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Show MESS HALLS ARE NOW UNDERWAY Both of the Heaver county Civilian Conservation Corps camps have been brought up to a strength of some 120 men with the additiun, this past week, of experienced men ami recruits from various parts of the state, and botli camps are. now showing the effects of long hours of planning and equally hard work. At the desert range camp, west of Milford, a mess hall, to be Ml feet long and 20 feet wide, has been started and is up to the square and work on the Heaver mountain moun-tain mess hall, to be of similar proportions, pro-portions, will begin today, according I to Captan R. C. Snidow who was in Milford yesterday to nueet Ids wife. I With the decision of the. Mutual I Improvement organization of the j Beaver stake not to utilize the girls' lodge near the present C. C. C. camp , site, this very comfortable building will be used as living quarters by Captain and Mrs. Snidow and by j Lieutenant Williard M. Gobbell, med- ical officer for both camps, and his wife and baby, who arrived a fewj days ago from Califonua, Mrs. Gob-1 bell and the baby and a couple ofj women friends liaving made the trip here by motor. I C. C. Pryor, Beaver camp cook, I who was operated for appendicitis a : couple of weeks ago in the Milford hospital, is reported to be doing nicely nice-ly following a second operation which re-ulted in the removal of pus from his left side, thougli his condition was critical for several days. The research setup at the desert range camp is fast getting underway under the capable direction of Dr. George Stewart and Jiis assistant, Selar Hutchings, who hav now been joined by Dr. Walter P. Cottam, a member of the teaching staff of the l'niver-ity of Utah, who has a wide reputation along scientific lines. George Kelly of Beaver is now on the job as carpenter foreman and the other foie.i.an, heretofore named, are ow on the job and are making noticeable notice-able progress. ' The Beaver camp seems now in a fair way of being taken care of in the way of transportation, after a long period of nothing whatever available for getting to and from their camp. Lieutenant Gobbell has been furnished with an ambulance body on a Ford chassis and the forest service now has in operation three or four trucks for use at this camp. The west camp has been rather well taken care of in this respect, right from the start. The federal authorities have professed pro-fessed a commendable interest in the intellectual well being of the boys in the camps and, to this end, large appropriations Ivive been budgeted for magazines, newspapers, and other reading material. But what is not so fine is the reactionary attitude with1 providing the camps with lights by which are viewed various plans for which the boys might take advantage to the fullest of the reading facilities offered. Where thousands and thousands thou-sands of dollars are being spent on every hand it is understood that the requisition for a hundred dollars or so that would be needed to give the camp safe and efficient lighting facilities fac-ilities has been ruthlessly vetoed by someone "up the line" and the boys at the west camp are in almost com- plete darkness, the insufficient supply sup-ply of candles having been exhausted with no certainty of when another supply may be had. Local people are cooperating toward to-ward the wellbeing of the boys in our midst in every way possible and this narrow attitude on the part of the government is absolutely inexcusable, inex-cusable, to our way of thinking. |