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Show Million Dollars Requested for Utah Installations The Army has requested Congress Con-gress to appropriate more than a million dollars for improvements at its Utah Chemical Corps facilities, fac-ilities, the Dugway Proving Grounds and Desert Chembical Depot. This was disclosed this week with the publication of hearings on Army projects under the military mili-tary construction appropriations for the current fiscal year. The Dugway projects for which the Army is requesting immediate immed-iate funds include a $445,000 enlisted en-listed men's barracks, a $333,000 station hospital, a $119,000 test equipment maintenance shop and $232,000 for 16 family quarters. The Army's justification report said existing barracks are temporary temp-orary World War II type which should be replaced because they are hot in summer and difficult to heat in the winter and are in an area "subject to contamination by toxic agents which are used in the Dugway Proving Ground." The hearings also disclosed that the requested hospital would have a large isolation ward. "This has to do with the fact that we are testing new agents at Dugway Proving Ground," said the report, "and inasmuch as approximately ap-proximately 40 people are involved in a test at one time, it is possible pos-sible that as many as 18 men might become hospitalized con-curently. con-curently. Treatment requires the most modern and complete isolation isola-tion facilities." The Army also requested $92,-000 $92,-000 for conversion of a shed to a care and preservation building in the toxic area of Desert v Chemical Depot. |