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Show Officials Launch Move To Save Pleasant Grove Camp From Federal Economy Ax moving of i;nrolli:i:s would cut vital work here Six Utah CCC camps, among them the Pleasant Grove unit, doomed to get "the ax" in a government economy econo-my move, found a defender in Gus P. Backman, executive secretary of the Salt Lake City chamber of commerce, com-merce, following the closing announcement. an-nouncement. Mr. Eackman telegraphed a protest pro-test to Representative J. Will Robinson Rob-inson at Washington, stating that he "wonders" if CCC camps "shouldn't be among the last to receive re-ceive the ax." "If the program of reducing the camps is determined upon, we believe be-lieve too great a penalty is being placed on the forest service," Mr. Backman stated in nis telegram. "Will you kindly determine if in your opinion we are being treated like other communities and if the forest camps are being treated on the same basis elsewhere?" Six of Utah's 23 CCC camps would be closed, their personnel transferred transfer-red to other camps, under the plan announced by Robert Fechner, director di-rector of the CCC. Efforts directed toward retaining the detachment here were launched by the Pleasant Grove chamber of commerce, which regards the removal re-moval of the unit as detrimental to the district. The fight also has been taken up by the Utah county Democratic Demo-cratic executive committee, which has decided to urge retention of the unit here. Discontinuance of the Pleasant Grove and Mill creek camps will mean the suspension of work of primary pri-mary importance, according to James E. Gurr, Wasatch national forest supervisor. The cut will force the abandonment abandon-ment of work in Big and Little Cottonwood Cot-tonwood canyons and in American Fork, Deer creek and the Mirror lake region. Thirty-two of the 48 forest service employes working with the enrollees will be laid off because of lack of funds. o |