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Show FIRST NATIONWIDE ALERT National Guardsmen to Receive Defense Alert Mobilization Call Forty-one hundred Utah National Na-tional Guardsmen, whose forerunners fore-runners fought at Lexington and Concord, this week prepared themselves for the nationwide "Operation Minute Man" test "Combat" alert. The Utah Guardsmen are scheduled "mobilized" for several hours' duration sometime soon. The Utahns will be called to their armories in 25 Utah communities com-munities on a signal from the Pentagon to the 48 states, Hawaii, Ha-waii, Alaska, the District of Columbia Co-lumbia and Puerto Rico. Plans are to call the nation's 398,000 National Guardsmen In 2400 communities simultaneously simultaneous-ly during the test "attack." The time required to have the units fully mobilized will be recorded record-ed for an evaluation of the nation's na-tion's preparedness for an enemv attack. At the armories and the Salt Lake Airbase, the guardsmen will man jet fighters and heavy artillery ar-tillery to await further orders from Brig. Gen. Maxwell E. Rich, Utah adjutant general. Utah National Guard officials will be unaware of the time or date of the alert until it is sounded sound-ed from Washington, D. C. This will be the first nationwide alert ever sounded for all National Guardsmen. The alert will be sounded for troops in Salt Lake City, Murray, Logan, Garland, Brlgham City, Ogden, Layton, Bountiful, Vernal, Tooele, Heber City, Lehi, American Ameri-can Fork, Provo, Sprlngvllle, Spanish Fork, Nephl, Manti, Mt. Pleasant, Richfield, Price, Fillmore, Fill-more, Beaver, Cedar City, and St. George. |