OFFICE BITS
By Alex Duris
Have you escaped the flu?
Lucky you, if you have! Rare
is the person who has escaped
unscratched so far.
Lyon Mathew enjoyed a
January vacation in Miami,
Florida. He sent a photo of
the Indian River basin, just
to make us envious. Glad that you had a nice
time, Lyon.
We at the office were quite shocked to learn of
the auto accident in which Peter Muffat, Leonard
Bauer, Dave and Frank Marder, and Philip Brown
ell were involved. As painful as some of the in
juries were, we are mighty happy that there were
no fatalities!!!
Harry Byers enjoyed a vacation, part of it in
January and the other half in February. Hope you
had a pleasant time, Harry.
Ray Cooke, having finished his duties with
Uncle Sam, is now back at Ecusta and will be
working with Art Loeb. We are glad to have you
back with us, Ray!
We learn that Willie May Mehaffey has decided
to brush up on her housekeeping and cooking.
Willie May, just let us know when you bake a
strawberry short cake—we will all come over and
help you enjoy it.
I’m sneaking a little commercial into the col
umn this time. Commercial or not, have you tried
gift wrapping with the sheets of cellophane which
are available in the canteen? Wrap your gifts in
the customary wrappings, and then dress your
packages up with sheets of cellophane as outer
wrappers. The cellophane brings out the beauty
of your wrappings and gives them a rich, velvety
appearance. Too, the cellophane helps to keep
the packages looking fresh.
With an almost total lack of snow so far this
year, we are almost certain to have seven inches
of snow Easter Sunday. Keep this in mind gals,
when you shop around for those sheer, flimsey,
airweight ensembles.
Soon there will be a rash of Spring vacations
coming up. Already hear talk of the azalea gar
dens in Charleston, and orange blossom time in
Florida. If you have never enjoyed the scent of
the orange blossom in bloom, nor heard the sweet
notes of a mocking bird in the light of a full moon,
you owe it to yourself to visit Florida at orange
blossom time. It is the nearest thing to paradise
that you will ever enjoy! (Editors note: We
thought this Reporter was a member of the Hen
dersonville Chamber of Commerce.)
We’re a reading people. There were published
last year 231,000,000 paper-bound books, both
originals and reprints.
Rabbits—sixteen of ’em, to he exact—were bagged
the day this quintet of hunters took to the fields in
Madison County. On top of that, they went out the
next day and came back with sixteen more. Left to
right are: Holland Corn (Inspection Department),
Charles Bradburn, Hugh Bradburn, Jr., David
Corn and Hugh Bradburn, Sr. (Personnel Dept.)
FINISHING
By Jimmy Surles
This year 1953, has become
an era of changes in many
ways. More Flying Saucers
have been spotted in our
skies; huge Atomic Cannons
have become a reality; the
Hydrogen bomb has been ex
ploded in recent tests; an
Atomic Submarine is under construction; the Ko
rean conflict continues and an American General
of the Army becomes President of our Nation.
Yes, a great deal of changes have come to pass,
and as we witness these great changes of mode and
time, we can but wonder what changes lay ahead
in the near future. But amidst this turmoil of
change and progress, we are still able to turn to
a humorous side in our lives that we might for a
few minutes retard the strain of living in a world
of war and fear of the Atomic Era. The Echo is
a source for the employees of Ecusta, where they
can, as I, read the wit and humor in the many de
partments of the plant. In the Finishing we have
been content to read the items published each
month by the other departments, and yet with a
department as large as ours there should be quite
a bit of humor here for the readers, so if you
readers will bear with me, we’ll see what goes on
around us. First let me remind you I do not pre
tend to be a reporter at all, just that I’d like to
read about the Finishing Department along with
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