NOT HOW MUCH BUT HOW WELL QUALITY FIRST THEN QUANTITY Vol. 4; No. 7 (Section One) PISGAH FOREST, N. C. (Service Issue) July, 1943 NEARLY 500 ARE NOW IN SERVICE HANYAnBIDED ECOSTA PICNIC ^J*esident Straus Stressed Im portance Of Indepen dence Day Most of the Ecusta employees members of their families ttended the big big annual Ecusta icnic at Camp Sapphire Monday, 5th, and a large percentage them participated in the many ontests that were held, and en joyed the free refreshments that were served. 'The event, like the one last year, an overwhelming success and „ 'vas not interrupted by rain, i as it might seem, rain fell 0 Brevard and Pisgah Forest, but at Camp Sapphire, a brief address. President ^ ®^ry Straus told the picnickers ^at he was not only delighted them to work together, but iso to play together and expressed belief that this would promote greater feeling of understanding friendship. Annual Picnic Mr. Straus said that he hoped picnic program would become ^ annual event. He paid tribute to the men in ervice and said that -one way to p them in bringing Victory to shores was to buy all of the bonds possible. He also pointed out that those the home front should produce they possibly could, too. in t picnic started at 10 o’clock _ the morning and a large number .contests were staged. Several ^iQus and also comical boxing ^®uts were held in the afternoon. Well as a number of other ®nts, for which prizes were ^'^arded. One of the comic bouts was b^ged by Ginny Wood and Slim J^jlock and the referee, Jack ^ liber, got about the worst end of ® battle. Another unique event —^Turn To Page Sixteen ^^cal Square Dance Team Is Organized group of Ecustans have gotten ^^®ther a square dance team the direction of Eb Morrow ^ plan to go to Asheville to in the annual Folk Fes- which will be held there the 6th and 7th of August. , ^hett Talley’s String Band, which ^ ® Played for the Ecusta square as well as for the dances each week in Brevard, will fp .^ith the dance team to the tival and will play. Eb Morrow t»e caller, th ■ t®am has been organized at r ^ invitation of Bascomb Lamar S^^sford, director of the festival, members of the present have appeared in the festival former years. ‘‘Ecusta’’ River Takes A Long Plunge High up in the Pisgah National Forest the Davidson River, formerly known as the “Ecusta” River and from which Ecusta gets its great water supply, takes a 38-foot plunge. This beautiful fall, located in the heart of “The Land of Waterfalls,” is called “Looking Glaiss Falls.” Twenty-Four Employees Have Made Outstanding Bond-Buying Records «>- Have Purchased Bonds Un der Deduction Plan For 72 Consecutive Weeks Twenty - four employees have made an outstanding war bond- buying record. According to reports from the company War Bond department, they have bought bonds for 72 consecutive weeks through the pay roll deduction plan and are still going strong. The Echo salutes these employ ees of Ecusta, Champagne, and Endless Belt. There are around 1,400 other employees who are participating in the plan. On the office payroll, Homer F. Harris, Sr., has 17 consecutive month-3 of bond-buying to his credit. The 24 employees with the fine record are as follows: Machine Room—Everette Little, Haskell W. Heaton, Arthur L. Poteet, Thomas J. Stroup, Thomas H, Allen and Oliver Vaillancourt. Finishing Room—Jewell F. Gar- ren, Inez M. Summey and Grover W. Penland. Inspection Department — Mary Carolyn McIntosh and Millard Teague. Beater Room—William R. Boggs. —Turn To Page Sixteen $20,625 In Bonds Purchased In June Figures from our War Bond department show that our pur chases of Bonds are increasing each month. June proved to be the best month yet. Bonds pur chased in this month by Ecusta, Champagne and Endless employ ees amounted to $20,625.00. Since our employees started buy ing War Bonds by payroll deduc tions in March of last year, Ecusta has purchased $165,975.00; Cham pagne, $25,481.25; and Endless, $6,862.50. This means that a total amount of $198,318.75 has been invested in War Bonds by all of us. That is a fine record. Let’s not slow up. KEEP ON BUYING BONDS! ‘IKE’ MEIXELL FEATURED IN A NEWS REEL RECENTLY “Ike” Meixell (2nd Lt. Boyd B.) a former Ecusta Bleach Operator, thrilled his friends and family by appearing before them in the news reel at a local Brevard theatre recently. Friends recognized him Sunday, July 11, “just as he turn ed around in his plane and smiled,” —Turn To Page Sixteen HONOR ROUUST IS FEATURED IN SECOND SECnON Four Women In Service. Three Are Now “Miss ing In Action” The Ecusta Paper corporation. Champagne and Endless Belt now have around 500 former employees in service, according to informa tion obtained from the office of Miss Kathleen Ricker, in which such records are kept. This is believed to be an excep tionally high percentage of former employees in service and shows that our companies are contri buting substantially to the war effort on the battlefronts of the world as well as on the homefront. It also indicates one of the serious wartime problems which our com panies have had to solve. In honor of these men and wo men in uniforms and as a salute to them, a complete list, or as nearly a complete list of them as we can obtain from information now recorded in Miss Ricker’s of fice, is being featured in the sec ond section of this issue. A picture of the new honor roll board that has been erected in front of the Cafeteria and a personal message from President Straus are also featured in the “military” section. There are 479 names printed in the section, 475 men and 4 women. The information about them is as accurate and up-to-date as possible. The co-operation of those in ser vice and their families or friends is requested. Please send any cor rections or changes to Miss Ricker or to Miss Lucille Roberts, assis tant editor of the Echo. The Echo is also glad to publish pictures of men and women in service. Just send the pictures to us. Every one back on the home- front deeply regrets that three of our men in service are listed as —Turn To Page Sixteen Many Former Ecusta Men Are Officers A summary of our men in service reveals that a number of them are officers in the armed forces. The latest tabulation reveals this in teresting information: There are 5 captains, 4 first and senior grade lieutenants, 2 lieu tenants, 14 second and junior grade lieutenants, 4 ensigns, 6 pet ty officers, 1 warrant officer, 34 sergeants, 42 corporals, 13 first class navy men, 21 second class navy men, 9 third class navy men, 43 privates first class, 3 in the WACS and 1 in the WAVES. The remainder of the men are enlisted men, sailors or military personnej,

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