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GREAT NORTHERN PAPER COMPANY NEWSLETTER FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES Volume VII No. 9 MILLINOCKET, MAINE Friday, December 20, 1968 1968 director join 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.