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Show Fourth Air Force Officials Inspect ROTC Commending the Branch Agricultural Ag-ricultural college Air Force Reserve Re-serve Officers Training Corps for its superior rating, Lt. Col. A. L. Coenen,, made an annual in-pection in-pection tour of the college and the military department Friday and Saturday. Col. Coenen, demitv director for ROTC, Fourth Air Force, headed head-ed the inspection group which arrived by air at the Cedar City municipal airport from Hamilton Hamil-ton AFB in California. Purpose of the visit was to fur ther inspect the facilities here with the possibility of establishing establish-ing a four-year ROTC program. A full four-year course had been approved by the school's board of trustees, and the matter is now under consideration by the Air Force. An announcement will be made by the Air Force on April 20, giving an additional 62 colleges col-leges in the United States a four-year four-year ROTC program. It will be known at that time whpfher the BAC has been granted the four-year four-year course. Arriving with Col. Coenen on board a C-47 transport plane, were Capt. I. E. Muff ley, pilot; 2nd Lt. K. T. York, administrative administra-tive assistant to the director for Air Force ROTC. and T Sgt. E. J. Morrison, crew member. On hand at the airport to greet the party were Maj. Oliver W. Harris, head of the ROTC unit at the college: Dr. H. Wayne Driggs. BAC director; Lyman Sevy, president of the Chamber of Commerce; Milton Sevy, head of th local nir reserve squad-: run; Clarence Miller, member of the C. of C. airport committee, and an honor guard of ROTC cadets and sponsors. The inspection party spent Friday Fri-day and Saturday in Cedar City and Col. Coenen commended the militarv staff here m- its unity and organization. |