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PAGE SIXTEEN Tm ECHO MARCH, 19^ Men In Armed Forces Pay Us A Visl Another member of the Army Air corps ground crew, Pfe. Thom as Ede^, who was employed in the Cafeteria prior to his induction into the Army in March of 1943, visited Ecusta Jan. 20th. After a few weeks of basic training at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., he was sent to mechanics school in Lin coln, Nebraska. At present he is stationed at Farmingdale, Long Island, N, Y. Pfc. Edens was home on a 12-day furlough. • Cpl. Lester C. Wilson, former Maintenance Mechanic, who is soon to enter Cadet training in the Air Corps, visited the plant Jan. 21st. He has been to airplane mechanic school, aerial gunnery .school, and is now stationed at Laredo, Texas. With him, visiting the plant was a Brevard boy, Sgt. Oscar R. Bry son, who has just returned from the Southwest Pacific. Newest In Showers Wins Promotion A member of the Amphibious Corps of the Navy, Jesse Gossett, Electrician’s Mate, 3-c, who visited us last fall, came in again on Jan. 21st.. (We like to see all Ecusta men in service on every leave or furlough). Before entering the Naval service in March of last year, he was employed by Ecusta as a member of the Landscape Crew. He has had four months of electrical training and has been on sea duty for two months. His over seas ribbon is for the American theatre of operations. Pvt. Floyd Callahan, formerly employed in the Finishing depart ment, is now with an Engineering division of the Army stationed in Nashville, Tenn. He had been on maneuvers since December 11, ^nd returned from a 3-day pass here to Tenn. Pvt. Callahan took his basic and engineering training at Breckenridge, Kentucky. He is an assistant air compressor operator. Cpl, James C. Gevedon, has seen action since he left Ecusta in March, 1942. He has been in Alas ka for 19 months in the Air Corps Weather Wing, and is wearing three service ribbons: 1. Asiatic- Pacific campaign, 2. American the atre, 3. Good Conduct. Cpl. Geve don took his basic and engineering training at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo. Before entering the service he was employed as a Millwright Foreman at Ecusta. Another former employee who has seen much action visited Jan 25th. T-Sgt. James T. WiDiams, of the U. S. Marines, was in during his 30-day leave. After leaving Ecusta, where he worked as a di gester cook, October 5, 1941, and taking his basic training at Parris Island, S. C., he went to quarter master school at Toledo, Ohio. He has been in the South Pacific for 16 months and returns wearing four campaign ribbons: 1. Presi dential citation with a star for Guadalcanal, 2. Asiatic duty with a star for one engagement. 3. American theatre, and 4. Pre- Pearl Harbor service ribbon. Sgt Williams tells us that he expecte to ask for another school here in the States. Cpl. Russell Allen, Newport News, Va., paid a visit Jan. 10th during his seven-day furlough. Be fore entering the service he was employed here in the Pulp Mill. Cpl. Allen has had two months of maneuvering in West Va. After his furlough he returned to ^ hos pital in Newport. SECOND LIEUT. DeWITT DRAKE, former payroll depart ment employee, is taking advan- tag€^ of this new type shower somewhere in the Florida swamps. The snapshot was taken during a 10-day bivouac while DeWitt was stationed at Miami Beach in officers* candidate schooL Lieut. Drake has been in the army air corps since the summer of 1942. A Flight Engineer in the Army Air Corps, Pfc. Frederick E. Bish op, visited January 25th. This was his first furlough (18 days) since he entered the service in March of last year. He has attended air plane mechanics school after his basic and had, at the time of his visit, just completed training at a special school at Douglas Aircraft. Santa Monica, Calif, He was re turning to San Francisco for his next assignment. The ribbon he was wearing was “Sons of the American Revolution.’* Cpl. William A. Lyday, who has been training pilots at an air corps base in Roswell, New Mexico, visit ed Ecusta January 25th. and again March 15th. He is a former em ployee of the Power Plant, and has been in the army since Sept., 1942 Cpl. Lyday tells us that Elmore Collins, a former employee of Champagne, is also stationed in Roswell as a radio operator. At the time of his last visit Cpl. Ly day was being given a new assign ment—maybe an overseas address he picks up his combat crew at Salt Lake City, Utah. Another former employee of Champagne, Tech. 4 Lewis M. Meece, visited on Jan. 28th. He is in the medical corps stationed at present in Shreveport, Louisiana. After taking his basic training at Camp Croft, S. C., he was imme diately assigned to duty at Fort Lewis, Washington, working in an Office. He was expecting to be sent to La. on maneuvers for two months while he was home on this recent 15-day furlough. During a 10-day furlough (Jan. 6th) Pfc. William H. Tritt, former ly employed in the Warehouse here, now in an army Infantry Division, visited. He had just been in Louisiana for two months of maneuvers and for desert training in California. At present he is sta tioned at Ft. Dix, N. J., with the Quartermaster corps. Pfc. Tritt has >een in the Anny for 17 n»onths. Troy Drake, Coxswain v* — ficer 3rd Class), who was a Champagne printer, visited ® plant Jan. 6th. After complf® his Radio and Amphibious train® in Penn, and Virginia respective? he has been at sea since last He was wearing two campaign ^ bons; for the European theatrej months) with 2 stars for coi ' and for the American theatre, ter a 13-day leave with his he was reporting again to his Carl Mooney, S 2-c, Champagne janitor, was here Gently during a 14-day leave- had completed his boot traini?^ Great Lakes, 111., and upon his ^ turn he takes four montb® Diesel training. R. JOHN PICKELSIMER, former Ecusta backtender, has won an early promotion in the Navy as result of his past civil ian training. Because he has had sufficient experience in a tradei essential in the Navy, he was advanced to the rating of Hospital apprentice, 1-c. After his visit here, he returned for re-assignment to active duty aboard a naval warship or to some naval shore station. Captain Ralph L. Waldrop, who left Ecusta in 1941 from working in the Pulp Mill to work with Uncle Sam as a Chemical Warfare property officer, visited friends here Jan. 11, while on a 15-day leave. First he was stationed at Camp Tyson, Texas, then at Camp Davis, N. C. This visit was Capt Waldrop’s first in over a year. He has been an officer in the Reserve since 1936; he’s wearing the Pre- Pearl Harbor ribbon. A member of an Infantry Di vision, Cpl. Russell Owen, came in for a visit on Jan. 11. Before en tering the Army, Cpl. Owen work ed in the Chemical Laboratory of Ecusta as a helper. Since taking his basic training at Camp Waters. Texas, he has been stationed at the Induction Center. He was home on a 15-day furlough. On Jan. 11th, during a 10-day furlough. Pvt. WiUiam Drake visit ed Ecusta. He was employed in the Machine Room before entering the Army in May of 1942. He is in the ground crew of the Army Air corps. After attending an Airplane Mechanic school and an Engine Specialist school, he was sent to Rosecrans Field, St. Joseph, Mo. Motor Machinist Mate, 3-c, Rich ard (“Dick”) Lance, who has just completed his P. T. boat training, was home recently on leave (9 days) and visited Ecusta on Jan. 13. Before entering the Navy in March of last year, Dick was scale repair man at Ecusta. After his leave he was expecting to be sent out. S-Sgt. HaU L. Owen, who was formerly employed in the Chemi cal Laboratory before entering the Army in March of 1941, visited Ecusta on Jan. 13th. Sgt. Owen has been serving in Panama with the Army Air corps. He is in a Bombardment group and at the time of his visit was unassigned. He was married recently to a Bre vard girl. ^ Sgt. Frank A Smith, Tecbtf^^ 4th Class, is now stationed at Adair, Oregon. On Jan. visited Ecusta. Prior to Novel® 1942, he was employed in the _ ishing department. He visited “. ing a 17-day furlough which granted after the completion f weeks of maneuvers in ton. Sgt. Smith took his basic ^ ing in Oregon, at Camp Whit®' Pfc. Lewis P. Bagwell, Machine Room employee, Ecusta Jan. 19th during a ^ furlough. When he returne*^ Smoky Hill A. A. Field in Kansas, where he is stationej^ wife, the former Katherine son, who used to work in pagne, and his family with him. He says that wh^ was on K. P. he met Karl —didn’t even know that he j at the same camp.-Before home he went by to see found him dancing with a Jli Carolina girl. (Real “Tar ^ meeting in Kansas). . Second Engineer L e 1 i ^ V Reece, of the Navy, visited 19th. Before entering the s® ^ in February, 1942, he was an / ta Machinist. He has taken y his naval training at NeW and, at the time of his leave, he was trying for ao f engineering school for was qualified along with f/ others chosen from twenty r,0' Lt. (2nd) Gordon Fowlc^Jjf Army Air Forces Pilot, visit® January 31st. He is a form®* p ployee of Champagne. classification, pre-flight, f basic, and advanced traini®|i!‘' won his wings in July of has been assigned to activ®. in Panama where he was J P-39 and « P40. He was a 11-day leave. Former Pulp Mill emploj^^si Jack Moore, S 1-c, visited 28th. He was home on a ^ / leave from the U. S. Station at Ft. Lauderdale. ^ ' where he. is stationed. Moore left here for the tober 16, 1942, took his boot ing at Jacksonville, Fla., i' been at sea duty since adds his thanks to Ecusta * Christmas gift in the ^ guest book. Bobby Norwood, Seam^|*' who used to be with Ecusta crew and who is now in the visited on January 31. M statiqned at the U. S. station at Jacksonville, ^ the Naval Air Corps resei^^j-^ has asked for machinist mat® ing. Bobby was home on ^ leave,
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