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Show Utah National Guard Charts Muster Day Nearly 6,000 Utah National Guardsmen will muster Saturday, Satur-day, Feb. 25, to reaffirm their pledge to defend the United States and the state of Utah against all enemies. It is part of a week of beauty pageants, ceremonies cere-monies and banquets revolving around Muster Day, 1961. Muster Day is a nationwide National Guard observance com memorating the birthday of Gen. George Washington, one of our country's greatest Guardsmen. The observance originated in Utah and was adopted nationally as a time for Guardsmen to re dedicate themselves to their mission. Major General Maxwell Kich, Utah adjutant general, believes Muster Day might be an appropriate appro-priate day for Utahns to ponder the fact that the United States has been at war with Commu-nism Commu-nism for 43 years. "It is a war we are losing badly because our people do not recognize the conflict. Nevertheless, Never-theless, we can be defeated just as dozens of other countries who did not understand Communist deception were defeated." Appropriately ,the week long observance will begin Feb. 17, with another in the Guard series of Americanism Up Front seminars semi-nars at Camp W. G. Williams. On Saturday night, graduates of this and previous seminars will attend a banquet at the Guard's Salt Lake City armory. Speaker at the banquet will be Frank Barrett of Washington, Washing-ton, D.C., director of the Richardson Rich-ardson Foundation. The foundation founda-tion supports the annual National Na-tional Strategy Seminars from which Utah's Americanism Up Front program was derived. The Honorary Colonel's Advisory Ad-visory Corps will sponsor an awards banquet for outstanding Utah National Guardsmen Tuesday Tues-day night, Feb. 21, at Camp W.G. Williams. Decorations will be awarded to Guardsmen who have performed outstanding service. A television program is being arranged for the same evening. For half of Saturday, Feb. 25, Guardsmen will muster in home town armories around Utah for a four hour drill. Included will be the Muster Oath, reaffirming the pledge to defend state and nation. Also on that day, the Guard's 1960 Bantam basketball program will wind up with a championship champion-ship play-off in the Sunnyside Avenue armory. Saturday night, the Miss Utah National Guard pageant will be held in Salt Lake City to choose the fairest of 22 finalists from around the state to reign over Guard activities for the next year and to represent Utah in this spring's Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C. |