LOOKIN’ THROUGH THE MILL
MACHINE ROOM NEWS
By Burder Teague
Here it is the month of March and everyone
is talking about gardening, baseball, picnics, and
(uh-oh) "Spring Cleaning.” Some are even talk
ing about Hadacol. But the talk of our new cello
phane plant is the best topic of conversation. Any
one who has been within 50 miles of a cellophane
plant is indeed a very popular person. But for a
fellow who has been in a cellophane plant, he
can have as many listeners as his heart desires.
Right now everyone is anxious to see construction
get started, so it won’t be long until we can see
it being made.
It won’t be long now until the gardeners will
have to get out their tools, but before this you
will have to have your gardens plowed, so we
recommend Coy Fisher. Coy also has some goats
for sale.
Strike one, strike two, strike three, you’re out,
or run, run, he dropped it. That’s the way I play
baseball, but they tell me that Ecusta will have a
team this year that will be hard to beat, so plan
now' to go out and see our boys in action. You
can help our team by just going out and yelling
for them.
We were very sorry to hear that Bill Cagle lost
his best beagle. There are several conflicting
stories on how he lost him. Some say that the
dog was standing up for his own rights, others
say that Bill hadn’t shot a rabbit in so long that
the dog got disgusted and gave up.
Our new arrivals for the Machine Room are
Brenda Jean Wilson. She arrived at the Transyl
vania Community Hospital February 3. She is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Wilson. It’s
a big boy, Vance Randall, at the Shook’s. The
son of Mr. and Mrs. Vance Shook was born at the
local hospital on February 21, weighing 9 pounds
and 9 ounces. At the Coy Owen’s its a girl, born
March 1st. Congratulations fellows.
I was going to tell about Conley McKinnish
getting bitten by an opossum, but he said not to,
so I’ll have to leave that out.
On our sick list for the past month were W.
C. Wilson, W. A. Williams, Owen Banning and
Jimmy Poteet. We are very happy to have them
back on the job.
OJlie Vallaincourt is driving a new Nash. It’s
a two-tone job and is really a honey. Owen
Banning says that Ollie asked to borrow his pliers
to adjust his carburetor so that he could get 30
miles per gallon of gas.
So long for this month—don’t forget to pass
along any news that you have for The Echo.
THE MAINTENANCE GREASE SPOTS
By Bruce Cassell
Well, another month has rolled by and every
thing is going fine. Glad to see some new faces
appearing in the plant; happy to see that Earl
Fullbright and Frank Fisher are back with us, also
Harry Sentell is a new man on the Painting Force.
Sorry to hear of so much sickness lately but hope
everybody recovers soon and gets back to work.
Blain Emory and the Ecusta String Band ap
peared at the Memorial Stadium in Raleigh to play
for a big convention on the week-end of March
10, 11, 12.
W. E. (Pop) Heaton is vacationing on the
West Coast of Florida. Hope he is catching some
big ones. Wales. R. Lance is on a vacation. We
think he is storing his Coon Dogs and getting his
fishing rod oiled up. Bill Westall is off trying to
eat us some of that deer meat out of his freezer
locker so that he will have room to put some
trout in it that he is going to catch this Summer.
Roy Reese and Harry Ballard both have had a
new tax exemption born recently and the cigars
were swell.
From all signs the new plant is progressing.
Will be glad to see some activity soon. So long
until next month.
The only place in America where you are not
entitled to free speech is in the phone booth.
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