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THE ECHO
February, 1943
THE ECHO
Organ of Employees at
Ecusta Paper Corporation
Champagne Paper Corporation
and Endless Belt Company
Editor Miss Justine Williams
Published Monthly at
PISGAH FOREST, N. C.
Printed by Champagne Job Printing
Department.
Book. Corner
Our recent list of book orders in
cludes some worthwhile information
on successful gardening. We have
also written the Dept, of Agr. for
government pamphlets and bulletins
on this subject and in conversation
with our County Agent, Mr. Julian
Glazener, we learned that within a
week’s time a real storehouse of in
formation on gardening will be avail
able to Ecusta employees in our own
Ecusta Library. This literature is
free and is set up in such readable
and concise form that even we gard
eners in the novice class can feel con
fident of the fruits of our labors.
We decided one day to make a
check on our readers and in so doing
discovered that Wallace Walton of
the Finishing Dept, read ten books
during the month of January. Otto
Goepfert ran a close second having
read nine books in the same length
of time. Our regular readers aver
age three to four books each month
but it is also gratifying to see new
faces in our library each week for
we are anxious that our reading pub
lic continue to expand.
We expect to receive at least a
part of our order of new books with
in a week or two and hope to have
them ready for circulation very soon
thereafter. We know that many of
you are pressed for time and cannot
visit us as often as you would like
but if you will call the library we
will be glad to check out a book or
even make a selection for you so that
you can rush in, pick up your book
and still manage to make that bus.
We miss our library assistant, Lil
Clarke, who is absent due to illness,
lil takes a personal interest in «ach
of our readers and always has a
world of suggested readings for you,
Ma, Pa and the kiddies. We hope her
conspicuous absence is of short dura
tion.
Do You Know?
First Group of Ecusta’s Voluntary Blood Donors
That,the leather in a single steer
hide is enough to supply all the
leather in the outfits of six soldiers
for one year?
That the average U. S. motorist
formerly burned 653 gallons of gaso
line a year—enough to drive a light
army tank 653 miles toward the ene
my?
That there is enough cloth in the
cuffs of 21 pairs of trousers to make
one complete uniform?
That a four-engine bomber uses
one ton of rubber for over 50 differ
ent purposes?
That it requires one ton of paper
to wrap 17,000 rounds of fuses for
the Army?
Pictured above are 19 Endless Belt employees who were the first to
volunteer as blood donors at Ecusta. Jack Davies, extreme right,
back row, is Endless Belt Foreman and was the originator of the idea
of having such group available in cases of emergency. From left to
right, front row: Billie Hollifield, Alba Drake, Elouise Matthews, Beat
rice Galloway, Mary Lou Moore, Edna Alexander. Left to right, back
row: Alvin Blythe, Sidney Becher, Jettie Bruce, Jewel Leslie, Fritz
Brauer, Estelle Galloway, Rachel Hamlin, Thelma Daniels, Virgie
Thomas, Mary Sue Thome, Richard Landeck, Geneva Newman, Jack
Davies.
Finishing C
February in all its glory! It must
exert some unknown power on the
minds of mortals, especially those
of Finishing. Maybe it’s a new-found
energy or maybe it’s just a New
Year’s resolution dragging behind
from last month but, nevertheless,
here we are presenting our bit to
the Echo. We, the C Shift hereby
hang our heads in shame for the
neglect we have shown in not having
offered our bit of news in the months
past .... The old C Shift aint what
she used to be but is still holding
her own, for as our old members
drift away new ones drift in. Lately
we have lost from our slitters such
operators as Eva Lee Owens, Freda
Ray, and Louise Bryson. For Freda
and Iva Lee, Baltimore is calling
. . . . Our new members are Irene
Garren, Volina Pressley and William
Beck .... Dan Cupid must have
shot a fateful arrow in the direction
of Edith Wilkie. Or was it that half
grown moon that was soaring o’er
Hendersonville on and around Val
entine’s Day? Whatever it was has
had its due results and Edith is
sparkling a rock on third finger, left
hand .... An old member of our
“Gas House Gang”, Elmo Collins,
now known as Cpl. Dwight E. in
Uncle Sam’s forces, was in our midst
for a whole week but didn’t get to
visit us. His presence probably had
something to do with Operator No. 1
being absent for three nights. But
now “She Wears a Pair of Silver
Wings” .... Some few of us have
already indulged in vacations which
were so generously given. Lillian
Jones took hers but I’ll wager it
wasn’t enjoyed too much. She is
now minus a pair of tonsils. Others
who have taken their vacations are
Garland Jones, Ann Singletary, Mary
Lee Greene, Falcon Davenport, Char
lie Hamilton, Virginia Townley, Mer
rill Capps, and Marvin Jones. I start
ed to mention Jo Davis but she says
that wasn’t her vacation. These sold
iers are bothersome, aren’t they?
.... Mary Lee is leaving us too.
We ^te to see her go but here’s
hoping she’ll be back with us some
day. She is going now to do her
bit for her Uncle .... Charlie Stepp,
Bobbin Cleaner, was out for a week
but I wouldn’t call a bad case of flu
a vacation. He’s back now though
and we’re glad to see him . . . .
Marvin Jones now knows the trials
and tribulations of being a Papa.
He’s happy about the whole thing
and is walking on air. The young
heiress is Peggy Pauline. Mrs. Jones
we of Finishing know as our former
Pearl Banks .... Freda Corn, who
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Former Ecustan Serves
Under Three Flags
We had a visit February 5th from
Ensign Hilliard (“Mickey”) Coch
rane, who used to be a Clerk in the
Mill Office, later transferred to
Machine Shop Office.
His military experience is rather
unique. He enlisted with the Roy
al Canadian Air Force shortly be
fore Canada declared war on Ger
many and received pilot’s training
in Canada where he was located
for a year.
This was followed by a year with
the RCAF attached to the Royal
Air Force in England as a Sergeant
pilot. Mickey has seen some in
teresting service over Europe but
he minds his Uncle Sam (or John
Bull) and won’t tell much about it.
A short time ago he was sworn
in at London as an Ensign in the
U. S. Navy, having at last complet
ed a transfer for which he had ex
pressed a desire following Japan’s
attack on Pearl Harbor.
After a short furlough with his
mother in Asheville he was assign
ed to the Jacksonville, Florida,
Naval Air Base. We hope he will
keep his friends at Ecusta inform
ed of his whereabouts and come to
see us again.
IN APPRECIATION
It would be our wish to personal
ly thank each friend who rendered
us a service at the time of our sis
ter’s illness and death. But since
so much was done for us, and so
many offers of help were received
from people, especially blood donors
whom we did not previously know,
we felt there might be some whom
we have failed to reach by indivi
dual acknowledgement. Lest this
should be so, we take this means of
thanking any friends who helped
us, with whom we are not in per
sonal touch.
Every effort made in Evelyn’s be
half, every kind ministration that
brightened her last days, and every
helpful service to us at the time of
her death will always be held in
grateful memory.
Mickey Tinsley, Mary Caro
lyn McIntosh and Family.
THE COMMON WASP which makes
big, ball-like nests in the trees was
the first paper-maker. For hundreds
of years men have experimented in
making paper, using various mater
ials but have come back for most
papo" requirements, to the very same
material the wasp uses—wood pulp.
‘SNAKEBITE REMEDY IS
BETTER THAN BITE”
A good safety lesson is illustrated
in the story of the old Missourian
who always tramped over his lan°
and killed off the rattlesnakes the
day before he began his plowing.
When asked if it wasn’t a danger*
ous practice, the old Missourian
drawled, “Reckon so, but if I don’*
kill the critters today when I’m loot
in’, they’re liable to kill me tomor”
row when I aint lookin’.”
This old boy had learned a lesson
that some of us have yet to lea^
He was fully aware that on his job
there were certain hazards he
to eliminate before he could worlJ
with any degree of safety.
The next time you have a job
do, it would be a smart idea to fol
low the practice of our hillbilly
friend and eliminate the “rattle
snakes” before you begin.
It takes very little time to plan a
job safely. But hours of misery
suffering lie in wait for the nian
who plunges in without first making
a survey of the dangers he shouW
guard against
WILL YOUR EYES BE
AMONG THE INJURED?
Every day approximately 1.00^
workers suffer eye injuries in Anief'
ican factories, mines and shops. Tb®
total of eye injuries runs well o^er
300,000 per year. During 1942,
example, the National Safety Coudcw
estimates that 3,300,000 man-hours
were lost through industrial eye _^^'
cidents—the amount of work tim®
necessary to build 100 fighter pla^^®J'
The sad part of it all is that 98%
of these accidents would not hav®
happened—if the workers had beei*
wearing protective goggles.
Wear YOUR goggles—not on
forehead — but over your eyes —
protect your most precious posses
sion: Your eyesight. Every 36 sec
onds, an eye is lost—or, if the work
er is wearing goggles, an eye is sav
ed. Which is it going to be in YOU*^
case?
Accidents Can Be Prevented
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Shipping & Janitors
Printing „
Hand Booklet %
Machine Booklet g
Gumming & Repse g
Machine Shop & Electrical ?
Endless Belt «
Refining
Electrical ^
Maintenance ^
Finishing
Inspection L
Machine Room ^
Chemical Lab. «
Power Dept. ^
Filter Plant
Yard Crew g
Fibre Warehouse ..
Cleaners & Janitors ^
Cafeteria
Police & Watchmen «
Offices 2
Landscape Crew ^
Physical Testing Lab. „ri
Pulp Mill
Storehouse ^
Salvage Dept.
TOTAL - 335
—By H. E. Newbury-
SAFETY
has but a single purpose of
livering youj your family and
neighbor from the bitter bondas^
of accidents. You have only to
it, and it is yours in abunda^
measure. It is withheld from n®® ^
Without it, you walk alone in
shadow of disaster. With it, y ^
are supported by the promise
secure and richer life.