Biography of Frank Victor Timpanaro
CCC Man, Company 3275, Camp Redriver F-192 & Camp Pollock F-107, Nez Perce National Forest, ID
My father Frank Victor Timpanaro was in the CCC Camps. He was born Feb 28, 1924. We believe his papers may have been changed so he could go in. He was from Lyndhurst, New Jersey.
He had a scrapbook from his CCC times. It is titled Company 3275, Idaho and places. On it he listed the cities White Bird, Fall Creek, Elk City, Riggens, McCall, Graingeville, Boise, and Sun Valley. All are in Idaho, and excluding Boise are in the Nez Perce Clearwater and Salmon Challis National Forests. Presumably he was at all of these places at some time during his stay. He also lists two camps, Camp Redriver F-192, and Camp Pollock F-107. These are camps which were in the Nez Perce National Forest.
According to the Forest Service, link below, The Red River Camp, F-192 was established at the mouth of French Gulch along Red River in May, 1936. The CCC boys from the camp worked on surfacing the Elk City-Red River road and construction of the Big Mallard Road. Mr. Timpanaro's Company is noted as being there in 1938, with a Company 570 being there afterwards, the camp being vacated in October, 1940.
Camp Pollock F-107, again per the USDA site, was approximately 2 miles south of Riggins along the North & South Highway. The site gives various projects completed at the camp, such as building roads on the Salmon River, Squaw Creek, the Bean Creek Road to the Snake River and park trails. However the company number given by that source is not the same as that of Mr. Timpanaro's, so its his company occupied the camp at another time and did other forestry work in the area. This camp closed in June, 1941.
The scrapbook also lists the officers of each camp but their names are not legible in this photo. There is also a notation at the end of places (or over the Pollock Camp name) that seems to be "Cal Morrley", but there is not town in California by that name, or other town by that name anywhere near Idaho. Nor is their a camp by any name like that listed by the Forest Service in the link below. Its possibly a name of a friend or another officer at the Red River Camp, but it seems most likely to be an addition to the place names.
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"1939, CCC Co. 3275, Idaho and Places", Scrapbook Cover, Frank Victor Timpanaro, Co. 3275
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