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Show Newsmen Make Hill Field Tour Approximately 25 editors of Utah weekly newspapers in the Central and Northern Utah area, took a close look at Utah's largest industry, when they visited Hill Field Air Force base Monday. Purpose of the visit was to acquaint newspaper people with the mission ' and operations opera-tions of OOAMA and its headquarters head-quarters at Hill AFB. The program began at 11:30 a.m., with a luncheon at the base officer's club, where Major Ma-jor General P. H. Robey and Col Victor L. Anderson CCA-MA CCA-MA deputy commander, spoke. The visitors learned that Hill AFB pour 63.5 million in payroll pay-roll into the state's economy, plus another $16.5 million in other expenditures bringing the total to $80 million each year. The guests toured the giant facilities of the Ogden base, being guided through the block long maintenance hangers where they saw the century-series century-series aircraft under repair, and learned what it takes to put supersonic F-101 "Voodoos" "Vood-oos" and F-102 "Delta Daggers," Dag-gers," back into the air in record time. The group also visited the mechanized supply production lines and the electronic date computors commonly called the electric brain. A short movie at the officers' offi-cers' club at 4 p.m. concluded the tour attended by editors of weekly newspapers as well as radio, TV and daily newspaper news-paper representatives. |