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Show Sand Flats Mountain Independent 2 September 65 A telephone call from the U. S. Army Engineers offices in San Francisco Tuesday revived the Grand county Commissioners' hopes of obtaining assistance on improving the Sand Flats road to the La Sal mountains, Commissioner Mars Pope announced this week. Mr. Pope said the Engineers were interested in the road as a means of servicing a tracking station connected with the Green River Missile Base. Discussions were held some time /ago concerning improving the road to facilitate maintenance of the tracking station, but at that time the Engineers indicated they could not construct roads on couny-owned property. ; This week, however, the San Francisco officials pro-j posed two methods which might be instigated to improve the road. Either the county would formally grant the Engineers permission to improve the road, or the coanty could improve it and be reimbursed by the Engineers for doing the work. Mr. Pope said considering the full schedule of •• v/prk ahead of county equipment and personnel, the first proposal would be the most realistic choice from a time saving standpoint. Officials of the Green River Missile Base will be in Moab this week to discuss the issue. Commissioner Pope said he could not say how much improvement the Engineers intended to make on the road. It would be of great importance to the area, however, since the road intercepts the La Sal Mountain Loop road, and provides a much shorter access road to the scenic and agriculturally important mountain areas. The Sand Flats route has been used as late-season access to the La Sals since early days, it being much easier to main tain in winter than the other routes. The route leaves Moab valley in East Moab at the Grand Valley cemetery, passes the city dump, and works its way to the Wilson Mesa area of the La Sals. Two Athena Missiles Fired Successfully Here Monday Times-Independent, Moab, Utah, Sh June 1965 The White Sands Missile ballistic missile re-entry Base Tuesday anounced the successful paunch of two Athena Test missiles Monday night from the White Sands Missile Range Test Complex at Green River., The re-entry vehicles impacted on the White Sands Missile Range. . The {first (Athena was launched at 10:15 p.m. on Monday; the second at 1:37 a.m. Tuesday., This is the first successful launching of two Athenas in succession. The solid propellant multi-stage missiles carried one of a series of sub-scale experimental re-entry vehicles being tested as part of a program to develop an advanced re-entry system. The Athena flights were monitored by special radar equipment by the White Sands Missile Range. Executive Manager of the system test program is the Ballistic Systems Division of the Air Force System Command., The vehicles at Green River were launched by a mixed Air Force/Contractor crew. Prime contractor for the project is Atlantic Research Corp. Atlantic Research Corporation's Missiles Systems Division in Duarfe, Calif., told The Times-Independent by phone Wednesday that the dual firings produced gratifying results. The new missile firing represented the first high angle firings made from the base, and were 13th and 14th in the series of 77 planned shots. Firings will continue on) schedule hereafter, they said, with the next shot scheduled for this Friday night. Payload contractors told Atlantic Research officials that results obtained Monday greatly exceeded expectations. |