The Big Lake Breeze, April 17, 1935

              The Big Lake Breeze
CAMP S-79, CCC COMPANY 1760
Vol..   I    NO.
CLOQUET,  MINNESOTA
APRIL  17.
FINAL BASKETBALL GAMES
\ Cimk) Season Closes
Our  basketball   season  come  to  a
iusion the last few days of March
with   two  games    in    which   tJv
I>ak. n.    Both matches
•   played in the gymnasium of the
Superior   V.M.CA.     We   lost   the   deciding  match  of  three  with   the  Superior Tigerf  by a in  a
game   featured  b             aional  basket
ing   by   our   opponents,   who  appeared i •              miss a long shot; and
this  was   an   evening when  our  boys
uingly   could  do   nothing   right.
The  final  game was another story.
The   Big   Lake   representatives   were
clicking  again,  this  time  at   the  ex-
«• of  tin               cam  from  Brule
onsin.    Score 30-35.    Every man
on the squad got a liberal    slice   of
time   in   this   jrame.   which   held   th'
margin  closer than  otherwise  would
have been the <■;:
This concluded a successful twenty-
•ason with 12 victories
and nine defeats. The team deserves
a lot of credit for this showing, ma!e
against al! kinds of comnetition within icach. The usual starting line-up
consisted of Danielski and Lavern
Smith at forward. Frew, center.
Ewing Watt and Lt. Halbeisen.
guards. Brigjrs substituted at guard.
it forward, and Ramsey and
Newman at center and forward. Notable among those who saw service
earlier in the season were "Irish"
Brannick  and "Hap" Cavanaugh.
BASKETBALL SQUAD
Back row. F.  H. Brown, Ed. Adv., K elsey,   Newman.   Ramsey,   Briggs.   Lt.
R. E. Davis.   Front row. Watt.  Lt.  Halbeisen,   Frew,   Smith.   Danielski.
FEDERAL CAMP SUPERINTENDENTS CONFER
WHAT USE IS A CCC CAMP?
Meet at  Big  Lake
Engineer    Gareis    Replies    for    Big
Lake; Summary of Work
Done.
BELIEVE   IT  OR   NOT
N<\\   Free Throw  Record
While on leave a week ago our edu-
nal adviser attended the Chicago
Y.M.C.A.   >'»■>:;>  carnival  held  in  the
132nd   Reg't   Armory.     One   stunt   in
•rner of  the  big armory  was an
attempt   by   Bunny   Leavitt,     of   the
Central   Y.M.C.A..   to   better  his   own
world's   record   for   consecutive   free
throws,   said   record   being   425.   recently   featured   by     Ripley.       After
making   _V>2   s;,ajRht   shots   Leavitt
ed one but, not at all discouraged.
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The suoerintendents of the OCC
Camps of the Superior National For-
iccepted the invitation of Mr.
Trengove to hold their April conference at Big Lake. They met here on
Friday and Saturday, the 12th and
13th, Mr. Trengove acting as program chairman. Some of the sessions were held at the camn and some
it the Experimental Station. The
visitors were lodged in C-D barrack;
and   ate   their   meals   al   the   officers'
The Friday morning session was
■jiven over to lecures and discussions
on technical forestry problems, the
addresses being given by Mr. Schantz
Hansen, chief of the Experimental
Station, and Prof. Cheney of the University of Minnesota. Prof. R. T.
King, also of the University, spoke
on  "Game Management."
The earlier part of the afternoon
was spent in an inspection tour of
the Station buildings and of the vari-
Inasmuch as Camp S-79 has been
in operation for over twenty-one
months it is impossible, in this limited space, to give an account of all the
work accomplished so far. However,
to give a general idea of the kind of
work being done in this camn wo can
first mention firefighting, which of
course takes precedence whenever the
necessity arises. In order to fight fire
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ous projects connected with the Station forest. Later the group, numbering about thirty, visited the Cloquet  Match  factory.
The   evening   program   was     both
recreational   and   educational,   including  the  entertainment  given   by  the
boys   and   Prof.   King's   second
lecture. the  Wood  Conver
sion plant and the Northwest Papei
Co. mill at Cloquet occupied Saturday   morning.