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Show 1 Guard Units Reported Well Taken Care Of Assurance that member of the Utah National Ouard are being well cared for at Camp San Luis Obispo. Cal., where they are in active army service, was received Monday by Governor Herbert B. Maw from Brigadier General Albert E. Wil-fong. Wil-fong. The governor had received complaints com-plaints from parents and other relatives of guard members that conditions at the camp were very unsatisfactory, so he wrote to General Gen-eral Wilfong requesting that he supply information as to actual conditions. con-ditions. General Wilfong formerly was commanding officer of the Sixtieth field artillery brigade, which included in-cluded Utah and California units, but recently was transferred to command of the Sixty-ninth infantry in-fantry brigade, comprising California Cali-fornia units only. In his letter to Governor Maw he said: "The Utah troops arrived here on March 19. The camp was not completed, com-pleted, nor is it done at this time, but all units were moved into temporary tem-porary areas, not crowded, only somewhat inconvenient as to location lo-cation to other installations. The men are quartered in tents with board floors and walls. Each tent has an oil stove in it that provides sufficient heat at all times. Tents are not over crowded, there being not more than six men to a 16 by 16 pyramidal tent. "There have been many rainy days up to the last week, which produced oceans of mud, but 'duck' uoaras were provided to walk on. Most men were wet at times during the day, but had warm, dry quarters quar-ters to go to when not on duty. Rubber boots have been provided for men on sentry duty and other outside work. All men have steel cots, mattresses, sheets, pillows, blankets and down comforters to make beds with. "The camp has a large post hospital hos-pital lhat can take care of many more patients than have ever been there up to now. There is a large number of men with colds, and a number of cases of measles. Upon Inquiry at the hospital this date was informed there is not a single case of pneumonia in the Utah units. "During my experience as a soldier sold-ier in many different camps, 1 know for a fact that living conditions condi-tions here are far ahead of any place I ever served at. The one drawback has been the heavy rainfall rain-fall and that is now past. No doubt the cold epidemic will clear up now that good, dry weather prevails." |