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Show Mayors Get Defense Picture Look at Utah Defense Seminar Sixteen city mayors, council-men council-men and other officials got a first-hand look ata the defense picture in Utah during a day and a half Utah Defense Seminar held at Camp W. G. Williams, training train-ing site of the Utah Army National Na-tional Guard, last Friday and Saturday. Sat-urday. The course was the first in a series sponsored by the Utah National Guard to brief Utah's civic leaders on their role in the defense of Utah. The group listened lis-tened to presentations and inspected in-spected training facilities of the camp and then held a number of informal discussions on each subject. The mayors were informed how law enforcement officers at county coun-ty and city level are being trained train-ed at the police academy by Utah Highway Patrol and Utah Peace Officers Association instructors. They discussed the urgent need for training specialists to establish estab-lish effective civil defense organization organ-ization throughout the State. An-othor An-othor briefing covered the training train-ing of Sheriff deputy jeep patrols by the Utah National Guard Special Spec-ial Forces personnel and the Fish and Game Commission's survival training course is being conducted conduct-ed there to teach people how to survive under the most difficult conditions. "Classes on all of these subjects sub-jects are being taught regularly at Camp Williams," Maj. Gen. Maxwell E. Rich, Utah Adjutant General stated. "Our objective is to train specialists in all of these fields for every city and county in Utah." "Those attending our Utah Defense Seminar indicated they would send some of their key men to take these courses," the General Gen-eral added. Indicative of the high interest was the statement of Mayor William Will-iam Welsh, Price, president of the Utah Municipal League. "I'll back this program 100 per cent," he stated, after attending the course. Mayor Paul T. Fordham was among those who attended the course. |