CPS Unit Number 100-05

CPS Unit Number 100-05

Camp: 100

Unit ID: 5

Operating agency: MCC

Opened: 5 1943

Closed: 10 1946

Workers

Total number of workers who worked in this camp: 0

  • CPS Camp No. 100, subunit 2
    CPS Camp No. 100, subunit 2
    Civilian Public Service Dairy Farming. Serving to give sufficient quantity of high-quality milk.
    1943
  • CPS Camp No. 100, subunit 2
    CPS Camp No. 100, subunit 2
    625 CPS men are working as dairy farmers and as dairy herd testers in 30 different countries in the leading dairy states of the country. The increase and the improvement of the nation's milk supply is the function of this government assigned 'work of national importance.'
    ca. 1944
  • CPS Camps 125 and 100, subunit 6
    CPS Camps 125 and 100, subunit 6
    News and Views was a newsletter jointly published between Camps 125 and 100, subunit 6 in 1945.
    Digital image from the American Friends Service Committee: Civilian Public Service Records (DG 002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 100
    CPS Camp No. 100
    Dairy Farming: Wilbert L. Moore calibrating butter fat columns to determine the production and index increase of cows through artificial breeding by pure bred-high production and type breed bulls.
    Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 100
    CPS Camp No. 100
    Dairy Farming: Bemis and Lindes computing the dairy income above feed costs for a recently tested herd. From such information culling is done more efficiently.
    Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 100
    CPS Camp No. 100
    Dairy Farming: Bemis and Lindes at the laboratory in Litchfield taking composite and individual milk samples and running the Babcock test for butter fat.
    Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 100, subunit 2
    1943
  • CPS Camp No. 100, subunit 2
    ca. 1944
  • CPS Camps 125 and 100, subunit 6
  • CPS Camp No. 100
  • CPS Camp No. 100
  • CPS Camp No. 100
Summary:

CPS unit 100, subunit 5, located in Iowa, was operated by Mennonite Central Committee.

 

Lester Gerig from CPS Camp No. 18 in Denison, Iowa, served as area supervisor.  The men trained at Iowa State College of Agriculture with Arthur Porter.  Fourteen men served in Iowa.  When Gerig visited, he contacted farmers, county officials and each man in the unit.  In his visits he learned the extent to which men attended church services regularly. 

 

During his September 29-30, 1945 visit, he met with all but one of the men, and assessed them as happy in their work, giving satisfactory service, and maintaining “a high level of Christian living”.  He also learned that five of the CPS testers ranked among the top ten in the state.  (Cedar Rapids Gazette reported the rankings, and Gerig shared the news in a letter to William Snyder of MCC, reported in Gingerich p. 206)

Location:
Iowa, United States