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PAQE TEN THE ECHO News From Various Departments Machine Room News Refining News By JOHN GOOLSBY WelL again I will try to give you the latest news, gossip and tales as they come to me. Here is the first one. They tell me it was very amus ing to see Wilson Gregory have an imaginary ball game. They were playing some unknown team. Ike Gilliam came out with blisters on his hands. Clyde Seay was holding down third, Gregory got every man out coming home with Gilbert Coan’s long throw from centerfield. Coan had knocked quite a few home runs, bases load ed every time. Umpire Brewer came along and said, “Alright, boys, General Wash-up, the score.” Well, Arnold Williams said he didn’t know but was positive we won. “You say you want to love your neighbors but something holds you back?” “Yes, my wife!I” A few of the boys were ganged up in the locker room taking a bath at shift changing time and the subject of kissing girls came up. Paul White, Oscar Barrett, John Kilpatrick, Haskel Heaton, Cecil Chasteen, and a few more, when Heaton said he thought it was a lot harder to kiss a girl in the old days than it is now. “Meb- be so, mebbe so,” replied Charlie McCormick, our oldest member yie Machine Room staff, “but it was nothing like as dangerous in those days. You never heard of a parlor sofa skidding off the highway and smashing into a telfe' phone pole.” jTellows, if any of you really want to see a victory hair cut, we’ve got one of those patriotic gentle men in our midst. “Shot Gun” Brewer looks like one of those Notre Dame football players some few years back. Sometime ago it was reported to the board of health a man way back up in the mountains was raising hogs under his front porch, so they got Eustis Thomas, Albert Lyday, Owen Banning, a third hand on number 8 machine, to go up and explain to him why he shouldn’t do it. They went up to the house with the words the board of health had set down for them and said, “Don’t you think it is rather unsanitary to raise those hogs under your house?” Tht, man’s reply was, “I can see dern well you all don’t know anything about raising hogs, I been raising them thar nigh on to ten years ana ain’t lost a one yet, but if you got an idea on how to m^ke old Rat tler (his hound) tree a coon I’U take all you got.” That was the report they brought back. Another little Bundle from Heav en, this time at the home of Bill Cagle. Yes, you are right, a dar ling little boy. Mother and son doing fine; William David is the name. Congratulations, Bill! Frank (Foots) Case was telling me Ed Williams, the third hand in that crew, had noticed that Old Father Time had sneaked up on him and he had to do something about it, so he ordered a bottle of Hair Tonic from some mail order house for three dollars, guaran teed to stop “falling hair” and turn it black at the same time. By mistake he got a quart bottle of sheep dip, mailed to a man in the upper end of the county. Every two hours he would go to the lock er room and massage his head and then come back up stairs and get hot through. The boys couldn’t get in fifty yards of him for pecul iar odors. The real stuff arrived, his hair was gone, and so was his sheep dip. He says no more pat ent medicine for him. Friends, I want to close with thij thought in mind— If you walk with friends and stum ble and fall, They will pick you up. If you walk alone and stumble and fall. You don’t get up. long. Finishes Training Cafeteria Chatter BY JACK RHODES I Like to Remember: L. V. Neill and Homer Raxter trying to outdo each other rabbit- hunting. Walt McNeely and Markley Jones on No. 3, “Quiet Walt” and “Loud Mark.” The look on Speedy Jones’ face the night he took a ducking at Davidson River swimming hole, the night of Jerry Mann and (jecil Buckner’s going-away frolic. Norman Singletary’s peculiar habit of coming to work in a pa jama shirt. (He always slept late.) Dick Perron lining Bob Leathen up for a boxing bout at the picnic. Love, whose lunch never lasted until 10:00 a. m., alw9v? Berry Gaither wanted to join the Coast Guard, until he found out they guarded the coast on the Solomon Islands. Incidentally, we have heard comments on what a swell Marine he is making. Bill Cauble, bursting with pride when he annouaced the birth of his first boy. Small wonder, the first five children were girls. Edgar Allen, our first man to leave for service and his brilliant play at second base for the Refin ing Room and Ecusta ball clubs. Mitch Lance and Charley Orr in their orange uniforms when running wheat straw paper. Bud White trying to protect the one hair on his chest from Thad Newman and Charlie Russell. (Note) Charlie wanted to make himself a toupee out of it. Ginny Wood, Jack Wilber and Slim Bullock in their water comedy at the 1943 picnic. L. W. Hollingsworth and Jimmy Mills tearing over the country side on their motorcycles. The way Jerry Mann looked when he shaved off'his moustache. Oh, you know, Jimmy Sledge with out his. Paddle-foot Guilbert walking up and down No. 4 with the French mens’ old style shoes. Mack Feaster’s Oldsmobile com- in’ down Little Mountain. Speed ing??? Naw, just a mere hundred per. A1 Montville’s performance dur- mg the bout with Jimmy Jones of Machine Room at this year’s pic nic. Ansel Jones and his Wash Room quartet on D shift. Harmony??? Yeah!!! Clifford Gillespie and Leland Thomas’ tales of great coon hunts. But lately, Guy Emerson, a new comer, has been putting in a few stories of his own. You ought to hear the three of them rattle them off. Scott and J. B. Rogers taking off a bird hunt. Oh, say, last month’s Echo made J. B. the proud father of seven. He emphatically wishes to state it is only two. Bob Duckworth’s trip down Lit- More Recent News Had a letter from our old friend, “Mack” Feaster. He’s in France now and is still with L. V. Neill, lormer control operator and Cliff Brannon, ex-Ecusta policeman. Mack asked about the cigarette situation here. They have only been gettiing one week’s ration of cigarettes every four weeks so 1 know that we folks at home can’t very well complain about any shortage. Well, congratulations are in or der in the Beater Room: Mr. and Mrs. John D. Ball an nounce the arrival of a daughter Oct. 7. John is a beaterman. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Owen tell us of a big bouncing boy. Donald is strutting around just like Donald Duck. Speaking of births, I’ve always heard that the fathers come out 0. K. That must be wrong because when Clint Greene called us to telJ ^bout his big baby boy, almost in the same breath he said he couldn’t make it to work next day. Said he was tired but personally I think the hospital officials made him refinish the concrete floor. Some body might have got hurt if they fell into that trench. Imagine!!! 18 inches deep and the whole length of the hosoital hall. What a walker!!! Anyhow, best of luck to all of you and may your lives be long and cheery. The Refining Room is sorry to lose its super, A1 Montville, to the service. Al’s leaving on the 20th for the Marines. Good luck, fellow, we know you’ll be in there kicking. That’s enough so I’ll be seeii?’ you, folks. re- BY SULA COX Ethel accompanied her ter, Guyma, to Pennsylvania cently to visit Guyma’s ^ mother, who has been ill time. They report a nice tnPi also the elderly Mrs. Stover improved. Marie visited her Greenville recently and there did some shoppiJ^- and Sylvia also have been dr* themselves up lately. Preparing and mailing ® Christmas boxes has been der of the day. Divola, .jjj Sylvia, Reba, Nadine and have been busy. Divola hears from fou: fine. letter larly,—getting aJong are quite proud of a ceived here from his super ficer. „ toOi ery t Ethel hears from Carl oft^^ JOHN N. PRICE, S 2-c, is in an armed guard school at Nor folk, Va. He has completed boot training at Camp Peary, Va., and entered service in June, 1944. At Ecusta he was employed in Champagne’s Shipping depart ment. tie River in a row boat. Bob got so many duckings that trip he would not touch a water hose for three •weeks. Clarence Whitmire and Red Harbin politicking along about election time. A great pair, those two. The time when Glover Jackson, while mixing carbonate, got his hands slicky and the hose slipped out of his hands and gave Dick Perron an unwanted bath. very and has shown us two usual souvenirs. Marie doesn’t tell us very of a recent, chicken Marie, we heard about looking soldier. stff'i We were all prised the other day our old “Soup King” ^ us. He surely looks .on. the Navy service he has •is now a Navy cook. .;.r Sylvia has received h®* , til*' Cloyd’s APO No. and to ^ he is now in N. Y. ready ^ across. Her husband is p(' and expects to be moved Mr. Wild has a new son- J Olevia is expected to the near future as she a place somewhere nea Hill. footl)*** Rosa is proud of player of hers, and no we all are. The talk among t^e .ut ^ is mostly hunting; men, fall housecleanins Taylor visited Uncle cently and was i'ejecte“’ ^ badly about it, but we ,| for we nee^ Taylor, too. j ^ Arnold Anders paid recently. He makes a ing soldier. . - Taylor is batching ^ We hope Mrs. Tayloi^ s ) well soon, because are lonely, fella. j^yjte ^ Anyone needing a tective,—just call on i sie makes a good Well, ’by till (j#' The Landscape BY JAMES IW. Another month j^jij around since last Frost is visiting .iig ^ painting these old so we realize that until winter is upo^ Like life is, we , u ^iiig 5%, all' to us- jjavc^ Wa changes to come be ready for things apo to us, keep our heads looking for the bette are ahead. , GOSSIP Wonder why go to First Aid s® 3 his stomach? Becaus ^ ^ j, many tomatoes, I wonder if Fred vacation at home, fishing. , Wonder if WiUi® ^ coons the other catch a cold?
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