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PAGE SIX THE ECHO JUNE, News from Boys in Service PLENTY OF GIRLS AROUND U. S. Coast Guard Training Station, Palm Beach, Fla. May 5, 1944 Dear Helen (Steppe) and Jackie (Walker): If my writing goes cockeyed you will know it’s because yesterday we all had two shots and a blood test in one arm and another shot in the other arm, and got up and marched for an hour on the field. So, if you think our arms don’t ache, you’re crazier than you are when you’re with me. No foolin’, everyone in the room (6 of us) was awake last night and about 3 of ’em talked in their sleep. This is lots of fun but it’s got plenty of hard work attached and that’s no lie. You very seldom have a minute to yourself, and one day we have classes, and the next day we worl^ and vice versa. But I really like it, and the first time we had drill I was the only one who saluted right—after all those crazy salutes we handed each other at Ecusta. I guess I’m the one, huh? Now, listen, I haven’t had any mail yet (of course, neither has anyone else) but all the same ho\ about writing me lots, on account of I need my morale lifted at night when they play “Taps.” I get homesick for all my little girl friends. Tell everyone hello, and I wish you were all here, no fool ing. Palm Beach is a beautiful place, and guess what? No liberty for five weeks, which means we’re cdhfined to this station. It’s not too bad, though. Movies (free!) three times a week. We swim at the Sun and Surf club,. eat like horses — this air and everything makes you so hungry and every one gains weight, they say. Men—^what are they? There are about 15 men in this whole station of 2,000 girls and we can’t even talk to ’em. I’ll bet we go up and down steps at least 10 or 11 times a day, and that’s about 2,000 steps a day ’cause we’re on D Deck and can’t use the elevators unless we’re sick. Me, I should be sick all the time! Gotta “muster” (that’s “line up” to you) for Coast Guard class. Tell everyone to write. Love, Phyllis Hampton (Apprentice Seaman) BUSY EXECUTIVE ENJOYS FISHING IN W.N.C. Mr. Luther Hodges, of New York City, vice president of Marshall Field and Co., is shown above en joying a fe,w moments’ relaxation while fishing at High Falls, in Buck Forest, North Carolina. Mr. Hodges, an outstanding manufacturing executive, re;cently visited Ecusta and Western North Carolin#- The heat in Washington is quite different from that in N. C. around the lakes where I spent my free time. Since there are no lakes here, you can imagine how the people suffer. I’m enjoying the WAVE life here very much — wouldn’t tak^ anything for this experience. I only hope what little I do will help to bring all our boys home soon. Best of luck to all the employees at Ecusta. An ex-Ecusta Worker, EDNA BELL (Sp. (P) 3c) PROUD OF ECUSTANS Washington, D. C., May 12, 1944 Dear Mr. Wells: The Echo arrives regularly each month. Let me say thank you. It means an awful lot to receive them and leam the latest news from home. It’s good to read where the boys and girls in service are and to know what they’re doing. It make^ me, as well as the other members of the armed forces, proud to know how well you are carrying on the good work at Ecusta. We realize the shortage of labor everywhere, and we are glad to know the people there are behind us and wishing with each of us that Victory will soon be ours« Let me take the pleasure to thank you for giving me the privilege of going through the plant when I was home last. I was very happy to see all the old friends again. I hope to get the chance again in the near future. The weather is getting very warm here in the nation’s capital. WRITE FROM N. AFRICA North J*^!rica, May 31, 1944. Dear Mr. Straus: Even though Charles Mitchell and I are so far from home, we receive the Echo regularly, and want to thank you many times for it. We like to see what the boys are doing back at the plant; we are glad to know that they are keeping the good work on the up ward trend, and hope we can soon be back at the plant, helping them. We are both in good health, and feel fine. Besides that, we get our mail regularly most of the time, and that is what counts with us. We finally received the box of stationery that you sent for Christ mas. Thanks a million, for writing paper is about our biggest problem over here, and we have to write home to ask for everything w# get. ^ We noticed in that Echo that you would subscribe for one of the four magazines mentioned, for each one of the employees in the service, if we would request it. We think that it is grand of you to want to help us so much. Our reading facilities aren’t any too good over here so we would like to have you send us Life magazine, and thanks a million for your kindness. Sincerely yours, Cpl. Howard L. Volrath and T-5 Charles P. Mitchell DUCKER EXPECTED SOON Pfc. Sherman Ducker, who was wounded in action, and has been recuperating in a Hawaiian hos pital, is expected to arrive here soon. Pfc. Ducker left Ecusta in Nov., ’43, he was a machine tend er. His wife, Mrs. Christine Duck er, is an employee of Endless Belt. SAFETY TROPHY ON DISPLAY - .3 ♦ '> i iw m. \ s \ S'. The handsome safety trophy that was recently awarded to Ecusta Paper Corporation by the Western North Carolina Safety Council is now on display in the Gatehouse. Every one of you should make it a point to see the above trophy as it was through your safe practices that we were fortunate enough to win it. To Ecusta Paper Corporation and its entire personnel, this trophy represents much more than just a handsome bronze statue. It clearly denotes that there was less suffer ing, loss of earning power and in terruption of operations than in most plants the size of ours. It shows that our individuals are not only interested in their own person al welfare, but in the welfare of their fellow-workers. .w With this sense of responsi*^^p and the usual type of cooper*^^ that has always been outstaflo^ among our personnel, there doubt but that other trophies wi** forthcoming in the future. ^ We must all remember thJi^ only through safe practices safe habits that accidents prevented. MR. BENNETT ELECTB*> Raymond Bennett, general intendent, was elected third ^ president of the American and Pape^: Superintendents' ciation at a convention Chicago recently. Mr. Bennett^ presided over one of the ses**®^
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