Show C C C corps offers opportunities to understand more clearly the reason tor for my enlistment in the civilian conservation corps I 1 will start with my early life hie I 1 was born in the little town of tunapa tupapa idaho on july 28 1916 1915 my aly parents were prospering fairly well tor foi they had a large ranch that was stocked with many sheep and cattle the world war broke out and prices on beet and mutton rose it was then we were enriched to our highest peak alter after the war prices tell fell below normal we waited lor for a break but no break came in 1925 1926 after our fairly large fortune had dwindled down to nothing we decided to move eastward this was the boom time of the east and again we were on the road to happiness then came the depression and the disablement of my tather father we tried tb ib tight fight ir out but then the relief rolls I 1 havo have three brothers all tour four of 0 us were going to school when I 1 decided to join the C C C s my parents tried to persuade me to finish school but the bumps that they and I 1 were taking were too great on april 24 1934 1 I enlisted camp dix new jersey was my seasoning station which just about made me pack up and leave tor for home but I 1 stuck it out for I 1 knew what it meant after two weeks of 0 the toughest part of the C C C s I 1 have encountered I 1 was told to entrain tor for hattiesburg mississippi there I 1 soon learned to survey and I 1 was put in charge 0 of a crew for or the last two months ot of my stay there I 1 was also tool boy while in this capacity I 1 picked up as much as I 1 could ot of clerical work when we entrained for or utah after fit teed months in the south we were without the services ot of a forestry clerk for five months I 1 have been the forestry clerk at the kanosh hanosh camp I 1 have learned all I 1 know about clerical work in the C C C a I 1 have come into contact with all kinds ot of men and personalities most pleasant of 0 all my parents and brothers are ott off the relief rolls and working my twenty one months in the C C C s were not wasted john perry rated hated enrollee forestry clerk company 1253 C C kanosh utah |