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quality FIRST THEN quantity ’^ol. 7; No. 1 gr NOT HOW MUCH BUT HOW WELL PISGAH FOREST, N. C. January, 1945 Book Gets Wide Publicity HERE IS SOME GOOD ADVICE FOR EVERY ONE Be WISE BIRDJ BUY W^R B ONDS '' s-> •'v' limy ftss- m es«isi Machine room, CHAMPAGNE LEAD Ch ^**>Pagne Follows Closely ®®hind Machiners In Ten Pin League th^ men’s ten pin division of chi Bowling league, Ma- Room and Champagne are & almost neck and neck for honors, while in the ■ Pae P**' division Cham- •1p«_®, ^ continuing its unchal- 8®d lead. ®Jid Room has won 11 games has in®*' while Champagne - victories and 2 losses, the women’s league, Cham- 7. won 38 games and lost 3l V is in second place with victories and 11 defeats. diyi®®^lts of games in the women’s ficp o January 24 were: Of- jSett ^^iiishing 1; Control 2, Pin ‘l. 1; Champagne 2, Endless fof jJ^^'Pagne still has the honors • Of 190 ^ match, with a score i Endless Belt has . inli^, ,®am set so far with 491. In Of play. Nell Gallamore, Witjj Belt, is way out in front Of a high match score ^®8n Mary Merrill, of Cham- avern^’ first place in highest S® with 92, closely followed —Turn Ta P*ge Twelve Ecusta Basketball Season Under Way; Many Tilts Billed For Coming Weeks TWO ARE MISSING & FIVE WOUNDED Our casualty list this month in cludes 7, of which 2 are missing in action and 5 wounded, as fol lows: T-Sgt. Dixon Missing T.-Sgt. Lawrence F. Dixon, Jr. is reported missing over Germany since December 17th his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Dixon, of Pis- gah Forest, were advised January 3rd. Sgt. Dixon was 20 and chief en gineer gunner on a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber in Italy. He received his training at Keesler Field, Har lingen Gunnery school, and Chat ham field. He has been overseas about 7 months and in the AAF about 2 years. He was a graduate of Brevard high school and a fresh man at Wake Forest college when he joined the AAF in January, 1943. He had formerly worked in the Plant Research Laboratory of Ecusta Paper corporation. On Oct. 6th his group received a Presidential Citation at which Turn To Page Thirteen Girls’ Team Won Opening Game, While Men Have Lost. Show Improvement. The Ecusta basketball season is now underway with both teams having played three games, and with many others scheduled dur ing the next six weeks. All practices and home games are held in the Breyard college gym and the men’s team has signed up to play in a tournament in Greenville, S. C., starting Feb 22 and in a Canton tourney, start ing March 5. In the opening games of the season, played Tuesday, January 16, the girls defeated Brevard col lege 22-12, while the men lost to the Army Air Forces of Asheville 42 to 57. In these games, Willie Prince led the scoring attack for Ecusta girls with 11 points and Coan w’as high scorer for our men’s team with 16 points. The line-up for the men’s game was as follows: Ecusta (42) Pos. AAF (57) Taylor (9) F Stubll (18) Sterling (1) F Smith (6) Suttles (10) C Mallette (6) Coan (16) G Brooks (4) —Turn To Pag© Five COPIES ARE GIVEN TO AIL EMPLOYEES & ECUSTA FRIENDS Book Beautifully Illustrated And Tells Vivid Story Of Paper Making The recent distribution of 5,000 copies of our companies’ hand some new book, entitled “The Fifth Anniversary Record of a New American Industry,” has again attracted wide and favorable pub licity for Ecusta and all employees. Copies of the book have been distributed to employees, business friends of the companies and cus tomers. Many have been most gen erous in their praise of the publi cation, as well as in the accom plishments of Ecusta during the past five years. The book was printed on fine flax writing paper produced here and was beautifully printed and elaborately illustrated. What Ecusta has done in its five- year existence is set forth early in the book in a page statement of its record of achievement, as follows: “1. A new American industry has been create.d “2. Without Ecusta, cigarette paper would not be available dur ing this war period in quantities large enough to manufacture cig arettes for our armed forces, let —Turn To Page Four N.C. NEWS BUREAU SENDS OUT STORY Special Story Released About Ecusta As Result Of Fine Book. (Editor’s note—The following news story was released a few days ago out of Raleigh, N. C., by Bill Sharpe, director of the North Carolina State News Bureau, and was sent to a large number of newspapers and other publica tions) PISGAH FOREST, N. C.—Smok ers inclined to grumble a bit be cause they can’t always get their favorite cigarettes might more logically join in a Fifth Anniver sary celebration going on here at Pisgah Forest, because without some shrewd foresight, which es tablished the Ecusta (cigarette) Paper Plant, they probably wouldn’t be smoking a cigarette at ail—at least, not one rolled in a thin, tasteless paper. When the Nazis marched into Poland, a large per cent of the —Turn To Page Four
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