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| Date | Source | Headline |
| 02/28/1942 | Columbus |
READY TO PUT IN FOUNDATIONS ON CAMP SITE. Concrete Company Sets Up Plant Near Hospital Group Buildings. 800 MEN NOW AT WORK
Grading Moves Ahead - Records Barns Razed - Fences Taken Down. |
| 03/04/1942 | Columbus | Pour footings for Camp unit. Foundation One Building in Hospital Group In - Work in Mud. |
| 03/05/1942 | Columbus | Captain gives merchants idea of camp magnitude. |
| 03/05/1942 | Columbus | To start buying land here soon Government may begin acquiring property in this county in 2 weeks |
| 03/05/1942 | Franklin Star | Flood lights speed work on camp site. 24 acres taken for new water wells. |
| 03/07/1942 | Columbus | Landowners in camp area get first checks. 3 who signed options first paid 5 weeks later by government. Fraker closing agent. Long is appointed assistant project manager - 3 negotiators added. |
| 03/07/1942 | Franklin Star | First deeds on camp land are recorded here. Government formally given titles to 59 acres as U. S. begins actual buying task. |
| 03/07/1942 | Franklin Star | Camp workers warned about drinking unapproved water. |
| 03/11/1942 | Columbus | 3,000 acres more to be lopped off U. S. reservation. Heflen's Camp and Hartman's Water Front to be left out. Negotiators laid off. Move indicates some time may pass before more land is bought. |
| 03/11/1942 | Franklin Star | 3,000 acres taken from north and east boundaries of Army camp. |
| 03/12/1942 | Franklin Star | 14 or more to find land out of camp area. Heflen camp spared. |
| 03/13/1942 | Columbus | To save million on one section of Camp Atterbury. Low bids on four parts nearly that much below first offer. Open others tomorrow. At least 3 contracts expected to be let immediately |
| 03/13/1942 | Franklin Star | Half of camp wells condemned. Labeled unsafe for use by workmen. |
| 03/17/1942 | Columbus | Blair Company needs housing for 300 key men. Contractor of biggest job at Camp says situation here worst he's seen. To employ 7,000 to 10,000. Only 20 to 25 percent of workmen will live in trailers, he says. |
| 03/17/1942 | Columbus | Land left out of Camp area listed officially. |
| 03/17/1942 | Franklin Star | New north line of camp area made public. 15 Johnson county tracts are eliminated. 19 farms on east side of Bartholomew county also out. |
| 03/18/1942 | Franklin Star | Army to close building area to traffic. Sightseeing motorists to be banned effective Saturday. Road 252 and others barricaded. |
| 03/19/1942 | Columbus | PLAN TO CLOSE ROADS LEADING INTO CAMP AREA. Barricades Will Be Put Up Saturday on Highways in Construction Area. WILL BAR SIGHTSEER. Persons Still Residing in Condemned Zone to Have Temporary Passes. |
| 03/21/1942 | Columbus | 2,000 at work now as project is given push. Weather boosts employment at Atterbury - Full scale operations near. Personnel office opens. Blair, Main contractor, sets up hiring post near union's place. |
| 03/21/1942 | Franklin Star | 86 camp tracts must be vacated by next Tuesday. Most farmers out already. |
| 03/21/1942 | Franklin Star | 9,000 of camp soldiers will be colored, authority says. |
| 03/23/1942 | Columbus | Negotiations for other camp land to get under way. Ready to buy territory in Kansas and below Ohio Ridge Road. New men for contacts. All negotiators except Chief from outside Bartholomew County. |
| 03/23/1942 | Columbus | 9,000 colored troops coming. Also 20,000 white soldiers from Ohio. |
| 03/23/1942 | Franklin Star | Negotiations on for additional Atterbury acres. Real estate office ordered to dicker for land located in southern Bartholomew county. |
| 03/24/1942 | Columbus | City begins to feel pressure of camp rush. Brisk demand for quarters is recorded at Chamber of Commerce |
| 03/24/1942 | Columbus | Prepare to Move 500 Graves from Camps Site |
| 03/24/1942 | Franklin Star | First troops to move in July 15. 500 officers, 1,000 men may come while work still goes on. |
| 03/25/1942 | Columbus | 5 THEATERS IN PLANS OF CAMP. Field House, Club Room and Other Facilities to Be Built. |
| 03/25/1942 | Columbus | START RAZING FIRST HOUSE IN CAMP AREA. Number of Homes, Barns and Silos to Be Offered for Sale. CCC WORKS ON SALVAGE. May Be Quartered Within Reservation-Land Buying Is Extended. |
| 03/25/1942 | Columbus | Start razing first house in camp area. Number of homes, barns and silos to be offered for sale. |
| 03/25/1942 | Franklin Democrat | Beats Oil Well. $180 a month offered for Columbus room by 6 camp workers |
| 03/27/1942 | Columbus | Camp land not to revert from U. S. ownership. Special legislation would be required for it to go back. More options signed. Owners in Western part of county divided on prices offered. |
| 03/27/1942 | Franklin Star | 60 water wells closed - Atterbury water situation is cleared. |
| 03/28/1942 | Franklin Star | Congress may act to revert Camp land back to crops after war over. |
| 03/30/1942 | Franklin Star | Army taking bids this week on evacuating cemeteries. |
| 04/01/1942 | Franklin Star | 70 cars of Atterbury freight shoved on siding in one day. Most freight unloaded at Edinburg, but heavy machinery is unloaded at Franklin, and rolled through Franklin, down the Mauxferry Road, as the SR 252 bridge is not sturdy enough. |
| 04/02/1942 | Columbus | Columbus declared defense area, Wilson advises. Wires Mayor Owens and Supt. Hughes information from Washington. Building boom is seen. Critical materials will be available with high priority rating. |
| 04/02/1942 | Columbus | WPA to start work at Camp. Grant will be used to maintain highway. More men - more trucks to move in |
| 04/02/1942 | Columbus | Says 30,000 soldiers to be at Atterbury. Another Army spokesman, whose identity remains a secret, has placed the number of troops to be housed at Camp Atterbury to be around 30,000 |
| 04/02/1942 | Columbus | Work started on all parts of Army camp. Employment Tops 2,500 Mark as Fair Weather Aids Construction. JUMP SEEN NEXT` WEEK. Kutsche and Thompson-Fisher Firms Under Way - Buildings Springing Up. |
| 04/02/1942 | Franklin Star | $378,000 allotment made to improve roads into Atterbury. WPA to work on roads. |
| 04/02/1942 | Franklin Star | To move 483 bodies from five old cemeteries in camp area. |
| 04/03/1942 | Columbus | Camp eating points expand. Health regulations issued - Plans made for box lunches |
| 04/03/1942 | Franklin Star | May shift camp mail center to Franklin. Edinburgh's postal facilities not up to greater volume. |
| 04/06/1942 | Columbus | Government to acquire titles. Declaration of taking filed against condemned part of camp land. 7,271 acres of Bartholomew and Johnson county land already condemned |
| 04/06/1942 | Franklin Star | Postal Service to provide free letter mailing for servicemen. To qualify for free posting service, a service man's letter must bear the word "free" plus his name and rank in upper left corner of envelope. |
| 04/07/1942 | Franklin Star | Deliver 100-Car Stove Shipment Into Army Camp. Contractors Required To Provide Storage Space For Huge Shipment |
| 04/08/1942 | Columbus | Rain holds up work at camp. Huge shipment of stoves proves headache - no storage |
| 04/08/1942 | Franklin Star | Still Don't Know Where Entrances to Camp Will Be. Tatlock thinks no more reductions in acreage will be forth coming. |
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