Show National Guard I News This Week By Glade Clade Watkins Merrill V Cook an- an announced noun ed Monday that the Na- Na National National Guard Queen contest has been scheduled for Janu- Janu January January ary 28 in the Uintah High School auditorium ORGANIZATIONS desiring to sponsor a queen contestant should contact Cook or Master Sergeant Gary Tay Tay- Taylor lot lor at the National Guard Armory The winner of the queen contest will reign over the Vernal units unit's Military Ball to tobe tobe be held in h February She will then be entered in the state contest for Queen of Utah National Guard and the state winner will go to the national contest The deadline for en en- en entries tries is January 21 BANTAM all is 19 go lag ing full swing after the open open- opening ing games Wednesday night in inthe inthe the National Guard Armory This was the opening night schedule January 9 Rams vs pm Mites vs VB Bugs 7 75 5 pm Dinos vs Hawks 30 pm Everyone is invited to at at- at attend tend these games and support these young boys The tile ule for Jan 16 will be Hawks vs Bugs pm Dinos vs pm Rams vs VB Mites pm A complete program and schedule may be obtained at atthe atthe the Armory THE PHYSICAL Fitness Program was begun Monday night during the final 2 20 min utes of drill Through a 50 research program the Guard Bureau has implement implement- implemented I ed six exercises to increase the physical fitness to guards guards- guardsmen guardsmen men The exercises were explain explain- explained explained ed by Captain NeL Nelson on J Mar Mar- Marshall Marshall shall and demonstrated by Ca- Ca Cadet Cadet det Larry Hansen The mere men then theil did the exercises and were instructed to use them three to eight times during the interval between drills The object of the program is to have the guardsmen use these exercises continuously during the week and nd not only during Monday drills A change has been made in inthe inthe the wide state recruiting drive The deadline has been changed from May to February February ary 23 and the number of points required for eligibility for a trip to Hawaii has been lowered from 15 to 8 points FORTY GUARDSMEN with the highest number of points over the minimum of 8 will be flown to Hawaii for a four four- day holiday on the sunny beach of Major Lawrence V Erick Erick- Erickson Erickson son and Chief Warrant Officer 2 William C Sampson of the Engineer Battalion via vis- the V Vernal Unit Monday evening They gave some in- in instructions instructions inspected the arm arm- armory armory ory and encouraged the men mento mento to continue in Vernal Units tradition of being one of the finest units in the state |