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Quality of Product is Essential to Continuing Success
Just as good is seldom
good and never just.
folume No. 2
PISGAH FOREST, N. C.
May, 1941 Number 3
C.
, to
Ir.i
idal
^draftees TO
VEIN JUNE
rht more Ecusta employ-
their notice
auction and are expecting
ve for camp on June 5th.
uptoen who have received
_ 2 are : Edward H. Mackey,
Charles E. Pax-
fol s. inchester,
L; White and Hubert E.
ii-'»n.
d,^
3da)e local draft board did not
Ia ^ furnish any
,yecduring the month of May.
I leave was in
_ ‘ fJ were Horace
hSar 1 Machine Room,
h%r Raxter from the Re-
, Emmett Wilson
i8t Gordon
Ir Machine Shop
jjarl Cotton” Fowler from
)raipagne Printing. “Cotton”
ag ed for admission to the
^ Air Corps and returned
jjji to await a call. The call
ag^avp i t 12th.
him ^ letter
r u Ga., work-
day with no
*'av« been
Ued by the Transylvania
o'k Mo i?P • Gordon
In ’ A register-
•■ ( was call-
atL f I, v!‘‘^ there. Homer
1 i‘n^’ p always lived
Vwav i; •happened to
,, y from home on regis-
^^the^hn I’egistered
hi XT- ^ in Henderson
r. he had to
the Henderson county
^r)Lnt *'ave
*|=V Mo rejected,
ifte^^ho^f''?! to his
-leal ev»i-“l4 to pass the
inination at camp.
'"'V to vi • all of them
%cho”‘^W® ot
' t are glad to mail
P red nf’^®®P us in-
r their addresses.
TWO HUGE UNIQUE WATER STORAGE
TANKS NOW COMPLETE AT ECUSTA
Mr. Bennett Honored
By Engineers Club
At a meeting of the Western
North Carolina Engineers Club
on Monday, May 19, the Ecusta
raper Corporation was honor
ed in having its General Super
intendent, Mr. Raymond F.
i^ennett elected as Vice-Presi
dent of the organization for
the ensuing year. Mr. Fred
Doutt, Chemical Engineer for
the Champion Paper & Fibre
Company, was elected to the
office of jPresident at the same
time.
The Engineers club is an or
ganization consisting of ap
proximately seventy-five mem
bers representative of all types
of engineering in Western
North Carolina industry. In
regularly scheduled meetings,
interesting and educational lec
tures are presented, and oc
casionally moving pictures are
given by different manufac
turers on new developments in
the engineering field.
WUTAKER PITCHING
'sm FOR ECUSTA
The end of the sixth week of
competition in the Western
North Carolina Industrial
League finds Ecusta in the
686% column—4 wins and 2
losses. The outstanding fault
in the first six games was the
poor support given to some
iiighty fine pitching by South
paw Roy Whitaker. In the five
games, statistics show an aver
age of only two earned runs
per game against Roy’s record.
That record is something to be
proud of in any league; and if
the young left hander con
tinues to pitch in such a fash
ion, Ecusta will continue to be
in the thick of the fight. Most
of the errors and mistakes
committed by our boys are due
to several reasons: Some are
the result of over-anxiety and
inexperience; while others are
due to the unsettled diamonds
on which it has been necessary
(Continued on page 3)
Two Huge Tanks Have Ca
pacity of 3,000,000 Gal
lons of Water
Two of the most unusual
water storage tanks in the
world have just been complet
ed at the Ecusta Paper corpor
ation’s plant at Pisgah Forest.
According to scientific infor
mation they are the largest
tanks of their kind ever built
with a dome or roof as thin as
two inches, the thickness of the
domes over these two tanks.
Each of the gigantic tanks,
the major portions of which
rest in the ground, holds 1,-
500,000 gallons of water, has
a diameter of 157 feet, is eleven
feet high at the outside walls
and rises to 20 feet in height at
the center of the dome. The
walls, floor, and dome are all
reinforced with 6” by 6” mesh
steel, with the base of the dome
and the walls being held from
cracking and bending by tight
ened spirals of steel rods
around the outside similar to
wooden stave water tanks.
These spirals of steel are pro
tected from rusting by a coat
ing of Gunite, a concrete mix
ture formulated and: applied
by the National Gunite com
pany, the concern which built
the unusual tanks. The floors
of the tanks are two inches
thick, the walls four inches,
and the domes two inches, all
being built of Gunite.
These storage tanks are
unique in that they are the
largest that have ever been
built with such a thin dome to
withstand the tremendous pres
sure to which they are sujcet-
ed. They are a virtual monu
ment to the skill in design by
the structural engineer and to
the engineer who was in charge
of construction, Frank J. Ber
tie.
The design and construction
of such a thin dome for such
huge storage tanks was such
an unusual engineering feat
that much engineering as well
as academic interest was arous
ed over their construction here.
For this reason the National
Gunite company retained pro-
(Continued on page 4)
CAFETERIA SOON
TO BE COMPIMD
Mr. Bryan Boyd, recently
appointed manager of the
Ecusta Cafeteria, reports that
work on the new cafeteria
building is progressing with
leaps and bounds. The work
men are in the process of lay
ing a beautiful white pine
finish on the inner walls_ and
while all this work is going on
in the front there is a lot of
hustle and bustle in the kitch
en, or rear of the building. In
order to serve the type of food
that Mr. Boyd has planned, he
will use the most modern
equipment that money can
buy. Two large iceboxes are
now on the verge of comple
tion. Beneath the kitchen is a
large storeroom where a 11
canned and non - perishable
foods will be kept for immed
iate or future needs. On the
southwest corner, one will find
the new canteen or “short or
der” room where cold drinks,
sandwiches, cigarettes, and ets.
can be bought inside the gate.
If progress continues with
with the same rapidity as it has
during the past few weeks,
Boyd seems confident that he
will be ready to start full op
eration by the 15th of June, at
which time there will be a
Grand Opening with music and
dancing for all.
bulietinWed
FOR DRAFTEES
A bulletin announcing the
policy of the Company in re
gard to employees, who are
called for military service, has
been printed, and a copy is
given to each draftee when he
leaves for military service.
Fortunately, very few from
Ecusta have been drafted, but
there are many who expect to
be called and would( like to
know what the Company will
do in regard to their jobs, their
insurance, etc. The bulletin is
being published below:
Ecusta Paper Corporation,
Champagne Paper Corpora
tion^ and Endless Belt Corpora-
(Continued on page 4)
Re^r^t^ vvimams. nomcui.
Recreation Director, will act in the
of librarian and will be on
nand from 8:45 A., M., until 5:00
win 1 books. The books
wooir tr a period of one
weeK. However, if the reader re
quires more time, books may be re-
an adtJitional week.
We have in our files a request
list so in the event that you do not
find your reading interests on our
shelves We shouid appreciate your
suggestions for iuture book orders.
Among the mar^y famous authors
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Mr. A. J. Loeb, better known to
Ecustans as “Art” Loeb, recently
returned to Brevard. Mr. Loeb is
Vjce Pres, of the California Central
Fibre Corporation and has been lo
cated at El Centro, Calif., for the
past year. On Nov. 12, Mr. Loeb
was married to the former Miss
Kathleen Vachreau of Wausau,
Wis. The ceromony took place in
Chicago and their honeymoon was
spent in Florida. We extend our
very best wishes to the bride an-,
groom and hope that their stf-i-
here will be an extended one, je.
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