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Show -- n ' r . ' 'V- ' - .'.".'..T-- 7 V. rf'". , , ; f - . .1 ' . s x. I . --v- )n 5 1 'V ..." 4,. ''?.' - ; ; ; 1- . ' ' , - ' ' ' ft -- , Jty . ' ? . y. 'V'il -- ' - v 'r f ' ' ' v ' . March 30, ' ' ' s ' - ' ' V. f S' '- , 4 r.:' Sampler, w s s. i v r t'? s r t - 1984 t BILL ENGLISH, an electrician with the refrigeration section Hawthorne, adjusts one of the TEAD furnished lOOkw gen- - SfiiSI8 faculty. 'Cm t,." i v Put on Headquarter Company's dining by SFC Phil Hale) , V - 4 i v t4 A . i r ,i T j- s r v I V- - N'' V. ; v... t? I ' 4 it L ' , J.-- v.- . i f: W y.-- . -- r s SL C i . - ? V: " , s' ..... ' j v ' : .'. v J - Ji J . ' ' & - t T - , ' s - . ", : T - - ' ; ' ,. .. . 11- " : - - ? svt-,-.- ' , ' " . t ' . ' ; - ' ,', v ' v" v . s ,5 i ' . - ' . ., - ' ' ' - i - " ;; : t- , . ' W.".'. t ' v,. v; v . : t j Hi . v .... - -T ' s ' ! 5? si ' ' . f.s : t r J j :.T, Scott, SGT Russell Insco, SGT Thomas Nickens and SP4 Troy Coleman showed super human patience in answering the literally hundreds of calls from and others wonder"Where's the juice? All ing of the members of the 65th MP Platoon deserve credit for their super efforts during this crisis. TEAD to the rescue Sunday morning the call for generatorslo augment ours went out" to Col. Harry Karegeannes of Tooele Army Depot who responded with two 100KVA generaDug-wayit- es - t . - tors delivered to our door Sunday night. These and others were all placed around post by orsorts of people from the ganizations listed on' page 5 with more photos of their efforts and UP&Ls. Sunday afternoon, the decision was made at a hastily called Commander's "staff meeting to grant Admin Leave for all civilian workers except Security and key personnel, and to close both schools. The television and radio people from Salt Lake and Tooele were super in getting the word to our commuting workforce members. . Public Affairs Officer Dick Whitaker with still and video cameras and Director of Facilities and Services Maj. Ronald Love went to Stockton both Sunday and Monday to check on the pro- in gress of the UP&L crew us. to restoring the power UP&L army goes to work What they found were a crew of anywhere between 90 and 125 people from American Fork, Salt Lake City, Tooele and Ogden Divisions of UP&L, three helicopters from Rocky. Mountwo tain Helicopter Service, unan and special mud cats, told amount of other equipment costing an as yet untotaled amount of money. The mission of this "Strike Force: Replace the 11 downed poles with 354 46,000 miles of on higher kilowatt line of IS an average At ground. con-- , iiew poles per mile they . . in all structed 53 poles. about 60 hours. The job had all the trapaspings of an automobile first crews sault as the drilled the holes, a heli-a copter dropped the pole in,of man climbed to the top the pole, as fellow workers strapped tamped it in, and into place crossmember the at a assembled been that had central location and flown . . ' i just it. Precisely at 10:05 a.m., exactly 64 hours after the power failed the bell in the stayed open Phone service was, for the most part, uninterrupted thanks to Merv Pyne and his crew who quickly got the generator at communica-- , tions running Saturday night, and helped get another one operating at the radio relay station. Despite an early Monday prediction from the UP&L crew in Stockton that power would be restored by 6 p.m. Monday, the crew ran into hard , ground . and rough muddy going on the last several poles. The day and evening being punctuated by snow, rain, hail and high winds didn't help much either. So again school and work for Tuesday was suspended.' The cautious approach proved best' as UP&L folks switched on the lines at 9 a.m. but the power was out of phase and they had to ad - ,7 f II I ' . .. 'r s v -- t--s 'K":":-Vifev- v ? , r s the unscheduled trips to town, the cold sandwiches and the aroma of candles i '' i ' ' i' V ' 'S y 5. i l .. i THERE THEY LIE like broken matchsticks the 11 downed power poles float with the ice pack that cause the blackout. (Photo Dick Whitaker) burning, little major damage was done, and Wednesday normalcy returned to 64-ho- ur V 'm-f'"- "?. i : power had returned. ; It took most df Tuesday afternoon to return all the switches to their correct positions, disconnect the gen-- ; erators and bring everyone back on line, after which our own "Corps of Engineers" many of whom hadn't slept since the situation began, could return to their homes. . i I - I- ) ' . 1 : Despite the seemingly endless hours of cold houses. r I i Hawthorne Aviation: Motor Pool Plumbing Electrical Supply Boiler Crew Carpentry .Refrigeration Roads and Grounds Facilities and Services: Motor Maintenance Inspections Section Equipment Management Fire Protection . DPCA: . Community Club Post Exchange: . Short Stop Sendee Station Commissary: Main Store J Warehouse HHC Supply CQ Dining Facility PAO PMO: Pass and ID Police Cadets 65th MP Platoon MPI Security Guard Division . Just In Time For Easter Crimson Enterprises Dugway Health Clinic Post Chapel BSA Troop 517 Tooele Army Depot Utah Power and Light if GvecyflEunracj Yogs . Dugway High School Dugway Elementary School GLCM Test Team USAF 6501st Range Squadron USAF Boy i ! On : i - USAF USACC Det Dugway Materiel Test Directorate: Tech Support Division Grid Services Grid Operations Weapons Systems Dugway Ward IDS Church The news media of Salt Lake and Tooele Plans and Operations The Dugway Federal Credit Union First Security Bank The Dugway Post Office Admin Services Word Processing :. Mail and Records Coleman camp stoves and lanterns 3QD1PG&-:Z&- - TUESDAY, APRIL 3RD TO SATURDAY, APRIL r i Here's How It f forks. . 'ow'v s ,Swv( , . s y mer-- 1 4TH PA':n ; jf chase you make at particlpatlnfl Tooele ; VCouiaons 5 ' v. s f ' are good thru Saturday. April 14. 1984 only. Unspent coupons have no' value after ' that date. '.y. i. You can use these coupons just like; real Coupons cannot be redeemed for cash, ' . money at other participating stores Coupons must be stamped by a participating The coupons you receive are stamped with that store to be valid. ; stores name and' cannot be redeemed at that;.' : Coupons cannot be used for prior sales, charge " ' store 'v. . ' account balances, or layaways. Sfi&i V v", A ' v y-If you acquire enough coupons you may pay for ; ; fs y ; ' , V with a purchase entirely and re. ' . coupons. ' ' .s' j. ceive 10 more back to use again in another': yf1.- - i chants' ' - - ,s V ' . - - 1 store-1- Dugway." 4 s, You receive 504 coupons for every $5.00 purj r It seems Insufficient to say the least, but It Is sincere: "Thank you everyone from all of us here at SPEND ME ANNOUNCING TOOELE 1861st Communications Squadron A t f . x a A s s iif . J a f l' f . happy," Wayne Smith confirmed to UP&L dispatchers that the (in no particular order) roaring away. Communication lines - "We're sewer levels remained individual buildings were . . .With a typically under- stated listed here are the organizations who helped us all get thru this ordeal. congregated in Conference Room B Monday, most of the major areas of concern was under control; thanks to a combined effort by Jim Deal and Barney Johnson's field crew and Zac Zaccardi and Lcol Doug Livingston and members of the 650 1ST Range Squadron, the 1881st Communications Squadron and GLCM test team members, a large generator was on the Community Club, and the other generators on . power. Plumbers from Hawthorne were kept busy, as con- . English Village substation rang indicating that we had 60, 75 and 100 KW generators placed at the Commis- trolled. By the time the staff again 3 company. (Photo by Dick Whitaker) motor maintenance had his crew report bright and early to change oil that had become contaminated in one of two huge Fairbanks Morse generators at the power plant in Ditto, and to change fanbelts and make other repairs to the well, making sure water and f: - j Back at Dugway Monday morning, Lynn Anderson of re-sta- rt . s U. ONE OF 53 NEW POLES is lifted from a UP&L truck by one of 3 Rocky Mountain helicopters leased by the power running Enterprises under the guidance of Jack Wilde worked to furnaces in the quarters, and install water heaters to replace some who failed during the outage. Boiler firemen were busier than jackrabbits moving from building to building as power was switched from area to area. ri '! -- 1.- J. Keeping everything sary, Commissary Cold Stor-ag-e Warehouse, HHC, and the ailing ones at the Clinic and Headquarters building. Contractors from Crimson J-- V beneath a helicopter. SP4 SGT Rick . V kmtrj I Wheres' the jjuic? Becky Cook, i - : MARKE KOPPE watches as Leo Larson adjusts one of the six mam generators at the power house in Ditto. (Photo by SFC Phil Hale) :r i 1 ri: T Continued from page 1 SGT Roland Cates, I . 2f4 wfs (Photo JS ti ,JA1 7Sr i i r r - - N . |