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Show Desert Range C. C. C. Camp By 'Pep' Johnson, Camp Correspondent New Enrollment Six new men from Millard county arrived at camp Wednesday Wednes-day and 91 are arriving Thursday from Salt Lake county. The arrival ar-rival of these 07 men will bring the company strength up to 218 men. Out of these !I7 new fellows we hope we have some good baseball players. The camp team suffered two losses when Marv Smith and Elmo Castleberry left. By the way, Marv Smith was discharged dis-charged from the Civilian Conservation Conser-vation Corps April 11, 1 !):!". Marv has found employment elsewhere, and we are wishing him all the luck in the world. A New Garden of Eden Under the direction of Forest Foremen Ieonard Mecham, Jim Haycock and Karl Yersin, the Desert Range Experiment station is rapidly becoming a second Garden of Pden. Trees and shrubs and grass have been planted, a sprinkling system is being installed, install-ed, and the station is taking on the exactness of a young city. School Has Started Courses, requiring every man in camp, including the forest foremen fore-men and the officers, has been started in hygiene, sanitation and first aid. This means that Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Arvin mujt turn professor profes-sor but this should not be new to him, as he was instructor in anatomy at the U. of U. for two years. A C'halU-nge The camp's soft-ball team feels i quite confident that they are pretty good, so, in as much as the baseball season is on, why cannot a game bo arranged with some team in the vicinity of Milford or Minersville. Such a game would create a more fraternal spirit between be-tween our camp and the towns-' towns-' people, as well as give an incentive to the boys to take part in athletics. ath-letics. ( hsiplainn V5nit Chaplains liennion and CurtiH were visitors at the camp April 12. After a 20-minute talk given by Captain Walker, the two chaplains chap-lains held a short program, with Chaplain Curtis leading in community com-munity singing, and Chaplain Bcn-nion Bcn-nion giving a short talk. After the program the boys visited Milford and enjoyed the dance there. j Bartender: "Would you like a schooner of beer?" I Jake Young: "The schooner the better." Simp: "You know, every time I I breathe some ono dies." Derfus: "Good gosh, you should use listerine." It is reported that this story came from the home of an en-rollee: en-rollee: Mother: "Johnny, I have some good news for you." Johnny: "Yeah, I know. Brother is homo from camp for a couple of days." Mother: "How did you know?" Jonny: "My bank won't rattle any more." |