Companies of the Fort Missoula CCC District

Company 575

Company 575 was organized in 1933, at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The Company spent time in Kentucky, California, and Montana. They created their Company Review while stationed at Camp SCS-2, near Lewiston, Montana. It arrived in Lewiston in 1939 and was assigned the project of soil conservation.

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Company 575, CCC was organized at Fort Knox, May 28, 1933. After a brief sojurn [sic] there it was transferred to Fort Thomas, Kentucky during the summer. Early in August 1933 the Company moved to Camp Fulton, F-103, Glennville, California under the command of Captain Clifford I. Hunn, 1st Cavalry, U.S.A. Mechanized.

December 16, 1933 Captain Myles K. Stolz, 32nd Inf. Res. Assumed command and moved to Camp F-126, Port Hill, Idaho in the spring of 1934, then to Camp F-105, California Hot Springs, California, October 1934, then to Camp SCS-1, Winnett, Montana in September 1935.

July 19th, 1939 the company moved to Camp SCS-2, Lewistown, Montana with Lt. Vancel R. Beck in command. The present Staff Members are Company Commander Lloyd Y. Turnell, Subaltern Clarence Murry, Dr. M. Rappoport Camp Physician, George W. Beatty, Educational Adviser. Mr. E. J. Parkinson is the Soil Conservation Service Project Superintendent.

Company 575 furnished 200 of 3000 CCC members who fought the great 1934 Hemlock fire in Idaho.

In 1934-40 its members won the sub-district Baseball Championship and placed third in the state. It won the Montana Soft-Ball Championship, the Sub-district Basketball Championship and placed fourth in the state. It produced the sub-district, the district and the inter-district Bantam Weight Boxing Champion, Anthony Pope.

Up to 1040 it held the distinction of building the largest earth filled dam constructed by any single company in the United States at Winnett, Montana.
 
 
  • Fire Fighting
  • Soil Conservation
  • Dam Building
 
  • Lloyd Y Turnell - Company Commander
  • Clarence F. Murray - Subaltern
  • George W. Beatty - Educational Adviser
  • Dr. Milton Rappoport - Camp Surgeon
  • E. J. Parkinson - Project Superintendent
  • George Randall - Senior Foreman
  • Thomas A. Carr - Senior Foreman
  • Walter L. Brittan - Senior Foreman
  • James Hagerty - Senior Foreman
  • Ernest A. Eaves - Mechanic
  • J. F. Langendorf - Project Staff
  • Walter Woodward - Engineer
  • Allen S. Erickson - Range Examiner
  • William H. Cardon - Soil Scientist
  • Philip Van Cleave - Range Examiner
Enrollees:

Robert D. Ackley, Amos Alford, Chester J. Augustine, Virgil Bellamy, William E. Bennett, James E. Braden, Johm R. Calland, Phillip A. Carlson, Henry Cecil, John T. Chambers, James A. Clay, Richard Collins, Samuel C. Corbett, Mitchell Crain, Kenneth G. Crews, John J. Dalaski, Earnest R. Dickey, William C. Dilback, Elmer H. Drenski, Halver M. Durbin, John Q. Effinger, Edmond A. Etheridge, John E. Fairbanks, Curt Fischer, Elmer L. Floyd, Reed Frasure, Columbus T. Gaone, James E. Gaskill, William J. Gaylord, Howard P. Hall, James E. Hammons, Wilmer L. Hammons, John F. Happel, William S. Hazenbuhler, Bennie H. Higdon, Lawrence H. Hupp, Cobert Jarrells, Hershel J. Jenkins, Jimmie Johnson, Morris L. Jordan, Paul E. Kammer, Lee A. Kirchner, John A. Konek, Mike G. Konyud, Joseph F. Kroff, Ervin D. Lambert, Verne R. Lattimer, John R. Lawhorn, Dale Leatherman, Howard J. Lees, Leonard G. Lockard, Finnie A. Lofton, Ray Lovell, Russell I. Lowe, Maurice E. McClanahan, Charles T. McDonald, Charles W. McGraw, Charles H. McRoberts, Louis A. Miles, Albert L. Mitchell, Garland L. Moore, Corwin R. Morey, Kernel Mullins, Fred Newman, Joseph H. Newton, Dino Nobilucci, Thomas A. Pearl, Sherile Richmond, Herbert W. Rittner, John J. Robers, Francis J. Roby, James L. Rogers, Robert W. Ross, Warren T. Rountree, Ancel W. Ruggles, Link C. Russell Jr., William P. Sanders, Charles W. Schneider, Charles E. Seeley, John L. Sensbach, Leonard F. Sexton, Samuel D. Smith, William N. Smith, Paul T. Stanley, Samuel Stanovic, Richard M. Steele, Mike Stefura, Lee R. Stewart, Carl H. Sturdevant, Mike Suchar, Steve Suhar, Stephen J. Sulik, Mike J. Svasta, Charles Swisher Jr., Oscar E. Swords, William M. Tague, Valent J Tarajack, Gerald N. Tate, George R. Taylor, Frank C. Taylor, Gus Thomas, Edward R. Thompson, John V. Thompson, Clarence Thornley, Roy C. Tipton, Albert L. Toth, Louis Toto, Joseph Totta, Albert W. Trebella, Steve Tresnowsky, Anthony D. Tringhese, James L. Tucke, Ward A. Tucker, Mike N. Turek, Sidney F. Turner, John L. Updegraff, Albert A. Untch, Fred L. Vanarsdale, Arthur W. Vance, William T. Vennetti, Anthony S. Vigeon, George F. Vitello, Andrew M. Vlasic, Robert D. Votaw, Andy J. Voytko Jr., John Vukovich, Francis J. Walker, John S. Wallace, Richard A. Wallace, Howard Ward, Otto R. Ward, Ralph E. Ward, James K. Watson, Robert M. Weddell, Alfred J. Wellman, Berlin Wheeler, Wayne A. Wheeler, William M. Wick, Calvin Williams, Earnest Q. Williams, Odis B. Williams, R. Williams, Earl J. Williamson, Robert W. Wise, Ralph Wiseman, William W. Wonders, Omer Young

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