Evening star., 1936-03-29
,DUMF FR|ES CAMPS
TOA|DD.C. GROUPS
Three Social Agencies Seek
Use of Sites Available
on $4,000 Acres.

Many of Washington's underprivi-
legged children may be AFFORDED new
recreational opportunities this sum-
mer as the result of large camp site
which the ReSettlement Administra-
tion has developed at Dumfries, Va,
near. Quantico.
Three of the Districts social
agencies already are seeking camping
grounds on the area, known as the
ChopawamSic site.
Frank r. Jelleff, president, and A.
r. E. Horne. Camp Committee chair
man. Washington Boys Club, have
applied for lease on one unit for the
coming season and expect to abondon
the clubs Wicomico River camp.
Since the Boys Club application is
the first by any local agency, it prob
ably will receive the first permit.
The Family Service Association,
which for several years has operated
Camp Good Will in Rock Greek Park
and Camp Pleasant at Blue Plains, is
considering applying for the Family
unit at the Chopawamsic site for
mothers and their children. 1t would
give up the Rock Greek site.
The Jewish Community Center,
heretofore without a camp project of
any kind, also expects to apply for a
place on the Resettlement Admins
tration development.
$4,000 Acres to Be Included.
Plans at ChopaWamsic call for con-
struction of three units this year, one
for boys, one for girls and one for
families The Government has OBJ
tanned about $4,000 acres of land at
Dumfries and will have about 10000
acres when the project is completed.
The lease fee is $500 per unit, which
includes upkeep of buildings, year.
round policing and garbage removal.
Each unit consists of five submits Of
five cabins, small recreation unit
and counSelors' cabin. There will
be two counselors for each five cabins
and each cabin will house four.
Each full unit will have a large
recreation hall, dining room, kitchen
and administration building. Campers
will be required to furnish all movable
supplies such as bedding, dishes, cook
ing utensils, etc, but the Government
will furnish cooking ranges, refrigera-
tion and dining tables.
Streams on the site will be damned
to make artificial lakes for swimming
and boating. Only one lake will be
completed this season, however.
Plenty of Play Room.
with no crowding, due to the i'm
mensity of the site, and with plenty
of room for expansion, I think the
ChopaWamsic site is the answer to the
boys prayer for outdoor vacation"
said Charles M. Fyfe. managing di-
rector of the Boys Club. THE cabin
arrangements, with four boys to a
cabin, is new idea in self discipline
which should work out to the advant-
age of the boys from youth educa-
ton standpoint, teaching them the
honor system of self-government and
making them more self-reliant"
Establishment of the new camp site
climaXes three years of campaigning
for such an area by the Council of
Social Agencies through Miss M. Edith
Coulson, secretary of :. the councils
Recreation Committee. It is probable,
according to officials of the council,
that the project will cause consider
able changes in the disposition of
Community Chest camp funds, re-
sultant economies making 1t possible
to provide more scholarships" for
boys who cannot pay all or part of
the small fee to be charged at the
Boys Club camp and enabling other
organizations, which furnish free
camps to mothers and children to
accommodate a greater number of
persons.
Among the possibilities opened by
the project, officials added, are further
economies through central purchas-
ing agency, in which one head steward
eventually would buy supplies for all
units on a wholesale basis. Co.
operative transportation also will be
considered in the interests Of economy,
1t was said.