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Adams, Felton W.
Adams, Marvin O. Adams, N. J. Allred, Clinton Anderson, Robert Anderson, William F. Asbell, C. E. Askew, C. L. Ayers, Morris W. Barton, Claude Beasley, Bennie L. Bennett, H. D. Bohannon, Buck Booth, Clayton F. Brake, Arvle R. Bray, Preston Bright, James A. Brown, Llloyd Bryant, J. L. Bryant, Parker Bunday, C. W. Burnham, J. S. Calloway, F. P. Campbell, Vern Capps, Bradley H. Carroll, Earl Carroll, J. Carter, Arthur Clements, Hubert Coker, Paul D. Coleman, Alfred E. Collings, Maurice M. Comerford, Ray Conn, Carl Costanza, Sam L. Crittenden, Albert Crosby, Cecil Cushman, Jodie Daniel, W. Ezra Daugherty, Roy Davis, Alto Davis, Charlie Dollahite, James V. Downing, Billie E. Downs, Raymond Edgar. Grady Evans, Alfred Evans, D. L. Farmer, Monroe Farmer, W. D. Feely, Hugh Fuller, Warren E. Futch, John D. Gardner, Fred Gardner, Kenneth Garner, L. B. Gaylard, Walter J. George, John A. Grantham, S. R. Gray, Walter R. Green, Roy Griggs, Claude Hammock, Eldon Hancock, Robert Hendrix, Lee Henson, Bernard J. Hines, William J. Hobbs, G. B. Hodges, W. J. Hopper, Willis Huggins, Sterlin H. Hurst, Arley A. Hurst, Thomas Jackson, J. A. Jenkins, J. R. Jernigan, Raymond Johnson, Gearlie Johnson, John A. Johnson, R. S. Jones, A. B. Jr. Jones, Cecil D. Jones, H. H. Jones, Jewell Kafer, C. J. Kemp, Julius Kemp, T. J. Kirkland, M. G. Knowles, Everett L. LaMar, Andrew W. Lambert, Houston Land, Earl Land, Haywood Leibisch, Manfred Love, A. W. Mallett, Walter Marler, William Marshall, Clarence McBrayer, N. L. McCall, Clarence McCormick, Tom McCoy, William McDuffie, Roy McGlammery, Beecher McNeely, O. A. Meadows, William H. Medlin, Woodrow Mercer, John D. Missing, Earl Moore, Hoyt E. Morrell, S. W. Morris, W. H. Mull, Clinton Murray, H. H. Nelson, James Oneal, C. W. Porter, Luther Powell, T. Jay Price, William B. Queen, Ross Quinton, L. R. Rhodes, Frank Richardson, J. E. Rowbotham, H. J. Rowe, Sanders B. Schneider, John Shirley, Sam Shultis, Rodney N. Simmons, Jewel Simoneaux, A. J. Staten, William Stewart, Willis Strickland, Ephriam Taylor, Levi Vernon, C. K. Ward, Ernest Watson, H. E. Watson, John C. Wilson, Caldwell York, Chester J. |
Company 5478 was organized in October, 1936 at the
Conditioning Camp at Fort McPherson, Georgia with 14 members. The company
was founded for the purpose of service in the Third Corps Area. Capt. Farish
C. Chandler was assigned as the Commanding Officer, and Second Lieut. Gordon
S. Justus as Junior officer.
After a thorough conditioning, the company strength at 150, on October 23, was ready for movement to the Third corps Area. Their work projects carried on were mainly truck trail construction, building and maintaining a public park. On September 28, 1937, orders were received that the company was to be transferred to the Ninth Corp Area, and preparations ere made for the move. The home of the company for the next six months was to be historical Gasquet, near the shore of the Pacific, in Northern California. Lieut. James V. Dollahite joined the company as Junior Officer on October 7, 1937, one day before the company moved West. One hundred and three members entrained at Happy Creek, Virginia, October 8, 1937, and in the course of the trip passed through fifteen states. The elapsed time was six days. Arriving at Grants Pass, Oregon, the company was transported to Gasquet and took over the camp,F-18, as Company 709 (disbanded) was moving out. Barracks were assigned, property moved in, and the orientation process begun. The opportunity to make the trip, that lacked only two hundred miles of being coast to coast was one that is given to but few. It was of great educational value, and here the men found a land rich in new experience, customs and types of work. The West, land of hardy pioneers, the ‘49ers, was vast in extent and raw materials. Work on the projects was begun the week following the arrival at Gasquet. The main jobs, a which the men occupied themselves, were construction of roads, erection of crew cabin and P. A. Office at Gasquet Ranger Station, landscaping and wall building, razing of Gold Beach CCC buildings and finishing the Gold Beach Ranger Station. Less than two weeks after the company had settled in its new surroundings,
64 more enrollees from the Fourth Corp Area arrived. These men had signed
for service at Fort Benning, Georgia.
Not alone with work have the men themselves been busy and hapy,
but with the educational and recreational opportunities afforded them.
All the hobbies dear to the hearts of the CCC boys, arts and crafts, movies,
job training and vocational skills, the three R’s, citizenship, mountains
near camp, the coast, the rivers, the redwoods, all go to make up the all-around
development of health, mind and chacter so desirable in a useful citizen.
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All Southern Oregon and Nothern California Camps from
1938 yearbook
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District Camps and locations in 1938 and description