The Flash, April 1940

              • THE FLASH*
APRIL, 1940
CALEDONIA, MINN. CCC 1720
Vol. 4 No. 4
Co. 1720 Receives
84 New Enrollees
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MEN    COME     FROM     HOMES     IN
MINNESOTA,  MISSOURI  AND
ARKANSAS
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The company strength of Company
1720 has been replenished by the addition of eighty-four new enrollees.
Sixty-five of whom are from Missouri,
fifteen from Minnesota, and four from
Arkansas.
The new groups arrived in a rather
drawn out fashion. The first group of
fifteen Minnesotans arrived on the
night of the fourth of April, the following night there arrived fiften more
from the same state. Of the first fifteen,
eleven remained here at 1720 and four
were transferred to Decorah, Iowa. Of
the second group, only four remained
here, and eleven were transferred to
Decorah. The following day the group
-of sixty-five Missouri boys arrived, and
the camp settled down to what it
thought was normal routine. Tha new
.men were given their week of orientation, in which they were kept in camp,
so that they might be taught the duties
which they were to perform, by members of the SCS and Army staff and by
the educational department
On Sunday, April 21, after all the
■other rooks had served their probationary period, there arrived from
Arkansas, four more new men, and the
-orientation process began anew at least
for them.
We now believe and, we feel that we
are safe in so believing, that the company has finally deceived its full quota
of enrollees. So far the new men have
proven very satisfactory and we are
-pleased to welcome them into the company.
The following is a roster of the new
-men:
Benlien, Edward
Berry, Truman
Uiri, Lawrence
Brickhauss, Walter
Brooker, John
Cartwright, John
Chamberlain, Melvin
Christopher, Sylvester
Coffelt, Clarence
Cooper, George
Cruse, William
Daggett, Troy
Davaney, Frank
Dosh, John
Downs, Herbert
Endres, Oscar
Fakes, James
Geringer, Herbert
Hale, Milford
Harter, Emmet
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DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL
ADVISER VISITS COMPANY
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C. C. Gordon, District Educational
Adviser, visited the company on his
Tegular quarterly tour of inspection, on
April 22 and 23. While here Mr. Gordon offered several suggestions which
we feel sure will better the educational
program. He stated that the program
has shown definite advancement since
he last visited here, and we aim to
show still more progress by the time
he returns again.
Company Sluggers To
Play La Crescent Sunday
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In the opening game of the baseball
season for Company 1720, the team
plans to play La Crescent, there, Sunday.
With many of the players of last
year's team gone, new recruits have
been carefully selected to fill their
places. Most of the boys have had
plenty of experience and although it is
still early in the season, a good game
is expected to be played.
Dunn, one of the few who played last
year, will open on the mound with Demand catching. Dunn's pitching, as
well as batting average were exceptionally good last year and is expected to be even better this season. Demand proved himself an outstanding
catcher last season. He also has a batting average of over .400 to try to better this year.
Many of the new recruits who are
filling last year's vacancies, are showing
exceptional talent Webster, Williams,
Coleman are among the prospects.
Scharnweber, Highlen and Gillette all
eld boys, are on the starting line up.
The team expects to engage approximately twenty games during the summer with local towns and CCC Camps,
and take part in two or more tournaments. The games will probably be
played on Sundays with practice sessions held thru the week at evenings
and on Saturday.
According to Lt. Killingsworth, who
is managing the team, "our prospects
at the present time are superior to the
team of last year."
The probable starting line up for
Sunday's game is as follows: Catching—
Demand; pitching—Dunn; 1st base—
Gillette; 2nd base—Scharnweber; short
stop—Highlen; 3rd—Williams; field-
Maxwell, Ruth, Graves or Coleman.
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SCS Outlines Its Plans
For The Spring Work
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Spring time is clean up time. This
camp is cleaning up too. Every type of
work is being done on the farms in the
area of the camp in order that all the
work may be cleaned up. We will terrace £nd builcj cattle ponds with heavy
equipment. We will build a masonry
structure, sod waterways, slope banks,
plant trees, and build fences.
At the present time the whole camp
is busy planting trees and finishing its
winter work. Pile driving is being
completed by four crews and six crews
are beginning to plant 56,000 trees.
An attempt is being made to rotate
the crews in the field so that every man
will have an opportunity to work at
different jobs during the next three
months.
To the men working on the various
jobs, this thought: As you work on
your jobs, think of the conditions at
home and try to connect the work you
are doing with the work that you could
do on your own home to stop soil erosion Every type of work you do should
be applicable to your home community,
so learn to do your job from beginning
to end in order that you yourself can
perform the job when you leave camp.
FRED KESLER,
Camp Superintendent
Small Crowd Braves Rain
To Attend Open House
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About 150 people braved the rain
which fell Sunday, April 7th, to attend
the open house held at Company 1720
in celebration of the 7th anniversary of
the organization of the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Every member of the company and
staff worked hard to get the camp in
readiness for the occasion. Each building was spotlessly cleaned and displays
of the work done by the men of the
company were placed in conspicuous
places. Naturally when the big day
dawned, cold, drear and rainy, a feeling of disappointment swept the whole
camp.
We feel that, considering the adverse
weather conditions, the turn out, small
though it was, was remarkable. We
wish to thank those who were able to
visit the camp, and sincerely trust that
they came away with a better knowledge and understanding of just what
the CCC is and does.
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Enrollees Take Advantage
of Correspondence Work
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Several of the enrollees of the company are now enrolled in correspondence classes, taken through the University of North Dakota's correspondence division.
Several of these are taking college
work, in order that they can have a
head start when they leave camp and
enter college or university life. Several
others are taking high school work, so
that they can finish their high school
courses while here in camp or so that
they can catch up with their own class
and graduate with it at home after they
leave camp.
More and more of the fellows are becoming interested in this work, and are
constantly asking the educational adviser about it. It is well that this is so,
for with the special rates provided for
the CCC, an enrollee has the opportunity to further his education at an accredited institution, at a very nominal
fee.
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New Library Proves To
Be Popular With Men
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The long awaited traveling library
arrived from Fort Des Moines, and
many of the enrollees are making use
of it.
The library has been especially popular among the new men of the company. Several of whom, judging from
the amount of reading they have done,
are regular book worms.
The library contains some fiction by
some of the better authors, including
Sinclair Lewis, Edna Ferber, Zane
Grey, and many others. Also in the
library has been started a new Vocational Shelf which contains some very
valuable information which should be
of much interest to those enrollees who
are desirous of fitting themselves for
jobs in civilian life after they leave
the CCC. This shelf will be enlarged
as more material of vocational interest
comes into the possesion of the Educational Adviser.
Tree Planting Now
Holds The Spotlight
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59,000   TREES   AND   PLANTS  BEING
PLANTED    UNDER    SCS
SUPERVISION
Operations on tree planting were
started by the SCS staff Thursday,
April 18, 1940. Three truck loads of
trees, shrubbery and wild life plants
were brought from the SCS nursery at
Winona. The plants at the Winona
nursery are raised and cared for by
boys of the CCC. Two different types
of plants are being planted this year.
One type is considered as being for the
prevention of soil erosion and the other
for the prevention of soil erosion and
the enrichment of the wildlife in the
surrounding countryside. The trees in
the first instance are of the larger
specie. Some of them are: Jack Pine,
Northern Pine, Scotch Pine, Western
Pine, Green Ash, Locust, and Walnut.
The plants that are to enrich the wild
life are of the smaller specie of trees
and shrubbery. They are as follows:
Plum, Dogwood, Crataegus, Grape,
Juniper, and Lilac. An order was sent
to the nursery for bittersweet, but it
was not filled. Exactly 59,850 trees and
plants were ordered this year when
there was a need for 59,636. About one-
ninth of these will be planted on tho
Munson Farm. The trees are tied in
bundles of ten to twenty-five at the
nursery. They are then covered with
wet moss and rolled in burlap. There are
from two hundred to two hundred and
fifty in a large bundle.
In the field the trees are put in
planting buckets and boxes and again
covered with wet moss. The field has
been previously scalped in areas two
feet square ad about six feet apart
Great care has to be taken that the
trees are planted deep enough and with
the roots straight down so that they
may not grow up out of the ground,
thus depreciating the health of the
tree and many times killing it. The
crews average better than a hundred
I trees planted per man per day. There
i is only two weeks' time in which the
jtrees may be planted, therefore, the
SCS staff, the crew leaders, and the enrollees are doing their utmost to set
[these trees out quickly and efficiently.
JThe following is a list of the trees and
: plants ordered and needed:
[Variety Needed Ordered
IJack   Pine    15,466       15,500
\ Northern   Pine     5,700 5,700
[Scotch Pine    3,845 3,900
Western  Spruce        775 900
Green Ash   14,000       14,000
Locust        6,500        6,500
Walnut         3,800 3,800
Plum        2,325 2,400
Dogweed         1,550 1,550
Crataegus        1,500 1,500
Grape           400 400
Juniper        1,800 1,800
Lilac  1,000 1,000
Total  59,636       59,850
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''No question is ever settled until it
is settled right" Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
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"Our deeds still travel with us from
afar, and what we have been makes us
what we are."—George Elliot.