DEPARTMENTAL NEWS
CELLOPHANE DIVISION
POWER
By Howell Medford
This is the time of year
when all vacations are about
gone. Just a few of the fel
lows have a week or so left.
There is one thing about va
cations — We never hear a
fellow say that he did not en
joy his vacation — All we
have to look forward to is Christmas. All of the
boys in the Power Department reported a big
time and small fish. This just wasn’t the year for
the large fellows to be pulled out of the lakes.
Well, fellows another year is only a few months
away—We may as well turn our sports to hunting
for the time being.
The entire Power Department sends our deep
est sympathy to the wife and family of Zeb Jack
son. As we all know Zeb lost his life while fish
ing at Lake Lure. We shall always remember him
as a good friend and likeable fellow. If we can, as
a department, be of any help to the family, we
would all gladly turn a hand.
Well, finally No. 7 Boiler is ready to go. As
this reaches our homes we hope to have the giant
of the Power Department in operation. We then
will be able to bring down our other boilers one
at a time and overhaul them. We then, will have
something to turn to if we have a boiler which
has to come off the line for any reason.
Along with the above mentioned, we are in the
midst of a clean up program in all our departments.
It is the hope of all the boys that we can have
a clean place to work and also a safer place to
work. We have been handicapped for a long
period due to construction and installation work.
It is the desire of all of us to remedy these con
ditions so we can be in line with the other de
partments of the mill.
The boys in the Turbine Room are happy to
have a new locker room. This was badly needed.
It is another new addition to our department.
Since our last visit to The Echo, Bill Lyday at
tended a meter school in Ohio. We know Bill
took full advantage of this good opportunity. He,
we are sure, can and will put all he learned in
practice here on the job.
We are now having a weekly safety meeting.
These m.eetings are held weekly on Monday in Mr.
Finck’s office. This way each shift will attend one
safety meeting per month. We hope that we can
all profit and keep up with the new ideas on bet
ter and safer methods of our daily operations.
Sam Kent took a new case of fishing fever. As
cold and windy as it was on October 29, believe
it or not Sam went fishing. We are afraid to ask
him if he caught any. Anyway we know he will
have smoke in his eyes from all these forest fires.
He’ll use that for an excuse if he doesn’t catch
any.
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Hall have adopted a baby
girl. We offer congratulations. We know it will
be in the best of hands. Horace will know how
it feels to don the whiskers and play Santa Clause.
That is really something new for him.
"K" SHIFT CASTING
By James B. Shook
I don’t suppose John (hot .
rod) McCall will have to re
port in late for work any
more now since he put Sky
Drive in his 12 cylinder Lin
coln. Chester Burnett traded
him the Sky Drive and all the
flying instructions after Ches
ter wrecked his 1936 Ford.
Thad Newman has killed quite a few ducks
lately. He thought they were ducks—but they all
had red spots on their heads. Most people call
them woodpeckers.
Spurgeon Ashe says he will never ask for ad
vice on how to work his ballot again, since he lost
on every man he voted for. Henry Heatherly is
our political advisor since Earnie Rector is on va
cation for two weeks. Spurgeon asked Henry how
he should work his ballots since he hadn’t voted
before. Henry told him if he saw a man’s name
on the ticket he didn’t like just to cross him out.
Bob Eason said the reason he voted for a change
was because he had gotten too fat during the
previous administration.
Let’s all forget the joking for a while and stop
to thank God for a country where we can vote as
we please, go to the church of our choice, and have
freedom of speech. That is a lot to be thankful
for.
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: "Life is not so
short but that there is always time for courtesy.”
There is more need for this sage philosophy now,
than when he wrote it before the motor car was
invented. If drivers behaved as considerately be
hind the wheel as they do in the drawing room,
the death rate would soon be sliced to a fraction
of its present proportions.
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