The Big Lake Breeze, March 27, 1935

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The Big Lake Breeze
VOL. I—NO. 1
CAMP S-79, CCC COMPANY 1760
CLOQUET, MINNESOTA
MARCH 27, 1935
OUR BOW
"VOL. I, NO. I," what a thrill any
amateur editor gets from reading
that simple heading! The Breeze
herewith makes its introductory bow
to a not too numerous but most select
public; or should we say that it
blows its first blow? This addition
to the world of journalism is yet too
young to have formulated an editorial
or a political policy, but no doubt
these will become evident to careful
readers as the paper reaches more
maturity. Indeed, at first not even
an editorial staff, as such, appears,
the editorial and reportorial duties
being handled by a press committee
composed of one or more representatives from each of the four barracks
and the headquarters section. As
experience points the way an editorial staff will be selected or elected
from this number. It is the aim of
the press- committee to publish twice
a month.
The company is not fortunate
enough to possess a mimeograph outfit so this sheet must be printed by
the publishers of the "Pine Knot."
This makes a neater job and better
use of space, but increases expense
and gives the staff less participation
in the enterprise. Like many more
pretentious newspapers, it is made
possible by the advertisers, and we
take this occasion to express our appreciation of their kindly support of
a paper which can make no pretense
of being of much advertising value.
Among the many suggestions on a
name for the paper the one offered by
Lesle Peters was selected by the committee, as a consequence of which
Peters has acquired the new nickname of "Breezy."
We are sorry that some real material has to be omitted from this
first issue, including forestry news,
technical personnel, press committee,   numerous   personal   items,   bar-
. racks news, etc. Various delays have
caused  a piling  up   of  material  and
J necessitated a division. It is thought
better to give full space to a group
of stories and give the same attention
to the remaining ones in the second
issue, instead of crowding everything
into one issue with only "a lick and
a promise" to each.
BASKETBALL
The basketball team has been having a busy and successful season.
This doesn't mean that all games
have been victories, but more than
half of the games have had the right
score from our point of view, and the
showing has been better than expected at the beginning of the season. To
date 19 games have been played
against 11 teams, with the balance
11 to 8 in our favor. Twelve of the
games have been in the Carlton county league, the championship being
won by the Future Farmers of Esko's
Corner, who went through without a
loss. However, we won nine of our
matches in the league schedule. Our
victories and losses have come ii.
bunches. The team started with two
wins, lost the next four in a row,
took nine out of the next ten, then
dropped the last three by heartbreaking close scores. This week will close
the present season with three matches, two  of which  should be wins.
The   following   are   the    scores   to
date,   in   the   order   of  playing,  the
first score in each case being that of
Big Lake:
28    Cloquet Independents 23
36 Carlton Town Team 34
16    Gary  A. C.   _e 23
26 Future Farmers  (Esko's)___ 31
16    DeMolay Alumni   28
23 Cloquet  Co-op.   28
37 Cromwell    34
36    Cloquet Independents 25
57    Cloquet Independents 23
25    Jay Cooke Park CCC 20
31    Carlton Town Team 21
30    Future Farmers (Esko's)  __ 52
67    DeMolay Alumni   23
36    Superior Y Tigers 34
41    Cromwell    34
30    Jay Cooke Park CCC 17
24 Cloquet-Wrenshall H. S.  ___ 27
14    Gooseberry Falls CCC 17
27 Supei-ior Y Tigers 29
EMERGENCY LOAN FUND
599 523
Our tournament experience so far
has not been of the best. In the Du-
luth New Year tournament we lost
to   Gary  A.  C.   in  the  most    poorly
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Probably all of the men in camp
are familiar with the working of the
Emergency Loan Fund, but perhaps
some of the other readers will be interested in an explanatory statement.
Most of our enrollees are from
Kansas. It is inevitable that occasionally someone in camp receives
word of a family emergency requiring his immediate presence at home
for a few days. Rare is the instance
when the enrollee is financially prepared for such a happening, and it is
sometimes difficult to raise the necessary loan from among the company
members  at  short  notice.
Last summer a fund was created
to take care of such situations. Each
unrated man in camp contributed 15c,
assistant leaders 20c, leaders 25c,
foremen 50c, officers, superintendent
and adviser $1.00. The fund is administered by a council of ten consisting of the four section leaders,
special foreman, the officers, superintendent and educational adviser.
These men pass upon any request for
an emergency travel loan, when the
commanding officer has granted the
r.!2cessary leave. The money is loaned without interest and is paid back
at the convenience of the man concerned.
So far not a dollar has been lost.
Whenever a man was discharged his
contribution was returned to him;
and in various ways the fund was
built up to a point where it has been
possible this- winter to refund all
contributions to the enrollees and
leave enough to care for anticipated
needs. To date thirteen different
men have been served by this fund,
to the tune of $150.
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Try  the  Punching  Bag
Our respect goes to the chap who
can "take it," so we should take off
our hats to the old punching bag in
the recreation hall. Those of you
who like this kind of a work-out
might have Tarzan or Curley give
you a few pointers, for they sure
know how to make that wind bag
sing.