Greenbrier County, West Virginia - THE WHITE SULPHUR SIGNAL ********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** The records for this work have been transcribed by Valerie Crook from copy provided by Lora Blom, January, 1999. ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** THE WHITE SULPHUR SIGNAL CO. 3512 CAMP P-67 VOL. TWO WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WEST VIRGINIA June 15, 1936 No. 7 PAGE ONE COL. WALDRON INSPECTS OUR CAMP Colonel W. H. WALDRON, Commanding Officer of the Charleston District CCC, inspected Camp White Sulphur, Thursday morning, May 21. He was accompanied by Major ROBERG. Col. WALDRON was well impressed with our camp as a whole and pronounced it a very fine camp. HUFFORD MADE LEADER Keith HUFFORD, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. V. HUFFORD of Clarksburg, W. Va., was rated from assistant leader to leader on June 1. He has been given additional authority and duties as Forestry Clerk under Supt. Parks. Keith was born at Clarksburg on August 23, 1914 and attended school there until he reached the age of 14, when he and his parents moved to Detroit, Mich. Here he attended the East Side Commercial Hi. Sch. with majors in English, Bookeeping, and Typing. He has to his credit 14 months of service with the CCC in California and Idaho. In November, 1935, he rejoined the CCC and was assigned to this camp. His first position here was that of First Aid Attendant; then assistant company clerk and later forestry clerk with an assistant leader's rating. He has many friends among the members of the company and is well liked by the Officers and foresters. OTHER RATINGS Other appointments consist of: Arnold J. BOSLEY, from an asst. leader to leader -- 1st cook in Spurgeon's place. Bill HODGE from asst. leader to leader. SCHRADER took the place as second cook vacated by BOSLEY, and NEFF took over HODGE's duties as 2nd cook. NEW BUNK TAGS PLACED Each bunk now shows the exact name, No., etc. of each enrollee. TAKE CARE OF THEM. E. A.- C. O. CONCLAVE OUTLINE SECTOR SUMMER PROGRAM A conference of the Company Commanders, Educational Advisers and their assistants held their monthly Lewisburg Sector Educational meeting at our camp on May 18th. The meeting was called by District Adviser Carl G. CAMPBELL, District Welfare Officer Lt. D. A. VORHEES, and Sector Commander Major A. A. ROBERG, and were the presiding officers conducting the discussions and formulated the plans for educational and recreational activities for the summer months. The many problems relative to the educational program were emphasized and fully discussed by Mr. CAMPBELL. He stressed job training and job placement along with personal guidance for all enrollees. Lt. VORHEES pointed out the need for a well balanced camp, sector, and district recreational program for all the enrollees. Sector baseball and softball schedules was outlined by Capt. WINTER, Sector Chaplain. PAINTER ACCEPTS EMPLOYMENT Raymond PAINTER, formerally Mess Sgt., accepts a position in his home town. All of the members of this big family regret very much to have him depart, but are all glad that we can congratulate him and extend to him our best wishes in his new endeavors. SPURGEON APPOINTED MESS SERGEANT Robt. SPURGEON takes over Sgt. PAINTER's duties. He was formerally first cook under PAINTER. He is well qualified by his experience to fit into the place left by our Raymond. We wish to congratulate him and extend our best wishes to meal after meal of good food. WORK WITH HIM BOYS! ____________________________________________________________________________________ PAGE TWO WHITE SULPHUR SIGNAL PUBLISHED BY AND FOR MEMBERS OF COMPANY 3512, CCC, WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. VA. STAFF EDITOR..................... C. E. SHAWVER ASSOCIATE EDITOR........... M. C. MARAS ASST. EDITOR............... Odel BARBE ASST. EDITOR............... Keith HUFFORD Feature Editor............. John CHIPKO Hawkshaw Editor............ John HURLEY Mimeograph Operator......... Obbie GRIER Reporters:................. R. SPURGEON J. P. NUTTER E. L. FIZER B. SHAMBLIN Chester SHARPE Dan MERCER ADVISORY EDITOR & CRITIC: Joe C. SIPPE, JR. EDUCATIONAL ADVISOR ADVISORY BOARD Capt. H. C. JOYNER, CWS-Res. Ensign L. H. HIGENBOTHAM, USNR. Lt. L. R. STEPHENS, Med-Res. Mr. Raymond PARKS, Technical Supt. Mr. Robt. L. POORE, Asst. Supt. CONTRIBUTIONS ARE SOLICITED FROM ALL MEMBERS OF OUR COMPANY. WE RESERVE THE PRIVILEGE TO EDIT ALL NEWS MATTER SUBMITTED. --STAFF WE WANT YOU TO REMEMBER Write home to mother every week. Fathers Day. EDITORALS YOUR REC. HALL Last week, an incident occurred which we regret to put into print, but to prevent a recurrence of similar incidents in the future, we find it necessary to paint you a sad but true picture. Two keys were broken on our piano in the Recreation Hall. Evidently not thru carelessness or accident, but deliberately in a vandalistic attitude. In all probability someone walked past the piano and noticed that the keys were not locked or under cover, struck down at them with his fist. An exact reason or explanation for an act of this nature is hard to determine. It merely shows the absence of sound thinking ability. This piano was BOUGHT for our use and entertainment -- if you cannot play it, or do not find any pleasure in attempting to learn to play, it is only courtesy to your friends that you do nothing to contribute to the piano's destruction. Some of us have the feeling that we never get very much here in the CCC and yet at the same time we show little appreciation or regard for the things we do have. THE ROUGH USE THE POOL TABLE GETS TENDS TO CONFIRM THIS OPINION. Unless we show some appreciation for what we do have, you may rest assured that we shall get few additions to our Hall in the future. Let us make our camp a HOME, second only to the one we left when we joined the CCC, and take as good care of what we have here as we did of those cherished belongings we left with MOTHER and DAD! --Associate Editor _______________________________________ PAGE THREE MEN AT WORK HENSHAW RESIGNS Mr. W. T. HENSHAW, Jr., who has been assigned to this camp as engineer, tendered his resignation effective June 17th. He accepted employment with a Carbon and Carbide organization. All of the members of this company join in wishing him luck in his new endeavors. INSPECTORS HERE Mr. J. R. MADDY, Regional Inspector, and Mr. Mason CLOUD, Engineer Inspector, were here on an inspection tour recently. They were well pleased with out progress. PROGRESS MAPS COMPLETED Mr. C. C. CARTER, Mr. Sidney PAYNE, Mr. W. T. HENSHAW, and Mr. DEITON, under the supervision of Mr. Mason CLOUD, has completed working on a group of works progress maps of every forestry camp in the state. The maps are 34 by 36 inches and show all first and second class roads, post offices, towns, correct location on camps, etc. SMOKE EATERS GO TO RICHWOOD 50 of our boys were called to Richwood last June 3rd to aid in fighting the fire which burned along the Three Forks section of Williams River near Richwood, W. Va. Foreman McGRADY, JENKINS, and LOCKHART were in charge of the crew. Our boys were on duty for 27 1/2 hours. At the close of the fire 1400 men were on duty and aided in getting the fire out of danger. they were blessed with rain. SPORTS OUR SCHEDULE June 20 Softball at Price June 21 Softball Camp Price here June 27 Hardball at Price June 28 Hardball Camp Lewis here June 28 Softball at Neola July 11 Hardball Neola here July 12 Softball at Lewis July 18 Hardball Camp Price here July 26 Hardball at Cranberry July 26 Softball at Cranberry BASEBALLER'S LUCK Co. 2590 bows to Co. 3512 after a hard played game. The game ended to the tune of 5 to 4. The very next day, Co. 3512 bows to Co. 525 with a score of 11 to 5. The game started out all White Sulphur. Due to timely hitting and errors of Cranberry, Co. 3512 was able to forge ahead disregarding the All-Star CCC American pitching of OXLEY. The ease with our team of hitting OXLEY, made them over confident and our errors paved the way in the 7th for victory to Co. 525. We realize our mistakes now and can assure then that the next game will be played differently. SOFTBALLERS LOSE OPENING GAMES The softballers seem to be off to a bad start. The first game was won by Co. 2590 by a score of 21 to 10. Both teams showed ragged playing. The second game taken by Co. 3510, score was 27 to 12. The results show that our team needs more practice -- every night should be practice night. INTER-BARRACK LEAGUE NEEDED What do you say about having games with each barrack? Would you favor an inter-barrack league? This league would include Softball, Volleyball, Pool, Ping-Pong, etc. If you are interested, please let us hear your remarks. We have great desires to see you enjoy yourselves! -CARPENTER _________________________________________________________________________ PAGE FOUR DEER SARRY - hellow honeybunch how are all of you in hedge hog holler. i am getting along fine to. we have got a noo skedule here now on gettin up and go to work a haff hr before than we uster. tother day all of the e. a.'s and C. O.'s in mahor robergs districk had to come to a big meetin here to talk about us boys & recreation. they talked together for all afternoon in our readin room. dr campbell and lt. vorhees and major roberg and capt winter was here to talk to. everybody likes to come here to see our camp and make inspections. col. waldron was here and said he looked all over our camp and it was in good shape and that we had a very good camp. maj. roberg was with him and said he liked it to. then that dr. jonnes what used to be our dr. and the one that always wants to look at the k. p.'s & see their finger nails was here to make a inspection. he said everything was o. k. tother day major smith stopped to see our place and stayed to eat before he went on a inspection and said everywhere he looked it was fine. Keith hufford the boy what rote the one pome in happy daze is made a leader and a bigger pay. campbell is workin in the 1st aid job in place of bramlett. roberts is went home so andy kachmarik is now our sgt and puts everybody on kp. chester hustons found a job at his home and he left us. Mr sippe gave one of them purty papers like what was on our camp paper to 13 of the boys what had a first aid class where dr. stephens teached us so that the boys can show everybody they are very smart and he called it educational certificates. he is goin to give me one becuz i will study my lessons. tother night 50 of the boys had to go a way up to richwood to fight a big fire in a big woods that is owned by the u. s. i did not have to go out 1000 ccc boys was there from camps. we got a baseball and a softball team. i play on the softball team and we got beat by neola in our first game. with luv. albert CAMP'S WHO'S WHO FINK THOMAS WILSON FINK, son of Mr. Oden S. Fink and Mrs. Gertrude Tincher Fink, was born in Danese, West Va., February 26, 1913. He attended the Lady Hall Grade School for eight years. In 1929, he began his commercial work - nine months an a PWA project, nine months on a dairy farm, and several months with the W. Va. State Road Commission. He entered the CCC at Fayetteville, West Va., on August 19, 1935, and was assigned to this camp for duty. His official title here is Truck Driver for the Forestry Department. DONATHAN LEWIS ALLIE DONATHAN, son of Mr. John H. Donathan and Mrs. Elsie Hazel Hughes Donathan, was born at Richcreek, Giles County, Virginia on April 19, 1915. He attended and graduated from the Clayton Grade in Glasgow, Virginia. His industrial experience consists of 3 months of work building roads on a CWA Project. He enrolled in the CCC at Union, W. Va. on August 29, 1935. Allie has been with John McGrady's crew since his assignment to this camp. BOSTICK SIMMS BOSTICK, son of George Bostick and Mrs. Anne Morris Bostick, was born in the old home across the creek from the Forestry Office on June 2, 1911. The old home has since been torn down and replaced by the present Log Cabin. Simms spent all of his boyhood on Harts Run and the present site of this camp. He entered the CCC at Lewisburg on August 19, 1935. He was assigned to this camp and to Mr. Stewart's crew. Simms is a hard worker and a faithful student in the Camp Educational Program. ________________________________________________________________________ PAGE FIVE UNIVERSITY OF THE WOODS FIRST OFFICIAL EDUCATIONAL CERTIFICATES AWARDED 13 members of our camp educational department have been presented with the official CHARLESTON DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL CERTIFICATE for the successful completion of a course of study given by 1st Lt. L. R. Stephens, camp surgeon, in Standard Red Cross First Aid. This certificate was awarded for the 1st time in this camp and sector and were presented to the following: Andrew KACHMARIK, Samuel SPENCER, Keith HUFFORD, King GREEN, Dana JENKINS, Galvin WILFONG, Robt. SPURGEON, Dan MERCER, Billy HODGE, M. C. MARAS, Robert CAMPBELL, Clarence SHAWVER, and Wm. CHATTIN. PREVIOUS SCHOOLING OF MEMBERS 0 -- 1 1st -- 0 2nd -- 1 3rd -- 2 4th -- 7 5th -- 7 6th -- 14 7th -- 31 8th -- 50 9th -- 13 10th -- 13 11th -- 6 12th -- 15 13th -- 1 14th -- 0 15th -- 0 16th -- 1 DARKROOM OUTFIT FOR PHOTO CLASS ORDERED An order has been placed for a Darkroom Developing and Printing Outfit. The Photographers are looking forward to a great amount of enjoyment learning to develop and print pictures. Amateurs who desire to do their work will find this class very interesting. ASK ABOUT THE CLASS. ENROLL. JOIN. GET INTERESTED. RECIEVE MENTION The following men receive honorable mention for doing excellent work and for completing above average amount of work: Raymond BURNS, Andy KACHMARIK, Odell BARBE, Sam SPENCER, John CHIPKO, John HURLEY, Bus McFADDEN, Obbie GRIER, and SHAWVER. Raymond BURNS has completed the course of study and is now doing speed work only. He expects to have his full speed soon. ________________________________________________________________________ PAGE SIX HUMOR WE WONDER... If MARAS ever won a dancing contest? If PAINTER is going to reside in the City of Roceverte after he departs from the three C's? What McCLUNG's attraction is at WSS? Why the McGEEs have such a fondness for our rookies? Who is the new Chambermaid for the Foresters? If Prof. WILFONG will ever forget what a Lady's Slipper represents? How Louie WASH feels when he's in love? Why MERCER and SHERWOOD fell out? Why SHAMBLIN and FIZER missed bed-check? If two-bits used Palmolive to acquire his schoolgirl complexion? If SPENCER knows "V. S."? If Sourpuss enjoyed his vacation? Why BAKER received his new name? Who the laziest man on earth will be when MAYS goes to his happy hunting grounds? What CARPENTER's batting average is for the first two games? Who tore up Scoop's bunk? Why BROYLES and JENKINS are on K. P.? Why Screwy GREEN quit taking his Charles Atlas Course? What caused Farmer Boys to perspire last Wed. Night? Why the Supply Sgt. and the laundry-man disagreed? What Sgt. ROBERTS is doing with his spare time? If the Tee Hees has any affect on the frequent visits of MARAS and ROGERS? If MYERS realizes that his upper lip needs a little attention? Why PAINTER went swimming on the 3rd? If Ensign enjoyed himself at the Greenbrier affair? WHAT WE WILL DO WITHOUT MAJOR ROBERG? What attraction caused Mr. SIPPE to go to Richwood? If you realize what the CCC is doing for you and if you appreciate Uncle Sam's efforts? IF YOU LIKE TO READ THIS COLUMN? WE IMAGINE.... Snowball back in camp. DILLION wearing the pants issued to him last fall. A ball game without McFADDEN. MITCHELL as Educational Advisor. A free show at the Plaza. SHERWOOD driving a truck. Rosie SHARP getting a D. D. The Capt. catching someone in bed late. Arnold MARTIN not talking about a horse. Drawing $5.00 on payday. PENINGATON carrying a baby. McCLUNG taking CHIPKO to town for a date. KEE being afraid to go to town. CAMPBELL as Camp Doctor. SPURGEON on K. P. duty. Eating supper wearing a tuxedo. SHAWVER having money. BRAMLETT biting someone. Three kinds of soup for one meal. PERSINGER not griping. CHATTIN without his long story. BOSTICK winning the Nobel prize for Penmanship. MITCHELL attending his classes. 18 K. P.'s for one week-end duty. Buren JONES with a clean undershirt. Everyone washing his feet before going to bed. Softball practice. BELLDINA refusing to eat macaroni. SHAMBLIN saying, "I can't walk another step". Corbet ARNOLD not going to town. LIPSCOMB at Caldwell without a date. Tilford ROGERS as C. O. Keith HUFFORD not singing. SPENCER being pleased. Getting out of bed at 8:00. This camp without a rookie. CHIPKO refusing to study. No educational certificates. EVERY MEMBER OF OUR COMPANY HELPING US KEEP OUR REC. HALL CLEAN! No more forest fires. THIS COLUMN NOT THE BEST. ________________________________________________________________________