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Show CCC Camps Are Adjusted For Ail-Out Ail-Out War Fffort i . ALBUQUERQUE, N. IM., Mar. ibO, 1942. CCC Camps toat have keen doing soil erosion work in 'Utah have gone on a wartime oasis wu'n camp projects toeing adjusted Lor an all-out war ef-i'.oic, ef-i'.oic, K. C. Balcomb, regional -CCC cnief eor toe Soil Conserva-' Conserva-' .ion Service, stated today. Wherever possible, camps are be.'.'.g assigned to help the Army ; ty building target ranges, stringing string-ing telephone lines, setting .up ten.:, doing erosion control work at airports and laying water and tas mains. Also, oy taking might courses alter Jne regular 8-hour cay, COJ enrollees are learning wielding, .machine shop lAork and other skilled trades designed to permit -i.vem to step into war produc.io.i plants. Although CCC recognizes that military needs demand first priority, pri-ority, enrollees not employed on military posts are con.inuing soil erosion -work in critical farming areas, where increased production' produc-tion' im.ust be achieved wiJh- the least possible damage to the soil. Through the construction of terraces, irrigation ditches and intake headings, dikes, gully gul-ly plugs and other soil conservation conserva-tion structures, CCC is helping the state in its "Food for Free dom -arive, m.cornb stated. I CCC Camp 5-U, located at Mt. Pleasant, Utah, has entered into Cooperative Agreements on 106 larms, and the Manti and Uintah National Forests, covering -213 -c04 acres oif land on which soil conservation- practices have -been established. The conservation practices established on- these lands consist oif 112 miles of rang: .fencing, 8 stock water developments, de-velopments, 875 acres of contour cultivation', 1,604 acres of contour con-tour furrows, 1,462 acres of irrigation ir-rigation system treatment, 2,331 acres of range seeding, 119 639 acres of controlled grazing, and 67 acres cf ifanm terracing besides be-sides emergency work during inoods ar.d .fires which- involved structures .protecting cities and irrigation works and lands vital to tne commonwealth of the County. The above figures are as of December 31, 1941. A side camp of 50 enrollees, two foremen and equipment is located at Bountiful; Utah, carrying car-rying on soil conservation work on tne Military Reservation at iiui Field in cooperation iwith the Army. In conformity with national policy, Balcomb said, CCC is discouraging the enrollment of ijioung msn, .who are meeded for military service, (farm worfc or industrial production. There continues to be a -number of youths between' 17 and 20, however, how-ever, who are untrained for in-ciustry in-ciustry and too young for military mili-tary service, he said, and it is this group that .will profit most -irom a year spent in a COC camp. Balcomb also wished to correct cor-rect toe impression that lOCC men are not subject to military oralt. They have exactly the ;a,me status- as any other civilian group, he stated. Durenij tne nine years of its existence, CCC has created a reservoir of healthy, trained man poA-er toat is serving 'the nation m its war program, he declared, enrollees have learned tractor operating, road ibuilding, 'blasting, 'blast-ing, welding, machine shop work blacksmith work, clerical work cooking, radio operating, and many OJher trades. Today thousands of iformer CCC en rollees are serving in the armed lorces or working in defense factories fac-tories at skilled trades. In addition, CCC men ar built up physically through - f"-.-uic uini unat tne corps is an excellent -pre-conditioning unit for army service Balca.nto stated. |