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Show 600 VISITORS ENJOY C. C. C. BARBECUE The C. C. C. Camp in the Strawberry Straw-berry Valley Sunday entertained Six Hundred visitors from the surrounding sur-rounding territory at a Barbecue Lunch. Two carloads of Duchesne visitors were present. In response to an invitation from Fred O. Johnson one of the eight foremen at the Strawberry C. C. C. Camp, 10 of us from Duchesne left Sunday morning for a beautiful beauti-ful ride up to the Lake to enjoy a feast of barbecued beef, coffee and cake. Arriving at the old Ranger's Station, which has been turned into a small tent city of some 50 or 60 large army tents, we found a large crowd already gathered, looking over the grounls and pre- paring an appetite. We were met by our host, Fred Johnson, who guided us around the camp, and gave us some of the details. There are a total of 225 persons at the camp; 5 Army officers, Captain McLeob, 2 Lieutenants, 2 Sergeants, 8 Civilian Foremen, Cooks, Camp Attendants, and ap proximately 200 young men, regular regul-ar members of the corps. With the exception of a small group of Virginia boys, the rest being from Utah, Summit and Wasatch counties. count-ies. The summer has been spent in building the camp, constructing roads, among them a mighty fine road from the Hunter station on highway 40 to the east portal of the tunnel, near which the camp is situated, conservation work in the forest itself, and just prior to our visit, fighting fire. An interesting in-teresting point brought out, was the fact that during the entire (Continued on Page Six) GOO VISITORS ENJOY C. C.-C. BARBECUE (Continued from page 1) summer, not one day has been lost because of weather. . Whatever What-ever rains have fallen have come in the evening or night. I A mighty fine baseball diamond is constructed on the camp site, and the boys developed an except- ' ionally strong team. Not once in the many games they played with towns . such as Provo, Heber, American Fork, Duchesne, and others, have they come out on the losing side. At about 2 o'clock the mess gong was sounded, and the visitors, visit-ors, who had been instructed to bring cups and spoons, lined up for lunch, which was served at the lines passed between between two counties. In about 20 minutes the entire 600 had bee served with barbecued beef sandwiches, cake and coffee, and were they good! 2400 sandwiches with coffee and cake in proportion had been made up, so there was plenty for everyone. every-one. Among the visitors we found Ward C. Ireland, our old friend from Myton. Ward has been mighty busy in the Provo Forestry Forest-ry office, and was .taking this Sunday off to enjoy himself, as one of the honored guests, at the camp. After lunch an impromptu program pro-gram was given by corps members and visitors, and the guests start, ed leaving for home, some in their own cars, and others in the regular camp trucks, of which there are a half dozen or more. The day was one to be long remembered. re-membered. Ideal fall weather, the beautiful fall colors in Deep Creek never before so gorgeous in our experience, the interesting information infor-mation concerning our government's govern-ment's efforts to properly care for our unemployed youth, and the feast itself were all thoroughly enjoyable! Members of the Duchesne party were: Miss Elsie and Wanda, and Mrs. Fred Johnson, Miss Veda Poulson, Mrs. Jess Johnstun, Mrs. Ernest .Schonlan, Bob and Rusty, and Mr. and Mrs. Roy A. Schonian |