Show w A. A S s. s y S F f ys ax axt axx r t x A v Q h l 1 t 1 r W s I Sleek F FiOl Voodoos await overhaul and repair In the tho long block hangars at Hill Air Force Base The base Is la a top f Utah attraction and guided i n. n tours are welcome and Invited Editors Editor's Note This la le another I I in a series serles of See Utah articles i I designed to better II acquaint c qua i n t with their home state I IThe IThe I I The articles have been prepared I I by the Utah Tourist and city Council Each week a different differ ent ant sector or subject on Utah will willbe willbe be featured I See the Missile 1 West What has acres of land 1126 buildings miles of roads 68 63 miles of railroad 70 warehouses and an inventory which includes items vald valued val ned at million Some of the answers might be he Rhode Island United States Steel Corporation Salt Lake City or tt e Was Wasatch a ten National Forest If you said none of the above then youre you're right The answer la is laHill Hill Air Force Base just south of Ogden Here the Ogden Air Material Area whose headquarters is Hill Air Force Base In a short span of s several veral years has become The Hub flub of or the Missile West And that hub of the Missile I West is this weeks week's Tour of the i Week as part of the Utah Tourist Tour 1st and Publicity Councils Council's cur rent See Utah campaign de signed to better acquaint I with the Beehive State Rill Hill Air Force Base has nearly I I military and civilian perI personnel personnel per- per J I engaged In some of the I most important missions in the I i I I I US U.S. national defense picture And in organized grou groups S Sare are welcome and invited to visit and tour this facility to get a glimpse at part of the nations nation's defense setup Lt Co Col Frederick J. J Betz information Information mation matlon officer for Hill said that organized groups can take takeI from one to three-hour three tours of the base We would like about 10 days notice Col Betz Detz said but Taut all you have to do is write to Mrs Wanda Milne in care of Office of Information lull Hill Air Force Base to complete your tour ar ar- ar- ar Visitors are given a hand first-hand briefing and then taken token on a tour of the area escorted by Air Force officers Col Betz Bets explained Largest Payroll And while touring a visitor can see Utah's largest employer In action Hill Hili boasts the states state's largest payroll of more than million The bas bass base has several missions One of the important ones is ls its support for the Minuteman ICBM It It has the only Air Materiel Area Minuteman 1 assembly and maintenance maintenance maintenance main main- facilities Located on the base is the 11 11 million Air Ah- Force Boeing plant which assembles the missile Other support and test facilities ties are on the base for the important im fin Minuteman which comes from Thiokol Chemical Corporations Corporations Corporation's Corpora Corpora- tion's complex near Tremonton and from Hercules Powder Company Company Com Com- pany at Bacchus The base also has bas a support mission for the F FAC the Air Forces Force's newest Jet fighter In about two years the supersonic F will wUl share the aircraft main main- and repair lines with the 1200 per miles F Voodoo Voodoo doo which now comprises a major Ogden AMA mission The Strategic Air Command also also has a stake at the base SAC I last year ordered 18 18 B 52 and KC mobile simulators to be I constructed by the training devices devices devices de de- vices section at Hill Other activities include the Che Air Ah- Munitions Wing The wing whig has world wide responsibility for Air Force the shelf air munitions and propellants Many other military groups and organizations function on the base And the sum total of these well trained dedicated personnel and their vital missions provide Hill Hlll Air Jr Force Foree Base with a key keystone keystone keystone stone in the defense of the United States |