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Show WESTERN AMERICANA "Sorvln;,thyj)ersoiiiiel of the Deseret Test Center" Publ sOaOtrip'tBulIetin Publishing Companv, Tooele, Utah, a pri- no way connected with the Department of tlie Army. Opinions ex d pressed by publisher and writers herein aie their own and are not to be an official expression by the Department of the Army. The appearunee of adertisements in this publication does not constitute an endorsement by the Department of the Army of tlie product or sen ices advertised. con-sidere- Ft. Douglas, Utah Vol. 3 No. 22 March s 1 84113 84022 Dugway, Utah Friday, February 18, 1972 anniversary DPG marks 30th year i I Darrell Stevenson and Chuck DeWilt look over newly completed antenna (far right) for channel 13. The two men will be working on channels 6, 8, and 10 in the future. One channel done T.V. reception looks better Work designed to upgrade the television translator which serves Dugway began alxxit 3 weeks ago, according to Mr. Charles E. DeWitt of Communications- Electronics. Mr. De Witt said that television reception may lie interrupted temporarily while work on the translator continues in the next few weeks. Channels 6, 8, 10 and 13 will be affected. THE BIGGEST improvement in the translator system will le the installation of new antennas which send the television transmission into English Village. A new antenna for Channel 13 has already been installed. The new antennas, which are being constructed by the machine shop on post, are of a new design, which enables the transmitted signal to lie sent out with a spread from the antenna. The narrow beam antennas, which have been used previously, only have a emanating spread. The translator system will undergo a stage by stage check which will decrease horizontal and vertical roll and maintain picture synchronization. ONCE WORK is completed on the translator and the antennas installed, the antenna system will be aligned so that optimum effectiveness is achieved with the system. Before work liegan on the translator, a spot check of houses in English Village was made to determine what work needed to be done. After the improvements are completed in the translator, Mr. De Witt expects some areas to have a better signal than others. Another spot check of homes will le made to measure total effectiveness of the latest work. Following the surprise attack on Pearl Harlior by Japanese forces in Decemlwr erf 1H41, as the entire country mobilized for war, the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service recognized the need for an additional large-scal- e testing area. A group of Army personnel dispatched to the western United States to find a suitable location for the new test ten- ter. And in January of 1942, Major John R. Bums, who was to retire as a brigadier general, made the announcement that a site in western Utah had been selected. March 1, WEDNESDAY, marks the 30th anniversary of Dugway Proving Ground. The name Dugway was ta- ken from die Dugway Mountains, the range west of the installa- tion. Originally, the mountains so named when Mormon schooners and covered wagons were used to transport personal effects cross- - country, alsence of roads and moun- tain passes forced the pioneers to use ingenious methods to the rugged mountain The term "dugwav" denoted a serpentine trench' dug just wide enough to serve as a fur- row for the wheels on one side of the wagon. Oxen hitched at an angle to the wagon held the wagon in the nits while they IVat over the nigged lumltered rain. the WiMcrn ter- - H MAJ BURNS was designated the installation's first commander when it was activated March 1. 1942. Initial construction liegan March 5 of that vear. CCC camp built in the thirties at nearby Simpson Springs was used as the initial Itase of operations for the con- stniction personnel because of the availability of water. The building site was known at that time as Government Well. Today it is known as the Ditto Techni- cal Center. But American history for the area did not liegin with Dug- way's birth. The old Ponv Ex- press paths. Overland Stage Lines' roads, and the famed Liu- traversed the coin Highway area nearly a century liefore the outbreak of the Second World A War. sum- BY THE mer of '42 the proving ground test- had begun a limited-scal- e war. the ing program. During Dugway testing facilitated the development of an incendiary lioinb that proved highly effec-tive against German and Japa- nese dwellings. Other testing also nourished. After serving throughout the war as an independent installa- tion, Dugwav Proving Ground was combined in 1947 with the Deseret Chemical Depot to form now-famo- humilities in Korea, 'ni" l'. J"1) redesignated Dugway Prov- on ac- " phu-e- mK d tive '"l'""- Uss II inslal- - npcratiims were in the Ditto Technical arta- Nan were drawn for new administrative and residential known as English Village. In June of 1952. opera-late- r t move into tlie All - re-w- - area n alJ residents started moving into the housing area in Decemlier. 1952. ADDITIONAL units, such the U.S. Army Hospital, Mili- Detachment and a ? H"'" Chemical Corps battalion were jpadually added to the lwsic and oriK'al Technical Service unit, The Chemical tarps imiron-wer- e ProRrit,n was to Dugway in 1Ij3, as WH as the responsibility for meteorological research and V'11 ferrl lra,,s-prair- ie de-T- Pictured from the left at the head table of the Dugway Dining-Iare Dr. R. B. Dilla-wa, Brigadier General Max Etkin, Ceneral Henry A. Miles-- Colonel Arthur J. Kingdom, Governor Calvin L. Rampton, Mr. O'Dell Madsen (hidden). Major Ceneral Stewart C. Meyer, Colonel Rolicrt Muldniw, Salt Lake City Mayor E. J. Gam and Brigadier General G. Hal Taylor (ret.) n velopment. 1" Octolicr of 195S, the US Army Chemical- - Biological- '"K'd iCBR) Weapons Orienta-slope- Radio-traver- ' w ('"urse transferred to s. Dug- - The Department of Defense has announced a reprieve for the hike in (TIS) announced earlier this month. The longer TIS requirements for hikes to grade E-- 5 or lie- - services. Without the revised program, low will go into effect Jan. 1, 1973, rather than this summer the Army would have leen faced as previously announced, officials with a period of from 12 to 18 months where very few soldiers said. And MEANWHILE, services other would lie promoted to E-the Anny must abide- - liy with few E-going to E-the new standards starting as there would have lnren a cor-Julv 1, 1972. responding lack of promotions The delay was granted on to E-THE WAIVER rule granted the supposition that delayed hikes would leave the service by the Department will allow comparatively few soldiers this up to 20 percent of the people summer who would lie eligible in grade E-- 5 to have less than for promotion under the new the established minimum TIS. standards for hikes to grades People lxiosted to E-- 5 with lie- E-- 4 TIS steadilv ac and E-The new TIS requirements quire more service, so it will for hikes to E-- 4 and E-- 5 will be possible for many more than be 21 and 33 months respective- - 20 per cent of the promotions ly. Without waiver, the current actually made to be lelow iniiii- miniinums are 14 and 22 months mum TlS. Tlie new promotion prcrequi- respectively. A LAKUE no rt ion ot enlist- - sites will normally reciiure a ed personnel who would have minimum of four months' TIS eligible for promotion tin- - for hikes to grade E-- 2 and 12 Then- Apt ilw new wstem ihi aimiwr nvniiliv' TIS for .nvi.l.. have lieen returned to civilian will cimlinuc to be provisions lite by massive early-ou- t pro- - tor partial waiver of the TIS 5, 4. m minimiuns. grams. ROTC campaign y. Dugway Officers Host Dining-I- n Ceremony ils Komn'nonintllc postponed 'til Jan. '73 I a. l and remained here until deactivation in January 1971). 1 1962, under the presi- dents Army Weorganizatioiial Han. DPG was assigned to the l's- - Army Test and Evaluation Command with headquarters at Alierdeen Proving Ground. Man land. It had previously A Dining-l- n Ceremonv was a P"rt.rf lhe Chemical lurid Research and by the Deseret Test Cen- Corps Development ter Wednesday at the Dugway Command. ... On July 1, 19KS, Dugway was Officers' Open Mess. Some of the dignitaries at- merited with the Deseret Test . ..... Ii..(. ll... ftm,........- U'.jm I'l'lk . . I .1 S. In addition to the delayed La,v,,, w Ra,,,lon: effective date of the new TIS "and. standards the Department of fense has approved a higher waiver percentage for Army carly-ouhikes to E-- 5 than for the other 4's Specialist 4 Edmund J. Black, Jr., of the Dugway U.S. Army Hospital Detachment, receives a plaque following his selection as Soldier of the Quarter for tlie Deseret Test Center. Making the award before tlie Salt Lake City jtihambcr of Commerce is O'Dell C. Madsen, civilian aide o the Secretary of the Armv for the State of Utah. y ' 5. Soldier of Quarter Chemical Center, maintained on a stand-bmitil tlie outbreak of as m formal dinner function for mem- liers of a military organization or unit. It is also a very old tra- ditim in England, but it is not exclusively military. It is lielieved 1Aim IIIE O OlIlctflfTI I fliuf llllllllfT-f- n Major General Michael Kaufman; Brigadier General Van Hixon, Utah's Assistant Adjutant General; O'Dell C. Madsen, Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Armv for nt f'lul.. U(.ifn " Ga"' r K V. i L" r"i r-- " ,M?! Robert Swan of Tooele and federal, state and local civic and military officials. Brigadier General Max Etkin. Commanding General of the Deseret Test Center, iiilnxlticcd the guest speaker. General Henry A. Miley. Clominaudim; General, U.S. Army Materiel Command, critical shortages among ing Washington, D.C. certain MOS skill areas in The Diuing-I- n Oreiiioiiv is a of the availability of vance qualified replacements. ingly. the decision to cancel this policy is in the lost inlerests of the Army to avoid degradation of combat readiness in units requiring such personnel, To insure equity to those personnel who nave appueci pre Miniarv' iwiv nrmiit'iiis uuinu- v.ously but have not yet leei .. ..7' .. n (:roiln5 . fi .iiKi.iitimi iiifiui iwruiiiiiiii U It I til within the nest be imoroviim who are coiilcniilaliiii! to Sergeant two months, according linn but have not set done so. First Class Mayo A. Perry. Fi- effective date ol cancellation nf nance and Accounting. pingram is as of Fchniary 21. SFC Perrv recently traveled NO APPLICATIONS may to Ft. ('.arson, Colo, to meet le accepted after this date. with personnel there concerning ever, in view of critical short military pav problems. n ages that have developed in SERGEANT Perry brought ous career management fields 75 specific pay the throiiiihoiit ruiv the fol- - approximately Ft. Carson including to problems will apply lowing constraints those concerning W-- 2 forms. He said. "There seems to lie on (Continued Page Eight) a iK'tter understanding now the two offices concern- the pav problems." Several ing new policies concerning pay records kept at Ft. Carson came niit of the meeting. There will lie new pay clerks al Ft. Carson who w ill he work- - Reserve l plan cancelled as of Feb. 21 Tlie active Army recruiting program for reserve eompiments which authorized up to a 12 month early out for first term enlisted personnel who joined the National Guard or U.S. Army active Reserve units has l)een cancelled effective February 21. PURPOSE THE of this was to encourage volun- policv 7 tary losses of trained personnel 111 II iui 11 ia BL .uiiiii 1U nuivIII L a l IIC manFiscal Year the ll)72 ing constraints and to provide personnel to Anny National Guard and US Army Reserve units in the proper grade and MOS to assist these units in up their authorized results to date in- The strength. dicate that the purpose of the Dolicv has been achieved. Further losses under this policy except as ontlineil would have the effect of creat- - ad-th- Accord-planne- in, T" . JS nMna.steriI later spread to military units when the Officers' Mess was established. It is also Iwlieved that the British evolved from Army Dining-I- n the days of knighthood. The Din- ing-I- n Ceremony provides an op-portiinity to reaffirm pride in service to country, promote team work, cooperation and espirit de corps. adopted by d. Pay problems may be improving soon 1 SL youths visit Dugway in Feb. appli'-a-yea- r How-buildi- vari-bee- sini w uimtiuo uicu itwuiw. with W-- 2 forms was also discussed and Ft.- Carson is doing all they can to solve the problem, ma wmj -problem Witnesses Testify at Noreen trial Following the testimony of Mrs. Janice Uissen and Mr. l.ar- rett Ottis of the Criminal Inves- - Lalwratory, Fort Gor- don, Georgia, the government rested its case in the court-martiof Specialist 4 William E. Noreen, 21. moiix i.iiv, lowa. records. nil! mi IJiiguav pav which l, THE There will also lie new supervisors. liegan Tuesday in a conference EACH NEW clerk will lie room in the Dugway Proving h:iiullin; only about 5)0 records Ground Headquarters building, is instead of the previous number expected to continue into Satof l"VM. SKC: Perry described urday with the presentation of the clerks as "well experienced." the Defense counsel's witnesses tigating al court-martia- Sp4 Black chosen Soldier of Quarter I Kdminid J. Black Jr., of the Dugway U.S. Army Hospital Detachment has lieen selected Soldier of the Quarter for the Deseret Test Center.' Socialist Sp4 BIACK was selected from the three soldiers of the month for the last quarter. 11 le award carries larger local recog- tlie bank, made the award Feb. 8 at a breakfast meeting liefore the Chamlier of Commerce in the Board of Governors Room in the Chaining of' Commerce Building. Spl Black entered the Army in October, 1970, and took his lwsic training at Ft. Onl. Calif. After basic, he received nition than the monthly selectraining as a pharmacist at tion, and is carried out in cothe Ft. Ord Hospital. operation with the Salt Lake SP4 BI.ACK came to DugCity Chamlicr of Commerce. way in April, 1971. The Slireveport, Louisiana naTlie American National Hank of Salt Lake City served as tive has completed three- award snsor for Spl Black, and years training as a him with award. cash a presented jiharmacist at Xavier University Like all other soldiers selected in New Orleans. Upon completion for the honor, he also received of his Anny tour of duty, Sp4 an engraved plaque from the Black plans to return to school HarriKciinccull CnrHratiuu. to complete the requirements son Brothers, vice- - president of for a degree in pharmacy. total of 180 high school and junior high youths from the Salt Lake area have legun visits to Dugway to see firsthand what the new Army is like. THE STUDENTS are pri- marily ninth- - graders from Bryant. Clayton, Glendale, Horace Mann Jordan, Lincoln, Northwest, Hill side, Irving, Roosevelt, and South east Tunior Hiirh S. W.U Hid.' West. South and Highland r Schools are also involved in the program, mainly in provid ing senior Reserve Officer Train- ing Corps (ROTC) junior cadets to serve as group advisors. Four groups of 45 students each will visit here. The first arrived Feb. 1, and the remain- ing three will tour the post on sulisetiucnt weeks in this month. . The idea tor the tour came from retired Army Lieutenant (Lt. Col.) Ned B. Baker, in a letter to Dugway commander Colonel (Col.) Arthur J. King- Lt. Col. Baker suggested that the tours would "stimulate A enrollments in junior ROTC programs" and would "present a favorable image of the Army to a cross- - section of inipression- able youngsters from our coni- munitv." THE FIRST gnmp of stu dents was from Glendale and Lincoln Junior High Schools and South Hiuh School. The Feb. S Rroiip will lie froin Horace Maim. Junior lnrdn ",ld High Schools. Tlie Feb. 15 group Nthwt will and lie from Bryant. Clayton Roosevelt High Junior ,)c lrvin& J"r The group will of students from "'"side and Southeast PI High Sclnxils. visit to Dugwav includes a tour of the Photography Labora- niuiKi.m' .! Inrv ir ' Force Meteorological Division weather station in the technical areas. Lunch is also provided in the troop mess hall at no cost to the students. In order to give the stiuleiils a complete view of Armv life, vml " I'll.- - nrosoiH ts II.. look guml that pav problems will be rislue.il immensely." lie cautioned that it w ill take ami exlulnts. A total of 18 witnesses and about 40 exhibits were used by the prosecuting counsels, Noreen is charged with the UK nths to straighten tO (WO lip murder Oct. 6 of out the records. Two tilings will In- - done al Oak Sun Murray, 36, and the Ft. Carson. Each record will he attempted murder of the victim's cheeked by mv clerks, and the two daughters, Kathleen, 3, and Ou.ilil Assurance Section will Cynthia 1, both of whom re-covered in the Army hospital alsn audit each pav reconl. Students fnnn Glendale. Irving, and Lincoln Junior High team here, IN a ADDITION, Schools were here lor a tour ol DPG. The pnisicclivc IF CONVICTED, Noreen from Ft. Carson will lie hen-ROTC members slopped oil for lunch in the I IMC mess. March 11 through 17. They will faces life imprisonment since interview all military personnel the military excluded the death with their finance reconls. Sit- - penalty in the crime well liefore tour imiilps also show the stu- - the students I iv Cut. kimnloni. ... t ..f .1 . ii... wn ol ub um. Pnncct Olficrr Captain iCpt.) geant retry is in me process dents the recreational side chief The this for of schedule a the A. Paul first the prosecuter is culled Wulff setting up post Dugway, including E. Yeksavich of Michael tain also craft shop, lxiwling alley, theater visit "a real good lour." He purpose?. The interviews will continue the White Sands Missile Range, and other Special Service fa- - staled that iie hopes for feed- back from the visitors in order every six months, with all mili- - N.M., and the accused is repre-ckm- i. cililies. ANOTHER highlight of the to lcltcr plan for future pro- - tary personnel' required to meet sented by Captain Keith Rodll with the people from Ft. Car- - of Dugway and his assistant. tour is a personal address to grams of Ibis nature. first-degr- ... ... .... ra Cap-Colon- el |