JULY, 1944
THE ECHO
PAGE THREE
News^nd Gossip From Our Various Departments
OFFICE BITS
Here we are back again after a
^onth of vacations and picnics,
we sure did have a swell time at
4th of July picnic.
From all reports we hear that
*ed Reece spent a glorious week in
'-anton. How a,bout it, Reece, did
you really have three girls at once?
6 said he went on his vacation
0 Georgia but when he returned
® denied same as he was accused
cotton-picking.
Betsy McCall is looking forward
Jo her vacation. She is getting ready
or a long pleasant week at the
seashore.
“Steppy” (Helen), is it really
that you had a birthday this
^onth? We hear that you got sev-
®*^al nice presents.
Scene on afternoon of July 19,
1944: Time: 4:00 p. m. Telegram
eceived stating: “Meet me at
Jjreenyille 8:00 p. m.” Result:
Y with a flash went “Red” Rus-
' to meet her husband and de-
3rt on her “military honeymoon.”
j^ave a good time, “Red”. She has
jumping up and down since
got word that her precious
^narlie” was on his way hpme.
ye don’t blame you, “Rusty.” We
"'ould be happy, too.
is Katherine Anderson the
Jvy of all the girls in the office,
e gets at least four letters a day
rom her “Soldier Boy Johnnie.”
iiobby, we are sorry to hear
you are leaving us. We wish
, ^ would stay with us a little
ionger.
. Is it a rumor or is it the truth
nat Margaret Collier is afraid of
especially “tree frogs”?
We hope Lita Steppe is enjoying
er visit down at Hot Springs, N.
lita the best of your last week,
Jim Jones came to work the other
orning smiling from ear to ear
litH a big picture of “that
Drn of his”. He is surely
^‘^oud to be called “daddy”.
Shepard recently had a
“ . We hear she received a
^^ging telephone call.”
^ete Eberle took two days off
Corporal Charlie Russell Gives Some Sound Advice
Efts'# i b Rocc M/iT"H
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owe Hflwo
Cafeteria Chatter
to mother off
J-New York. Pete is now batching
yoi, his son, Allan. So girls if
Son ^ partner for the next
don’t forget the
(Jan both are excellent
aiicers.
Jordan returned from a
bfo Norfolk with spouse. He
“p^^ht back some of those elusIVe
amels” and a report that he had
®^ell time.
cov
tk that honey bees are any-
sweet. Charlie Dunlop
ryj Lehman Kapp went blackber-
ajjj ^ ''^ith their respective wives
'''hi j^®^^ded to swat a few bees
Both hovering near. Result:
Hevf ooys came in the office the
day each with a swollen
We noted quite a number of red
heads on the line on Wednesday
after the Fourth. No. we don’t
mean red hair. We all enjoyed the
celebration—especially the Gover
nor and his speech, also all the
other speakers. W^e are very
proud of Ecusta’s awards and are
sure everyone else is.
Next on the docket for us is a
picnic for the gang in remembrance
of the opening date of the cafe-
teria-canteen. Many changes have
been made in the last three years.
Many of the original gang are now
in some branch of the service.
Only six people of the first ones
are here now. Mr. Wilde was here
5 days before the place opened
and the other “first-day” folks are
Ethel, Hal, John L. Tinsley and
Taylor.
We are very very sorry to report
Bessie is on the sick list. We sin
cerely hope she can soon be back
with us.
far as we know this is his first
move. He moved into the house
recently vacated by our friend,
Homer Orr.
Gumming News
Mr. Wilde has moved again
Looks bad, “Wildeosky,” as ’a roll
ing stone gathers no moss.’ J. L
Tinsley moved into the house Mr,
Wilde vacated. Look out, Tinsley,
Mr. Wilde could have left a little
touch of the moving fever behind
Bill, when do you think the wed
ding will be? We heard you had
a proposal.
Taylor has moved also, but so
and hand,
to (Traffic) Johnson goes over
to ^®heville every Friday night
^ traffic school there,
is • Leonard (Professor) Bauer
of the instructors.
Heyman and Dave Mar-
Gladys, we hear that army flier
has a furlough, too. Are we right?
Have a good time, girls.
Mary (Paxton) Armfield spent a
week of her vacation at the beach
and spent the second week with her
husband at a press association con
vention at High’Point. She report
ed a good time was had on each
u uavn mar-j occasion.
Harvey Souther also spent a
M. thPir. Tj 4-u^ ^ee]j>s vacation. His was more
work than rest as he took care of
his farm.
We welcome the new employees
in the office: Frances Scruggs in
Payroll, Virginia Taylor to the
Switchboard, and Gladys McCall to
Cost.
W^ell, until next month, so long.
“Sniff and Snoop.”
Actuiiitju irum iNew lorK
their vacations. Hope the city
didn’t take them over the
Stephens returned from his
and our guess is that he
Vohv. ^t as a nursemaid to his
jy. § daughter, Carla.
Collier, Gladys Bur
..®^d Felicia Edwards are
ting for their vacations
Ethel has been having a good
bit of company. Her twin brothers
and their families of Gastonia and
her sister and two nieces of Wash
ington Sylvia visited her
family the past week-end.
Wilma seems quite air-minded
lately. Reason: her boy-friend is
learning to fly and comes over
each week-end.
Young Bobby McCall spent a
pleasant week camping at the
Daniel' Boone Camp for Boy
Scouts, Canton, N. C.
Divola received news of her
brother-in-law, Pfc. Wm. Joe Part
ner, being in an airplane crash in
New York state. She expects he
will be sent to Moore General soon.
He is the husband of Dixie Coe
dill.
My! Were we all glad to see
our friend A. P. Bell home on fur
lough. He is one of our gang in
service News is coming in
again from the boys in service . . .
Divola is happy again as she hears
from Bill regularly now. He re
ports that he is 0. K Ethel’s
news from Carl is encouraging. He
says they are making it hot for the
krauts in hope of returning home
soon .... Reba reports her hus
band, Pvt. Broadus C. Powell, is
somewhere in France and 0. K.
except for a cold .... Nadine’s
husband, Pfc. Winfred Nations, is
somewhere in England and doing
fine .... Edna reports her brother,
Homer Batson, was home last
week-end. Homer has seen ser
vice in Alaska for 18 months. Hu
bert is still at Camp Mackall, N. C.
tho is wondering why he has to
stay in the States since Carroll has
only been in service for a short
time , and has already been sent to
Australia.
Mrs. Cox reports her nephew,
Marshall Cox, as having been
slightly wounded on Biak Island . .
. • Our friend, Ray Israel, has writ
ten from Italy. He is O. K. but
lonely as he has only seen one per
son he knows .... We wish we
could hear from all the other mem
bers of the Gang now in service
and again extend each of them our
(SHIFT E)
(By Mitchell Taylor}
The romance has ended; Rosa
lie is now Mrs. Alfred Galloway.
Congratulations and the best of
luck to you both.
Six new girls are now on our
shift. They are: Willie and Mary
Prince, Lorena O’Keely, Marie Gal
loway, Betty McClure, Nettie Ad
cock, also two new men—Howard
Hutchins and Guy Sigmon.
Why is “Daddy” carrying a
feather?
Champagne Girls’ softball team
beat Canton last Saturday night*
the score was 8-3.
^d Garren is back at work
awaiting his call into service.
We are all very sorry to hear
about Jesse Edney’s mother be-
pg ill, but glad to hear she is
improving.
Since we started third shift we
lost two good workers in Julia
Barton and Elmer Galloway.
If you see a girl hobbling around
on crutches, that’s Willie Prince
She injured her ankle in a soft
ball game at Canton.
Mitch Taylor sure hopes for a
iot “Mouse” Meece and a “Sta
tion Wagon.”
Preston M. asked Mary if ice
water was cold. So Mary said.
Are hot dogs hot?”
good wishes.
The new members of our gang
are Tom Flannigan of Pisgah Fo-
est and Paul Rickman of Sylva.
We extend you a hearty welcome
and hope you will be with us a
long time.
J. L. Tinsley visited Camp Croft
July 18th. Really we hope he has
some small defect so that we can
keep him for awhile longer. Yes
he ll make a good soldier but he
makes us a good worker. By the
way, his baby has just purchased a
$100.00 war bond with new pen
nies!
Arnold Anders also visited Camp
Croft June 29th and has been ac
cepted for general military service
tho does not know exactly when he
will leave us.
Yours till the Katy Dids appear.
The K. H. Gang