{fo^vember, 1945
THE ECHO
PAGE NINE
Officers Of Our Five-Year Service Club
President'
Vice-President
Luke HARRISON, an electri-
'J** in Champagne, is president
of our Five-Year club.
COY FISHER, employee of
tiie Machine Room, is tlie vice
president of our club.
Secretary
GEORGE HEYMANN, em
ployee in the Main Office, is
secretary of the club.
Treasurer
GLADYCE TEAGUE, employ
ee of the Physical Lab, is treas
urer of our club.
Directors Of Our Five-Year Service Club
Just Little Hunks
Of Real Stuff!’
I’he moon is gradually slowing
earth’s spin. As a result, the
are now lengthening at the rate
one-thousandth of a second a
^entury. At this rate, when the
has increased to 47 of our
l'*'esent months (for the months
also lengthening, although
slowly), the day and the
^Onth will be equal The
•'“Pular hymn ROCK OF AGES
written on a playing card, the
piece of paper Augustus
®Plady could find when he com-
j*osed the song while taking shel-
from a storm in the cleft of
Uarge rock at Barrington Coombe,
*^»gland, in 1775.
The following are items resur-
®cted from the columns of mus-
and theatrical critics. “An ama-
f®Ur string quartet played Brahms
last evening. Brahms lost.”
I • • . “I have knocked everything
the knees of the chorus girls,
God anticipated me there.”
' • • . . “Her performance belongs
Hher in a sandwich than on a
X during the hunting season in
^f'gland, fox hunts have the right
Way over railroad trains . . . •
„^^an Chief’s definition of skiing:
whoosh! Then walk a mile.” . . .
eastern riding academy adver-
*ses “scented saddle horses.” It
there is a shaving cream
Manufacturing company nearby
. ^ere a good deal of the soap
Wasted when tubes break and
on. The riding academy buys it
very little and shampoos its
j>rses with it, leaving them a
®asant, rather exotic fragrance,
j The U. S. Government distribU'
* annually six yards of cloth to
of more than 4600 Indians
Western New York reservations
^ fulfillment of a treaty made
j 1794, ifor which the Indian's
to refrain from war against
setUers ... The longest candle
^history is in Naples. It was put
' in 1924 as a memorial to En
WALTER KAY, who is an
eimployee of the Power depart
ment.
Yule Program
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night Thursday, December 20th.
They are so arranged that every
one will have an opportunity to
attend one of them. The schedule
is as follows: Thursday, December
20, midnight; Friday, December 21,
8:00 o’clock a. m.; 4:00 o’clock p.
m.; 5:00 o’clock p. m.; and the last
one at midnight Friday.
A program of Christmas music
will be given by the Ecusta band
and a group of carol singers.
rico Caruso, is 18 feet tall, seven
feet in circumference, and weighs
three tons. It would burn for
100 days . . . Many centuries ago,
in the lands about Persia, the
horses of departed men were made
to weep for them at their funerals
It was done by placing mustard
seed in the nostrils of the animals
. . . . The newest in mousetraps is
a device which electrocutes the
mouse when it nuzzles a piece of
cheese.
CLAYTON GARDNER works
in the Maintenance department.
GLADYS McKINNEY works
in the Finishing department.
SCOTT DILLINGHAM is a
member of the Police force.
WALTER ASHWORTH is em
ployed in the Mill office.
SURE DO
Women and telephones both re
peat what they hear, but the tele
phone repeats it exactly.
OBLIGING
The Scotchman helped his friend
out with his income tax by going
to' live with him as a dependent