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Show (jjtw YIESIEKH ussm Published in the interest of the personnel of Dngway Proving Ground 99 lhe TrnscriPt BuHetin P Wishing Company, Tooele, Utah, a pri--I ate firm, in no way connected with the Department of the Army. Opinions ex- LIHKAKIlS pressed by publisher and writers herein are their own and are not to be con- sidered an official expression by the Department of the Army. The appearance MAP. ivL of advertisements in this publication does not constitute an endorsement by the Department of the Army of the pioducts or services advertised. SERIALS- ORDER DEPu ; UNIVERSITY OF UTHPuWis,ied 13 I - Dugway Proving Ground VoL 6 No. 19 1 Salt Lake 94 City, Via Lookout, Tooe e , 55 I Dugway, Utah 84022 Colonel Shade addresses Intermountain Symposium - miles,7 miles More than 150 high school teachers and students Rotiert A. Shade, Dugway Proving Colonel Ground commander, speak Wednesday evening on the nature of human potential and the Army's research and development programs. COL. SHADE made the keynote address before a gathering of the 12th Intermountain Junior Science and Humanities Symposium at the Hotel Temple Square in Salt Lake City. The conference, which ends tomorrow, is held annually to interest young people in science as a profession and to create an understanding of the humanities. Attending the conference from Dugway High conferSchool is Steve Morrison. During the four-da- y ence he will have participated in discussions, tours and the presentation of student research papers. IN ADDITION to Col. Shades opening remarks, the sessions which follow will have included addresses by prominent scientists, panel discussions by University of Utah faculty, laboratory tours and presentation of students' original research papers. In his address' to the students and teachers Col. Shade noted that many of the Armys results in research and development programs have made positive contributions to society in general. Col. Shade pointed out that the National Weather Service can trace its inception back to 1870 when national weather reporting duties were assigned to the Army Signal Corps. THE ARMYS development of an electronic integrator and computer in 1945 paved the way for today's automatic data processing industry. In the recent past, the Army in its research and heard O c Cfl it cr (0 t. c. o Mr. F. C. Eastman, Tooele, poses beside a sleek 1916 Maxwell at a busy Dugway intersection in 1919. The picture, which popped up in die Information Office in a pile of TEST RUN newspapers ten years ago, depicts a section of the old Lincoln Highway near the Ditto Technical Center. After 55 years, the scenery remains the same; only Dugway has changed. March 1 DPG observes 32nd anniversary The term dugway denoted a serpentine trench dug just wide enough to serve as a furrow for die wheels on one side of ' the wagon. Oxen hitched at an angle to the wagon held the wagon in the rats while they lumbered over die ragged terrain. the surprise Following attack on Pearl Ilariior by Japanese forces in December of 1941, as the entire country mobilized for war, the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service recognized the need e for an additional testing area. A group of Army personnel was dispatched to the western . United States to find a suitable location for the new test center. And in 1942, Major January of John R. Bums, who was later to Vetire as a brigadier general, made the announcement that a site in western Utah had been selected. large-scal- MAJ - FRIDAY, March 1, marked the 32nd anniversary of Dugway Proving Ground. The name Dugway was taken from the Dugway Mountains, the range west of the installation. Originally, the mountains were so named when Mormon prairie schooners and covered wagons were used to transport 4 r4 personal effects Hie alisence cross-countr- of y. roads and mountain passes forced the pioneers to use ingenious methods to traverse the ragged slopes. . BORNS was desig- nated the installations first commander when it was activated March 1, 1942. Initial construction began March 5 of that year. A CCC camp built in the thirties at nearby Simpson Springs was used as the initial base of operations for the construction personnel because of the availability of water. The building site was known at that time as Government Hill. Today it is known as Ditto Technical Center. But American history for the area did not begin with Dugways birth. The old Pony Express paths, Overland Stage Lines roads, and the famed Lincoln Highway traversed the area nearly a centufy before the outbreak of the Second World War. now- - famous BY THE of summer '42, the proving had begun a limited- ground scale testing program. During the war; Dugway testing facilitated the development of an incendiary bomb that proved highly effective against German and Japanese dwellings. Other testing also flourished. After serving throughout the war as an independent installation, Dugway Proving Ground was combined in 1947 with the Deseret Chemical Depot to form the Western Chemical Center. It was maintained on a standby basis until the outbreak of hostilities in Korea. Hien in July of 1950, it was redesignated Dugway Proving Ground and placed on active status as a Class II installation. All operations were resumed in the Ditto Plans Center. Technical were drawn for new adminresidential and istrative as Engknown now space, lish Village. In June of 1952, operations began to move in the new area and residents started moving into the housing area in December Friday, March 8, 1974 development operations also has opened many avenues for the creation of a better life for mankind. We find the Armys medical personnel pioneering in the use of food preservation, insect repellents, high pressure jet innoculations, mouth- - to-- mouth resuscitation and liquid chlorine for water purification, Shade told the , group. The DPG commander stressed the challenges facing tomorrows scientists, citing as examples the energy crisis and research into heart disease, cancer and mental ' illness. COLONEL SHADE his in The capacity of the brain seems infinite, he noted. The total thinking potential of the human brain remains to be exploited. the students to committment. Col. Summoning Shade defined the hallmarks of a professional as a dynamic, growing being who learns from die past, acts in the present, and prepares for the future. Concluding his remarks, the colonel stated that, Humanistically applied, the solving and unravelling of scientific puzzles,, riddles and enigmas can be most satiscan and very often does benefit all mankind. fying THE SALT LAKE City symposium is part of 36 regional symposia held throughout the country. Students and teachers from Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming and Montana attended the local symposium. "lhe Intermountain Symposium is jointly sponsored by the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground, U.S. Army Junior Science and Humanities Symposia Program, Duke University, U.S. Army Research Office, and the University of Utah. expressed confidence mans ability to meet these and other challenges. and a Chemical Corps battalion were gradually added to the basic and original Technical Service unit. The Chemical Corps environmental test program Was transferred to Dugway in 1953, as well as the' responfor meteorological sibility research and development In October of 1958, the U.S. Army Chemical-Biologica- l(CBR) Radiological Weapons Orientation Course transferred to Dugway and remained here until its deactivation in January 1970. IN 1962, under the Presidents Army Reorganization-a- l Plan, DPG was assigned to the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command with Aberdeen at headquarters Proving Ground, Md. It had been part of the Chemical Corps Research and Development Command. On July 1, 1968, Dug-wwas merged with the Deseret Test Center. On July 1, 1973, DTC was disestablished as a Joint Actias vity and DPG became responsible to the Army after ADDITIONAL units, such elements of DTC at Ft. Doug-lawere relocated to DPG as the U.S. Army Hospital, in Police Detachment May 1973. Military 1952. st Soldiers of the Quarter Sp4 Ronald Smith, second from left, and Sp4 Edward Wisely, third from left, were honored by the Salt I .alt City Chamber of Commerce recently as the fourth and third quarter Soldiers of die Quarter, respectively, for Dugway Proving Ground. In addition to their plaques, specialists Smith and Wisely, received 125 gift certificates. Gil Iker, left, chairman of the SLC Chamber of Commerce Military Affairs Committee was present as was Acting DPG Commander Colonel Arthur J. Kingdom. The presentations were mad at the Hotel Utah during a meeting of Utah advertisers. March 13 Mustangs open state play on Wednesday v I e t" Village begins to take on the atmosphere of any suburban American community in the early 1950s with the construction of Wherry housing. Plans were initiated in 1952 for Dugways residential and administrative area, which at the time was called Easy Area. The building at left, now housing Dugways Post Office, Four Seasons Store and other facilities, was a restaurant at the time of this picture. The NCO Open Mess is located at the right of the picture. English The Dugway Mustangs will begin play in the State tournament at either 2:30 or 4:30 Wednesday, Mar. 13 in the Marriott Center on the campus of Brigham Young University in Provo. If the Mustangs defeated North Summit last night in the finals of the Region Nine tournament, they. will play Valley High School of Region Eight at 2:30. If they were defeated, they will play Piute High School, also of Region Eight, at 4:30 to open the evening session at the Marriott Center. This will be the Mustangs fourth appearance in state competition as they finished sixth in last year's tourney after two wins and two losses. The policies which govern promotion to grade 4 have been revised effective Mar. l. The time- - in- - service (T1S) requirement for promotion to 4 is 21 months, while six months time- - inis regrade (TIG) as an are TIG and T1S Both quired. waiverable to 12 and three months respectively. There is no limitation on the number of E-- llequircj nients for promotions to E-- 4 eased E-- E-- 3 promotions to E-- 4. However, the number of waiverable promotions made to the grade 4 is limited to 80 per cent of the number and assigned of E-to a unit. E-- 3s E-- |