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Show - .- - TBattle Creek their armory will be an imposing structure, a usable facility and a credit to the community. Pleasant Grove had a good opportunity op-portunity for a National Guard Armory Ar-mory some years ago. Few of our citizens were interested, or at least cared enough to follow through with sufficient public pressure to get it. As a result the opportunity While in Price for the Thanksgiving Thanks-giving weekend, I took a before-dinner before-dinner walk along Sixth North On the northeast corner of the Carbon College campus, the steelwork steel-work for an imposing building is new erected. It is a $230,000 Utah National Guard Armory. This building when completed, next fall, will be used by Company Com-pany A, 1497th Combat Engineer Battalion, Price's National Guard outfit, and also by Carbon Junior College. Carbon College will have use of the drill floor which will be used as a basketball court and all of the college home games will be played play-ed there. A seating capacity of 1,500 is planned for the main floor of the basketball court. In addition to this, the college is expected to use the building for physical education edu-cation classes when the building is not in use for military purposes. The building is a two-unit structure struc-ture and includes offices, club rooms, two supply rooms and a maintenance garage for the National Na-tional Guard unit. In addition to the above uses, it will be utilized for civic recreation recrea-tion and club meetings. Also included in-cluded are two shower rooms and a community kitchen for the use of veterans organizations and other oth-er civic groups. More power to Price and the alert opportunity-conscious people who live there. When finished, passed and nothing happened. Our boys continued to help fill the ranks of the National Guard units of neighboring communities, until now, Orem, American Fork and Lehi are getting buildings to house them. v Luckily for us, we have another chance. The Pleasant Grove U.S. Army Reserve Unit is now activated, activ-ated, with an openhouse slated for Saturday, Dec. 8. According to Army Ar-my Reserve Officers, the government govern-ment will build an Army Reserve Armory here if enlistments are increased in-creased to 50 members. The proposition is simply this: we may secure the armory if we want it and can qualify. If our young men of draft age enlist in their home town organization in adequate numbers the armory is assured; otherwise not. It's just as simple as that. Parents, teachers and local organized or-ganized groups can do a great deal to help out in the project, if they have sufficient community interest. inter-est. The opportunity is here; but only action and enthusiasm will I turn it into an accomplished fact. So long 'til Thursday. |