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Show Changes noted for guardsmen Returning from a commanders command-ers meeting in Salt Lake City, Lt. Donald Cole, commander of the Springville Guard unit, announced a change in the units training schedule. The change is in accordance with an new State policy of physical physi-cal fitness for Guardsmen. Beginning Be-ginning with the drill January 14, local guardsmen will receive re-ceive 20 minutes of physical training each drill in place of the 20 minutes of training in drill and ceremony previously pre-viously scheduled. Utah is one of two states adopting the new fitness program on an experimental ' basis- Lt. Cole also reported a new ..recruiting authorization- Twenty-five . new men may be accepted ac-cepted into tlie unit, and up to ten of these men may be high school seniors. The rest of the men must have graduated. grad-uated. These men may also have had prior service. Also announced was the plan for the units participation in the annual Muster Day events. The day will begin with an exercise of the part the Guard would play in the event of an actual civil defense emergency, emergen-cy, and will end with a dance at the armory with the public pub-lic invited. |