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Show National Guard Unit "Fills Up" In Recruiting Drive "Operation Safeguard," a one-day one-day drive for recruits by the National Na-tional Guard throughout the state paid off in an overnight increase of 17 per cent strength, according accord-ing to adjutant general's office at Fort Douglas. The 213th Field Artillery Battalion Bat-talion with headquarters in Cedar Ce-dar City reported art outstanding drive here and in cities with batteries including Richfield, Beaver, Bea-ver, Fillmore and St. George. Twenty-three men were signed In the drive In Cedar City along with five joining in Richfield, four in Beaver, three in Fillmore and eight in St. George. The state recorded an increase of 516 men in the recruiting drive. The headquarters battery located lo-cated in Cedar City reached 100 per cent of its authorized strength (Continued on Back Page) NATIONAL GUARD (Continued from Front Page) at the completion of the drive. With the unit at its full j strength It was pointed out by Max Dalley, commanding offi-! cer, that the payroll in Cedar I Cltv will amount to approximate- J ly $78,000 a year. Battery and battalion staff payrolls amount to over SGS.000 and two men assigned as-signed to the unit through the regular army, on full time duty receive an aditlonal $10,500. Results of the all-day recruit-lng recruit-lng operation on a state-wide basis Indicate - a record high membership. Overall strength of the Utah Guard now is approximately approx-imately 4.S50, Including 900 Air Guardsmen. In Cedar City open house was held at the Armory during the forenoon and guardsmen were In the community throughout the day explaining the program and recruiting new members. Each member who joined was given a free airplane ride over the area and Lt. LaNard Johnson, battalion batta-lion pilot, was busy through most of the day with such rides. Battlalon officers were more than satisfied with the drive and expressed their appreciation for the cooperation and understanding understand-ing of the pubJlc generally. |