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!58;No. 10 CAN MAIL MANY SHEETS OFECUSTA AIR MAIL PAPER PISGAH FOREST, N. C. Charts Number Of **^618 In Various Sub stances Per Ounce sio^ ® the forthcoming revi- tj( the domestic air mail postal Ecusta Paper pa» °*'^tion recently issued to its '“ast, merchants from coast-to- 3 tabulation showing the ii)g of sheets of Ecusta Writ- paper which Uljj, Oe air mailed for 5c. Tab- were prepared with hair- including in the cal- the weight of the enve- iiojj!^®iSht of the stamp and the Variations in the weight of kern well. For example, *lieet number of 8%xll lO P®r ounce, including a No. made of 20 substance ' • - that can be President's Message plus stamp for 5c. tabulation Numbejr Sheets Substance Per One Oz JVa 13 13 ? 16 i ^^20 I to Ecusta, the estab- '’illj^t of the 5c air mail rate air ■“ heights in the use H business concerns will it desirable to purchase —Turn To Page Eight SSmorus [give PROGRAM '«HEND’SONVILIE Entertainment At Convention At Skyland Hotel 4, servicc. 300 persons from North ®custa entertainers, com- V j -.5 ?* the string band and the jtJ ”orus, will furnish a pro- r atfi entertainment this Fri- Saturday nights in the P hotel in Hendersonville at liNin convention of the North >5 Employment :’foi kW ^.convention. «ta night, Oct. 18th., the Ifi ®”tertainers traveled to e save a concert for ^ of the youth program 11^ thp ®^tured on the program ® Coh of the string band, Jis band and the girls Of under the direc and states are expected to at- other eastern and . Eversman. Solos were 1', Q V Miss Lucille Heffner, i: Sih.,^^ton and Mr. Eversman. admission was charged went into the build L Ml « ° of the Mills River ger- —Tnrn To Page Twelve In the July issue of THE ECHO I told you of my ef forts to solve your troubles with respect to the high cost of living. Again in my August message, I advised you of the action of the Company in granting the increase in wages in order to help you to provide a solution to this pressing need. This was done because the welfare of ev ery individual employee is important to the progress of the Company as a whole. Now, we are faced with a serious condition which is standing in the way of our continued progress together. Since this situation is one which you can control, I feel that we -can count on you to listen to our troubles sympa thetically and with an open mind. To get to the point quickly, we are losing a lot more of our production to scrap (or to “broke” as we call it) than we should. In other words, our record of waste is getting worse after seven years of paper making instead of getting better. The facts are as follows: Last year, out of 100,000 lbs. of paper produced, we on getting 93,300 lbs. of paper fit to sell. To ?AA AAA lu reject only 6,700 lbs. out of 100,000 lbs. produced because they failed to meet the standards of our customers. Now compare the record ast year with what happened last month. In September we had to reject 8,000 lbs. out of 100,000 because they did not measure up to standards. This comparison illus trates a very bad situation because it shows that at the present rate we will lose 20% more to “broke” than we did last year. It might interest you to know that this additional loss o± paper, if continued, will cost the Company over one hundred thousand dollars a year. In terms of the 1000 people who are actually engaged in the production of our papers, this additional annual loss is equal to about 14 days pay per man. Now, you wouldn’t want to lose 14 because of avoidable carelessness on Ihl all of us are human and loss P ^ afford to sustain such a tremendous I am not trying to place* the blame for this loss on any one person, or any particular group of persons, because in our continuous process of manufacture, each employ ee and every department has a vital part in maintain ing a high standard of QUALITY production. But we must find out how this unnecessary and increasing per centage of waste can be reduced and our quality im proved. If you will take care of your particular job in such a manner that those who follow you in our chain of production benefit by the thoroughness of your work, you will be making a worthwhile contribution toward eliminating this costly loss. I believe the best way to overcome the problem is for each one of us to think about how we, as individuals, have been doing our job, whether we are doing our job well and wholeheartedly, or whether we ARE JUST GETTING BY. If we honestly and fairly believe that we can do a better job, LET US DO IT. Half the battle will be won if we all work and pull together. COOPERA TION IS THE SECRET OF SUCCESS. I am sure you are sincerely interested in maintaining the fine reputation that has been established for Ecusta paper. All of us have just reason to be proud of the progress we have shared in the past. We must not for get, however, that our future progress depends upon the successful operation of our Company. This can be assured only if we all apply ourselves to the best of our abilities. Are you doing your part toward this common goal? Sincerely yours, HARRY H. STRAUS, President Ecusta Paper Corporation Champagne Paper Corporation Endl9».«i Belt Corporation October, 1946 ECUSTA EXHIBIT SHOWN AT STATE FAIR IN RALEIGH Praised By Editor Jeter. Showed Steps In Cigar- ette Paper-making Our three companies joined to bacco companies and other allied industrial concerns in showing all phases of the tobacco industry at the 1946 State Fair in Raleigh.' Each step from the planting of tobacco seed to the manufactured cigarette was shown in the vari ous exhibits, including the prod ucts of various suppliers to the tobacco manufacturers. Commenting on the tobacco ex hibit hall, F. H. Jeter, editor of the N. C. Agricultural Extension Service Magazine, said, “The in dustrial concerns connected with the tobacco industry have their displays here this week. One that will be of tremendous interest to all tobacco growers is the display by the Ecusta Paper Corporation which produces cigarette paper near Brevard in Transylvania county. This display shows the manufacturing of this cigarette paper from the flax plant to the finished product. Tobacco growers of course realize how important it was to their continued prosperity that this concern was located in this country during the last world war, when no cigarette paper could be secured from abroad.” Mr. Jeter made these remarks in a radio broadcast from the fair —Turn To Page Nine CAGE SEMFOR GIRLS AND BOYS OPENS NEXT WEEK Practices On Mondays And Wednesdays. Men On Tues. And Thurs. Practice for the Ecusta girls’ basketball team will get underway on Monday afternoon at 3:00 p. m. in the Camp Sapphire gym. Initial workouts will take place on each Monday and Wednesday for the girls and the boys will follow on each Tuesday and Thursday for pe next few weeks at the same hour. The girls’ team which won ten and lost two during the ’45-46 sea son has hopes of being even bet ter this season. Practically the en tire squad will return on this years aggregation. The boys’ team on the other hand did not fare so well with their ’45-46 schedule. Their fail ure to do so well was unavoidable due to sickness and other minor reasons. This year with a few breaks, the boys plan to make a moro, impressive record. Aeain a«! in ’45-46. Ecusta’s home wmes will be played In the Brevard col- HToni To Pi^e ^rjcof
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