RECENT VISITORS Jr., and Mr. Miguel Miquel Sr., of Successores de
Some of the recent visitors to Ecusta are shown Pablo M Costas, Havana, Cuba; and Mr. Jose
above with R. E. Matthews and M. Leonard Miquel of Miquel Y Costas and Miquel, S. A.,
Bauer. They are, left to right: Mr. Miguel Miquel, Barcelona, Spain.
FOUND—RHYME CONTEST WINNER
The following article appeared on the sport
page of the San Francisco Chronicle on March
22nd. It is about Bill Duflock an assistant to Wade
Ramsey from 1934 to 1944, leaving to become
Secretary and Manager of the El Centro, Cali
fornia Chamber of Commerce. Bill was at Estill,
South Carolina when the first bale of flax fibres
was produced at the Estill plant. The article,
written by Bob Stevens, is as follows:
"Have you ever wondered what type of animal
it is that enters, and wins, a national limerick
contest? Or a jig-saw, cross word, or one of those
'I like fur lined wall sockets because in 25 words
or less’ scrambles.
"Having entered a few, I don’t think anybody
ever won. Nobody has moved up to my house and
unloaded a refrigerator or the Brooklyn bridge,
and I thought I’d go through life convinced that
those contests were phony.
"But, I had to go to El Centro, of all places,
to run across a real live beneficiary of the ex
clusive '25 words or less” irritants. And as I
always suspected, he turned out to be a Chamber
of Commerce man, a character out of Georgia
named Bill Duflock.
"This Duflock fellow, the only man in the
world who can speak Mexican with a Southern
accent, recently wound up second in a dog food
contest with the immortal conclusion that his
hamburger burner eats Dr. Airdale’s Miracle Mix
because (here it comes, hold on!) 'it keeps a wag
in his tail and a spark in his bark.’
"Such genuis should not be unheralded, and it
is readily realized why Duflock, a Georgia rene
gade who admits there must be some basis to the
rumor that the North actually won in extra in
nings from the South, is a successful vocalist.
"For the 'spark in the bark’ line, Duflock be
came the recipient of two round trip tickets to
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