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THE ECHO
DECEMBER
Hog Killin’ Time
r
Across The Tracks
Finishing Dept-
By BERTHA EDWARDS Ail
LUCILLE GOSSETT
Christmas month is
fo!ks! Shopping talk is buzzm""
over our department.
Santa will have a sleigh f
he fulfills the wishes of the
ing department alone. ^
Ed Matheson wants so®®
skid shoes for chasing
balls in safety.
^ Polly Osteen wants a new
son, William M., born November tjaj.
29 at the Mission hospital. , ■ a
, Lewis McCrary wants >
While Christmas bells toll, wed-|aji(j iqj-
ding bells will chime in for Dot Hope Santa doesn’t disapp”®’
Singletary and David Sams on of yo^[
December 21 We all wish you Bill and Edna Clampitt spej
both much happiness and God’s quiet vacation in Bryson City
bks3ings for a happy married Bill’s parents. (H
■ Edith Gravely is serving
Thelma Glazener
By BETTY FINCK
Old Saint Nicholas will h ^
mighty busy when he makes his
annual visit to greet Ecusta’s
children. Among the excited chil
dren will be 42 representatives of
the Technical department.
John Goldberger is enjoying his
newly acquired “cream-colored”
Ford.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Taylor, Jr.,
have announced the arrival of a
pot-
December was a busy month for folks with heavyweight hogs to
kill. Scales were no doubt burdened to the straining point in
weighing such whoppers as were killed by many of the folks here.
The two fine porkers above, weighing 239 aand 269, were raised
by Mr. and Mrs. Homer Baxter and Mr. and Mrs. John M. John
son, both of whom live just off the* Boylston road near the plant.
Mrs. Raxter and Mrs. Johnson are sisters and are employed in
Finishing.
Nicholsons Enjoy Abundant Living
We hear a lot these days about
“abundant living” or the “abund
ant life”, but it’s rarely that you
run into a fellow who so person
ifies this rather vague expression
any better than Elvin “Shorty”
Nicholson, of the Inspection de
partment.
If every Echo reader could visit
Shorty’s home at Etowah, they
would see what we mean - - - -
plenty of chickens, (and conse
quently, eggs), cows, pigs, and all
the other fine things that go with
“abundant living”. And to help
get more chores done in less time,
and with not nearly so much drud
gery, Shorty has a brand new,
one-ton Chevrolet truck, complete
with radio, heater, and all the
trimmings.
Don’t get the impression that
all of these things come easily.
Shorty, his wife, and 15 year old
son, Edward, who is a student at
Etowah high school, have little
time for loafing. Shorty’s six acres
are well-cultivated from early
spring until late fall; in fact, one
of his prize achievements this fall
was a plot sown to green beans
which netted him over $200. He
was told by some that the
time and seed would be wasted,
that frost would kill his efforts
. . . but he hit the market at a
time when beans were bringing
top prices.
In the past, one of Shorty’s pet
projects has been pigs, having had
as many as 100 in his lot at one
time. At the present, this num-
entertained I jury this court — a new 3”“
with a lovely tea and miscellane- teresting experience for her.
ous shower for Dot at her home I Two old employees have
December 6. Her exquisite gifts cently returned to our ,
were varied and useful. ment — Dot Banning and
Your reporter’s collie. Hunter Freeman.
Robin Hood, started off her kitch-1 Mary Corbett has recen| y
en shower for Dot with a floor I perienced facing the “mik®’
show which was comprised of the I — in a broadcast of sacred
numerous tricks he has learned. I over the Hendersonville
The assortment of cooking utensils I It took Charlie Gillespie an^ ^
Dot received will keep her busy I garet McKinney to surpris®
in her new kitchen. I all! That’s when Margaret ^
Martha Sellers is busy mount-1 to work wearing a diafflO®
ing her two new groups of moths, had given her. j;.
from California and India, in two I Eunice, we’re all wanting 5'
beautiful mounting cases she re- hurry up and get well so y®"
cently received. She now has over | come back to work with uS'
100 specimens.
It’s good to see Mr. Fisher back
to work after a week’s illness.
While we’re all “dreaming of a
white Christmas,” let’s be sure to
have a MERRY CHRISTMAS.
Plant Research
By DONA WRIGHT ,
Vacations for our depar j(
... I iust about over for this 5
ber has dw ndled considerably, but LiUie spent her two ^ J
you cant tell when this interest I 10.24 visiting
in swine wiU be revived and the Ln Greensboro, and at home ho>^
lot will be full again. A three- keeping for her husband.
months calf Be sie’, is his pride Fred Fendley took his va
and joy The calf is half Guern- Ue first two weeks of Dece J
sey, half Jersey, the best combina- He, Connie, and little daug»'
tion for milk production. Shorty sherry, spent most of the
says and he is looking fomard Lisiting relatives and frie»‘*
to the time when “Betsie” will south Carolina.
come into full production. Children are never too y
rv visit, especially with
like the Nicholsons that keep farm grandparents. Mr. and Mrs- L
produets flowing, not only to the Lah had as their visitor for^
markets, but to their pantries asUeeks their little nine months;
well. We re proud to number them grandson. Sandy, while his/j,
among our many fine Ecusta fam-|ents. Dr. and Mrs. John
son, were furnishing their j,
home which they recently
chased in Springfield, OhiO’ jj.
That certainly was a 6°°
ture Dr. Ray made of LilH®
olson’s husband. By the way>
picture took first place at fj
cent contest of the Brevard Ca
Club.
I hope Henry McCornii*^'^
this column. I just heard hi* jjl
Margaret, say she wanted a »
big teddy bear for Christn’® . jo
Too bad that Mr. Fisher h (,ii(
be out sick. We all exten“^gf)'
best wishes for a speedy re^® f
Now, last but not least, ^
other Christmas is drawing
may we not forget those of
lands who are less fortunat®^ je
we are — whose hearts 1'
filled with joy and happ'^^^tec
Christmaas only by our ren>®
I ihg them. ^|,ris‘'
May you all have a Merry |,ou’
I mas and prosperity thr®
the New Year.
ilies.
“Shorty” Nicholson, well-known In
spection department employee, is a
busy man in his off-the-jsb hours
working on his nice little farm at Eto
wah. Among his pet projects arc rais
ing pigs and dairying. This summer
he had good luck with truck crops,
particularly a late crop of beans. In
the past, he has raised large litters
of pigs, but at present has cut down
on his swine-raising.
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[NEWBURY RECOVE***
Hank Newbury, safety 3''
is recovering nicely follo^'^ )ioS
appendectomy at the Mis^*® P'
pital in Asheville, Tuesday’
cember 2.