Children’s Activities
Curtailed At Sapphire
As a precautionary measure, the Ecusta Per
sonnel Committee has decided to temporarily sus
pend the children’s activities that are normally
sponsored in the summer by our company. The
activities affected by this action include the boys’
camp; the girls' recreation and choral school;
coaching school at Camp Sapphire; the band
and the Thursday night movies.
The lake at Camp Sapphire has been closed
temporarily to all youngsters under 18 years of
age, but adults 18 and over can still enjoy a swim
in the lake. The picnic area of Sapphire is open
and fishing is still permitted.
The band camp and girls’ program was al
ready in progress at Camp Sapphire, and the
boys’ coaching school was scheduled to open July
12. It is pointed out that this action is tem
porary. If the situation should change so as to
permit the resumption of the children’s activities,
announcement will be made so that all who are
interested will know of the re-opening.
HOW TO IRON A SHIRT
IN 4V2 minutes
In the July issue of "Better Homes and Gard
ens” magazine in the Ecusta Library is an article
which should be of interest to Ecusta housewives.
The article deals with an improved method of
ironing shirts, a job which takes on the average,
15 or 20 minutes. In a series of 21 pictures, the
pictorial story shows how to cut your ironing
time on shirts to 4 Vi minutes by using the fol
lowing principles to save time and motion; (1)
Iron sitting down. (2) Bring work to the iron
(3) Lift or turn iron as little as possible. (4) Use
both hands.
One Ecusta housewife reports that the method
was amazingly successful and while she didn’t
cut her time to 4V2 minutes, the method did cut
her time in half and greatly improved the ap
pearance of the finished shirt.
Why not visit the library soon to read this ar
ticle and the hundreds more like it that will help
you in your daily household duties?
A candle clock, consisting of candles marked off
in inch sections, was devised by Alfred the Great,
of England. Each candle burned four hours.
Presenting, left to right, three Ecus-
tans as seen through the eyes of the
camera while on the job. Burgin Kil
patrick, beaterman in Refining, has
been with the company since October
16, 1939. He lives in the Gloucester
section and spends his off-the-job
hours working on his new home,
farming and hunting.
Center is James O. Summey, for
merly of the Landscape Crew and now
in Plant Research. Mr. Summey is
shown here trimming the hedges atop
the Main Office building. These
hedges attract much attention, espe
cially from visitors.
Miss Lydia Reese, senior clerk in
Finishing, is shown right at her desk
in the Finishing department office.
She has been an Ecustan since Sep
tember 22, 1939. Lydia is one of our
many commuters from Henderson
ville.
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