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PAGE FOURTEEN THE ECHO Refining News BY BILL CAUBLE There should be lots to tell this month but who can think while working this graveyard shift? There is one thing I do remember and that is the Fourth of July picnic; if everyone had the time I had they would want it to come more often. Everyone, I believe, was very well pleased. We all regret that Mr. Straus was unable to be there with us. Shift “B” is looking for a new coffee boy as Ralph N. is giving it up. He says that he doesn’t make enough to pay for his supper and bus fare. Anyone wanting to buy hogs this winter, see Sam King of the box boys. He has several he wants to get rid of as they are eating up his garden. The only catch is that you have to catch them yourself and besides that, they really are ground hogs. Our foreman on “B” shift. Jack Rhodes, is back to normality again since finding his lost $15 flea- bitten dog. He was hard to get along with for several days but he is all smiles again. Jimmy Mills, the little skinny guy on Battery No. 1, says he be lieves in being a hundred per cent Southerner. Anyone wishing to spend his vacation in Florida, see Frank Patton as he owns a big boundary of land there and all you have to do is grub up and clean 21 acres of this land, plant it in watermel ons and give him half. Sounds pretty good?? When can we have our next vacation, Frank? The broke beatermen have some help. Since installing the auto matic roll lifter even the foremen will come over and help raise the roll. We wish Burgin would hurry and make that automatic loader that he is working on. We appre date this new installation. Sorry, folks, we gotta stop here, I gotta get back to work. MOVIEiP tV£RY THURJ? NIGHT. 7 IN THE CAFETERIA OOLSBI G LEANP By JOHN H. GOOtS®^ Refining News "D” SHIFT BY ROY FISHER First of all, Jimmy Sledge has returned from a trip to Mt. Mit chell and other points of interest. He reports a very nice week outing. Our foreman, Enno Camenzind, lias been out for a week, but he returned with a cold as usual from getting too hot while attending a play presented by the Carolina Play Makers at Crescent Lake, N.. C. Roy Fisher reports a nice trip to Charleston, S. C., and a trip through the Smoky Mountains National Park. On our sick list is Beaterman Bill Henson. He is now in Winston- Salem Baptist hospital. We wish him a speedy recovery. Vacationing at this date is Bur gin Kilpatrick and Doyle Devore of the Gloucester section. Hope they have fun. Burgin thinks this rainy weather mixed with a little hot coffee and a lot of spices may grow him two or three more hairs on his cue-ball head. Ev^one enjoyed the picnic July ith at Camp Sapphire. Speedy Jones has some coon dogs for sale. They’re not a week old yet, but Speedy says they are fully trained. There is no more news of in terest, and I’m pinch-hitting for our reporter, so ... so long for this writing. QUICK WORK Customer; “Is this milk fresh?” Farmer; "Fresh? Three hours it was grafs,” MOVIE SCHEDULE FOR AUGUST AUGUST 1—THUNDERHEAD Koddy McDowell, Preston Foster AUGUST 8—KONGA, THE WILD STALLION Fred Stone, Rochelle Hudson AUGUST 15—HOME IN INDIANA Roddy McDowell AUGUST 22—HEARTS IN BONDAGE James Dunn, Mae Clark AUGUST 29—THE GREAT MIKE Stuart Erwin Just Little Hunks Of Real Stuff!! Although ice cream is con sidered an American dish, it act ually originated in Italy about 1600. Dolly Madison introduced ice cream to America when she served it at a White House din ner about 1809. With all the plans and talk of D.D.T. and new “Death to Bugs preparations, let us not forget that certain insects are friends of man. Insects pollenize fruit bios soms without which we would have no fruit. Some insects act as garbage disposal units, because they feed on dead and decaying matter. Silk is made by insects. Insects make honey and beeswax and a product used as a base for shellac. Certain destructive in sects are themselves destroyed by other insects in greater number and more efficiently than can man with his swatter and his special chemicals. If we are going to use our new chemicals on insects, we had better make sure our insect killing is selective. The Department of Agriculture is testing fuel for motors made from corn cobs and cottonseed hulls. For fuel in their battleships, Japan used soybean oil. The newest answer to Mark Twain’s statement that everybody talks about the weather but no body does anything about it, is a tubular metal chair with cold water flowing through its back and seat Tbp saying, “Don’t take sny wooden nickels,” meaning “Be ware of slickers” originated with a wooden nickel actually once minted by the state of Michigan and not considered valuable by old time Michiganers. A soldier recently received telegram saying his wife had given birth to an 8-pound girl. Attached to the telegram was an advertis ing sticker which read, “When you want a boy, call the Western Union.” Troubles are the only thing you can borrow and nobody wants you to pay them back. It is estimated there are 25,- 000,000 insects in the air above each square mile of the earth’s sur face. During a single year the world uses more than 60,000,000 pounds of shellac, each pound represent ing six months work by 150,000 minute scale insects. Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes. A human being has about 18 or 19 square feet of skin. A good many of us in our atti tude towards the evils of this world are rather like the dying Irish man. “Well, Pat,” said a friend at the bedside, “have ye made peace with God and denounced the divil?” “Shure,” said Pat. “I’ve made peace with God—but I’m in no position to antagonize anybody.” A designer has invented a cabin cruiser that can be hauled ashore and converted into a house trailer. Retractable wheels are let down from the hull. Price is supposed to be about the game as the ^ypr- age trailer, Under a hazy sky p Ecusta picnic got /Lji over 5,000 of us and our ^ Games and contests dining to chasing the n went off as if they were magic. Mr. Word did * ' jiii pinch-hitting for our he said (Let it sink deep)’ if! God we are living in look forward to the w great faith and coi increase in business more work and secun^ ,, us.” We know that of malarkey because Straus or Mr. Word, lU* resenting him, may h^ve the past, has come true. u. In some preliminary re^^jj fore Mr. Word spoke w .j tliii thing that Mr. Bennett impressed me was, so much in common. ~ gj stop to think of that- ^ of us and our fa^^perit? per according to the pf ^ Ecusta, and have wori tions as good as we, make them. Our work, increased more recreational ^ shows what we can ji*“ all pull together. 'L remember that as we “so much in commoni of what job or title p and that none of u® > without the other. Another feature hyP^ one this year) was a ° . that went over with “ ^ which was sponsored ry H. Straus. All tb . were wonderful. Thef bies of all kinds: j-jt j tiest baby, and heaM®* j Lots of them. There ^\s ^ old King Solomon iB jj ^ dom would have thro towel, but Mrs. Straus . M problem by deciding * ^ babies should be ^ ners. And truly theyj# Idby entered their . jij® | their one-year diary tn rt *1 If there had been the most square feet Bill Harmon, foreman ‘ chine Room, would “ i f away with it. Bill ha^^ t,is , i of swimming trunks a ach out (and what a {f>./ that it caught the ^ li* the sun, and believe took on some of that j As we ail know, a** ^ have to come to a^* tain came slowly at the street dance to ^ of Ecusta’s string perhaps 125 dancers, ^ the “mike” was a Take me home, jefl* f me home” and a jjgjf voice that you ^it miles in the night “Speedy” Jones, t^ . dance caller, bootaeo m all, folks. We hope had a good time, an you again next Four the Ecusta picnic.’ gciis,/ And thus the st>J nic went back on ^ memory to be gpt again for the of us and our famiU So long!! “Why do you keep P all the time?” asked j patient to' “The doctor tpld jj)® ^ stomach.”
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