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Show Preparations Started For National Guard Summer Encampment Preparations for the 1959 Summer Sum-mer encampment of the Utah National Guard are already being be-ing made it was announced this week by Lt Col. Max Dalley, commander of the 213th Field Artillery , southern Utah unit of the state's National Guard. Self-propelled, eight-inch howitzers how-itzers weighing 45 tons, will be conveyed by huge tank recovery units of the 213th at St. George, Richfield and Fillmore, and other areas of the state, Dalley announced. an-nounced. Beginning April 15 state maintenance main-tenance workers will start moving mov-ing these heavy artillery pieces to Camp W. G. Williams so the equlppment will be on hand for the annual . summer training camp. , The Guard saves about $10,000 over operating costs and salaries by carrying the equipment to and from the field training sites each spring and fall, Dalley stated. Another crew will be distatch-ed distatch-ed about July 1 to return the equipment to unit armories for next fall's hometown training. The equipment is maintained in local armories during the rest of the year. |