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Show National Guard Troops Gear for Camp Forty-four hundred Utah National Na-tional Guardsmen will converge I on Camp W. G. Williams for their annual summer encampment June 3 to 24. The largest body of Guard troops ever to train at the Oquirrh Mountains camp will be split into two groups in order to accommodate them, said Brig. Gen. Maxwell E. Rich, Utah adjutant general. Engineers of the 115th Group and some special troops will open the encampment June 3, then move June 10 into the Wa satch Mountains. They will complete com-plete their training June 17. As the Engineers move into the mountains, the XI Corps Artillery Artil-lery will rumble Into Camp Williams Wil-liams to begin their 15-days' training. Artillery units will continue their training until June 24. Increased Numbers Heretofore all Army units of the Utah Guard have trained simultaneously si-multaneously at Camp Williams during a single 15-day period. Establishment of the three-week encampment was necessitated by the Guard's swift rise in strength from 2,800 last June to 4.400 today. to-day. Camp Wil'lams is not geared gear-ed to handle so many troops. During the encampment, engineer en-gineer units will continue road construction between Brighton and Heber, attempting as well, to link American Fork Canyon to the rough-cut Jeep-trail. Artillery units will fire hundreds hun-dreds of rounds from their 155 mm: "Long Toms" and 8-inch Howitzers at the massive Camp Williams range and during a bivouac bi-vouac at Dugway Proving Grounds. A-highlight of the annual encampment en-campment June 16, will be Governor's Gov-ernor's Day, -during which the Guard's commander-in-chief Gov- J. Bracken Lee, will review his 4,400 troops. Units from the following communities com-munities will participate in the encampment; Smlthfleld, Logan, Garland, Brlgham City, Ogden, Layton, Bountiful, Salt Lake City, Murray, Mur-ray, Vernal, Tooele, Heber City, Lehi, American Fork, Orem, Pro-vo, Pro-vo, Spanish Fork, Nephi, Mt. Pleasant, Springville, Mantl, Price, Richfield, Beaver, Fillmore, Cedar City and St George. I |
