin has been with the July 1, was promoted from the position Company since August, 1961. of Chief Accountant to that of Chief Accountant and Assistant CARL H, REEV, effective July 5, Secretary, reporting directly to was promoted to the position of K. Hoseid, General Manager. Wayne Mill Manager, East Millinocket, report­ joined the Northern Division as a ing to S. B. Weldon, Manager of Manu­ Traveling Audit Clerk in March, 1964; facture. Since joining Great North­ was transferred to the Southern ern in 1952, the various supervisory Division as an Accountant in November, positions that Carl has held include: 1965; and in July, 1966, he became Control Superintendent, Paper Mill Chief Accountant for Great Northern Superintendent, Superintendent Paper, Plywood. and General Production Superintendent Personnel Changes Cont. TERMINATIONS at the Millinocket mill, and his JAMES R. ELLIOTT, effective June most recent position of General 30, resigned from his position of Production Superintendent at the Senior Technician at Cedar Springs to East Millinocket mill. accept a position with MacMillan - Bloedel United, Inc., in Pine Hill, JAMES W. GRIFFIN, effective Alabama. July 1, has been promoted to General Production Superintendent at the RONALD P. TERCEIRA resigned from East Millinocket mill, reporting to his position as Market Analyst in C. H. Reed, Mill Manager. The the New York office effective June 30. positions held by Jim include: Ron had been with Great Northern Assistant Pulp Mill Superintendent, since November, 1965. Pulp Mill Superintendent, and most recently, Paper Mill Superintendent. MARTIN J. ROACH, effective July 5, terminated his 31 years of employ­ RICHARD W. Noyes, effective ment with Great Northern to accept a July 1, was promoted from Assistant position with Rothesay Paper Company Paper Mill Superintendent to Paper in St. John, New Brunswick. Marty’s Mill Superintendent at the East first position back in September, Millinocket mill, reporting to 1936, was a papermaker, and his last J. W. Griffin, General Production position was Mill Manager, East Superintendent. Dick joined the Millinocket mill. Company in February, 1960, as a Senior Engineer, was promoted to KEITH R. VEAZIE, Systems Coordi­ Superintendent in 1961, and to nator, resigns effective July 26 to Assistant Paper Mill Superintendent accept a position with another paper in 1964. company. Keith has been with the Company since June, 1960. RICHARD D, VIOLETTE, effective July 1, has been promoted to the position of Assistant Paper Mill RETIREMENT Superintendent at the East Millinocket mill, reporting to R. W. Noyes, Paper THOMAS R. SIMPSON retired July 1 Mill Superintendent. Dick started after more than 43 years of service with Great Northern in Millinocket with the Company. Tommy’s position in January, 1962, as Junior Project was that of Paper Service Engineer, Engineer; transferred to East Milli­ one which he has capably held for the nocket as Control Engineer in 1963; last 10 years. and was promoted to Technical Assis­ tant to Paper Mill Superintendent in DEATHS 1965. In 1967, he was promoted to Day Foreman - 1-4. MATTHEW R. WILLIAMS, Power House Foreman at Cedar Springs, was killed THOMAS M. KNIGHT will transfer in an automobile accident on July 17. in early September to the Northern He had been with the Company since Division to assume the position of July, 1963. Purchasing Agent, reporting to J, W, Dobson, Manager of Purchases and ALBERT I. HARRIS died June 28 at Stores. In the meantime, Tom will the Millinocket Community Hospital. He act in an advisory capacity to first came to work for the Company his former position, Manager of December 4, 1911. He retired from his Purchases and Stores, Southern job as Chief Water Dispatcher on Division. September 1, 1956. NEWSLETTER

FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES

Volume VI No. 3 MILLINOCKET, MAINE Friday, June 21, 1968

The divisionalization of the The Director of Purchases and Company’s operations in Maine and Stores, J. F. Marquis, is also Georgia has resulted in a number responsible for the Insurance De­ of new reporting lines. partment which is headed by the The division Vice Presidents Manager of Insurance, T. H. Flanagan. are responsible for manufacturing Mr. Marquis reports to the Vice in their geographic areas and for President and Secretary. pulpwood procurement. Messrs. Clifford and Richardson report to the respective division Vice Presi­ dents . Great Northern Paper Company Mr. Maines is responsible for ranks among Fortune’s 500. . . .Each all timberlands management functions, year Fortune magazine publishes a including the acquisition of timber directory of the 500 largest U. S. lands and activities directed to industrial corporations ranked the development of our lands for according to sales volume. This is uses other than growing pulpwood. the third year that Great Northern Mineral exploration and recreation has appeared. In 1956, we ranked potential are important aspects of 460 with sales of $67,096,561; and his responsibilities. Under the in 1965, we ranked 493 with sales general direction of the President, of $111,428,000. Net sales of he is also responsible for govern­ $133,736,000, placed the Company mental relations. in the 497 spot for 1967. Fortune The staff positions reporting also ranked the performance of the to the divisional Vice Presidents top 500 in other categories, and include the Traffic Managers, GNP scored as follows: Managers of Personnel, and Managers 500 of Purchases and Stores. These Rank positons, however, retain their Assets $247,010,000 268 functional relationship to corporate Net Profit 13,745,000 283 headquarters. Thus, on the corporate Invested Capital 118,255,000 293 level, the functional responsibility No. of employees 3,932 469 for Transportation is with the Profit as % Director of Transportation, J. D. of sales 10.3 40 Perkins, now located in the New Profit as % of York office; for the Purchases and invested capital 11.6 233 Stores function, with the Director Earnings per share: of Purchases and Stores, J. F. 1967 $4.80 Marquis; and for the personnel 1966 4.36 function, it remains with the Vice 1957 .97 President and Secretary, R. Hellen­ dale. Growth rate ’57-67 17.34% 40 Paper production for thirty-seven weeks ended 6/16/68 . .

1968 1967 Production: Tons Daily Avg. Tons Daily Avg.

Cedar Springs 440,628 1,855 264,538 1,458 East Millinocket 283,776 1,109 276,829 1,084 Millinocket 216,728 847 220,106 862 941,132 3,811 761,473 3,404

EAST MILLINOCKET MILL first of four units to be done this year. Tube Winder Relocation Project: The construction of the core room expansion area is proceeding at a good pace. Pouring of the floor MILLINOCKET MILL was completed on June 14, and some of the materials for the outer wall No. 3 machine went back on line and sprinkler piping changes have June 19 after being rebuilt to handle been received. The order has been our lightweight, rotogravure grades. placed for the construction of the After a short startup period, the tubing carts to be used in the second reel that came off the machine tunnel dryer operation. at 7:00 p.m. was of good quality - grade 4.0, Mono News "O." This was A trial has been scheduled for one of the best startups we have had. June 24 with Swift & Co. using a During the past month, the four- better drying adhesive which will drinier has been leveled and a new allow closer setting of the cut-off Venta-nip press installed, along with saw to the mandril. This will a smoothing press, breaker stack, increase the capacity of the tunnel dry-end pulper, and extensive modi­ dryer and also allow the tube winder fications to the dryer steam system. to operate at design speed. Further During this shutdown, the calender benefits expected are longer saw stack frame was reworked in prepa­ life, increased crush strength, and ration for a new 4-roll calender easier cleanup for better house­ stack, which is on order. This keeping . rebuild is expected to provide full white grade line capability. The Experiments with new design wet installation of the saveall, for felts, both adjustable and filling which an August startup is scheduled, less types, are being carried out. will also give the machine color and It is expected that these felts will grade capability. provide a longer life and lower cost per ton. A new expandable core shaft is in use on No. 6 winder as of June 16. After more than fifty years of This shaft is working well and has service, the beater system serving the added advantage of being nearly Nos. ,1 to 4 paper machines will be thirty pounds lighter than our conven­ retired. Work is under way to con­ tional shafts. If the shaft proves vert No. 4 paper machine broke- to be durable enough for the service, handling system to a pulper. The others will be added. Worn-out beater is being replaced with a side-entering pulper unit The design and ordering of equip with a tile tank. This is the ment has been completed for the fly 3. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1968

roll installation on No. 4 machine University, Miami University of Ohio, calender stack. It is expected Wentworth Institute, St. Francis this equipment will help reduce Xavier, Dartmouth College, Harvard the cockle problem on this machine. University, Tarleton State College, Providence College, University of No. 2 boiler went back on line Maryland, Iowa Wesleyan, and the during the week of June 10 follow­ University of Oklahoma. ing its annual inspection. The In addition to the above, approxi­ boiler was acid cleaned during the mately two hundred students are shutdown. working in the mills.

No. 4 barking drum is back on line after several hydraulic system modifications. Our latest advertisement, "We Send People Packing And They Love It," was featured in the May 31 issue of Chemical Spotlight. This GREAT NORTHERN GRADUATES APPRENTICES is the second time a Great Northern corporate ad has been singled out On Saturday, June 15, exercises for "Ad of the Week" honors by this were held for 14 employees who executive newsletter. successfully completed their appren­ ticeship in the Mechanical and *************** Papermaking trades. This year’s class brings the According to the May issue of total number of graduates in the CHEMICAL 26, a trade publication papermaker apprentice category to serving the paper and allied indus­ 37, the largest known group of tries, the Madison Fund, Inc., a registered papermaker apprentices closed-end investment company, pur­ in the world. Several of this chased 16,600 shares of Great North­ group have progressed to the Machine ern stock during the final quarter Tender classification, the top of of 1967. In selecting GN, the Fund the line. One has been made a cited the Company’s recent diversi­ salaried supervisor in the Paper fication and expansion moves as Room. reasons to expect continued growth Equally successful, graduates in sales and profit. in the Mechanical trades have advanced to the higher levels of *************** their craft, several progressing to Leadman positions and some to Asst. Woodlands Manager, J. P. supervisory positions. Harper, served as an instructor at the recent Clemson University course on Short Wood Logging Systems held during the week of May 27. Logging The Summer Employment Program, Engineer, Charles Spooner, also a Great Northern institution for a attended. number of years, is now being pro­ moted by industry on a National George Van Goethem, General Pro­ scale. duction Supt. at Cedar Springs, This summer, Great Northern is recently delivered a talk on Great employing 40 college students in Northern’s air and water pollution such fields as Accounting, Research, controls to the Southern Pulpwood Wood Survey, Engineering, and Paper­ Conservation Association at a meeting making. The following colleges held in Savannah, Ga. Membership of are represented: University of the SPCA is comprised of Southern pulp Maine, Merrimack College, Univer­ and paper companies. Members of the sity of South Carolina, American Woodlands Department also attended. WOODLANDS NEWS

NORTH - surveys on a proposed new road that would run in a northerly direction A combination of favorable water from Big Eddy to Telos Lake. This conditions and good crews are credited road is to be designed so that wood with the excellent progress in this from this area can be either year’s West Branch drive. The rear trucked in tree-length size directly passed through Seboomook Dam on June to the Millinocket mill, or slashed 21 and should be into Chesuncook into 4-foot lengths at Big Eddy and July 5. About seventy-five percent driven to the mills. That portion of the drive’s 152,000 cords has been of the road from Big Eddy to sluiced through Ripogenus Dam. In Harrington Lake crosses some very the lower lakes, about 75,000 cords rough ground. From Harrington and have been towed to North Twin Dam. up through the Soper Brook valley, It is expected that the rear will go the ground presents no serious through Rip by mid-July, which is obstacles. considerably ahead of schedule. All Company roads were opened In the Pittston area, the Marcoux to truck traffic on June 17 after camp will open June 24, and two other being closed to heavy loads since camps early in July. We will be early April. operating three camps in this district — one less than last year. This year’s cut will be the last SOUTH - above Big Bog Dam for many years to come. The four Aroostook and one High temperatures have adversely Millinocket area camps are all pro­ affected pulpwood production. ducing according to schedule. Temperatures of 97 degrees have been recorded recently with higher Tollgates are being maintained readings expected. With farming in this season at 20-Mile, near Pittston; full stride, competition for pulp­ 9-Mile on the Reality Road west of wood labor is becoming more active Ashland; and at Portage on the Fish and will continue through crop River Road system. All points harvest in October. report heavier traffic than last year. In the Pittston area, the Summertime in the South not only State Forestry Department has started brings heat, but potential danger to charge small fees for the use of for our timber markers and cruisers several campgrounds in that district. in the form of poisonous snakes. Camping out is very popular, and Three poisonous species encountered it has become necessary for the in Southern forests are: rattle­ Forestry Service to hire extra snake, moccasin, and copperhead. help to supervise the public camp­ So far this year, two employees, grounds . Mike Butler and Joe Grimsley, have been struck by rattlesnakes. Snake­ The two large campgrounds proof leggings were the difference developed by the Company at Sourdna between a dangerous injury and a hunk Dam and Seboomook have again bad scare. been leased to George Emerson and Fred Coro. Use of these two camp Plywood veneer log inventory is grounds increases each year. holding steady at just over two million board feet. Log purchases Division of Forest Engineering during the week of June 9 exceeded crews have been conducting extensive consumption of 273,000 board feet. 5. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1968

ON BEING A DEPARTMENT HEAD

Decisions and Discipline and partiality is loaded with dyna­ mite for the supervisor who indulges The time has not yet come when in it. decision making can be turned over Good morale in a department can­ to machines and their technicians. not be imposed or bought: it must be Management decisions are based pri­ earned. It is the product of con­ marily on judgment. The machines sistently high management character. produce facts, just as the instru­ Morale is the worker’s emotional ments on an airplane provide infor­ stance toward his work. It may be mation, but the pilot must interpret measured by the degree of satis­ them into solved problems. faction of four basic wants: a The maintenance of discipline in sense of security, a sense of achieve­ business is clearcut, indisputable ment, a sense of justice, and a obligation of management. There sense of participation. A manager have to be rules, but they do not can look himself in the face if he need to entail regimentation, which answers affirmatively this question destroys personality, standardizes to himself: "Have I done something thought and action, and stultifies today deliberately to improve em­ the spirit. ployee relations in my work unit Some supervisors impose strict and give my staff a feeling of satis­ disciplinary measures not because faction in their work?" they are needed but because they think it is good for their workers to learn to obey. That is remini­ Something New Every Day scent of the Spartan custom of beat­ ing children regularly, not because Management is not something they had done wrong but in order to that you learn once and have the teach them how to bear pain. art forever. The explosion of Be resolute in enforcing the knowledge in the past few years principles in which you believe, but demands that managers keep learning yield in matters of custom which and relearning. make no difference to the success of Learn something every day. Even your department. Waste little time abstract knowledge on all kinds of in finding fault, and make clear that subjects is helpful. It may be your supervision is designed not only foreign to your line of work, but to uncover bad work but also to it provides background and room for bring good work to light. This is growth. A well-stored mind makes management by inspiration, not by you capable of doing your own repression. thinking. It gives you size. Bolster the faltering worker and No person will have the cyclo­ give encouragement toward improvement. pedic knowledge for handling all There is no management distinction management functions unaided. He to be gained through firing people, must know, as a primary qualifi­ but there is honour attached to cation for management, where to building people. find the answers. Some will be in his firm’s statements of policy, its staff handbook, its rule book, and Morale its periodical memoranda to managers.

Above all, be fair. Tyranny This series of articles will be com­ degrades not only those who suffer pleted in next month’s issue of your it but also those who exercise it, Newsletter under the subtitle, "So That Is Management." RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

Great Northern’s twenty-first nations, fillers, retention aids, paper machine should start up about dyes, etc. The most promising results July 1 at a top speed of 16 feet can then be tried on our large paper per minute, making a sheet 12 machines. This approach results in inches wide. considerably less cost and paper This machine represents one of machine trial time than running all two extremes that can be followed in the possible trials in the mill. It research pilot plant equipment. The also permits us to look at furnish first is to duplicate as closely as combinations that cannot be supplied possible the full scale equipment. to our machines on even a trial basis. This requires high speeds, a width Our pilot paper machine is a of over 30 inches, and relatively standard machine made by Nobel and sophisticated control equipment for Wood Company and is equipped with a pilot paper machine. This type of suction boxes, press roll and felt, machine can be used to produce rolls drum dryers with draw control between of paper for customer evaluation and dryers, and a reel. In addition, it can be used to simulate the operating is being installed with a thick stock characteristics of commercial paper system; a variable speed stuff pump; machine equipment — for example: a "tea cup" white water system, foils, wet suction boxes, Venta-nip including a seal box, a fan pump, and presses. This type of semicommercial a three-inch cleaner. pilot paper machine is extremely This machine won’t answer operating expensive to build and operate: a problems, nor was it intended to. machine of this type would cost about However, it is not a toy. Our previous a million dollars. We do not need, success in using similar size machines nor want, this type of equipment. to investigate corrugating medium We have chosen the other extreme cooking and stock furnish questions, — a small, slow speed machine which core and wrapper furnish combinations is much faster and easier to use than and some filler work, has demonstrated handsheets to compare furnish combi­ its usefulness.

"PERSONNELITIES”

NEW EMPLOYEES ROBERT C. JACKSON, effective June 6, joined the Industrial Rela­ CLARENCE V. BATES, effective May tions Department at Cedar Springs 15, joined the Great Northern Ply­ as Safety and Training Coordinator, wood operations as Green End Fore­ reporting to W. E. Lloyd, Industrial man, reporting directly to R. A. Relations Manager. Bob received his Gardner, General Superintendent. BS degree in Education from Living­ Prior to joining the Company, he ston State College in 1962 and his was employed by a lumber company in MS degree from the University of Joyce, Louisiana. Tennessee in 1963, Prior to joining Great Northern, he was a Teacher- BERTRAND A. LEVESQUE, effective Coach at Selma High School. June 3, joined the Controller’s Department, Millinocket, as an F. Donald NASON, effective June Internal Auditor, reporting to 10, has accepted a position as Inter­ Gearry Ranger, Manager of Internal nal Auditor, reporting to G. L. Auditing. Bert is a 1968 graduate Ranger, Manager of Internal Auditing. of Bentley College of Accounting and Don received his BS degree in Account Finance where he received a BS degree ing this year at Husson College. in Accounting. 7. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FIRDAY, JUNE 21, 1968

New Employees Cont. E. E. Allain, Vice President - Finance & Treasurer. Ross joined Great RONALD A. SAILOR, effective Northern in 1967 as Manager of Credit June 10, joined the Controller’s and Collections. Department, Millinocket, as an Internal Auditor, reporting to C. JACKIE FRITH, effective June G. L. Ranger, Manager of Internal 1, has been promoted from Accountant Auditing. Ron attended Hasson to Billing Supervisor at Cedar College one year and received his Springs, reporting to C. R. Chandler, BS degree in Accounting from Husson Manager of Accounting. Jackie has College this year. been with the Company since September, 1967. DANIEL E. WHITNEY, effective June 10, joined the Central Engineer­ JOHN E. O’DONNELL, III, effec­ ing Department, Millinocket, as a tive June 1, was promoted from Budget Cost Assistant, reporting to R. E. Analyst - Northern Division to Cost Pickering, Division Cost Supervisor. Accountant - Southern Division, A native of Lincoln, Dan has been reporting to C. R. Chandler, Manager employed at the Millinocket mill of Accounting. Jack joined the Com­ since December, 1967. pany in September, 1966.

LARRY E. DYER, effective June 12, ALLEN J. TOZIER, effective June joined the Southern Division as an 1, has been promoted to Supervisor, Unit Forester in the Manchester Wood General Accounting in the Controller’s lands office, reporting directly to Department, Cedar Springs, reporting Nathan Mullis, Assistant Area Superin­ to C. R. Chandler, Manager of Account­ tendent. Larry is a 1968 graduate ing. Allen joined the Company in of the University of Georgia where 1965 as an Internal Auditor and held he received his BS degree in Forestry. that position until February, 1967, when he was transferred to the GERALD A. PACKARD, effective Southern Division as an Accountant. June 17, joined the Controller's Department as Systems Analyst, report­ STANLEY G. HAWES, effective June ing to K. R. Veazie, Systems Coordi­ 1, transferred to Salary and Bene­ nator. Gerald received his BA degree fits as Compensation Coordinator, from the University of Maryland. reporting to E. N. Grindle, Salary Prior to joining Great Northern, and Benefits Administrator. Stan he was employed as Data Processing will assist in coordinating the Consultant with Automation Sciences, salary administration function with Inc., New York City. the Payroll Department, and also assist with employee benefits pro­ PERSONNEL CHANGES grams. The payroll function will be the responsibility of the Controller's JERRY D. PERKINS, effective June Department. 1, was promoted to Director of Trans­ portation, reporting directly to HENRY F. GREIG, effective June 1, E. L. Cowan, Vice President - Engi­ has been promoted from Sales Trainee neering and Research. Since joining to Junior Salesman in the Boston Sales the Company in 1963, Jerry has held office, reporting to I. P. Phelps, various positions, including Traffic New England Regional Manager, News­ Supervisor, Assistant Traffic Manager, print. 'Bud’ has been with the Company and most recently, Manager of Trans­ since July, 1967. portation Research. CARMEN Brigalli, effective ROSS A. MILLER, effective June 1, June 1, transferred from the position was promoted to the position of . of Yard Foreman at the Millinocket Assistant Treasurer, reporting to mill to Supervisor - Stores, Purchases Personnel Changes Cont. Machine Tender classification to the position of Paper Mill Tour Foreman - and Stores Department, Millinocket, No. 3, reporting directly to Billy reporting to R. R. Robinson, Sprague, Assistant Superintendent - Superintendent - Stores. Carmen’s Paper Mill. Jim has been with the employment dates back to October, Company since November, 1967. 1947. He was promoted to Yard Foreman in April, 1962. JAMES W. CROFT, effective June 1, was promoted from an hourly Machine JAMES S. HOOPER, Buyer, as of Tender classification to the position June 17, has been transferred from of Paper Mill Tour Foreman - No. 3, the Company’s Bangor office to reporting directly to Billy Sprague, Millinocket. Mr. Hooper will con­ Assistant Superintendent - Paper Mill, tinue to perform the buying Cedar Springs mill. Jim has been with objectives for the Woodlands the Company since November, 1967. Department. TERMINATIONS RUSSELL F. TAYLOR, effective June 1, was promoted from Area Engi­ C. FRED FISCHER, III, effective neer to Senior Area Engineer at the June 7, resigned from his position East Millinocket mill, reporting to of Director of Transportation to 0. J. Lombard, Plant Engineer. A set up his own business in Dothan, University of Maine graduate, Russ Alabama. has been with Great Northern since 1952 in various engineering capacities. JOHN F. Steedley, effective June 9, resigned from his position JOSEPH C. McMAHONE, effective of Assistant Vice President - June 5, was promoted from an hourly Engineering to accept a position Machinist classification to the with Duncan Electric Company, Inc., position of Area Foreman in the Chattanooga, Tennessee. Millinocket mill, reporting to 0. B. Pound, Assistant Maintenance JOHN P. HARPER, effective June 21, Superintendent. Joe’s employment resigned from his position of dates back to October, 1947. Assistant Woodlands Manager to accept a position with Chesapeake Corp., West HAROLD J. SMITH, effective June Point, Virginia. 1, was promoted from an hourly Mechanic classification to the position of Mechanical Foreman, Cedar Springs mill, reporting RETIREMENT directly to Jack Colson, Mechanical Supervisor. Harold has been with NORMAN A. SAVAGE will retire the Company since November, 1963. June 30 with 41 years of service. Norman was employed on June 9, 1927, JAMES G. DAUGHTRY, effective as a Sampler at the East Millinocket June 1, was promoted from an hourly mill and transferred in 1930 to our Electrician classification to the Madison mill where he held various position of Electrical Foreman, clerical positions. He returned to Cedar Springs, reporting directly Millinocket as Assistant Accountant to Leon Cox, Electrical Supervisor. in the Controller’s Department in Jim has been with the Company since 1950, was promoted to Accountant in July, 1963. 1954, and to his present position of Office Manager in 1956. JAMES P, BURNS, JR., effective June 1, was promoted from an hourly Great Northern PAPER Company NEWSlETTER

FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES

Volume VI No. 2 MILLINOCKET, MAINE Friday, May 24, 1968

The Thirteenth Annual Retirees' GN PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL WINS Banquet, honoring all retirees, was ANOTHER AWARD. . . .Great Northern held May 23 at the State Street has just won the Silver Award in the Junior High School in Millinocket. Consumers Literature classification Three hundred forty two retirees of Affiliated Advertising Agencies and guests were in attendance — International (AAAI) for its "Wisdom the largest number since the inaugu­ of William Shakespeare” brochure. ration of the banquet. This year Gaynor and Ducas, Inc., our also set a number of other records. advertising agency, is the New York Forty-five new names were added, member of this association which headed by Frank Keenan, former holds an annual competition to award Traffic Manager, with 49.8 years of excellence in 96 categories of adver­ service and Eugene McMahone with tising, sales promotion, and public 48.9 years of service, all of relations. which were spent in the Finishing The competition is among the 71 Department of the Millinocket mill. member agencies, 47 of which are in R. J. Shinners, Vice President - the major U.S. markets, and 24 in Northern Division, was guest speaker. principal cities throughout the He outlined Great Northern’s prog­ world. Judging is by "outside" ress during the past year including: advertising and marketing executives. the startup of the linerboard Since there is no limit to the machine and the opening of the Great number of entries, the total numbered Northern Plywood plant at Cedar in the thousands; and the competition Springs, the installation of the in each category was among hundreds third generator at McKay Station, of entries. There were three awards the new chip plant at Portage, and in each of 96 separate classifi­ machine rebuilds at both the Milli­ cations - "gold,” "silver," and nocket and East Millinocket mills. "merit." He noted that there were over Due to the time period covered, 100,000 visitors using Great North­ our latest corporate advertising ern’s network of woods roads during campaign was ineligible for entry 1967 and that plans were underway this year. Our earlier program won for more recreational uses of Com­ the Gold Award. pany woodlands in the near future. He also announced that camp leases for retirees who have camp lots in their own names would henceforth be free of charge. Toastmaster for the occasion Enclosed with this issue of your was J. C. "Bob” Preble, Director of Newsletter is an interesting article Employee Relations. by J. A. MacLeod, Superintendent of All in all, number ”13” was the Power, entitled, "Synopsis of Water biggest and best yet. Conditions Past and Present." Paper production for thirty-three weeks ended 5/19/68

1968______1967______Tons Daily Avg. Tons Daily Avg. Production:

Cedar Springs 389,559 1,847 222,151 1,412 East Millinocket 252,615 1,108 246,356 1,084 Millinocket 194,145 852 194,857 857 836,319 3,807 663,364 3,353

EAST MILLINOCKET MILL May 5, three days ahead of schedule, with a new Venta-nip press in the No. 4 paper machine started up second press position. It is Friday, May 17, with a new couch and expected that the new Venta-nip level fourdrinier after a four-day press will lower drying costs, shutdown, and all equipment is eliminate suction pumps and drilled operating well. Work on this machine suction rolls, reduce maintenance consisted of: removing the old couch costs, reduce power requirements, shell, piping, stands, etc.; relocat­ and eliminate shadow markings. Con­ ing the drive for direct connection siderable work on dryer head replace­ to the couch; running a new stainless ment and dryer alignment was done at steel vacuum line for front side the same time. Machine speed has suction; and installing a complete been increased 200 fpm. new Black Clawson cantilevered suc- tion couch roll with antifriction No. 1 coater started up on bearings and a Venta-nip second April 28 after a two-week shutdown. press. It is anticipated these Production levels have been normal changes will result in lower main­ since startup. tenance costs. No. 3 paper machine went down on The chemi-groundwood plant was May 20 for major modifications which shut down on April 29 for a period included smoothing press, breaker of two weeks to permit a trial run stack, dry end pulper, Venta-nip without chemi-groundwood in the second press, level fourdrinier, and machine furnish. The plant was extensive dryer drainage work. started up again on May 13. No. 1 paper machine was down The inspection of No. 2 turbine May 17 for the installation of wet generator is about eighty-five per­ suction boxes. The objective of cent complete. After five years of installing wet suction boxes on operation, all internal parts are this machine is: to obtain less being cleaned, and a magnaflux in­ sheet disturbance than with table spection is being performed. The rolls. condenser is also being completely New head and flow control equip­ retubed. ment have resulted in attainment of higher machine speeds on No. 1 paper The first of an anticipated machine. Control valve sizes appear 90,000 cords of wood for winter use to be a major limiting factor on was piled out April 29. reaching maximum turbine speed of 1800 fpm. MILLINOCKET MILL No. 4 broke pulper was started No. 9 paper machine was shut up on May 11 and has been running down on April 29 and started up on continuously. The unit has 3. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1968

performed satisfactorily on routine WOODLANDS DEPARTMENT - SOUTH breaks but could not handle heavy slabbing for extended periods due Southern Division Woodlands was to the white water limitation. host to five members of the Northern This situation will be corrected Division Woodlands Department during when No. 4 saveall is on the the week of April 29. Visiting the line, and white water from this Southern operations were: Messrs. source is available. Les Hazelton, Gene Putnam, Ed Lum­ bert, Ed Cates, and Charles Nelson. ************* Slide presentations and papers were ************ given by several members of each division on the first day of the A contract for the mills’ air meeting, followed by tours of the systems is expected to be awarded Cedar Springs mill and Great Northern this week. The system at Milli­ Plywood. The second day featured a nocket mill will include: new air field trip of Southern timberlands supply units and two new exhaust and operations such as site prepa­ air systems for the Screen Room, ration and tree planting. The tour fiber glass hoods over the Dorr- included visits to the McRaeville Oliver thickeners, and four more Woodyard slasher and local points exhaust fans over Nos. 7 and 8 paper of interest, including a close look machines. at an eleven-foot alligator. The ventilation system at the This meeting was the first of East Millinocket mill will include: proposed annual Woodlands meetings a new supply and exhaust air system between Northern and Southern Divi­ for the ventilation of the bull sions. Such meetings provide a screen area; and the start of a medium for the exchange of ideas and complete ventilation system for the information between the Northern Old Paper Room, consisting of supply and Southern Divisions. air to the basement, roof exhaust over the machines, new coolers, and Tree planting activities ended a roof recirculation system. in the Southern Division late in March with 1,829,000 seedlings planted on 2,546 acres. Planting costs were ************* under last year, which is partially ************ attributable to improved tree planting equipment.

Great Northern is featured in Recent rains have lowered forest the May 13 issue of Paper Trade fire danger resulting from an abnor­ Journal. Starting with a double­ mally dry winter. The Company page fold out cover picturing the has fortunately experienced only a coater, the feature article, "Great few small fires, while other large Northern Is Now A Leader In Light­ landowners in the South have had weight Coating," gives a report on sizeable acreages damaged. Fire five years of progress in this field lines have been plowed in danger areas at the Millinocket mill. Some to protect young timber stands. excellent color photographs of various points of the coater plant The site has been selected and highlight the article which details cleared for the proposed woodyard the operation from coating preparation and slasher at Cuthbert, Georgia. to finishing. This woodyard will have facilities and equipment capable of handling tree length logs and reclaiming logs suitable for veneer. Completion is scheduled for the Fall of 1968. During the CCC days of the and the State had to depend almost early Thirties, the Soil Conserva­ entirely on Canadian labor to work tion Service and other governmental on the fire. The Company supplied agencies recommended planting a three bulldozers and operators, as running-vine type plant to prevent well as cooks, mechanics, and super­ erosion which proved to be a de­ visory personnel. At one time structive nuisance. The plant, during the height of the fire, a kudzu, anchors soil with number of men were trapped when the a profusion of stems and roots, wind shifted. Radio contact was spreads very rapidly; and its vines made with the available Canadian and leaves smother trees up to 50 and State of Maine "water bombers," feet tall. Small patches of kudzu and the area was quickly wet down on Company timberland are being making it possible for the men to treated to prevent spreading into escape. valuable pine stands. A herbicide, Stumpage on this township was usually 2,4,5-T, is applied to being sold to Canadian sawmill oper­ kudzu with a mist blower. Approxi­ ators, and 2,000,000 feet of long mately two hundred acres of Company logs already cut and peeled were land will receive such treatment destroyed. Losses were estimated this Spring. at $90,000. The present estimate is that the fire burned about five thousand acres, but there could be WOODLANDS DEPARTMENT - NORTH some unburned islands left in the area. The fire probably did not The Bartlett, Garrity, Guerette, burn the top soil since the ground Milliard, and Saucier camps are now was still very moist. This was open with normal crews. All of the the worst fire on Company lands since wood in these camps is being yarded the 1952 Pierce Pond fire. with skidders or crawler tractors. No horses are being used. Horses The first logs were debarked at will be used, however, in the Pitt­ the Portage Chip Plant on May 14, ston area camps when they open in and several logs were chipped on June. May 16. This was not meant to be a startup but was done more as a The rear of the West Branch test, which will be the procedure drive cleared Big Bog Dam this week for the next two or three weeks. and should be into Seboomook by June 1. So far, approximately The Annual Spring Meeting of twenty thousand cords have been the Northeastern Technical Division sluiced through Rip Dam. Spring of the American Pulpwood Association came about two weeks early this year; met in Presque Isle, May 21-22-23. and with good water conditions, the Included in the program were visits drive should make better progress to the Company’s new chip plant at than it has during the past few Portage. Wood harvesting machinery years. was demonstrated on Company lands near Portage. Other visits were A forest fire was spotted in made to the T. S. Pinkham sawmill, Township 12, Range 12, 40 miles west the J, M. Huber Corporation’s of Ashland, Maine, on Tuesday, utilizer near Patten, and the Georgia- May 14. With high winds prevailing, Pacific multiple saw slasher at their it quickly got out of hand and Woodland mill. A number of technical burned about five thousand acres of reports were given, including one on good forest stand before rain on the economics behind Great Northern’s May 17 and 18 brought it under con­ chip plant by Ralph E. Clifford, trol. This fire was in one of the Woodlands Manager. most inaccessible parts of Maine, 5. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1968

ON BEING A DEPARTMENT HEAD

Something About Status problem, from writing a consti­ tution for a nation down to design­ Favourable recognition of your ing a new office form, that cannot work will not consist in your having be solved by discussion around a a title, but in your good admini­ table. stration directed toward the benefit Dialogue is the key to harmonious of the company. That administration departmental work. What you know about can be done without flaunting your the work that your employees should authority or developing a superiority know but don’t know will damage or complex that seeks to surround you slow down work. So will the things with visible evidences of the superior your employees know that you haven’t rank you are claiming. Wear your found out. The solution is to tell title lightly, but make sure that your workers promptly and clearly your workers know that you will dis­ what they should know, and listen charge your responsibilities. interestedly to what they have to How democratic should a manager say that has to do with their jobs. be? He should associate with his Be particularly careful to explain workers sometimes, and show himself when you have occasion to introduce an example of courtesy and friendli­ a new order of things. People are ness. Nevertheless, he should not often successful in carrying out maintain the dignity of his position. plans that they have not mentally He will allow others to share assimilated. Anticipate possible the limelight, and will delegate objections and state them in your responsibility to them. Some presentation, together with the supervisors make the mistake of reasons. By looking at the assuming that the job will not be change from the worker’s viewpoint, done right unless they do it them­ you see the things which need to be selves. This failure to deputize cleared away so that he can appreciate is inefficient. the good points of your proposition. Delegation comes easiest to the State your thoughts simply and man who has a strong sense of the make your instructions definite and end result. He sees his objective specific. Crises sometimes develop clearly, and strives to attain it because someone got the message through others while giving a clear wrong. lead and firm guidance. If a subordinate makes a suggestion, This requires good communi­ tell him what action you have taken, cation both ways between supervisor and why. If his suggestion is not and worker. The effective manager adopted, he will accept the fact with is one with whom employees feel full understanding when you show him free to discuss important things that the reasons for rejection are about their jobs, A worker who has clear and sound. The cause of offence something to say likes to think is not the rejection of an idea, but that he will be heard. It confirms the rejection of it without careful his belief that his job is an consideration and discussion. important part of the organization. Don’t communicate with workers exclusively on a high management plane. Identify the ideas, facts The above article is a contin­ and changes with the job of each uation of the series of articles worker and his environment. Talk that have appeared in previous News­ over important matters with workers. letters under the main title of ON As Matthew Arnold once said, "Per­ BEING A DEPARTMENT HEAD, reprinted suasion is the only true intel­ by special permission of The Royal lectual process." There is no Bank of Canada. The Carrier Boy Scholarship KNOW YOUR BENEFITS. . . . Program was an outstanding success Your group insurance provides this year, as announced by Charles coverage for emergency outpatient D. Tiedemann, Manager - Newsprint hospital treatment of a non-occupa- Sales. The following boys were tional accident as first-dollar selected as winners: Hospital Expense if the treatment of David Tweardy and David Clark, the injury is given on the day of from The Valley Independent, the injury or the day next following Monessen, Pa.; Albert Hastings, The the injury. If it is not of an Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio; emergency nature and treatment is Eric Crabtree, Dunkirk Evening not given until after the day fol­ Observer, Dunkirk, N. Y. ; Charles lowing the day of the injury, it Hance, Courier Journal, Louisville, then becomes Other Medical Expense Ky.; Brian Fox, Ralph Carson, and and is subject to the deductible. Peter Nielson, New London Day, New This limitation does not apply when London, Connecticut; and Edison fractures or surgical procedures Straussfogel, Philadelphia,Inquirer, are involved. Philadelphia, Pa. Most hospitals, including the This program was started in 1967. Millinocket Community Hospital, are Each contract customer submits the equipped and will provide for names of two carrier boys who take emergency treatment 24 hours a day, the Secondary Scholastic Aptitude 7 days a week. Test. Those with the highest scores This provision is included in spend a week at Wooster School, Dan­ the group insurance plans for all bury, Connecticut, where they are employees, except hourly-paid mill interviewed by a selection committee employees. made up of Charles Doebler, Director of Administration, Brown University; *************** Howard Stepp, Registrar, Princeton; ************** Donald Schwartz, Master, Wooster Prep School. NEWSPAPER FACTS AND FIGURES - The awards consisted of full Daily newspaper circulation scholarships for four of the winners in the United States increased 49 and partial scholarships for the percent between 1940 and 1966, while other five. the adult population (21 and over) increased by only 39 percent. ************* The United States has more indi­ ************ vidual daily newspapers than any other country in the world. Great Northern’s water protection More copies of the daily news­ program has received a great deal of paper are sold every day in the publicity in the trade journals since U.S. than packs of cigarettes, the announcement was made in January. bottles of milk, or loaves of bread. Pollution abatement will be accom­ plished by recovery of the dissolved *************** solids in our spent sulphite liquor. ************** To this end, the Analytical Section of the Research Department is currently conducting a series of pilot equip­ The Penobscot West Branch ment trials that will lead to the Storage is now at 52.1 bcf. This proper design and sizing of equipment is 91.4 percent of full storage, required to remove the settleable and 17.6 bcf more than last year solids (clay, fiber fines, etc.) on this date. from the sewers. They are presently This is the first year since evaluating the effectiveness of a 1963 that the West Branch reservoirs Beloit Passavant Pilot Koagulator. held this much water. 7. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1968

John B. Rogers, Director of "PERSONNELITIES" Personnel Administration, has accepted an invitation from the NEW EMPLOYEE Honorable Kenneth M. Curtis, Governor of Maine, to join his Task Force LEE H. WHEATON, effective May 6, on Human Rights. joined the Electrical Section of The basic purpose of this Task Central Engineering at Millinocket Force will be to evaluate all Maine as an Associate Engineer, reporting laws and practices affecting the to Richard Hale, Chief Electrical full enjoyment of equal rights by Engineer. Lee got his Associate all persons in this State. Of degree in Electronic Engineering immediate concern is the elimination by attending Northeastern University of discrimination in real estate nights. His previous experience transactions. was with Honeywell Electronic Data Processing as a Technical Advisor.

Russell W. York, Education and PERSONNEL CHANGES Training Director, recently attended two major conferences on training. Promotions in the Controller’s April 19, he participated as a Department, effective June 1: panelist on "Training in the Paper Industry" at Northeast Conference PETER F. YACAVONE will assume on Training, Pulp and Paper, Ports­ the position of Controller. Pete mouth, New Hampshire. joined the Company as Assistant Mr. York presented a paper on Controller in July, 1966. "Long-Range Machine Crew Training" at the National Conference of the ROBERT F. BARTLETT will be American Society of Training and Assistant Controller. Bob was em­ Development in New York on May 15. ployed in the Controller’s Depart­ ment in June, 1963, and currently is Manager of Accounting - Northern Division. Avern B. Danforth, Senior Research Chemist, Quality Control CHARLES R. CHANDLER will be pro­ Section, was a guest speaker at the moted from Assistant Manager to University of Maine on April 30. Manager of Accounting - Southern He addressed the undergraduate and Division, replacing M. B. Robinson. fifth year Pulp and Paper students Charles was employed in June, 1966, and lectured on the subject: "Print­ as Accountant in the Southern ing processes, printability testing, Division. and the relationship of paper properties to printability." Also effective June 1, the Controller’s Department will be reorganized into two major divisions The Great Northern-sponsored under Mr. Yacavone's direction: Junior Achievement Company for Stearns and Schenck High Schools Robert F. Bartlett, Assistant will conclude another successful Controller, will supervise the fol­ year with a "Future Unlimited" lowing functions: accounting at Banquet, Sunday, May 26, at the both divisions, budgeting, internal Heritage Motel, Millinocket. The auditing, and office services. highlight of this banquet is the William 0. Wagner, Manager of announcement of the two achievers Administrative services, will con­ who will attend the National Con­ tinue to have the corporate respon­ ference in Bloomington, Indiana, sibility for systems and procedures for one week this summer. including the data processing center. Personnel Changes Cont. directly to Noel Haskins, Area Superintendent, Southern Division Donald G. NOLAN, effective Woodlands Department. April 1, was promoted from Project Manager to Division Engineer, J. TIMOTHY SAMWAY, effective Central Engineering, Southern May 1, has been promoted to Sales­ Division, reporting to J. F. man in the New York office, reporting Steedley, Assistant Vice Presi­ to J. P. DeMarrais, Regional Manager- dent-Engineering. Don has been Commercial. Tim joined the Company with Great Northern since October, in May, 1966, as a Sales Trainee. 1963. TERMINATIONS JAMES N. DENNIS, effective April 1, was promoted from Mechan­ JAMES E. HICKEY, has resigned ical Engineer to Project Manager, from the Newsprint Sales Office in reporting to D. G. Nolan, Division Atlanta to accept a position with Engineer, Central Engineering, Clarendon Paper Sales Company, Inc., Cedar Springs. Jim has been with agents for Abitibi Power and Paper the Company since August, 1966. Company, Ltd., in the southern United States. BERNARD E. GERRY, effective May 1, was promoted to Paper Mill ELLIS E. STARKIE, effective Superintendent in the Millinocket May 12, resigned from his position mill, reporting to C. D. Bears, as Paper Mill Tour Foreman at Cedar General Production Superintendent. Springs to accept a position with Bernie has held various positions another southern paper mill. in the Paper Mill, including Tour Foreman, Day Foreman, and Assis­ TOMMY L. SURLES, effective May tant Paper Mill Superintendent. 15, resigned from his position as Process Chemist at Cedar Springs to WALTER E. PEASE, effective May 1, accept a position with Alabama Kraft. was promoted to the position of Day Foreman-Paper in the Millinocket DoNALD E. YORK's resignation as mill, reporting to B. E. Gerry, Treasurer will be effective June 1. Paper Mill Superintendent. Gene’s Don has held various positions dur­ experience at Great Northern in­ ing his thirty-three years of ser­ cludes: Research, Control, Stock vice with the Company and was Prep., Coating, and his last position appointed Treasurer on March 1, 1956. of Technical Assistant to Paper Mill He has accepted a position with Superintendent. Fraser Companies, Ltd.

CHARLES G. EddiNS, effective MELVIN B. ROBINSON, Manager of May 13, was promoted from an Accounting - Southern Division, has hourly Machine Tender classification submitted his resignation to accept to the position of Paper Mill Tour a position at Fraser Companies, Ltd. Foreman at the Cedar Springs mill, Mel joined the Company as a member reporting directly to Clarence Gandy, of the Internal Auditing Department Assistant Paper Mill Superintendent. in 1957, and transferred to the Charles has been with the Company Southern Division in 1963. since September, 1963. ROBERT W. COLVARd, Cost Accountant NATHAN F. MULLIS, effective at Cedar Springs, resigned to accept May 1, was promoted from the position a position at Diversified Products, of Unit Forester to that of Assistant Inc., in Opelika, Ala. Bob has been Area Superintendent, reporting with the Company since September, 1966

RETIREMENT: DONALD W. MORRISON, Area Foreman in the Millinocket Mill, retires June 1 with 24 years of continuous service. SYNOPSIS OF WATER CONDITIONS PAST AND PRESENT

J. A. MacLeod, Superintendent of Power

Speaking about water is like speaking about money. . . .It’s nice to have enough. Like money, a deficiency of water presents many problems; but unlike money, a surplus of water also presents many problems. Somewhere between drought and flood conditions is the desirable water situation for any area.

The arid regions of the earth are almost uninhabitable because of the lack of water. Periodic droughts which have occurred in this country have created unfavor­ able economic conditions, varying from annoyance to widespread population relocations with considerable individual hardships. The Oklahoma dust storms of the Nineteen Hundred Thirties caused widespread misery and bankruptcy from repeated years of crop failure, the loss of livestock, and in some instances, total topsoil actually being blown away so that land could not be used for a generation. Closer to home, the recent Northeastern United States drought caused many cities to ration water.

Floods represent the surplus water condition which in past years has caused considerable loss of life and property. Uncontrolled rivers would sweep through areas each spring overflowing banks, causing deaths and losses of millions of dollars in damages to bridges, homes, industrial plants, and economic life in general.

Many of the large and small rivers of this country have flooded repeatedly with considerable destruction. However, with developing knowledge of hydrology and meteorology applied to control of the large watersheds of principal rivers by such agencies as Tennessee Valley Authority, US Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, and a number of large utilities, dams have been constructed to generate much useful power and serve as flood control so that, in general, flood damage has diminished over the years.

In our own Penobscot River, a glance at extracts from Historical Floods in New England, Geological Survey Water Supply Paper, 1779-M, published in 1964, gives the total recorded history of Penobscot River floods.

1807-Feb. - "An ice jam formed below Bangor Village raising the water ten to twelve feet higher than was known before."

1846-March - "The flood resulting from the storm of March 25-28 was very destructive on the Penobscot River, owing to the breaking up of ice of great thick­ ness and to the formation of ice jams. The ice jam at Bangor was called the greatest in 100 years."

1853-Nov. - "The Penobscot River was the highest for 20 years. Kenduskeag Village Dam carried away with one life lost.

1866-Spring - "During the heavy freshet, Mr. Hiram Mills, a hydraulic engineer, reported the flow as 9,600 second feet (Treat Falls)."

1869- Oct. - "River rose nine feet."

1870- Feb. - "Kenduskeag Stream eight feet over highway." 1887-May - "MCRR track covered several feet. Bangor to Vanceboro."

1901-April - "Flood greatest on record with maximum discharge at Bangor 115,000 second feet."

1909-Sept. - "Downpour for several days caused river to overflow banks and rapidly rise to freshet pitch."

1923-May - "This flood largest of record in Penobscot River Basin."

This historical data become significant when you consider that the Great Northern Paper Company started mill construction in Millinocket in 1899 because of the 110-foot drop in the river, combined with endless spruce forests. The Company extended a series of dams for water storage and power generation through these years to the present, culminating with the installation of a third generating unit of 13,000 KW capability in the McKay Station at the outlet of the highest and largest water storage area in the Company’s system.

During the years, Great Northern has built up a coordinated water storage reporting system which includes 13 small lakes scattered over the 2 1/4 million acres owned by the Company and two large lake systems, which have a combined capacity of some 57 billion cubic feet of water. (This is enough to give every man, woman, and child on this earth 155 gallons each).

The Company has a full-time dispatcher monitoring this water complex. He receives information continuously from several sources to hold storage levels and flows at legal and economical levels for power generation, logging operations, and recreational activities.

Through foresight and engineering skills, the many years of control on the West Branch of the Penobscot has almost eliminated any flood problem. With the addition of a new generating unit at the largest water storage outlet, control is further improved so that it may be possible to hold lakes such as North Twin, South Twin, Pemadumcook, and Ambajejus at a higher level. Camp owners and vacationists will find recreational activities improved.

In the end, rainfall determines water levels and flows. Our 1968 summer forecast is that North Twin Lake will be considerably higher this summer than it has been in recent years. NEWSLETTER

FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES

Volume VI No. 1 MILLINOCKET, MAINE Friday, April 19, 1968

GREAT NORTHERN PAPER COMPANY REALIGNS ORGANIZATION - ELECTS DIVISIONAL VICE PRESIDENTS

New York, New York, April 17 - from Mars Hill College and North At a meeting of the Board of Carolina State. Before joining Great Directors here today, Great Northern Northern, he was associated with Paper Company elected three new Great Southern Land and Paper Company, Vice Presidents. and before that, with the Port Went­ Effective immediately, Bruce P. worth, Georgia mill of Continental Ellen will be Vice President - Can Company. In 1965, when Great Southern Division; and Robert J. Southern Land was merged with Great Shinners will be Vice President - Northern, Mr. Ellen became Assistant Northern Division. The election of Vice President and Resident Manager Emery E. Allain as Vice President - of Great Northern’s mill at Cedar Finance will become effective Springs, Georgia. June 1, 1968. Mr. Allain succeeds Mr. Shinners came to Great Northern Howard G. Brush who will retire under in 1956. He was successively a Steam the Company’s retirement plan in Engineer; Plant Engineer; Manager of August, 1968. the Company's mill at East Millinocket, According to Peter S. Paine, Maine; Manager of the Millinocket mill; Great Northern Chairman and Chief and in 1965, Assistant Vice President Executive Officer, the election of and Resident Manager for both mills. Messrs. Shinners and Ellen as vice A graduate of Louisiana State University, presidents in charge of the Company’s Mr. Shinners held various positions Northern and Southern divisions is with Stone & Webster and other important in line with the Company’s objective engineering companies before joining of developing divisional respon­ Great Northern. He is a native of sibilities. Poughkeepsie, New York. Mr. Paine also announced the resignation of J. H. Heuer, Vice President - Operations and a Director GREAT NORTHERN PAPER COMPANY INCREASES since 1962. Mr. Heuer is leaving to DIVIDEND, New York, N. Y., April 17 - accept a position with another paper Directors of Great Northern Paper company. Company today declared a quarterly Mr. Allain was educated at dividend on Common stock of 35 cents Bentley College and Northeastern a share, payable June 10 to stockholders University and began his business of record May 20. This is an increase career in 1944 with Arthur Andersen & of 5 cents over the previous rate of Co. From 1949 to 1954, he was Treasurer 30 cents a Common share paid quarterly and Controller with Royal Lace Paper since April, 1967, when the dividend Company. He joined Great Northern was upped from 25 cents. as Assistant Controller in 1954 and The regular semi-annual Preferred was named Controller in 1962. dividend of 20 cents will be paid A native of Rocky Mount, North October 3 to holders of record Carolina, Mr. Ellen was graduated September 3. Paper production for twenty-seven weeks ended 4/7/68. .

1968 1967 Tons Daily Avg. Tons Daily Avg. Production:

Cedar Springs 313,827 1,856 169,925 965 East Millinocket 207,462 1,109 199,799 1,073 Millinocket 158,539 848 158,214 849 679,828 3,813 527,938 2,887

EAST MILLINOCKET MILL necessary to stockpile tubing for a four to five week period to allow air No. 3 paper machine started up curing. Friday, April 5, after a 3-day shut­ down to install a new Black Clawson The second stone on No. 13 grinder suction couch and drive arrangement. line was started up at 6:00 p.m. on The new unit is running smoothly April 11. This will increase the and is a great improvement over the groundwood capacity and will permit old. A suction press roll that was No. 12 line to be run on softwood as re-covered by Stowe-Woodward, Inc. soon as the hardwood conveyors have and grooved at the mill was installed been shortened and the water flumes in the second press position while have been extended. the machine was down. Repair work on the barking drums The major overhaul of No. 2 and haul-up conveyors in the wood room waterwheel at Weldon Station has has been completed. The mill started nearly been completed. In conjunc­ taking in wood from the river on tion with this job, the head gate April 18 since the supply of winter racks were changed, and considerable wood has been used up. diving and dredging by an outside diver was done to remove sunken debris in the forebay. This work GREAT NORTHERN PLYWOOD CORPORATION is expected to increase the effi­ ciency of the waterwheel. The first veneer was peeled and dried on Tuesday, March 26, and the Plans for expanding the core first plywood was pressed on Friday, room have nearly been completed. An March 29. All systems are now oven type tube curing area, utiliz­ operating well as minor problems have ing open-end boxes, 11 feet x 4 1/2 been ironed out. Plant personnel feet x 6 feet, placed four wide and attended classes prior to startup five long, will extend from the in order to familiarize themselves discharge end of the spiral tube with the equipment. Log deliveries winder. A temperature-controlled have increased, and the total now is blower system will move air through 2,719,013 feet. the tubing toward the tube winder. Four of the boxes are expected to contain the daily production of the MILLINOCKET MILL winder. All boxes will be moved forward each day as the cores are No. 1 bark press was shut down used. When they reach the blower on March 20 for three days to make end, the moisture content of the changes to the hydraulic system. tubing will be reduced to a level The changes did not aid materially where the tubing can be used. This in handling fir bark, which is very means that it will no longer be difficult to press; however, the new 3.

GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1968

hydraulic system does perform satis­ Why it is being done. Since all factorily, and it does prevent the groups do some service work for other presses from becoming plugged. As groups, it also points out that a result, changes will be made to seemingly unimportant little pieces No. 2 press in the near future. of work do fit together to solve important problems. It is used to The last of approximately forty- show new pieces of equipment, and two hundred cords of rough wood how they can be used. It also gives piled out for winter use was processed people a chance to compress a two- through the wood room on Friday, or three-month project, its results, April 19. and its importance to Great Northern into a ten-minute preparation; this No. 7 wet lap machine is now is good practice since much of our in operation around the clock to future course of action is decided process excess sulphite for the East in meetings on the basis of verbal Millinocket mill. This machine has presentations. a capacity of six tons per day. On a given Friday afternoon, an engineer or technician can learn During the Easter shutdown, the something about a range of subjects new sulphite cleaners were tied into that might include: the sulphite operation and started 1. What is "Acrolein"? How is up April 15. As of this date, all it related to bacterial growth, slime sulphite being used in the Milli­ holes, and paper machine conditions nocket mill is centri-cleaned. at East Millinocket? 2. Why did we try foils on No. No. 4 paper machine continues 5 paper machine at Millinocket? to operate smoothly after the major What did the trial show? rebuild and startup. We are now 3. What is pitless grinding? successfully producing catalog grades Is it a cure-all, or does it have off this machine. advantages in a narrow range of conditions? No. 4 outside storage tank was 4. What is the effect of grinder put into service April 15. Rebuilding pressure control on our electrical the storage tank included: installing power system? What have we learned an agitator and stock pumps, relining about the problem with analog computer and insulating, and installing the simulation? required piping, instruments, and 5. What is the Programmer 101 electrical equipment for centralized computer? How easy is it to use? control. It is expected that this 6. How do various components outside tank will provide storage of the coating and base stock affect capacity for cleaned sulphite for the properties of a lightweight the Millinocket mill. coated sheet? 7. What types of paper is the New Product Development Group working RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT on?

The Research and Development Department has become large enough so that it is impossible for the The boom in paper dresses inspired project engineers or technicians to this limerick: know what work is being done by all the other groups in the department. There once was a girl from St. Paul Therefore, one Friday a month, the Who wore a newspaper dress to a ball; R&D personnel attend a seminar in The dress caught fire the Multi-Purpose Room, created to And burned her entire, inform them: What is going on, and Front page, sports section, and all. WOODLANDS - NORTH Great Northern Reports An Increase In Sales And Earnings Compared To A Safety Training Session was Corresponding Period Of A Year Ago. held in Ashland on April 9-10 and Net income for the first twenty- in the Pittston Farm area on April four weeks of the fiscal year amounted 16-17. These sessions were con­ to $6,862,000, or $2.39 a Common share ducted by John Geary and Arthur after Preferred dividend requirements. Allen of Employers’ Liability These earnings were 19% higher than Assurance Corp., Ltd. All Wood in the corresponding period of last lands supervisory personnel that year when earnings were $5,765,000, attended were impressed with the or $2.02 a share. Investment tax instruction and are determined to credit reflected in the first twenty- make accident prevention a realistic four weeks’ earnings totaled $1,154,000, part of a foreman’s responsi­ or $.42 a Common share as compared bilities. with $445,000, or $.17 for the like period a year ago. Preparations are under way for Assuming the conversion into the start of the North Branch drive. Common Stock of all outstanding con­ Soon the towboats, Harkness and vertible securities, the pro-forma Hilton, will be towing wood across net income becomes $2.03 per Common the lakes. share for the first twenty-four weeks of this year as compared with $1.72 Maple syrup makers are having for the comparable period last year. a good season. There are about Sales for the first twenty-four sixty sugar camps operating on weeks were $70,007,000, up 19% over Company land, and they hang approxi­ the first twenty-four weeks a year mately one hundred sixty thousand ago. We shipped 596,290 tons of paper sap buckets. Freezing nights and and board, 128,104 tons more than in warm days make the sap run, and a the corresponding period of the previo good snow cover also seems to help. year. Peter S. Paine, Chairman of the In refreshing contrast to the Board, stated that the new plywood attitudes in many parts of the country plant at Cedar Springs, Georgia, is today, Great Northern’s six Tibetans now in the startup stage. At full happily registered at Local Draft capacity this plant will contribute Board No. 2 at Caribou, Maine. between four and five million dollars In the words of the clerk of a year to sales. Board No. 2, "They seemed to be the At our Millinocket mill we have happiest guys that I’ve seen for a had one paper machine down five weeks long time. They just beamed. They for a major rebuild. This machine, seemed to accept this as another now back in production, offers us phase of living in the United States." new opportunities for product improve­ At least three of these men, ment and upgrading. classified 1-A, will be scheduled to As announced at our Annual Meeting, take physical examinations in Bangor we are proceeding with the construction possibly in June. They face the of a waste recovery system at our Milli­ definite possibility of being in­ nocket sulphite mill. This $10,000,000 ducted into the Armed Forces and project will reduce pollution of the being sent back to Asia to fight Penobscot River and also significantly their old enemies, the Communists. lower our fuel and chemical costs. One of the group is reported to have Startup is scheduled for 1970. relatives in a concentration camp in Tibet. 5. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1968

Under the heading, "Great Northern Personnel Attending "Research Days" Paper Company Receives Applause," at the University of Maine Visit the March 1968 issue of the Maine Great Northern Mills. . . .Thursday State Biologists’ Association news­ morning, April 18, twenty-four top letter had this to say about our executives from various companies announced plan to invest $10 million toured the East Millinocket and in pollution control and abatement Millinocket mills. Highlights of facilities at Millinocket: the tour included seeing such new "A company who is willing to installations as bark burning, new present such a far-reaching proposal storeroom, coater, etc., with a to its stockholders certainly deserves lunch served at the GNP hanger just an immense amount of credit and a prior to departure for the University wave of public acclamation. . . the to attend a 2:00 p.m. meeting. SBA applauds this momentous decision by the Great Northern Paper Company." The article then reprinted our entire news release on the subject. Henry Jordan, defensive tackle This was originally distributed in for the NFL’s World Champion Green January at the close of the annual Bay Packers, will visit the Milli­ stockholders meeting. nocket area April 25 and 26 as a guest of R. J. Shinners, Vice Presi­ dent - Northern Division. Arrangements have been made for Maine paper mills have capacity Mr. Jordan to speak and show a film enough to produce about one-sixth of Green Bay games before the Com­ of all the newsprint now made in pany’s management group and local this country. people at the Junior High School But this State only has capacity auditorium in Millinocket on April to produce about 6.3 percent of the 25 at 7:30 p.m. 9,149,000 tons of newsprint used in this country last year. Great Northern Paper Company remains the largest producer of The Preparatory Scholarship Pro­ newsprint in the northern United gram is progressing rapidly, and States. It has capacity for 400,000 25 boys of our various contract news­ tons a year at its mills in Milli­ print customers have been invited nocket and East Millinocket. for the selection weekend, April 19, The other Maine producer, St. at Wooster School in Danbury, Conn. Croix Paper Co., a subsidiary of The states represented by these boys Georgia-Pacific Corp., has capacity are: Connecticut, Indiana, Kentucky, for 176,000 tons yearly. Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Total U.S. capacity this year Ohio, and South Carolina. is 3,474,000 tons. The 576,000 tons capacity of the two Maine producers gives this State about 16 1/2 percent or one-sixth of all Again this year during ANAP the capacity of this country. week, the Company will sponsor a Hunt breakfast to be held at the WATER IN MAINE. ... On April 15 Plaza Hotel on Tuesday, April 23, the Penobscot West Branch storage between 8:30 and 11:00 a.m. It is was 30.0 billion cubic feet. This expected that between five hundred is 52.6 percent of full storage, and five hundred fifty customers 5.4 bcf above rule curve, and 22 bcf and their wives will attend. above last year on this date. ON BEING A DEPARTMENT HEAD

The following is a continuation Part of the manager’s strategy of the article ON BEING A DEPARTMENT is giving adequate recognition to HEAD printed with permission of the individual achievements. He praises Royal Bank of Canada. The topic loudly—that is, where others can covered this month is. . . . hear—and blames softly, in private. He does not praise indiscriminately, Handling People or lay it on with a trowel. The worker knows when he has done a good If businesses fail because of job: if you praise every job he knows poor management, why do managers that you are using a technique and fail? Seldom because of technical discounts even commendation that is incompetence; mostly because of lack merited. of skill in working with human beings. Keep in mind that all people have The functions of a manager are latent abilities. Periodically, give greatly involved with fundamental a worker a job slightly over his head, understanding of people. It is here one at which you know he can succeed that administrative intelligence if he tries. meets its greatest challenge and earns Be the sort of manager who wants its greatest satisfactions. every worker to make good, who helps There are four key rules to guide him to make good, and who rejoices the manager: treat his employees when he succeeds. This is very far like human beings; harness their from toadying to the all-too-common desires; teach them how; and criticize spirit of making things easy. The constructively. These add up to happy worker must be a productive something big: they show the manager’s worker. Employees should not be desire to make something out of his encouraged to become so contented employees. that they do not permit work to The successful manager has interfere with their gracious living. learned to transform "power over The head of a department must people" into "power with people." avoid becoming so wrapped up in his He makes his workers want to do the own operations that he loses sight right thing in the right way for of the big picture. the good of the company. He has The manager needs the support patience with the inefficiency of of the other men in the management men and women who are trying. group. He will avoid intradepart As a manager, you need insight, mental jealousies, which prevent which is a sort of 3-D or stereo­ effective cooperation, and rivalry scopic way of looking at people for status, which is bound to affect and events. With your eyesight you business and productivity adversely. will see things wrong in an employee’s He will talk with the other super­ work; with your insight you will see visors, not about them. the cause. This is "empathy," or imaginative projection of your con­ sciousness into another being. One can tell a great deal about Mileage Allowance on Personal Cars. . a department head by observing those . . Effective April 8, 1968, the who work for him. Are they happy mileage allowance paid employees for in their jobs? Are they ready with the use of their own automobiles on a smile? Are they free of job Company business was increased from tension? Do they give the air of 8 cents to 10 cents a mile. There will be being glad to be working in this no extra allowance for cars driven department, for this firm? on unpaved roads. 7. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1968

Richard F. Knight, Junior Sales­ "PERSONNELITLES" man in the New York office, has com­ pleted two courses—"Printing, NEW EMPLOYEES Estimating, and Selling," and "Ele­ ments of Offset," taught by the CHARLES L. FREEMAN, effective Printing Industries of Metropolitan March 25, joined the Central Engi­ New York. neering Department at Millinocket as a Junior Engineer, reporting to F. W. Lindsay, Chief Design The Sales Department was repre­ Engineer. Charlie graduated from the sented at the Web Offset Convention University of Maine in 1968 where held in Kansas City by William he majored in Mechanical Engineering. Shaughnessey and Richard Knight of His schooling was interrupted for New York and Richard Rychlik and two years while he served in the Terry Pendleton of Chicago. Armed Forces. Charles has worked summers and school vacations since 1960 as a Summer Apprentice and a Junior Draftsman. Thirty-two representatives of eight Maine paper companies and the WILLIAM H. DRISKO, effective Forest Service have completed a three- April 1, joined the Woodlands Depart­ day seminar on industrial hydraulics ment - Northern Division as Assistant at the Eastern Maine Vocational Tech­ Superintendent, Aroostook Area, nical Institute in Bangor. reporting to 0. K. Tripp, General The program was conducted by Superintendent, Aroostook Area. Bill Shan Riley of the Vickers Admini­ is a native of Bangor, Maine, and strative and Engineering Center, graduated from the University of Maine division of Sperry Rand Corp., of in 1950 with a BS in Forestry. Prior Troy, Michigan. to joining the Company, he was employed Those attending from Great by StanPack as Superintendent of Northern were: Angus Bears, Carl Logging Operations. Sherman, John Orcutt, Robert Dickinson, Chester Tweedie, Allan JIMMY REX SNELLGROVE, effective Brown, George Belmont, Frank April 1, joined the Great Northern Nelson, Raymond Blaisdell, Russell Plywood operations as Accountant, Taylor, Gerald Caron, and Robert reporting directly to Wayne Crowell, Ramsdell. Chief Accountant. Prior to joining the Company, he was employed by Gas & Chemicals, Inc., Dothan, Alabama.

WEAVER HOOVER, effective April 1, Two closely allied subjects — joined the Great Northern Plywood screening and rejects refining — operations as Green End Foreman, will receive close attention at the reporting directly to Bob Gardner, Sixth International Mechanical Pulping General Superintendent. Prior to Conference, being held at the Marriott joining the Company, he was employed Motor Inn at Atlanta, Georgia, on by Arkla Chemical Corp. Plywood, May 14-17. Curdon, Arkansas. Carroll W. Freeman, Groundwood Foreman at the Millinocket mill, PERSONNEL CHANGES will be one of six panel members to discuss the entire subject of "Rejects EMERy O. TAYLOR, effective March 1, Refining" at a panel moderated by was promoted from Engineer to Senior J. K. Kirkpatrick of Bowaters Paper Engineer, reporting to Dick Hale, Corp. and composed of experienced Chief Electrical Engineer in the Cen­ operators from mills in the U. S., tral Engineering Department at Milli­ Canada, and Sweden. nocket. "Bud" has been with the Personnel Changes Cont. Northern Division, reporting to R. J. Shinners, Vice President - Company since June, 1960, and Northern Division. Since Mr. Weldon with Central Engineering since joined Great Northern in 1961, he April, 1963. has been successively Assistant Production Superintendent; Assis­ RUDOLPH P. NADEAU, effective tant Plant Engineer; Control Super­ March 1, was promoted from Junior intendent; and was named Mill Engineer to Engineer in the Manager, Millinocket, in 1965. Engineering Services Section of Central Engineering at Millinocket, ARTHUR E. DENTREMONT, effective reporting to Harry Graves, Service April 18, has been promoted to Engineer. Rudy has been with Mill Manager, Millinocket mill, Great Northern since April, 1956. reporting to S. B. Weldon, Manager of Manufacture. Art’s various DAVID M. PARKER, effective positions with Great Northern March 1, has been promoted from include Night Superintendent; Junior Research Technologist to Control Superintendent; Production Research Technologist in the Superintendent at East Millinocket Pioneering Research Section of the mill; and the position he now leaves, Research and Development Department General Production Superintendent at Millinocket. Dave has been with at the Millinocket mill. the Company since March, 1967. CHARLES D. BEARS, effective RICHARD L, DONLEY, effective April 18, has been promoted to the April 1, has been promoted from an position of General Production Super­ hourly classification to Area Fore­ intendent from Paper Mill Superin­ man in the Millinocket mill, report­ tendent in the Millinocket mill, ing to 0. B. Pound, Assistant Main­ reporting to A. E. Dentremont, Mill tenance Superintendent. Dick has Manager. Charlie’s employment dates been with the Company since June, back to 1947. He has held various 1951. supervisory positions in Maintenance and Plant Engineering. G. VAUGHN POWER, effective April 1, has been promoted from an hourly classification to Tour TERMINATIONS Foreman in the Wood Room, report­ ing to L. P. Bossie, Foreman Wood DAVID N, MARTINSON, effective Room in the Millinocket mill. April 12, resigned from his position Vaughn has been with Great Northern as Order Processing Supervisor (S) since March, 1946. in the New York office to accept a position with Equitable Bag Company. MANLY T. JOHNSTON, effective April 8, transferred from the position RUSSELL F. SMART resigned April 12 of Cost Engineer in Central Engineer­ to enter a partnership to sell new ing - South, to that of Woodlands cars in Lincoln, Maine. Russ had Accountant in the Woodlands Depart­ been with the Company since August, ment - Southern Division, reporting 1955, and held the position of directly to Jim Richardson, Woodlands Supervisor, General Accounting in Manager. Manly has been with the the Controller’s Department since Company since November, 1966. 1964.

SCOTT B. WELDON, effective EDWARD A. PUMPHREY, Mechanical April 18, has been promoted from Engineer in Plant Engineering at the the position of Mill Manager, Milli­ Cedar Springs’ mill, resigned March nocket, to Manager of Manufacture - 29. NEWSLETTER

FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES

Volume VI No. 10 MILLINOCKET, MAINE Friday, March 22, 1968

Great Northern Plywood readying to On March 7, Peter S. Paine, produce. . . .The Plant began test Chairman of the Board, hosted a runs through the debarker, lathe, luncheon in London, England, for and in-line systems equipment on clients of kraft linerboard. Also Wednesday, March 20; and the first attending were J. V. Carena, General veneer was peeled, clipped, and Sales Manager and F. V. Ernst, European conveyed through the tray systems Representative. Mr. Paine expressed and dryers on Thursday. Great Northern’s appreciation for Shipping equipment and various the support given to us by the British conveying machinery checkouts have Corrugating Industry when we entered been completed, and underground the market and for their continuing fire protection pipelines have been support since then. He also spoke successfully tested. Boiler plant briefly on Great Northern’s plans construction has also been completed. for the future and our determination Checkouts of other major equipment to maintain and further develop our are now in process. It is expected position in England as a dependable that the first plywood panel will be and permanent source of supply in made the week of March 25. the years to come. Production employees for the A spokesman for the British first shift are being instructed corrugators answered Mr. Paine’s by representatives of the American comments stating that the entry of Plywood Association, Borden Chemical Great Northern in the kraft liner Company, and Plywood supervisors. field in the United Kingdom had been a very welcome development for the industry and that our approach to the The new salary administration market had been realistic. He com­ program covering all exempt monthly mended Mr. Paine for the excellent salaried employees becomes effective services rendered from our organi­ April 1, 1968. zation. Distribution has been made of an employee's handbook, and the The March 1 issue of CHEMICAL necessary information and instructions SPOTLIGHT, a weekly newsletter edited have been turned over to management for executives in chemical and allied people who are responsible for industries, features Great Northern’s administering salaries. latest corporate advertising, "Whereto The program has constituted a next on your paper magic carpet?" as heavy work load for many people over its "Ad of the Week," calling the the past year, none of which could Company’s ad "outstanding." The have been accomplished without the article describes the layout (an il­ tremendous amount of cooperation lustration of a magazine converted to that has been received from all areas a magic carpet, flying over familar of the Company. To some degree, the world sites) and reprints almost all work directly or indirectly in­ the copy. volved at least 90 percent of our monthly salaried people, all of whom Tree farms in the U.S. total can rightfully share in the credit 71,355,502 acres. Georgia leads for development of the program to an with 7,264,251 acres. operating stage. Pulp & Paper-2/26/68-pg. 12 Paper production for twenty-three weeks ended 3/10/68. ,

1968 1967 Tons Daily Avg. Tons Daily Avg. Production: Cedar Springs 266,112 1,867 143,301 968 East Millinocket 176,158 1,108 170,745 1,079 Millinocket 133,840 842 133,933 846 576,110 3,817 447,979 2,893

EAST MILLINOCKET MILL such that more difficult grades will be following one another. An electrical fire, triggered by the explosion of a 550-volt power A salvage operation was undertaken center in the new grinder room at the week of March 11 to reclaim paper 10:00 a.m., Sunday, March 10, shut involved in a train wreck. The down completely the grinder capacity wrecked cars were set on the siding of the room. Resulting lack of in the B & A rail yard. A ramp was groundwood caused a 15-hour shutdown constructed such that an L.P. gas of Nos. 5 and 6 paper machines. truck could transfer the paper from Three switches were demolished. the wrecked cars to regular boxcars. The two large machines were back in The paper was then brought into the production at 2:45 a.m., March 11. mill, unloaded and inspected to The rest of the mill maintained determine whether it could be shipped normal production in this period. "as is” or rewound for 100 percent salvage. The first car unloaded had A new daily production record a 94 percent salvage value. of 426.8 tons for paper machines 1-4 was established on March 7, at which No. 1 boiler was shut down for time the record for No. 3 machine tube failure on March 7 and then was raised to 120.5 tons per day. again on March 14. The boiler was off the line approximately forty­ Work on No. 13 grinder line is eight hours on the first failure progressing well. Most of the and approximately thirty-one hours work which still remains to be done on the second failure. During each consists of piping and electrical of these outages, the wrapper work on the motor. machine and one paper machine had to be shut down to conserve steam.

MILLINOCKET MILL A second water applicator spray boom is now in operation on No. 5 The No. 4 paper machine rebuild paper machine under the sweat dryer. was completed on March 17. The The first installation was on No. 9 machine was shut down on February 12 paper machine. These spray booms have for a major rebuild which included: been used successfully for levelling centri-cleaners, new headbox inlet, the moisture profile across the width level fourdrinier, Venta-nip press, of the sheet. smoothing press, dryer drainage sys­ tem, breaker stack, and calender On March 11, the Sulphite Mill stack with swimming rolls. The switched from soda ash to caustic machine is designed for making im­ soda in acid preparation. The hot proved rotogravure sheets. The caustic comes by tank car from a machine started up on 4.0 mono-print, new chemical plant in Orrington, and the grade sequence is scheduled Maine. We are using approximately three cars of caustic soda per day. 3. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1968

WOODLANDS NEWS

NORTH SOUTH

Woods operators have nearly com­ Increased wood procurement pleted their winter truck hauling. efforts by Southern Woodlands’ per­ Slashing operations at Umbazooksus sonnel and favorable weather con­ and road building there and at ditions contributed to record high Church Pond (Twp. A, Range 10) will pulpwood receipts at Cedar Springs continue until Spring. Excellent for the week ending March 10. Six winter trucking was enjoyed in all hundred and twenty cars of rail wood areas, particularly through the amounting to 13,309 cords, and truck month of February and the first two wood receipts amounting to 9,360 weeks of March. Snow depths were cords, accounted for a total volume nearly ideal, and winter cutting of of 22,669 cords. This total repre­ many operations was extended well sents a record volume of wood pur­ into March. chased in a single week since mill startup in 1965.

Long wood trucking and slashing Another new Company woodyard were expanded in the 1967-1968 log­ was opened March 4 at Moultrie, ging season to bring the total long Georgia. This yard is on the Sea­ wood procurement program up to board Coast Line Railroad, and wood 160,000 - 180,000 cords annually. from this yard will be a two-line This program will be reinforced and rail haul to Cedar Springs. Located strengthened in the 1968-1969 season in South-Central Georgia, this new with the startup of the chip con­ yard is in the heart of the Georgia version plant at Portage and the longleaf-slash pine belt. Wood from new chip reception facilities at this area gives back a high by Millinocket. product and pulping yield due to high specific gravity. Production from this woodyard is expected to A group of Woodlands personnel reach 400 cords per week when wood (North) - Messrs. H. N. Bartley, requirements demand such volume. R. F. Estes, P. H. Bartram, P. K. Patterson, 0. K. Tripp, J. R. Goody, Tree planting on Company timber­ and C. L. Nelson, attended the CPPA land is nearing completion. Most Woodlands Section Winter Meeting at activities stopped on March 15. A Montreal, March 18-21. Canadian limited amount of free seedlings research and development in wood was made available to landowners moving and handling techniques is near Cedar Springs in the interest well financed and organized by the of public relations and restocking Canadian Pulp and Paper Industry. idle land. The Great Northern Woodlands Depart­ ment in Maine, whose problems are Plans are now being made for the similar to Canadian industry, Annual Southwest Georgia Future closely scrutinizes and studies Farmers of America Forestry Field Canadian development for ideas and Day sponsored by Southern Woodlands. techniques applicable to their own High school FFA chapters from several situation. The NESCO slasher (GNP counties compete for awards made on now has two) is a prime example the basis of forestry knowledge of the cooperative effort of the gained in the classroom and field. Canadian Paper Industry and equip­ A large turnout is expected for ment manufacturers. this event, which concludes with a supper. Robert M. Leavitt, Paper Research American Paper Institute member Group Leader, participated in a companies have been in agreement for panel presentation on "Formation some time on the need for a 16-milli- Testing" at the 53rd Annual TAPPI meter sound color film to outline Meeting in New York on February 19. the many career opportunities now The purpose of the panel was to open to young people who make the review the various types of for­ paper industry their careers. mation testers available to the With the approval of a script paper industry and some of the ways last Fall and the subsequent selection that these instruments are being of a production company, Cullen used by the industry. Associates, Inc., to make the film, Three specific areas where API was ready to begin shooting. QNSM formation tests have been On March 4-7, 1968, Great Northern used at Great Northern were became the first stop on a cross­ discussed by Mr. Leavitt: (1) country tour that will include more studying the variables affecting than fifteen paper companies in uncoated rotogravure printability, every section of the country. Cullen (2) studying the variables affect­ hopes to take between 12 thousand ing the printability of coated and 15 thousand feet of film, and sheets, and (3) pinpointing two to edit this down to 9 hundred feet periods of severe sheet marking on for eventual showing in approxi­ our No. 7 coating basestock mately 45 thousand high schools machine. throughout the United States. Run­ ning time for the film will be 25 minutes, since this fits into a Reid Smith, Traffic Manager and half hour TV time period, and it Jerome Blankenship, Assistant Traffic is expected that "Happening in Supervisor, Cedar Springs, attended Paper" will receive wide exposure an Industry Appreciation Dinner and on television. the dedication of the first ship While visiting Great Northern, berth at Port Panama City, Florida, the API film crew took pictures of on February 24. Great Northern Paper Company woodlands near Jo-Mary camp, Company was recognized as being the interior of Engineering and Research largest user of the new port. During Building, the Millinocket mill, and 1967, Great Northern exported 34,300 set up a "conference" in Robert J. tons via this new port at consider­ Shinners’ office between Messrs. able savings in transportation and Shinners, Resident Manager and Assis­ port costs. tant Vice President - Operations (N), Scott B. Weldon, Mill Manager - On February 24, the Transportation Millinocket, and George F. Peckham, Department at Cedar Springs was host Superintendent Coating. to Operating and Transportation The entire project should be officials of the Southern Railway completed by the end of July. System from Albany, Macon, Atlanta, and Washington, D. C. The guests were given a tour through the Transportation Department, around the mill trackage, outside mill yard operation, mill operation, Great John T. Maines, Vice President - Northern Plywood, and the Chattahoochee Woodlands, was elected Vice President Industrial Railroad office and shop. of the American Pulpwood Association The tour ended with lunch at the during Paper Week, February 19 to 23. Guest House. 5. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1968

At a meeting of more than 75 A TAPPI Fellow. . . . One of the industry, business, and civic leaders highest awards that is made by the held recently with Maine’s Governor Technical Association of the Pulp and Curtis and staff officials, J. T. Paper Industry was an honor bestowed Maines, Vice President - Woodlands, on J. H. "Pete" Heuer at the recent agreed to head up a statewide cam­ Annual TAPPI Convention in New York paign to find 10,000 jobs for Maine City. The TAPPI Fellow is a signal youth this summer. The purpose of honor established to honor members the program of Youth Opportunities who have contributed meritorious ser­ United (Y.O.U.) was described as, vice to the Association or to the "Not just a single summer effort but paper industry — and Mr. Heuer has a year-round drive. . . to continue done both! to make best use of our manpower." It is hoped that the program will slow down the migration of Maine Ron Kostelnik, defensive tackle youth to other states because of for the NFL’s World Champion Green better job opportunities elsewhere. Bay Packers, visited the Cedar Springs area as a guest of Mr. Heuer during the week of February 26. Mr. Kostel­ GNP TRAINS FOR CIVIL DEFENSE nik visited the Cedar Springs mill and presented an interesting program Continuing interest by Maine to Great Northern officials, Early industry in the CD program was County citizens, and the student apparent when Shelter Management bodies of Blakely and Donalson High Instructor, a fallout shelter Schools. His talk, together with oriented course, was completed films of Green Bay games, proved a March 6 at the Millinocket plant big hit with the local people. of the Great Northern Paper Company. The course, requested by the Company, was conducted by the CD section of the Continuing Education Division of the University of Maine. Robert Day, the University’s CD coordinator, said the course was The following article appeared designed to assist in developing in the Autumn "Living Wilderness," a workable shelter program for the published by the Wilderness increasing number of fallout Society — shelters being stocked and marked Resolution No. 9. . .The Council within the facilities of the Great of the Wilderness Society commends Northern Paper Company. the Great Northern Paper Company Emphasis was placed upon the with respect to its cooperation management of these protected with former Governor Percival areas, with instruction on organi­ Baxter and the State of Maine in zation and staff requirements, use the acquisition of land for estab­ of supplies and equipment furnished lishment of Baxter State Park; for by the Federal Government, and conducting operations which con­ shelter operations. tribute to the protection of the Conducted during regular working Allagash Wilderness Waterway; hours on three successive Wednesdays, for opening their private roads to the sessions were supplemented by the public for access to some of an all-night in-shelter exercise the prime recreational regions of February 28. the State of Maine; and, in view of some of their conservation activities, Reprinted from the Maine Civil for providing leadership within the Defense News. industry. SAGA OF THE 60's The blade coater was widely accepted in the coated paper industry. When the United States paper New designs, such as the inverted industry entered the Sixties, paper blade and controlled fountain, did and paperboard capacity hovered at much to improve blade coating per­ 41.334 million tons. Per capita formance. consumption for the nation as a The world’s fastest blade coater whole was 433 pounds for the year in operation today is reportedly the 1960. In 1961, the industry em­ off-machine flexible coater at barked on an unprecendented wave of Great Northern's Millinocket mill. prosperity which was still going Normal operating speed is above strong as 1968 came onto the scene. 3300 fpm. A quick look at some of the On-machine quality control technical developments will present monitoring systems for basis weight a fairly good clue as to the possi­ caliper control, moisture and hole bilities in the world of tomorrow. detection upgraded paper machine WOODLANDS MANAGEMENT: The U.S. performance. Forest Service reported that, as of Those are, of course, some quick 1962, the nation’s timberlands were compilations of the technical improve­ growing 60 percent more wood than ments in the Sixties. was being cut, just the reverse of the story 25 years ago. Condensed from Paper Age - Huge harvesting machines were February, 1968. developed and many systems went to a 24-hour-a-day operation. Outside chip storage caught on in the South and East as more mills All you Northern golf buffs who will adapted to the use of sawmill wastes. have to wait until May to "tee off,’’ PULPING: Continuous pulping read this and weep...... became more universal although . . The Employees Golf Association some mills still favor batch pulping, held its first tournament of 1968 especially for linerboard. on Saturday, March 9, at the Blakely STOCK PREPARATION: Continuous Country Club. Woodlands golfers refining was introduced, aided by were outstanding with Jim Malsberger, instrumentation refinement such as Operations Superintendent, winning magnetic flowmeter. the Championship Flight and John PAPER MACHINES: Widths went Harper, Assistant Woodlands Manager, past the 350-inch mark and edged up runner-up. Also, Jim Richardson, slowly to the 400-inch mark. The Woodlands Manager, won the First president of the Beloit Corporation Flight. predicted the use of 500-inch wide The tournament had a good turn­ machines by 1975. out. New officers were elected for A number of new formers were the coming year with Howard Pugh, put into use: Sandy Hill’s Roto- Superintendent-Stores, being elected former, the English-developed Inver President and John Pickle, Pulp Mill form, among others. The latest is Clerk, elected Secretary-Treasurer. the Black Clawson Verti-Forma which forms the sheet in a vertical plane. On the fourdrinier table, the Skiing conditions in Maine on the introduction of synthetic fabrics, same day, March 9, were reported good coupled with foils instead of table to excellent in all ski areas with rolls, resulted in some dramatic a base of 6 to 44 inches of granular improvements in the quality of many snow. A week later, WMKR Radio grades. requested all people with snowmobiles Calender compensation was intro­ to keep off the golf course. duced in the Sixties. So, too, was the vented nip press. 7. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1968

The Company’s Educational "PERSONNELLTIES” Assistance Plan has been updated. To improve inequities caused by NEW EMPLOYEES varying costs of continuing education, a new basic formula RICHARD A. WARREN, effective has been adopted. March 11, joined the Company as an Where originally the Company Investment Analyst in the Planning assumed the first $50 of cost Department, reporting to A. E. Symonds, plus 50 percent of the balance, Manager - Corporate Profit Planning. it will now assume the first Richard obtained his BA degree from $35 plus 75 percent of the Michigan State University and his balance. In addition, the maxi­ Master’s in Business Administration mum on college level courses has from New York University. Prior to been raised from $150 per year joining Great Northern, he was a to $150 per semester. No change Senior Financial Analyst for Getty has been made in the total per Oil. year for home study or corre­ spondence type training. It JAMES I. LUMPKIN, effective remains at $150. The revised plan March 1, joined the Great Northern will soon be available for general Plywood operations as Dry End Foreman, distribution, and its effects reporting directly to Robert Gardner, will be felt by those enrolled General Superintendent. Prior to in Spring semesters at colleges joining the Company, he was employed or universities. by Farris Plywood Company, Cuthbert, Georgia.

VIRGIL E. TEALL, effective March 15, By the year 2000, the United joined Great Northern Plywood Corp. States will have 100 million more as a Master Mechanic, reporting people than it has today. If the directly to Robert Gardner, General demand for paper and paper products Superintendent. Virgil comes to us increases in the same ratio, can our from Weyhaeuser Co., Jacksonville, potential timber resource handle North Carolina. tomorrow's future population’s demand? Robert M. Frank, a research PERSONNEL CHANGES forester with the Northeastern Forest Experiment Station’s Orono Laboratory, ERLON W. Crowther, effective believes it can if changes are made February 1, was promoted from Buyer in management goals, harvesting to the newly created position of techniques, and utilization of fiber. Senior Buyer, reporting directly to He cited harvesting systems J. W. Dobson, Manager, Purchases and eliminating the man in the woods and Stores, Northern Division. Erlon utilization standards which accept has been with the Company since rather than reject certain parts of July, 1951. trees or specific species of trees and other fiber producing plants as Wendon W. WARR, effective being necessary developments. He February 29, was promoted from the also compared tree harvesting to position of Technical Supervisor that of other crops which are to Area Superintendent in the Wood harvested when mature, such as lands Department, Cedar Springs, potatoes, and noted that some form reporting directly to Jim Richardson, of clearcutting might be proven the Woodlands Manager. Wendon has been scientific system for periodic re­ with the Company since September, moval of trees from an area. 1960. Personnel Changes Cont. Conversion Project. He has been with the Company since May, 1963, JAMES R. BUSH, effective March 1, and with the Controller’s Department was promoted from Unit Forester to since May, 1966. Technical Supervisor, Southern Division Woodlands Department, re­ GEORGE C. McDonald, Tour Foreman- porting directly to Jim Richardson, Steam, transferred effective March 18 Woodlands Manager. James has been from the Millinocket mill to the with the Company since September, East Millinocket mill, reporting to 1965. C. R. Merrill, Superintendent Steam. George has been employed at the JOHN M. ANDREWS, effective Millinocket mill since October, 1942. March 1, was promoted from the position of Unit Forester to Assis­ CHARLES W. GODDARD, effective tant Logging Superintendent in the March 18, was promoted from Area Woodlands Department, Southern Engineer to Tour Foreman-Steam at Division, reporting directly to the Millinocket mill, reporting to Pat Carmichael, Logging Superin­ P. T. Illingworth, Superintendent tendent. John has been with the Steam. Charles has been with Great Company since January, 1966. Northern since June, 1952.

MAC R. AYERS, effective March 1, ROBERT E. LAVERTY, now Wood was promoted from Unit Forester to Survey Group Leader in the Central Assistant Area Superintendent in Engineering Department, Millinocket, the Woodlands Department, Cedar will assume the title of Senior Springs, reporting directly to Hoyt Pulpwood Auditor, reporting to G. L. Grissom, Area Superintendent. Mac Ranger, Manager of Internal Auditing, has been with the Company since Controller’s Department, Millinocket, January, 1966. when the Wood Survey Group will be merged into the Internal Auditing LLOYD B. Fitzgerald, effective Department, effective March 25. March 1, has been promoted from Bob will continue to carry out the Service Foreman to Assistant Service same duties. Superintendent in the Engineering Services Section of Central Engineer­ F. Douglas SMITH, effective ing, Millinocket, reporting to Louis March 25, transfers from the Wood E. Rosebush, Service Superintendent. Survey Group to the Internal Auditing Lloyd has been with Great Northern Department as a Pulpwood Auditor, since May, 1951. reporting directly to Robert E. Laverty, Senior Pulpwood Auditor. TERRY N. PENPLETON, effective March 1, was promoted from Junior Salesman to Salesman - Commercial TERMINATIONS (Chicago). Terry was a summer apprentice for two years prior to WARREN G. GARRETT, Area Superin­ joining the Sales Department in tendent in Woodlands, Southern Division, February, 1965. resigned February 23.

JOHN L, KIRBY, JR., effective JERRY N. LIVINGSTON, Unit Forester, March 6, has been promoted from Pro­ Southern Woodlands, resigned February 29. grammer in the Data Processing Dept., Millinocket to Systems Programmer, LEO P. PINARD, Internal Auditor, reporting to K. R. Veazie, Systems Controller’s Department in Millinocket, Coordinator. In his new capacity, resigned February 29 to return to the John will be working on the pro­ Portland area. Leo had been with the gramming phase of the Computer Company since June, 1967. PAPER C°MPANY NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES

Volume VI No. 9 MILLINOCKET, MAINE Friday, February 23, 1968

N699GN. . • . The (N) is for "new," It appears that the East Millinocket the (6) is for the "60 ’s" when Great mill has categorized the year 1968 Northern purchased its first airplane, as one for breaking production records . the (99) is for 1899 when the Company Examples of their efforts are: was founded, — the GN? That could be Dick Martin ’s final "Good Night" to Daily Production Records : N5867 Yankee, the twin-engine Aztec that he has "put to bed" in Milli ­ January 22 - 1259.3 tons for all nocket for the past two and a half six paper machines and 441.3 tons for years. No. 5 paper machine. The previous In total, N699GN is the number records of 1240.8 tons for all six of the Aero Commander turboprop that machines and 433.1 tons for No. 5 the Company took delivery of on machine were set April 25, 1967. February 10. Normal seating capacity of the turboprop is six passengers, January 30 - 115.2 tons on No. 2 plus pilot and co-pilot. The co-pilot, paper machine. Previous record for Lloyd Jones, joined Great Northern on No. 2 machine was 108.1 tons set on January 1. Lloyd is fully qualified June 19, 1967. to fly any conventional twin-engine plane alone should the need arise. February 8 - 121.8 tons on No. 1 The new plane is equipped with paper machine, with the previous a pressurized cabin. It will cruise record of 112.4 being set on June 8, at 270 mph at normal altitudes of 1967. between 17 and 20 thousand feet, with an operation ceiling of 25 Weekly Production Records : (For all thousand feet. These capabilities six paper machines) will usually permit flying above any adverse weather conditions. January 29 - 7976.2 tons. They As the manufacturer states: broke this record on "There are two kinds of people who buy Aero Commanders — those who love February 5 with 8091.3 tons, to fly, and those who’d rather not." only to break it again on The twin-engine Aztec that was traded in for the turboprop had February 19 with 8092.4 tons. clocked 2,625 hours of flight time in two years and five months, and Period Production Records : was operating on its third set of engines. (Interestingly enough, Fifth Period - 32,049.0 tons, the Yankee has been purchased by for a daily average of 1144.6 tons, Aroostook Airways from Becket breaking a record of 31,095.5 tons, Aviation, and will continue to daily average 1110.6 tons, set in the operate in its "home" skies.) Ninth Period, 1967. Paper production for nineteen weeks ended 2/12/68. .

1968 1967 Tons Daily Avg. Tons Daily Avg.

Production: Cedar Springs 212,451 1,836 115,880 966 East Millinocket 145,229 1,109 140,346 1,077 Millinocket 112,212 857 108,723 834 469,892 3,802 364,949 2,877

EAST MILLINOCKET MILL Good progress is also being made on the boiler plant as the No. 7 grinder line started up structural steel for the mezzanine successfully on February 16 after the has been erected and 80 percent of installation of a new motor. This the refractory work on the No. 1 new motor will put out 6000 h.p. on boiler is complete. The stack has 40 cycle, and 10,000 h.p. on 60 cycle. been set for the No. 2 boiler and The motor coming out of No. 7 the erection of the fly ash arrestor position will be installed on No. 13 equipment for both boilers is com­ line, which will be used for grind­ plete . ing neutral sulphite chemical hard­ wood pulp. W. K. Hoseid, General Manager, discussed plywood manufacturing Softwood storage piles at East with a group of veneer suppliers Millinocket are estimated to hold out touring the plant recently. Veneer until about April 22, after which log quality and specifications were wood will be taken in from the river. also discussed and observed as the suppliers looked over the one million GREAT NORTHERN PLYWOOD CORPORATION board feet of veneer log inventory.

Construction is progressing steadily on Project 06. The log MILLINOCKET MILL storage yard and access road surfacing are complete, and storing of the logs From the Wood Room ...... in the yard has begun. Installation The new bark pressing and burning of the mechanical components of the system is still undergoing start-up debarker system is continuing, and operations. The bark presses con­ the foundation for the lily pad tinue to run wet and dry alternately. chipper pit has been poured. An alternate to pressing bark is Piping in the steam vats is that the bark can now be pumped to 75 percent completed, and instal­ the bark pile as was done before the lation for instrument piping has installation of the presses. As a begun. Platform and walkway instal­ result, around-the-clock use of the lation is continuing in the lathe, bark trucks was discontinued. tray, and chipper areas; as is instal­ lation of the chip handling equipment. From the Grinder Room...... The nozzles have been installed in The fine groundwood screening system the cooler section of the dryers, is still being worked on. Installation and the steel for the re-dry feeder of the second tertiary screen has platform has been erected. In the been completed and is now in operation. main building, the pre-press has Installation of No. 3 tertiary been test run, and the sorting table screen is now in progress. Problems drives have been checked. still exist with No. 4 Dorr-Oliver 3. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1968

fine groundwood disc filter. The add, subtract, multiply, divide, polypropylene bag covers are developing save, or print. holes near the base; and as a result, The programs can be saved on small stock is being passed into the white magnetic cards and at some later time water. Dorr-Oliver has sent us for put back into the computer. Each trial purposes stainless steel cloth user can, therefore, draw from among which has been bonded to the fiber a collection of programs on file, glass sectors. or he may have some of his own. A library of useful programs is now From the Sulphite Mill...... being developed by the Applied Math The Sulphite Mill had a record week Group. January 15-21, when 204 cooks of Obviously, the Programmer 101 sulphite were made. The previous does not have the power of the larger record of 202 cooks was achieved machines, such as the central com­ October 13-19, 1967. A trial car puter at Millinocket. All of the of caustic soda was unloaded and larger technical programs will still used successfully in making down be done there; and after the con­ bisulphite acid. This successful version to the IBM 360, even longer trial means that the use of soda programs will be possible. The small ash will be eliminated in chemical desk-top computer does, however, fill make-down and caustic soda will be a need where routine, repetitive used solely. In preparation for calculations are made. MgO trials, a car of Magnesium Oxide The Programmer 101 will be placed has been unloaded and is in storage on a small table with casters, enabling at the mill. it to be moved to any convenient location. Thus, a lab technician may From the Paper Mill...... perform calculations in the laboratory No. 8 paper machine has been down on as soon as he obtains his test results, two occasions due to the loss of or an engineer may have it beside his dryer section drive motors. A new desk when he is doing design work. design couch wipe has been installed on No. 7 paper machine to help collect A two-month trial will be under­ the stock being thrown out of the taken shortly at the East Millinocket couch. No. 4 paper machine went mill using Acrolein to replace chlorine down for a major rebuild on February and caustic in the treatment of fresh 12. It is scheduled to be down for water. 33 days. Some of the major items This chemical, known as RX-20, has being installed are: centri-cleaners, been available for a number of years, Venta-Nip press, breakerstack, crown- but handling and feed problems made controlled calender stack, and a new its use impractical. A feeding system, dryer drainage system. recently developed by Betz Laboratories, Inc., has proven very successful. They RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT package the Acrolein in returnable cylinders pressurized with nitrogen. A Computer at Your Fingertips It is injected directly into the process stream. The Research and Development De­ Expected advantages of the use of partment has purchased an Olivetti- RX-20 are: improved microbiological Underwood Programmer 101. Although control at less cost; elimination of it looks very much like a desk cal­ handling and feed problems involving culator with input keys and an answer the caustic soda pH control system; tape, it is actually a small desk­ reduction of corrosion problems on top computer. This means that it the paper machines probable because of can be programmed to repeat a series the possible raising of the system pH. of calculations automatically with Performance will be judged by the operator entering only the numbers. mill slime conditions and micro­ The computer remembers whether to biological plate counts. WOODLANDS DEPARTMENT

NORTH used in analyzing response to fertil­ izing treatments. Significant re­ All wood hauling operations were sults of this study are expected by held up from one to two days due to the Fall of 1969. heavy rains on February 2 and 3. In the Pittston area, all Company camps Woodlands ended the year with an completed hauling as of February 23. accident frequency rate of 14.27 Four-foot wood, totalling 20,000 cord, per million man hours, and a severity has been piled out on about twenty- rate of 695 days lost per million man five miles of bulldozed roads. These hours worked. The seven Maine companies roads will continue to be kept plowed that report to American Pulpwood Associ­ until all wood has been removed be­ ation had a frequency of 28 and severity cause the blanket of snow prevents of 2407. Although our record is far the ground from freezing solidly enough better than most, we have yet to reach to support the loads weighing 16 to our goal of a 10 frequency. This is 20 tons. not a dream rate and is attainable. The month of January was free of lost­ At the Bartlett, Milliard, and time injuries; but to date, February Saucier camps in the Aroostook area, has one lost-time case. some wood will be left on the all- weather roads until June and July SOUTH due to the lack of room at the sidings. It is necessary to have stockpiles at For five consecutive years the the sidings so that the mills can be Southern Division Woodlands Department supplied during the mud season. Some has held meetings with wood dealers wood will also be left on gravel roads and chip suppliers to strengthen the at the Guerette operation. However, relationship between the dealers and all of this wood will get into the the Company. This year’s meeting 1968 drive. was held on January 24, with 55 dealers and suppliers in attendance. The Division of Forest Engineering Company guests included Messrs. is analyzing nearly eight hundred John Maines, Vice President of permanent sample growth plots to Woodlands, Maine; Bruce Ellen, Resi­ determine growth rates of all species dent Manager and Assistant Vice Presi­ that grow on Company lands. Addition­ dent of Operations in the South; Mel ally, an inventory of standing timber Robinson, Manager of Accounting, is being compiled by property and by Southern Division; Ward Hoseid, General block. The results of these projects Manager of Great Northern Plywood; will be used to project future stump­ and Peter Yacavone, Assistant Controller, age sales and volumes of wood to be Millinocket. consumed at the Company’s northern Subjects discussed were safety mills. Periodically, another crew in transportation of pulpwood, State has been and will continue to weigh Legislation effecting trucking of wood delivered at the portable slasher this wood, and Great Northern’s in Millinocket to determine volume­ current activities and future plans weight relationships. effecting plywood purchases. Mr. Maines made mention of the recent Programming of a pilot study on articles that have appeared in several forest fertilization, initiated by leading financial publications stress­ the Woodlands Department and being ing the Company’s current growth and conducted in conjunction with the excellent position in the paper markets, Research and Development people and and Mr. Ellen spoke about the outlook Dr. Harold Young of the University for paper sales in 1968. These talks of Maine’s Forestry Department, is were followed by an informal question nearing completion. Spectrographic and answer session. analysis of foliar samples, a new The meeting ended with a social technique in forest stands, will be hour and dinner. 5. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1968

ABOUT YOUR BENEFITS Monthly Employee Group Insurance Booklet...... Beneficiaries. . . . The employee The new booklet that has been has the right to change his bene­ mailed to all monthly salaried ficiary (s). And if he wishes to do employees is misleading in respect so, it is his responsibility to see to eligibility requirements for that the proper party is notified. continuation of Life Insurance after The Salary and Benefits Division retirement. of the Central Personnel Department On page 18, paragraph 2, a should be notified of any desired more complete explanation of this change in beneficiary(s) for the paragraph should read as follows: Group Life Insurance. The Manager "In order to be eligible for contin­ of Compensation, Treasury Department, uation of Life Insurance after should be notified of any desired retirement, an employee must be change of beneficiary(s) for the retired on pension, or have completed Incentive Profit Sharing Plan and at least five years of continuous the Monthly Salaried Retirement Plan. active service with the Company Employees of the Southern Division immediately preceding his retirement should contact the Personnel Depart­ date and be 65 years of age." ment at Cedar Springs where this This should be noted in your function is coordinated under the insurance booklet for future reference. direction of the Manager of Industrial Relations.

According to U. S. Forest Service Medical Insurance Premiums are estimates, Maine has a standing timber more fully deductible on your income inventory of more than 205 million tax return for the calendar year 1967. cords of pulpwood. A recent law change enables tax­ payers who itemize income tax returns ****** ********* to deduct half of their medical insurance outlays to a maximum of More and more Great Northern is $150 for the year starting January 1, making news in the industry. Of 1967. The remainder may be claimed special interest is the exclusive as a medical deduction provided the interview by Albert W. Wilson, Editor­ total of your claimed medical expenses in-Chief of the trade magazine, Pulp exceed three percent (3%) of your and Paper, datelined February 19, salary. with Peter S. Paine, Chairman of the Under the Group Insurance Plan Board and Chief Executive Officer, administered by the Company, the and Robert A. Haak, President, Pre­ employee’s portion of the cost of sented in a question and answer for­ the Comprehensive Medical Expense mat, they outlined the Company’s Insurance for the calendar year 1967 future growth plans in the areas of was $6.85 per month with dependents, newsprint, linerboard and corrugating and $1.95 per month without dependents. medium, and coating unbleached liner­ This means that if you were employed board. the full year, half of these premiums Equally interesting is the im­ is deductible, or $41.10 and $11.70 pressive article, complete with respectively. color photographs, in the February Prior to the 1967 tax year, 19 issue of Paper Trade Journal. It insurable costs could only be added details the general operation of the to other medical bills to build the world’s largest board mill, Great three percent "floor." Many tax­ Northern at Cedar Springs, Georgia. payers thus were unable to claim Noteworthy here are the fact sheets deductions because their health on Nos. 2 and 3 machines. A picture expenses didn’t exceed that limitation. of the mill is also featured on the cover. The following is a continuation James Malsberger, Operations of the article ON BEING A DEPARTMENT Superintendent for Southern Division HEAD printed with permission of the Woodlands, was recently appointed by Royal Bank of Canada. The topic Georgia’s Governor, Lester Maddox, covered this month is ... . to serve as a member of the State Forestry Board. About Asking Questions Other members honored to serve in this capacity include: a repre­ It is a sign of strength, not of sentative from Georgia Forestry Com­ weakness, to admit that you don’t mission; the Dean of the Forestry know all the answers. Research is School, University of Georgia; a needed in even the most routine­ representative of the Forest Farmers bound office or shop. It should be Association; and an employee of Union directed toward building and re­ Bag and Paper Co. vising a sound structure so that it Mr. Malsberger is Chairman of tends toward the most efficient dis­ the State Tree Farmers Association charge of work. and immediate Past President of the Research may consist merely of Georgia Chapter, Society of American standing at the door, looking at Foresters. the activity of your staff, and asking: "What is the result of all this action? Is it all necessary?" Questions, even though you do not get Mr. C. Anderson, Timberlands the answers immediately, are valuable Manager and Mr. P. Carmichael, because they imply the existence of Logging Superintendent, visited the another viewpoint. One great foe of Georgia-Pacific Plywood plant at efficient management is the belief Chiefland, Florida on February 3, that things are all right as they are. to observe log receiving and handling A problem is a challenge to facilities, debarking, slashing, understanding, and all problems in and chipper equipment. business are management problems. The secret of problem solving is to collect and analyse the facts, segregate the essential elements, and put them together in a related and meaningful way. Your superiors An article about Great Northern and your staff may admire the appeared in the February 1 issue of resulting solution as intuitive FORBES. It is entitled, "It Worked!/ brilliance, but you know that it is Great Northern Paper Has Taken an the result of thorough, painstaking Unconventional Approach to Its Busi­ investigation resulting in evidence ness, and Has Gotten Some Unconven­ considered and plans made. tionally Good Earnings as a Result." Keep your thinking organized under pressure. You have to know about pressures and tensions and stresses created by the management job, but you can minimize them if you make sure to WATER IN MAINE .... see your problems clear and whole and tackle them with optimistic Stream flow on the West Branch confidence. Fussiness is a great of the Penobscot River remains above hindrance. It happens every day normal, with usable water storage at that a manager who carries the 130 percent of average and 171 per­ heaviest responsibilities with cent of that a year ago. The present calm efficiency is sent to hospital snow cover has a water equivalent by trifles he has not learned how of 6.3 inches, and ground water levels to handle. are above average. 7. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1968

Great Northern’s History of Industry "Firsts" Includes:

In 1900 it became the first mill to build its own electrical generating and distribution system. It established 32 lbs. as the basis weight for standard newsprint which was universally adopted in 1907. In 1913 and 1914 it introduced paper handling air devices, the first Pope reel and first removable Fourdrinier. In 1921 it cracked the 1,000 fpm barrier in newsprint. In 1925 it developed the new world-renowned Great Northern hydraulic grinder. In 1953 it produced commercially the first chemi-groundwood from hardwoods. There were other "firsts" such as a unique water conveyor to grinders, the first grouser treads for woods tractors, the first private gravel roads in the woods, etc. In 1965 at Cedar Springs it was first to produce more than 1,200 tons of kraft liner on one machine in a day. And the first in 1967 to produce over 2,000 tons on two machines in a single 24 hour period.

Pulp & Paper, February 19, 1968

"PERSONNELITIES"

NEW EMPLOYEES directly to Bob Gardner, General Superintendent. Prior to joining LLOYD B. JONES, effective January 1, the Company, he was employed by joined Great Northern as Co-pilot, re­ Elberta Crate and Box Company, Bain­ porting to Chief Pilot, Richard J. bridge, Georgia, as Assistant Super­ Martin. Lloyd was an Aviation Elec­ intendent . trician and Flight Crewman while in the Air Force and got his pilot’s edward M. LAUER/, effective license in 1963 after attending February 19, joined the Sales De­ American Flyers Airline Pilot School, partment as Director, Technical Ardmore, Oklahoma. Service, reporting directly to J. V. Carena, General Sales Manager. ROBERT E. WIGGINS, effective Ed received his BA degree in 1950 February 1, joined the Controller’s from Kent State University, Kent, Department in Millinocket as a Ohio. Prior to joining the Com­ Junior Internal Auditor, reporting pany, he was employed by Anheuser- to G. L. Ranger, Manager of Internal Busch, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri, Auditing. Bob earned his BA degree as a Technical Sales Service Repre­ in Business Administration from sentative, Industrial Starch Division. Ricker College, graduating January, He will continue to live and operate 1968. out of St. Louis until late Spring when he will transfer to New York. EMMETT L. LONG, effective February 2, joined the Great Northern Plywood operations as Dry End Foreman, report­ PERSONNEL CHANGES ing directly to Bob Gardner, General Superintendent. Prior to joining CHARLES P. MOSHER, effective the Company, he was employed by Olin February 1, returned to the Research Mathieson, Winnfield, La., as Foreman. and Development Department in Milli­ nocket as Group Leader of New Products JAMES P. PARLEY, effective February Research from the Chicago Sales Office. 5, joined the Great Northern Plywood Charlie’s initial employment with operations as Dry End Foreman, reporting R & D dates back to July, 1961. JAMES M. GIFFUNE, effective CHESTER W. Dewley, effective February 1, was reassigned from his March 1, will be promoted to Billing most recent position of Technical Supervisor from his current position Assistant to Paper Mill Superintendent of Chief Clerk, reporting to R. F. to the position of Senior Area Engi­ Bartlett, Manager of Accounting at neer in the Millinocket mill, report­ Millinocket. Chet has been with ing to Plant Engineer, Waldo Preble. the Company since 1951. Jim began his employment with Great Northern in 1961 in the Research TERMINATIONS Department. david W. DOOLAN, Management Auditor, WALTER E. PEASE, effective resigned December 31 to accept an February 1, was reassigned from Paper accounting position with Bangor Punta Mill Supervisor to Technical Assistant Corporation in Bangor, Maine. Dave to Paper Mill Superintendent in the had been with the Company since July, Millinocket mill, reporting to C. D. 1961. Bears, Paper Mill Superintendent. Gene’s employment dates back to 1954 NATHANIEL LYON, Sales Trainee in when he entered the Research Depart­ the New York Sales office, resigned ment as a Mechanical Engineer. from the Company effective February 7 to accept a position with Wood WALTER R. HEAL, effective Machinery Company. Nat had been with February 1, was reassigned from the the Company since July, 1966. position of Control Engineer to Paper Mill Supervisor in the Milli­ WALTER W. WHEELER, Master Mechanic, nocket mill, reporting to the Paper resigned February 7 from Great Northern Mill Superintendent, C. D. Bears. Plywood to accept a position with Rose­ "Bud" has worked both in the Research burg Lumber Co. in Roseburg, Oregon. and Control Departments, having joined the Company in June, 1961. DEATH

JESSE F. RABON, effective February EvERETT J. RINKER died January 30 1, was promoted from an hourly Area after a short illness. Known through­ Operator-A classification to the out the operating end of the corrugating position of Power House Foreman, report­ industry, Mr. Rinker joined Great Northern ing directly to Charles Jacobs, Assistant in 1963. At the time of his death, he Power House Superintendent at the Cedar was Director Technical Service, Great Springs' mill. Jesse has been with Northern Board Sales. the Company since July, 1963. RETIREMENTS ROGER W. POE, effective February 1, was promoted from Scaler to the G. HERBERT BURLEIGH, Superin­ position of Green End Foreman at Great tendent Printing Paper Division 1-6, Northern Plywood, reporting directly Millinocket mill, retired February 1 to Bob Gardner, General Superintendent. after more than 45 years of service. Roger has been with Great Northern Ply­ Herb started as a fifth hand in the wood since November, 1967. Paper Mill in October, 1922.

LAWRENCE A. BAKER, effective FRANCIS R. KEENAN retired January 31, March 1, will transfer from the completing more than 49 years of con­ Accounting Department as Billing tinuous service. Frank served in various Supervisor to the Systems Department capacities from warehouse clerk to as Systems Analyst in the Controller's Executive Assistant Traffic Manager. Department, Millinocket, reporting He was named Traffic Manager in 1950, to K. R. Veazie, Systems Coordinator. and in 1966 he was appointed Transpor­ Larry has been with the Company since tation Consultant, continuing in this June, 1956. capacity until his retirement. Paper company NEWSLETTER

FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES

Volume VI No. 8 MILLINOCKET, MAINE Friday, January 19, 1968

GREAT NORTHERN TO LAUNCH $10 MILLION WATER PROTECTION PROGRAM IN MAINE. . . .

MILLINOCKET, ME., January 16 — since the recovery process will Great Northern Paper Company said enable Great Northern to reclaim today that it will invest approxi­ between 70 and 80 percent of its mately $10 million over the next pulping chemicals and to generate two years in pollution control and increased power from the burning abatement facilities at its Milli­ of waste liquor as fuel. Equipment nocket mill to help clean up the for burning bark was installed in Penobscot River. 1967 and is now in operation. Robert A. Haak, President, made When installed, the recovery the announcement at the Company’s boiler will be the largest single Annual Stockholders’ Meeting in unit in the world to use magnesium Maine. He said that the new program base sulphite pulping liquors for represents the most important fuel. The boiler furnace will be single step Great Northern can take constructed with a water wall in to reduce its part of Penobscot place of conventional refractory pollution. brick, and it will produce steam A major part of Great Northern’s at the highest pressure (1,250 lbs. water protection program includes psi at 850°F) of any magnesium base the construction of a new recovery recovery process now in existence. boiler developed by the Babcock & The present modern steam generating Wilcox Company. This unit will plants of Great Northern operate at burn the waste products from the these high pressures and temperatures. Company’s 500 ton-a-day sulphite mill Other major components of Great and recover the chemicals used in the Northern’s announced program include wood cooking process. The present the installation of a 25,000 kilo­ facilities will be converted to the watt steam turbine, additional manufacture of sulphite pulp by the boiler feedwater treatment facilities, so-called magnesium bisulphite process. and new power transmission facilities. The decision to proceed with a All of the incumbent directors, magnesium chemical recovery system with the exception of Mr. T. Hiram was the result of intensive studies Stanley who retired, were re-elected by Company engineering and research at the meeting: personnel over the last three years. Mr. Haak explained that Great Northern p. S. Paine, Chairman L. B. Lockwood had reviewed and tested many different H. Ammidon J. T. Maines recovery systems and that the selection H. G. Brush M. C. McDonald of magnesium recovery was based on E. L. Cowan E. S. Miller several factors including increased R. G. Croft J. J. Neely power capacity and the use of a R. A. Haak W. D. Sanders modernized, proven process. R. Hellendale F. K. Trask, Jr Mr. Haak told stockholders that J. H. Heuer J. W. Walker in addition to fulfilling the need for water improvement, the Company The organization meeting of the expects to obtain a significant Board for the election of officers monetary return on its investment, will take place January 17 in New York. Paper production for fourteen weeks ended 1/8/68 . . . .

1968 1967 Tons Daily Avg. Tons Daily Avg. Production: Cedar Springs 152,718 1,808 82,088 955 East Millinocket 105,604 1,100 101,617 1,066 Millinocket 82,316 858 77,547 814 340,638 3,766 261,252 2,835

EAST MILLINOCKET MILL conveyor chain, which will complete the first bark conveyor section, has Two heavier walled table rolls begun as has installation of the were received January 9 from Beloit. hydraulic cylinders for the log As soon as they have been balanced, clamp and log kickers. The control they will be placed in the 6th and house foundation for the steam vats 7th roll positions, located after has been excavated and forming has the five grooved rolls on No. 5 begun. Control wiring and platform paper machine fourdrinier. It is and catwalk installation are continuing expected that the heavier walled in the lathe and tray area. The table rolls will minimize stock jumps pouring of slabs adjacent to the at these positions and improve dryer has been completed and instal­ formation of the sheet. lation of the sprinkler system in the lay-up building is continuing. No. 1 waterwheel at Weldon Station The foundations for the boiler plant is undergoing a major overhaul. The have been completed and erection has generator has been removed and the begun. wheel pulled and disassembled. Machine shop work is being done at Log deliveries were 30,000 feet the mill to repair all worn areas. during the past week, bringing total Completion of the job will result inventory to 805,000 feet as of in improved utilization of water­ January 7. power and will eliminate oil loss.

Installation of the ULEX 2000 high MILLINOCKET MILL density polyethlene flatbox covers continues on Nos. 1-4 paper machines. From the Steam Plant ...... These covers are replacing the . . A new system of bark burning and endgrain maple flatbox covers and processing, which will enable the mill have already contributed to an in­ to reduce the amount of waste material crease in wire life. from the Woodroom to the river, was started December 27. This new system All new grinder motors now have collects the bark from the Woodroom, surge capacitors as of December 21 prepares it for burning, and conveys when the last ones were installed it to the Steam Plant where it is on No. 12 grinder motor. Instal­ burned in a high pressure boiler. lation of these surge capacitors is Besides reducing river pollution, to protect motor windings from destruc­ this system disposes of Woodroom bark tive waves initiated by switching and reduces fuel oil consumption. (opening and closing of circuit No. 3 boiler has been converted breakers) surges. to burn bark and oil by the instal­ lation of a bark distributor, spreader GREAT NORTHERN PLYWOOD CORPORATION stoker, dust collector, combustion controls, and ash removal system; The installation of mechanical and is presently burning a portion of components for the debarker system the sawdust and bark produced by the is continuing. The placement of the Woodroom. To date, the full capacity 3. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1968

of the system has not been put to What does a magnesium base sul­ use because of problems with the phite recovery process, as announced presses, pneumatic conveying line, on page 1, consist of; and how does and extreme adverse weather. it work? The spent sulphite cooking From the Sulphite Mill...... liquor that is removed from the pulp . . No. 8 digester installation on our washers will be concentrated has been completed with the exception in evaporators to 50 percent solids. of a few minor details to be taken It will then be burned in a new care of in the following weeks. boiler. Since half the weight of On December 18 a conditioning or the wood fed to the digesters is warming up cycle began which cures present in the spent liquor, this the brick lining. Chips were will generate a large amount of started into the digester at 2:30 p.m. heat which will be recoverd as high on January 4, and the first dump oc­ pressure steam. curred at approximately 11:30 a.m., The magnesium bisulphite cooking on January 5. The capacity of this chemical which is present in the digester is equivalent to 31 cords spent liquor will decompose to of wood. magnesium oxide dust and sulphur dioxide gas at the high temperatures From the Paper Mill...... in the furnace. These will pass out . . A project has been underway now of the boiler with the stack gas. for four weeks using foils as the The magnesium oxide dust will be sole drainage element for high speed caught in small cyclones and reacted drainage improvement. with hot water to make magnesium Early tests indicated that the hydroxide. The magnesium hydroxide fourdrinier arrangement is quite will then be used to absorb the flexible in terms of water rates, sulphur dioxide in the stack gas to and there has been an approximate make magnesium bisulphite cooking 10 percent improvement in fiber liquor. The liquor strength will and clay retention. be adjusted, it will be filtered, ************** and then sent back to the digesters. Unfortunately, the spent liquor ************* from our present sodium base bisulphite pulping process will not work in The new Social Security Law, the recovery process described effective in 1968, will not affect above. A great deal of effort has your January paycheck. You will gone into learning how to make not see the effect until your annual magnesium base bisulphite pulp of earnings exceed $6,600. The new equal quality with our digester law raises from $6,600 to $7,800 equipment. A great deal of effort the level of annual earnings from has also gone into fitting the which the Social Security tax is recovery process into our cooking to be taken. Hence, only if you liquor requirements, our spent earn more than $6,600 in 1968 will liquor handling problems, and the you pay more than you did in 1967. space that was available. Your employer is obliged to The first magnesium recovery match all payroll deductions for unit was started up in Longview, Social Security; and for Great Washington, in 1948. There are 15 Northern, the new law will mean a units now in operation. The unit cost increase of approximately to be installed in Millinocket will $54,000 for fiscal 1968. be the largest, the second to use a Every employee and employer water wall furnace section, and the will feel a further bite in 1969 sixth to use venture scrubbers to when the 1967-68 rate of 4.4 percent absorb the sulphur dioxide from the goes to 4.9 percent on the new flue gas. level of $7,800. Great Northern Paper Company GREAT NORTHERN'S FRINGE BENEFITS Had Record Earnings For Final Quarter PRogram is designed to meet both the of 1967. . . . The Company reported unexpected and planned needs of its Thursday, January 11, the highest employees and their families, either earnings ever achieved by the Com­ at no cost or at a minimum cost to pany in a 12-week quarter. Sales the employee. The following comments topped $35,000,000 and earnings are pertinent to benefits provided $3.6 million for the period ending for active monthly salaried employees. December 24, 1967. A comprehensive medical Expense Peter S. Paine, Chairman and plan substantially eliminates the Chief Executive Officer, told stock­ financial hardships that could re­ holders that Great Northern was be­ sult from an unexpected illness of ginning to receive the benefits from an employee or member of his family. its expansion programs in Georgia even The Company and employee share in though full realization of the the cost of this plan, with the Company’s Southern Division potential Company paying 75 percent of the may take several years. The premium cost for employee coverage current outlook for Great Northern and 70 percent of the premium cost newsprint and groundwood specialty for coverage of employee’s dependent printing papers is for a continuation unit. of the present high level of opera­ A salary continuation plan, tions. based on years of continuous service, The record earnings for the is designed to assist the employee first 12 weeks of the Company’s during a disability or illness of a fiscal year amounted to $3,656,000 short-term nature, and is entirely or $1.28 a common share after pro­ at Company expense. vision for dividends on preferred A Long-Term disability plan stock, 32 percent higher than in helps to relieve the financial the corresponding period of 1966, burden of a disability or illness that when earnings were $2,778,000 or continues for a period of six months 97 cents a common share. Investment or more. The Company and employee tax credit reflected in the first share in the cost of this benefit, 12 weeks' earnings totalled $572,000 with the Company paying 42 percent or 21 cents a common share as com­ of the premium. pared with $202,000 or 8 cents for A vacation plan, based on years the like period a year ago. of service, allows the employee to Assuming the conversion of all plan for annual periods of rest and outstanding convertible securities, relaxation away from the tasks of the Pro-Forma net income becomes his daily job. There are three types $1.08 per common share for the first of vacation time. Accrued vacation 12 weeks of the Company’s fiscal is that which is being earned during year, as compared with 83 cents for any current year of employment. Accumu­ the comparable period in 1967. lated vacation is that which has Sales for the same 12-week period been earned in a previous full vaca­ amounted to $35,353,904, an increase tion year of employment. Deferred of $5,417,000 or 18 percent over vacation is that which is postponed the first 12 weeks a year ago. until time of retirement. Mr. Paine noted that Great These are only a few of the Northern’s shipment—294,794 tons of benefits provided by the fringe package. paper and board—were 19 percent higher If an employee has questions about than in the comparable period a year the Company benefits, he is urged to ago. This increase, he said, was contact the Salary and Benefits largely attributable to the tonnage Division of the Central Personnel of the Company’s second linerboard Department at Millinocket. Additional machine at Cedar Springs, Ga., contacts can be made at the Personnel which came on stream in April, 1967. Department in your location and in New York, E. Genter, Administrative Supervisor. 5. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1968

The Sales Department held its the revamping of the power system annual Sales meeting on January 11 including the third generator at at the Princeton Club. The meeting Ripogenus Dam, the overland sluice­ was opened by Mr. Carena; then way designed to conserve water, and Messrs. Paine and Haak discussed the the cleaning out of old pulpwood dramatic developments which took from the waterwheel at Weldon Power place at Great Northern in 1967. Station. Mr. Heuer also discussed Both look forward to another success­ the rebuild of three paper machines ful year in 1968, but feel that and the new Wood Yard at East Milli­ competition will be extremely keen. nocket, and how they will enable Following these talks, Messrs. Great Northern to stay ahead of Staples and Willets discussed the competition. importance of selling the right grade Mr. Staples closed the meeting of paper in terms of profit per which, in the opinion of all who machine hour. They presented charts attended, was one of the best ever. which ranked the grades from lowest to highest in terms of this cri­ terion. It was apparent that the A New Paper Industry Information successful showing of Great Northern Office. . . , Plans for the establish­ in 1967 was due, in large part, to ment of an information and public the improved grade mix, the maximum relations office for the forest utilization of machine capabilities, products industries of Maine were and the excellent team work between announced in Augusta, Tuesday, Decem­ Sales, Operations, and other divisions ber 19. of the Company. Both the Commercial John T. Gould, Jr., Vice President Sales Division and the Newsprint of Creative Associates, a Portland Sales Division made presentations public relations counseling firm, which outlined the problems with has been appointed executive secretary which they had been faced during 1967 of the Paper Industry Information and the areas in which they felt Office. He will remain a director executive attention was required in of Creative Associates. 1968. Serving as directors of the Following luncheon, Mr. Ernst, organization are: Rudolph T. Greep, our European representative, dis­ S. D. Warren Co., Westbrook; John T. cussed the business conditions in Maines, Great Northern Paper Co., the European market and outlined the Bangor; Franck P. Morrison, Penobscot potential in this market for Great Co., Old Town; Richard Hawkes, Keyes Northern in the coming years. Fibre Co., Waterville; Arthur J. Mr. Willets, who has been working Haug, Scott Paper Co., Winslow; with the Dupont Color Council and Perry Harding, International Paper Gaynor & Ducas on the development of Co., Jay; David F. Pollard, St. an expanded colored line, presented Regis Paper Co., Bucksport; George E. their findings at the meeting. It Prentiss, Oxford Paper Co., Rum­ was well received and the new concept ford; Robert Lampert, Pejepscot Paper of colored papers seemed to excite Co., Topsham; Edward G. Wilson, everyones thinking. Georgia-Pacific Co., Woodland; and A review of scheduling procedures, Joseph F. Gill, Kennebec Pulp past and present, was given by Mr. Dunne. and Paper Co., Madison. It was pointed out that future Additional members may be techniques would center around Sales appointed to the board as the planning, and the PACE Computer Program organization expands. would play an important role. Plans call for the office to The final highlight of this be opened in Augusta early in January. meeting was a talk given by Mr. Heuer Mr. Gould said the establishment outlining the capital improvements of the office marks the first time that had taken place at the mills the people of Maine have had a during 1967 and the anticipated single office through which to con­ expenditures for 1968. This included tact the pulp and paper industry. WOODLANDS’ NEWS and the camps were started, they were not shut off. Most cold snaps SOUTH last about three days, but this one was out to break a record, and Heavy winter rains have hampered did. wood production activities in the Southern Division causing increased Cutting has practically ended in wood procurement efforts by Wood­ all woods camps except for the cut­ lands’ personnel. Several mills in ting of hardwood and pine logs which the South are experiencing wood are sold outside of the Company. shortages due to wet logging con­ There is nearly three feet of snow ditions. Sales of wet weather ply­ in the woods which makes cutting wood from Company lands are being operations difficult. Hauling is in expedited to keep wood production full swing at all Maine camps. at normal levels. Wet weather ply­ Slashers are operating at Millinocket wood sales are marked ahead of time and Umbazookskus. and held in reserve until needed during such wet periods. WATER IN MAINE. . . .Stream flow on the West Branch of the Penobscot Tree planting activities are in River remains above normal, with full swing with contract planters usable water storage at 133 percent and Company crews planting trees in of average and 151 percent of that a all areas. Ten thousand superior year ago. The present snow cover seedlings will again be planted on has a water equivalent of from three Company timberlands this year for to five inches, and ground water future comparative studies. These levels are above average. genetically superior trees are expected to provide faster growth, *************** resistance to disease and insects, and increased fiber yield. While the year 1967 has hardly been auspicious for the paper industry, Timberland acquisition activities Great Northern Paper Co., the na­ continue in the Southern Division tion’s largest maker of newsprint, with options recently being secured has managed to buck the general on several excellent tracts. Pre­ trend. A news story tells of in­ liminary negotiations continue with creased sales during 1967, and gives other wood-using industries regarding many more details of the company’s our exchange of outlying tracts past and future operations. for timberland in close proximity Barron’s-12/25/67-pg. 22 to Cedar Springs. Financial World, a well-known in­ vestment and business weekly, NORTH recommends Great Northern as one of ten stocks especially suited Sub-zero weather, beginning on to a growth oriented investment January 7 and continuing through program. Great Northern was the January 14, accounted for one of only paper company selected. the hardest weeks in Woodlands’ history. Several morning temper­ atures were recorded at minus 20°F and below, and winds of 30-40 miles per hour made working outdoors a real hardship. Early in the week, WORK: Something that when we many employees could not get to have it we wish we didn’t; when we work due to drifting snow and failure don’t we wish we did; and the object of cars and trucks to start. Once of which is to be able to afford the vehicles located at the sidings not to do any someday. 7. GREAT NORTHERN NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES MILLINOCKET, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1968

"PERSONNELITIES"

NEW EMPLOYEE principles, objectives and services, and for developing an information ROBERT N. WASHBURNE, effective program which will make maximum use January 1, joined the Southern of all means of expression and com­ Division’s Industrial Relations munication to gain understanding and Department as Industrial Relations acceptance. Assistant, reporting directly to William E. Lloyd, Industrial ROBERT C. underkoffler, effective Relations Manager. Bob is a grad­ December 18, returned to Millinocket uate of Cornell University with a as Assistant Project Manager in BS degree in Industrial and Labor Central Engineering, Northern Relations. Prior to joining the Division, reporting to P. I. Firlotte, Company, he was employed by Inter­ Project Manager. Bob’s most recent national Paper Company, Panama position was that of Engineer in City, Florida, as Assistant Person­ the Central Engineering Department, nel Director. Southern Division.

donald E. CURRAN, effective PERSONNEL CHANGES January 1, transferred to the Great Northern Plywood mill, Cedar ALMON L. McCORdiC, effective Springs, as Electrical Maintenance December 1, was promoted from Systems Supervisor, reporting directly to Analyst to Senior Programmer, re­ Walter W. Wheeler, Master Mechanic. porting directly to K. R. Veazie, Don is a graduate of the University Systems Coordinator, Controller’s of Maine with a BS degree in Department, Millinocket. Mechanical Engineering. Prior to In his new position, Al will joining the Plywood operations, be responsible for the computer Don was an Engineer in the Central programming function of the Engineering Department-Northern Department. As a member of the Division. computer conversion group, he will be in charge of the development of LEON R. COX, effective January 1, the programming phase of the IBM was promoted from the position of 360 computer system now on order. Electrical Foreman to that of Electri­ cal Supervisor at the Cedar Springs AMERICo R. GAETANi, effective mill, reporting directly to Edward C. December 1, was promoted from the Zuelke, Electrical Superintendent. hourly classification of Machine Leon has been with the Company since Tender to the position of Tour August, 1963. Foreman-Paper at the East Millinocket mill, reporting to R. D. Violette, SAMUEL T. LIGHTSEY, effective Day Foreman-Paper, 1-4 Paper Machines. January 1, was promoted from an Americo has been with the Company hourly Electrician classification since February, 1951. to the position of Electrical Fore­ man at the Cedar Springs mill, ROBERT P, vivIAN, effective reporting directly to Leon R. Cox, December 15, was appointed Director, Electrical Supervisor. Sam has been Public Relations and Advertising for with the Company since July, 1963. the Company. In his new capacity, Bob will be responsible for developing ORVILLE K. TRIPP, effective good relationships with the Company’s January 1, was promoted from Super- various publics, for interpreting intendent-Aroostook Area to General to these publics the Company’s Superintendent-Aroostook Area, reporting to R. E. Clifford, JOSEPH E. FARMER, effective Manager of Woodlands. Orville February 1, will be promoted to started with Great Northern as an the position of Salary and Benefits apprentice Forester in July, 1952. Supervisor. Mr, Farmer will be responsible for supervising the BERNARD E. GERRy and COLEMAN R. functions of the Salary and Benefits LARLEE, effective January 1, Division in the Central Personnel were promoted from Day Foremen Department at Millinocket. He will to Assistant Paper Mill Superin­ assist the Salary and Benefits tendents in the Millinocket mill, Administrator by coordinating all reporting to Charles Bears, Paper Company activities in the salary Mill Superintendent. and benefits areas. Bernie has been with Great Northern since 1939 having started RICHARD D. KROEGER, JR., in the Paper Room as a Rewinder effective January 1, rejoined the Helper. Analytical Research Group of the Coleman has been with the Com­ Research and Development Department pany since 1946, starting as a Fifth at Millinocket as Junior Research Hand in the Paper Room. Chemist. Dick has been on military leave-of-absence since December 10, MARIE A. BERTRAnd, effective 1965. January 1, has been promoted to Administrative Assistant, reporting LuRENE E. McAVOY, effective to P. F. Yacavone, Assistant Con­ January 1, was appointed to the newly troller. This is a new position created position of Clerical Super­ which involves the carrying out of visor-Purchasing Department at certain day-to-day administrative Millinocket. Rene will report di­ duties, in addition to conducting rectly to J. W. Dobson, Manager, assigned studies and analyses and Purchases and Stores, Northern Division. compiling special departmental reports. Marie has been with the TERMINATIONS Company since 1955. MARK H. HOLT, Industrial Re­ TIMOTHY W. LUddEN, effective lations Assistant, Southern Division, February 1, will be promoted from resigned January 5, to accept the Systems Analyst to Supervisor, position of Supervisor of Employ­ General Accounting, reporting to ment for Nekoosa-Edwards Paper R. F. Bartlett, Manager of Accounting Company at Ashdown, Arkansas. Mark at Millinocket. Tim has been with had been with the Company since the Company since June, 1964. September, 1963.

EWIN N. GRINDLE, effective CLAYTON E. HATTAwAY, Power February 1, will be appointed House Tour Foreman, Cedar Springs Salary and Benefits Administrator. mill, resigned January 7 to accept In his new position, Mr. Grindle a position with MacMillan Bloedel will be responsible for administering United, Inc., at Pinehill, Alabama. all of the Company’s salary and Clayton had been with the Company benefits programs. In particular, since July, 1963. he will be responsible for the salaried administration program HERBERT B. NICHOLS, Electrical that the Company has been developing Supervisor, Cedar Springs mill, over the past year and will soon resigned January 12 to accept the put into operation. Mr. Grindle position of Maintenance Superin­ will transfer to the New York office tendent with Nekoosa-Edwards Paper in the near future. Company at Ashdown, Arkansas. Herb had been with the Company since January, 1963.