Head of Veterans’ Work Has No Plans After Property Transfer

Colonel J. D. Fulp, state ERA administrator, said today that three ERA camps abandoned by “bonus army” veterans in the state would be offered to the civilian conservation corps.

“We will offer the camp at Blaney and the two at Charleston to CCC.” Colonel Fulp said. “If they don’t want them, will dismantle the camps and sell them.”

One of the veteran camps, that Kingstree, remain under the supervision of the ER a transient division and today had 115 veterans, all of the original 910 who are still in the state, installed.

H. M. McElveen, director of the ERA’s transient service, said affairs at the Kingstreet camp were “going smoothly.”

Meanwhile Col. James H. Palmer, director of the now extinct veterans division, left for Kingstree and Charleston. He was to complete the transfer of Camp Williamsburg at Kingstree to the transient division and turn the Charleston camps over to the main ERA organization today. Properties at Blaney have already been transferred to ERA.

Colonel Palmer, whose connection with ERA will be severed when the work of transferring the properties is completed, said today he had “no plans” for the present. Colonel Palmer was formerly Richland County Administrator for ERA.

Last night official statements confirmed a story printed in The Columbia Record yesterday to the effect that most of the veterans formerly in the ERA Camps were planning a new march on Washington.