TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION . .vii CHARLES A. WOODCOCK Session I, September 24, 1975 . 1 Summary of experience with St. Regis; conver- sion of industries to multiwall papbr bag; management and geographic reorganiz~tions of the Bag Division; expanding marketsl for bags; wartime uses of multiwall paper bags; kraft and bag production and St. Regis's 60ve to the South; paper contract with Camp Man~facturing Company at Franklin, Virginia; 19591 acquisitions of bag companies; First Annual Sales Meeting of the Multiwall Bag Division, 1948; ihtroduction of the stepped-end pasted bag; nsys'rem-Sellingn the cement industry; consumer bags; polyethy­ lene-coated kraft as a moisture barrier;, tech- nology and southern kraft; sale of St. Regis bag plants in Canada; environmental I systems group and the paper refuse sack; consumer packaging; economic cycles in the b~g industry; St. Regis as a total packaging comp~ny. Session II, October 27, 1975 . 26 Top management of St. Regis during ~he thirties and the forties: Gay, Dixon, Versfelt, Martin, Lozier, Vayo, et al.; internationall expansion; promotional films of the Bag Divisipn; shut- down of the Tacoma mill in 1942; seif-suffi- ciency in kraft; St. Regis and the ~ar effort; development of bag for synthetic rubber ship- ments; bag development with Chemica~, Warfare Service; orientation meeting in 1955--princi­ pals and the Ferguson philosophy; rbcollections of major personal challenges; develbping mar­ kets for the paper refuse sack. JOHN D. CLIFFORD, October 8, 1975 .. 43 St. Regis advertising; Printing Paper Division iii iy sales; purchase of mills from Time Inc.; expansion of Bucksport; timber and ulp supplies for the Printing Paper Di~lision; Sartell, Kalamazoo, and Little Falls mills; mail order, directory, and magazine paper business of the Printing Paper Division;l recovering tonnage after Life magaL!ine goes out of business; expansion, boom, ~nd bust; research efforts consolidated at wJst Nyack; marketing; forecast for Printing P~per Divi­ sion; thoughts on the "almost-mergJr" with RCA; positive working conditions atl St. Regis. JACK W. HARTUNG, October 8, 1975 . 57 Purchase of Bryant mill in Kalamazoo by Time Inc. and subsequent sale of facili~y to St. Regis; use of secondary fiber in operations at Kalamazoo; merchant sel.ling; coatitig of publi­ cation papers; multiwall bags; grow'th in the South; St. Regis's interest in wor]d markets; entry into corrugated box business;1 St. Regis Panelyte in the forties and fifties; product development and research; Middle Mdnagement Planning Committee; abrogated mergJr with RCA; management programs at St. Regis. ANDREW F. STORER Session I, September 17, 1975 . 74 Purchase of mills from Time Inc.; St. Regis mills in northern New York in post~ar era; St. Regis's move south; acquisition and expansion in the fifties; St. Regis enters bdx, folding carton, and packaging markets--SupJrior Paper Products, General Container, and pdllock; Hinton--background and markets ser~ed. Session II, September 18, 1975 . 85 Rhinelander and R. W. mill in Wash~ngton; J:elationship of Rhinelander to Pol:Uock; post- war bag and printing paper operat~ons in northern New York; significance of !Time Inc. purchase; defining "selling all the way through"; vertical and horizontal sales; resE!arch and de~ velopment in the forties and fiftiE!s; plastics and rayon; Creamery Package.. acquis~tion. Session III, September 22, 1975 . _I - 96 Pacific Waxed Paper Company, Pollock, and Gummed Products; movement to flexible v packaging; acquisitions of J. Neils, St. Paul & Tacoma, and American Sisalkraft; Imarket analysis and sales; management realignments in the sixties; international growih of St. Regis; disposal of marginal properties in the sixties; Fome-Cor; construction products acquisitions--Wbeeler Lumber Bridge & Supply, Prestressed Concrete of Iowa, andISpan-Deck; treatment of kraft mill effluent with activated carbon; E1~CA grant; contemplated merger with RCA; Specialty Paper Division and the Market­ ing Service Center; direct and distributor sales; the challenge of bulk shipment to the multiwall industry. INDEX . 119 VOLUME III: ILLUSTRAJIONS (Woodcock, Clifford, Hartung and Storer) , I / 1. Portrait: Charles A. Woodcock (St. Regis Paper Company). Place where appropriate. 2. One of a series of advertisements that appeared in 1932 promoting the use of the multiwalll sewn paper valve bag for packaging cement. (Highway and Heavy Construc­ tion) Placement: Woodcock, page 13. WOODCOCK Adelmer Marcus Bates and John Evans eornell, founders of INTERVIEW the Bates Valve Bag Company of West Virginia, which was the forerunner of the Bates V:alve Bag Corporation acquired in 1929 by St. Regis. Photographs from Edgar B. Hoppe's Histor of the Developbent of the Bates Valve Bag Packing System. t. egis Paper Company). Placement: Woodcock, page 16. I 4. Some of St. Regis's major officers and directors in the late forties. (Penscola (Fla.) Jburnal, April 16, 1948) Suggested placement: Woodcock, page 30. , 5. 6. CLIFFORD INTERVIEW -7. ;./8. 9. Portrait: Jack W. Hartung. (St. Regis Paper Company) Place where appropriate. I '--1O. The Deferiet, New York mill in 1945. (Niagara Mohawk HARTUNG Power Corporation). Placement: page 5, Hartung. INTERVIEW 11. The William R. Adams, christened in ~968, was designed for export of kraft production from J~cksonville to Europe. (St. Regis Paper Company). Place~ent: Hartung, page 8. .' 12. The "Little Chief" pilot paper machihe located at the Roy K. Ferguson Technical Center. (MbGhie Associates, Inc.) Placement: Hartung, page 12. 1 13. Portrait: Andrew F. Storer. (St. Regis Paper Company). Place where appropriate. I 14. The "Seminole Chief" machine at the iTacksonville, Florida STORER mill in 1957. (St. Regis Paper Cbmpany). Placement: INTERVIEW ....- page 5, Storer. I 15. The Hinton, Alberta mill under construction. (St. Regis Paper Company) Placement: page 9, Storer. 16. The Rhinelander, Wisconsin mill. (St. Regis Paper Company) Placement: page 13, Storer. I 17. Roy K. Ferguson and William R. Adams in the early sixties. (McGhie Associates, Inc.) Placement: page 30, Storer. Char les A. Woodcock "Are the men m~re careful are these bags better?" I , ~ ""TOl)'VE noticed that, C~ief! I checked up on it a few 1 days ago. I think the m~n are a little more careful of ewr)'t/zi17g:, because they're alll trying their best. But I do know that the bags arevery much improved! , "1 have a friend in one of /he Kraft paper 'mills supplying the stock for thesd bags. I under­ stand {nan him that there's no tomparil:ion be­ tween the paper they produced three years ago anu now ... it's so much better niH" "}'.nd, when the Multi-Wall S4wn Paper Bag factories worked out of their 'semi-hand' stage, I; I " ann 7J/('('hanized all the \vay throug;h, they insured ~1lrri(J of timtly bullflir.s their jobs just -as we have ours .. 'j~vith machines- il b,i,,! milil,d to Hlgh1I'aJ ,., d f' . bl I h d Ojfifiah and Conr,."rto,.,. t11at-can t-miSS lilstea 0 vana el 1uman an S. To imure tha! JOW'l (Omf 10 JOu p,-umpt/y, smdJour name <' Besides, in the cement mills, paeking machines and aJdrmlo 1'hrAno,i"lrJ and hanoling methods have all bJen... Chief, am Malluj"rturm ~f Muili- I N'"II S~\\n P"pr> 13"1:" 60 I Inaking a public speech or something?" E.';2"J}iI.,'Ynl)Y~tl,NY. Puhli' ","k "' t. ,",iMm·w·"u", uppmiut, assistants checking ~P. The c!UdNIP, by the way, usually results in a decisibn to make the Multi-Wall Sewn Paper Bag the Cf!~taine-r for the delivery-to_job of cement • •• and partiCUlarl>. ill the case of the lutter- day special, fine-g~ound, high-farly-strength cements. 'rIff oA's.wcLed J)ranulatlurcrs 01 MULTI-WAljL SEWN PAPER BAGS 60 East 42nd Stred, New York, N.Y. l AKKF-I.L AND SMITHS T!1E]AJl'E COMPANY TAG(IART BRO~. Co., fl'>C'. C;l.n;lj"h"ri~, N. Y. I J:Jit~, Ohi" uol:.4:lndS1.,Nn.;Yurk,r-:. Y. BATES VAL\'E BAG CORP. THE rHOS. PHILLIPS Co. UNJ\'ERSAJ.PAI'I:R RAG Co. 6or..4:lndS1.,NcwYork,N.Y. I Akrnn, Ohio ;.;'~'" H"I"', P:J. BI::MIS BRO. BAG Co. THEIRAY:.lOND BAG Co. THE VALvt: BAG Co. Pcuria, 111. ~liddlcll>wJl, Ohio 6oE.4:lndSt., ~~wy"tk.~.Y. Advertisement addressed to Highway Officials and Contractors I ... appearing in the June, 1932, issue of "Roads and Streets." One of a series of advertisements that appeared in 1932 promoting the use of the multiwal sewn paper valve bag for packaging cement. '. , Adelmer Ma~cu~ Bates aoove , and John Eyan~ Cornell I :t:ouDder~ at the Bates Valve Bag Company of West Vtrg1nta, which was the forerunner of Bates Valve Bag Co~poration acqutred tn 1929 by St, Regts , Photographs from Edgar B. Hoppe !s History of the Devel~ opment at the Bates Valve Bag Packaging System. RO}'. X. FERGUSON EDWARD R. GAY WILLIAM H . VERSFELT WILLARD J. DIXON f Director. vice pftllident and PJ'nddent of St. Reela Paper com~ Director and dee pree!deftt .f St. Director. vice president and treas­ .ec­ pany. ReKi!l, " 'ho directs the " aeUclnJ urer of St. Relia Paper company. !'etary of 51. ReKil Paper Clompa1t1'1 cUmion. Some of St. Regis's major officers and directors in the late 1940s . Photo from Pensacola (Fla.) Journal, April 16, 1948. JAMES n. ALLEN A: D. PACE JOSEPH A. QUINLAN DiredGr of st. R ell'i!! Paper eom~ DlrectGr of St. Re«hI Paper CGm­ DIrector and vice pn-Ident, ",ho pany and pret:ldent of norlda Pulp pany a nd vice pr8ldent and treu­ direds traffiCl affairs for St. Rl!ria and Paper company and Alabama urer of tbe Florida and the Ala· Pulp and Papel' company, wholly· bama COl:Dpanlea.