INSPECTION NEWS
(By Kenneth McDaris)
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Matthews
had open house during Christ
mas for the Control department.
It was enjoyed very much by the
large number of us who attend
ed.
Although the season is about
over the boys are still talking
hunting. The tall tales are be
coming taller! Ray Byrd, Joe
King, and Ralph Mann became
tired while waiting for their
dogs to catch a rabbit and ran
it down themselves. Ray found
a rabbit and "charmed” it until
someone came with a gun. Oscar
Lothery, James Sheppard and
Bill Dunn said they found one
bunny wearing a bullet proof
vest. Ten shots failed to bring
it down. After the tenth shot
it developed a kind of jet pro
pulsion which is still unknown
to our hunters.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Waldrop January 7, 1947 was
a daughter, Jean Ann, weighing
7 lbs., 4 02.
Claude Glazener spent h i s
MACHINE ROOM NEWS
(By John Goolsby)
Let me say this to begin with
—here before us is a brand new
year, one of those 366-day jobs.
What plans have we made to
handle it? Throw it away, as
we would an old memo pad and
replace it with a new one? Why
not this—resolve to make our
selves, our company, our country
the best in the world! And have
more love and faith in our
fellowman. Surely this is the
fulfillment of the Golden Rule,
"Do unto others as you would
have them do unto you.” Sounds
o. k., doesn’t it?
Wait, here is something else
I am thinking. Before the ravish
of war hit Europe, there used to
be a beautiful custom there on
New Years. If friends or neigh
bors had any quarrels or mis
understandings during the year,
they would visit each other and
drink toasts and say nice things
about each other, and really
five days off moving into his
new home. He says his back
squeaks like a rusty hinge every
time he moves. Moving is no
fun!
Inspection is glad to have four
new men: Robert Chappell,
James Henson, Preston McCrary
and Robert Quinn.
Among our recent visitors
were Mr. Seth Williamson from
Liggett and Myers and his uncle,
Mr. John Gunter. Mr. William
son said he had been making
Chesterfields from Ecusta paper
for the past eight years. He was
very impressed with our
methods of inspection and test
ing. He now knows why our
paper has always been satisfac
tory.
Mrs. R. E. Matthews is in
Mission hospital in Asheville re
covering from an emergency
operation. Mrs. David Surrette
is recovering from an appendec
tomy at the Transylvania hos
pital. David’s baby has also been
very ill. Mrs. Earl Hall has re
turned from Duke hospital
where she has been under treat
ment. Jeanette Teague, small
mean it! At the end of the day
all was forgiven and forgotten.
What a swell way to begin a
new year—with friendship and
love from all fellowmen.
Heck, I got to get along with
the Machine Room news.
Cecil Albertson says the best
way to kill time is to work it
to death. He always tells me the
world is full of willing people,
half of them willing to work
and the other half willing to
let you.
Well, boys, this is the low-
down on Slim Williams. You re
member when he killed hogs?
Well, he did it at night so
that none of us would know
there was fresh meat around, but
somehow Nathan McMinn got
some sausage and spare ribs,
unknown to Slim. Well, Slim
found out and the next morn
ing he was at Nathan’s house
trying to get back that fresh
pork. Slim said he was just look
ing out for Nathan’s welfare.
Nathan admits he got the meat
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daughter of Millard Teague, had
her tonsils removed January 17
and is recovering nicely. We are
glad to have Clarence Glover
back to work. He had an appen
dectomy several weeks ago.
Miss Dorothy Allison and Mr.
Hubert Batson were married
December 21. They spent their
honeymoon in Florida and are
at home in Brevard. They have
our best wishes!
Wedding bells will soon ring
for Ruby Golden and Melvin
McCormick. More news on that
later.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Buckner
have returned from Miami,
Florida where they spent five
days.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom McCor
mick visited relatives in Coving
ton Va. while on vacation.
Edith Stiles spent her vaca
tion in Athens, Ga.
Holland Corn is tired of the
cold weather and says he is
going to Florida on his vacation.
Others taking vacations this
month are: Ivan Galloway,
James Brock, and David Sur
rette.
but says it won’t hurt him—
that his biggest worry is get
ting hold of some.
Our sympathy to Charles
Peevy in the recent death of
his father.
What about this good basket
ball team of ours, fellows? If
you go once and see those boys
in action, you will follow them
all season. They really play a
good brand of ball packed with
thrills and action all the way—
and remember this is our team,
ECUSTA.
Since the Machine Room col
umn last appeared, we have
added several new men. To them
we extend an ever ready wel
come and to each and every one
of you, it takes you and the rest
of us to keep production roll
ing.
I would like to end this by
saying that we all resolve that
we do not go through 1948
thinking that nothing needs re
forming but other p e o p 1 e’s
habits.