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Show Utah Democrat Conducts Study Of States Missile Activities Chairman Overton Brooks of Louisiana announced that Rep. David S. King of Utah is making an inspection tour of defense and missile installations in Utah for the Committee on Science and Astronautics. 9 In making the appointment, Brooks stated: "I have asked Congressman King to make an inspection tour of various defense and missile installations in northern Utah, . which are engaged in important work in which this Committee is interested. As a prominent member of the Utah delegation in Congress, Mr. King is well equipped to undertake the task. will assemble and test the Min-uteman; Min-uteman; the Hercules Powder Co., Bacchus, which is competing for the third stage production contract for the Minuteman; the Marquardt Corporation, Ogden, which produces ramjet engines for the Bomarc; and the Sperry Utah Engineering Laboratory, Salt Lake City, which is doing research and development work on the Army Sergeant missile. "I am deeply concerned with the economic stability of important impor-tant defense contractors and in the scientific research and development de-velopment programs upon whose fulfillment the security of our country depends. "Among our major national resources re-sources in the missile and space programs are the many large and small commerical organizations organiza-tions that are called upon to do much of the engineering and construction presently involved. Certainly, engineering and scientific scien-tific talent combined with pro-diction pro-diction capacities form a team "The Committee is especially eager to obtain a first hand report re-port on the progress being made on the solid fuel ICBM, the Minuteman, Min-uteman, whose mobility will make it an important part of our defense arsenal. It is hoped that this missile can be launched from a railroad car. The Com- whose continued vigor and health are of paramount importance to every citizen." Mr. King added: "I have been concerned with the many vicissitudes that have been experienced in the past few years by firms operating under contracts with the government, particularly with the Department of Defense. However, there is apparently little definite or precise pre-cise knowledge of the varying effects such experience can have upon a commercial organization and the community in which it operates. "I intend to discuss the matters ' with officials and employees of the concerns I plan to inspect. I am most interested to learn about such factors as the size of the payrolls, the type of community, com-munity, service rendered by the firms, the type of special personnel per-sonnel employed, the firms' contractual con-tractual experience with the federal fed-eral government, whether good or bad, and what business these firms can expect in the future." mittee is also interested in keeping keep-ing fully informed on contemplated contem-plated changes in the Bomarc missile program. "The Committee is also concerned con-cerned -with the relationships that exist between defense contractors, con-tractors, the government, and the various communities where ! defense work is performed. What effect does a curtailment of a defense program, such as the Bomarc missile project, have on defense contractors, the communities commu-nities in which they operate, and our productive potential? The answers to this and many others related are of great interest to our committee and Mr. King's purpose in making this tour is to find the answer to some of them at least." Mr. King, a committee member, mem-ber, will visit the Thiokol Chemical Chem-ical Corporation in Box Elder, County, which developed and will produce the first stage of the Minuteman; Hill Air Force Base, where the Boeing Airplane Co. |