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Accompanied
by Dr. E.T. Swan, we visited officials at the Mark Twain CCC
Camp at Florida Wednesday evening and were taken on an
inspection tour of the camp by Cloyd A. Downs, Company Corp
Commander of Camp No. 1743, Harvey Rea, Quartermaster
Representative from Jefferson Barracks, and Elmer Squires,
subaltern officer. They showed us stacks of blankets
neatly tied up, stacks of clothing, dozens of overshoes in
cloth bags, stoves, tools, and much other usable material
which will be turned over to the Army. They assured us that
nothing which was usable had been destroyed when the camp
was ordered closed. Mr. Ernest West showed us Friday morning
all of the tires and tubes which he had been charged with
and they will also go to the Army.
Any
of the property of the camp which was given away or disposed
of was either not usable any more to the government or it
was property which belonged to and had been paid for by the
members of the camp from time to time.
Submitted by Mary
Beth Greening Kirtlink
Article from Perry
Enterprise August 6, 1942
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