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Show Guard activities recapped from April 7-12 "Five and a half years ago I was sitting sit-ting in the Provo High School auditorium listening to some convicts talk about their experiences, just like you are right now. A year later I was in the state pen for shooting a person." This statement was made by a convict con-vict from the Utah State Penitentiary when he talked to the Vernal area high school students April 8 during a student assembly. The assembly dealt with the topic of freedom, with a talk given by Colonel Leland Ford of the State Adjutant General's office of the Utah National Guard. Accompanying Col. Ford were three inmates of the state penitentary who spoke about what it was like to have lost their freedom. At first the students were a little hesitant to ask questions but toward the end of the meeting lots of questions were asked the speakers. The assembly was the beginning of a recruiting campaign by the 1457 Combat Com-bat Engineers, of the Utah National Guard headquartered in American Fork. The campaign began April 7 and ended April 12. Following the Tuesday assembly thirty-three students spent the afternoon after-noon operating several heavy pieces of machinery under guardsmen supervision. supervi-sion. Friday the 23rd Army Band of the Utah National Guard came to the high school as part of the National Guard community service project effort and at the request of Randy Houtz, high school music director. Saturday was the final day and to cap the week off, the 1457 Combat Engineers of Company A located at Vernal had a parade at 11 a.m. down ('.'-' i V r ' . ! ' J-, r ' .' . -' ' ' 1 - f ' 1 ' ' -sr 1 ' ' Cw .- ?. -" .- V 7 P ii I tv-y ..... t 1 i r : , -? I'.-M ' I -,.TV '"J'Sf.St-, "" ' ' ' VERNAL YOUTHS WATCH National Guard Parade on Main Street April 12 as part of the guard recruiting campaign. Main Street. Capt. Bart Davis commented, "We were received very well in Vernal by the students, faculty of the school and by the community. It was great to see these students climb up on the equipment equip-ment and have wide-eyes and smiles as they operated the equiment. I yvN-1 Oral cancer strikes approximately approxi-mately 24,000 persons in the U.S. each year and causes 8,000 deaths. |
