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Show NATIONAL GUARD PLANS NEW ARMORY BUILDING AT BEAVER May Also Have Large Field House and Community Center Service Battery, 213th Field Artillery, Utah National Guard, will have a new armory located at Beaver if present plans of the Utah National Guard materialize. ma-terialize. Also, as a part of Ihe new armory. Beaver may have a field house and community auditorium with a seating capacity ca-pacity of more than 1,000 persons. Plans 'for the new armory were discussed Wednesday by Maj. Gra, Maxwell E. Rich, Utah Adjutant General, and the Beaver City Council. Gen. Rich flew to Milford in a National Guard transport plane, and was met here by Beaver Mayor Martell Easton, MSgt Bob Os-born, Os-born, and other Beaver City officials, of-ficials, who escorted the visitor to Beaver for the meeting. Gen. Rich pointed out that $120,000 has been allocated for construction of the armory with the State of Utah and the Federal Fed-eral Government participating in the cost. Utah's money is "ready and earmarked," Gen. Rich said, and the federal mon-y mon-y is appropriated but awaiting final confirmation by Washington Washing-ton officials. If an "early okeh" is given, G n. Rich said, construction could start in July of 1953. . At present the Beaver National Nation-al Guard building is a vehicle storage center, which houses all 213Ui F A Bn vehicles except administrative vehicles. Gen, Rich also suggested to the Beaver City Council that an arrangement similar to the one in effect in Bountiful and Lay-ton Lay-ton could be worked out for Beaver. Under such an agreement, if (Continued on Back Page) much as they did ten years ago. times as much ice cream as they did in 1940, and about twice as ican Dairy Association of Utah committee in charge, estimates that more than 12.500 pounds of cherries will be eaten with ice cream by Utahns during ihe first two months of the year. "That figures about 2,-350.000 2,-350.000 cherries." Mr. Romney said. "And many of these are good, plump, Utah-grown cherries." cher-ries." Studies show that Utah's people peo-ple are eating nearly four HERE'S MORE ABOUT ARMORY Contiued from Page One the Board of Education or $ome other public body participated, at an added coat of about $50,000 a field house could be included, with rollaway bleacher bleach-er seats for 1.000 and added standing room or movable seat room for a few hundred more. The space could fdso be used for public gatherings of alj kind, convention meetings,, banquets, ban-quets, etc. Kitchen facilities could be included in the building build-ing under such a cooperative arrangement, Under such a cooperative construction agreement, which is "working satisfactorily" in Bountiful and Layton, the Board of Education or other participating partici-pating group would have a 99-year 99-year lease on the field house facility, fa-cility, and the auditorium would be available for any public pub-lic use except on National Guard drill nights once a week, usually on. Monday nights, and any other occasional National Guard requirements. Tht? Beaver National Guard Cornrr-andei1, Lt, Rondo T. Far-rer, Far-rer, would act as coordinator. |