History of 606th
Civilian Conservation Corps Company
CCC Company 606, F-40, Florence, Wisconsin
From Sparta
Civilian Conservation Corps District, Sixth Corps Area, 1937 Annual
History:
Eleven commanding officers have guided
the destinies of Company 606 in five different states since it was organized at
Ft. Sheridan, Ill, late in April 1933.
Company 606 went to Oregon in May, 1933, and moved to Camp Little Rock, Palmdale, Calif., in October. In April, 1934, Company 660 moved to Camp Schofield, Headquarters, Idaho; but it returned to California in October, occupying Camp Piedra
Blanca, Wheeler Springs. In May, 1935, the company again moved to Camp Schofield in Idaho. Its Western sojourn ended, Company 606 returned to Ft. Sheridan in October, 1935. Northward then to Florence, Wis., traveled this wandering company, arriving Nov. 7, 1935.
First Commanding Officer of Company
606 was Capt. Harry R. Kadlec, Engr.-Res.
Then came five officers who were in command for only short
periods of time. Capt. E.W. Christensen, Inf.-Res.,
succeeded them, and he had charge of the company for the longest period of
time, from December 9, 1933,
to October 19, 1935.
Lieut. H.P. Stevens, Inf.-Res.,
commanded Company 606 from that date until November 6, 1935.
Capt. Kirby M. Quinn, CA-Res., was C.O. from November 7, 1935,
until July 31, 1936.
Lieut. H.M. Adams, FA-Res., was in command from August 1, 1936,k to October 28, 1936. Capt. Cyrus M. Lane, Inf-Res., eleventh and
present Commanding Officer, has been in charge since October 29, 1936.
On May 30, 1937, the official personnel of Company 606, Camp
Rainbow F-40 (Wis.) was as follows: Capt. Cyrus M. Lane, Inf-Res.,
Commanding Officer; Lieut. W.G. Billings, CW-Res.,
Executive Officer; Martin T. Keaveny, Educational
Adviser; Raymond E. Stevens, Camp Superintendent; and John Zaylski,
Benjamin Moss, Adam Korbus, H.H. Meives,
Joseph Steinfest, Everett Shipek,
R.M. Elvidge, and Albert Salisbury, members of the
Forest Service.
Work projects of Company 606 have been
largely concerned with reforestation. Enrollees have scalped and planted in Oregon, California,
Idaho, and Wisconsin. They have built roads and fire trails. They have
constructed telephone lines and built bridges. They have snared rabbits and
they have planted fish. They have fought raging forest fires in four states.
Fourteen men did flood relief work in the Mississippi flood region early in 1937.
Achievements of Company 606 in recreational and
educational endeavors have included: Second place in the Sixth Sub-District
one-act play contest, February 1936; second place in the indoor game tournament
of the Sixth Sub-District, March, 1936; fourth place with a two-man entry in
the Sixth Inspection Area swimming meet (first place in diving), August
23, 1936; first place in the
Sixth Inspection Area indoor game tournament, March 1937. Company 606 has
participated in all the other games and contests held in its
area, including baseball, softball, basketball and track meets.
The Pot-O’-Gold and La Cucaracha were
Company 606’s two weekly newspapers. La Cucarach
began publication at Wheeler
Springs, Calif., late in 1934, and forty issues had been mimeographed
when the last number was issued on October 5, 1935.
The Pot-O’-Gold began publication February 13, 1936,
at Camp Rainbow, and its sixty-sixth issue (Volume 2, No. 21) was
published May 27 1937.
The Pot-O’-Gold received four-star Happy Days ratings for some thirty-three of
those issues. More than seventy different enrollees have been staff members of
The Pot-O’-Gold.
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