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Show Thursday, November 3, 1960 THE VALLEY VIEW NEWS Battlefield Rockets, Space Missions Loom for Guard The twentieth anniversary of its mobilization for World War II finds the National Guard moving deeper into the age of missile warfare and the space program. The Army National Guard, now manning NIKE air defense missile sites across the nation, will begin receiving Honest John battlefield rockets early next year. the8 Ai? Force is now preparing plans to give the Air sr'lfidd, National Guard a r e s p o mission in the space surveillance p r o- -, gram. At the n-si- blq v, present time, Gen. McGowan Air Guard mis-sioinclude flying supersonic jet aircraft in the active air defense of the TJ. S., and installing communications and electronics equipment at missile sites. ns This military force offers a striking contrast to the equipment status of the National Guard that was called into federal service by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the fall of 1940. Guardsmen took part in maneuvers using sticks and logs for machine guns, stovepipes for artillery pieces, and trucks for tanks. Given proper weapons and vehicles it took these men less thanvet-a year to become seasoned erans. Many Guard units were in combat a year after being called into service. Most military men point out that changing times present-and challenging changing demands. It is now essential, they contend, for Guard units to train for possible employment in a matter of weeks. Major General Donald W. McGowan, Chief of the National Guard Bureau, expresses the thought that the Guard's increased ability to react to an emergency is a result of a training program aimed the Guard's at ultra-mode- rn long-ran- ge up-gradi- ng mobilization readiness. This refers to the peacetime training that cuts down the amount of post-mobilizati- on Oquirrh Hills News a National Guard unit as ready for deployment. Assignment of the Honest John rocket to ultra-mode- rn Army National Guard Divisions is but the latest example of how the Guard is well equipped. The Honest John is a tactical rocket, which means it was designed for battlefield use to replace medium and long-rang- e conventional artillery. It is a deadly weapon - accurate, supersonic, easily transportable, and abla to carry either an atomic or high explosive warhead. Within the next year, eight combat divisions of the Army. National Guard will receive their full complement of Honest John launchers. The units to which they are assigned will train with them year-rounand upon mobilization would require little additional training. so-cal- led Jack-O-Lante- m Once upon a time there was a that had arms, eyes, a feet, ears, mouth, and a nose. And this went around scaring people. When the people told the police, he would not believe them. But then the chief of police saw it and they offered $3,000 for the And capture of the to everybody tried get him, but nobody could. So all .of the state moved away and it became a ghost state. And then somebody went out and captured him and lived like a king. Robert Lemons Jack-O-Lante- Constant Alert F-lO- F-10- m Jack-O-Lante- for keeping the Guard is that of planning for future developments. No one need questions the present-da- y for Air Guard participation in our Air Defense program. For example many Air Guard squadrons flying the latest supersonic jets and are on constant alert, ready to defend our skies on a moments notice. But it is also recognized that with the coming of the ballistic missile, manned fighter aircraft will someday begin to decline, in numbers in the Air Force inventory. Looking to this date, the Air Force is now studying ways in which to use the Air Guard's capabilities in its space program. One of the early missions in this field may well be that of space surveillance. Air Guard Aircraft Control and Warning units, with their modem electronic equipment, could easily be converted for such a purpose. Space capsule recovery has also been suggested as a possible mission area for Air Guard flying units. These are just a few of the ways in which the modem-da- y National Guard is training for tomorrow and planning for the day after. m Jack-O-Lante- d, One of the requirements PACKS ATOMIC WALLOP Happy Halloween Everyone !. ! from Miss Boolds third grade class at David Gourley School. We have some Halloween stories we wrote that we would like to share with you. Halloween Night Pumpkins all over on Halloween night. With scary faces, with candles inside. Ghost all over saying Whooo ! ! ! And witches saying Booo ! ! Booo ! ! Booooooooooo ! Rex Wickham training that would be needed to certify Page 13 GUARDSMEN today train on modem weapons in contrast to mock weapons used by colleagues of 20 years ago. These Army National Guard artillerymen are equipped with the howitzer which in wartime can fire an atomic shell. giant National Guardsmen called up in. 1940, following greatest peacetime mass mobilization in U. S. history, encountered many equipment shortages and improvisation was the order of the day. A typical machine gun crew (inset) manned a mock weapon fashioned from scraps of wood. NATIONAL ch MEN F-10- 2s, 4s -- DEFENDING AMERICA J BINGO PARTY J 8:00 P.M. , . NEW GAMES NEW PRIZES PLENTY OF LIGHTED and HARD TOP PARKING AREA Come and Join Us at ST. FRANCIS PARISH HALL YOUR NATIONAL GUARD SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5th $150.00 Jack Pot - Treasure Chest - Raffle - Novelty Tree .DELTON LANES FREE INSTRUCTIONS It's Fun to CY Bowl 21 GRANGER RE-ELE- CT 4 A PROVEN LEGISLATOR RALPH C. 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