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Show Page Two FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1958 THE SALT LAKE TIMES U of U Grad Receives Medical Fellowship Dr. Wesley C. Wilcox, Seattle, a University of Utah graduate, is one of nine young scientists chosen by the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, to receive a Donner Fellowship for Medical Research under the sponsorship of the Donner Foundation of Philadel-phia. Dr. Wilcox is a virologist. As a Donner fellow, he plans to do research, in virus infections and the ability of the cells to resist them, in the Department of Pre-ventive Medicine, Western Re-serve University, Cleveland. He was born in St. Anthony, Idaho. The University of Utah awarded him the B. A. degree in 1950 and the M.S. in 1955. He completed his studies for the Ph.D. degree this year at the University of Washington at Seattle. Also in the southern part of the state, at St. George, it was reported a new sugar beet seed crop expected to produce IV2 million pounds of a new mono-ger- m hybrid varieties is nearing maturity and will be harvested in about a month. Throughout most of the rest of the state, unseasonably high spring temperatures and lack of precipitation have caused con-siderable concern for growers of all crops, including sugar beets. From the Cache Valley over to Box Elder county and south to WCber, Davis, Salt Lake and Utah counties come reports of reduced stands and some losses as a result of the scorching heat. Young plants just emerging have been killed or retarded. Growers were being urged not to lag in irrigating the parched fields, many of which have re-sponded well to early water. Paradoxically, right in the midst of some of the more severely burned fields are some of the better stands of early beets. The Sugar Beet Crop Outlook Rates Good Prospects remain good that Utah farmers will harvest the biggest sugar beet crop since 1954 this fall, despite unfavor-able spring weather which has caused early season concern in most parts of the state, it was indicated this week in a check of all beet growing areas. Reports showed that this is the first season since 1955 that Utah growers have planted up to the state's full sugar beet acreage allotment set by the U. S. De-partment of Agriculture under provisions of the Sugar Act. A year ago, the Utah allotment was 34,175 acres for sugar beets but only 30,000 acres of this total were planted. This year's allotment of 33,257 cut in line with an overall national reduc-tion from 950,000 to 915,000 acres has been fully' planted. Primary gain has come in the Sanpete and Sevier county areas where farmers had only 2,800 acres in beets last year, but have taken their full allotment of al-most 7,000 acres this spring. Coupled with the increased acreage in the southern part of the state, the outlook has been brightened by announcement of Gunnison Sugar, Inc., officials that the Gunnison factory will resume operations to process this fall's crop. The big mill was closed after the 1955 harvest be-cause of dwindling production in the area. big difference has been timely application of water. Hail damage so far has been comparatively light. A late May storm in the Corinne area did some damage, but most beets are making a good comeback. Army Pfc Joseph G. Crow, son of Mrs. Mabel T. Crow, 919 Ra-mo- na Ave. recently was assigned to Battery A of the 10th Anti-aircraft Artillery Missile Battal-ion at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. The 23 year old soldier was last stationed at Camp Hanford, Wash. He entered the Army in September, 1956 and completed basic training at Fort Hood. He graduated from South High School in 1952. I Guardsmen Practice Artillery Training At Camp Williams Utah National Guard artillery units are spending their final week of summer encampment participating in service practice with the huge eight-inc- h howit-zers and 155 mm. guns. , Among participating troops are Guardsmen from 17 Utah cities, including Ft. Douglas and Salt Lake City. The XI Corps Artil-lery is headquartered in Salt Lake City Armory. Encampment for all units of the XI Corps Artillery began June 15 and will wind up June 29. The field training for ele-ments of the 115th Engineer Group began June 8 and ran through June 22. Half of the special troop units attended the training during each of the two camp sessions. During their first week of training artillery units went through a comprehensive sched- - ule of training in basic combat subjects. These are subjects they have studied at armory drills during the past year and the training was climaxed with ex-aminations during the summer field training. Basic combat subjects include such areas as explosives and demolitions, rigging, map read-ing, small unit tactics, drill cere-monies and parade, techniques of fire, individual day and night training, land mine warfare, and others. Artillery units moved to the camp's vast gunnery ranges for their final week of training, which utilized both dry runs and actual firing with live ammuni-tion. Three of the four artillery battalions are equipped with the eight-inc- h self propelled howit- - zer and the fourth is equipped with the 155 mm. self propelled gun. The XI Corps Artillery is made up of two groups, the 222, with headquarters in Ogden, and the 145th, with headquarters in Provo, and a separate battalion, the 653rd Field Artillery' Obser-vation Battalion located at Fort Douglas. The northern Utah group is made up of two battalions, the 204th with units at Smithfield, Logan, Brigharri City and Gar-land, and the 222nd with ele-ments at Ogden and Layton. The two battalions of the southern Utah group are the 145th, with elements at Provo, Mt. Pleasant, Spanish Forg, Nephi and Manti, and the 213th with elements at Cedar City, Richfield, Fillmore, St. George and Beaver. The Guard engineer units also spent their first week in basic combat subjects. Most of these units moved "to the hills" for their final week of encampment, where they combined the train-ing with a highly useful road project, the Brighton, Midway road, and roads in Wheeler and American Fork Canyons. The encampment was high-lighted by visits from a number of civilian and military digni-taries. These included members of the Guard honorary Colonels Advisory Corps, the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce and sev-eral civic clubs. Several high from ranking generals Headquarters, Sixth U. S. Army, Presidio of San Francisco inspected the field training of the National Guard units. These included Lt. Gen. C. D. Palmer, Jr., Commanding General; Maj. Gen. John M. 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