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April, 1947 THE ECHO PAGE THBEE Know Your Reporters EMMETT CLARK, Mainte^ BancQ — Assisted by Medford Cooper, Emmett does a thorough Job of covering the news in the Maintenance Department. Em- ®*«tt doesn’t remember exactly date he started as an ECHO J^rter, bnt it’s been four or years at least. He adheres »trlctly to onet of the first require- "**®ts of a good reporter—^that ^filling his columns with names, ^is month no less than 38 names *PPear in his departmental news column. Refining News Shift “B” By JACK RHODES fishing season is here again and the fellows are getting their tackle *11 ready for a big year. I’m afraid ^|>t many gardens will be set aside in favor of that favorite sport, fishing. Here’s luck to all of *ne Isaac Waltons. J- L. Bryson and Fulton Holli day have proven to be very adept ^ trying fly hooks and are letting ^roe of the boys try some out. ^e results ought to be good. Several of the boys are taking ^cations. Paul Hooper, George ^cKinna, Ralph Nicholson and ames Mills are among the latest. Sam King returned from his va- ation with a big box of cigars, nnouncing a bouncing baby girl. mother and daughter are do- ‘“f, nicely. ‘Speedy” Jones just ain’t lucky, his boy was bom he out six boxes of cigars. A *®K or so later at a bingo party, flat does he win but a box of ^8ars. He hasn’t gotten over it and Mrs. James Mills are a motorcycle trip through ^.^da and we should get some Send It In The reader interest of an employee newspaper such as ®ur ECHO is largely deter- ®'ined by the amount of lo- *^al news it contains. You help us by submitting day-to-day happenings •ft your life and in the lives those with whom you *®rk. Whenever you see or '•'ar a bit of interesting news ''Something you believe is of *«neral interest to those of here .... stop right ^here you are. Jot down a ^rds to remind you at your first opportuni- ^ Send it in .... or tell one of the ECHO report- about it News From Our Departments Refining News Shift "D” By BILL HENSON We regret very much having to give up John Eversman as our editor of THE ECHO, but we want to extend a hearty welcome to our new editor, Marse Grant, Robert Duckworth has been tak ing advantage of the nice spring weather by getting in shape for the golf season. Well, we in the Refining Room are starting another round in wet length stock competition. Con gratulations to “A” Shift for win ning the first round. Glad to have Henry Holliday back with us after several days absence with flu. We want to thank those respon sible for the swell bowling ban quet given at the Country Club. Everyone had a swell time. Ed Allen took two weeks’ vaca tion starting April 7th. Most of the men in the Refiner Room are getting ready for the fishing season in a big way this year — everything from fishing tackle to motor boats. Mr. Frank Patton has been sporting a new Chevrolet around for the past few days. Congratu- tions! (Mr. Patton, I expect to get mine by 1950.) Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. “Speedy” Jones on their new ar rival. (“Speedy” is back at work now). Thanks for the cigars, Boss. Lawson Moore is making good progress in his spring plowing with the new tractor he purchas ed recently. Bill Anders, Coley McCall, and Mays Waldrop had a weeks vaca tion the first of April. All three report a nice time. Walter Phillips and family are now located on their new farm. Refining News Shift “A” By EARL GRAY The first weight length contest is over, and “A” Shift is in the lead by 1%. This doesn’t sound like much of a lead, but when there are three more shifts com peting, you climb very slowly, ev en where every chest is correct. If you start falling back, it is hard to get back in the lead. As for the next contest, which started April 1st., we want to win it, al so. Nature leans that way. Even if we should lose, our determina tion is to win. Winning this contest is like winning a baseball game, or any other game. Everybody wants to win, so let’s all pull together, and try to beat 1% high for the com ing three months. Spring is here, birds are singing. interesting points when they get back. We take this opportimity to welcome the new editor of THE ECHO. We hope that the “grow ing” ECHO will benefit from his experience in the journalistic field. And, it is only fitting that the retiring editor, John D. Eversman, be commended for his excellent leadership during the first years of THE ECHO. Although he was buried under several different jobs, he took over the editorship and has made many improvements in the paper. It has been a privi lege to work with John and Fm sure others will join me in saying that he has done sn exceptionally fine job. “Across The Tracks” By BETTY FINCK Hear ye! Hear ye Hear ye! We welcome back the unidenti fied black bird who returns ev ery year to help us welcome spring time while he perchs on the steam line. Dot Singletary’s eyes sparkled with vibrant radiance while David S. visited her during the Easter holidays. Larry Dixon is building a new house which he hopes to occupy by July 15th. Betty Brown hurries homeward daily at eventide to become more acquainted with her newly ac quired possesion . . . Yes!—^you’ve guessed it a new Ford! Bruce and Gloria Pettit an nounce the arrival of a daughter, Marilyn Ann, who was bom March 28th. C. L. Dickson spent the Easter week end in Concord. A generous reward — 10c — awaits anyone who can positively identify a rare mineral on dis play in room 202. Lucky Grey Dawn and Hunter Robin Hood are just as much a part of the laboratory as the crucibles, test tubes, and all the rest of the chemical equipment; for whenever Julia Morgan and Betty Finck have a chance to ex change notes on their new 10 week, old English Collie puppies, it goes something like this: “Has he held his ears up yet?”, “He’ll take the blue ribbon in the next dog show,” “That pup of mine never stops chewing!”, and, of course, “Dawn and Hunter are the cutest pups that ever lived!” Julia Morgan wishes she had that car wiiich she and Martha Sellers are planning to buy “one of these days”; so she could drive down to Florida on her vacation during the latter part of this month. FLASH . . . two black birds are perched on the steamline. We’ll be back in May to report any fur ther developments. Maintenance Dept. By E. CLARK & M. COOPER Getting off to a new start, we have a little propaganda to dish out covering a few brighter spots here and there. The following had vacations the week of April 14th.: Hamilton Scruggs, Harry Clark, W. W. West- all, Dee McCall, Fred Gilreath, and P. C. DeBrabant. Unfortunately, DeBrabant spent his in bed with a severe cold. Norman Thompson also is sick and is having to spend some time in the hospital. The following have oeen out sick but have retumed to work: Nat Townsend, Joe Wright, Waver- ly Morris, Louis Johnson, Paul Owens, Albert Holden, Bert Jones, Harry Brown and Jeff Lance. Donald Scruggs was married to Miss Grace Ducker April 5 at Boylston Baptist church. Miss Ducker was formerly from Ar den. They now live on Boylston Road. And speaking of weddings, we still have some more eligible young '' NEXr year IV COWHO Tto FLOQIDA AMD caTcM some Bio FiSh! * and everybody working,—planting gardens, etc. Clarence Crow says his mule sure does enjoy visiting the base ball field, even at night. I saw Clar ence punch his card and I asked him if anyone was sick, or any thing serious the matter. “No,” was the reply, “that old mule just decided he wanted some more of Ecusta’s good grass,”—so Crow had to go home and put the poor old mule up. Naughty boy, Crow! “A” Shift has been very lucky about sickness. If I am not mis taken, we were ahead on the sick report for March. Let’s all be care ful, and make a perfect attendance record for April. The weather is beautiful now, and many of the streams look good for fishing. Don’t forget your fishing permit. The fine might cost you several days’ work. The hunting season must be over, because we don’t hear our famous hunters talking about go ing. They are getting new dogs and looking forward to cold weath er. Then you will hear about “Blue,” “Speck,” “Trim,” “Drum,” and “Sandy.” The above illustration depicts Wallace Collins’ version of his Florida trip on April 9th. men and some a little older if you young ladies wish to chase them in a Sadie Hawkins race. Gordon B. says he can do some fairly decent blacksmith work using a cook stove for a furnace. Walt Reems just purchased himself a new tractor so if you need your garden plowed, you know whom to contact. Will Westall said his hens started to laying pine knots and the only reason he could give for that w^ that he had mixed saw dust with their laying mash. Pop Heaton says it’s astonish ing how many mistakes you can cover up with a little green paint. >> I HK6 TH»S GOLP ^ GAME , AND The CLtfTnes . You WEAR Since Jack WUson has start ed playing golf with Carl El- dridge and wearing Carl’s ex tra pair of knickers, Jack plans to get in bigtimei golfing. Tom Conley couldn’t get any spinach off the lunch wagon the other day to supply him with his daily amount of iron, so he just ate a handful of nails. C. Day ordered some cockerels from the hatchery last week and when they came they all turned out to be roosters. We hear Doc. S. has a very small pooch. Wonder if anyone would like to trade him a car for it? J. Brown, as we understand it, has planted about five acres this year. Guess he will need a two row hoe. Horace DeBord and Hubert Medford made a trip to Maine, leaving here March 9th. and re turning April 3rd. The people (Continued On Page FourtWn)
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