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THE RUSHVILLE (INDIANA) REPUBLICANworkers, toilingup jod oi turnu of farmland slt; into a trainingArea at Columbus, Osecond denoric-Speed Work onFranklin. Ind.. April 23 UP)gle Upward of 5,000tier by sunlight and floodlight onshifts stretching around theclock, are busy with the hurryjob of turning six square miles farmland south of Franklinground for 40,000troops inGlaring electric lamps mounted on portable towers and ontrucks generating their ownjuice turn night intoemployes of ten prime contracsome 60 subcontractorscan rush construction of roadsrailroads, water mains and about1,700 buildings for the army’shuge Camp Atterbury, to cost$40,000,000.The first farmers moved offtheir land in mid-FebruaryJoseph Lovett of the speservice office of the Fifthsaidthe other day the first troops,some 1,500 strong, would move inabout mid-July. TheCamp Atterburytachment of about 29,000, of whom 9,000 are to be Negroes, will follow about a month later, he indicated.The working force is beingbuilt up several hundred a day toward a June peak of 15,000. Onthe engineering staff alone, which keeps its headquarters in the Franklin National Guard armory open day and night, are120 in the office and 280 in thefield.Biggest single project is a hospital of 60 buildings and 1,750 beds. A water pumping station and mains and two big reservoirs are being constructed. The first plan was for the reservoirs to be of steel. Came priorities regulations, and the builders shiftedto concrete.Inrush of the big force ofworkers has created problems ofhousing and health, education and recreation for Franklin,Columbus and smaller places in this area.Aballofnoovilllt;6, iitheTentedcaurunIt v fouiondSheArlPaha
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Rushville Evening Daily Republican
Rushville, Indiana, US
Fri, Apr 24, 1942
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