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PAGE FOURTEEN THE ECHO September, 19^ News from Our Many Employees In Service WANTS MAIL Pfc. John C. Gibbs, Jr., is in Okinawa and writes, “I’ll try to scribble off a line or two just to let you know I’m still kicking, not too high, but I’m saving up for the day I get back. I hope that day won’t be far off for I really miss the fellows I used to work with. Tell them all hello for me. Also to write to me if they care to. I’ve plenty of time to write but have no addresses. Imagine that! Hope to 8®e you one of these fine days.” LOOKING FORWARD TO RETURN "Greetings to the folks at Ecus ta,” writes W. Howell Medford, F 1-c, stationed at Ft. Pierce, Fla. "I feel fine, but am getting up the hunting fever . . . Victory is ours, now, and how happy and thank ful all of us should be. I guess Ecusta folks all celebrated the victory. I hope I can soon come home and feel at ease again. Tell Mr. Finck and Mr. Baker that I haven’t heard from them in ages. 1 dm receiving the Echo and en joying it” ENJOYS ECHO Cpl. Raymond Nicholson writes that “with the redeployment of troops, I find myself moving from place to place. Find enclosed my new address .. . Reading the Echo is the next best thing to being back at Ecusta.” HOT AND DRY From Foggia, Italy, Sgt. Edward L. Brackett writes, “This finds me just as hot and dry as ever. The wind blows here all the time. It hasn’t rained in over three months. Hope to be home for Tranksgiv- ing. Give my regards to the boys in the Beater Room.” IS IN GERMANY In a recent letter from Fritzlar, Germany, Pfc. Ernest Gasperson says, “Sure would like to be back in W. N. C. From the looks of things, I could be before long, but I think we ar« staying for the oc cupation.” Is Still At Sea At Camp Gordon GLAD WAR IS OVER Lawls M. Townsend, CM 1-c, writes from Camp Parks, Calif., “We are having a two days’ holi day and wonder how we are going to stand all that time off at once. It is possible I may be home by or before Christmas. I am glad thi» war is over and this old world at peace again. All 1 want now is to get my discharge, get back home, back on the job and settle down to a normal life ... If it hadn’t been for the civilian work ers at home, we could never have won this war. They kept the supplies and equipment coming but the majority of service person nel could never understand some of the strikes they pulled.” NORMAN L. PONDER, JR., MAM 3-s, now at sea in the At lantic, expects to be home by Christmas. N. L. entered naval service in December, ’43. He was employed as a mail clerk at Ecusta. He was stationed at Sheepshead Bay, N. Y., prior to sea duty. ANXIOUS TO GET HOME Pfc. Ben F. Walker, in Bruck- sal, Germany, writes as follows: “Hello to everyone. Hope you are all well. I am in good health at this time and waiting for the day to come when I am back at Ecus ta, working again. I know all of you are happy the war is over and we can settle down again to be ing a peace-loving nation. The days are really long to us now; waiting, not knowing just when we’ll get back home, but hoping it is soon. Until we do get back, the best of luck to all.” Gets A Transfer THOMAS L. EVANS, SM 2c of the U. S. Maritime Service, is being sent to a shipping pool from his station at St. Peters burg, Fla. Tom was a T>acktender in the Machine Room prior to entering the Merchant Marine in May 1945. Tom is a cook; he expects sea duty soon. IS IN HOSPITAL “Was glad to get the Echos,” writes Pfc. James S. L. King from Lawson General Hospital. “They seemed like a letter from home . . . Since the last time I wrote tc Ecusta, I have had another op eration, but I feel good now that it is all over, so maybe it won’t be too long before I can be back again, this time I hope for good. Wishing everyone there the very best.” SENDS BEST WISHES William L. Sentelle, S 2-c, writes from the Pacific, “I want to thank you for the Echo, which I receive regularly. The pictures and letters from the boys in the service and also the departmental news I espe cially enjoy. Please give my fel low workers my regards and best wishes to all the personnel of the Ecusta Paper Corp.” PVT. LEE ROY HOLDEN is stationed at Camp Gordon, Ga. Lee Roy entered the army in March, 1945, while employed in the Cafeteria. He is in the In fantry, and had basic training at Camp Gordon, Ga. Fought At Okinawa Dale Orr Receives Air Medal With Star CHARLES B. CLARK, S 1-c, of the U. S. Navy, is assigned to an L.S.T. now in the Pacific. Former Finishing employee, Charles entered the Navy in May, 1944. Following boot training at Camp Peary, Va., he had further training at New Orleans, La. Charles took part in the battles of Iwo Jima and Oki nawa. He has been in the Mari annas, but at present is on Guam. Dale Orr, AMM 2-c, recently ceived the air medal with a star, accompanied by a praise for meritorious ment. The letter was Present®® the time of his departure w Tinian for the States. Dale is the son of Mr. and M ■ Volney C. Orr of Penrose, v/as employed on the Landsc P Crew at Ecusta before entfiO service in Nov. ’43. He weeks’ boot training at ville, Fla., 21 weeks at ^viaw . Machinist’s School at Mei»P_ ^ Tenn., and Gunnery School for months at Jacksonville, was then assigned to a squad and had two months of ^ with the squadron at San | Calif., being sent overseas ■ cember 1, 1944, where he was tion on Iwo Jima and Tinian. He visited Ecusta August ’ while on' a 30-day leave and wearing ribbons for American fense, the Asiatic-Pacific with . star for invasion of Iwo Ji®® , j, the Air Medal with one gola s AMM Orr expects a new a*®** ment soon. NOTES ECUSTA’S PROGBBS* Pvt. Julius W. Tinsley, buy writes from the Pacific, very generous of Ecusta pt Camp Sapphire for Uie of the employees and I’m sure greatly appreciate the interest Straus takes in their welfar®- brother writes me about the addition to Champagne and interested that it is SrowinS- member me to everyone and things going as they are.” James T. Sheppard, S cently finished boot trainio® Bainbridge, Md., and is pjo- tioned at Norfolk, Va., in the vost Guard. Seaman Sheppa'^'^jjjef employed at Ecusta as Asst, inspector, leaving for the March 16, ’45. He visited the P v/ith his wife on Septem*’® gf while on week-end liberty- pects to remain at Norfolk some time. SEES FRIEND FROM ECUSTA Pfc. James Dunne, writing from Guam, says, “When I first heard on the radio that the war was over I was working in the hold of a ship down at the dock and it was 11:15 P. M. I’ve been working several nights loading ships since then. So, between dock work and close order drill and schooling, we didn’t have much time to cele brate. I have seen Harold Misen- heimer several times. Last night I went down to his tent. They were making ice cream and I got in on it. It takes only a few min utes to walk where he is. We sure did cover the town and the plant Last Monday we went to a mass that was said by Francis J. Spell man, archbishop of N. Y. He gave a wonderful talk . . . Give my re gards to all.” CpL Hovey Waldrop arrive^ jt the States via Los Angeles A 28, and was discharged j 4^ point system, having of months in the Field ArtiU®, ^ the 6th. and 8th Armies, {{ ing wounded on BougainviU • jjg had duty, besides, in the jpeS' South Pacific Islands: Fiji, New Caledonia, /gcH*' and on Australia. He visite“ ta on September 6, and wa® p)jil- ing ribbons for good conduct, ippine Liberation with on® jjj)' Asiatic-Pacific with paign stars, pre-Pearl " (jjta' Guadalcanal Patch, a Uni tion and the Purple Hear- jjn Waldrop was formerly Ltuf the Pulp Mill and hopes to to work at Ecusta. MARKET RISES A sailor on leave who ha stopping at a fashionab*® s was paying his bill. He the girl cashier and asked was she had around her o “That’s a necklace, of Why do you ask?” u J. “Well, everything d®® high around here, I Ju** it might be a garter.”
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