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Show Utah Guard Plans Extensive Program Major General Maxwell Rich, Utah's Adjutant General, is now holding conferences with unit commanders and principal staff officers throughout the state to announce and organize a special activities program for the current cur-rent fiscal year. This program is designed to promote and stimulate community commu-nity relationships with the Utah National Guard. "It is our desire de-sire to co-operate with civic leaders in providing maximum utilization of our armories for public use, and to participate in as many community activiteis as possible," General Rich said. The first important event coming com-ing up is the November 11 Veterans Vet-erans Day concert at the LDS Tabernacle featuring the 23rd Army Band. This will be the fourth annual presentation of this type concert. In December, the Bantam bas-. ketball program is launched. This was introduced on a trial basis in Salt Lake City only last year. It has met with such success suc-cess that it is being expanded state wide this year. Guard personnel will again be able to obtain distinctive National Na-tional Guard automotive license plates beginning in mid-Decem-; ber. Amateur boxing matches will beheld throughout the state in January, February, March and April. Final contests will be held at Camp Williams during June Field Training to select Guard entries in the AAU contests. con-tests. The annual Miss Utah National Guard pageant gets under way locally in each Utah city with a National Guard unit during January and February. The last contest to select Miss National Guard will be held in Salt Lake ' City February 28. Muster Day, the biggest celebration cele-bration of the year for the Utah National Guard, will again be held on Washington's Birthday, February 22nd. This is a nationwide nation-wide observance by National Guard units everywhere which originated in Utah a few years I ago. It is designed to build the strength of the National Guard and to point dp the state of preparedness pre-paredness of the nation's National Na-tional Guard. In May the Guard participates with the other Armed Forces in j the observance of Armed Forces I Day on the third Saturday of May. Next June General Rich expects ex-pects to have upwards of 100 shooters competing in rifle and pistol eimination matches. From this group a rifle and a pistol team will be selected to represent repre-sent the Utah National Guard at the Camp Perry, Ohio, National Rifle Association matches. The 1959 annual summer field training for all Army units will be conducted at Camp' W. G. Williams, June 7-21. Engineer units will be engaged in field problems outside of Camp Williams Wil-liams allowing room for all Artillery Ar-tillery and Special Troop units to attend at the same time. The July 4th Cavalcade at Derks Field in Salt Lake City will be presented again next year. In July, 1958, a crowd of more than 15,000 jamed the stadium sta-dium to observe the event. |