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THE ECHO
July, 194V
The Echo
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY AND FOR EMPLOYEES OF
ECUSTA PAPER CORPORATION, CHAMPAGNE PAPER
CORPORATION AND ENDLESS BELT CORPORATION
AT PISGAH FOREST, NORTH CAROLINA
Copyrighted, 1945, By Ecusta Paper Corporation
ECHO STAFF
John D. Eversman Editor
Lucile Roberts Associate Editor
Lucille Heffner ^ Assistant Editor
Kathleen Ricker Circulation Manager
H. E. Newbury Sports Reporter
DEPARTMENT REPORTERS—Sula Cox, Perleen Blankenship,
Mitch Taylor, Evelyn Morrow, Eula Grey, Walter Kay, Lorena
O’Kelley, Fred McCall, Fred Wallin, Oscar Harvin, Juanita Gard
ner, Nora Dalton, James Rigdon, Donna Wright, Enunett Clark,
John Goolsby, Jack Rhodes, Nell Waldrop, Harry S. Kolman,
Helen Kimzey, Edna Allison, Carmel McCrary, Sara Loftis,
Maude Stewart, Bertha Edwards, Annie Lou Hamlin and Thelma
Glazener.
PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE—John D. Eversman, F. S. Best,
Raymond F. Bennett, Walter K. Straus, J. O. Wells, W. M. Shaw,
H. E. Newbury,
Large Crowd
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this property into a recreational
center surpassed by none in the
country and declared, “the yard
stick I will use in doing this will
be the interest employees take in
the project.”
Mr. Straus said he envisaged it
as a cultural and athletic center
and as a means of installing a love
and zeal for the culture of flow
ers and gardens.
“I am especially eager,” he said,
“to enlist the interest of our chil
dren for on them depends the fu
ture of our industry and the ties
that bind us into one harmonious
people.”
President Straus spoke of the al
lied victory in Europe and urged
his hearers to give united support
to the effort to subjugate Japan
speedily. In this connection he
said he was more confident than
he was a year ago of the plans he
mentioned at that time for a great
expansion of the plant after the
war.
Mr. Straus announced the win
ners of a contest conducted by the
company in which prizes were
offered for the best suggestions for
developing of Camp Sapphire into
a premier recreational center.
There were more than a hundred
entries in the competition. First
prize, a $100 war bond, was award
ed to Ralph Russell. A $50 bond
was awarded to Andrew D. Harrell
and Walter Ashworth received a
$25 bond for his suggestions.
“We had no outside speaker this
year,” Mr. Straus concluded, “for
this picnic is a ‘family’ affair de
void of formality, an occasion on
which we can meet and fraternize
on the same basis of understand
ing and goodwill that character
izes our relations in the plant.”
W. M. Shaw, chairman of the
judges for the contest, was recog
nized and read excerpts from the
winning essay.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy C. Haberkern,
of Winston-Salem, were present as
special guests. Mr. Straus ex
plained that Mr. Haberkern is a
director of the R. J. Reynolds To
bacco company, one of Ecusta’s
largest customers, and that he
was one of the first men in the
industry to offer encouragement
and assistance in the establish
ment of Ecusta. Mr. Haberkern
spoke and highly praised our pres
ident, the Company and employ
ees.
A list of contests and winners
is announced elsewhere in this
isuue.
The big day was concluded with
a street dance held in Brevard,
with music being furnished by the
Ecusta string band.
Fillmore Gets
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nett-Avra wedding were shown.
Refreshments were served and
the concluding feature was a big
square dance.
Ecustans are proud of the Music
school-camp and extend best wishes
to Director Pfohl and his able staff.
Mr. Fillmore, Director Pfohl and
other staff members at the music
school camp were luncheon guests
at Ecusta Monday and visited the
plant.
“This is one of the finest plants
I ever saw anywhere,” Mr. Fill-
more said. The conductor and com
poser is president of the Ameri
can Bandmasters Association and
lives at Miami, Fla. He has been
at the music camp here for the
past two weeks and loves this sec
tion.
New Vision Tests
Given Employees
The question of the moment in
the Inspection and Control depart
ments is: “Do you ^ee a red dot
ted line crossing a row of new
stair steps.”
Within a few days everyone in
the two above departments will
have answered that question and
several others which make up the
BAUSCH AND LOME OCCUPA
TIONAL VISION TESTS being
given on the Ortho-Rater.
In the next few months the tests
will be given throughout the mill
to determine what eye skills are
used on each job. Only by testing
the people who are already work
ing successfully at a given task
can it be determined just what
kind of vision is required.
H. E. Newbury is conducting
the Ortho-Rater tests and states
that he has never witnessed better
co-operation than that displayed
by the employees taking these
tests.
Beneath The Pisgah
Poet s
Comer
Darwin’s Mistake
Three monkeys sat on a coco
nut tree, discussing things as they
are said to be. Said one to the
others,
“Now listen, you two, there’s a cer
tain rumor that can’t be
true.
That man descended from our no
ble race! The very idea is a
disgrace,.
No. monkey ever deserted his
wife, Starved her babies and
ruined her life.
And you’ve never known a moth-
. er monk to leave her babies
with others to bunk.
Or pass them on from one to an
other, ’till they scarcely
know who is their mother;
And another thing you’ll never see
—a monk build a fence
’round a coconut tree.
And let the coconuts go to waste,
forbidding all other monks
a taste.
Why, if I’d put a fence around
the tree, starvation would
force you to steal from me.
Here’s another thing a monk won’t
do—go out at night and get
on a stew
Or use a gun or club or knife to
take some other monkey’s
life.
Yes, man has DESCENDED—the
ornery cuss—but, brother,
he didn’t descend from US.”
—Bishop Bruce Baxter,
Portland, Ore
AIN’T IT THE TRUTH?
You’ve got a date,
The kind that’s heavy,
With loads of dough
A brand-new Chewy.
Your shoes are shined;
Your pants are pressed;
Good Conduct Ribbon
Upon your chest.
Your hair is combed;
You’ve really slicked it.
So what happens?
—^You’re Restricted.
You make your bed;
There’s not a wrinkle.
You shine your shoes
Until they twinkle.
You sweep the floor;
You even mop;
You scrub the window
Ledge on top.
You blitz your buckle
’Til you see your reflection.
So what happens?
—No Inspection!
—From the “Brigadere”.
Employees Urged
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equipment will be installed. There
is also a section of the lake re
served for the kiddies.
Of course the most popular place
at the camp is the lake during the
hot days. Life guards are on duty
from 10 o’clock in the morning un
til 8 in the evening. The camp
grounds are open from 8 in the
morning until 10 o’clock in the
evening.
No facilities have been provided
yet for overnight camping.
Lewis Surrette, caretaker, is on
duty at all hours. There is no boat
ing at the present time, but new
boats will be secured soon.
Fishing is not permitted now,
either. Last week 500 bass were
put into the lake and it will be a
good place to fish one of these
days.
BooK.Comef*
“They liked the book the bet",
ter the more it made them
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pages relieve that pent-up tear, ^
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whether you want to find a la^S
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whether you want to find thriU'®'
adventure with the ingenious co®
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STRANGER (written under jj
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Civil War. YANKEE STRANGJ^^^
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of your favorite tree on the "
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Speaking of lawns, we
new booklet, LAWN CARE,
lawn enthusiasts among Ecu*
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If it is light reading you’re
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SISTER, with open arms.
A good novel ringing i ft-
temporary truths for racial nfi
ligious intolerance, is
HOUSE, by Janet Taylor Cald'J^d-
You’ll meet here a vixenish;
headed widow and her haBd**’
Irish cousin.
THE WORLD, THE
AND FATHER SMITH, ** js
placed on our library
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“No matter what one’s f®*. joifli
lack of it), there is music, jtJi'S
comfort, laughter in Father
affectionate sojourn in this
of flesh.” p >
Dan Wickenden has
novel of American family
THE WAYFARERS, which “
with Norris Bryant’s loss
wife and the way he
problems of a father, since
children are his legacy.
COM.MODORE HORNB^J^
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