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Show iSunday In Camp For CMTC Boys ! Offers Diversions Citizens Military Training Camp trainees at Fort Douglas find that their week isn't entirely filled with 'drill and instruction. In fact, from 1:00 p.m. Saturday until 10:00 p.m. Sunday they are strictly on their own. ; Many of the boys take the op-! op-! portunity of visiting friends or relatives in Salt Lake City while those who don't know anyone in t he city frequently tpend their time in sightseeing or making the .rounds of movies. One your.g chap, riding back tc camp on the last bus before the 10:00 p.m. deadline, was overheard to remark that he'd just been to three different theatres, thea-tres, two of which were playini' double-feature bills. B:;t many trainees remain ii. camp over the week-end. With no definite activities scheduled they must decide for themselves what they will do to keep busy. Tiie recreation re-creation hall, where magazines and stationery are always plentiful, attracts at-tracts many. The boys are e.i-couraged e.i-couraged to write home often, and many also write to one or more girl friends during their free time. Horseshoe pitching is one of the most popular unsupervised sports. The clank of shoes on peg can be heard at all hours except during meals or church service. Less energetic trainees resort to "horizontal "hori-zontal exercises" and "bunk fatigue" fa-tigue" or, in civilian terms, resting on their cot. From the sounds issuing from the tent area, the C. M. C. T. should be able to organize a band j and orchestra and have few musicians musi-cians left over for solo numbers. From up and down the lines of tents come more or less expert toots, booms, whines and assorted chords as each instrument concentrates con-centrates on its own variety of tunes. With several radios thrown in for good measure, the resulting sounds are almost unbelievable. On Sunday the trainees are allowed al-lowed an extra hour's sleep. They t get up at 0:45 and have breakfast j at. 7:30 a.m. Those who remain in; camp may read, write letters or' clean up their tents until time for church at 9 o'clock. While attend-. ance is not compulsory, camp authorities au-thorities urge every boy to attend i one of the Sunday services, whether he is in camp or down j town. At last Sunday's general church service a forceful message was given by Judge Oscar W. McCon- ; kie. Fine music was sung by a trio of Salt Lake City girls. At i the same time, but in a different ' location at the post, a Catholic mass was being held. With these services over, the next scheduled function is dinner at noon. Sunday-dinner Sunday-dinner at camp is similar to Sunday Sun-day dinner ot home it's the big meal of the week. Last Sunday the trainees had chicken and dumplings, dump-lings, mashed potatoes and gravy, peas, asparagus, bread and butter, ice cream and cookies, and lemonade. lemon-ade. The only complaint heard after dinner was from one young fellow who declared that everything every-thing was so good he had eaten more than was wise. . |