Coos County OR Archives News.....169 BOYS ARRIVE 1933
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Coquille Valley Sentinel 1933
Coquille Valley Sentinel
May 1933

169 boys arrive
C.C.C. Camp at Fairview now home of  215 besides officers

  The Coquille C.C.C. Camp on the North Fork, a short distance below Fairview, 
received its full complement of men yesterday when two army officers and 169 
young men between the ages of 18 and 25 detrained at the S.P. depot here 
yesterday about two o'clock.
  The boys are all from Nebraska and Lt.-Col. Jno. B. Johnson in charge, said 
he had received many compliments on the conduct of the young men since they 
left Nebraska. He started out with over 500 in his command, but they have been 
dropped at one camp and another until the end of their journey saw only 169 on 
the five coaches which pulled in to Coquille yesterday.  And incidentally this 
was the first passenger train to arrive in Coquille for many, many moons.
  Capt. Rhett, the other army officer, is of the Field Artillery Service. Lt. 
Col. Johnson is in the cavalry; Capt. Callen, who has been at the camp for the 
past week, is with the infantry, while Dr. Winder is a first lieutenant in the 
Medical Reserves Corps. Nearly all branches of the army, except aviation and 
engineers, are represented in the official roster of the camp.
  The advance guard of 21 men from Nebraska which arrived here last Saturday 
and the  25 local men and woodsmen who were taken to the camp last Saturday 
and Sunday, bring the total to 215, besides the officers and camp foremen.
  Col. Johnson, after he had got the boys started to the camp yesterday 
afternoon, stated to a Sentinel representative that both he and his charges 
were already in love with this southwestern Oregon country and he could 
imagine no more delightful a place to spend his declining years, after he has 
retired from service, than in Oregon and Coos county. But the colonel is not 
an old man; he will not be eligible for retirement for many years yet.
  The C.C.C. Camp is a mile or so from the point where the Fairview-Lee road 
joins the Coquille-Fairview road at the Matthews place in Fairview.

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