Show Guard Puts Pits Freeze on Utah Unit Recruiting I Utah National Guard units have stopped accepting recruits in accordance with an order received ved last t week from Wash Wash- Washington ington Utah Adjutant General Maj Gen Maurice L Watts Walts com com- commented that the order was in his opinion a temporary freeze THE UTAH Guard has been aiming at a total strength of I members he said I would hope that we are just about to that he remark remark- remarked ed cd adding he will not know the exact figure until repots reports reach him from all units One hundred fifty men cut from Guard rosters last week in a reorganization The freeze on recruiting is a apparently in in- in intended tended to hold the Guard at its present level until the sur sur- sur plus men cm can be reabsorbed THE ACTION will reduce the Guards Guard's strength nationally to the level authorized at atthe atthe the end of the fiscal year on June 30 1968 As of October 31 the strength strength was over the authorized level The freeze will prevent reo re- recruits from signing up for the six months program in the Guard but they may continue to enter six months training in the organized reserve units Only exception to the freeze freele order is the New Jersey Na Na- National Guard which is seeking to recruit Negroes under a special program THE GUARD was recently authorized additional units for riot control They will con con- tain tab n approximately men with previous experience a Guard Bureau spokesman said |