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Show Published in the interest of the personnel of Dugway Proving Ground Published by the Transcript-Bulleti- n Publishing 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 dors not constitute an endorsement by the Department of the Army of the products or services advertised. Dugway Proving Ground Vol. 7 No. 8 Remote Site Package Pending Owens a public meeting regarding the national chemical warfare poli- cy- This meeting is scheduled 8:30 p.m. and the public is welcomed to attend and ask questions 'of the Congressman. Congressman Wayne Owens is cbdnld to visit Dugway on Tuesday, Oc- tober 29. Congressman Owens will attend the Meet Your Can- tnn being held at the didates Owens is Congressman Elementary School multipur- for the Senate seat 7 room .00 running at p.m. pose Following this meeting, being vacated by Senator Wallace F. hokl Bennett Congressman Owens will (D-Uta- h) vice Commission. There is a very good possibility that the remote site package will be approved by the Civil Service Commission. HOUSE BILL H. R. 7032 defines a remote worksite site so remote from the nearest established communities suitable places of residence as fr Golden Knights T o Head Carnival Bill to require an appreciable The United States Army of expense, hardship and inconvenience on the part Official Parachute Team, The' of the employee in commuting Golden Knights, will highlight annul Dugway Youth to and from his residence and tivities Carnival, October 31. worksite. DPG readily qualifies under Carnival activities will kick the definition. Because of the a U:30 a.m. in the post nature of the Proving Ground "Diere will be a wide inhas Symbeen mission Dugway located at a remote sortment of fun and games, and snacks will be available. area Approval of the remote side Knights are package will not affect Dugway scheduled to at 2:00 perform residents. It may affect comfield. in the post gym muters traveling 50 miles or p.m., more oiie way. Commuters from The Carnival, which is Tooele ; may be affected if open to public attendance will Tooele does not meet the Civil also feature KCPX disc jockey Service definition of a reason- Wally Waldron, and a live teen able community sock hop radio show. IT IS HOPED that approval for our Tooele commutBoth Civilian and Military ers and for our commuters from who are not required personnel areas of 50 miles or further will to their worksites will at remain be received. However, there are excused for the afternoons be other possibilidies for the final festivities. All carnival proceeds disposal of the remote site will go to the DYA for the suppackage: of community youth port 1. Disapproval. 2. Total approval. 3. Approval of remote site pay for Ditto and Baker emamount Now Is the time to review your health insurance and decide if your present policy adequately covers your needs. November is open season for health benefit cover- This means that eligible 8civilian employees can enro for coverage, drop their coverage, change from high- or change option to to another. ne "om pln t0 make any you w .changes in your insurance cov- Per- eraSei stP ty the Civilian sonnel office and talk to Amy Gillespie. She will be glad to answer your questions and help meet your insurance needs. Since the DPG Hospital has been changed from a hospital to a dispensary, medical service available is quite limited It would do you to review your present policy and make sure it provides you and your family with ade- quate coverage. - Dugway full-servi- ce This breakthrough was re- accomplished by Mr. Eugene Peterson, a mathemati- statistician at Dugway. The technique was suggested by Major Carroll Michaud, Air Force Liaison Officer at Dug-yo- u way who is a former satellite tracking station commander, ciy tracking procedure provides known coordinates against which the accuracy of the radar is verified. In fact, it phisticated aerial testing redata quiring comprehensive such as providol by the MPS-2- 5 approx-e- d. If it is approved, it is not known when it will lie effective. However, due to the fact that it has been approved by TECOM, AMC and DA, hopes are high that DPG will receive a positive response to this issue. U.N. Tests Get T.V. Coverage KCPX-TNews, Salt Lake City, covered United Nations tests conducted here last week. The news commentary pointed out that Dugway offers a testing facility that has capability beyond defense testing. Dugway was scheduled to conduct the test by U.N. representatives because of the physical capabilities of the testing scigrids, and the experience of de--. Tests are entific personnel. effectithe evaluate to signed veness of a spray system deveBar-stoloped by Midair, Inc., of U.N. the for California, The U.N.s most urgent requirement Is to develop a system which will control insects, particularly the tsetse fly of Africa. V KCPX-Tpointed to the current U.N. tests and previous tests conducted for the U.S. Forest Service and environmental agencies, as important contrilnitions to Dugway ProvV ing Ground. radar h as been calibrated at Dugway by tracking a satellite. MPS-2-5 A joint team of Army Aviators and Medical personnel were instrumental in the October 20th rescue of Rodney Jones, 11, of Nephi. AUTHORITIES said the boy was hunting with his father Saturday when he fell 40 feet over a cliff on Mt. Nebo, north of Nephi. Major William G. Miller, CW3 Howard Keen, SP4 Steven Birch, Dr. (CPT) Tom Brock, and Medic SP4 Beth Buscher, were called in from DPG to fly ah Army Chopper in an effort to save the boy. The accident was reported at 2:15 p.m. Saturday but terrain conditions prevented the chopper from getting close to the scene. The effort was then hampered by darkness. RESCUE THE Army Gives Draftees Early" Release the accident area after landing . , uraucci wiiu vuiumeer . the area hamPcred to remain the until completion of their normal tour of service !ife , . t who Pent will be allowed to do so. ,The 14 houre With the last draft call in December, 1972, the Army had te5dtrato 96,000 draftees in its ranks. The r Medical University peak draftee strength was in scivivc. Secretary of the Army, IIo- ward H. Callaway, has an- dis- THE NEW technique will jounced the Army will draftees its remaining allow radar equipment such as charge the MPS-2-5 to be moved from before TTumksgiving. af-- 1967. one site to another and be rap- - , This early release will DPG. According to CSM On June 30, 1974, the Army idly calibrated. Previously, such a move would require move- - McLaughlin there are five draf- met a recruiting milestone on .ment of extensive optical cali- - fee at Dugway- Two are sche- the way to an to duled be to discharged prior Army by exceeding its auth-mobration equipment. Such a have will and orized (FY 74) strength of Thanksgiving of calibration equipment would take teams of support completed their two full years 781,000. Between January 1, of service. The three remaining 1973 and September 30, 1974, personnel several weeks of set- draftees will separate under the about 337,000 volunteers have up time. This could cost close entered the Army. to $1 million in terms of time earty ut program. and materials. ' team members were forced to hike to an elevation of 10,000 feet to DPG Affected radar. 011 - ve GOLDEN KNIGHTS A member of the U.S. Army parachute team, demonstrates the art and merit of parachuting. The Golden Knights will appear for the DYA Carnival, October 31 at 2.4)0 p.m. ployees only. not certain that the . THE SUCCESSFUL cali-th- e bration is achieved by tracking a Geos-- b satellite on three suc-we- ll cessive earth orbits by MPs-2-5 radar. This technique is particularly valuable to Dugway. An increasing amount of the testing performed here is highly so- -- 4. Approval for anyone traveling 50 miles or more one way. IF THE remote site pay is approved, it will be retroactive to January 1, 1971. Rescue Dugway scientists made a vailiable scientific contribution development of a system to calibrate radar equipment by usin satellites, gives Dugway a technique for calibration with a higher degree of accuracy than heretofore available in the United States. - is Aids In low-optio- n, Ac-su- ch It Dugway Team Coverage Season 15-3- 0 The request for authoriza- tion of an allowance based on duty at remote work sites for Dugway Proving Ground has been approved by TECOM, AMC and die Department of the Army and has been submit- ted for review by the Civil Ser- - remote site pay will be Dugway, Utah, Friday, October 25, 1974 Satellite Aids Insurance Holds Meeting Dugway Dugway, Utah 84022 alloween, meaning holy or hallowed evening, comes on Oct. 31. It was so named because it was the evening before AH Hallows or All Saints Day Nov. 1; thus Halloween was their New Year's Eve. onNov. places as a circle near Chartres, 1. After the spread of Christianity, a chapel was consecrated in the Seventh Century at St. Peters in Rome to honor all saints (both known and unknown) on All Saints Day. However, the 'rites on the preceding evening, now a Christian observance, really stem from an early pagan festival. It was only natural that some of the heathen customs became attached to the Halloween celebration. .The Celts who occupied northern and western Europe (France and the British Isles) had Drui-disas their religion. These priests noted two important feasts -- Beltane or the Rite of Spring of Spring on May I, and the autumn festival, Samhain, on the last day of October. Coming after the harvests had been gathered, this holiday meant the end of summer and the beginning of winter. Their new year began on m To Attend Town Meeting Druid priests were nature worshippers, and performed mystic ceremonies to the sun god at such France, and at Stonehenge Dugway residents will have an opportunity to meet candidates for county and state offices cm Tuesday, October 29, at 74)0 p.m. at the elementary school. HEADING the list of attendees will be Congressman and Wayne Owens Richard Eyre, Campaign director for Salt Lake City Mayor, Jake Gam. Gam and Owens are vying for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Wallace F. Bennett The Republican and Democratic candidates for state legislative and Tooele County offices will also be present. The met your candidate night is being sponsored by the school, which provides the only in England. A supernatural element was part of the autumn festival, for the Druids tried to placate the Lord of Death. It was believed that he allowed the spirits of those who had died during the past twelve months to return to their homes that evening. One of the important rites in connection with the ancient observance of Halloween was the lighting of great bonfires on hilltops to honor the sun god and to frighten away those evil spirits who had been released on that special nigh). This was the time, too, when it was believed that witches rode through the skies on their broomsticks, Tor the idea that there were women who had sold themselves to the Devil was prevalent among the Druids. On Halloween, these witches were said to dance on the hilltops with goblins and imps, while the Devil himself played the bagpipes or castanets made from dead men's bones. This was the night of the full yellow moon, when black cats, bats, elves, and fairies were abroad. Frustrated ghosts were supposed to play tricks on human beings and to cause supernatural happenings. LclIlCllClclteS (D-Uta- h) (R-Uta- A s the people celebrated that night around the massive bonfires, they talked of mysterious, sights or weird sounds they had.encounlered-- no doubt, the forerunner of our custom of relating ghost stories on Halloween. Our modem Halloween also has some elements that originated in the ancient Roman feast honoring Pomona, goddess of fruits. After the Romans had conquered Britain, some of their customs were added to those of the Druids. Since the Roman festival also occurred after harvest, today at ..Halloween we feature fruit center-piece- s, apples, and nuts. Apples facility to hold a political meeting, and Dugway non-feder- al Ron Chairman, Republican Matthews and Democratic Chairman, Chester Wells. THIS EVENT will give Dugway residents a unique op- portunity to meet the candidates they will vote for on November 5, said Mr. Wells. residents who Dugway want to vote and have not registered will be able to register on October 29. Voter registration hours are from 8:00 a.m. Fries Park. to 9:00 p.m. at According to Ron Matthews, Residents will have time to register prior to meeting their J-- 3 candidates. J |