VERNONIA EAGLE. VERNONIA, OREGON
PAGE SIX
FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1934.
NEW CAMP TO HAVE MODERN FEATURES
Westimber to Be
Outstanding in
Beauty, Utility
Many
Buildings
Comprise
New
CCC Unit
The new CCC camp at Westim­
ber will have many up to date
features, and when completed,
will make it an outstanding camp,
from the point of both beauty
and efficiency. The camp is com­
posed of the administration build­
ing, infirmary, officers and for­
esters’ quarters, mess hall, four
barracks, shower house, drying
house, woodshed, garages, and
the forestry buildings.
The administration building
contains the office, the supply
room, the educational room, the
camp store, the recreation room
and the first sergeant’s quarters.
A feature of the recreation room
is the large fireplace constructed
in one end. Also in this room will
be writing tables, davenports,
chairs, ping pong table, pool table
and radio. The infirmary consists
of the doctor’s office and aispen-
sary, receiving room, and the
three wards. The latest medical
agencies will be used in keeping
the men free from illness. The
officer personnel and the forestry
men will be quartered in one
building. This building consists
of private quarters for the offi­
cers, camp surgeon, and educa­
tional adviser, located on one end.
On the other end of the building
there are the forester’s quarters
and in the center of the building
is a club room, containing a lire
place, shower room and modem
plumbing fixtures. Four barracks
buildings, mess hall, shower and
drying room complete the camp
fro mthe army standpoint. The
mess hall is the “T” type kitchen
and dining room with a plan con
structed which allows the unload­
ing of trucks within the basement
of the kitchen. The barracks are
made similar to the conventional
plan, except that the roofing is
composed of No. 1 grade shingles,
and each barracks contains three
large air ventilators. Each bar­
racks will aceommo-date 52 men
with room for individual lockers.
The forestry department will con­
struct several buildings, including
office, garage, blacksmith shop
and other units. The camp is sup­
plied with water taken from a
well located on the west side of
camp. Water force will be ac­
complished by the building of a
40 foot tower, supporting a 2000
gallon water tank. Water will be
piped into the buildings and a
sprinkler system will be installed.
The Westimber Power company
has the contract for supplying
the camp with electricity. The
camp is laid out in the form of
a semicircle and the area between
the buildings will be planted to
grass and shrubbery. The main
road to Cochran bisects the camp,
but this road is to be oiled, elimi­
nating the dust problem.
The army and forest service
are working hard in trying to
make the camp at Westimber one
of the outstanding camps of the
Vancouver district.
DONATION OF POOL TABLE
The Westimber CCC camp has
been donated a pool table by
“Skinny” Washburn, proprietor
of “Skinny’s” Poolroom, in Ver­
nonia. This donation on “Skin­
ny’s” part is greatly appreciated
by all members of CCC Co. 1313.
Try an ad in the Eagle class!
fieds for quick results.
Chit
Chat
Night Auto Accident Toll High
Projects in 5
Locations Are
Being Carried
Newest
CC’s friends, and whoever else
it may worry, please consider
this paragraph an announcement.
This chatter is a “column,” good
humored, and perhaps based on
fact. If you don’t like it, write
something better. It’s easily done.
If you like the idea, contribute
then too. Something interesting
happened today.
la
“Spike”
Camp
on
Hoffman Burn
To proceed: There’s a comment
going around about a private
fruit cannery—and operations.
It goes: “Still, Bill may serve
strawberries and cream.” (Hint:
Drink skim milk at breakfast.
Save the cream.) Then what?
It’s a fact that a chill has des­
cended over the Mist camp. All
the stoves are gone.
One morning the doctor looked
hungry, examining lunches for
field parties. (Moral or some­
2550
thing: Make good sandwlcheo,
Killed Annually During Four Rud Hours of Mornin«
Charlie. Save CC pills.) Neverthe­
(6 to 10 A MJ
less, the doctor’s interest is ap­
preciated, and that is no joxe.
When dependent solely on car fective range of car’s lamps. This
This week’s most abused words: illumination, investigations made distance corresponds to 3b miles
“Eye Oh You.”
by engineers show that safe oper­ per hour. There’s a moral in this
ation of automobiles at night de­ fact for pedestrians walking along
Definition for the world’s mands that speed never exceed highways as well as for drivers
meanest man: A truck driver who the stopping distance of approxi­ when using the streets and high­
stops for beer and doesn’t invite mately 100 feet provided by ef- ways during hours of darkness.
32 men in the open-air part of the
carriage to partake too.
is playing the game like good
As J. B. was saying: “I HAD
sports, Jim Moran knowing our
a plug of tobacco, boys.”
difficulties lends every assistance,
as do all the “Green Men.”
Question: What does MJB
Bill Thomas is sort of up in
stand for? Answer: coffee. (Free
the air, jumping from one camp
Adv.)
! to the other, and Al Muthurs-
Question: What does JB stand
| baugh wrestles with difficulties
for? Answer: Rice. (Charge two-
| at Mist.
bits please.)
I However, things get done and
In the good old days—so they in a few days we will be ship­
FIRE! Just a troupe of berry
tell me—when the Indians were shape at our new house and glad
pickers perhaps?
after Bison, a camp was knocked to see our friends and I think,
If you’re sleepy, here’s a bed­ down and on the way in short will be right proud of our new
time story: Once there was a CC order. Well, the Indians had noth- ; location.
I understand that a golf club
gentleman annoying a rattlesnake ing on us, the camp at Westimber
with a pitchfork. The snake bit is hardly finished and we are near Rainier was looking for a
into a steel prong of the haying stepping on the toes or heels of large orange sign Saturday. I
don’t know a thing about it, but
instrument and the fork handle the carpenters.
Our poor cook had to cook and Lieutenant Taggart said it would
swelled up so badly it couldn’t
serve three meals a day for about be where it belonged if he had
be used for two weeks.
90 carpenters plus the number of to carry it back himself.
I wonder if Dirty Nose is going
Question: Who is this Will the CCC boys who were on duty
Rodgers? Answer: Dirty Nose’s at Westimber, and he did this on to Westimber with us? Oh! I
one Army Field Range, and forgot Dirty Nose is the black
friend.
Question: Does our victual what’s more the food was good. and white kitten that for some
Captain Finch, the company reason or other seems to fancy
friend, Mister Brown, have a
commander, is all over the place. the region of the Mess Hall.
conscience? Answer: Yes.
He hasn’t much to do but see When “it” grows up Bill Still
For proof to the first interro­ that the well is dug, to provide had better look out or his “pup”
gation as above, please refer to adequate water supply, be sure will be climbing trees.
Our friend Brown is wondering
Bar Handles. The second answer that each building has its set
may be thrown at Handlebars. number of doors, windows, stoves how he is going to cook over a
Not brothers, gentlemen, the same and bunks, make %-inch pipe do candle for the remainder of our
where 114 -inch is supposed to stay. Well, guess that’s all for
man.
serve, sign vouchers and numer­ now.
Will Rodgers.
Hunt as long as you can, yet, ous other official documents and
“Is there anything worse than generally keep things rolling.
the tale: ‘From telephone crew
How he would do all these SNAGS TO COME DOWN
IS LUMBER CODE RULE
trouble shooter to ditch digger’?” things without the able help and
cooperation of Lieutenant Tag­
Snag falling as a means of
If you’re still here, friends, re­ gart, Jack McGowan and Walter
safeguarding logging operations
member we ask you for more Watkins I den’t know.
and better stories. Turn them in
Incidentally the Forest Service against the danger of forest fires
was one of the principal topics
at the education room, between
headquarters office and recrea­ is still a possibility of an airport, discussed at the recent meetings
but it is unlikely that it will be of forest supervisors of Oregon
tion hall.
obtained this year.
and Washington in connection
A much larger crowd than us­ with the provisions of article ten
WILL PAINT FAIR
GROUND BUILDINGS ual is expected to attend the fair of the lumber code. The meet­
this year because of the free ings, which were in charge of
gate. There will be a good auto­ regional forester C. J. Buck, were
(St. Helens Sentinel-Mist)
The county fair ground build­ mobile show and possibly a dog held at Portland for the super­
ings will be painted about July 1 show, according to Earl C. Dowl­ visors of the Douglas fir territory
under an SERA project, accord­ er, manager. The premiums are on June 7-8; and at Bend the
ing to a decision of the county about the same as last year, with meeting for the supervisors of
court and fair board yesterday. awards being limited to county the ponderosa pine territory were
The grandstand will also be re­ entries. The premium list will be held June 11-12.
paired and improved and the out in a few weeks.
“Snags of dead trees standing
The fair will be held August after fire or logging operations
grounds gotten in better shape
than they have ever been. There 23, 24 and 25.
are one of the worst causes of
Indians Have
Nothing on Us
Says our Will
Members of Company 1313,
CCC, covered in "their operations
this week a large portion of the
total area of Columbia and Wash­
ington counties. Enrollees, fores­
ters and officers of the conserva­
tion corps outfit carried on pro­
jects at five different locations.
Newest on the list of work
places is the “spike” camp taken
over on the Hoffman burn area
by a crew of seven men and
Foreman Jack Nance. The camp,
expected to remain at its present
location for several weeks, will
construct a telephone line from
Pebble creek to Bacona.
Some 25 men at WilarK side
camp have specialized in road
maintenance. Roads submitting to
a face lifting are the Wilark,
Cedar creek and Tunnel routes.
A crew of 26 men, chaperoned
by Foreman Andy Kostur, are
building a road to the Green
Mountain lookout station. Work
on the Green Mountain side camp,
up to the present date having
taken nearly two months, will be
continued by a crew from Camp
Boyington after Company 1313 is
definitely evacuated from Mist.
Population of the former main
camp at Mist has rapidly dwindl­
ed this week from more than one
hundred men to a mere handful,
as moving operations to Westim­
ber have speeded along.
Correspondingly, activity at
the new camp has steadily been
increasing as more and more men
have come into occupation of the
Westimber site. Some 50 men are
engaged in work at the new camp,
clearing the camp site, getting
out rock and other general duties.
disastrous forest fires,” said Mr.
Buck. “During days of high wind
and low humidity fire gets in the
tops of these old snags. The wind
blows burning chunks of bark
and rotten wood from one snag
to another or to adjoining green
timber. Cntrol of fire in such
areas is extremely difficult, and
the falling of burning snags is
fraught with great danger to the
fire fighters. Standing snags in
logging operations were one of
the main contributing factors to
the disastrous Tillamook f!re last
August. Reasonably adequate fire
protection cannot be assured un­
der such conditions.
Under the provisions of the
lumber code, the falling of all
snags in connection with logging
in green timber in Douglas fir
territory is required. According to
the foresters this is distinctly a
forward step.
Other requirements of this sec­
tion of the code incluae such
things as adequate fire fighting
tools and organization at all log­
ging operations, removal or safe­
guarding of hazards, and a com­
plete shutdown of the operation
during periods of highly danger­
ous fire weather.
Responsibility for enforcement
of the fire provisions of the lum­
ber code is vested in the state
forester for Oregon, and the state
supervisor of forestry for Wash­
ington, acting as agents for the
divisional code authority for
Douglas fir territory.
The federal forest service will
cooperate for operations which
are within the territory protect­
ed by (Wm. Other sections of the
state will be handled by fire
vardens.
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