My Experiences in the Civilian Conservation Corps, and How I learned Telegraphy and Became a Radio Amateur and a
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F t. Redoubt - Looking up the moat toward the entrance end of the fort
K  yle Ward at Ft. Redoubt. - The fort was in amazingly good condition. He and I were the most adventuresome of our group of students, and we spent hours exploring the many rooms and examining the interesting architectural features of the old fort. Kyle was very smart, and a good student, but he never showed up in our radio net. He must have been sent to a camp that was transferred to another C.C.C. District when some of the camps were redistricted shortly after we left school. In the summer of 1940, I was walking down a street in Montgomery, Ala., and was passing a fruit and vegetable shop when I heard someone shout “Jim Farrior!”. I was surprised to see Kyle behind the counter serving customers. He rushed out to greet me, but had to return to his customers. I waited a few minutes, but I was in a hurry and told Kyle that I would be back to see him. I regret that it didn’t happen, and I never heard of him again. Perhaps he never served as a radio operator.
The Radio Operator School was completed -- Assigned to Morton, Mississippi I really enjoyed the radio school, and our lifestyle there, and wished it could have lasted longer. Because I already knew most of what was being taught, it was like a vacation. I pitied my friends back at Selma who were doing hard manual labor in the summer sun. After 2 1/2 months of studying basic radio theory, maintenance, and radio telegraphy at Ft. Barrancas, I was sent on Aug. 20, 1937, to a C.C.C. camp at the Roosevelt State Park 4 miles NW of Morton, Mississippi, where I served as the second operator for several weeks. A few days after I arrived in Morton, the net control operator at Ft. Barrancas passed along some very disturbing news. He and a number of other operators in the net would soon complete their two year maximum stay in the C.C.C., and it appeared that there would soon be insufficient operators available to assure viability of the radio net. Capt. Phillips was trying to find a solution, but the prospects didn’t look good. I had horrible visions of going back to ditch digging, tree planting, or even shoveling gravel. Directory: ccc -> files files -> From Data to Knowledge to Action: Enabling a Revolution in New Transportation ccc -> 2016 Drama 4 College Research Information Sheet Name of School: Columbia College Chicago ccc -> 1 (as of January 24, 2011) ccc -> Civic education files -> Instructions for web-admin are in [ ] [This goes under the following section ccc -> Suffolk county community college ccc -> College entrance exams files -> Rodney Brooks mit version 4: March 17, 20091 files -> Toward a Science of Autonomy for Physical Systems: Paths Download 4.5 Mb. Share with your friends:
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