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Show Rep. King Points to Utah's Role In Nation's Defense Picture assembly facility, which Boeing will operate at Hill Air Force base. "The production facility could boost Hercules' payroll at Bacchus Bac-chus as high as 1950 by 1962. The new plant will employ about 1100. "Some 850 are already working in the research and development facility. All of these could stay in research and developmet as Hercules anticipates that this phase of its Bacchus program will continue to grow through new contract possibilities." Rep. David S. King, member of House Committee on Science and Astronautics, Friday said the Minuteman third stage contract con-tract award to Hercules Powder Co. "reaffirms the increasingly important role Utah is taking in national defense." Mr. King said the Utah delegation dele-gation in Congress has vigorously backed the Hercules firm in its bid for the multi million dollar contract. "Our influence, pitted against the strong west coast interests which were trying to sew up the contract for Hercules' California competitor, served to assure that the award was made strictly on its merits. "On the merits, the case definitely defi-nitely favored Hercules. "Hercules has made at least 20 successful tests on its third stage propulsion system, a performance perform-ance which the competition can not begin to match. "Moreover, the Hercules concepts con-cepts on the third stage represented repre-sented a real break through in Minuteman technology. The use of fibreglas casings and a nitro cotton fuel were original with the Hercules research and development de-velopment team. "The Hercules staff deserves the highest praise for the remarkable re-markable performance it has made since 1958, when the Air Force brought it into the third stage program." . Mr. King also said: "I have visited at length with John M. Martin, Hercules vice president at Wilmington, Del., and he assures me that the company com-pany has every intention of locating lo-cating the production plant at Bacchus. "Pressure might arise to put the plant in a labor surplus market, mar-ket, but I am assured that Hercules Her-cules will resist this pressure if it develops. "Bacchus is the natural location loca-tion for the plant. This is where Hercules has done its research and development on third stage. Bacchus has the added advantage of being close to the Minuteman |
