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Show BRYCE CCC CAMP There was some hesitency in the smiles around Camp NP-3 Thursday morning, October 17, when it became known that Lt. Harrison S. Brothers, company welfare officer had received notice no-tice that he is to be relieved from duty with Company 962. Because Be-cause of the reduction of CCC companies in the Fort Douglas district, a number of reserve officers offi-cers are being returned to civilian civil-ian life. Lt. Brothers has been attached to Company 962 since September 9, 1933. where he has been Adjutant, Ad-jutant, Welfare Officers and Exchange Ex-change Officers. His agreeable disposition and his ability to find common gTOund with the men of the company has made him very well liked. The educational classes class-es he taught were popular, and his interest in the recreational interests of the men have gained him a high place in their regard. Soon as Lt. Brothers has been officially relieved he will take a short vacation, then return to Salt Lake City to resume h: law practice. The men of the company gave Lt. Brothers a number of gifts and souveniers as mementos of his association with them. Twenty-seven new recruits were received at Bryce CCC camp, October Oc-tober 16, as part of the October enrollment. They come from i Juab, Millard and Iron counties. These do not recruit Company 9 62 to its full strength; more are expected during the week. Forty-five men were discharged discharg-ed on October 15, 1935, the end of the summer enlistment period. per-iod. This makes a total of eigh-(Continued eigh-(Continued on last page.) BRYCE CCC CAMP ty-one men discharged since Sep tember 1st. At least fifty ol these are now attending school. The good news has arrived. The Bryce camp has received orders or-ders to move to Zion National Park not later than October 31st. This order sounds particularly good since last Wednesday night, October 15th, when the thermometer ther-mometer attempted to strike a new low. Just what the low was hasn't been learned at camp but taps and water buckets remained re-mained frozen until after ten o'clock in the morning. Capt. Chas. Hall, whose camp was turned over to the Division of Grazing on October 13th is now at Camp NP-3 awaiting further fur-ther orders. The company dance for outgoing out-going enrollees given Friday, October Oc-tober 10, was a complete success. suc-cess. Three truck loads and several cars of girls from towns near Bryce came for the party, some even coming from Escalan-te, Escalan-te, fifty miles away. On Saturday night October 11, Capt. Hall gave a dance at Can-nonville, Can-nonville, celebrating the completion comple-tion of his Henrieville camp. Capt. Whitney, Educational Adviser Robertson and forty boys from Company 9 62 attended. Members of the technical staff of Camp NP-3 have all turned Nimrods. So much so in fact that their enthusiasm is potent enough to bring down game. Last Wednesday night four of them in the car of Foreman Marion Willis, Will-is, were returning from Pan-guitch, Pan-guitch, Utah, about ten-thirty in the evening. As they rounded a turn in Red Canyon the startled foreman ran over a wildcat. Stopping Stop-ping the car and going back to the scene of the accident they found an average size wildcat about two feet tall and about three feet long. The wild cat was brought to camp and was made a present to Dr. M. P. Schranck, camp surgeon. Dr. Schrank has already seen to it that the wildcat be skinned and mc anted for the purpose of a rug. Stray cats never get a break from the park foremen. Such has been found out by the new enrollees. |