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Show Toorlt Tranvfrijrt, Thun., OitoUr 2-- 1980 7 Many Involved In Complex Mission Of Utah Test And Training Range by R. N. Goldbrrgtrr Frrrlance New .Srrvirt rockets captured from the month. trol." Detachment 2 is per- - units, TWO spotting towers mutes 140 miles a day. Mrs. like a giant stove pipe Genuans were flight tested A short word aliout the manently billeted at lake- PILOTS flying at forty eight thousand feet apart Aclien explains that au r stuck in the hot F- 111 Whirring low to from Mountain gray ooze. at Wendover Field, and history of the I'tah Test side, Utah. Twenty officers thousand feet have referred are set up to measure acat 90 knuti a strange During the to these mountains (the curacy of a pilot's strafing Home, Idaho, (laid an earearly 1950's V I one of these strange rockets and Training Range. Or- and airmen and object is sighted that looks Wend-ove- - fifty-fiv- e 1st Anniversary Sale! ENDS SATURDAY s EXECUTIVE-.'i;.y- known as Wendover Field, 882-366- transportation today's - overflight as an example ranges on the west desert: is the job of Detachment 4. separate testing Operation Red Flag, the the llill and Wendover national war readiness ranges under the manage- game, has been in full men! of the Air Force I swing here for nearly a gist ics Command's Ogden Air Logistics Center and the Dugway Proving 7 South Main 1 Service and quality lor the discerning man civilians comprise this uni- queunit. Some additional notes on management of the range. Weather is the re- of Detachment 65, 15th Weather Squad- run, located at llill. Aerial ganized in January 1979, the ITTH is under the single command of the Air Force Systems Command rarely seen monument to (AFSC) headquartered at the memory of Werner Andrews AFB, WashingVon Braiui. ton. DC. After a fast fifteen minBEFORE the formation ute flight, we arrive at of the UTTR, there were Decker Field, formerly three shop , was christened Wendover Willie. STI CK in time forever, Wendover Willie today is a Ground Range, under the command of the U.S. Army. AFSC at Andrews has designated the 6510th Test Wing located at Edards AFB. California, to lie the 40th Air Rescue and Re- covery Squadron, also lo- catedat Hill AFB. Dugway Proving Ground, under the control of the Army De- velopment and Research Command has also assisted the range in special sup- port missions when re- quested, THE Utah Test and Training Range requires the efforts of many organi-foczations in carrying out its various and complex daily point for all new test- ing and training projects at UTTR. missions. the 6545th Test Croup We lift off from Wcnd-froHill AFB provides on- - over and skim over the salt n site management for opera- - flats in a northeasterly and maintenance of rection. Below, the Kaiser the UTTR through the Chemical Chinese Combination Soup Drink Lunch Fried Rice Pork chow mein Fried shrimp Fortune cookie manned vehicles through another subordinate unit, $2.55 the 6514th Test Squadron, The Group also supports various manned and misile tests through combined ef- of both its squadrons, example, the 6501st Range Squadron operates the UTTR and its data American Lunch Special CHICKEN FRIED STEAK Soup Roll 75 Vegetable Potato Beverage Reserve gatheringinstruincntation during test flights of the Air Launched Cruise We have beautiful facilities for all your and banquet needs. Sunday Hours 11 retrieval of the missile as it descending in its re- covery parachute. RANGE communica- are handled by the is , 299th Communications Squadron, an arm of the Utah Air National Cuard at Salt Lake and the 1881st Communications Squadron Hill. Target upkeep on the UTTR fa done on an as needed basis by Detach- ment 2 of Hill's 2849th Air Base Croup which fa a part the Ogden Air Logistics Center. This unit also provides the facilities for static test- ing of Minuteman missile motors and a ground com- net at Lake-poside called Romeo Con- - tifk a.m. to 9 p.m. Mon. toThurs. 11 a.m.-- ll p. Fri. and Sat. 1 1 a.m. to 1 2 p.m sm.. 882-300- Mis- - sileor ALCM. At the end of ALCM flights the 6514th Test Squadron effects mid air Now!! holiday party evaporation 6501st Range Squadron. ponds are an unearthly THE 6545th Test Group blend of electric green and also is responsible for test muted pink, the colors the and evaluation of un- - work of algae and bacteria, 3 615 North Main rt Beyond, the famous Bonneville Salt Flats are a dazzling white and silver, fading fast into a swirling brown sea of mud as our flight passes Floating land. This familiar land-Fo- r mark is what racers race to in their quest to break world land speed records, THE land beneath us 'was best descrilied by two hikers whose car once got stuck there as Mars with some oxygen. The Donner Party prolwbly had a word for it too, but only their wagon ruts remain, As we cross the southern tip of the Newfoundland Mountains, or the New-tion- s fies, as the folks at Hill call them, I wonder how the UTTR is patrolled. Were doing it now, ts d answers Colonel Pollard, as the concept of piggiback-a- t ing is introduced via this reporters headset. Because of the vast area and the number of overflights by helicopters and other air-o- f craft, security checks are conducted at the same time or piggybacked, Dugway Proving Cround patrols its area by air and ground patrol and will any suspicious acts that might concern Hill - Newfoundlands) as a giant Irun by a process of t ri zipper. Shortly after cross- - angulation. e ing them, we encounter Sound is monitored to veral strange round mounds determine the score as pithat mark the eastern lots fire their cannon into a lion of the UTTH. sc-th- duster of vehicles and buildings appear, these Ik- ing the permanent head quarters of Detachment 2 of the 2849th Air Rase Cruup, Air Force laigistics Command. This is the home of Romeo Cunt ml. Our last stop on this pleasant yet busy summer day is the Eagle Range. Few if any eagles were spotted. The range fa not a refuge but a giant military target. A parachute type target. The sonic recorder that tallies the score is called an Acoust iscore. It actually counts the sconic Ik tom of the bullets as they pass a microphone positioned a stack of earth filled tires at the target. d lier visit to the Range. THE other night two jacket until we are out of the aircraft, since pulling them causes the device to lum into a ImIIooii. I picture myself as Woody alien in the film Sleeper, drifting and from Whidtiey Island Imlihing over this IhhIv of Naval Air Station in Washwater like a cork. I don't ington State unloaded their dare touch the strings. A-- eggs at Eagle. Hie daily Dead reckoning along runs at Eagle average forty-fiv- e lo fifty. Meanwhile, all the Southern Pacific causeconversation way is the safest wav lo is recorth'd each day in the cross the lake, says (.apt. event of a mishap. The hour is once again ujkhi us ami life preservers are the order of liic day, as we will lie taking a route I sack to Hill over the Great Salt lake. A warning b sued by our crew chief ste-A- All was pretty quiet today, according to llelga Achen, an official score employed by the Force. A civilian, she ward not to pull the two lives in Tooele and com- - back strings on the life ir Stewart. Fifteen minutes later we arrive at llill AFB and land, as a giant cloud of oily smoke billows up to the right of our aircraft. Just practice for the fire Imvs," explains (ail. Pollard. as we return from a journey to a strange land lievond the horizon. Mountain Bell Enters New Era The Bell System entered presently offered under a a new era this weik as the format in which the Edition. Circa toiner purchases only the 1882 went on sale across housing or shell of the tele-th- e phone, with Mountain Bell retaining ownership of the working parts and responsi-firs- t bility for continuous tenance. country Octolier 15. The sale of this Design Line telephone marks the time that Bell System have lieen able With the Americana to purchase the entire in- Hill said, the licit h and Edition, housing stniment, customer will purchase the working parts. THE August 15, 1980 entire instrument. We'll made also lie offering a tarriff filings the country for nance contract for the the Americana is the Bell working parts which will Systems initial offering to go into effect upon expira-sel- l equipment to residence tion of the Americana lions omers. warranty During 1981, other Bell period. HILL pointed out that equipment will lie offered for sale, including the re- - the tariff filings call for a mainder of the Design Line single, uniform price for product line and some spe- - the product throughout all cialized items for the dis- - areas served by the Bell We think this is aided. System. Research into the home the true meaning of market wide retailing, an arena shows a significant numlier were entering for the first of Americans want to own time. The Bell Companies their own telephone equip- ment. This move on our have filed for a price of part indicates our desire to $429 on the Americana lie responsilie to customer Edition, Circa 1882. The needs, commented Ken telephone went on sale Oc-- I lilt. Mountain Bell Public toiler 15 and fa available in all Mountain Bell Phone- Relations Manager. HISTORICALLY, Bell Center Stores and business fa operating companies have offices in Utah. The set a retained ownership of com- - solid oak replica of the first products, pro- - telephone manufactured by them to their cus- - Western Electric in 1882 viding for the Bell System. at a monthly rate. Hill clarified that other IIill said other Bell De- Bell Line are equipment, including telephones sign mainte-throughn- Eili-cu- st The Americana Edition Design Line Telephone shown above will be the first equipment item that will be sold by the Bell System. Other Design Line telephones offered by Mountain Bell will be sold outright after the first of the sear. standard and Trimline telephones as well as equipment for business customers, will continue to le of fered under the existing monthly payment ' The dentist told the lionaire oilman that his teeth were in perfect condi-tometion. But the oilman re- plied, Drill anyway. I feel lucky today. rs RELIGION-POLITIC- Ministers shouldn't meddle in politics was probably first said bv Pharoah to Moses. liam Sloan Coffin - Wil- TOOELE COOKW'S LMSOEST TASPATEIft FJEM8LY WASFnnsaZ;1-- 0 went to build their plant, they found that the ground they purchased had a high water table which would not permit construction. They needed 3,500 acres of which the Bureau of Land Management had control. The BLM wouldn't sell. George checked the law and found that Tooele County could buy the land and sell it for industrial development. The BLM still wouldn't sell. George went to Washington and through his efforts, the BLM ws ordered to sell the land to Tooele County. Tooele acquired the land and sold it to N.L. Industries. They built a $ 125,000,000 plant that employs 750 people and is Tooele County's largest taxpayer, $500,000 to $600,000 annually. This kind of skilled leadership saves us tax money money that doesn't have to come out of our pockets. And more important, gives us jobs. We'd better keep George in office ." STERLING HALLADAY Theres Better Way No To Advertise Your Product or Service Than by Placing an Ad in the Tooele Transcript-Bulleti- CARES ENOUGH TO ACCOMPLISH 4 YEAR COUNTY COMMISSIONER DEMOCRAT I n. . . Either Classified Ads Produce Positive Results! or Display |