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Show - - - i i j i- mi i . 1 First Group of Government Workers Are Due Here Today First Contingent Civilian Conservation Conserva-tion Corps Coming To Set Up Two 200-Men Camps Twenty-six men, the first of -100 or more who are scheduled to be at work on conservation projects in this vicinity within the next two or three weeks, will arrive in Mil ford some time today (Thursday) unless last-minute changes disrupt present plans. This is the unofficial but reliable information secured, by The News shortly before going to press and will be pleasing to innumerable in-numerable readers who have evidenced deep interest in the work. These 2ii men, it is expected, wills be trained men and to them will be entrusted, under army supervision, the Work of getting the construction of camp quarters underway, but whether whe-ther or not the 26 will be split between be-tween the west camp and the Beaver mountain camp is not known. Dr. George Stewart, former member mem-ber of the faculty of the Utah State Agricultural college, .but now affiliated affili-ated with the regional forest office at Ogden. who has nude an intensive .f tU w.irW ti-i ht undertaken at the camp west of Milford and knows more of that section than many of the natives hereabout, has spent the past two days in town in company with Lieutenant Stephen V. Ackerman of Fort Douglas and the two made a thorough inspection of the local setup. The camp site which will be recommended recom-mended by Lieutenant Ackerman is located 44 miles west of Milford and only a few yards to the left of high-' way 21. This will facilitate travel back and forth and easy mail connections con-nections since there is already' established estab-lished a thrice-a-week mail- service along this highway, operated by Joe Dearden of Garrison. The actual, .scene of the projected work will be j some distance to the north, however, and partly ling in Millard county, it is understood. " A faint idea of the immensity of j the work to be undertaken may be gained by the fact- that -there- has been unloaded and temporarily stored already a full carload of galvanized barbed" wire over 1500 spools and some 190 kegs of staples, while 40,- 000 or." more cedar posts are to be cut and used in the feneng operations, ae-cording ae-cording to reports. The camp will be conducted on an amy plan, insofar as discipline and . some other factors are concerned, but there will be no drill or other exercises exer-cises with arms of a-ny kind, according accord-ing to the best information available. Overtures have been made toward securing movie performances for the camp for three nights a week, it is reported. Under the program arranged, ar-ranged, athletic equipment, a radio a traveling library, newspapers, mag- azines and writing equipment will be supplied each camp. It is planned to establish a n exchange, similar to those used during the World war, at each camp remote from a town. At the exchanges the men will be able to purchase toilet articles, tobacco, candy and miscellaneous articles. Lieutenant Ackerman's regular assignment as-signment is to a camp in Salina canyon, can-yon, the establishment of which he will have charge, and another officer will be assigned to the local camp, Ackerman's visit this week being merely for inspection and recommendation recommen-dation purposes. |