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Show St. George CCC Camp Sixty-one replacements, from the reception center at Lebanon, Ohio, will arrive in St. George on Thursday night. The arrival of this group will increase the company com-pany strength to approximately 195. Walter Evans was granted an honorable discharge last week to return to employment in Indiana. Bernard Bruce was honorably discharged on Friday because of illness of his sister at his home in Danville. Ky. The construction crew at Short Creek has developed the spring and is ready to start installing the headhouse for the necessary storage. The road crew will soon finish" the truck trail up the line so that the work of laying the pipe can be started. Captain Preston, who was recently re-cently appointed chaplain for the Southern Utah camps, visited camp on Monday night and spent the evening getting acquainted with the members of the company. com-pany. On July 1 24 enrollees and 4 foremen from the local camp made a flying trip into the Arizona Ari-zona Strip and spent nearly two days putting out a brush fire near Black Rock mountain. About 2000 acres were burned and quick action and steady work by the crew saved about 10 square miles of additional territory, a ranch and buildings and three sheep wagons. The blaze was put under control by cutting fire-breaks 10 feet wide ahead of the flames. |