Olin news
ECUSTA RAPER AND FILM GROUP
Vol. XXIV, No. 2
SUMMER’S HERE! Camp Straus
opened to record crowds almost the
moment schools let out. Unusually
hot weather was a factor in water-
front popularity.
OLIN NEWS SALUTES
In this issue we carry photo
graphs of shifts at the Ecusta Paper
and Film Group locations which were
without injury in 1977. In some cases
the photographs are of individuals
who were not with their shifts when
the pictures were taken, and are
identified as being in the inset. Such
photos are captioned SAFE SHIFT
IN ’77.
PIONEERS RECOUNT
“There was poverty on every hand,
but our biggest problem was the lack
of faith and hope for anything better
.. .The good wages have meant much
to Transylvania County, but the real
contribution made by Ecusta was the
rebirth of faith and hope and love
which we now enjoy.”
So wrote Transylvania Historian
Mary Jane McCrary in response to
ECUSTA BREAKS ITS ALL-TIME SAFETY RECORD
AND IS NAMED THE COUNTRY’S SAFEST IN 1977
The Ecusta Paper plant at Pisgah
Forest had the best 1977 safety
record of all large pulp and paper
plants in the country, according to
figures released in second quarter by
the National Safety Council.
The plant had a 1977 rating of 0.05
compared to the average of 1.45 for
this country’s larger pulp and paper
industries. It is the largest operating
unit in the Ecusta Paper and Film
Group at Pisgah Forest which em
ploys overall 2,800 persons.
Announcement came just as the
plant passed its earlier record for
safe performance and broke its
second world record within a month.
As of June 14 the plant had logged
365 days without a lost-time injury,
and on June 19 the plant passed the
milestone of 4,000,000 injury-free
hours worked.
“We’re shooting for 5,000,000
hours in an on-going campaign to
keep the Ecusta plant the safest,”
SECOND QUARTER 1978
EARLY ECUSTA DAYS
our request for comments about the
relationship between the com
munities and the industrial complex
at Pisgah Forest that began in 1938
with the start of construction of the
Ecusta Paper Corp, plant. We are
pleased to publish a number of such
responses in this issue, and will
carry others in forthcoming issues.
Production Director Robert H.
Masengill said in a memo of con
gratulations to all employees. ‘‘Be
yond that, we hope to break the all-
time record of 9,000,000 injury-free
worker hours held by the Buckeye
Cellulose Corp, plant at Memphis.”
The Ecusta Paper plant broke the
3,926,962-hour record fortissue
mills held by Charmin Paper
Products Co. at Mehoopany, Pa.,
having earlier broken the world
record for paper mills held by Dom-
tar Pulp and Paper Ltd. of Quebec,
Canada. Tissue mills and paper mills
are two of the 13 classifications es
tablished by the National Safety
Council for the pulp and paper cate
gory.
Both Olin plants at Pisgah Forest,
the Ecusta Paper and the Film plants,
were recently given the National
Safety Council’s Award of Honor and
the N. C. Department of Labor’s
(Continued on page 6)
SO he added an extraordinary story
to the mystique that has been part
of Winchester’s Model 94 for
decades. See story on page 2.
WILEY PENLAND of Maintenance
and Utilities brought this derelict
Model 94 from a watery grave in
Pisgah National Forest, and in doing