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  low-impact forestry, 253–55

  MacDonald, Walter, 146

  MacDow, Shirley: downtown Groveton, 18, 20, 240; female executive, 164–66; and Groveton Paperboard, 180, 202, 204, 206; on Jim Wemyss Jr., 3, 95, 161, 204; on Jim Wemyss Sr., 107; labor relations, 138–39, 153

  Macloon, E. H., 66

  Maherin, Shep, 147

  Main Street (Groveton), 14, 56, 64, 204, 240

  Maine Forest Products Council, 184

  maintenance department, 113, 135, 141, 177, 187, 190, 199–200

  Maltais, Lionel, 30

  management, old school, 119, 159–60, 204, 217, 248

  Manpower Development and Training Act 1962, 127

  Mason, Sandy, 171–73, 178, 228, 232–33

  Matheson, James, 177

  May, Burt, 56

  Mayhew, Everett, 64

  Mayhew, Robert, 21

  May’s Casino, 56

  McCarthy, E. M., 53

  McClune, H. B., 64

  McKean, Merle, 70

  McMann, Steve, 228, 234

  McMann, Wendy, 235

  McMann, Wilson (Hoot), 135

  McNally, C. T., 56

  Mead Corporation, 100, 115, 132, 145, 168

  mechanization, impact of, 29–30, 69, 173

  Merriam, Dr. Philip, 98

  Miles, Dave, 42–44, 46–50, 90, 96, 112, 114–15, 143, 153, 168

  Miles, Herb, 13, 24, 29, 78, 81, 89, 92, 107, 120, 134, 160

  Mills, Coleen, 107

  Mitchell, John, 52

  Moose Club, 16

  Mosinee Paper Corp., 199, 221, 245

  Moulton, Albert, 54–55

  Mountain, Benjamin, 54

  movie theaters, 13–14, 16, 100

  Munroe, Horace, 71

  Munroe, Willard, Jr., 71

  Munroe, Willard, Sr., 53, 63, 69–71, 76, 81, 98

  Nash Stream, 12, 25, 27–29, 32, 75, 133–35, 183, 250

  natural gas, 6, 148, 197, 210–11, 219–20, 223

  Nemirow, Arnold, 177, 186–187, 189, 194, 197

  New Hampshire Employment Services, 231

  Nolin, Greg, 227, 230, 236

  North Stratford (NH), 11, 145, 153, 156, 168, 189, 251

  Northern Forest Lands Council (NFLC), 184–85

  Northern Forest Lands Study (NFLS), 183–84

  Northumberland, 11–13, 60, 82, 100, 129, 198

  Northumberland Library, 10

  Northumberland paper mill. See Wyoming Valley paper mill

  Norway Savings Bank, 52–53

  Noyes, Don, 34–35

  Nugent, Stuart, 38

  O’Brien, Jack, 187

  Occupational Safety and Health Administration. See OSHA

  Odell Manufacturing, 52–58, 54, 57, 60–64, 66–67, 71

  Odell Township, 12–13, 27, 38

  office, mill: building, new, 110; history, 19, 24, 51, 108; manager, 164–66, 174; and mill closing, 233, 235–36; workers, 127–28, 154, 161, 188

  Old Billy Call, 116

  Old Town (ME) mill, 130, 144–47, 156, 167, 187, 220

  O’Neil, William (Red), 23

  OPEC, 147–50

  Opera House, 17

  Orr, San, 226

  OSHA, 47, 77, 101, 103, 112, 140–41

  Otis Specialty Papers, 198–99

  ownership, absentee: contrasts with local ownership, 1–3, 118, 253–54; local communities and, 6, 226–27, 242–43, 247, 249, 256; multinational corporations and, 130, 243–44, 247–48, 250; timberland and, 25, 219–20, 250

  paper industry, 5–6, 173, 184–85, 199, 209, 219–25, 243–45, 248–50

  paper machines, operation of: art of papermaking, 9, 48–49, 215–16; crews, 41–50, 142–43, 162, 170–73, 176, 215–16; felts, changing, 4, 47, 117, 141, 171; health issues, 47–50, 114–15, 215; bullying and pranks, 34–35, 48, 119–20, 173; wages, 41, 70, 115–17, 145–46; women on, 141, 170–73

  paper machines: children and, 85; efficiency improvements, 92, 221, 224–25; Fourdrinier, 40; operation of, 40–48, 80, 170–71, 175; safety and, 41, 54–55, 80, 112, 225, working conditions, 47, 116–22, 140. See also mill, safety; paper machines, operation of; rewinders

  paper machines in Groveton: Number 1: 42, 45, 48–50, 52, 62–63, 80, 98, 152, 154; Number 2: 49–50, 53–54, 142; Number 3: 43, 46, 60, 61, 62, 64, 66, 69, 80, 100, 115, 118, 195–96, 235–36; Number 4: 93–94, 93, 96, 169–71, 189–90; Number 5: 9, 115–18, 195, 203, 208–9, 214–15; Number 6: 142–43, 175, 195–96, 233, 235. See also Queen of Diamonds

  Paper Makers Journal, 63–66

  Papermaker, 151–53, 167

  Paquette, Beverly, 117

  Paquette, Dan, 229

  Paquette, Gary, 113, 116–18, 121–22

  Paradis, Bill, 170

  Parks, George, 54

  Passumpsic Bank, 75

  Penobscot River, 27

  pensions, 82, 108, 114, 153, 169, 200, 231, 240–41

  Percy Peaks, 7, 25

  Perry Videx, 238

  Perkins, John, 71, 73

  Perkins, Lyse, 71–72

  Petryk, Gene, 205–6

  Phillips Brook, 133–34

  pick poles, 31–32

  pickaroons, 33

  Pierce, Everett, 30

  Pierce, Leonard, 163

  Pinaud, Arthur, 70

  pipe shop, 120

  Pitts, Tom, 211–13

  Platt, Hadley, 13, 15–16, 36, 39, 121, 240, 249–50

  pollution, 15, 32, 40, 123, 130, 140, 244

  Portland Natural Gas Transmission Co., 197

  pranks, 34, 48, 120, 173

  Prosser, James, 64

  pulp mill: semi-chemical, 36, 203, 216; sulfite, 36–39, 51–55, 64, 66, 70, 118, 130, 143–44. See also acid towers; digesters

  pulp procurement, dry, 144, 167, 187

  Purrington, Frank, 53

  Pusey and Jones, 60, 93

  Queen of Diamonds, 142, 196. See also paper machines: Number 6

  Rancourt Associates, 183

  Ratta, Vito, 61

  Reidel, Carl, 183

  respiratory ailments, 15, 19, 143, 263n2

  rewinders, 41, 46, 49, 145, 208

  Rhinelander mill, 182, 186, 190, 199, 245

  Rich, John: childhood, 15; Munroe, Willard, 69–70; pensions, 169; pulpwood hauling, 29–30; Jim Wemyss Jr., 96, 139, 143–44, 161; Jim Wemyss Sr., 83, 98; woodpile, 33; Wyoming Valley paper mill, 101

  Rich, Leo, 121

  Rich, Nelson, 83

  Richardson, Charles, 55

  river crew, 27–28, 31–32, 92

  Riviere, Peter, 167

  Roberge, Rosa, 16–17, 85–86

  Roby, Francis, 5, 32–33, 115, 135–36, 138, 162–63

  Rogers, Murray, 154, 178–79, 189, 198, 200, 213, 229–32, 240

  Rowden, Ralph, 134–35

  Rudman, Senator Warren, 183–84

  Russ, Bill, 15

  Russ, George, 13–14

  Sahlins, Marshall, 251

  Sanborn, Dean, 238

  Sandy Hill Co., 118

  Savage, E. L., 53

  Sawyer, Amy, 212

  Sawyer, Polly, 88

  scalers, 29

  Schmidt, Curt, 228–30

  Schmitt, Steve, 199

  Schumacher, Holly, 22

  Scott Paper Company, 130, 185

  screenings, 100–01

  seniority (union matters): loss of, 24, 170, 178, 213; union contracts and, 81–82, 119, 153, 205, 230; women and, 141–42, 146, 173

  Shannon, Fred, 17–19, 91, 94, 111, 133, 135, 139, 201, 235

  shipping department, 65, 110, 113, 192–94, 222–23

  Simonds, Bruce, 207

  Sivret, James, 51

  Sleeper, Bill, 175

  smells, sulfur, 13, 19–20, 37–39, 117–19, 143

  Smith, George, 54

  Smurfit, Michael, 206

  Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests (SPNHF), 183

  Soule Dam. See Brooklyn Dam

  Soule, Gilbert, 12


  Soule Sawmill, 13, 15, 51, 60

  Soule Store, 66

  South Africa Pulp and Paper Industries Limited, 185

  Southern New Hampshire Services, 231

  State Street, 14, 17–18, 17, 56, 58, 240

  St. Joe Paper Company, 115

  stock prep department: accidents in, 54; construction of, 60; and Jim Wemyss, 3; operation of, 40–42, 195; pulp bales, 130, 144; reject paper, 44; union and, 113, 141, 163–64

  Stone, Roger, 210–11

  Stone, Sylvia, 19, 107–8, 133, 136, 243, 249–50

  Stratford Public Library, 10

  strikes, 63–67, 83–84, 88–91, 113, 137–40, 153–54. See also Wyoming Valley paper mill

  Styles, Pamela, 154, 161, 188, 227–28, 233, 240–42

  Styles, Robert, 127

  sulfur, 19–20, 36–37, 39, 143–44

  Swan, Henry, 182–83

  Swift, Bill, 24

  swing shift, 113–15, 117, 119

  Taylor, Fred, 60

  Taylor, George, 54

  Tetreault, Lorraine, 38

  Tetreault, Raymond, 33–34, 38–39, 240

  Thoits, William, 51

  Tibbetts, Frank, 55

  Tickey, Truman, 70

  Tilton, Channie, 40–41, 82, 158

  Tip Top (bar), 16

  Tisdale, Cecil, 151, 187

  Trettein, Dan, 226–28

  Union Hotel, 16

  Union of Concerned Scientists, 252

  unions, labor, 105, 111, 119–20, 163–64, 172–73, 190–91, 229–31, 248. See also International Brotherhood of Paper Makers Local 41; International Brotherhood of the Pulp Sulphite Workers and Mill Workers; pensions; seniority; United Paper Makers International Union Local 61; Women: labor unions

  United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, 63–64

  United Mine Workers Union, Local 50, 102

  United Paper Makers International Union, Local 61, 141, 167, 178–79, 189–90, 212–13, 229–31

  United Parcel Service (UPS), 223

  Upper Ammonoosuc River, 2, 7, 11–12, 27, 29, 51, 56–57, 57, 140, 144, 239, 252

  Vancure, Edgar, 70

  Vanity Fair tissues, 76, 130–32, 243

  Veazey, John, 133

  Veazey, Opie, 48

  Verrill Building, 2, 110, 113, 115

  Verrill, William, 23–24, 110

  Vietnam, 9, 30, 32, 214–15

  Voluntary Early Retirement Plan (VERP), 199–201

  Wagner Woodlands, 182–183

  Wall Street, 5, 27, 155, 174, 182, 231, 237, 244–45, 247, 249

  Wall Street Journal, 132, 151

  Walters, Richard, 130, 132, 140, 147

  Walters, William, 130–33, 140

  waste water treatment, 21, 140, 213–14, 230, 234

  Wausau Happenings, 213–14, 222

  Wausau Paper Mills Company: acquisition of mill, 1, 177–78, 186–93; closing of mill, 1, 5–7, 226–36, 247; community relations, 201, 236; covenant on deed, 1, 5, 234–35, 241–43, 245, 250; energy issues, 197, 210, 219–24, 249; Groveton Paper Board and, 187–88, 202–3, 213–15; investments in mill, 1, 192–96, 199, 219–21, 248; paper production, 196, 224–25; struggle for survival, 199, 219–25, 248–49; union and, 190–191, 197–201, 229–32

  wealth, inequality of, 248

  Weeks Memorial Library (Lancaster, NH), 10

  Wemyss family, 22, 135, 139–40

  Wemyss, James C., Jr. (Young Jim): 96, 159, 179; Campbell stationery, 145–46, 168; on capitalism, 5–6; commitment to community, 109–11, 159–60, 164, 166, 174, 218, 242–44; and Diamond International, 130–37, 140, 142–44; on drinking in mill, 120–22, 124; education of, 31, 94–95, 109; employee opinions of, 3, 109, 162–63; expansion of mill, 110–12; and father, 1, 75, 79–81, 98–100; flood, 1969, 134–37; on Goldsmith, Sir James, 154–57, 244; and grandfather, 78–79, 88; and Greg Cloutier, 3–5, 161–62; and Groveton Paper Board, 100–1, 115–16, 180, 202–7; and James River Corp., 157–58, 168, 174–75, 180–81, 187–88; management style of, 1–3, 157–63, 190, 204–7; on mill closing, 242–43; mill owner, 1–3, 108, 110–11, 118, 126; Number 4 paper machine, 94, 189; on pollution, 20, 37, 144; Shirley MacDow and, 164–66, 180; on strikes, 67, 89–90, 113, 137–39, 153–54; unions and, 24, 108–9, 113–14, 137–39, 160–63, 191, 198; Wausau mill acquisition, 177, 186; World War II, 84, 87, 109; Wyoming Valley mill, 101–3

  Wemyss, James C., Sr. (Old Jim): 104; death of, 180; Diamond International, 1, 130–33, 155–56; diversification of mill, 87, 92–93, 100–1; employees, relations with, 83, 97–98, 106–8, 134; illness, 98–99; involved owner, 97–98, 159; and Jim Wemyss Jr., 97–98, 108; revival of mill, 1, 75, 79–81, 83; unions, 81–84, 88–91, 191; Wyoming Valley paper mill, 76, 102–3

  Wemyss, James C., III (son of Young Jim), 109, 207–9

  Wemyss, James S. (father of Old Jim), 76–79, 80, 88, 99, 137

  Wemyss, Margaret Campbell, 80

  Wemyss, Walter, 79

  Westab, 145

  Weston Dam, 64, 100–1

  Weston Sawmill, 12–13, 27, 51, 60, 67

  Whitcomb, Lee, 64

  White, Cassandra (Sandy), 8–10, 114, 168–72

  Williams, Robert, 173–74

  Wilson, Charles, 52–53, 69–70

  women in mill: in finishing rooms, 103–6; James River and, 170; labor unions, 58–59, 70–72; lower pay rates for, 105, 164–65; and men’s jobs, 141–42, 170–73; and World War II work force, 82, 87–88

  wood chipping, 29–30, 149, 197

  wood piles, 13, 22, 25, 26, 33–35, 67, 135, 150

  wood room, 2, 26, 30, 33, 37, 53–54, 68–69, 82, 135

  Woodward, Patricia, 72

  wood yard, 24, 33–34, 57, 102, 150, 203

  World War I, 63, 66, 85

  World War II, 1, 82–85, 88, 109–10, 125

  Wyoming Valley paper mill, 75–79, 101–3, 137, 145