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Show Did Opening Extended on Paving Job WHITE SANDS MISS1LS KANCE, S. M. Mar. hi Bid opening date for the job of .'-.eal-coaling and repairing j.aved roads ;;nd paiking lol-(t lol-(t the WSMlt Utah Launch Complex at Cn cn River has been extended to April 7, Army officials announced. B ds were to be opened March 10. The cia'e was ex-t ex-t n:i :d t) g ve prospective-bidders prospective-bidders ni'-re time ta prepare their proposals. The invitation for bids wa? issued Feb. 19 by WSMlt Pur-cl.as Pur-cl.as ng and Contracting Di-rectcra'e. Di-rectcra'e. Specifications were prepared by Post Engineer. Funds were author;' d under a 1073 Army maintenance program. pro-gram. Specifications call for applying a half-ir.ch overlay of ol and gravel plant mix on 99,4.?0 square yards cf paved surfaces. Repair to dust and erosion control structures, (hain-' ge tJ.L'he:; and parking lot Lainp'-is art; ii'-iuded, al-, al-, ; wit.h it p.'.in'iig traffic control markings. Th; project covers 45,319 stjiiaje yards at outlying sta-1,a; sta-1,a; and on access road) v. i'hin the complex, and C1,lll ;.'iiare yards of streets t.ii'l parking lots in the canter can-ter merit area. The semi permanent complex, com-plex, two miles east of Green 'River, w-ys built six years ago. It is operated by the winy o siijjyirt off-range frngs of Air Force Athena b;iHis.:c missiles. These are fired frm Utah to New Mexico Mexi-co in the L'SAF Space and Missile Systems Organization's Organiza-tion's A BR MS Advanced B.illist'c Re-entry Systems-program. Systems-program. The complex also supports off -range firings of Army Pershing Per-shing artillery missiles, launched laun-ched frcm Gilson Butte or Blanding in Utah and impacted impact-ed on Write Sands Missile Range. More than 203 Army, Air Force and contractor employees em-ployees are assigned at the Utah complex. |
