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PAGE 2 ? , Appearance Of Grounds At CC( Camp Improve* Almost Unbelievable In provements \Have Bee Made In Physical Equi] ment And Appearanc Grounds Since Establisl ment PERSONNEL CHANGED BUT NOT THE SPIRI High Standard Set By Fin Outfit To Come In Has Been Constantly Observed By Others Who Came Here Karly October of 1933 and tt present location of Camp Sapon was just a miniature wildernes of small pines, scrub oak undei growth and a terrain littered pi fusely with old cans, bottles an hulls of automobiles. The site wa - far from pleasing. I Then, about the 10th of Ocl ober Lieutenant J. R. Maddei now Captain Madden, of Foi Bragg, arrived from Hiawasei Ga.. with a group of 15 of hi boys, the advance guard that wa to pitch tents and make prepara tions for the arrival of the whol force to be transferred here fror ' an abandoned camp in Westc North Carolina. Captain I. B. Bussell, represer ting the Richard Dosher estat and others, had rented the Iocs site for the minimum legal con sideration of SI 00 per year. Th location adjoined the Southpor baseball park, on which the ad vnnre vuard set ud their ow tents, administration tents an tents for the full force whicl > was awaiting transportation. At about the same time as th pitching of the first tents, lum ber and building material begai to be placed and a good sizei force of carpenters and laborer commenced work on the first o the many substantial woodei structures that now grace th' ' grounds. The 19 th of October was I rather memorable one. Early ii the morning the little engine o the W. B. & S. Railroad wen chugging to Navassa and then hooked on to two day coache and baggage car that had beei pulled in to that point over th? Wilmington and Rutherford divis ion of the Seaboard Air Line The day coaches contained ovei a hundred of the boys who wen to compose the personnel o Southport's CCC Camp. Man; more boys came in the fleet o: . *** trucks belonging to the abandon ed camp, these trucks also carry ^IiijgjH^jafgragjHragjHjajaiafs I Our Cong Camn r ; I Companj Southpi n The three yean I existed at South\ g steady progress | The officers and I g camp are among t I a Civilian Conserve We are proud I neighbors, and w< | of luck in the mo\ | Howarc | Com S Fruits at ll WILMING s ? ^ I I r ~ Hvi % a v r i ? I -I M !S - ' * COMPANY?Th 0 term of enlistment. d s ing various camp equipment. By a coincidence the true! j : and the three railroad cars a t rivea at the end of their sever hundred mile journey at precis s iy the same minute. Some of tl s fleet of trucks got across tl . railroad tracks before the halti e [ train stopped them. Others we 11 halted on the south side of tl n track by the presence of tl train. They had to remain the l" until the boys all disembark? e and the train was cut into 11: permit traffic over the road " the new camp. e It was just 5:30 o'clock, cho t time, when the trucks and tra " arrived. The boys were natural " hungry and the advance guard : J the camp had prepared for su< 1 a contingency. Dad Marr. chief cook at tl e camp, from the day of the fir - arrivals until two months ag i had been in the advance guar -1 With his small, but willing fore s he had a substantial meal for tl f hungry men and they lost r i time in falling too. They sle] e that night in their tents, ar early the next morning four i them actively at work carryin i on preparations for their perm: f nent quarters, t Fine Conduct Always e It can be said that the firs s group of 200 men who compose i Camp Sapona represented goo l citizenship. There have bee - many changes, boys resigning t . accept employment, others sen r ing their period of enlistment an .' returning to their homes, thei f places being taken by new mei t What could be said of the firs f personnel at the camp can be sai - of all the men who have followe - after. Camp Sapona has alway [HiEjaaHjaBJgraf2j,s^J5igiHJ5^rtic c D ratulations c G ro o c C Sapona I ? li c 1 427, CCC I c ort, N. C. c G C C c c c ? that this camp has E g port has witnessed jj [ and improvement. [ g personnel of the c [ he best in the entire i \ i ition Corps. to have you as our v wish you the best nths to come. i / Bobbitt ipany id Produce ;ton, n. c. rajBfHiaajaBjajBJEfgiareraBjaatk [en Of Company e above picture of the men an The present strength of the co ' been blessed with fine officers ks1 and a fine set of men and boys. r- There is no recognizable difal | ference between the residents of e-1 the camp and the younger citi-' le | zens of the town. Southport re16 I . gards the boys as good citizens of the town and the boys apparente ly regard Southport as their Jp i home. [ Today very few of the original (1 ' enrollment at the camp are still t' serving. VV. C. Marr is now elevat^ ed to chief cook to succeed his father. Mess Sergeant Ivan Ludw lum, and Junior Forester Archie I Bullock are the only men who have been there the full four j years. Many fine commanding of. fleers and assistants have come, completed their full tour of duty and have been sent on to other work. In the same manner many fine boys and men have come ami trnnp without anv ehano'e in J ? - " i the fine spirit of friendship and e'j good will between the camp and i Southport. j ! Camp Site Transformed , And the camp site that was an ' eyesore three years ago is now ' adorned with substantial build" ings. with shade trees, grass and j flowers; with improved driveways and all the appearances of a fine ,t' community. The buildings and the ^ (streets are lighted from the city j j power plant; water is furnished from the city mains, and sewerI age is disposed of through the i city system; sports, good order I land good health abound. But the transformation is not , ' i confined to the camp and site. The good that has been, accom- . plished throughout Brunswick j county by the workers is truly ,g wonderful. Brunswick people , were just beginning to get forest a fire prevention minded. The work jof Camp Sapona speeded up this ( 3 feeling and increased its propor-' 5 tions. Today there is scarcely a1 3 ! citizen in Brunswick who does ] I not regard it for what it is?a . j ; crime to let a forest fire get 3 . started in the woods of Brunsjj i wick county. I ] Where once there was barren ] land blackened wastes to be found ] on every hand, there are now I thriving forests of young pines and other woods, all growing toll wards the stage where they will ] produce a yearly income for the ] 1 owners. The value of the timber 3 has come to be recognized and 3 Camp Sapona has done much to 3 ; bring about the transformation ^ ' from the old idea that it did not j 3 matter if the woods burned over. ] | A Model Camp i Sapona has been and is still j ] rated as the model camp of the ] Fort Bragg District. No less a 3 | person than Congressman J. Bay3 ard Clark recently wrote the : Southport Civic Club that he jj would do everything in his power ] i to see that Camp Sapona was 3 j kept at Southport as long as .any j ! camps were kept anywhere. The j | Congressman realized the great ] j work that has been accomplished D j in Brunswick and was anxious j 3 I for it to go forward without in- j S3 terruption. His opinion appears to | be shared by other high officials 3 ? 3 i ME i : 3: BE WELL I); | "High Art ! S U I I $17.501< J TOPC jj $17.50t< il J. C. Ander ? il "Clothes El 3 I Front And jj I WILMINC/ H ; fi-uVaAM Wh ' I -itf ? A?" THE STATE PORT PILOT, SC r 427, Civilian C d officers of Camp Sapona wi mpany is 165 men, with 60 m< Boys At Camp Like Basketball * For The Past Two Seasons1 i Teams Coached By W. C. j Marr Have Held Their! V Own Amid Stiffest Kind Of Competition ? Using the Southport gym floor f for home games because of the ] location being more convenient to : I spectators, the Sapona Braves. ! I under Coach W. C. Marr, have y* i H come through each basket ball r season with a long string of vie- Jj tories and few defeats. " The past season closed with Sapona having lost only two games, one of these to the South- I port Independents. The South- I porters likewise lost one game to I Sapona, and the season closed; without the deciding game being | played off. While they were strong basket ball rivials, the best cooperation, and good will existed between the Southport, and Sapona teams. Both closed their seasons with good grounds for claiming the championship for this part of the state, except against each other. This season, it is said, Sapona will have to start out with an1 S almost entirely new-up, inside ? dope is that the Braves will be there with the goods. It is sort S of whispered around that Manwill put out a team as good or better than last season, and that fast playing may be expected. cc The team usually does its prac- til tice work on its own large re-i b< creation hall court. "*11 "In what course will you gra- = iluate ?" vie, "Oh! in the course of time." j Is fl Motorist (to a man he just M ra nover): 'Hey, look out back jjp there!" j Defeated Soul: "What's the tK matter, y'aint comin' back are I i>? you ?" If 'il and the outlook and hope is for ?>r the camp to remain at Southport Jjj! for many months to come. Its j 'fc? good effects in Brunswick county, have been almost unlimited. ' ?^:ij Wed. Thure. Frl. S A L E! ST Watson's 1 Pharmacy Co. J ^=^^21 A "" 1 'fl 1,1 f r rfl I ; TT,' N! 11 RESSED IN ; j 1 t Clothes" | T S I >$25.00 ijl oats ;j >$20.00 m ; || m son & Son | vclusively" I Princess ION, N. C. I ^.' vi^hiiwJi;;,iip,i.>;.iii? i? ..> I, ? (j iUTHPORT. N. C !onservation Corps, At South > " . v".': '.. -? is taken prior to October 1, when a number of old enr< are enrollees scheduled to report the latter part of next i THINNING PROJECT ''' ' ^ s&m&Sfcfa- -1 : ?*$ n. " . .. : >-?U GOOD WORK?No other project conducted in this iunty has shown more tangible results for good than e timber thinning demonstrations, five of which may f seen between Winnabyw and Grissettown on S. ighway 17. .ok-tI-.. I -.-.I... I -r- -r-;:-r-* * : . * i Congratulm j *To ' Best CCC Camp | On ! ? Third Am I MEN AND BOYS OF CA ) You have just cause to service and achievement. We recognize in you a I in the forestry program tha in this Lower Gape Fear rc EA | Sally An R OYALI 1306 Market Street an WILMINGT (ALWAYS ff * 1 } WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 20 ~ 7 CCC EducaSl P?rt Plan !. J3 1 1^' * Camp EnrollJ ?~' gtruction and u .p= completed their subjects , Pd with the H \\ ecK. the enroll.- - ' Camp Shippmg I P"<nP According t" 1 IH?' m level eat 1 . any subjet t H niirinil Pas* Ten ?ays ,2 Than Seven Hundred Bu- aetivtty ? I 5 in Of Pine Cones Have period of from ? " Cnni To State Nur- weeks, h Been oeni ; f the sery Camp Saponn : uk . shipment of 406;cational advlsoi lie 1-aS, ^f loneleaf pa?e conea cat citizens bushels of long ^ lhp state tprily assist in the hatha* was oil""';1 , where the The education nuraery at * w ^ used for lt8 alm! seed will i? u .n??. with motion of v.. for growing l>>-1 " , thl. for- elimination which to carry ^ Carolina, ed citizenship H eBtry program o bu-mon school .1 . is h^sn?Se,ion?ePaTpfne c 1 kenlng in enroll 300 bushels of loblolly pine cones useful anil profitable f-;i has been gathered by enrollces;ment of leisure hours the;' of Camp Sapona, and now await ening of enrollces int. r-su shipment to Clayton. | include general, cultural. ? Tltls work has been done under,lional and social ediirat: Sam Hill, project superintendent potent perfo;;mir. , of Camp 42V. CCC. TIlc commanding officer i ?- aside certain funds fur the 10tiP If /'M ganization to use in meetiagi , , . needs of enrollees as th.v i . J III HZ U A t traction training faeiliii- s th;' Warning! It's "Angel's" day able each one of them to !>. off. which means Trouble in the thoroughly acquainted ?ia offing! ! definite vocation toward dj Whizzing headlong Into the he may work v ith the ultra offing looking for Trouble is idea of a choice for his ii "Ginger" Jane Withers, harum- work, scai urn half-pint of dynamite off The guidance prograrr gj on her rip-roaringest rampage in the enrolled an opportunity "Angel's Holiday." coming Fri- have'frequent interviews ai.: day to the Amuzu Theatre. ten to lectures coneeminf! Mischievous Jane, little svvee- (chosen vocation. tiepie that she is, puts the "hoi ler" into "holiday" when she Poor Pa: "My pretty niece i ttiA xtevt nonn.l ii>if ti i o 'if nliltl'cli Co T mince ens. t I I'll LA I III I lt>l .tijiiau ? mi no at i-nuivii, *J'J i wit own tear gas and makes trouble got a beau. Ph" don't try : jH :m fast as she makes headlines to heaven when -he's got :iH when slie turns detective. > friend to take her anywhere W - w T. - * ' ' lions . o . I Fhe ^ I In This District I rsiversarv ? I MP SAPONA: I he proud of your record of ] rcmendous power for good | t is an important business I n Bread I 3AKERY I d 105 Market Street I ON, N. G. I ELCOME) I
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