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Show 16 Utah Mayors Take Guard Course Sixteen city mayors, council-men council-men and other officials got a first hand look at the defense picture in Utah during a day and a half Utah Defense Seminar held at Camp W G Williams, training site of the Utah Army National Guard, last Friday and Saturday. The course was the first in a series sponsored by the National Guard to brief Utah's civic leaders lead-ers in their role in the defense of Utah. The group listened to presentations and inspected the training facilities of the camp and then held a number of informal in-formal discussions on each subject. sub-ject. The mayors were informed how law enforcement officers at county and city level are being trained at the police academy by Utah Highway Patrol and Utah Peace Officers Association instructors in-structors . They discussed the urgent need for training specialists to establish estab-lish effective civil defense organization or-ganization in the state. Another briefing covered the training of Sheriff deputy jeep patrols by the Utah National Guard Special Forces personnel, and the Fish and Game Commission's survival training course is being conducted conduct-ed there to teach people how to survive under the most 'difficult conditions. "Classes on all these subjects are being taught regularly at Camp Williams," Maj. General Maxwell E. Rich stated. "Our objective is to train specialists in all of these fields for every city and county in Utah." "Those attending our Defense Seminar indicated they would send some of their key men to take these courses," the General stated. Indicative of the high interest was the statement of Mayor Wm. Welsh, Price, president of the Utah Municipal League. "I'll back this program 100 percent," he stated after attending the course. |