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Volume No. 3
PISGAH FOREST, N. C.
August, 1942 Number 17
tODDCnON BOAKD
9STSIIBIS NEEDED
10 RON U. S. ARMY
And Used Household Ar-
ticles Make All Necessary
Implements In War
Jhe steel in one washing machine
make three machine guns to
Japs.
^enty-four autos contain enough
and rubber for one 27-ton U. S.
% tank.
average passenger auto uses
OOOHt 14 gallons of oil a year but a
destroyer consumes that much
^ quarter-mile.
Rubber used to make garden hose
last three months of 1941 would
'6 bullet-proofed gas tanks on 400
Plying Fortresses.
at top speed, a fully-loaded
^^ engined bomber burns up as much
oline in a single hour as the aver-
family car consumes in six
37'ths.
jg^.^^kers of toys and novelties used
®aough crude rubber in the last
of 1941 to have equipped
qjj two-and-a-half-ton trucks for the
2^3 or 10,000 half-tonners.
333 ®^ore a U. S. battleship can fire
333 Jlvo from her 16inch guns, alcohol
333|.}^§h to provide antifreeze for the
533jj’^tors of 198 autos must have gone
)33 ® Poking smokeless powder.
circus did its bit for the Pro-
* ? iwi ^ Drive in one Florida town re-
when clowns and trick dogs
Ponies moved from winter quar-
So that machine tools and work-
Could move it.
^t^at 100 pounds of waste paper
away every ten weeks by the
v^ge U. S. family would have made
^^iners for eighty 75mm shells
army or 35 fibre cartons to
^ canned foods to our soldiers
^Jfseas.
^ washing machine
'I make gas masks for three U. S.
(Continued on page 6)
THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF PAPE
MAKIG AT EOISTA CORPORATION
August; 23rd marked the 3rd anniversary of the first run
of cigarette paper at the Ecusta Paper Plant. On that date
in 1939, 1229 pounds of paper were run on what is now num
ber 4 machine. This, of course, is a very small fraction of
what is manufactured at Ecusta today.
ert Gordon
Here On Furlough
,i5|^lbert F. Gordan, local preacher in
iit'lg Asheville Methodist district for
. Past four years, is spending a fur-
with his mother, Mrs. M. Gor-
11 Herron Avenue, West Ashe-
[f®- He is stationed in the U. S.
with the Headquarters Com-
of the 30th Division at Fort
assigned to the chaplain’s
for duty.
i ^J'dpn entered the Army on July
|/941, after having been employ-
y the Ecusta Paper Corporation
year. He had graduated from
fiif^ble high school in 1937 and from
' ^''ard College in 1940.
I ® Was first stationed at Fort Mc-
H ^son, Ga., and for four weeks was
k^istant to the chaplain in the re-
center. He was transferred
L ^^^p Croft for basic training and
(nJ Went to the 118th Infantry at
J Jackson. He became identified
Headquarters Company six
ago.
iL^ate Gordon preached at the
Tk, Asheville Methodist church last
spoke to the boys of the
ij^ediate department of the
school at the morning assemb-
^^riod.
i^rother, Sam Gordon, is awaiting
for service in the air corps.
D. L. Thorne
Returns To Navy
D. L. Thorne, Jr., returned to the
U. S. Navy on August 12. D. L. serv
ed four years on the aircraft carrier,
Ranger, prior to his coming to Ecusta,
during which time he suffered a
crushed finger which was stiff at the
time of his discharge. He volunteer
ed for re-enlistment on December 12,
1941, but was turned down because
of the bad finger. However, in the
early summer, Navy Officials told
him that he might re-enlist with the
provision that the finger be amputat
ed. This he did and is now stationed
at Hampton Rds., Va., awaiting as
signment to active duty.
MST
DEADLINE FOR ECHO
CONTRIBUTIONS AND
CIRCULATION GIVEN
Date To Be Announced Month In
Advance.
From this time forward, each
month’s ECHO will announce the
deadline for ECHO contributions and
the publication date of the following
month’s issue.
For the month of Sept., material
will be accepted through Wednesday
the 16th, the publication to be cir
culated by the following Wednesday,
Sept. 23rd.
PRODUCTION MUST
GOON!
Keep Your Supervisor Informed On
Your Draft Status
In order to keep the mill running
with no interruptions due to changes
of employees, it is very important
that your Company knows beforehand
if you are leaving the Company for
service in the Nation’s Armed Forces.
When you receive notice of your
classification from your Draft Board,
or if your classification is ordered
changed by your Board, please notify
your supervisor or foreman at once!
Bus Schedule
An addition to the bus schedule
from Brevard to Ecusta has recently
been made. For the benefit of those
whose schedule requires them to be
at the plant at 8:15 o’clock in the
morning, a bus now leaves Brevard
at 7:55 A. M., arriving at the plant at
8:05 A. M.
WANTED: Your support in making
the ECHO the type of publication
that is interesting to you! Send
your contributions in the way of
pictures, poetry, notices, editorials
and articles of general interest, to
the editor’s desk in the recreation
office. Your support is invaluable
in making the ECHO a publication
worthy of your approval.
SAM MATTHEWS WINS
PICNIC PHOTO CONTEST
Competition in the 4th of July
photo contest was not so keen as it
might have been had there been less
rain an^ more sunshine but Sam Mat
thews managed to cop both first and
second prizes in spite of the weather.
We had planned to show the winning
photos in this month’s ECHO but were
unable to get satisfactory cuts made.
Howeved, Sam gets “A” and our con
gratulations for winning first prize of
$1.00 and second prize of 50c, both
to be given in Defense Stamps.
‘‘Moment Musicaje”
Ladeez and Gentlemen—Puhleeze!
The band is now tuned up and if you
will kindly restrain yourselves from
shouting above a whisper we will
proceed to play a short concert of
special numbers dedicated to various
members of our band, and for our
band, and by our band. We are de
lighted to have such an inspiring
audience, and hope that both of you
will remain, at least until it quits
— (censored) outside. We shall
dedicate our first number to you:
Donkey Serenade” . . . Ahhh! Your
response was overwhelming (where
aid they get those eggs?).
f P^^®ctor, John Eversman, now
caKes the spotlight with a violin solo
entitled “Fiddle and I”. Music,
mousetrap, cheese—I mean. Maestro,
Please! . . . That was fine John, But
folks, you should have heard him, ac
companied by Mrs. Mary Glass at the
piano last Tuesday night at the band
Continued on Page 4
BUY BONDS AND MORE BONDS
FIRE PREVENTION IN
FOREST IS STRESSED
BY ECUSTA CORP.
Government Urges All Patri
otic Citizens to take Special
Steps in Preventing Fires
It is not too soon to begin thinking
about fall forest fires. The U, S, De
partment of Agriculture Forest Ser
vice says “The first essential to prop
er forest management is, of course,
protection against fire. If fires rage
unchecked timber, streamflow and
water supplies, wildlife, grazing, rec
reation—all suffer”. And our Gov
ernment is taking special steps to pre
vent such damage in war times.
Everyone recalls the tremendous
areas afire during the drought this
spring. It was reported that one of
the local fires was started accident
ally by an Ecusta employee burning
weeds around his home. True or
not, such occurrences are very com
mon, and the vigilance required of our
armed forces is no less than every
one of us should exercise this fall (or
any other dry season) to prevent de
struction and ruin in our lovely Pis-
gah National Forest and other wooded
areas.
Fire danger is acute in war times
because of enemy sabotage and ar
son, as well as the possibility of aer
ial bombing and ground incendiaries.
Wood is needed in immense volume
for cargo and fighting ships, air
planes, shipping crates, as a substitute
for metals, and many other purposes.
But, anxious as we all are to guard
(Continued on page 5)
A Letter From A
Former Ecusta Man
To Department Head
(Editor’s note: Th^ following let
ter was received recently by one of
the department heads in the pidnt
and was given to The Echo for pub
lication with the names of the
writer and receiver to be omitted).
The original is now on file in Mr.
Bennett’s office.
To An Ecusta Dept. Head:
How is everything getting along
at the plant these days? Fine, I hope.
Boy, I sure regret being such a
sucker for this place up here. I real
ize now what a nice job I had at
Ecusta. I think that about everybody
I talk to up here feels the same way
about this place as I do. I’m living
about 12 miles from the plant and this
board is really getting me. The town
is alright and the work isn’t so bad if
a man has an interest in that type
of work, and I don’t have an interest
in it. On my papers I got before I
came up here it said I would be put in
the Body department, but instead
they put me in a little place they
called the Reworks. They classify
that as a part of the body department,
I think, but there isn’t anything .to
it. I have hardly done a thing since
I’ve been down there, and you know
how time passes when you are loafing
around.
The first day we went in down here
for work, the first thing we heard
was a fellow wanting us to join the
union and make them raise our pay;
and from the way that things are be
ing talked around the plant, I’m
afraid it’s going to bust in just a few
days and I don’t want to be here
when it does.
I’m telling you this place isn’t
(Continued on page 5)