The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., March 30, 1950, page 1

TO OPERATE 'BOYS TOWN' AT HUSUM
White Salmon Citizens Form Columbia Boys Association, Inc.; Camp Columbia To Be Located On 65-acre Tract

     WHITE SALMON (Special) -- Action, not words, is the order of the day with a group of White Salmon citizens concerning the question of America's most important investment, the American boy.
     On April 1, the Columbia Boys Association, Inc. will install a potential Washington "Boys Town" at Camp Columbia on a 65 acre property close to Spring Creek, Husum. The institution has as its objective the development of a boys program mainly for boys whose home life has been impaired; thus endangering the possibility of the youngster's future graduation into healthy useful citizenship.
     Cooperating with the State Welfare department, the camp will be open for all boys from 10 years up and will be strictly of a constructive and preventive nature and not corrective.
     The institution will be developed to conform with state requirements and, besides providing facilities for the youngsters to complete their Scholastic program at public schools, vocational shops will be added to teach them trade that will aid in the industrial field when they are of age to go on their own.
     Buildings on the property will be improved and altered to accommodate the first twelve boys, and the property will then be surveyed and the site of the future buildings decided upon.
     The charter which has been applied for, provides for a non-profit corporation with no capital stock and with permission to raise money for the Institution's maintenance by any legitimate means.

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