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Show IPa nJ miPE, Published in the interest of the personnel of the Deseret Test Center i CDR Published by the Transcript-BulletiPuIJisliing Company, Tooele, Utah, a private firm, in no way connected with the Department of the Army. Opinions expressed by publisher and writers herein are their own and are not to be considered an official expression by the Department of the Army. The appearance of advertisements in this publication does not constitute an endorsement by the Department of the Army of the products or services advertised. DE& n Ft. Douglas, Utah 84113 Vol. 4 No. 18 WESTERN A! Friday, January 12, 1973 Dugway, Utah 84022 Army announces modernization I I DPG, DTC ( Headquarters to collocate Secretary rtf the Army Robert F. Froehlke and Chief of Staff General Creighton W. Abrams yesterday announced a series of major actions designed to modernize, reorient, and streamline the Armys organization within the continental United States. Although improved efficiency is the main purpose of the plan, these actions will result in an. adnual savings of approximately $190 million when completed and a total of approximately $1 billion over a five year.period. THE PLAN IS the result of a special study announced by Secretary Froehlke last April under the direction of Major General James G. Kalergis. The jlan is designed to improve readiness, training the materiel and acquisition process, the quality and responsiveness of management, and better suppvic for the soldier in an era of constrained per-- 1 sonnel and budget resources. It is estimated that the bulk of the plan will be implemented within 12 months. Highlights of the plan include: Elimination of the Continental Army Command (CONARC), the Combat Developments Command (CDC), and the Third United States Army. CREATION OF THE Forces (FORSCOM), a single I field headquarters to supervise the unit training and combat readiness of all army units to include the Army reserve and , the national guard. Creation of the Training and Doctrine Command, (TRADOC), a single field headquarters to direct all Army individual training education, and the development of organizations, materiel requirements and doctrine. CONSOLIDATION OF the Munitions Command and the Weapons Command into an Armaments Command. Consolidation of the major headquarters elements of the Electronics Command. CONSOLIDATION AND realignment of the Army Depot System. Elimination of the major administrative levels between all major Army posts and this Department of the Army. Increased responsibility, authority, and flexibility for installation commanders. Establishing a major active Army organizational framework organized solely to improve reserve component readiness. j i ! IMPROVING THE quality and administration of the ROTC program. Creation of a new command to provide improved de- livery of Army health care in the United States. IMPROVING RESPONSIVENESS to individual needs and goals in handling personnel matters within the Army. Improving the weapons development and procurement managerial practices and organizations process by in recognition of technological advances, Elimination of 813 personnel spaces from the Army staff in the Pentagon. j ; ng The consolidation of Deseret Test Center Headquarters with Dugway Proving Ground has been directed. The rationale for this action is that decreasing funds for the past several years have dictated a major effort to reduce operating costs. Relocation and consolidation erf the Deseret Command elements with the support and testing facilities at Dugway Proving Ground will reduce resource requirements and will facilitate internal coordination within the Test Center. The Deseret Test Center will be reduced to a manning level of an estimated 712 civilian employees and 212 military personnel. This is a reduction of about 125 spaces from the latest JCS authorized level. Therefore, at this time it is impossible to know how many personnel will actually be released in the reduction, as there are several factors which will effect the final number, including: a. The number of retirements. Special Forces begin exercises members of the 5th Special Forces Group from Ft Bragg N.C., parachuted into Dugway Sunday in preparation for a training exercise near die Seventy-tw- o Utah-Neva- da border. THE COMPANY-SIZESpecial Forces unit began and will return to 9 Gobi Thursday, Springs operation n Dugway January 23 after completion of die D quick-actio- up-dati- ; Manpower cut to 712 civilians, 212 military has conducted outings and summer camps for mentally retarded youngsters from a state hospital. THE GROUP operates on a low-ke- y scale, and undertakes its nation- - building activities only at the invitation of the community or activity. This is the first time either group has trained or op- four-ma- i R. Commanding the Special Forces unit is Major William Hale, and the company sergeant major is SGM Lawrence Robert A. Shade Colonel CM Commanding Odenbaugh. THE SOLDIERS will be housed in Building 5132 while at Dugway. While die operational teams are on the exercise, administrative personnel will remain on post. Both groups will depart Dugway for Ft. Bragg on die morning of January 25. Teachers hear plan to end school strife Remember the King Oil in short supply; conserve your heat An austerity program designed to conserve dwindling oil supplies at Dugway Proving Ground will be folly im- plemented today. An oil shortage throughout the by Lieutenant Harry C. Alford, Jr. Equal Opportunity and Treatment Officer On April 14, 1968, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. was struck down by an assassin who represented a force he courageously spent his mature life fighting against: Hate. From Montgomery, Alabama to Memphis, Tennessee he constantly fought (nonviolently) to make a beautiful constitutioi) become a reality, for all Americans. Nothing deterred his drive. He was jailed, spat upon, ridiculed, threatened daily, but not once was he discouraged. He was no Communist, anarchist nor troublemaker. He was a man who saw a need in bringing about understanding and truth among fellow man. So important was this cause to him that he gladly devoted his existence to it. This January 15 (his birthday), let us not remember Martin Luther King, Jr. solely for his rallies, and marches but ability to organize most of all for his moral guidance, and belief that the world may one day become a kind and peaceful place under Gods domain. Let us also remember Martin Luther King, Jr. in the name of humanity. Let us pray to God to bless us with more men of equal greatness. sit-in- s, Memorial service A Memorial service for Doctor Martin Luther King will be held in the Dugway Post Chapel at 4 p.m. Monday, January 15. Chaplain Ross C. Wright will conduct the service. Supervisors are authorized to allow their personnel . time off to attend the service. J teachers County School Superintendent Clarke N. Johnsen unveiled a school program designed to relieve the racial and ethnic strife that has plagued the school district. The plans stated objective is to change the schools from hate and antagonism to schools of self- - respect for self, others and authority with mutual respect and cooperation paramount. TO Tins end, Mr. Johnsen announced the formation of advocacies units composed of students and teachers designed to guide and direct students actions within the school through mutual cooperation. Each advocacy will consist of one teacher and approximately 25 students. The units would be organized by having each student prioritize from one to six the teachers he would prefer as his advocate. Thus, the student body would be organized into units which Mr. Johnsen feels will familiarize students with each other, and promote harmonious relations between students of diverse backgrounds and en- to the January meeting of the Dugway Parent-TeacheAssociation Monday night at 7:30 p.m. concerning the new school plan. "We have not done enough to bring people together , Mr. Johnsen has said. Bring yourself to the All Purpose Room of the Elementary School Jan. 15. vironments. STUDENT- - teacher discussions will also lie held, with the theme of hate and antagonism and respect and coopSchool rules and eration. regulations will lie reevaluated by Board members with the results of these discussions in mind. The revised standards of conduct arising from these discussions known as stable limits, would be incorporated into the advocacies. The plan holds that these advocacies will establish a climate for learning by providing each student with guidance, support, encouragement, direction, stability, friendship, fellowship and success in his school endeavors socially, emotionally, intellectually and physically. . . BUT likewise, the units will establish a vehicle for holding students responsible for their learning and behavior in the (school) environment. No student can enter school and not be accountable, Mr. Johnsen said. Many think under this they are not proposal, they would be responsible to the advocate and the advocacy. The advocacy will also make those with whom we associate feel like they are soinclxKly, he added. THE advocacies will meet regularly to establish close relationships between members. A systematic program for dealing with students that fail United gallons. to comply with the stable limits is contained in the plan, as is a review of the limits. The plan I am submitting may not be a panacea to our Mr. Johnsen said. problems, But it is a start, and one for which I am holding all personnel accountable." I AM willing to put my job on the line, I feel so strongly about it, he added. If this plan is adhered Mr. Johnsen said, it to, could create a learning climate unparalleled in our county. Tooele High School currently employs one full- - time policeman to control students. Violence among students has plagued the school for well over a year. HOWEVER, Mr. Johnsen said that This is not a local problem; its a national problem." There is much that begins in the elementary schools that builds up to what is happening in the secondary. There fore, this is a total problem and must be dealt with by all." Mr. Johnsen presented the plan earlier to the Tooele school, and later to western Grants-vill- Eleven loads of fuel is the normal weekly delivery to Dugway, according to Maj. Stout, but in recent weeks this amount has been cut to five or six loads weekly. At present Dugway is 23 loads or approximately 200,000 gallons behind schedule. to adopt the austerity measMaj. Stout adds that Dugures. The affected area ex- way maintains a normal oil tends from Denver down to reserve of 500,000 gallons. Texas and over to the west As of yesterday, this reserve had diminished to 132,000 coast. rs with Dugway last week, Tooele entire States caused by a generally hard winter has forced Dugway Superintendent Clarke N. Johnson will speak Meeting i b. Normal attrition of personnel c. Personnel who will decline transfer to Dugway Proving Ground. At this time I cannot give you a definite date when the RIF will occur. For Tooele County ? i erated in the Utah area. exercise. n Accompanying the group is a survey party from the 95th Civil Affairs Group at Ft. Bragg. This party will be seeking possible future assistance programs in the Utah area. The 95th Civil Affairs Group operates in community activity programs for the improvement and benefit of the civilian populace. In North Carolina, for example, the group i e ALL WAREHOUSES and MAJOR Louis E Stout, Chief of the Facilities-- En- buildings which do not congineering Division, explained tain regularly working personthat fuel conservation, has nel or residents at Dugway become necessary since oil will have their temperatures deliveries to DPG have been reduced to the 35 to 40 dereduced to half of normal gree range. Administrative and may diminish further. buildings, with the exception of the US will maintain HOUSING area oil tanks Army Hospital, not exceeding have a three to five week temperatures Maj. Stout estimates. severity of the oil shortage will largely be determined by the harshness of the weather in the coming weeks. Maj. Stout noted that some large plants at Dugway may be converted to use a different type of fuel oil At the present time, however, the plan is not completely supply, The 65 degrees. Housing occupants will be responsible for cutting down their fuel consumption. It is recommended that occupants reduce the interior temperature of their homes to 60 degrees at night. During the day temperatures in housing units should not exceed 70 degrees. Windows must be kept closed at all times. On the inside. Dugway honors Truman . MIA Plaque. . . . . . . Trailer acquired. . . Alien report information. Mustangs roll. . . . . and Wendover. $ N |