DIRECTOR FECHNER IMPROVING

Director Robert Fechner now has improved sufficiently after an attack of arthritis to be able to leave Walter Reed Hospital daily to devote a half-day to office work.

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CHIEF LIAISON OFFICER IN WASHINGTON OFFICE WEEKLY

Roy Richardson, Chief Liaison Officer of the Corps, will spend one day each week in the Washington office of the National Park Service, to discuss matters relating to the two agencies. Copies of all pertinent Army orders will be received by Mr. Richardson at that office and will be available to Service personnel.

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ENROLLEES AID IN NEW ENGLAND STORM EMERGENCY

Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees in New England and even in distant Kentucky went into action as a result of the hurricane which lashed the northeastern states last month. Workers from the camp at Beach Pond Recreational Demonstration Area, Escoheag, R. I., were sent to the beaches to search the debris for missing persons. They later were assigned to the task of clearing blocked roads and trails where the drying fallen trees constituted a dangerous fire hazard. Early in October eleven members of a tree preservation crew which had been operating for several years from KY. NP-2, one of the camps assigned to Mammoth Cave National Park, were offered employment by a Connecticut firm in repairing storm-damaged trees. They were met inn Pennsylvania by transport trucks furnished by the company and taken into the hurricane area for private rehabilitation work.

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MOUND STATE MONUMENT MUSEUM CONSTRUCTION PROGRESSING

Enrollees of ALA. SP-15, Mound State Monument, Moundville, are pushing ahead rapidly in construction of the monolithic concrete museum building which will shelter the important prehistoric burials uncovered at that area. Of the 63 burials exposed, one concentration of 49 skeletons, with hundreds of ancient ornaments and implements undisturbed, is considered a striking example of an early organized pottery people. The central portion of the museum structure will house displays portraying the culture and characteristics of the pre-Columbians through use of the rich collection of artifacts gathered at the Alabama Monument during the last ten years.