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Show PUBLIC INVITED TO CLEARFIELD Wartime restricted equipment i and materials will be on exhibit at the Clearfield Naval Supply Depot on Navy Day, October 26, it is revealed by Capt. J. Ball, supply officer in command. The depot will be open for in-j in-j spection from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. and residents of Bingham qnd Copperton are given a special invitation in-vitation by Captain Ball to attend at-tend the affair. Visitors will be taken on a tour of the base, the nations largest inland naval supply depot. This institution played an important job in supplying the Pacific fleet during the war and it is helping to do this job now as well as preserving much of the navy's surplus war material. NSD was constructed at a cost of $48,000,000. It covers 841 acres It has 68 standard warehouses 600 feet long by 200 feet wide and 36 other warehouses ranging in size from 32,000 to 110,000 square feet. More than 30 other auxiliary buildings also dot the depot. In addition to a bus tour of the depot, former secret weapons and j other interesting materials will be on exhibit in two of the large warehouses. Radar, sonar and other electronic instruments will I be on display, as will ordnance I material. Open house at NSD will be just part of a nation-wide observance ob-servance of Navy day. Because it falls this year on Sunday, October Oc-tober 27, it is being observed on the day before. |