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PAGE SIXTEEN THE ECHO OCTOBER, 1943 News From Former Employees Now In Service FROM CAMP TO CAMP Pvt. Cortez Hyder writes from Nashville, Tenn.: “Here I am in Tennessee fixing to start on my maneuvers. It keeps a fellow pretty busy moving from camp to camp as I have been lately. I think I am going to like Tennessee just fine . . . TeU all the fellows at Ecusta ‘Hello’ ...» IN ANTI-AIRCRAFT Pvt. Beinjamin F. Walker writes from Camp Stewart, Ga.: “I am at Camp Stewart, in the A. A. A. (Anti-Aircraft). I like it o. k. but I’d rather be back at Ecusta ... I hope this war ends soon so we can all get back to our jobs and friends at home . . WRITES FROM ENGLAND. Sgt. Horace D. Smith writes from England: “. . . You’ll never know how the paper brings back thoughts of days past. The pic tures taken at the picnic have quite a number of familiar faces ... By the way, when did Jones make a professional fighter? Per feet form, Jones. Keep up the good work, we need you . . , Well, folks, send us some more planes and bombs and we’ll do our dead level best to make Hitler a present of them before breakfast ... I have two special interests in Ecus ta. One works in the Physical Lab; another in the Chemical Lab. Hello Sis’s, keep the wheels turn ing . , . Everyone write! Sure would enjoy more mail from the plant . . .” Now At Goldsboro BOYS FROM BREVARD THERE Jesse Gillespie, Apprentice* Sea man, writes from the Naval Train ing Station, Bainbridge, Md.: “I sure was glad to know that the bond drive went over so well I like the Navy just fine and think it is really a good life once you get used to it. We have a lot of boys from Brevard up here. That makes it seem more like home . . . I sure would like to be back there working again for I enjoy working there so much . . . Tell everybody at Champagne hello and I’ll be seeing you soon . . .” Pfc. Raleigh T. Waldrop, for mer Ecusta Assistant Chief In spector who was inducted into the army March 18, 1943, is now stationed at Seymour Johnson Field, Goldsboro, N. C. He has been stationed at Sheppard Field, Texas, and Camp Santa Anita, Arcadia, Calif. Pfc. Wal drop was here on a furlough October 1, 1943. HAS BRAGGED ABOUT ECUSTA Sgt. Mary Rickman writes from the 2nd WAC Training center at Daytona Beach, Fla.: “Got my Echo and have read and re-read it. I’ve bragged about Ecusta, its employees, the wonderful things like the band and the bowling teams until every one here knows what a grand job you’re doing both by making possible those re laxing smokes and by buying War Bonds . . . I’ve bragged about how you ‘give till it hurts’ so I know you won’t let me down ... It makes evei^body in uniform feel more confident when they know what goes on back home ‘where they left off.’ Through thos§ cold bits- of black and white print that you call the Echo, we in the ser vice hear a warm soft voice from home . . . You can put me down as a sergeant and I don’t think it will be changed anymore. Enough worry comes with - three stripes.” COLORED JANITOR WRITES Cpl. James P. Williams writes from somewhere overseas: “While sitting here during a good day’s rest—the first one I have had in a long time—I’m so glad to get the chance to write my friends again . . . We are hoping to keep the good work going on, and, of course, I know we will return home with the boys again . . .Tell them hello for me and give them my best wishes ... I am well at this writing . , IN P. T. SQUADRON Richard Lance, Fireman First Class, write from Melville, R. I.: Will drop you a few lines to night to let you know that I have not forgotten Ecusta ... I am sta tioned at Melville, R. I. in a P. T. squadron and like it fine ... I am an engineer on one of the P. T. boats and like the job but it is sure a tough one, and rough rid ing. We really get tossed about We have ten more weeks training here then we report overseas to a new squadron . . , Give my re gards to the boys and tell them to keep the wheels rolling . , .” Writes Interesting Letter To Mother Printed below is an interesting letter from Major Remsen J. Cole, U. S. Marine corps, to his mother on her birthday. Major Cole is » nephew of Mr. George F. Hus- kamp, of the accounting depart ment. The letter is as follows: Somewhere in the South Pacific June 16, 1943 Mother Dear: This letter is especially for you because today is your birthday. I’m not very happy about being away from you on this day, but there are many, many more out here who each day must be away on the birthday of someone they love. I imagine that the day here is quite like your June 16th. It is quite warm and still. Except for the tents and the uniforms you’d hardly know there is a war going on. But that’s all on the surface. Underneath you can’t escape for a moment thie fact that there is a war, and a long one, changing the lives of a lot of people both out here and back there. Cpl. George Rielly Sends Unique Photo Cpl. George P. Rielly writes from the Pacific: (Editor’s note: Cpl. Rielly came with the company from New York. He was home in in January of this year due to ENJOYS NEWS FROM PLANT Pvt. Bill Baley writes from somewhere overseas: “I want to thank you again for sending me the Echo. Enjoy reading all the news about the plant ... Give my regards to all the boys at the mill.” WINE AND FRENCH GIRLS Pfc. Floyd Evans writes from somewhere overseas: “We spent two months in the suburbs of pretty large town which I am sure you have heard a lot about, and I had plenty of fun while there. Wii^e and all kinds of French girls were plentiful ... The place where we are located now is a beautiful place to be away from. When we first arrived here the dust was knee deep, and we went to bed right on the ground. Well, we had been here about two weeks when there came a flood and what a nice mess we were in'for awhile! But it soon dried up and every thing is running smoothly now . . . Wish I could tell you more about this place, but there really isn’t much to tell. I am looking for ward to the day when I can be back in Carolina.” LETTER FROM HOME Pvt. Berry Gaither writes from Parris Island, S. C.: “I would ap preciate getting the Echo ... As you know, every service man en joys getting mail, and the paper would be the same as a big letter from home and I could l^eep up with things there.” I’d like very much to be back there with you, but then, so would everyone else out here like to be home. That’s pretty much what we’re here for—so that finally we can go home and stay there. Except for missing people there’s nothing else we really need I think you discover quite quickly out here that home isn’t a place, but rather people who have been together for a long time. We’ve really been together for quite some time, haven’t we? Dad’s only few months up on me. I don’t know when I’ll be back, of course. Let’s hope we can have Christmas together this year Meanwhile, I’ll be thinking of you often, which I feel in my language means I’ll be praying for you. I hope your birthday was peaceful one, one that will help you to look forward to many, many more. And I want to be there with you -when you have them. Your loving son, REMSEN. Christmas Trees In Shop Windows I believe that this issue of the Echo is to be the Christmas num ber for you men and women in the service, so I want to tell you that there are Christmas trees in many of the shop windows. It is a bit early to think of our Christmas. We have Hallowe’en and Thanks giving first, but those trees are for you boys and girls who are away from home. As I gazed at one of those glim mering trees I thought, “Yes, we’ll have Christmas this year and we’ll have it again next year, and the next and the next—we’ll always have Christmas on December 25. That’s just one of the many beau tiful customs that the mad Nazis and the treacherous Japs can nev er destroy! Those boys want America to go right on having Christmas. That’s what they are fighting for and they want to give the rest of the world the privilege of having Christmas, too, if they want it.” ^erever you may be this Christmas day you will know that the folks back home are observ ing Christmas, not in the usual way, because of your absence, but it will be Christmas and there will be trees for you and thoughts of the death of his father and illness of his mother. Besides mentioning many of his friends back home he makes comment on the success in the service of Roy McClintock and Burwell Hall.) . . . “In going back to the states I was able to travel by plane and so now I feel in the class with Eleanor Roosevelt Wendell Willkie; just another .‘Short Snorter’. I returned to these islands by boat, just the conventional soldier going overseas. So far in my army career I have sailed under the famous Golden Gate bridge twice and over it once. . . . The Echo arrives be latedly here, but is nonetheless wel' come. You have no idea the pleas ure I derive in coming across names of friends of ‘the good old days’- . I would like to have seen your ^minstrel. . . . There seems to *an abundance of talent on the ros ter of Ecusta. ... I am reminded in mentioning Ecusta that a coupl® of men in my organization are from El Centro, Calif., and one of my buddies is from Monkato, Minn. It wasn’t until I explained to him the important part that flax played the manufacture of cigarette pape^J* did he realize what those large fla^ piles were for around Blue Earth-' Minn. . . . Censorship does not per mit telling you much about this lO' cation or the work I am engaged ii*- I can tell you that I am feeling and am enjoying this life just about as much as a reformed civilian can- As you might have guessed f haven’t added to my height, but have succeeded in lessening my girth. ... I note from your paper that the firm and all its employees are contributing unselfishly to the war effort, what with war bond drives, victory gardens, and many members of personnel; more power to you! . . . you. Regardless of what joys or presents the season may bring your gift will be the most wonderful one of all—the preservation of the Christmas custom. And' you know that so long as the Christ mas spirit reigns at home nothing good can perish. Merry Christmas to all! Mary Sue Thorne. NOTICES BOND HONOR ROL^ Pvt. WiUiam W. Phillips writes from Camp Ellis, 111.: “I notice some of my friends in your Bond Honor Roll, which makes m® very proud . . . Glad to know the progress of Ecusta. . . ”
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