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Show 1 - ' s Fred Taylor, son of President and Mrs. Hal Taylor, now of the LDS Southeast Indian Mission, will be welcomed home by the Twelfth Ward at services Sunday at 5 p.m., after serving two years in the Central British Mission. He was supervising elder of the North Hampshire District.. Dis-trict.. His parents and other members of his family are expected back in Springville Lt. Col. Donald Frandsen, recently promoted to his present rank, gave a report on activities in Viet Nam Serviceman wins promotion; gives Pentagon report Donald Frandsen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Frandsen of this city, who was recently promoted pro-moted to a Lt. Colonel in the army, described army flying in Viet Nam, one day last week, at a briefing at the Pentagon, Pen-tagon, according to word received re-ceived here. Col. Frandsen was a member of the team which studied both convential and helicopter aircraft air-craft operations in combat against the Viet Cong some time ago. Col. Frandsen is a pilot of the Mohawk twin-engine planes used in Viet Nam for intelligence intelli-gence operations. The Mohawk is a convential plane slightly smaller than a DC-3. The colonel reported that these planes are equipped with both radar and infra-red sensing sen-sing devices. The infra-red system was used at night to locate Viet Cong campfires. Heat from the fires could be detected by the planes' equipment, equip-ment, it was noted. When sizeable concentrations of the enemy were found, bombers could be called in, he said. The infra-red sensors found targets for the B-52 bombers in several cases. Col. Frandsen reported that radar in the Mowhawks had proven highly successful in spotting sampans and other enemy en-emy surface vessels on rivers and along the coast line. He is presently stationed at the Army Aviation School at Ft. Rucker, Ala. He is married and has a son and a daughter. Lt. Col. Frandsen graduated from Sprigville High School. He attended Utah State University, Uni-versity, graduating in 1949, and has been flying since 1952. |