Establishment of the Civilian Conservation camp near Seattle Bar on the Applegate this week has changed the local Forest Service program for the summer. The fire crew at the Star Ranger Station will be dispensed with, and fire fighters will be drawn from the 235 men who will be enlisted in the camp. All road camps in the Applegate district will be abolished, since men at the new camp will be engaged chiefly in road work instead of cleaning [sic] the forest.
    Forty local men, some of whom are from Medford, enlisted Monday, going through the same procedure required for army enlistment. An army physician from Vancouver Barracks visited camp Tuesday to submit recruits to vaccination and other medical requirements. Eighty men are engaged in setting up camp, which is in charge of four army officers, including Capt. B. B. McMahon from Vancouver, Lieutenant J. E. Jeys of Portland and a corporal and cook. The men will speak of their new layout as the "C.C. camp."
    The Southern Pacific having a contract to deliver the boys to their camp from Vancouver Barracks, a stage transported them from the Medford depot to Seattle Bar Saturday. The massive stage met with considerable difficulty in making the sharp curves in the narrow mountain road, but succeeded in reaching the camp. Trucks transported more than four tons of mess equipment and supplies.
    Army headquarters for Southern Oregon and Northern California, which had been scheduled for location at Eugene, were established in Medford Tuesday.
Jacksonville Miner, May 19, 1933, page 1


    Staple foods, to cost approximately $100,000, and approximately one half million board feet of lumber, plumbing, etc., will be bid on by merchants in the Medford district of the Civilian Conservation Corps, and will be received in sealed bids at the local offices beginning May 24, it was announced Saturday afternoon by Major Clare H. Armstrong, officer in charge.
    No fresh vegetables will be billed by the headquarters, according to Major Armstrong, and persons selling supplies will obtain better results if their prices are submitted in writing, instead of personal visits. Work in the offices has already been seriously delayed by such callers, the major pointed out, and requested local people cooperate in this matter.
    Sealed bids are to be returned, and awards will be made to the lowest bidder only.
    Lists of the needed articles were mailed out to merchants Saturday, and contained astounding amounts of foodstuffs, to be distributed by truck from Medford into Fremont, Rogue River, Deschutes and Siskiyou national forests and Crater Lake National Park, where 24 camps are now located.
    The requirements as listed for the camp needs were as follows: apples, canned, No. ten, 4770 cans; bacon, 38,200 pounds, baking powder, five-pound cans, 348 cans; beans, dry, 9600 pounds; beans, string, canned, No. ten, 8982 cans; fresh beef, 190,800 pounds; butter; 38,160 pounds; cheese, 4800 pounds; fresh chicken, 38,200 pounds; cinnamon, four-ounce cans, 1104 cans; cocoa, five-pound cans, 1152 cans; coffee, 38,200 pounds,
    Corn, canned, No. two, 30,528 cans; fresh eggs, 25,440 dozen; flavoring extract, vanilla, eight ounces, 768 bottles; flour, 229,000 pounds; jam or preserves, No. two, 6360 cans; lard, 12,240 pounds; lard substitute, 12,240 pounds; macaroni, 4800 pounds; milk, evaporated, No. one, 21,072 cans; milk, fresh, three or five gallon cans, 19,080 cans; onions in sack, 38,200 pounds; peaches, canned, No. ten, 3426 cans.
    Peas, No. two, 30,528 cans; pepper, black, 4-ounce cans, 3072 cans; cucumber pickles, 390 gallons; pineapple, No. two and a half, 12,216 cans; fresh pork, 76,400 pounds; potatoes, fresh in sack, 190,000 pounds; prunes, No. ten, 852 cans; rice in sack, 11,500 pounds; rolled oats, twenty ounces, 22,896 cartons; salt, 9552 pounds; syrup, No. ten, 1116 cans; sugar (white, powdered) 95,400 pounds; tea, 960 pounds; tomatoes, No. ten, 6108 cans; vinegar, 390 gallons.
     When the McKenzie Pass opens, Sisters camp and Crane Prairie camp will be added to the list for the Medford district, Major Armstrong announced Saturday. Captain Rockwell and 25 men from Fort Lewis, Wash., went to the Agness camp Saturday to make preparation for the men to be stationed there.
    Names and exact locations of the six additional camps named for this area, one in Jackson County, two in Josephine County, and three in Klamath County, had not been received Saturday afternoon, the major said.
    The Chamber of Commerce has received word from the Federal Business Association, Portland, Oregon, that a survey is being undertaken to determine possibilities of hiring local truck transportation to carry through the emergency conservation work project recently enacted by the Congress of the United States. It is estimated that several thousand trucks of various kinds may possibly be needed to carry out this program.
    In this connection, owners of trucks desiring to supply bids are asked to obtain questionnaires at the Chamber of Commerce immediately.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 21, 1933, page 1


    Plans are rapidly nearing completion for the establishment of two Civilian Conservation camps in Crater Lake National Park, with 200 men authorized for each camp, according to official announcement. Approximately 100 men of the entire total will be enrolled from the several counties of Southern Oregon by the park superintendent. Headquarters are maintained in room No. 258, federal building here.
    No restrictions as to age or married status will exist in the selection of the 100 experienced men, but preference will be given to former park employees and also to experienced woodsmen. This group of men will be given medical examinations by a United States army physician in Medford, and those accepted will be sent directly to the camps.
    Camps at Crater Lake have been authorized as follows: Camp No. 1 is located at Government Camp, elevation 6476 feet, near an approach highway and below the park utility area. It is three miles from the rim area. Snow is now nearly 10 feet deep at this location, and it will be necessary to remove the snow to establish camp. It is expected to be completed about June 10.
    Camp No. 2 will be located at "The Wineglass," elevation 6500 feet, near the rim road in the northeast rim area of Crater Lake, about 16 miles from the rim concentration area. snow must be removed from the rim road to reach the location. The camp is expected to be established about June 30.
    The enrolled men will be quartered in camps of approximately 215 each under the supervision of army officers who will have charge of feeding, clothing, medical attention and recreation. The work in the park will be under the direction of the park superintendent. A supervisory staff will be assigned to each camp. The men will work eight hours a day, including traveling time to and from scenes of labor and the lunch hour, five days a week, i.e., a total of 40 hours per week.
    It is expected all worthy men, formerly employed in the park during the past several years and now unemployed, will be given consideration. Each accepted man must enroll for a period of six months in the emergency conservation work. Each man will receive $30 per month cash allowance, food, clothing, shelter and medical service.
    Actual work at Crater Lake will include the eradication of pine beetles, landscaping, trail, motorway and telephone line construction, roadside cleanup, removal of dead and unsightly timber and construction of shelter cabins. The men will also be subject to any emergency calls, such as in connection with the suppression of forest fires.
    Former Crater Lake National Park workmen and other experienced woodsmen are advised to write to Superintendent E. C. Solinsky, Crater Lake National Park, if they wish to be considered for enrollment in either of the two camps to be established in the park. In the letter of application, the following information should be supplied: name, age, trade or occupation, when last employed and education.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 22, 1933, page 3


    City employees are busy this week on road construction at the Jackson County fairgrounds, preparatory to the opening of the Civic Conservation Corps commissary there, Fred Scheffel, city enginee,r announced this morning.
    The large supply of foodstuffs purchased will be stored there.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 22, 1933, page 5


    Ranger L. C. Port of the Star Ranger Station received orders last week from headquarters at Portland to suspend the construction program for the present. There have been from eight to 12 men working there the past few weeks. The water system has been installed and the new barn built. Several other improvements were constructed before work was suspended.
"Applegate," Medford Mail Tribune, May 22, 1933, page 7


    In the bids for lumber to be used in construction work at the civilian conservation corps camps in Medford district, specifications included the fact that No. 2 common Douglas fir lumber or its equal will be required in the construction of all buildings and equipment listed under this item.
    The specifications also state that No. 3 common pine or white fir and No. 2 common redwood are to be considered equal to No. 2 common Douglas fir.
    To be constructed are 27 pyramid tents, 16x16 feet; three storage tents, 17 feet 10 inches by 20 feet 5 inches; one large paulin enclosure, 16 feet by 33 feet 8 inches. The anticipated paulins, according to plans of the C.C.C., are two of the size of 17 by 23 feet, and one the size of 20 by 40 feet.
    On the specifications mailed out to prospective bidders, who must have their sealed bids in the office not later than 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon, it was stated that for one enclosure, size 16 by 16 feet 10 inches, a paulin 17 by 23 feet will be required.
    Bidders are allowed to bid on delivery to any number of camps desired, and delivery will not be called for until the camps are accessible.
    A total of 477 board-feet is necessary for one of the pyramid tents, the lumber to be used for floor sleepers and framing. For a storage tent, 824 feet are required for floor sleepers, floor boards and framing.
    One large paulin necessitates 1603 board-feet of floor sleepers, floor headers, floor boards, ridge, rafter, roof, braces, plates, ends, plate sides, studs, corner posts, corner braces, gables, baseboards, sides and ends, footing frieze boards sides and ends, and weather strips. For the smaller size paulins, the board-feet requirements are 858.
    Bids for nails are also to be received, and the listments are as follows: For a pyramid tent, common nails, five pounds of 8d for floors and three pounds of 16d for framing; for a storage tent, seven pounds of 8d for flooring and six pounds of 16d for framing; for one large paulin, five pounds of 8d for flooring and four pounds 16d for framing; for one large paulin, five pounds of 16d, 10 pounds of 10d, five pounds of 8d and two pounds of 4d, all common nails; ten 8-ounce packages of carpet tacks, 46 yards of screen cloth GI, 36 inches wide and 16 mesh, two screen doors, 2 feet 6 inches by 6 feet 8 inches, with complete screen door set.
    Listings are also made for one mess table 2 feet by 8 feet 6 inches, with benches for 10 men. One pound of 16d and ¼ pound 8d common nails are needed for this item.
    Requirements are based on 22 units, and contractors for supplying materials will be required to multiply for the number of camps they wish to provide each item.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 23, 1933, page 10


    Definite signs that the sun of prosperity will shine again upon the Oregon lumber business were revealed here Wednesday by James H. Owen, manager of the Owen-Oregon Sales Company, who announced that the local company has been awarded contracts for furnishing 140,000 feet of lumber to the government for construction of civilian conservation corps camp buildings in California.
    The contract was awarded, Mr. Owen stated, with a two days' limitation for fulfillment, and the planing mill at the Owen-Oregon plant was operating Tuesday night for the first night session in two years to fill the order. Wednesday night the 140,000 feet of lumber will move from Medford south. It had been cut up into lengths to form the portable buildings to be used in the California camps.
    This one particular order Mr. Owen described as characteristic of many coming the way of the lumber company, which illustrate definitely that business in this particular field, at least, is on the increase.
    A. R. Owen of Owen, Wis., nephew of James H. Owen, arrived yesterday from the East and left for Crescent City and other coast points, where he is interested in timber holdings.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 25, 1933, page 7


    Plans are rapidly nearing completion for the establishment of two Civilian Conservation camps in Crater Lake National Park, with 200 men authorized for each camp, according to official announcement this week. Approximately 100 men of the entire total will be enrolled from the several counties of Southern Oregon by the park superintendent. Headquarters are maintained in room No. 258, Federal Building, Medford, Ore.
    No restriction as to age or married status will exist in the selection of the 100 experienced men, but preference will be given to former park employees and also to experienced woodsmen. This group of men will be given medical examinations by a United States army physician in Medford, and those accepted will be sent directly to the camps.
    Camps at Crater Lake have been authorized as follows: Camp No. 1 is located at Government Camp, elevation 6476 feet, near an approach highway and below the park utility area. It is three miles from the rim area. Snow is now nearly 10 feet deep at this location, and it will be necessary to remove the snow to establish camp. It is expected to be completed about June 10.
    Camp No. 2 will be located at "The Wineglass," elevation 6500 feet, near the rim road in the northeast rim area of Crater Lake, about 16 miles from the rim concentration area. Snow must be removed from the rim road to reach the location. The camp is expected to be established about June 30.
    The enrolled men will be quartered in camps of approximately 215 each under the supervision of army officers who will have charge of feeding, clothing, medical attention and recreation. The work in the park will be under the direction of the park superintendent. A supervisory staff will be assigned to each camp. The men will work eight hours a day, including traveling time to and from scenes of labor and the lunch hour, five days a week, i.e., a total of 40 hours per week.
    It is expected all worthy men, formerly employed in the park during the past several years and now unemployed, will be given consideration. Each accepted man must enroll for a period of six months in the emergency conservation work. Each man will receive $30 per month cash allowance, food, clothing, shelter and medical service.
    Actual work at Crater Lake will include the eradication of pine beetles, landscaping, trail, motorway and telephone line construction, roadside cleanup, removal of dead and unsightly timber and construction of shelter cabins. The men will also be subject to any emergency calls, such as in connection with the suppression of forest fires.
    Former Crater Lake National Park workmen and other experienced woodsmen are advised to write to Superintendent E. C. Solinsky, Crater Lake National Park, if they wish to be considered for enrollment in either of the two camps to be established in the park. In the letter of application, the following information should be supplied: name, age, trade or occupation, when last employed and education.
Gold Hill News, May 25, 1933, page 2


    Eighteen bids amounting to about $7387 on lumber and hardware to be used in the construction of the Civilian Conservation Corps camps were received at the headquarters for the Medford district yesterday afternoon, and announcement was made today of the awards, to firms in Medford, Grants Pass, Klamath Falls and Lakeview.
    No bids were received on camps at Pistol River, Coquille, Bear Camp, Mt. Reuben and Agness, according to Captain Edmund Nelson Hebert, who said new listments would be mailed out about Monday asking for bids.
    Those receiving the contracts must be able to supply the items in six days, although the headquarters does not plan to call for the supplies within that time, the captain said.
    Food bids were to be opened at two o'clock today, and the awards will probably be announced Saturday.
    Awards were made as follows:
    Selma, 3-C Lumber Co., Lumber, 3-C Lumber, hardware.
    South Fork, Rogue River, Owen-Oregon, lumber, M.F. and H. Co., hardware.
    Elk Creek, Owen-Oregon, lumber; Fick and Lindley, hardware.
    Cottonwood, Lakeview Bldg. Material Co., lumber, Swan Lake Mldg. Co., hardware.
    Upper Rogue River, Louis Brothers, lumber; Fick and Lindley, hardware.
    Willow Flats, Owen-Oregon, lumber; Fick and Lindley, hardware.
    Williams Creek, 3-C Lumber Co., lumber; 3-C Lumber Co., hardware.
    Ingram, Lakeview Bldg. Mat. Co., lumber; Hubbard Bros., hardware.
    Crescent, Miller Lumber Co., lumber; Swan Lake Mldg. Co., hardware.
    Lake o' Woods, Woods Lumber Co., lumber; J. W. Copeland Yd., hardware.
    Paulina, Miller Lumber Co., lumber; Swan Lake Mldg. Co., hardware.
    Applegate, Owen-Oregon, lumber; M.F. and H. Co., hardware.
    Silver Creek, Miller Lumber Co., lumber, Swan Lake Mldg. Co., hardware.
    Location of the above mentioned firms are as follows:
    Medford Furniture and Hardware Co., Fick and Lindley, Owen-Oregon, Hubbard Brothers, Woods Lumber Co., Medford. 3-C Lumber Company, Grants Pass; Lakeview Building Material Company, Lakeview; Louis Brothers, Prospect; J. W. Copeland, Klamath Falls.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 26, 1933, page 1


    Two new automobiles for official use of army men in connection with the C.C.C. headquarters here arrived by train and other equipment are expected within a few days, according to Major Clare H. Armstrong, in charge of the offices.
    Col. Samuel T. Mackall, inspector from San Francisco, spent a short time here Friday afternoon, having arrived in an airplane piloted by Captain Upson of the Presidio, San Francisco. They left the local port for the headquarters in Eugene.
    Captain Wappenstein, from the University of Oregon, reported for duty at Silver Creek. Lieutenant Ross left Saturday morning for Corvallis to make arrangements for bringing his family to Medford next month.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 28, 1933, page 9


    Captain William H. Sadler, quartermaster, United States army, has reported for duty at the headquarters of the Medford district Civilian Conservation Corps, it was announced here today.
    He has been placed in charge of the C.C.C. warehouse and has been appointed procurement officer. Captain Sadler comes here after a year's duty as a student at the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
    Orders have been issued for the rear cadres for camps F-41 at Applegate, F-45 at Agness and F-48 at Cliff Springs, to proceed from Vancouver Barracks, Washington, to their respective camps at once, it was also announced at headquarters here today.
    The men will be arriving tomorrow or Friday. It is expected that the local quota of 69 men will be enrolled in the near future and sent to the Applegate camp.
    Among other new arrivals at the local Conservation Corps headquarters are Lieut. Lewis T. Ross, executive officer, and Lieut. George A. A. Jones, assistant executive, who will direct publicity.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 31, 1933, page 9


    Medford's lassies have been extended an invitation by officers of the Civilian Conservation Corps to attend the dance being given this evening at 8 o'clock by the C.C.C. group at Applegate camp, located at Seattle Bar.
    Forty-eight young men, recruits in the civil army, arrived in Medford by train this morning, and will be stationed at Applegate camp. Medford people who are interested in visiting the location are invited to do so. The camp is located by following the Applegate road.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 1, 1933, page 14


    With the tent floors which they had completed grouped together around a large tree to form a dance floor, the Civilian Conservation corps recruits at the Applegate camp on Seattle Bar entertained about 250 guests last evening with a dancing party.
    Captain B. B. McMahon is in charge of the Applegate camp with First Lieutenant Orrin J. Mishaud, who arrived with yesterday's contingent of 48 men.
    "Old Fiddlers" of the Applegate section furnished music for dancing, and as a part of the program, several boxing bouts were put on.
    In attendance from the Medford district headquarters were Major Clare H. Armstrong, district commander; Major Bibighaus, surgeon; Lt. L. T. Ross, executive; Lt. G. A. Jones, publicity, and Lt. Fred W. Greene, adjutant.
    Refreshments of coffee, sandwiches and cake were served by the C.C.C. boys.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 2, 1933, page 11


    At eight o'clock tomorrow morning, 69 Jackson County and 24 Josephine County young men, who have been selected locally for the civilian conservation corps camps, will report at the fairgrounds to be given physical examinations, and to be assigned their clothing and other supplies.
    Also on Saturday morning, 68 boys from Klamath Falls will report to Cliff Springs camp for enrollment, and Monday, 59 men from Coos County and 7 from Curry County will report at Camp Agness.
    A rear detachment of 75 men is scheduled to arrive in Marshfield tomorrow morning and continue to Gold Beach, from which place they will make the trip to Agness by boat.
    The radio station being set up at the C.C.C. headquarters here will be known as station WUBG, it was announced today. Don Shugg of Huntington Park, Calif., is in charge of erecting the station and Edwin Grinstead of North Bend, Ore., is second operator. The station is being equipped for broadcasting to the various camps.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 2, 1933, page 11


    Of the numerous diversions at the C.C.C. camp at Seattle Bar panning tor gold is one of the most popular, and the ground is getting such a thorough going-over that gold will be scarce at the end of the season, according to Capt. B. B. McMahon, in charge of camp administration. Two-thirds of the boys have been caught by the lure of prospecting, and although nobody has made his fortune as yet, the Brush Marines find a thrill in the slightest colors and are experiencing the sensation of this ancient yet novel occupation.
    Developments at the camp, which has been officially designated by the U.S. Forestry Department as the Applegate camp of the Civilian Conservation Corps, F-41, are making rapid headway. Snags and poor timber have been cleared away, and the grounds eventually will be come a park site. Work on a well has been started under the supervision of Arne Carleson of Jacksonville. Timbered excavation has been made to a depth of 18 feet and bedrock has not appeared.
    The full amount of lumber for tent platforms, a total of 10,000 feet, was trucked out Saturday from a Medford lumber mill and the detachment of 16 men employed on the construction program at the Star Ranger Station started construction of the tent floors Wednesday morning under the supervision of Ross Dickey, Medford carpenter. Tentage will come with the remaining detachment of 149 men who are expected to arrive soon, Captain McMahon said. Men in camp at present include two army officers, two enlisted men of the regular army, 38 men with forestry experience from the Applegate Valley and 25 men between the ages of 18 and 25 from Multnomah County. A total of 216 men will complete the enlistment. Bert Rippey, local man, and Private McMillan are the cooks at the main camp. C. E. Nutting of Medford has reported as work superintendent in the forest.
    Archery is a popular type of recreation and with Jack Hulse, well-known local man, in camp to produce the bows and arrows, this sport is met with great enthusiasm. For target practice with guns the boys do not use army rifles, and targets are placed across the river, eliminating danger of accidents. Saturday several of the boys made a 28-mile hike to Squaw Lake, and this weekend others who feel equal to that amount of exercise will duplicate the trip.
    Captain McMahon referred to his boys as representing a high type of young manhood. Ordinarily, he said, they would be continuing with higher education and professions had they not been caught for a time in the economic turn which the nation is experiencing. He said he would venture to say the recruits would not trade their Applegate camp with any corps in Oregon because they like the place and the people and are interested in everything and everybody. The boys like to listen to tales from local sages, either of truth or fiction. Knox McCloy, seasoned woodsman and miner, is a favorite. He tells stories of mining, packing and fires. From his information about fires the boys and even Captain McMahon himself have come to realize as never before that fire is the king of the forest and that roads and trails are not the end, but only the means of fighting fires. Jake Knutzen. who never has a smile off his face, is another popular personage around camp.
    Boys will be boys, and these recruits have shared the contents of their pockets to such an extent that a veritable biological exhibit is on display at camp. Scorpions, blue-tail lizards, California lizards, swifts and other specimens are a source of interest to visitors as well as those in camp.
    The Brush Marines have gone back to nature for their methods of laundering and bathing. They are constructing a pole bridge across the Applegate, which has withstood the high water so far, and it is on this bridge that they are prone to lie with their heads dangling over the water while the rushing current purges their Monday's wash of yellow soap. Bathing is taken on the hop, skip and jump, the boys rushing in the water, hopping out to soap themselves, then submerging again for the final. Cold? "Sure," Captain McMahon confirmed.
    Mrs. McMahon and two children are expected to arrive on the Applegate in the near future, where they will experience tenting above the Hutton Ranger Station this summer. Jerry, aged 14. and Janet, who is 11, will enjoy a real storybook vacation in the mountains. Captain McMahon finds added interest in his work in the fact that he knows very little of future arrangements. He finds unexpected events developing from time to time.
Jacksonville Miner, June 2, 1933, page 1

● Poison oak is occupying the minds of many in camp, and judging from the remedies offered, never was there any one subject in which more people are interested.
● Lumber has a special way of being delivered on Sunday, of all the seven days suggested, especially if only six men are in camp.
● The captain already has shown special talent in music, picnicking and dancing.
● The detachment from the Star Ranger Station was defeated in a baseball game with Palmer Creek players Sunday to the tune of 5-10. Game was umpired by Omar Culy. A couple of new baseballs were seen on the way out from Medford Monday and it looks like next Sunday's game means business.
● Who burned midnight oil thinking of a catchy name to replace the mediocre term of C.C.C.? Nobody. It's just second nature with Ed Finley.
● So a local poet was inspired to write 14 verses on the doings of the Brush Marines just for pastime. You can read it someday.
● Captain McMahon, Ross Dickey and Jim Winningham hiked to Windy Peak Tuesday.
● Some marines out for a stroll in the twilight stopped strolling to watch a farmer milking his cows. They said it had been many a day since they had seen bossy giving milk and mentioned something about cans.
Jacksonville Miner, June 2, 1933, page 1  By Maude E. Pool


    ROSEBURG, Ore., June 5--(AP)--Douglas, Lane and Coos County quotas of forest workers for C.C.C. camps are to be assembled in Roseburg Wednesday morning for enrollment in the Steamboat camp, located 45 miles east of Roseburg, to make up the personnel of the first all-Oregon camp, it was announced here today.
    Each county is to send its full quota of recruited men, Douglas County having a quota of 46 men, in addition to a woodsmen's quota of 35 and a Forest Service "overhead" crew of 12 men.
    An advance contingent has constructed a mile of road from Steamboat ranger station to the main campsite on Steamboat Creek, a tributary of the North Umpqua River, and the Forest Service is today transporting eight tons of supplies to the new location.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 5, 1933, page 8


    Major C. H. Armstrong and members of his staff will be honored this evening at 7 o'clock dinner at the Eagles' hall, at which Crater Lake Post No. 1833, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Auxiliary will be hosts.
    All visiting veterans will be welcome. Dinner will be followed by the regular meeting of the Auxiliary and an open session of the post for guests and members.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 5, 1933, page 8


    The latch string to Jackson County is out--to the Civilian Conservation Corps and their workers in the Medford district--presented to Clare H. Armstrong, Major, 6th C.A., at the Veterans of Foreign Wars' banquet in honor of the officers last night at the Eagles' hall. Attached to a Medford pear, cut out of leather with the engraving "Latch String to Jackson County," the token was presented by Commander I. D. Canfield.
    Chicken dinner was served to members of the post and the invited officers, at tables decorated in red, white and blue, with candles in corresponding colors about the tables, and small American flags as favors. Music during the evening was furnished by the "Mayor of Berrydale" and his two "councilmen."
    Officers in attendance, each of whom gave a brief addresses, were: Major Clare H. Armstrong, 6th coast artillery; Major James R. Bibighaus, medical corps; Captain Edmond Nelson Hebert, infantry; Lieut. Fred W. Greene, infantry reserve and Lieut. James E. Keyes from Camp Applegate. Col. and Mrs. E. E. Kelly were also guests, and the colonel also addressed the gathering.
    A. I. Hall, a member of the veterans' organization, who was in attendance, attended high school at Albert Lea, Minn., with Major Armstrong.
    Meetings of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the auxiliary were conducted following the banquet, with the latter organization installing officers.  
Medford Mail Tribune, June 6, 1933, page 8


    VANCOUVER, Wash., June 7.--(AP)--An order canceling the scheduled meeting of the citizens' military training camp, the reserve officers' training camp, and the reserve officers' summer training for the army fiscal year of 1933 was received by the commanding officer of Vancouver Barracks today from the Ninth Corps area headquarters at San Francisco.
    The CMTC training period of four weeks was to have started here June 23. The quota of 590 youths from Oregon and southwestern Washington has already been filled from more than 1000 applications. Those who have been accepted were being advised today by the adjutant that the training orders have been revoked. They were told, however, to stand by for further instructions.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 7, 1933, page 1


    Chaplain Willis Bergen of Portland arrived in Medford Tuesday by train and will be stationed in the Medford district of the civilian conservation corps camps, he announced. Chaplain Bergen will visit the various camps when set up in this section and will make his headquarters here with the other officers of the district.
    Lieutenant George A. A. Jones, field artillery, returned here yesterday from Corvallis, where he received his master's degree at Oregon State Sollege.
    Lieutenant Jones announced that the rear detachment of 76 men for Cliff Springs camp are scheduled to leave Vancouver Barracks today.
    According to Karl L. Janouch, assistant supervisor of Rogue River National Forest, the men in the various camps will be required to build roads, trails and telephone lines as well as lookout and administrative buildings. Reduction of fire hazards will be the object of all work in this district, and snag falling for hazard reduction will be one of the main projects.   
Medford Mail Tribune, June 7, 1933, page 8


    An order canceling the scheduled meetings of the citizens' military training camp, the reserve officers' training camp, and the reserve officers' summer training for the army year of 1933, was received by the commanding officer of Vancouver barracks Wednesday from the Ninth Corps are headquarters at San Francisco [sic].
    The CMTC training period of four weeks was to have started at Vancouver June 23. The quota of 590 youths from Oregon and southwestern Washington has already been filled from more than 1000 applications. Those who had been accepted were being advised this week by the adjutant that the training orders have been revoked. They were told, however, to stand by for further instructions.
    A number of Rogue River Valley boys had expected to attend the camp this summer.
Gold Hill News, June 8, 1933, page 1


    The Applegate conservation camp in the Rogue River National Forest is now organized to full strength and the camp commander captain has notified Forest Supervisor Hugh B. Rankin that he is prepared to assign the company, consisting of 160 men, to the Forest Service to carry out the work program scheduled, it was stated yesterday.
    At present about 40 men are held in camp for maintenance and other general duties.
    There are about 107 local men at the Applegate camp. Sixty-nine of these are the regular county quota of men within the 18 to 25 years age limits and were enrolled by the Jackson County Relief Committee, under direction of James H. Owen and Alfred S. V. Carpenter. Forty experienced woodsmen were enrolled by the Forest Service through the relief committee. These are to act as guides or leaders for the inexperienced men.
    The names of the 40 follow:
    Arne Carlson, William McLeod, Robert R. Burleson, Wm. H. Dailey, Ben Moore, Pearl I. Garrison, Johnny Carter, Francis Edwards, James H. Smith, Marion Hulse, Dave Winningham, Walter Burdell, Joe Oswald, George Rowden, Harland H. Clark, Herbert G. Miller, Carys Taber, George Siple, Archie West, John Cunningham, Jake Knutzen, Nick Rivers, W. H. Crawford, H. H. Boussum, Charles McGraw, Delbert McCaleb, Orville Goodman, H. L. Mills, Ray Hult, John Harr, Al Zumwalt, Walter Young, A. A. Rhoten, Roy West, Leroy West, Bert Rippey, Jack Hulse, Malcom E. Owen, Oliver D. Owens and Lester Beal.
    Supervisor Rankin has full charge of all forest improvement work to be performed by the personnel of this camp.
    The program calls for: 211 miles of truck-trail construction; 4121 acres of hazard reduction; 152 miles of telephone line construction; 33 station buildings and improvements; 7 public camp ground developments; 10 range improvements.
    This program will be completed so far as labor and needed materials become available and after the existing improvements are brought up to the desired standard. The program is in line with the reforestation policies of President Roosevelt when he secured authority to employ 275,000 men for the so-called "Civilian Conservation Corps." Reforestation work covers far more ground than the mere planting of trees. It includes protection of the present stand from destruction from fire, insects and disease, and the improvement program scheduled for Applegate camp is for the purpose of facilitating human efforts to give complete protection to the existing young growth and promoting natural reforestation by mother seed trees.
    All classes of work in this program will be under the direction of qualified foremen. Supervisor Rankin employed the following personnel who will serve in these capacities:
    H. L. Nutting, general foreman, who is directly responsible for carrying out the program.
    He will be assisted by:
    True Lewis, truck trail construction foreman.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 9, 1933, page 2


    Prospects for a much enlivened community throughout the summer months are visioned by Applegate people since the Brush Marines have become established here. Officers and recruits already have shown their interest in local activities, and from the attendance of approximately 350 people at the dance given by the Marines at Camp Applegate on June 1st, it is apparent that lively times are ahead.
    People came from all over the United States as far north as Medford and as far south as way over the California line to spend the evening as guests of the young forest workers. Forty tent platforms had been built during the week, and eight of these, totaling a floor space of 2,000 square feet, were joined in circular formation around a massive fir tree for the dance platform. With a special tent provided for sleepy youngsters, the older folks as well as the young enjoyed dancing to the fiddler's tunes until not far from dawn. (Who said something about staying for pancakes?)
    Officers attending from Medford C.C.C. headquarters included Major Clare H. Armstrong, commanding officer; Major Bibighaus, surgeon; Lt. G. A. Jones, publicity; Lt. Fred W. Greene, Lt. Ross, adjutant.
    Following arrival of guests at eight o'clock, a short program was presented before dancing commenced. An interpretative dance was given by Lola and Berniece Young, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Baldy Young. Three numbers were rendered by the C.C.C. male quartet consisting of Leroy West, W. H. Collier, Carl Goodwin, and Jim Wilson. Two boxing matches were featured next, both of which culminated in draws. Dave Winningham of Jacksonville and Lester Beal of Medford, both of the Brush Marines, participated in the first, while W. H. Jenkins of Portland (C.C.C.) and Shorty Hull of Long Beach met in the second. Each match consisted of three 2-minute rounds. Those contributing to the dance music from time to time were Mr. and Mrs. George Purcel, Harry G. Hulse, Bob Watkins, Lester Clark, Mrs. Vernie Stephenson, Miss Ruth Severance, Capt. B. B. McMahon and Marion Hulse. The piano was furnished through the courtesy of the Watkins school.
    Refreshments of a pleasing variety were served by Bert Rippey and Private R. A. McMillan, cooks. Coffee was furnished by Mason Ehrman Co., and the cakes by the ladies in attendance.
    Captain McMahon said that the boys will give another dance in the very near future, and that when the new mess hall is completed it will be used as a dance and recreation hall for future community gatherings.
    With the arrival of 48 men and two officers from Vancouver on June 1, the enrollment of 94 new recruits from Jackson and Josephine counties Saturday filled Camp Applegate to its authorized strength. There will be no further arrivals except foremen who have been chosen for forest service technical work.
    An issue of shoes and clothing was made Tuesday to the local men from Jackson and Josephine counties. Men with feet over size 9½ were temporarily out of luck, it was pointed out. However, supplies are now arriving in splendid fashion, and the opinion of camp officials is that both men and camp will be at least 99 ⁴⁴⁄₁₀₀ completely outfitted within the course of a few days.
    Construction is going ahead rapidly, all lumber and most of the plumbing supplies having been delivered. About 100 men were placed at the disposal of C. E. Nutting, work superintendent of the forest, on Tuesday.
    Lt. O. J. Mishaud of Portland, who has been on duty at Camp Applegate since Thursday, has been transferred to Medford C.C.C. headquarters as district assistant adjutant. Nine Marines from the local camp were placed on special duty at Medford headquarters on Sunday as truck drivers and warehousemen. On the way to town the boys met with a slight collision between their truck and a coupe belonging to Miss Emma Jean Crawford of Talent. No injuries resulted, but the left fenders of the coupe were visibly dented.
    George I. Jones, first aid man at camp, left Monday on an official trip to Fort Lewis, Washington. He expects to return within a week. Lt. J. E. Keys, who has been on temporary duty at the C.C.C. warehouse at Medford, has reported for duty again at Camp Applegate.
Jacksonville Miner, June 9, 1933, page 1


    Palmerites were disgracefully walloped by the Marines in a baseball game Sunday with a remarkable score of 30 to 13.
    Are the boys proud of their new maritime title? And then some! They have had the name placed on their sweatshirts.
    Hugo Filippi almost captured a snipe one day, but the critters weren't biting. He was kidded unmercifully, but HE CAN TAKE IT.
    Joe Ratty braced the extraction of a wisdom tooth Tuesday, and was feeling under the weather for a while, but a letter from home folks has a way of making unpleasantries insignificant.
    Hint for some aspiring hostess: If you want a lot of toothpicks to hold your sandwiches together, just ask the clerk to count the picks, and he will hand you the box free.
    Newspapers of any color or size are not especially needed around camp now, because the weather is warm, and beds are okay without a newspaper foundation.
Jacksonville Miner, June 9, 1933, page 3  By Maude E. Pool


    An interesting letter has been received this week from the Eugene headquarters of the Civilian Conservation Corps telling of the organization and regulation of the forestry camps, one of which is located at Seattle Bar near Jacksonville.
    The letter follows:
    The Civilian Conservation Corps had its origin with the President of the United States. His primary purpose was to remove young men from the demoralizing influence of the large population centers in depression time. The necessary authority was given him by legislation passed by Congress and approved on March 31, 1933. Under the terms of this legislation the President was authorized to use any existing department of federal government. He decided to utilize the services of the Department of the Interior and the War Department.
    The various departmental functions are these:
    The Department of Labor through the agency of various local relief organizations selects the men who were to be enrolled through its Forest Service, will similarly be in charge of the employment of enrollees at work in camps in national forests. Each camp will have a Forest Service superintendent and several assistants. They will be in full charge of all Civilian Conservation Corps personnel while on construction projects in connection with the forests.
    The army has been given the responsibility for clothing, sheltering, paving, feeding, transporting and furnishing medical attendance to those whom the Labor Department has selected. The Army gives no military instruction to enrollees, nor holds any military formations or ceremonies with them.
    Enrollees are to be discharged upon the completion of six months service, or earlier in certain circumstances. When an individual is discharged, he is furnished transportation to his home or place of acceptance, at government expense.
    Those individuals who absent themselves from their work and proper camps without authority for long absences may be discharged. There is no other penalty.
    Those enrolling in the civilian corps are subject to the same laws and courts as are other residents of the same community. They are not subject to trial by court martial or any other special tribunal. In case of law violations, they are turned over to the civil courts of the community. It is believed such cases will be very rare.
    The merits of the whole project are appearing very forcible to army officers whose duties have brought them into contact with the enrolled personnel of the Civilian Conservation Corps. These enrollees have been drawn from every walk of life and are well worth the expense and trouble of helping. They are alert, intelligent, gentlemanly young fellows who are eager to make the most of their opportunities. They have welcomed the army way of doing things. They have readily accepted the routine of hours that is necessary for the making of orderly communities where so many men are living in such close intimacy that without some schedule, no one could get rest. It is already apparent that the work to be done will be approached enthusiastically, and there is every promise that a great deal will be accomplished.
Gold Hill News, June 15, 1933, page 2


    A cadre of 30 C.C.C. men from Jefferson Barracks, Mo., four enlisted members of the regular army in charge of Captain W. L. Brock of New York of the navy medical corps arrived in Medford Monday in a special car aboard the Shasta, and were transferred to Moon Prairie camp, where they will be stationed.
    The unit was scheduled to arrive Sunday night, but the route was changed and the recruits made the trip via the southern route. Two carloads of equipment and supplies were also brought here on the Shasta Monday morning.
    Tuesday morning, a cadre of the same number of men were brought to Medford by train for the Elk Creek camp, and the Kerby group got off the train at Grants Pass. Both cadres are from Jefferson Barracks.
    Announcement was made that the Diamond Lake camp, to be occupied by veterans, will be shifted to Tiller, and will hereafter be known as Tiller camp.
    Three ambulances have arrived for the district, and 33 trucks for the Rogue River Forest Service's use in the C.C.C. work are expected in soon. There will be 31 trucks for the Siskiyou national forest camps, also in this district, Lieut. G. A. A. Jones announced.
    Captain Brock, who arrived Monday, will be the doctor in charge of Lake o' the Woods camp and Moon Prairie camp.
    Lieutenant Robert T. Frederick of Fort Winfield Scott has taken up duties as adjutant at the Medford district offices of the C.C.C., replacing Captain Edmund Nelson Herbert, who became ill. Lieut. Frederick assisted in organizing some of the C.C.C. camps in California.
Gold Hill News, June 22, 1933, page 1


    Chaplain Willis Bergen of Portland, officer of the reserves, who is on duty as district chaplain of the C.C.C. headquarters stationed at Medford, spent the weekend at Camp Applegate. Chaplain Bergen motored out with a carload of athletic supplies.
    New officers arriving in camp last week include Sergeant Chas. Seyler and Corporal Ady Austin, both of Company C, 7th Infantry, Vancouver Barracks. The two men have joined the local company.
    Private first class Robert McMillan of Company D, 7th Infantry, returned for duty Thursday of last week from Vancouver Barracks. His place as head cook had been taken by Bert Rippey.
    A number of the Brush Marines spent several days at Hutton Ranger Station, where they received instructions in requirements of straw bosses in fire fighting from Ranger Lee Port and Albert Young.
Jacksonville Miner, June 23, 1933, page 1


    More than nine acres of rock-strewn brush land at Seattle Bar, uninhabited for years except by jackrabbits and yelping coyotes, has changed overnight as it were into a tented village as neat as your grandmother's parlor when company came. Over 200 boys in charge of Capt. B. B. McMahon are responsible, and whoever thinks that boys are hopeless slovens has another guess coming.
    Even midst the general formation of the camp, which nestles in a bend of the peaceful Applegate River with the timber-clad mountains standing close guard, specific details of individual care and taste on the part of each boy are paramount. The entrance to each little brown tent, wherein from four to eight boys are housed, is marked either by archways formed by twisted twigs or by round insignia developed with white rocks. High over one tent a popular gasoline trademark flaunts its message to the hill country. Tiny clotheslines bearing a bit of washing testify to the cleanliness of the young men in camp.
    As a practical illustration of the primary purpose of the reforestation camp, uniform spacing of tents and buildings has been sacrificed to preserve the beauty and shade of the trees. Whether clustered or standing alone, the trees seem to have been given a place in camp as important as that of the boys themselves. The lone pines in particular have been emphasized by a mound of soil at the base, and some have been encircled with white rocks; one has been given the companionship of old-fashioned flags which have blossomed and faded. Even a lowly manzanita has been exalted, and it reigns supreme among its kind.
    In camp there still stands the long dining tables and seats made of rough logs with which the Brush Marines pioneered during their first days in camp. The pioneer tables are merely of sentimental interest and somehow are strangely reminiscent of the tall and stately Ross Dickey, who doesn't let his appetite bother him. It was revealed that he is the first man at the table and eats until the diners at the last end of the table have finished. He still is losing weight, but he built the Redwoods Hotel at Grants Pass and is head carpenter for the C.C.C. Ross can handle a large number of men with astounding success and everybody in camp swears by him.
    The new mess hall, where the entire recruit of Marines will flock with wistful expressions three times a day, is practically completed at the center of the grounds, and occupancy of the building was expected by the middle the week. Not only will famished lads be ministered unto there, but many a winsome lassie's heart will flutter with excitement in that building on the night of July 4, when a big dance, continuing until 2 a.m., will climax a grand old day of celebrating on the grounds.
    The structure is 20 by 144 feet, 60 feet of the south end being devoted to kitchen, pantry and cook's room. To avoid unnecessary heat in the mess hall, three field ranges and a large pastry stove will be installed in a lean-to on the building. Open pits close by will be dug for heating dishwater, and four lines of boys will be washing their dishes in unison. Bold black letters atop the mess hall roof shout to the world that there is located the camp of the "Brush Marines." The meat cooler has been completed with the exception of installing a windlass to elevate and lower the dumbwaiter in the cellar shaft.
    The 22-foot camp well, equipped with a gasoline pump and tower with a Happy Hooligan hat, reposes blithely in the south suburbs of the camp and is the godchild of Arne Carleson, well-known Jayvillite. Camp Applegate would be without water to this day had not Captain McMahon and Ross Dickey wielded the water witch's forked stick and located moisture first thing right near the river. The attractive rock garden formation formed around the well from the dirt and rocks excavated bids fair to shoot forth creeping mosses and brilliant floral specimen most any time.
    The hospital tent stands a silent assistant in the young village and recently all but claimed two victims within its ominous walls, N. I. Huff and F. A. (Whitey) Moore. The former was isolated a few days as a whooping cough suspect, and young Moore snagged himself in the ear with a fish hook but survived the ordeal after extrication of the hook by G. I. Jones, first aid man.
    Although two swimming pools will be developed from natural formations of the river, the Marines will no longer resort to the river for cleansing methods. A shower house is being completed with equipment of 15 shower heads, hot water tank and heater, laundry and dressing room.
    The Forest Service installation of garage, tool shop, etc. is located near the roadside. It was a gravel bar on which Camp Applegate took shape, but somewhere there was a 90-yard stretch of sandy loam and Bill Jones of Medford, champion archer, found it at the rear of camp and utilized it for an archery range.
    The headquarters tent, presided over by F. D. Meeker, company clerk, and second lieutenant of the Quartermaster Reserves, who wields a trusty typewriter, houses a small clothing store. Issues of wearing apparel ranging from yellow rain coats in which Jake Knutzen really can look collegiate to all sizes of hobnailed shoes are stored away neatly in the tent. In purchasing the clothing, increase of sales has been considered rather than uniformity of apparel.
    A sizable excavation has been made for an incinerator and a few colors have been panned from therein, thus indicating that the work was done not from a utilitarian viewpoint, but rather by personal interest stimulus.
    Although little athletic equipment is on hand as yet, with pillow fights, acrobatic stunts on poles and other methods of exercising the boys are finding keen enjoyment in the simple things of life, rather than having their recreation manufactured for them. Six courts full of horseshoe pitchers are not an uncommon sight, and the shoes that Old Dobbin wears are used instead of the designated type for sport. A bicycle found its way into camp and it works overtime. Until the present time all efforts have been centered on camp construction, and when the quarters have been completed attention will be given to more thorough personal training and discipline.
Jacksonville Miner, June 23, 1933, page 1


    Joe Wisdom and Mark Warenfelt of Jackson County induced a ferocious Elliott Creek rattlesnake to meander into camp on a forked stick Friday. The rattler sported five rattles and a button and seemed quite at home in a new screened box.
    Joe Ratty has been mounting guard nightly over the tool dump east of Joe Bar.
    William Harlow, local man, has become an additional member in camp as a jackhammer man. Hugo Fillippi also works in this capacity.
    Credit for stacks of neatly corded wood belongs to Mickey Miller of Medford, 13-year-old son of Mike Miller, mess hall carpenter. Mickey visited his father a short time ago and exhibited his ambitious nature.
    Bill Pool is enjoying the new army life to the greatest extent and finds innumerable tasks to keep himself busy.
    Jake Knutzen seems to feel perfectly at home posing as a local sourdough for an upstate newspaper photo. You'd be surprised how much at home Jake can feel with a piece of cake, too.
    Marion Hulse is getting to be a regular shark at snapping pictures of camp life. Marion and his camera are great pals.
    Was Sunday's baseball score 75 to 90 or 5 to 25?
Jacksonville Miner, June 23, 1933, page 4  By Maude E. Pool


    Dr. Harold B. Gillis, located in this city for the past two years, with offices in Medford also, reported Wednesday morning of this week at Agness, Oregon, for duty as a private contract surgeon of the United States army.
    The young Dr. Gillis, who has been associated with his father, Dr. J. B. Gillis, and who completed a two months course in cancer surgery a few days ago, will be camp surgeon at one of the many C.C.C. establishments on Rogue River. Agness is located some 32 miles inland from Gold Beach at a point where the Illinois River joins the Rogue. He will have charge of two orderlies and an ambulance driver as well as medical attention for more than 200 men.
    The doctor, who became very well known in Southern Oregon because of his wide surgical practice, will be joined by Mrs. Gillis, who has been caring for relatives in Portland while her husband was in Southern California taking postgraduate work. Their house in this city will be occupied by Dr. Gillis' parents, who have been building a new home on Applegate, where they have purchased a ranch.
    Tuesday, upon receipt of word of his acceptance in the army service, Dr. Gillis supplied himself with new fishing equipment at the local hardware store in anticipation of outdoor possibilities offered in camp life in the lower Rogue section. He had been in this city the past week since his return from school.
Jacksonville Miner, June 23, 1933, page 4


    One hundred and thirty-nine Civilian Conservation Corps members were on board the Oregonian in three special cars when it stopped in Gold Hill Monday morning. The young recruits were all from Jefferson Barracks, Mo. The men were taken to the Upper Rogue River camp upon their arrival in Medford.
"Local Happenings," Gold Hill News, June 29, 1933, page 4


    Who is celebrating the Fourth of July to remind folks that somewhere in the dim past there was a Declaration of Independence? Eugene? Yes, and Camp Applegate is entertaining with a big day of fun that will be remembered always, and which will wind up with a big dance in the large new mess hall, for which local orchestras and musicians have already offered their services.
    Residents of the upper valley, as well as families and friends of the men in camp, are cordially invited to come for the day and night, activities beginning with a valley reunion on the grounds in the forenoon. Come and greet your and neighbors early in order that your undivided attention can be given to the basket dinner at noon, which will be served in the wooded area formerly occupied by the kitchen and mess hall of the camp. The log and shake tables, as well as the plank tables now used in the mess hall, will be available for the spread, and an army field range will operate to provide bot coffee for the picnickers, it was announced by camp officials. Each person may bring a basket filled to suit his own taste.
    A complete afternoon program is being planned and the program committee remained busy late in the week devising new means entertainment. Events already lined out are races of all kinds, exhibition of archery by the best archers in camp and a boxing card with several bouts. A timber felling contest may be arranged, it was stated. However, baseball is taboo on account of desirable grounds not being available.
    Dancing will continue not later than 2 a.m., and special tents will be assigned for the benefit of small children.
Jacksonville Miner, June 30, 1933, page 1


    In addition to the famous Applegate swimming pools, blackberry patches and gooseberry pie, which caused the Portland Oregonian to come forth with a lengthy appreciatory article recently, the Applegate Valley has pure air--the purest of all, in fact--according to a statement made by an army official at Camp Applegate a few days ago.
    The Brush Marines not only have had a 100 percent health record since their arrival almost two months ago, but Camp Applegate has the isolation ward for the upper Rogue River camps of the higher altitude, and even though boys from the other camps had been sent to the local ward with afflictions which appeared as dangerous, the maladies soon disappeared after subjection to Applegate air, the official said. Whooping cough, appendicitis and influenza suspects from the neighboring camps have been released from Camp Applegate after isolation during the last two weeks. Lt. Wallace S. Douglas of the medical corps, a native of Hillsboro, Ill., has reported at Camp Applegate for permanent duty as medical officer.
    At the present several groups of Brush Marines are absent from camp, having been assigned to outside work. Local men leaving Monday for Vancouver to return with fire trucks are Walter Burdell, Joe Oswald, Roy Huit, John Cunningham, C. K. Taber, Archie West, LeRoy West, Aaron Rhoten, Leslie Beal and F. B. Harrin.
    A crew of 11 men under Ross Dickey was sent to the Star Ranger Station Monday to complete the machine shed and other phases of the construction program there. Another group of eight men are engaged in trucking the C.C.C. men arriving at Medford recently from Jefferson Barracks, Mo., to Mt. Reuben and other camps of the Medford headquarters. Eleven boys, including Harland Clark and J. W. Smith of Jacksonville, are expected to return soon from the O.N.G. encampment at Camp Clatsop. Practically all of the 73 Portland boys are looking forward to a vacation during the Fourth, which they will spend in Portland.
    During the weekend Captain B. B. McMahon, G. I. Jones. first aid man, and F. D. Meeker, company clerk, hiked 15 miles of the distance to Jacks Flat in the vicinity of Dutchman's Peak, where they remained Saturday night with James Carrol and his crew of eight Marines who are working on telephone maintenance for the Forest Service. They returned by way of Little Applegate and aside from the pickup they received in a trailer, 21 miles of the distance were made on foot. While at the Carrol camp Mr. Jones submitted seven of the maintenance workers to the third shot in the arm for typhoid inoculation.
    A new fire truck has been received for use at the local camp.
Jacksonville Miner, June 30, 1933, page 1


    VANCOUVER BARRACKS, July 2, 1933.--Six students from Jackson County are attending the seventh annual Citizens' Military Training camp here, now under way and scheduled to run until July 22. They are part of a camp much reduced in size, as considerably less than half the original quota of 590 were able to come this time, due to drastic reductions necessitated by Ninth Corps area headquarters  instructions in line with the federal economy program. Attending from this county are: Albert C. Gaddis, Medford; Walter B. Kindred, Medford; Harold S. Owen, Ashland; Patrick H. Shaw, Medford, and Walter J. Young, Medford.
Gold Hill News, July 6, 1933, page 4


    Mrs. B. B. McMahon, wife of Captain McMahon at Camp Applegate, and son and daughter, Jerry and Janet, arrived Monday from Vancouver and will remain on the Applegate for the summer. They are residing in the house belonging to Guy A. Crosby of Beaver Creek, whose family is remaining at Crater Lake. The family of Lt. J. E. Keys, who have been in Medford for some time, were expected to arrive on the Applegate last week to occupy the Jess Townsend house. Lt. Wallace S. Douglas also expects the arrival of his family from Illinois soon.
    Corporal John Leahy of Company C, 7th Infantry, Vancouver Barracks, has reported for duty at Camp Applegate as mess sergeant. Malcolm G. Owens and Floyd Irons have been made first cooks.
    A photo detachment of six men under the supervision of Albert Arnsc of the Forest Service is spending a few days with the Brush Marines while working on a photographic project in the Applegate country.
    A fire school was held in camp last week by Ranger Lee Port and Jim Winningham for the purpose of training a few of the men to handle small fire crews in case of minor fires. The period of instruction was said to be a hasty affair on account of an expected thunderstorm which didn't occur.
    A new recreation tent has been added to camp, which is equipped with a piano, radio, magazines and writing material. The company exchange has been moved to that tent.
    Tuesday was a big day in camp, the time of the chief event every month--pay day. From San Francisco headquarters the boys received $85 for personal use, with $25 going to their dependents.
Jacksonville Miner, July 14, 1933, page 4


    VANCOUVER BARRACKS, Wash., July 12.--Busy on their program for the third week of the course, students at the Citizens' Military Training camp here left Camp Hurlburt at this post today for Camp Bonneville, the army target range nestled in the eastern Clark County hills. They were to remain three days. The Oregon and Washington youths will get a good taste of "roughing it" a la army, for they were scheduled to pitch a shelter tent camp themselves and occupy it, while chow will be served from those prosaic but dependable perambulating restaurants, the good old army kitchens. Making the most of a limited ammunition supply, the students will fire rifles and machine guns over special courses for qualification as C.M.T.C. marksmen or sharpshooters.
    Athletics, always a big part of the camp program, are being carried through on a full basis this time as in past years although there are less students in camp, and finals in the nine sports offered are to be run off next week, in time for the concluding event, the annual track and field meet on the morning of July 21, which will be visitors' day, with camp ending the next day.
Gold Hill News, July 20, 1933, page 3


    The newest phenomenon unearthed at Camp Applegate is the fact that the shower house has been in operation for three weeks and few of the boys have used it. They still take their shower in the river. They did that 'way long in May when icicles would not have been amiss on their straw hats and a shower house was just a vision in the Department of Interior or somewhere. Just shows what habit can do. Speaking of icicles, it's a safe bet that Joe Ratty wasn't thinking of them when he was parked down along Medford's main street a few days ago.
    Since snipe hunting becomes taboo after a certain length of time, fortune telling is gaining popularity among the Brush Marines, most of the boys having peered into the future, G. I. Jones in particular, who met with the usual bucket full of water.
    Things to make a fellow feel like he's at home are being added to the recreation tent, which already possesses a piano and radio. The boys have monogrammed stationery and are getting an abundance of magazines. Sunday morning church services were held in the recreation tent, with Mrs. Bert Harr officiating. Besides boys in camp, a number of local people attended. Services will be a regular Sunday morning feature at 9:30, with some one of the boys in charge from time to time. All residents of the upper Applegate are invited to attend these services.
    Twenty-one men left Seattle Bar Monday to establish a spike camp at the Beaver ranch. With the progress of road work in that section, the number of men will be increased in a week or 10 days and camp will then be moved to the vicinity of Yellow Jacket and Silver Fork. Truman Lewis is in charge of the camp.
    Last Sunday the 926th Brush Marine team defeated the Central Point baseball nine with a score of 11 to 2. As yet no game has been slated for Sunday, although both Jacksonville and Central Point will play return games in the near future. With the forming of a district baseball league in Southern Oregon C.C.C. camps, the Brush Marines will play a sub-league game with Kerby camp the second week in August, and later will play Mt. Reuben camp. These three camps have been placed in League B.
    Tuesday Forest Supervisor H. B. Rankin of Medford and A. O. Waha of the regional forestry office at Portland visited Camp Applegate.
    The detachment of Brush Marines employed at the Star Ranger Station for some time have completed minor tasks such as construction of a pole fence around the new barn and exterior painting of the station. It was expected that Wednesday the old tool house would be moved a short distance north of the station to be rebuilt into an office.
Jacksonville Miner, July 28, 1933, page 1


    More than 100,000 stump-and-shovel soldiers from civilian life have been in the army now for more than three months. They have been snatched from the
streets of cities and the pool halls of small towns, soft and discouraged. Many of them had never known the meaning of hard work.
    This 100,000 has been marooned in the far forests, the deserts and the mountains of the unpampered Northwest. They have been worked like mature men at every sort of strenuous labor. They have endured isolation and slender fellowship, immune from all amusement but that they furnish themselves.
    Can they take it? Or are they trotting home to mamma and ways of greater ease? Remember that there is nothing to prevent their leaving; most everybody has been asking this question. A definite answer comes this week from the CCC headquarters at Vancouver Barracks and from General Malin Craig, commander of the 9th Corps area, embracing Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, California, Nevada and way points. Down to the last of July only 263 men out of the 100,000 in the 9th Corps area have gone A.W.O.L. Most of them have been homesick. Some couldn't endure the isolation. Others wouldn't work. A few were afflicted with wanderlust. But only one-fourth of 1 percent of the total walked home--a fine tribute to the fine quality of the men themselves and to the quality of the company commanders.
    In the Vancouver Barracks area definite figures are not available, but the estimate is only 20 actually "deserting" their camps. Deserting has no military meaning here, since the men are not under any sort of military discipline other than that they impose upon themselves. The total needed to bring the companies in this area up to their full strength this month was slightly more than 60, but most of this number received honorable discharges for any of several reasons.
    From the evidence, it must be concluded that "they can take it," these tough timber troopers.
Gold Hill News, August 10, 1933, page 2


Dear Mr. McIlwain:
    I received a letter from home today and they told me that you wanted me to write you a letter containing the different incidents of our trip and camp life out here.
    We left Sullivan on the afternoon of June 2nd and arrived at Jefferson Barracks about seven that night. The following day we were sworn in the C.C.C.'s and got our first typhoid shots and smallpox vaccination. We stayed there until Thursday evening, June 22nd. On that evening we left for Wineglass Camp, Medford, Oregon, which is just three miles from Crater Lake, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
    It took us three days and three nights to make the trip. We were all on Pullman cars and didn't have to change trains at all. Each day the train would stop and we would all get off and take a fifteen- or twenty-minute hike. We went through the Royal Gorge in Colorado and saw the highest swinging bridge in the States. It is a mile high. It was raining when we passed through there, but nevertheless the train stopped and we all got out and took a good look at the bridge. We could see cars crossing it.
    We also passed along the edge of the Great Salt Lake which was a very interesting sight. Everything was white. It looked like a desert of salt, the only thing I didn't like about it was the odor, which isn't very pleasant around that district. After passing here we got into the higher mountains, where we passed through many tunnels, some of which were a mile or two long. When we were in the desert states we also saw many jackrabbits, They were the first live ones I had ever seen.
    We arrived in Chiloquin, Oregon, late on the evening of June 25. From there we had about a forty-mile ride in a truck to our camp, and it wasn't very warm that night either. Upon arrival at camp we were received with a hearty welcome and a hot cup of coffee which warmed us up some. It was after midnight that night before any of us saw a bed. The next morning we were all up and ready for chow as we call it, or in civilized language, breakfast. I don't mean that we are not civilized out here, but some of the terms we we use are not all civilized.
    I am fairly well satisfied out here, although like most young people on their first stay from home of any length at all, I get a little lonesome once in a while.
    Our work is not hard. The hardest thing is getting used to this light climate. The rangers say we will not get used to it in six months either. My first day on the mountains made me fairly tired, but every day got easier and now I can stand it fine. My first job was what they call bugging. There is a kind of bug that kills the trees, and our job was to go out to the timber with saws and axes and cut the trees which had these bugs on them. They are under the bark and we had to cut the trees and bark them. The way we tell one of these trees is by their needles. The ones with bugs have red needles and the ones without have green ones. We finished that job last Friday and we are now building new roads up Mt. Scott and up along the main highway to Crater Lake. We only work eight hours a day including noon hour, and from the time we leave camp to work and back, which leaves us only about six hours actual work.
    We have plenty of time for recreation. We have baseball games, boxing and are talking of having some basketball and football. What time we aren't playing we are either reading, doing our own washing or playing cards. We also have some lectures on the origin of Crater Lake, and once in a while a religious talk or sermon. Just today we had a good educational lecture on the origin of Crater Lake.
    We sleep eight in a tent, and Loren Davis and I are in the same tent. We are both satisfied with the rest of our tentmates, which are Moultrie County boys, namely Joe Fuller of Gays, Paul Dixon, Theodore Rhodes and Woodrow Williams of Sullivan and Roy Coy and Earl Dinger of Lovington. We are all supposed to be in bed at ten and asleep, but not many of us obey that order. Many of us are up yet at twelve but nevertheless we do our work well enough to satisfy our Captain, Mr. Cox.
    Well, that is about all I know to write about, only there are plenty of wild animals around here, bears, deers, a few wildcats and cougar. But there is one thing I can frankly say and that is that the trip out here and the sights we see are worth more than we can earn in a year much less months, but that is not saying I would be willing to give back the money I will make during this six months.
My address is:
    Forrest Lancaster
        Co. 1658 C.C.C.
            Wineglass Camp
                Medford, Oregon.
The Bethany Echo, Bethany, Illinois, August 11, 1933, page 1


    That the 40 Brush Marines dispatched to a 10-acre forest fire on Little Applegate Saturday came through with flying colors was the report of Ranger L. C. Port concerning the boys, who obtained their first experience in fire fighting at that time.
    The boys, as well as their captain who accompanied them on the trip, were keenly interested in the procedure from the method of transportation to the smallest details of fire control. One of the Marines, George Hall, found the experience so intriguing that he wrote an interesting sketch of the trip which may appear in local newspapers. Both the boys and Captain McMahon displayed their ambition for real work.
Jacksonville Miner, August 11, 1933, page 4


    Some of the nation's reforestation army may never have seen a tree or spent a day at manual labor, but they are not afraid of work or dirt. This thought was emphasized by an Applegate stockman who noticed some of the Brush Marines piling brush along the Beaver Creek road as he returned from a trip to the range recently.
    Shirtless, and working in the heat with all their might, the boys tackled the dense masses of roadside slashings that were practically buried in dust from passing trucks, and piled the brush neatly for burning this fall. Darting here and there, up and down the length of the road, each boy was ambitiously delving into that settling of dust to do his bit to beautify the forest and bring it up to the standard expected of him and the forest recruits as a whole.
Jacksonville Miner, September 1, 1933, page 1


    Fishing in the streams around camp has been good lately. "Blondie" Moore and George Hall made a fine catch Sunday in the middle fork. Royal Coachman, McGinty and Professor flies seem to be the best lure.
    Red Irons, first cook in the Applegate C.C.C., took discharge last week to return to Portland.
    With the river water almost ice covered, the boys are taking more advantage of the hot showers. Harold "Snipe" Smith, handy man around camp, is seen piling a huge sum of bark by the shower house. He knows what makes the water boil.
    "Flash" Roberts left camp Saturday for the Roseburg hospital, where he will undergo an operation.
    Beautiful pairs of black eyes shine around camp as a result of the Friday night smokers.
    Lieut. Keyes has poison oak again and is limping around camp. He must like the stuff by now.
Jacksonville Miner, September 1, 1933, page 4


    During the month of August $140,000 was spent by the CCC headquarters in this district, including salaries to the recruits, a large percentage of which is sent home.
    The figures as compiled by Lieutenant Robert T. Frederick, district adjutant, show that $82,000 was paid in salaries to the CCC boys, and $36,500 for food. Pay for officials, doctors, etc., totaled $8500. Expenditures for miscellaneous supplies and other articles were $4500.
    For youths that quitted the camps and were sent to their homes, mostly in Illinois and Missouri, $3300 was spent in railroad fares.
Gold Hill News, September 7, 1933, page 3


    Camp Applegate has received information from the district headquarters at Medford that it will become a permanent winter camp, Captain B. B. McMahon said a few days ago. With construction starting on new buildings early next week, the entire company will move from tents into the new structures with the arrival of cold weather.
    Although the majority of the Brush Marines will reenlist for the coming six-months period starting October 1, those who do not enroll will be discharged September 30 and will return to school or jobs.
    An extensive construction program is outlined, Captain McMahon said, including four wooden barracks, each to house 52 men, a drying room, an infirmary building, a forestry building and an administration building. The present mess hall will have a top flooring to cover the floor already in use and both mess hall and bath house will have an outside covering of tar paper. All of the air space between the ground and floor of the mess hall will be covered with wood. The low temperatures of these September mornings and evenings has caused a Sibley stove to be placed in each tent.
Jacksonville Miner, September 15, 1933, page 1


    A summary of the work accomplished up to September 1, by the 12,600 Civilian Conservation Corps boys working in 63 camps in Oregon's forests has just been released by regional forester C. J. Buck, Portland, Oregon.
    This shows a marked production increase over the previous work report, due to the fact that the boys had become accustomed to the use of tools, necessary equipment for road building and other work had been installed, and the camp buildings completed, releasing the men to labor on other projects.
    The report shows a total of 736 miles of new truck trails or mountain roads constructed--an average of 11⅔ miles per camp---and in addition, 3,148 miles improved or conditioned. The boys built 187 miles of horse or foot trails and improved or conditioned 2766 miles of trail; constructed 455 miles of woods telephone lines--or an average of more than 7 miles per camp, while 1440 miles were maintained. They constructed 201 permanent forest buildings, including lookout houses, ranger stations, barns, etc. A large number of permanent camp grounds were cleared and improved with fireplaces, stoves, and sanitary accommodations; 55 road signs and 528 section corner signs were posted. They cut 2,000 fence posts; cut, peeled and hauled 500 telephone poles; built 33 miles of fences, 109 bridges and culverts, and marked 204 miles of forest boundary.
    Routine work was frequently interrupted by calls to fight fires, and 32,056 man-days were spent in this manner. Exceptional work was done on the disastrous Tillamook and Clatsop fires, where one boy lost his life and others were injured on line of duty.
    In an effort to "fireproof" Oregon's forests, 40 miles of firebreaks were built; 3990 acres of old snags felled, and 190 miles of fire hazards were cleared from along roads and trails; 2560 acres were covered by beetle control and survey work and 26,859 acres of timber were cruised.
    To improve and protect the grazing resources of Oregon, rodent control work was carried on upon 57,905 acres; 41 springs were developed; 313 dams constructed to prevent soil erosion; 11 miles of stock driveway, 68 cattle guards, 12 cattle corrals, and 92 miles of range fence built.
    Mr. Buck pointed out that all of this work, except fire fighting, constitutes permanent improvement of the nation's forest property. Much of it has been done in accordance with definite plans which were made for needed forest improvements, even before the President's Civilian Conservation cCorps was authorized.
    He mentioned also that a substantial sum had been spent among Oregon merchants for food supplies for the camps; and that the 12,600 boys themselves had spent approximately $126,000 in the state, while some $630,000 had been sent to their families.
Gold Hill News, September 28, 1933, page 3


    Major Clare H. Armstrong, commander of the CCC camps in this district, announced Monday morning that nine winter camps have already been announced for the Medford district, and that it is possible one of the remaining group will be stationed at Camp Sebastian. However, no definite action has been taken on the latter.
    The camps are being transferred from the summer sites to the winter sites at the present time, Major Armstrong stated, and will be as follows: Agness camp to Port Orford; Pistol River camp to the mouth of Pistol River; Kerby camp to remain at present location; Mt. Reuben camp to Rand ranger station; Applegate camp to remain at present location; Elk Creek camp to remain at present location.
    Moon Prairie camp is being transferred to the forks of Evans Creek, near Beagle; Lake of the Woods camp to Owen-Oregon camp No. 2. If Cape Sebastian is accepted as a site, Government Camp P-1 will go there. Clift Springs camp, now at Silver Lake, is being located on Carberry Creek in the Applegate section.
    Major Armstrong said Monday that if authorization is received, enlistments will be received on October 15 to bring the totals up to the required number.
Gold Hill News, October 5, 1933, page 2


    The Applegate is to have another C.C.C. camp this winter.
    The 966 Company, Clift Springs camp from Silver Lake, will be moved to Carberry for winter quarters. Fifteen members of the 966th company, who will form part of the new camp personnel, reported for duty Monday, arriving by truck. A detachment of men from Camp Applegate is working this week to clear the camp site, a densely wooded flat on the south bank of Sturgess Fork east of the Sturgess guard station.
    Major Clair Armstrong of the Medford district headquarters visited the camp late Tuesday, passing him approval on the location, and making assignment of buildings for the permanent camp
    Recruits will number 200, all Oregonians, and like Camp Applegate, construction of the buildings will be done by civilian carpenters. Lumber will start arriving next Monday. The Clift Spring boys will arrive here as soon as it is possible to evacuate their old camp which probably will be in another week, and will use tents until permanent structures are erected. Location for their winter work will be on Brush Creek.
Jacksonville Miner, October 6, 1933, page 1


    As a fitting climax to six months of manual labor in the wilds of the Applegate country, the 16 Brush Marines who did not enlist for the winter encampment at Camp Applegate were honored with a farewell dinner at the camp Wednesday night. Fifteen of the boys will return to their homes at Portland, and the remaining Marine, Darrel Sieloff, will return to Ashland to resume his school work.
    Camp Applegate is going modern this winter, and will have electric lights as a welcome relief from gasoline, candles, kerosene, or whatnot in use during the summer. A separate building is being erected to house a gasoline power plant, pump, and electric generator. Other winter construction is well under way, with the four barracks to be under roof by the end of the week. By that time construction will have started on the administration building, 20 by 105 feet, to include recreation room, company store, supply room, and infirmary. All floors will be covered with asphalt floor covering, said to be hobnail-proof.
Jacksonville Miner, October 6, 1933, page 3


    Thirty-nine winter CCC camps have been authorized for Oregon, and forty-two for Washington, by Robert Fechner, director of emergency conservation work, according to announcement by C. J. Buck, regional forester, Portland, Oregon. This marks the close of the first six months period of the emergency conservation work, where 121 camps were operated in the two states. The results of this first six months have been highly successful, according to those closely in touch with the work.
    The reduction in numbers of camps for the winter period is made necessary by the fact that many of the high mountain camps, and those east of the Cascades, are being abandoned for the winter. New winter camps have been established in many lower west side locations, where working conditions and work to be done made these camps advisable, according to Mr. Buck.
    For the state of Oregon, 23 winter camps will be in national forests, 8 on Oregon-California land grant land; one in a state forest, two in state parks, and five on private land.
    In Washington, 17 camps will be in national forests; 1 on a naval reservation; 3 on state forests; 8 on state parks; and 13 on private land.
    Summer camps which will be occupied this winter will have the necessary alterations made to make them suitable for cold weather. Twenty-four new camps will have to be built. All winter camps will be equipped with electric lighting systems, according to the announcement, and other improvements added to contribute to the comfort and welfare of the men. The camp construction and improvement work will be handled by the army, Mr. Buck said.
Gold Hill News, October 12, 1933, page 3


    The following named single men between the ages of 18 and 25, with dependents, were enrolled as the quota of twenty from Jackson County and are assigned to Company 926, CCC, Camp Applegate F-41, Ruch, Oregon:
    Burnette, Orville O., Talent; Cave, Marvin C., Medford; Dews, Garrett J., Medford; Flaherty, Darsey U., Rogue River; Flynn, Harold E., Medford; Lafferty, Robert T., Medford; Logan, J. Dee, Medford; Lovell, George M., Jacksonville; Murphy, Woodrow J., Medford; Nickell, W. Francis, Lake Creek; Oden, Clifford H., Medford; Pegg, John M., Medford; Pitts, Harry S., Medford; Robbins, Edward E., Medford; Rowley, Ralph D., Ashland; Snyder, Earl H., Medford; Stanley, John B., Medford; Vincent, Willis C., Medford; Wilson, Oscar O., Ashland.
Gold Hill News, November 9, 1933, page 1


    G. E. Mitchell, supervisor of the Siskiyou forest, with headquarters at Grants Pass, when he returned from his latest inspection tour of the CCC camps of this forest, said Monday all camps are now practically completed and that inside a week all will be started on their winter projects, some having already taken up their winter work.
    Plans for the work that can be done in each CCC camp are made out in detail by the Forest Service, Mitchell said, and are made the working plans for the camps. These jobs must include improvements that pertain to the administration and protection of the forest. They are taken from improvement plans that have been prepared and carried as a part of the Forest Service activities for a number of years, although this is the first time in the history of the Forest Service that an opportunity has occurred whereby the possibility of immediate completion of these plans was anticipated, Mitchell declared.
    At the close of the present six months period it is hoped, Mitchell said, that all buildings and telephone lines planned for the Forest Service will be constructed. This will leave only the road and trail systems to complete.
    Mitchell said that many of these would be completed under the present program, but due to the difficulty of maintaining side camps, a large portion of the trail system in the back country cannot be worked.
Gold Hill News, November 16, 1933, page 2


    Unemployed women, as well as unemployed men, will receive consideration in the allocation of 21,000 jobs in Oregon under the huge program undertaken by the state Civil Works Administration.
    Raymond B. Wilcox, chairman, with headquarters in Portland, said, "Red tape will be swept away. My committee will be governed by its judgment in getting results."
    It was promised that within one week the vanguard of the new army of unemployed will be working for from 50 cents to $1.20 an hour throughout the state. They will be paid weekly by checks on the Treasury of the United States, disbursed by county agencies to be established at once.
    Consideration will be given those trained in clerical work, and not every man employed will be given a pick and shovel. Women will get consideration in the same light as men.
    Orders received from Washington, D.C., virtually give the state committee carte blanche in the interest of quick action.
    County relief groups will be the courts of original jurisdiction for projects to be carried on under the program. When these county groups find certain works feasible, they will submit the projects to the Civil Works Administration.
    The federal administration will judge by results whether the state group is functioning properly.
Gold Hill News, November 23, 1933, page 1


    It looked like a timber-tong war for a few minutes in old Jacksonville Saturday night when the volunteer fire company was staging its annual New Year's dance. But after a few minutes of war clouds, the atmosphere and the U.S. Hotel stairs were cleared.
    One young Brush Marine, more inebriated than experienced, boldly announced to deputized order-keepers that "I have 45 more fellows with me!" And with that declaration he just about took top notch in conversation for a moment till Dick Hartman, brother of the mayor, elbowed his way through the crowd and took the center of the stage with the declaration "forty-five aren't enough!"
    The young forest recruit eyed all 233 pounds of Hartman's gigantic, muscle-bound stature, emulated a turtle pulling in its neck--and everything else--turned pale and quickly faded into the crowd. The simple statement, "forty-five aren't enough," had quieted the uproar.
    It was one of those brief, but very spicy interludes in an otherwise well-ordered and successful dance by the smoke eaters and the chamber of commerce.
Jacksonville Miner, January 5, 1934, page 1


    There is a time and place for everything, and Jacksonville city officials decided the place for would-be pugilists who climb out of the squared ring and onto the Saturday night dance stairs to put on their exhibitions belong in nice steel display cases--in the city jail.
    Or, at least, so discovered Archie McLeod, 19, and Harry Lytel, 21, Brush Marines from the CCC camp at Carberry Creek on Applegate last Saturday night when they, along with other members of the camp who had overindulged in New Year's spirits, attempted to storm the local dance and take charge of things. They were lodged in jail by Jacksonville officers and Marshall Littell filed disorderly conduct complaints the following morning in Justice of the Peace Ray Coleman's court. The pair was removed to the Jackson County jail in Medford Sunday, where they are held pending hearing here Friday morning at 10 o'clock. Bail was set at $50 each, but had not been made yesterday.
    McLeod and Lytel were the center of a display of fisticuffs Saturday evening at the firemen's ball and were said to have attacked the city marshal and a deputy with clubs. Upon removal to jail they were locked in Pauly cells but succeeded in flipping cigarette butts onto other beds of the jail, setting fire to them.
    Original hearing had been set for Tuesday morning but a delay was granted at request of CCC camp officials, who are thought to be rounding up other participants in the disorder. This was the first outbreak of local Brush Marines in Jacksonville and came while the boys were from under the jurisdiction of their officers. Carberry camp recently was set up, being moved there from another section of Southern Oregon.
    Oregon statutes provide maximum penalties for disorderly conduct of $500 fine and or six months imprisonment in the county jail.
Jacksonville Miner, January 5, 1934, page 1


    Applegate Camp club of the CCC will provide something new in the way of dances Saturday night when musical talent recruited from the camp personnel will furnish music for a big dance at the Applegate hall. Men of the camp have been journeying to various dances for some time, and it is said the officers are lending support to the idea of providing entertainment nearer the camp where the men may enjoy the terpsichorean art without necessity of long trips.
    A very good brand of music is provided by musician members of the CCC club, and valley dance enthusiasts are assured of a delightful evening at Applegate. A nominal sum will be charged to defray club expenses.
Jacksonville Miner, February 2, 1934, page 1


    Concerning the much-discussed topic as to whether the "CCC Club" which gave a dance at Applegate hall last Saturday night was the Civilian Conservation Corps from Camp Applegate or some outside individuals, it was learned from Second Lieutenant Meeker, company clerk at Camp Applegate, that the organization is in no way sponsored by officers of the camp.
    Lieutenant Meeker said, however, that the dance was given by two boys from that camp, one from Camp Carberry, and one member of another camp of the Medford district, who has established an orchestra among themselves, and who gave the dance under their own supervision, adopting the name of the "CCC Club."
Jacksonville Miner, February 9, 1934, page 4




    MEDFORD, Aug. 6.--The spiritual as well as physical welfare of the CCC men occupies an important part of the Medford district program, and through the cooperation of the civilian clergymen, regular services are provided in all camps.
    Civilian clergymen in all denominations have cooperated wholeheartedly in providing services for the camps, according to Major Clare H. Armstrong, district commander. These services augment those conducted by the three army chaplains who visit the camps on regular schedule.
    Following is a list of the camps in Siskiyou County. the clergymen who will conduct services in August and the dates on which the services will be held:
    HILT: Rev. R. T. Holmes, Ashland, Aug. 9; Rev. C. E. Dunham, Ashland, Aug. 22.
    OAK KNOLL: Rev. Paul Babcock, Montague, Calif., Aug. 14 and 28.
    INDIAN CREEK: Rev. David Forbes, Camp Indian Creek, Aug. 14 and 28.
Siskiyou News, Yreka, California, August 6, 1934, page 1


    Medford, Aug. 10.--Preceding a visit to Medford CCC district headquarters and camps in this section, Robert H. Fechner, director of the Civilian Conservation Corps, said this morning that he believes with the expiration of the CCC next March substitute legislation will be enacted to continue the movement on a revised basis.
    "Of course I have my ideas what the new plan should be," he said, "and at the President's request I have made a report expressing my opinion. That, however, will not be made public until it is presented to Congress."
    Referring to the accomplishments of the CCC movement, Fechner said, "I am tremendously proud of it all."
STARTED FROM SCRATCH
    "It wasn't that Congress had faith in the President's proposal, but its desire to cooperate in passing legislation he proposed which brought about the Civilian Conservation Corps," Fechner continued.
    "We started without anything, but the unselfish and devoted cooperation received from the army, park, forest and labor departments made it possible lo successfully form these units. Selection of the great army of men was performed by the Department of Labor.
    "Although I had been warned when I went to Washington that it would be impossible to receive cooperation from government agencies, I had no such fear. This has been the happiest experience of my entire life."
URGED TO VISIT
    The 353,000 juniors, local experienced men, woodsmen and veterans in camps located in every state and the District of Columbia are making the parks, forests and properties more accessible and more enjoyable for the tens of thousands who visit them every year, he said.
    Fechner urged citizens to take the first opportunity possible to visit a CCC camp, to talk to the commanding officer, the men in camp and note the pride and joy they are taking in their work.
    "It isn't a dole, it isn't charity. They're earning their way, giving value for value received, and are also sending back substantial contributions to the family. You will see that after all there is something else worthwhile besides the struggle for the almighty dollar.
    "They are building fire trails, fire breaks, developing natural resources, stopping devastating fires, developing park areas to bring out the wonders and beauties of these places.
BIG LUMBER ORDER
    "We have bought 20,000 trucks, millions of gallons of gasoline, spent millions for clothes and food. For winter quarters," the director went on to say, "we placed one order for 250,000,000 feet of lumber, said to be the largest peacetime order in history.
    "A hundred thirty thousand dollars is spent a day for food, and the Surgeon General's office reports that the health of the men averages higher than the regular United States army enlisted men. We don't give them banquets, but we do give them good substantial food."
    Fechner said the formation of the CCC was the realization of one of his lifelong ambitions to work out just such a movement. He said the appointment as director of this movement was his first and only political appointment.
    Fechner was taken on an inspection trip through the Medford CCC district headquarters and warehouses, the camp on the upper Rogue River in the Rogue River National Forest, and camps at Annie Springs and Wineglass within Crater Lake National Park. He was accompanied by Major Clare H. Armstrong, district CCC commander, and acting Superintendent David H. Canfield of Crater Lake National Park.
Oregon Journal, Portland, August 10, 1934, page 9


    Arthur Edward Powell, tall headman of the Central Point American, bemoans the fact that several thousand CCC enrollees have quit to take other jobs, "which will mean even more men out of work this winter." He also claims the importation of the Brush Marines into Southern Oregon has worked a hardship on local labor when they were brought here from the East and allowed to stay when their time was out.
    Somehow or other we get the idea that Republican Powell doesn't like the Civilian Conservation Corps. Whether his aversion to the Brush Marines is due to political prejudice or just plain misinformation is unknown to us, but we thought nearly everyone read of how hundreds of the Brush Marines brought here from other points were bundled up into trains at regular intervals and sent back to points of enlistment. But maybe Art doesn't even know what he reads in the papers.
    On the other hand, how the resignation of CCC enrollees now to accept other jobs "will mean even more men out of work this winter" is most certainly a nut-cracker for us. We never heard of employment causing unemployment before. But then, Art is entitled to figure things out in his own way, and far be it from us to ever say anything about his ideas. Much.
    One of President Roosevelt's finest acts, to our way of thinking, has been the establishment and maintenance of Brush Marine camps over the country. And Southern Oregon certainly can't have lost much by the importation of several thousand young men who are fed and clothed here and kept busy improving our forests, fighting our fires and building roads. Why, the government even pays cash for subscriptions to the Central Point American and the Jacksonville Miner, that its wards might be well informed.
    Which is darned smart, Art will have to admit.
Jacksonville Miner, September 14, 1934, page 2


    Advance detachments from two CCC camps now in the Medford district leave for Nevada Saturday to establish camp sites in Washoe County of that state for the coming companies, the 994th company, Camp Hilt, and the 1897th company, Camp Spring Flat, will be transferred back into the Redding district as soon as the movement of the entire companies into the two Nevada camps has been completed, according to Major Joseph Andrews, Redding district commander.
    Twenty-five men and one officer from each of the companies will meet at Alturas Saturday morning at 10 a.m, being transferred to Nevada from that point by a truck caravan sent out by the Redding district motor pool.
    The 994th company will be located at Board Corrals, while the 1907th company is going to Swinford Springs. Both camp sites are located northeast of Cedarville, Calif., and are near the Nevada border. These two companies were members of the original Redding district, having been transferred to the Medford district last year.
Chico Enterprise, Chico, California, April 27, 1935, page 6


    MEDFORD, June 8 (Special)--Fifteen new CCC companies will begin arriving here June 20, to increase the number of camps in the Medford district to 33 in the six weeks to follow, according to Major George R. Owens, district commander.
    When all camps are filled there will be 6600 men in the Medford CCC district, Owens said.
Oregonian, Portland, June 9, 1935, page 21




    MEDFORD, Ore., Oct. 4.--(American Wire)--Fingerprinting of CCC members in the Medford district is not for the purpose of checking criminal records, the Medford District News, official CCC newspaper, had assured the tree troupers today.
    "The purpose of the fingerprints is to provide a permanent and undeniable identification of each member enrolled in the CCC," the paper declared, advising that "fingerprinting can work two ways--it can be used against a man committing a crime, or it can be used to help prove the innocence of one not guilty."
    Many of the CCC men "are wondering what it's all about," the paper said in a prelude to the explanation.
The Seattle Star, October 4, 1935, page 4


    Orvil Tilley, Company 2702 CCC, Ruch, Oregon, writes: "We arrived in Medford, Oregon, about daybreak one morning last week. Most of us are satisfied in this new country. We don't have to work hard only in time of fire. We have plenty to eat so we have no reason for complaint. We have been told that after the fire season is over we are going to Missouri."
Greenville Sun, Greenville, Missouri, April 30, 1936, page 4


    Medford,  Jan. 21.--(U.P.)--Fire early today destroyed the exhibit building at the Medford fairground, which was used by the CCC for a transportation garage.
    Five new army trucks, an ambulance, an undetermined number of automobiles used by officers and salvaged trucks brought in for repairs were destroyed.
    Fire Chief Roy Elliott believed the fire started in one of the cars.
    The blaze was well under way when it was discovered. It was kept from spreading to other buildings.
Oregon Journal, Portland, January 21, 1937, page 7




    Beneath the American flag at Harrison Gulch CCC camp flies a flag with the following inscribed upon it: "Safety First; Best Camp; Medford District, CCC."
    The Harrison Gulch camp has received the flag for its remarkable record in safety. Considering that approximately 31 camps compete in the safety campaign, the meaning of this flag to the camp is obvious. This camp has an enviable record for no lost time accidents, not having one since January, 1940, not to mention all the other safety achievements obtained along other lines.
    The personnel, army and technical, as well as the enrollees of this camp, are conscious of the honors attached to this flag and therefore are doing their utmost to maintain their good record.
Courier Free Press, Redding California, March 14, 1941, page 2


Mr. L. D. Young,
    Publisher of West Side Journal,
        Fort Allen, Louisiana
Dear Sir:
    Reference is made to the enclosed article on "CCC Opportunities for Young Men of Today."
    Since the CCC have been having such a hard time getting new recruits, we have been asked to write letters to our home papers and ask them to publish the enclosed article, thereby giving local young men there an idea of the CCC and its opportunities.
    We are sure that after reading about the many opportunities offered, young men will realize that they can learn some vocational trade and also get paid while learning it in the CCC.
    With the help of our educational advisor we have composed this article, and I am sending it to you hoping that you will publish it in the West Side Journal, my home paper.
    "The CCC is today doing a fine job in the rehabilitation of the youth of the nation and is preparing large numbers of young men for vital parts in the national defense plans of the nation.
    "When the CCC was first inaugurated in 1933 it was formed with the idea of serving three main objectives. In order of their importance at the time these objectives were: (1) to supply work and relief to those unemployed and in want; (2) to conserve and develop the natural resources of the nation; and (3) to train for self-support unemployed and untrained young men without other opportunities for work and training.
    "Today however the main objectives must be listed in exactly the reverse order. In other words it is no longer necessary for a family to be on relief rolls in order for a young man to join the CCC. This is a minor consideration now due to the fact that so many enrollees have been discharged to accept civilian employment. The main objective at the present time is the training of young men who have no other means of securing training that would be useful to them without the outlay of considerable money to take such a course. Large numbers of our camps at the present time are offering courses in sheet metal working, carpentry, woodworking, auto mechanics and many other trades which qualify men as helpers or apprentices at these trades. Large numbers of the enrollees are leaving our camps daily for civilian employment in national defense plants as a result of the training which they received in the camps.
    "Besides the many opportunities to learn a trade as stated above it is possible for the enrollees to further their education in the academic courses. All of the camps have an educational advisor who is a high school teacher. He advises the men as to the courses they should take and advises and helps them in their courses. Most camps also have at least one teacher paid by the state board of education who conducts classes in various subjects from one to five nights a week. There are classes for those who have had very little education or no schooling, those who have had five or six years and right on up the line. For those who wish to work toward a high school diploma there are some classes and any number of specialized correspondence courses which may be taken and which lead to a diploma. Classes in typing are now held in practically every camp in the country. Large numbers of men have received their grammar school certificates, and a large number have received high school diplomas. There are also many courses suitable for those who have finished high school but never had the chance to attend college. All of the camps at the present time are on the Civil Service mailing lists and receive information on all examinations to be held by this board. Many graduates of the camp typing classes are now holding good paying clerical jobs in civilian life while an exceedingly large number of men who attended auto mechanics courses in camp are now holding responsible positions in the armed forces of our nation working in repair shops and driving trucks. Each day more of the outstanding enrollees are being appointed as junior officers in the camps to take the places of officers who have been called to active duty, and in some cases they are even commanding camps. And instead of the enrollees having to pay for the opportunity to improve himself he is paid to do it, he is fed, clothed, and sheltered and he receives free medical and hospital care in case he is sick or injured.
    "Besides the opportunities listed above there is another one which perhaps overshadows all others in the opinion of many of the enrollees. This is the opportunity to travel to various parts of the country, particularly in the Far West. Perhaps half or more of the timber in the U.S. today is found in the states of Washington, Oregon, and California. Each year more and more camps are being moved from the South and the Middle West to the West Coast, for it is there that the greater part of the work of conservation is needed. Enrollment in the CCC with a request for assignment to the West Coast presents an opportunity which should appeal to all young men, for it gives them a chance that many people fail to get in an entire lifetime. And it is an opportunity that will not present itself again to the majority of us. There is perhaps no more scenic country in the world than our own Pacific Coast and throughout the West. A large majority of the camps in this area today are camps from the South with southern enrollees and officers.
    "The Medford CCC District, with headquarters in Medford, Oregon, includes Southern Oregon and Northern California and is composed of 30 camps, of which 28 of them are from the deep South. This district is known as "America's Most Beautiful CCC District" and embraces some of the most scenic country in the U.S. The giant redwood forests of California, Mt. Shasta, the second highest peak in the country, Mt. Shasta National Forest, Mt. Lassen, the only active volcano in the U.S., and the Mt. Lassen National Forest, Crater Lake, a lake in an old volcano crater with perpendicular cliffs rising one thousand feet from the surface of the water, are only a few of the many scenic wonders of this district.
    "Applications are taken by your local welfare agency, so why not go to them today and make an application for the next enrollment.
    "Request that you be sent to the West Coast and come out and spend a year or so with us. Many of you who come out here will remain as so many have done before and as many of them are doing each day. In some of the camps you will find boys from as many as seven or eight southern states, so there is a good chance that you will wind up in a camp where there is someone that you know. So go by your local welfare agency today and make your application and come on out. We are sure that you will not regret it and you will get paid for seeing things that thousands of people spend thousands of dollars each year for the privilege of seeing. And it is all yours for the small effort it will take to make an application."
West Side Journal, Port Allen, Louisiana, June 6, 1941, page 5

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