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Show FOR TWO WEEKS Summer Camp Beckons National Guard Preparations are rapidly being be-ing completed by the Utah National Nat-ional Guard throughout the state for the opening of the 1955 Utah Army National Guard encampment encamp-ment beginning on June 5. In southern Utah the 213th Field Artillery Battalion, over 300 strong, will leave by motor convoy on the morning of the 5th. Batteries for the battalion are located in Cedar City, St. George, Braver, Fillmore and Richfield with headquarters here in Cedar City. Headquarters and Headquarters Battery of Cedar City with a present pre-sent strength of S3 officers and men will lead the convoy to the tent city of Camp W. G. Williams. According to Colonel J. Frank Dalley, battalion commander, one of the highlights of the 15 day encampment will be the Governor's Day of Friday, May 15 when the guardsmen will give a demonstration of firepower. fire-power. Stands will be erected and friends and dignitaries willi see such things as time-on-tar-ger and other types of artillery missions; the Air National Guard Saberjets will come in to fire rockets and machine guns and drop napalm and 250-pound bombs in the impact area. Camp commander will be Brig Gen. Maxwell E. Rich, Utah Adjutant General. Men at the encampment will be on an active federal duty status for the 15 davs. Members of the 213th will participate in practical exercises in the use of the 8-inch self-propelled howitzer, howit-zer, which they use. It will be the second successive encampment encamp-ment that the 213th has used the 8-inchers, Dalley said. |