quality first THEN QUANTITY NOT HOW MUCH BUT HOW WELL Vol: 8: : No. 3 PISGAH FOREST, N. C. March, 1946 Ecusta To Have Baseball Team In WNC League Mill And Champagne Stars Are inners In Ecusta Bowling Leagues Ml '•itenance And Machine Annexed Second Places Each team and the tiec Stars emerged as win- tof f? Ecusta bowling league JHH ,® 1945-46 season, the Pulp Pin Ip winning the men’s ten Woti a total of 36 games grilles lost. The Stars Icagy out the women’s duck pin Sampt ^ score of 48 Thp 3 lost, coiunn-j P team, which - ^in ^ Clyde Galloway, cap- Kilpatrick, Wade Morrif’^'^erette Whitmire, Ralph T, tai’,. ■ Baker, Slim Bullock, Tipton Jackson and L. the during in the 1 ■rile matches. ^am u the Champagne the sgg owever, breezed through ■Siici) without encountering ^^P°®ition. Bowling for the tain_ Sa/® Misenheimer, cap' N 1 Martha Taylor, Werrijj ® Willie Prince, Mary The iw Wilma Raxter. •^hance .^'^t^^'ance team had a ?‘on Q£ * winning the men’s divi- the 1- f league, but was upset ®'^ote Qf by Office by a ®^er, !• Maintenance, how- the season in second ^ the an receive a prize ® banquet in April, composed of Ed Vas- aptain, Bruce Reynolds, ^ —^Turn To Page Seven Parly To Be Si I 5, Dance ^ted For April 19 Yt ^ ■ PARTY, spon- J *■ - Recreation depart be held in the Cafe- eitipj^^^day night, April 5th, '’^1 their husbands are cordially invited to ■ As • i§ V the custom at oth- pi, “’JiPft “ ine custom at c jv, there will be no p.® the players and given by the >16* A fine selection of >:30 be given to bingo win- playing will begin at heij®*t S te/ ’'‘ght*' Cafeteria on Fri- Hk^ood 19th., with Wal- bv and music fur- H. Wft ^ EoiicfQ Sfrincr Kanrl ^Thf'lock. SQUARE DANCE will C”® dances were held squ '^ many of our e^j 3 dancers attended employ- ?0y1 coi, husbands or wives ®®. cordially invited to ALL EMPLOYEES URGED TO PLANT ViaORYGARDENS Company Plots Will Again Be Available Free This Year At a recent meeting of the Garden Committee, plans for the coming year were discussed, and we are again going forward with a big garden program. The Com pany plots, which have been avail able for the past three years, are again being prepared for this year’s use. Some plots are still available, so if you don’t have garden space at home, or need ad ditional space, get your requests in to your foreman without delay. Those who had Company plots last year will be given the same plots this year, in as far as pos sible. This will reward those who kept their gardens weed-free last year. Prizes will be awarded again this year for the best gardens, judged at intervals during the season. It cannot be emphasized too strongly just how much home gardens and home products are going to be needed this year. With great demands on transportation, shortages of equipment and short ages of normally available food stuffs, our home garden products are going to be needed possibly more than during the war years. A survey made by the National Garden Institute indicates that gardeners are eagerly responding to President Truman’s urgent ap peal for more home gardens. Pres ident Truman has recently point ed out the seriousness of the —^Turn To Page Five Ecusta, Champion Bowlers Will Play Exhibition Matches After a three weeks’ slump, the Ecusta bowling team came back full blast by winning eight of their last nine games. This streak of wins placed our boys back in sec ond place ahead of Holsum Bak ers. Chris Rogers continues to lead Ecusta bowlers with a 171 aver age. Bowling fans will be pleased to hear that the League leading Champion “Y” team will be guests of the Ecusta team for an exhibi tion match, Thursday, April 4th. —Tarn T» Pafe Flye Visits Ecusta MRS. MARJORIE D. SPIKES holds a post, new to diplomatic staffs, in the British Embassy in Washington, D. C. She is At tache for Women’s Affairs and is the first woman to ever hold a position of this kind. She visited Ecusta this month. MRS. SPIKES IS RECENT VISITOR British Embassy Staff Mem ber Makes An Inspec tion Of The Plant Mrs. Marjorie D. Spikes, a mem ber of the British Embassy staff in Washington as Attache for Wom en’s Affairs, recently visited Ecu sta. She was accompanied by sev eral members of the Business and Professional Women’s club of Asheville, including Mrs. Curtis Crump, Dr. Mary Westall, Dr. Mil dred I. Morgan, Mrs. Roy Ordway, Miss Lottie Salley, Miss Marie Shank, Miss Eolis Greenlee, Miss Katherine Black and Dr. Elizabeth H. Ramsey. The party arrived at noon and after having lunch in the cafeteria was taken through the plant by Miss Dorothy Johnson and Mr. Ray Hooper. Mrs. Spikes, who is the first woman to ever hold a po sition of this kind, was most en thusiastic about Ecusta. After completing the tour she stated that she and the members of her party had thoroughly en joyed the visit. “We were especial ly delighted,” she said, “with the comfortable lighting of the va rious areas, the clean floors, and the delicious food we were able to get in the cafeteria. Our guide was courteous and well-informed, and took great pains to explain clearly the various steps in the process. The making of the small books of cigarette paper was par ticularly interesting.” BENNEH ELECTED PRESIDENT, WILL HAVE EIGHT CLUBS Ecusta Team To Start Prac tice Monday. Season Opens On May 4 Ecusta will have a baseball team in the Western North Carolina league that was re-organized last Tuesday night at a meeting held at Enka. Raymond F. Bennett, Ecusta su perintendent, was elected presi dent of the league and Jimmy Wil liamson, of the Champion Paper and Fiber company, was named secretary-treasurer. Wilson Ayres, -of Enka, was chosen league re porter. Other teams in the league are Sayles Biltmore Bleacheries, Bea con Manufacturing company, American Enka, Champion Y. M. C. A., Hazelwood, Martel Mills and Adams Mills Hosiery company. Regular scheduled season play will begin on Saturday afternoon, May 4. Jack Alexander announces that Ecusta players will start practice on Monday, April 1, starting at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. Regular practice is to be held every after noon at the same time for the next four weeks. The industrial league was sus pended after the 1941 season be cause of the war. Only minor changes were made in the former league rules and regulations. Red Cross Drive To Start Monday; Needs Are Urgent On April first the annual Red Cross membership drive will be gin. During the week every em ployee of Ecusta, Champagne and Endless Belt will be given an op portunity to contribute to this wor thy cause and each company will match dollar-for-dollar the person al donation of each individual. Superintendents, d e p a r t m ent heads, foremen, foreladies and many other volunteer workers are authorized to accept your dona tion. Again this year, Raymond F. Bennett has been appointed by the Transylvania County Chapter to head the Red Cross drive in gen eral, while Walter Straus in Cham pagne and Otto Goepfert in End less Belt will directly conduct the drive in their companies. Commenting on the beginning of our annual Red Cross drive at Ecusta, Harry H. Straus said, “Above all others, the Red Cress deserves our continued and whole- -i—Turi» To Page Twelve