Something to consider -- in the Depression years there was a great fear of social instability or violence directed against the government (Bolshevism and Communism were in their heyday) by the many hundreds of thousands of unemployed young men in the country. The work camps served two purposes, the first obviously was to give them work, but the second was to defuse any opportunity for anti-government organizing. One way to do this was to send these young men far from home where they didn't have ties to the local communities. So, sending someone from NC to FL instead of placing them in a local CCC camp would mean that he wasn't being thrown in with others from his own area. This could be the sort of environment where strong bonds could be forged among the young men. They could also be exposed to socialist ideas which blamed capitalism on their current problems. Sounds a bit familiar, doesn't it? -----Original Message----- From: William G. Bates Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 10:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ARCARROL] 1940 Census Something for consideration: He would not have been sent to any camp within about 400 miles of his home. My father wound up over 600 miles from home, central North Carolina from South Central Florida, and there was a camp just fifteen miles of our house. In the Museum to the CCC now part of that site the above was postulated but there was no reasoning for that rule. I never did find out why the government would spend all that money on transportation except it benefited mostly the RailRoad as their main transportation source. Sparkgapper On Apr 21, 2012, at 10:09 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > While exploring the newly released 1940 census for Carroll Co., AR, I > couldn't find my father, Eugene Snow, who was thought to be in the CCC > camp at that time. The Enumeration District for the CCC camp was 8-24, but > it shows as two blank pages with Non-Pop written across it. Does anyone > know the history of the CCC camp during the census taking? > Phillip > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message