The Big Lake Breeze, May 31, 1935

              The Big Lake Breeze
VOL. I—NO. 8
CAMP S-79, CCC COMPANY 1760
CLOQUET, MINNESOTA
MAY 31, 1935
SPORTS
Teams Lose to Co. 719
Our neighbor, Company 719 at
Brimson, came down Sunday, May 19,
and sort of took us to a cleaning in
both baseball and diamond ball.
The baseball game was a pretty
good game. We lost 6 to 4, due
mainly to the fact that our team
couldn't hit when they needed hits.
However, we must give credit to the
Brimson pitcher, Palm. He pitched
a nice game, using a fast ball that
was a little too fast for our boys. We
will meet Brimson again in a few
weeks, and will see to it that the
score will be in our favor.
The diamond ball game was a wild
affair from start to finish. Both
teams contributed many errors just
to help the fun along a little bit. The
home boys also came through with a
half-dozen good old fashioned mental
lapses that overbalanced all of the
errors of the Brimson team. With a
little more work, we feel that the
diamond ball team will develop into
a pretty fair outfit.
SIB-DISTRICT LEAGUE OPENS
Sunday, May 26, was the opening
day of the sub-district league. The
company team went to Two Harbors
and played the first of a double-header against Company 703, the game
being only a seven inning game. We
lost, 12 to 9. Right now we want to
lay claim to the record for errors
made in a seven inning game. The
team made eighteen (18) errors.
Frew pitched a good game but received terrible support. However, the
game was played in a slow drizzle
throughout, and of course that was a
contributing factor to the poor playing. The diamond was slick and the
bill was wet and muddy, and such
conditions make good baseball playing very difficult. Company 703 also
made several errors but they couldn't
kiep up with us, so they won.
The schedule also called for dia-
i ball and volley ball, to be play-
e 1 at Two Harbors. At the last minute, however,  we  learned that there
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FORESTRY NEWS
E.C.W. Officials Visit Camp.
Since the last issue of the Breeze,
we have been fortunate in having
with us for short visits, several officials of the Forestry Division.
These visitors were: R. T. Smith,
acting director of E.C. W. in Minnesota; Alex Whitten, Tec. Inspector;
Ray Stevens, Federal Tec. Inspector,
and Gordon Fredine, Supervising
Game Technician.
The only thing we have against the
above named men is that they never
stay long enough to really appreciate
our camp.
The camp received a heavy duty
grader May 18, and to see it in operation, one who was not acquainted
with it, would rather swear off the
3.2 than believes what he sees.
It would take too much space to
accurately describe the thing, but a
motor mounted on the grader, along
with clutch levers, can twist, lift.
turn, dig and bend double, anything
on the machine. It would pay anyone to look for himself at the first
opportunity, to believe all this—but!
it's true.
OUR SECOND BIRTHDAY
Company  Formed Two Years.
Our truck line by the ball diamond
was lessened last week when five of
the new stakes were delivered to Cass
Lake. It was a nice trip for five
truck drivers—who don't deserve anything nice anyway.
As this goes to press, we bet some
120 men in camp will quit planting
trees in their sleep. It was tough
going for a while, but a good job was
done and lame backs will be healed up
before we do some more of this work
next fall.
From an impartial viewpoint, it
seems that a good way for a truck
driver to continue being a truck driver is to take to heart all ECW driving regulations that cover everything
from picking women up in state
trucks to not keeping the motor properly cleaned and serviced. So far,
we've   had   truck   drivers   busted   for
On May 25, 1933, 206 Kansas men
were assembled from various parts
of the state and sent to Fort Riley,
Kansas, where they were formed into
Company 1785 CCC. Company 1785
was later to become Company 1760.
It was at Fort Riley, Kansas, beginning May 25, 1933, that these two
hundred and six men got their first
taste of CCC life. Members of the
company plainly recall pulling grass
with their hands in order to get the
camp site cleared. They also will recall walking to "The Island," a 12
mile walk daily. And they will recall, after arriving at "the Island"
how they learned to burn brush and
to clean up "dead and down." Here
the men learned to pull stumps with
an improvised stump puller. Some of
the men will recall their road-building
job on "The Island." "Remember the
Island" became the slogan of the company.
Of these 206 who enrolled on May
25, 1933, thirteen are still members
of the company. At first thought,
one would say that thirteen men are a
small part of a company of 206 men.
but we feel that it is very good, considering the fact that 698 men have
been members of this company to
date.
We would say that these thirteen
men "can take it." Very often we
get disgusted with things and want
to get out. That is human nature.
But it seems that these thirteen members have been able to face the disgusting things, and then come back
for more. It is a pretty good test,
we think. Here is a list of the old
members of the company, together
with the positions they hold:
Francis Frew, Leader. A & B Barracks
Harold Hedrick, Leader, E & F Barracks
William Hintz, Leader, 1st Cook
George Nevius, Sub-Leader, Asst. Ed.
Adviser
Tony Bilello, Sub-Leader, E" & F Barracks
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