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Show Guard Work On Airport Dugway Greatly Appreciated, Says Owens If there is any wonder as to the actual work which the local unit of the National Guard, Company "C", 115th Combat Engineers, have been doing during the past two weeks, they should visit the hillside dugway approach to the airport, states Lee Owens, airport manager, and representative of the Chamber of Commerce as supervisor of this construction project. Neither the city, the Chamber of Commerce, nor the airport committee have access to the funds necessary for promoting or carrying on this big construction and improvement project, says Mr. Owens, but through the cooperation cooper-ation of the local unit of the National Na-tional Guard an excellent piece of work is nearing completion. They helped materially during their specially assigned project days in 1940, but they have more than doubled this work in the past 10 days, since their induction Mar. 3. With their large company of willing workers, Staff Sergeant Earl Cannon being in charge of the road building projects, they have set off 200 pounds of T.N.T. in the past week, widening the (Continued on page eight) Guard Limited Continued from first page) Company. It is expected that the Company will leave St. George sometime Saturday and remain in Salt Lake City about 12 hours. 'They will leave there Sunday going go-ing to San Luis Obispo by way of Reno, Nev. All of the men underwent physical phys-ical examinations on Friday with all the men passing but one, Jim Leavitt of Veyo, who will be released re-leased from the unit. They were all innoculated on Saturday. |