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Show j Desert Branch CCC Lieutenant H. S. Hamilton went to Milford Thursday of last week to complete arrangements to trans- , porting the new enrollees to the Desert branch camp. Friday morning morn-ing Lieutenant Rector accompanied the forest truck to meet the 119 enrollees recruited from Bismark, North Dakota. Lieutenant Floyd J: Tucker ; from the Manila CCC camp arrived ar-rived in camp Saturday, April 10. He will be the commanding officer after Captain Horn leaves. Captain R. W. Horn returned Saturday after a month away from camp, engaged in transporting transport-ing enrollees to and from North Dakota, and enrolling and equip-ing equip-ing new groups at Fort Lincoln, North Dakota. Lieptenant Harry S. Hamilton will leave on the 15th for Manila, j Utah, where he will take over command of the CCC camp located lo-cated there. Captain Horn will leave on the 18th for Eureka, where he will be in command of the Jericho CCC camp. Sunday evening company 4763 had an unusually rare opportunity ; in hearing Dr. A. J. Grasovasky, conservationist, British imperial forestry institute, colonial sen-ice, Jerusalem, Palestine, while on a world tour. He gave a lecture on Palestine of the present day. Dr. Grasovasky has been in the colonial colon-ial service for 14 years. He ha? studied in the United States as well as other countries and has traveled extensively over most of the world. At present he is an instructor in-structor in Oxford university. -Several old enrollees made a trip to the dance in Milford Saturday; evening. 1 Friday morning a severe wind passed through camp, blowing ash can lids a quarter of a mile from camp. It blew an enrollee's glasses ' off and carried them a block away. I Superintendent George L. Barron Bar-ron returned Sunday after a ten day leave. i ! Company 4763 last Saturday received a new traveling library of 100 volumes, comprising books on history and biography, descrip- j tion and travel, elementary science I fiction novels and general themes, adventure and mystery, western and inspirational. The spike camp in the cedars was established last week and is now occupied by 24 enrollees but it is expected to be doubled in size, as 12,000 posts are to be cut and hauled out for fencing. visiting her daughter, Mrs. Arvin, at Desert Branch Experiment station sta-tion for the past ten days, has returned re-turned to her home in Salt Lake City. " One hundred and nineteen new enrollees were vaccinated Suday for typhoid. No one passed out but a number were ill by evening and a score were unable to go to work Monday. Visitors in camp Sunday included includ-ed Mrs. McBroom, Mrs. Arvin, Lieutenant Tucker and family, Mr. and Mrs. Hutchings and Miss Kil-lam. Kil-lam. The woi'k project has been speeded up greatly this week due to the addition of over 100 new laborers. Desert Branch camp the past five days has been a field of action due to influx of 119 new enrollees, enrol-lees, together with a complete transfer of officers. Captain Jackson visited Desert Branch camp Tuesday on an inspection in-spection tour. He was accompanied accom-panied by Chaplain Henry, who stayed in camp Tuesday evening after holding services in the library. li-brary. A farewell party in honor of Captain Richard W. Horn and Lieutenant Harry S. Hamilton was given at the Desert Branch experiment ex-periment station Tuesday evenin?. A midnight lunch was served at the station mess hall. Music and dancing were principal attractions of the evening. Selar Hutchings acted as master of ceremonies to an impromptu remarks digression of the evening in which the parting part-ing and incoming officers, the forest for-est service personnel, the educational educa-tional adviser and the district of grazing officers were the principal princi-pal victims. Guests of the evening eve-ning included the army personnel, the forestry personnel, the experiment experi-ment personnel and a number of prominent people from Milford. The next morning at seven a.m. breakfast was served in the officers of-ficers mess hall at the CCC camp for those who had to leave early for Milford. |