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Show Too Much Gift Paris, III. The members of the American Legion were surprised when the field piece they had requested re-quested for mounting on the public pub-lic square as the Legion's contribution contri-bution to the city's war memorial arrived. It was a 23-ton howitzer used by General Rommel's forces during the North African campaign. cam-paign. They didn't even try to move the 35-foot weapon from the flat car it monopolized. Two light 17-mm. guns to be placed on either eith-er side of a flagpole were substituted substi-tuted and the howitzer was shipped ship-ped to the Terre Haute ordnance plant. Thirteen thousand of Utah's 84,990 square miles contain coal deposits. One hundred and fifty million tons of coal have been mined in Utah during the last 100 years. |