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THE ECHO
THE ECHO
Organ of Employees at
Ecusta Paper Corporation
Champagne Paper Corporation
and Endless Belt Company
Editor Miss Justine Williams
Published Monthly at
PISGAH FOREST, N. C.
Printed by Champagne Job Printing
Department.
Book. Comer*
If you are a lover of adventure
stories and have never read of the
experiences of Richard Halliburton
then you have a thrill in store for
you. In addition to his BOOK OF
MARVELS we now have ROYAL
ROAD TO ROMANCE, FLYING
CARPET AND GLORIOUS ADVEN
TURE. Richard Halliburton’s life
was spent traveling all over the
world in search of adventure and he
has a fascinating way of writing that
takes you right with him through one
thrilling adventure into another.
Unlike most writers of adventure
Halliburton writes of actual experi
ences. If you enjoy reading books
written by Zane Grey or James Oliv
er Curwood we can guarantee that
you will enjoy these books even
more.
It is spring and the season for
romance, when a “young man’s fancy
lightly turns to thoughts of ”
but with our boys away we on the
home front must be more concern
ed with the interests of “the girls
they left behind them” so during
this season for romance you girls
will just have to read more love
stories. The library has every kind
of novel from the light romances of
“boy meets girl” to the intricacies
of life in the entangled world of
today. In buying new books we try
to get something of interest for ev
eryone. Listed below are the books
we have added to the shelves since
last month. You will find mystery,
adventure, romance and books of
non-fiction dealing with any number
of subjects.
Let The People Know By Norman
AngeL
Guadalcanal Diary By Richard
Tregaskis.
Congo Song by Stuart Cloete.
The Moving Finger by Agatha
Christie.
Strange Doings On Hafaday Creek
by James B. Hendrix.
Crescent Carnival by Frances Park
inson Keyes.
Fielding’s Folly by Frances Park
inson Keyes.
One Small Candle by Cecil Roberts.
Timber Line by Gene Fowler.
Into The Valley by John Kersey.
Days Of Our Years by Pierre Van
Paassen.
The Drums of Morning by Van
Doren Stem.
I Love You, I Love You, I Love
You by Ludwig Bemelmans.
Cradled In Fear by Anita Boutell.
A Book Of Myths by Thomas Bul
lfinch.
River’s End by Jame Oliver Cur
wood.
Wolfe In Man’s Clothing by Mign-
on Eberhart.
Winter Quarters by Bennett Fos-
March, 1943
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i THE NATIONAL ACCIDENT FATALITY TOLL I
1942
1941
Change
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ALL ACCIDENTS ___ ___
93,000
101,513
—8%
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Motor Vehicle __
27,800
39,969
—30%
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:
Public (not motor vehicle)
15,500
15,000
4- 3%
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Home
___ 30,500
30,500
0
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Occupational
___ 18,500
18,000
3%
E
The all-accident totals include deaths of military personnel, not
shown separtely. Motor vehicle deaths include some deaths which are
also shown in the other categories, such as occupational and home.
The 1941 all-accident and motor vehicle totals are U. S. Census Bureau
figures. All others are National Safety Council estimates.
ALL ACCIDENTS
KUled—93,000.
Injuried—9,300,000. Down one
per cent from 1941.
Cost—$3,700,000,000. Including
wage loss, medical expense,
overhead cost of insurance,
and property damage from
traffic accidents and fires.
Deaths of children under five
years rose two per cent. De
creases in other age groups
varied from seven per cent for
the 25-44 age group to 11 per
cent for the 45-64 group.
Falls were down four per
cent. Bums rose 17 per cent,
and were up 10 per cent not
including the Boston night club
fire. Drownings were up one
per cent
The 1941 death rate per hun
dred thousand population was
69.4. The 1922 rate of 68.3 was
the only lower rate in the last
42 years.
OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENTS
Up three per cent from 1941.
Killed—18,500.
Injured—1,750,000. A 10 per
cent increase over 1941.
Cost^?900,000,000.
Total employment rose six
per cent. Considering the tre
mendous problems which in
dustry faced, the small decrease
in fatality rate and only slight
increase in rate for all injuries
are moderately encouraging.
Coal mine fatalities in first
11 months of 1942 were 13 per
cent over the comparable per
iod of 1941. The 11-month death
total was 1286.
Railroad employee fatalities
totalled 845 in the first 11
months of 1942, a 26 per cent
increase over the comparable
1941 figure. The 11-month in
jury total was 31,276, a 37 per
cent increase.
The disabling injury frequ
ency rates reported by indivi
dual plants entered in national
and local safety contests aver
aged seven to nine per cent
above 1941 for the first 11
months of the year. The sever
ity rate in local contests was
down one per cent.
WORKER ACCIDENTS
Down five per cent from 1941.
Killed —47,500. 18,500 on-the-
job and 29,000 off-the-job.
Injured—4,100,000.
Total time losses, including
indirect losses, were the equi
valent of 460,000,000 man-days
of production. This would have
been enough to build 22,000
heavy bombers.
The time lost through tem
porary distability alone would
be equivalent to a complete
shutdown of the entire airplane
and shipbuilding industries for
54 days.
PUBLIC ACCIDENTS
(Not motor vehicle)
Deaths up three per cent from
1941.
Killed—15,500.
Injured—1,850,000.
Cost—$400,000,000. '
RAILROAD ACCIDENTS
Up four per cent from 1941.
The 11-month railroad acci
dent death total was 4,809.
Railroad accident injuries
were up 25 per cent to a total
of 42,707.
Grade crossing fatalities were
1,776, an increase of three per
cent.
Deaths of passengers on
trains totalled 87 for the first
11 months—three times the
number killed in the compar
able period of 1941.
AIRLINE ACCIDENTS
Up sixty per cent from 1941.
There were 71 fatalities from
scheduled air transport acci
dents in 1942. Passenger fatali
ties accounted for 56 of the
deaths.
Airline passenger mileage
was the same as in 1941. The
rate of 3.8 passenger deaths per
100,000,000 passenger miles was
sharply higher than in 1941,
but lower than the rate for
any year prior to 1939.
HOME ACCIDENTS
Killed—30,500.
Injured—4,500,000.
Cos>-$600,000,000.
FIRE LOSSES DOWN 2%
The value of property des
troyed by fire was $315,000,000.
“Well, of all the nerve,” she said,
as she slapped his face. “Don’t ever
try to kiss me again.”
“All right,” he replied meekly, “if
that’s the way you feel about it, get
off my lap.”
ter.
Norma Ashe by Susan GlaspelL
Only One Storm by Granville
Hicks.
Rockwell Hunt by John Bidwell.
West Of The Night by Beryl Mark
ham.
Wild Animals Of The Rockies by
William M. Rush.
Story Of America by Hendrick Van
Loon.
Silvertip’s Strike by Max Brand.
30 Days Hath September by D. C.
Disney.
Prodigal Women by Nancy Hale,
Man Of The Hour by W. Kirk
land.
His Wife The Doctor by Joseph
McCord.
Saddle And Plow by R. M. Taylor.
Astronomy For Everybody by
Simon Newcomb.
That’s the question you have to an
swer! Even though you weren’t
there to hear the bombs at Pearl
Harbor, to see the plunder of the
Philippines, to cheer the boys at
Bataan, the war is all around you.
It’s everywhere ... At the neigh
bor’s house where a mother prays
for her boy in uniform ... At the
mill down the road where men you
know work night and day faster,
faster, faster ... At home on your
pantry shelf in the old sugar-can . . .
At your very feet! The Mikado’s
henchmen 9000 miles away took your
tires, so you walk. You have the
courage to take it, but is that enough?
History answers NO. The Czechs
took it. So did the Austrians, the
Poles, the Danes, the Norwegians, the
Belgians, the Dutch and the French.
Their trouble was doing “too little,
too late.” Then what are you waiting
for? Can you afford to fiddle while
the world burns? Can you afford
“PROMPT TREATMENT
PREVENTS INFECTION" |
In checking with the First Aid Sta- ;
tion, I find that infections have j
greatly decreased here during th®
past year. In fact, there has been i
only one since September 1st, 19^^ ;
that resulted in loss of time away f
from work. i
This is indeed something to b® i
proud of and congratulations are in
order for all employees of Ecustai
Champagne and Endless Belt. This ;
decrease in infections is due to tb® '
part everyone of you played in car- |
rying out one of the first and most |
important rules in the Safety Rule |
Booklet, namely, “All injuries, r®' |
gardless of how slight they may seem ,
to be, must be reported to your tov^' '
man at once.”
Since statistics show that one-hall
of all neglected injuries become
fected and often result in lost tii^e)
your continued fullhearted coopo^^'
tion in having all injuries treated ii®’
mediately will not only protect
personally, but wll also help the
safety record in your department.
REMEMBER — “GET FIRST AID
FIRST.”
Peruasion
Selectee: “They can’t make
fight.”
Draft board officer; “Maybe
but they can take you where the
fighting is and you can use your
judgment.”
I have just read the National
cident Fatality for 1942 and it is rath
er alarming to know that so
people are being injured and
by our worst enemy, “Old Man
cident.”
I wish to call your attention to the
article. National Accident Fatality
Toll, and especially to the Occupy*
tional Accidents.
The employees of Ecusta, ChamP'
agne and Endless Belt contributed to
the total number of injuries sho''^
in said article and even though the
majority of the injuries here wer®
of the minor type, those who wef®
unfortunate enough to be among
list of injured fully realize the
convenience and suffering that
company such cases, not to mei^'
tion the loss of wages that autoio^'
tically come with accidents resultii*^
in lost time. ,
We are all proud of the product
we manufacture here—Let’s reduc®
injuries, be on the job all day evei^
day and be just as proud of our
cident Record As We are of
Product.—H. E. NEWBURY, Safety
Director.
“I regret exceedingly, sir,” saiid ^
chief clerk, “to hear of the junJ®
partner’s death. Would you like
to take his place?”—“Very much’
replied the senior partner, “If
could get the undertaker to arrao®
it.”
to wait until the bombers lay tH,
eggs of death in your own blackya^ ^
Sure, you can take it, take it
the French did. You can
while the Fascists eat, and you
slave for der Fuehrer’s gain,
break your back ‘neath his crooK .
cross, and give your children to^.|.
rohito’s gods. Or You can dish
out, dish it out hot and. heavy,
can fight and help your men.
turn the wheels in the mill m
to make munitions, and sail
ships with cargoes of guns to
lands, and fly the planes and uf .j,
the tanks and shoot the works y
the teeth of hell. That’s their
to answer the Axis. You have
too. Roll out the money, the
and the dollars. Give the boys
BONDS—FOR BOMBS!
Accident Data
Alarming