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Show "National Guard to ' Leave for Camp Williams June 3 Springville National Guard unit 166th Engineers will join forty-four forty-four hundred Utah National Guardsmen at Camp W. G. Wil-liame, Wil-liame, for their annual summer encampment June 3 to 24. The largest body of Guard troops ever to train at the Oquirrh Mountains camp will be split into two groups in order to accommodate them, said Brig. Gen. Maxwell E. Rich, Utah adjutant general. Engineers of the 115th Group and some special troops will open the encampment June 3, then move June 10 into the Wasatch Mountains. They will complete their training June 17. As the engineers en-gineers move into the mountains, the XI Corps Aartillery will rumble rum-ble into Camp Williams to begin their 15-days' training. Artillery units will continue their training until June 24. Heretofore, all Army units of the Utah Guard have trained simultaneously sim-ultaneously at Camp Williams during a single 15-day period. Establishment Es-tablishment of the three-week encampment was necessitated by the Guard's swift rise in strength from 2,800 last June to 4,400 today. to-day. Camp Williams is not geared I i to handle so many troops. During the encampment, engineer en-gineer units will continue road construction between Brighton and Heber, attempting as well, to link American Fork Canyon to the rough-cut jeep-trail. A highlight of the annual encampment en-campment June 16, will be Governor's Gov-ernor's Day, during which the Guard's commander-in-chief, Gov. J. Bracken Lee, will review his 4,400 troops. t |