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No. 5
PISGAH FOREST, N. C.
May, 1944
Minstrel Show To Be Given On June 9
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KWt FIRST PUCE
^^chine Room, Duke’s Mix-
^**6 And Gashouse Beat
ers Are Tied
j^^custa’s baseball season is off
ko having
^Q , Sanies rained out. In the
tgj, ^®header played yesterday af-
o,jt the Duke’s Mixtures nosed
t ^schine Room by a score
w.. ^ 4 and the Gashouse Beaters
to the Control team at 14
eud the game called at the
the fourth because of rain,
ois brings the team standing
h ^te with three teams, Machine
hou^’ Duke’s Mixture and Gas-
iu heaters, tying for first place
^ league, each having won
^ and lost one. Control
^ost three and won none.
’‘fiath tilts, Fred Gil-
Pitched the winning game for
foj® Mixture and Payne pitched
H Room. Bud White
winning game for Gas-
Seaters over Bob Head for
the possibility of having
the games carried over to
of the season because of
it was decided at a re-
of the captains that
' game called off on Fridays
^ played the following
line-up for next week’s
Is as follows; 1st game be-
^ l^uke’s Mixture and Control,
efj ®®cond game: Gashouse Beat-
'^®rsus Machine Room.
Bond Drive
Will Start Soon
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Is o sigantic invasion of Europe
iieaj.?®®ted to be started in the
in Q^ture by the men and women
th,
armed forces and here on
front the Fifth War
will be launched on
% 12, and every patri-
the 1 *^ilian is supposed to be in
of this important cam-
“backing the attack.”
as they have responded to
ft® Ecustans
ill fi,.P®cted to do their full share
BASEBALL SEASON NOW UNDERWAY
*^®^ional quota is sixteen
$idn^°llars and the state quota
t»d^.ooo,ooo.
.® for conducting the cam-
Transylvania county have
? kiQi? ^®en made. There will be
banquet, 12 rallies and
^Ut solicitation,
h Cohi ® *^ot wait for some one
tact Ecusta workers. Let’s
th l^^y extra bonds dur-
fifth loan drive. Emphasis
" placed on individual pur-
The Ecusta departmental baseball league season is now in
progress with four crack teams in the league. The above photo
was made during an opening game. The teams play every Fri
day afternoon, provided the weather man permits diamond ac
tion. All employees are invited to see the games.
Official War Pictures To Be Shown
For Employees In Cafeteria June I
Wounded Soldiers
At Hospital Liked
Ecusta’s Program
The program given at Moore
General Hospital on Thursday af
ternoon, May 11th, by a group of
Ecusta entertainers, was said to
have been one of the best received
entertainments given there. This
program was one of a series of
regular afternoon recreational en
tertainments given at the Red
Cross Center as a part of the
reconditioning and rehabilitation
plan at Moore General.
In a letter received from Lt.
Donald Currie, assistant recondi
tioning officer, he stated, “Please
accept my thanks to all of your
performers for the splendid show
you presented on May 11. It was
easily the best received of any
entertainment that has appeared
on the Reconditioning afternoon
program.’^ Lt. Currie also extend
ed an invitation to the entertainers
to return for another engagement
in July.
The program presented at the
Hospital consisted of a specially
arranged selection of mountain
songs played and sung by the
Mountain Music Makers. This was
followed by an interesting talk on
the manufacture of cigarette paper
by General Superintendent Ray
mond F. Bennett, after which John
Eversman, accompanied by Mary
Glass, played several violin solos.
The program closed with Lucille
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Films Obtained From War
Department. Many Front
line Battle Scenes
BIG PERFORMANCE
TO BE STAGED IN
ECUSTA CAFETERIA
Four official War department
motion picture films, showing
many recent frontline battle scenes
in several theatres of.World War
two, will be shown on Thursday
night, June 1, at 8:30 o’clock in
the Cafeteria for the benefit of
employees and their wives or hus
bands under the sponsorship of
the Recreational department.
All employees are urgently in
vited to see these newest and
strictly official war pictures which
the company is obtaining through
the War department.
The four films that will be shown
next Thursday night will last for
an hour and 36 minutes. These
four films are as follows:
“Film Communique No. 5.” This
picture includes an unusually ex
citing footage entitled, “Bloody
Tarawa”, “Two Mill Dollar Hill,”
combat shots from Italy, Cassino
warfare, Hawaiian jungle training,
shots of General Marshall, chief of
staff, watching our men cross a
jungle stream on a rope bridge
under heavy simulated enemy fire.
“All American.” This is a vivid
picture story of the army air forces
in operation all over the world,
taken by combat cameramen. It is
an absorbing presentation of the
battle performance of American
planes.
“Life Line” is a camera record
of the opening attack against Ren-
dova and Munda, the Japs’ counter-
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Second Annual Show. Bill
Jordan To Be Interlocu
tor. Several In Cast
The «ext big Ecusta employee
party will be held in the Cafeteria
beginning at 8:30 o^ clock on Fri
day night, June 9th, and the speci
al attraction will be Ecusta’s Sec
ond Annual Minstrel Show given
by the Ecusta Minstrels.
One of the best received enter
tainments presented at employee
parties last year was the big min
strel show and it was decided at
that time, if possible, to make it
an annual affair.
The Recreation Department has
announced that this year’s per
formance gives promise of being
even a bigger and better show
than last, with new faces, new
jokes, new songs and new dances.
Bill Jordan will serve as Inter
locutor and will introduce the fun-
makers and entertainers and will
swap jokes and tall tales with the
four Black-face “end men,” Walter
Kay, Luke Harrison, Rupert Gor
don and Hunley Mehaffey.
Interspersing the “gag” lines
will be featured new songs, mu
sical and dancing specialties, star
ring a girls’ sextette with Gladyce
Teague, Felicia Edwards, Helen
Kimzey, Lucille Heffner, Naomi
Ashe and Lou Lockman; Miss
Emmie Neuberger, soprano; How
ard Wilkie, basso; John Eversman,
violinist; Lucille Heffner, song-
stylist; the Ecusta Male Quartet
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Ecusta Wins Trophy
For Safety Record
Ecusta Paper Corporation has
been awarded a handsome bronze
trophy in recognition of having
won the safety contest carried on
in the Western North Carolina
Safety Council during 1943, in
group 1.
This group is composed of the
American Enka corporation, the
Champion Paper and Fiber com
pany, Sales Biltmore Bleacheries,
Inc., Beacon Manufacturing com
pany and Ecusta Paper corpora
tion.
The contest was based on the
plant winning the most months dur
ing the year. The standings were
as follows, Ecusta 6, Sayles 5 and
Champion 1.
From July 26, 1943 to January
8, 1944, Ecusta had a continuous
operation without a timeloss ac
cident and accumulated a record
of over 1,097,904 man hours of
safe operation.
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