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7; No. 5
PISGAH FOREST, N. C.
May 194V
Ecustans To Celebrate Fourth Of July
ecustans backing
War loan drive
p
Allotment Increased
Many Ecustans Are
Buying Extra Bonds.
Ecustans are going all-out in
purchase of war bonds dur-
® the Seventh War Loan drive.
Many employees have been in-
j their payroll allotment
^^uctions and others are buying
bonds during the big drive
, ^’sise fourteen billion dollars in
nation.
iti^ '^®Paign to sell bonds is be-
snrt in each department
tj^l^^very employee is being con
Ecustans are also helping vari-
5 organizations in the commu-
y to raise their quotas and oth-
hel devoting a lot of time to
with the bond rallies and
ous community projects to sell
vjg^^Sovemment securities for
«rvtvi^ Company is also doing ev'
possible to make the SeV'
*00 Loan drive a success,
ty co-operated with the coun-
W finance committee by serv-
free lunch to the 77 enlisted
big ®nd 4 officers who staged the
**fantry show in Brevard re-
Company is buying
® at all of the community ral-
—Turn To Page Sijrteen
*>achineroom
leading LEAGUE
and Control Tied
Second Place in
Baseball League.
fifth double-header of the
chij, ® Thursday afternoon, Ma-
thg p Hoom baseball team beat
trjji .Hoping team 8 to 3 and Con-
5^ed Maintenance 20 to 12.
the first four games of
hit the Machine Room boys
anw?® old horsehide just about
they wanted to, but in
toojj ® game when Cagle
he L y® mound for the beatermen,
j fast-moving Machine
"Own to 8 runs.
*^>itr game between
^int Maintenance, the
Soo,} ®®ance boys got off to a
in Uie first three in
to 4 with the score standing 11
tfoi the end of the third, Con-
% on a hitting spree in the
fUQj however, and brought in 7
9t t}, the two teams wound up
'ViUf.f ®nd of the 7th with Control
fjj the game 20 to 12.
iftg o Machine Room team is lead-
® Inter-department league
—Tnm To Page Five
There Are 626 On Honor Roll Of
Men And Women In World War I!
Six hundred and twenty-six
stars are on Ecusta’s service ban
ner representing the men and
women who have entered service
since the beginning of World War
IL Forty-six of this number have
received honorable discharges and
many of them are back at work
here, leaving 580 still in service.
Eleven fatalities have been re
ported, the banner showing gold
stars. Only one was killed in the
Pacific theatre of operations. Eight
were killed in action in the Euro
pean theatre, and 2 of the 11 were
killed in plane accidents in the
States.
Of Ecusta’s 4 servicemen miss
ing in action, 3 are in the Pacific
and near east while 1 is missing
over Germany. Several Ecustans
have been prisoners of war and
have been liberated. The only one
from whom we have no word of
his liberation is Carlos John Mc
Call, German prisoner.
As might be expected, over one
half of our servicemen entered
the army and nearly one-fourth of
them entered the Navy. The line-up
by branches of service is as fol
lows: Army, 393; Navy, 154; Ma
rines, 22; Merchant Marine, 11;
WACS, 6; WAVES, 5; Seabees, 4;
Coast Guard, 2; SPARS, 1; Cadet
Nurse Corps, 1, and Branch of Ser
vice unknown, 27.
Lt. Col. Thomas E. Ramsey,
Major Charles Newland and Ma
jor Burwell F. Hall are the high
est ranking of the 45 officers for
merly employed here. We boast,
also, of 8 captains, 10 first lieuten
ants and 7 second lieutenants
among our Army men; 6 senior
grade and 6 junior grade lieuten
ants, 5 ensigns are among our
Navy men.
PLANS NOW BEING
MADE FOR ANNUAL
4TH CELEBRATION
Ecustans Start Movement T o Organize
A Sportsmen's Club In Transylvania
mORY GARDEN
INTEREST KEEN
One Of The Favorite Topics
Of Conversation Here Is
Victory Gardens.
Already Ecustans have reaped
“some fruits from their labors”
in the 1945 Victory gardens, and at
the same time many of them have
had to double their efforts to keep
out the weeds and to kill the in
sects.
With the exception of an early
cold spell, this has been a fairly
good garden season, and many of
the Ecusta gardens are “things of
beauty.”
In most any spot in the plant,
when two or more employees get
together, the conversation is apt
to turn to gardens.
“I’ve had lettuce, radishes, spin
ach, parsley, and onions,” one
employee boasted a few days ago.
“Hum, that’s nothing,” another
replied, “I’ve gotten potatoes out
M my garden and will have some
English peas within a day or so.”
Still others are talking about
the weeds and insects. “I haven’t
had as much trouble with weeds
and bugs this season as I usually
have,” some one declared.
“I wish I could say the same,”
another asserted. “Weeds are al
ways my chief trouble and Fvo
-~Tani To P«g» Fi?»
Approximately 200 Employ'
ees Sign Petition Urging
Such An Organization
Picnic To Be Held At Club
Sapphire. Plant To Close
Down For The Day.
A movement to organize a
Sportsmen’s club or a Fish and!
Game association to promote and
to protect fishing and hunting in
Transylvania county has been
started by a large number of
Ecustans.
Approximately 200 employees
here have signed a petition, origi
nated by a group of employees. In
this petition they pointed out the
need for such an organization and
expressed a desire to become a
member.
“The idea of this club or asso
ciation would be to have its mem
bers pledge themselves to observe
the fish and game laws, as to num
ber and size of fish taken, etc, so
that there would be an adequate
supply available for all,” the peti
tion stated.
Those backing the movement
stated that the streams of the
county are very much depleted by
excessive fishing and by fisher
men violating the fish and game
laws.
Other objectives of the organi
zation would include suggestions
as to changes in laws, a more
strict enforcement of the law,
seeking co-operation of the State
Department of Conservation and
Development in seeing that
streams are well stx)cked and
proper food provided.
—Turn To Page Twelve
Plans are now being made for
Ecusta’s annual Fourth of July
picnic which will be held at Club
Sapphire. As has been the custom
in the past the plant will shut
down and all Ecustans and their
families will gather at Club Sap
phire for a day of festivities. A
full program of games and con
tests is being arranged for chil
dren and grown-ups, so plan now
to pack your basket and to spend
the day at the picnic.
Free Ice Cream, Drinks and Pop
corn
The company will furnish free
of charge in the same manner as
in previous years, lemonade, iced
tea, popcorn and ice cream to
everybody. Also, those who enter
the pie eating contest may have
all of the pie they can eat. Every
one is asked to bring his own bas
ket dinner, however, and since the
picnic will last from 10:00 o’clock
in the morning until after the
square dance at night, it is sug
gested that picnickers bring
enough food in their baskets to
last for two meals.
—Tnm To Page Five
CLUB SAPPHIRE
CONTEST IS OPEN
All Employees Invited To
Enter. Three War Bonds
Are Offered To Winners.
Because of the short time allot-
ed for the Club Sapphire contest,
many requests have been received
for an extension of the time limit.
Believing that most every em
ployee will want to contribute
some suggestion or plan toward
the development and operation of
our new recreation center at Club
Sapphire, it has been decided to
hold open the contest for a longer
period of time in order to give
every employee an opportunity to
express his ideas.
If you have not turned in your
entry for the Club Sapphire con
test, you still have time to do so.
It is the Company’s wish to de
velop this beautiful recreation
ground into the kind of recreation
center that will be enjoyed by all
employees and their families.
Even though you may not be a
winner in the contest, you may
suggest one or more ideas that
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