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Page 2 THE ECHO Organ of Employees at Ecusta Paper Corporation, Champagne Paper Cor poration, and Endless Belt Co. Published Monthly at PISGAH FOREST, N. C. Printed by Champagne Job Printing Department. Elsewhere in this issue of the paper is an article on safe driving written by Mr. Copenhaver who is employed in the office of Ecusta. Every employee is urged to read the article. It is especially timely since one of our em ployees was killed and several other employees injured in recent automobile accidents. Traffic to Brevard is especially heavy at shift changing times and about 5:00 p. m. when day workers leave the plant. It seems that almost every driver thinks he must g'et to town first. Very few have any cause for hurrying and usually the only motive for the fast driving is just to get there ahead of the other fellow. Not only is there danger of accidents involving cars but the lives of many school children are endangered as well. All children who live on the Vanderbilt Road and a number who live on the main highway walk to the Pisgah For est school. In the mornings and after noons these children are walking along the highways. Special care should be used to see that their lives are not en dangered by reckless driving. A little more caution in driving may prevent a serious accident. Special Classes Are Available To Ecusta Workers at College A number of the employees are plan ning to take courses at Brevard Col lege during the coming year. Some have already enrolled in the business course which the college offers, and others are making arrangements to en roll in other departments. Due to the fact that many employees work shifts which change each week 't is difficult for them to enroll in the regular classes. The officials of the college have ex pressed a willingness to establish night classes in most any course in which a sufficient number of employees are in terested. Those who work days regularly can arrange to attend classes each night. An attempt is being made to arrange a schedule so that those who are on shifts may be able to attend. If other employees are interested m this matter, they should get in touch with the personnel manager or Mr. Buckner at the college. Road Nears Completion Work is nearing completion on the Vanderbilt road which connects High way 64 and 281 and forms the thorough fare to Ecusta. The new road was begun several months ago but due to bad weather conditions, the construction was delay ed considerably. The new road, made necessary by the large traffic to Ecus ta, is a great improvement over the old in that several curves and the blind entrance to the highway have been eliminated. THE ECHO Message From The President—Cont. increase the capacity of our plant. The steady improvement of our product, to which all of you have contributed, has resulted in a warm reception of our product on the part of our customers. I hope that with all of us cooperating, Ecusta will always maintain its leadership in this new industry. We carefully studied the requirements of this new plant, which will consist at the beginning of three big paper machines, with space provided so that we can later on add another machine. We incorporated in our plans improvements over our present plant—^the result of ex perience gained during last year’s operation. The new addition will be our “1941 Model”, and we expect it to be the finest paper mill in the world. All of you who have been working in our plant in the past have surely developed some ideas whereby the work can be facilitated and the results improved upon. I cor dially invite you to bring such ideas to our attention, by talking to your superintendent, who will then discuss it with our engineers; and, if practical, your suggestion will be adopted. This new plant—same as our present one—shall be yours and ours. Combined, let us work for permanent suc cess. Let us work side by side for contentment, happiness and prosperity. During the last few months I have been kept busy day and night perfecting the complicated plans for the new plant. Innumerable' details had to De attended to, and many difficulties and problems—insurmountable as they appeared at the time—have been successfully solved. This is the reason why I could not visit the plant as frequently as I did in the past and why my personal con tacts with all of you, individually, have been less frequent than I would have liked them to be. However, in the busy program which lies ahead of me, I have included more time than ever before which I hope to spend in the plant among you, in order to renew our acquaintanceship, to learn to know each other better, and to create a bond of everlasting friendship and confi dence in each other. Faithfully yours, HARRY H. STRAUS IN MEMORIAM July 27, 1940 Charles Clubb Words are treacherous things at their best. At a time when they are sorely needed they prove themselves inadequate. The deep sorrow at the passing of a fellow worker, the sympathy for the bereaved family and the young wife are too profound to be expressed in mere syllables. The humming of the suction pump on Number 3 Wet Lap has a new sound—a, sad note has creeped into it. To the boys who work in the Pulp Mill and listen to that sound all day, it is a con stant reminder that something is missing. A smile, a cheerful word and a more than willing spirit of helpfulness and coopera tion have gone. Charles Clubb isn’t with us any more. We have lost a friend. Aug. 22, 1940 Guy Whitmire Another void has appeared in the ranks of the boys in the Pulp Mill. Again we are forced to rely on the puny phrases at our command to express an emotion which we feel much too deeply for simple utterance. To the bereaved young wife, the two lovely children, the sor rowful mother, brothers and sis ters of Guy Whitmire, we can only intimate that we share in your loss. You have been com pelled to give up a kind and gentle husband, father, son and brother. We must go on without the presence of a loyal worker, a pleasing personality and a friend to all of us. Our loss is great—yours is im measurable. Now that we have a nice new road to ride on, let’s not clutter it up with v/recks and accidents. Start earlier and get there in time, without risking a lot of lives. “Drive slowly and get home to dinner.” “Drive fast and get home and s!t around to wait for dinner—if you get home!” Plans are being made for a field day followed by a program in the evening for the grand opening of the new Country Club building and tennis courts. The events of the day will probably consist of a local golf tourna ment, a match between the Ecusta ten nis team and Hendersonville. Watch I the papers for definite date. Septemf^ .4 Tell-A-Story C Mary Sue Thon^ All the world loves a sfl telling is the most popuj diversion in every walk Wherever people are stor| A light story supplies jus^| sary amount of mental relif^ more serious things of eve The art of story telliiij popularity. Only a few monument was erected to of a famous European Maunchaussen; v/hose story^ amused people for gencrJp; this monument is inscribe^ World’s Greatest Liar”. a Story Tellers Club nij|| known as “The Liars Cl| year prizes are awarded f' stories submitted to the cl' In discussing the neeiii Echo” it has been decidj needs stories so the purl ^ column is to help supply 1 Everybody knows a lot of ^ The stories for this column “ not be original. There is ed variety from which toj may be an original stoi’)' happenings, or a popul ir (.ul or your favorite short stofl,;, classics, or one of those y| amusing Grandpa or Uncle ^ Won’t you send in your for publication? There ‘S right on the type of storif^ so no one need bo afraid of an act of plagiarism. Anyak lected for publication will on as preferred, with or witlio^ar, son’s name who submits it’ me would like help in writing’m the editor of this column or render any possible assistaH'^u Perhaps a prize will be c the best story submitted o] year, however, a definite | ment concerning that willb^i a The writer starts the with a little story that •^eei late Will Rogers used to 'lit boyhood. ml Will and hie cousin, JoftVes church one Sunday afternooHe ( ance with family rules and I The service was very dull ?ai the two boys who v/ere "S''** cc could have spent the after>’'''hi swimming hole, but when took for his text, “Jesus walth waves” their faces brighteran he repeated his text over idea occurred to Will. to his cousin, “Bet he ^’or tied on his feet. Let’s go?e try it.” ich The idea of walking on Christ obsessed the boys, came agog with interest ment. Finally they coul‘l irt ting there no longer so they're of their seats, cringing und'’^^ approving eyes on them stealthily down the aisles though they had just commit'- \ serious crime. When thcf^ the open they breathed a of relief and fairly ran they hastily changed tli^'^g and hurried to the barn a''', , a couple of gourds apiece the swimming hole. Will managed to get his ^ securely to his feet before and dived in intending to fully from the depth of the walk on the surface, but *'va might he could not get his lo- of the water—his feet sticking straight up. he The cousin watched from 'r>, and all he could see on water was a mad battle bet'^'^'ti (Continued On Vage
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