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Show CfAftlTA CLARA, IHMS J.HOW APPRECIATION IB G.CJ. 11 With over 350 people and many iinous speakers on the program, ie towns, of Santa Clara and rins fittingly celebrated the work lfiiat has been done by the CCC ys, under the direction of the -''lirestry offcials and army officers. offi-cers. The banquet, which was ield in the school auditorium 't Santa Clara on Monday night, 'as a wonderful demonstration of ...ie people of these communities Cbr their regard for the work one by the camp organizations. The program included many of he high officials in this branch ? f the government work, such as I I. R. Rutledge, Regional Forest-I Forest-I ir. of Washington D. C. and director di-rector for eighty of the western ,. ICC camps; W, W. McLaughlin, hief Engineer, division of Irrigation Irri-gation of Washington D. C; S. ILl. Winsor, Chief Erosion engineer, ijjf Albuquerque, N. M. ; James 3. Gurr, Forest Supervisor of rn.he Dixie National forest; James l a r r , Irrigation Enginesr, of ..3oise, Idaho. Mr. Marr is to succeed suc-ceed Mr. Winsor in this position. Lieut. W. J. Hines, Commanding Jofficer of CCC camp number 213, Which has accomplished this work Jlon the dam and lower Santa Clara "creek. President W. O. Bentley; (J. F. Tolton, Superintendent of "works of CCC camp 213; County .Engineer, Leo A. Snow; with E. I.R. Frei as Toastmaster for the occasion. J Other distinguished visitors were Engineer Tangren, Superintendent Superin-tendent of Works, Nevada camp, Moapa, Nevada; Graham Quate, .Engineer of the Nevada camp; -John Wittwer Clark, County "Agent; George Hartnian, Experiment Experi-ment Station, Las Vegas; Arthur Fife and Sheriff Fife of Cedar City. Bishop Frei gave a short address ad-dress of welcome and then introduced in-troduced the speakers, the first being President Bentley. Mr. Bentley complimented the people of Santa Clara and Ivins and made the statement that through his experiences on relief work he knew that these towns were the only small towns in Washington County that would have been in good enough financial fin-ancial shape to have given the banquet that they served. He went on to say that St. George also sings the praises of the camps and what they have accomplished for Washington County. To Mr. Winsor and the higher officials in particular, Mr. Bentley thought credit should be given. Nathan Barrett, was particularly particul-arly glad of the fine spirit that prevailed. He went on to say that for vears there had been a feel ing among a small group that erosion work was a vital necessity, neces-sity, but it was only recently that anything had been done about it. "Americans have never planned very far in the future before," stated Mr. Barret, "we have always had so many natural natur-al resources that we have never paid any attention to this important im-portant work." Lieutenant Hines, commanding officer of camp number 213, gave a short talk on how the CCC organization or-ganization came into being. He stated that the main idea of the work at the beginning was to take these young men off the streets and give support to their dependents. While it was realised realis-ed that It would be possible for a great deal of work to be done by the boys, still those in charge little realized the great work that would be. accomplished. The boys have been given an opportunity "to learn many things that should help them in earning a living In civilian life. Lieutenant Hines was particularly particu-larly proud of the fine standing that this camr. has had in the J ss of Ttah. . Thfir roi k haj V;-- i-sfvl as one of the Juird- j. projects tickled by any of Ai camps. He expressed the 'hope that those soon to be discharged dis-charged would find that they had been bettered by their experience 'in the CCC work and hoped that those who are to replace them ould come up to the fine record at they had established. Superintendent Tolbert, erpress-, erpress-, therK"-g,ht that if the ban- ' V-' --on last page) SANTA CLARA CCC (Continued from first page) 4uet were to" be taken as a criterion cri-terion as to the appreciation the people of this district had for them then they must sure y be filled to overflowing. He felt that it was the desire of the boys and those connected with, this work that they would deserve the confidence con-fidence that had been shown then and went on to say that he felt that the boys would be finei citizens for their sojurn in the, CCC camp. ' Mr Winsor paid a fine compliment com-pliment to Mr. Frei when he said that much of the credit for this dam went to him for having-the having-the vision of it and then showing it to those in charge of this work "No better land is to be found anywhere," said Mr. Winsor, and yet for years it has been gradually gradu-ally washed away." He then pointed out some of the necessary neces-sary work that should be done by the local people to take full advantage of the work that has been started. According to him this dam is of a new type that is being constructed throughout the state. It is built primarily as a flood control project and for that reason is constructed to allow seepage under the dam without doing any damage to the construction. With the spillway spill-way built over the main channel of the stream and considerably lower than the dam itself it will hold back the flood water until the peak is past and will also control con-trol the silt, which is a big question ques-tion in this country. Such dams as these are being built ahead of storage dams with the idea of controlling the silt and keeping it from filling the storage dams. Hon. W. W. McLaughlin told how thirty years ago drainage work was started south of St. George and that this was just a continuation of that work. He expressed himself as being well pleased with the work that was being done. "When the Civilian Conservation Corp was called into being and we who were to be the directors of the organization were first assembled as-sembled with President Roosevelt, Roose-velt, we knew very little as to what is was to be, but we soon found out that the President had very definite ideas about the work," said Mr. Rutledge. He went on to say. that he believed tViof irroal nrprtit. WAS rtne the army for the fine way in which they handled an unusual and difficult situation in a very short time. This camp is only one of eighty-eight that comes under his direction and though he was inclined in-clined to agree with those present pre-sent about the wonderful work that had been accomplished by this camp, still he believed that the others ran it a close race for first place honors. WJien you think of the CCC boys Mr. Rutledge wants you to think also of the large group of dependents in back of them. While there are 300,000 boys in the" Corp there are many times that number dependent on them for support. "There is considerable thought being given to using these camps, which will be vacant during the summer, for "Transient camps," said Mr. Rutledge. There is a growing need for such camps and some of the other states have been working along this line. As last speaker or the banquet Leo Snow made the suggestion that since Mr. Winsor has had so much to do with the building of the dam that it be named after af-ter him in honor of the part he had played in its construction. This met with the approval of those present so it will be so called in the future. |