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Show GUNLOCK C.C.C. On Friday, February 19, 1937, Mr. R. W. McBride, the new superintendent sup-erintendent of Soil Conservation camp No. 2, established at Gun-lock Gun-lock (and with spike camp at Santa Clara), arrived to take charge of operations. Formerly Mr. McBride had charge of Soil Conservation service camp SCS-22-A at Portal, Arizona. He has a fine record of accomplishment as superintendent and will as ably carry out the projects initiated by Mr. A. A. Nelson, the former superintendent of this camp who resigned from the service last week. Captain Charles R. Nate, assistant as-sistant district inspector for the Fort Douglas district, arrived in Camp Gunlock, Saturday morning, morn-ing, February 20. After a thorough thor-ough inspection, he commented favorably on the fine condition of the camp. This was quite en-heartening en-heartening to Captain Frank E. Milam and all the men of his company after such a winter bf hardships and deprivations. Lt. Donald J. Henry, Cha plain of the Fort Douglas district, visited vis-ited Company 5S5 on Sunday, February 21. He held religious services in the afternoon, at which the campany did some of the 'finest 'fin-est singing in the district. In the evening the Chaplain showed some slides of the life of Lincoln, interesting in-teresting especially to the majority major-ity of the fellows from Kentucky; accompanying it was a fine lecture. lec-ture. The men were immensely pleased and look forward to his next visit. It was an unexpected sequel to classes in Dixie College, St. George, Utah, the last week, when the truck bearing the en-rollees en-rollees and the educational advisor ad-visor of Company 585, Gunlock, Utah, stalled with a drowned motor in the midst of one of the thirteen fords of the Santa Clara river. It was impossible to get the engine to start again; there was nothing else to do but hike back to camp a imatter of about six miles and ten waist-deep waist-deep river crossings, for it was already, late and very cold. And so, abandoning the truck, en-rollees, en-rollees, David Davies, Joseph Do-dic, Do-dic, James Lewis, Michael Miar-ich, Miar-ich, Ignace Swiatek, and educational educa-tional advisor Kenealey-Stevens plunged into the successive crossings cros-sings and plodded the wearisome miles down the dark, starlit canyon, can-yon, until they arrived in camp, wet and weary, about one o'clock in the morning, attesting the interest in-terest these enrollees have in the educational program. |