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Show I f S - i ' 1 ' : l.r Springvillo and Carrolls Motei on North Main Street, had the honor of being host over-night on two occasions recently to the Air Force Minuteman missile hauling the largest units of its kind ever on the highway. high-way. Used to carry the new intercontinental intercontinen-tal missile to and from blast-resistant underground under-ground launch sites, the unit was on a 10,000 mile endurance test from Florida to Yuma, Ariz., when it stopped here. Weighing Weigh-ing 108,000 pounds, the unit is 64 feet long 10 feet wide and 12 feet six inches high. It has a 275 horsepower, 12 cylinder gasoline engine and it tires are 10 x 22.5. Of course there were Air Force personnel along with it. 1 |