The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-07-13
ARMY PERFORMS GREAT WORK IN ENROLLING M FEN
Heintzleman Tells Cham Der of Organization of
 Conservation Corps

In the enrolment of 100000 work CTS in the Civilian Conservation Corps for work on the Presidents reforestation program, necessitating the establishment of 1900 camps throughout the nation, the United States Army surpassed all of its own wartime records, declared B. F. Heintzleman, Asst. Regional For ester, who aided the United States Forest Service in its part of the program, in a short talk before the Chamber of Commerce today.
 MT. Heintzleman, who was in Washington at the time, was draft ed last March to aid Director C.. w. Grainger in carrying out the Forest Services work It was a big job, but on July l, the men were in the hills as had been directed by the President.
 Less Than Three Months
 Enrolling the men, clothing them, establishing camps and getting the men into camp was the task as- signed to the Army. It began about the middle of March under instructions by the President to have 100000 men in the field by July l. This goal was reached by the time set. Not even during the rush days of the entry of the United States did the Army make any such record, MT. Heintzleman said, and it is entitled to a world of credit for it's achievement.
 The Conservation army is scat tered through some 1,60O camps. There are camps in every State. The work is largely road and trail construction but also includes refor- estation, clearing away of snags, stumps and other inflamable ma- terials that constitute fire haz- ards, erosion prevention, and in one State there is camp which is engaged in fighting a fire in a coal bed that has been burning for 20 years.
 Forest Service Part
 The work of the Forest Service, he said, embraced the selection of sites for camps, purchase of equip ment and selection of personnel to supervise the work Fifteen thou sand men were employed by it to act as supervisors, camp foremen and in other supervisory capacities. In addition, the forest Service ob- tained from the President the priv ilege of adding 35,000 men, local residents, to give the corps an in- filtration of experienced men.
 Most of the men in the corps are high school and university gradu- ates who had been unemployed for three years. Each of them was re- quired to allot $20 per month to dependents. Generally they are a fine type of citizen.
 Purchases of equip m ent were handicapped by lack of stocks. Axes and cross cut saws were par ticularly hard to get. But now, all of the camps are well equipped and the work is progressing very satisfactorily. s
 Six Months Planned
 The present program is planned for only six months. Just what will be done after that time is indefi- nite. It is the Presidents hope, evidently, that industrial recovery will have progressed sufficiently by that time to enable the corps personnel to be absorbed in nor mai pursuits.
 There has already been a ma- terial start made toward resump- tion of industry, MT. Heintzleman said. When he went east last Marcn there was little rail travel and hotels were virtually empty. Steel towns he passed through showed but a thread of smoke coming
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