PAGE FOURTEEN
THE ECHO
SEPTEMBER, 1943
News From Former Employees Now In Service
SENDS REGARDS TO PULP
MILL
Truman J. Henderson, Seaman,
First Class, writes from a Fleet
Post Office: “It is good of the
Ecusta people to send their paper
to their former employees now in
the service. I appreciate it very
much myself and am sure all of
the rest do. . . . Tell all the boys
in the Pulp Mill I said ‘hello’ and
wish them the best of luck. There
isn’t much I can say about where
I am and what I am doing, but am
in good health and faring fine.”
EVERYBODY LIKES ECHO
Jack L. Ring, Torpedoman, 3rd
Class, writes from a Fleet Post
Office: “I am writing to ask you
to send me the Echo. I sure did
enjoy reading it as long as I was
able to get it. I think everyone
aboard ship enjoys it as well as I
. . . Tell Leon English and Bob
Matthews that I would like to go
to another party at White Pine
Camp. . . . Tell all the boys to
write.”
Finishes Training
GOOD TO READ LETTERS
Pvt. Howard E. Lawing writes
from Camp Davis, N. C.: “I’m
down here in N. C. again but it
isn’t good old Western North Car
olina. We are living in pup tents
in the woods with the mosquitoes
and rattlesnakes. ... It is good
to read the letters from all the
boys in service and to know what
is going on at the plant. I would
like to be back up there working
again and I’m looking forward to
the day when we will all be back
. . . Thanks again for the Echo.”
Cadet Ben M. Rickman, for
mer Ecusta electrician is now*
stationed at Freeman Field, Sey-
mon, Ind. Cadet Rickman en
listed in -the Army Air corps
August 24, 1942. Cadet Rickman
has just completed one phase
of his training at Jackson, Tenn.
Now on Sea Duty
J. Truman Henderson, Seaman
First Class, was a digestor cook
helper before he went into the
Navy June 30, 1942. Seaman
Henderson was formerly sta
tioned at the Navy Yard at Phil
adelphia, Pa., and is now on sea
duty.
In North Africa
BUSY LEARNING TRADE
William E. H^ynie, Pharmacist’s
Mate, Third Class, writes from the
Naval Training Station in Bain
bridge, Md.: “They have been
keeping me busy learning this
trade (dental) and being shipped
around to different stations and
bases. ... I like the Navy a lot
... We have a lot of different
places to go like New York, Wash
ington, Baltimore, Philadelphia
and other small towns in and
around the big ones. . . . There
are quite a few of the boys from
in and around Asheville, which
makes me feel at home.”
CONGRATULATES ECUSTANS
S. Sgt. Sidney J. Hedden writes
from Camp Ch^fee, Ark.: “I want
to congratulate each of you for
the fine part you are playing in the
war. If every plant throughout the
country would work together like
the people at Ecusta do, I am
quite sure victory would come
sooner. Keep up the good work.
... I look forward to the Echo
every month. I always enjoy read
ing the letters from the boys in
service. ... I was recently pro
moted to Staff Sergeant. I am
now a platoon Sergeant in charge
of 36 men. My job is to teach them
to drill, drive tanks, and all kinds
of gun instructions. ... I have
been transferred to Camp Chaffee,
Ark. We believe it is the hottest
place on earth. To our surprise
most of the girls wear shoes, too.”
AT MAIL CALL LOOKS FOR
THE ECHO
Pvt Albert Grindstaff writes
from North Africa: “You don’t
know how much I have missed the
Echoes (I have received only one
since I’ve been here), for every
time at mail call I am looking for
the Echo. . . . There are lots of
service men over here but I
haven’t run into but one or two
I knew. . . . Keep the old wheels
rolling and the Echo coming my
way.”
Pfc. Edward Pitts, formerly an
Ironer in Endless, is now in
North Africa and reports that
he likes it fine. Pfc. Pitts was
previously stationed at Camp
Robinson, Ark., and New Or
leans, La. He entered the ser
vice September 18 of last year.
Cook in the Navy
Ray McCall, Seaman First
Class, former member of the
Ecusta Cleaner Crew who left
for the service November 2,
1942, took his boot trade train
ing at Norfolk, Va., and is now
a cook.
THREE TROPICAL RUNS AND
ONE NORTHERN RUN
William E. Green, Gunner’s
Third Class, writes from an Armed
Guard Center, Brooklyn, N. Y-
“You don’t realize how much it
means to us boys to receive one
of the papers and find out just
what the other boys are doing.  • •
As I said before, I have made quite
a few trips since I was assigned
to sea duty. I made three tropic^j
runs and one northern run. |
can’t say just where I went but
they were really enjoyable to a
certain extent. ... I hope
will pardon the writing but I have
a small monkey here and he
driving me crazy. He is trying to
go out of the port hole and eveO'
thing else. I have him on a chain
and the- chain fastened to
chair and he is dragging the chaU*
all over my paper.”
SENDS CARTOONS TO ECHO
Cpl. Jack D. Morgan writes fro®
.somewhere in New Guinea: “I
getting along all right and
well. I will be glad to send car
toons to the Echo . . . Will sen«
them as often as posisble. . • • ;
Hope everything is going sniootii'
ly at Ecusta.”
CALIFORNIA REMINDS HIM
OF NORTH CAROLINA
Pfc. Raleigh T. Waldrop writes
from Camp Santa Anita,‘ Arcadia,
Calif.: “You’ve heard a lot about
California. It really is everything
you’ve heard. I’m sure I’ll like it
here. It reminds me a lot of
western N. C., but we do have
them beat when it comes to beauty
of the mountains. There are a lot
of places to go; it’s not far into
Hollywood, so maybe we’ll get to
see a few of the stars. . . . Give
my regards to my friends at
Ecusta.”
RATHER WORK GRAVEYARD
Pvt. George Jack Smith writes
from Fort Bliss, Texas: “I’m do
ing fine and liking the army much
better. I still would rather be back
there working graveyard. ... We
go out on the desert for several
weeks, leaving the 20th. ... I’m
looking for a furlough in Novem
ber. I'd like to say heUo to the
Finishing Department an(J hope to
see everyone soon.”
HOPES WIFE WILL VISIT
Pfc. Lewis P. Bagwell writes
from an army air base in Kansas
“I liked the last issue of the Echo
so much because I knew most of
the boys in service personally that
were mentioned in that issue.
I’ve been moved again . . . hope to
have my wife visit me h^re.”
EXPECTS FURLOUGH
Cpl. George 0. Taylor writes
from Camp Butner, N. C.: “Fm
looking forward to paying you
folks a visit within the near fu
ture—that is, if I can talk these
people out of a furlough. ... I
haven’t had one in eight long,
miserable months. . . . We were
on maneuvers a month ago and
last week we were in the north
area of camp for a week. . . . I’m
pretty sure that we will be in the
field for quite some time from
now on. ... I have been receiving
the Echo regularly and I enjoy
it more each time. . . . Give my
regards to my friends there,”
MOUNTAINS LIKE LOADS Of
GRAVEL
Pfc. Ralph C. Erskine, Jr., write®
from Wendover Field, Utah:
Echo just arrived and it is
like getting a long distance pho®
call from home. The paper is p.
ginning to look like a Sunday etW'
tion of the Times. . . . I am
at Wendover Field, Utah, and 6^'
pect to ship abroad when
squadron completes its traimje
here. My job is in the squadron
Operations Office. . . . Wendover
is on the edge of the Great Sal
Desert and ideally suited for
one who wants to get away
all, and I mean far away. • • • ^
set-up here is as different
that in Colorado as night
day. There it was ideal; tall tr®® ’
green grass and a good cliui®^'
Here, there isn’t a blade of gj*®
or a tree within a hundred
The mountains look as though
were brought in on trucks ^
dumped on the desert like
of gravel. I saw a bird the oto .
day, but he looked pretty tired ^
sort of lost An interesting
light on the variety of clii®^. g
conditions in Colorado: on
4th of July I was up in the suo
slopes. Incidentally, there
captain out on the edge of a cl^ ’
also taking pictures. I gave^^
a salute, and he did some
fancy juggling before he could r
turn it. You see, he had a
in each hand and a pipe
mouth.”
ECHO FINDS HIM SOMEflJ^^
Pfc. Charles H. Moss writes
somewhere in Sicily: “I see by S
paper that everyone has alre®
written. Speaking of the P^P j
I don’t think there is anythi^^g
enjoy more than it I
been all over, but the Echo see .
to find me somehow. I first
to England, then to Africa;
ed there until the campaign
over, and I am now
in Sicily. We are doing g^e
for ourselves as I guess yo^
by the paper Give gp
gards to all the gang and ^
’em smoking.”
LIKES THE NAVY
Jesse Gillespie, Apprentice
man, writes from the Naval '*.4
ing Station in Bainbridge,
like the navy fine but would
to be back at the plant. , • •
joyed working there,”