THE ECHO
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OFFICE BITS
Having Wonderful Time-Wish You Were Here! I Finighing Touches
We have been trying to catch the
Easter “Wabbit” that has been hid
ing eggs in the water fountain the
few weeks and just imagine our
'usappointment when we finally dis
covered that Carl Stephens laid them
. . Whe-e-e-eeee! Such a ray
sunshine you never saw unless
you were around the day Lil Burch
learned that the “General” was com-
home to stay ... If everyone
as much fun at the Ecusta
?luare dance as Pete Eberle, there
IS no doubt that it was a complete
ycess. Can Pete swing ’em??? . . .
Jladame Fortuneteller — knows-all,
^®us-all, but guarantees nothing. For
appointments between 1:00 P. M.
call Rose Alice Rozier at
• • . . . Thelma (better known as
and Jack Alexander were
^elcome visitors at the office last
Week . . . There seems to be a con-
^^ual shifting in the personnel
®found here —Francis O’Briant to
the Payroll Department, Ruth Orr
0 the Stockroom and “Ted” Reese—
new recruit from Hendersonville
Office Boy . . . Jimmy Dixon
Strolled into the office in that spick
th uniform the other day and
girls were swarming around him
bees—well, that is, if he had let
flem get that close to him ... In
^se you are interested, we can tell
you why Katherine English made a
get-away at 5:00 o’clock every
% last week—of course a uniform
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Some people believe everything they hear but we don’t believe any of
that and only part of what we see. However, the above picture was
reason enough for Grace Allison and Sarah H. Jackson to make reser
vations on the first plane West. Our former co-workers are, left to
right: “Curly” McCurry, Backtender; Gerald Allison, Machine Room;
and Bob Jackson, Control Tester in the Refining Lab. All three boys
are now stationed at Camp Santa Anita, Arcadia, Calif.
LETTERS HOME
Dear Mr. Wells: March 14, 1943
I promised to let you know when
I got stationed. I am deep in the
heart of Texas—nice place for wild
hogs not for an Ecusta' worker.
Would like to receive an Echo very
much. Tell the Ecusta fellows to
keep that good pulp rolling and I’ll
keep drilling.
Your friend,
PVT. CHARLES MITCHELL
Btry C 114th C.A.BN. (AA)
AAA fc
, I^ieutenant (jg) Earl Fowler,
better known to Ecusta employees
“Cotton,” was formerly Printing
Operator for Champagne and is
located at Floyd Bennett Field
^ Brooklyn, N. Y. During the past
jjar he has made 23 trips across
•■he continent ferrying bombers.
INSPECTION D
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Mildred L. is flying south. We
to see you go but hope some
you’ll be back . . . Bob Me. says
the best ways he knows of
lading yourself in the dog house is
smoke in bed . . . Since ice cream
j “frozen” (some pun) Stella has
her taste for dessert... It would
^ve amused you to see Worth W.
^ack his lips over that bottle of hot
^^ter. Someone drank his cola cola
refilled the bottle with hot water,
he drank it and never knew the
^^fference. . . We are all glad to wel-
®me back our good friend and most
spendable worker, Vernon Lominac
1.^0 has just finished a four month
Jitch with Uncle Sam. Vernon has
gathered some interesting informa-
and a few predictions. Anyone
^^rested in hearing something of
life consult Vernon . . . Little
Riding Hood (our own little
says that the story book Rid-
Hood was most fortunate. She
to contend with only one big bad
but now there are dozens of
on every corner and not a soul
w ^I'ighten them away . . . With nine
jjjore splices to make I’ll say “so
until next month.
Dear Mr. Wells,
I wish to take this opportunity
to thank everyone concerned for the
cigarettes. It was a great pleasure
to get them even at this late date.
We have been travelling for almost
two months and have now reached
the 46th station. Sure a great pleas
ure to find several copies of the
Echo waiting for me too. Hope to
continue receiving them. Thanks
again for the Christmas gift.
Very truly yours,
PVT. WOODROW FISHER
Fort Bliss, Texas.
March 6, 1943
Dear Mr. Wells:
I received your letter and Echo
and appreciated them so much for
through the Echo I can find out
where so many of the boys are sta
tioned. But am exceedingly sorry
that I haven’t written before now.
I don’t have much time left for writ
ing and am only allowed to write
three letters in one week and then
one has to be so careful what one
writes that it makes it very difficult.
Through you I want to thank
Ecusta for the nice box of stationery
and hope everything is running
smoothly there as it seems to be.
It must be getting difficult to get
desirable help since so many are be
ing called into service. I sincerely
hope this will soon be over and I
can return there and become a mem
ber of that great organization once
again for I never enjoyed working
with any Co. as much as I did there.
I believe you said I had a bond
there. Will you please send it to my
wife in Murfreesboro. Thanking you
kindly.
Sincerely,
HORACE W. HALL
251st Station Hospital
Camp Carson, Colorado
March 12, 1943
Dear Mr. Wells:
As I am forwarding my new ad
dress I would like to express my ap
preciation for each and every edition
of the Echo. >
Camp Carson is a mce camp and
after once getting acclimated I’M
sure I’ll lil^^e it just fine. I’m par
ticularly interested in finding some
of those “cow-girls” I’ve read so
much about—without spurs. There
seem to be quite a few rodeos so I
should succeed.
Expressing my best regards to
each and everyone, I am.
Yours very truly,
J. D. POLAND
Dear Mr. Wells,
Boy! Was I pleased today when I
received the Feb. copy of the Echo.
It was almost like a trip back to good
old Ecusta. I will have to be content
with it anyway until I get liberty
enough to visit the plant again which
I hope is soon. I wont be able to get
a leave home or to the plant until we
win this war, I don’t guess.
Bet the weather is fine down in
good old N. C. It has been plenty
cold here until today and it is just
like spring time back home. I was
re'ading in the Echo about Lt. Bol-
lin Milner and his interesting trip to
Africa. I will agree with him ex
cept for one thing and that was the
good food. Maybe I didn’t go to the
right place. I am sending you a
cigarette from over here. You can
compare it to one of ours. I’d like
to take a trip over for pleasure but
not on a ship for I got plenty sick
going over.
Will have to close and get ready to
go see my girl friend. The best of
luck to all at Ecusta. Don’t let us
down! Buy A Bond!
Yours truly,
FLOYD BUCHANAN
Hello, folks! They call it gossip
(sometimes heard over the back
fence) but that method is old fash
ioned now and here’s a puss from C
shift that just loves to tell what’s
going on! , . . Listen, you who are
brave! Just take a peek at some of
the badges (not mine, I have nothing
against anyone) and test your cour
age. It is a test for courage and we
hope you’re good at running back
wards for it’s a good bet that you
wont take the time to turn around.
. . . Guess who came to work with
Mildred W. the other evening—a
soldier! Of course he was stuck in
a little ole 6 by 8 picture frame but
that didn’t keep him from making a
whale of an impression . . . Has any
one, er, I mean everyone seen J. C.’s
new Easter bonnet? Quite clevah
and yes, becoming too. Don’t tell if
I’m letting you in on a secret, but
he just draped and shaped an old
waste bobbin into a nightmare which
win sell at the bargain price of $3.99
plus tax . . . Now take it easy, fel
lahs. There’s no use arguing about
which of the new bobbin carriers is
the best looking. It’s only a matter
of opinion, you know . . . We had no
idea Merril could blush so prettily
until Ed M. got the best of him. Boy,
you could have lit a cigarette on his
face. Still plottin’ to get even, Mer
ril? ... A certain boy (genius) would
make a No. 1 bootlegger but if his
success is to continue he’ll have to
sell something besides warm straw
berry dopes and melted ice cream . . .
By the way, does anyone know Ed
M.? He forgot his picture (bet it’s
the skeleton in his closet) and want
ed to be identified so he could go
to work. We enjoyed having Ed as
our foreman and found him pleasant
to work with. He liked working with
us too (?) but don’t ask him about
it. How does it feel being a visitor,
Ed? . , . Charles H’s mustache looks
so much a part of him that we could
almost believe it was inherited . . .
Our new bobbin cleaner receives a
visitor every night. Just wondered
if it could be getting serious . . . Bet
Margaret gets tired of hearing people
ask what she does to make her hair
so lovely. It’s just naturally pretty,
girls . . . Golly, Mabel, what could
possess you to snatch a pocketbaak
and keep it for two whole nights? A
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Enters Service
Dear Mr. Wilber:
Received a card from you quite
some time ago. In fact, I guess it
has been months. I am always glad
to hear from friends at Ecusta and
I am sorry I haven’t answered soon
er. I believe you said you were a
poor letter writer. I guess you think
I’m a helluva lot worse. I have been
moving around so much lately I
haven’t been able to do as much
writing as I would like to.
I am in New Guinea now and of
course, that’s about all I can say. I
write Lyda occasionally. I wrote
last so tell him I am expecting to
hear soon. Tell Mr. Bennett hello
for me.
Best regards,
HARRY (LAUGHTER)
Jack Smith left for the service
in March of this year. Jack work
ed in the Slitter Service in the
Finishing Department. Other than
the fact that “He’s in the Army
now,” we have no definite infor
mation concerning him. We would
greatly appreciate a bit of news
Jack.
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