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Show ROAD BLOCKS - Five road blocks'will.be set:on firing days during the spring series of Pershing missile firings scheduled from late April through early June. Shown on the map are road block locations on Crystal Geyser Road, Floy Wash Road, Dubinky Well Road, Dead Horse :Point Access.Road about seven miles west of U. S. Highway 160-163 and on Dead Horse Road near a landmark known as "The Knoll." Only four actual firing days are scheduled for the spring :series. .' • ..•' V'.."", . . '.,•...... ' Missile Program to Begin at Green River Site WHITE SANDS MISSI White Sands Missile Range - Thirteen Army Pershing missiles wall be launched during the spring •series of firngs scheduled this year for White Sanda Missile Range's complex at Green River, Utah, from, late April through early June. Units of the European-based Seventh U. S. Army, operating under simulated; wartime conditions, will launch four Pershings on, each of three firing days scheduled for them in April and May. The thirteenth and final Pershing, scheduled for the second week of June, will be a training round : for troops of the 2nd Bat-Itaiion, 44th Artillery of Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, who' will be working- with newly-modified 'ground support equipment. White Sands Missile Range officials announced that five road blocks will be established on firing •days only on secondary roads leading to.the Green, River from U. S. Highway 160-163 between, the town of Green River and Dead Horse Point, west of Moab. The road blocks will be set on Crystal Geyser Road, Floy Wash Road, Dubinky Well Road, Dead'. Horse Point.Access Road about seven miles-west of U. S. 160-163 and. on Dead Horse Point Road near a landmark . known as "The Knoll." In addition, the Green River safety area located east of the river between the town of Green River and Dead Horse Point State Park will be. evacuated on the firing days. No, roadblocks will be set on U.S. 160-163. All missiles will be programmed XG impact in pre- •seleetecL.safety ..zones .on; White Sands Missile; Range some 470 miles southeast of the launch complex. • An, .advanced party of 90 troops-of the 2nd Battalion, 44th : Artillery' arrived at Green River froin Ft. Sill early in March to prepare the bivouac area. The;"main .bo.cty . of' Persh- ing support : elements will leave Ft. .Sill on April 6. Major Williston B. P. McCain, battalion exeeu-fylve officer will be the camp commander. White Sands Missile-Range personnel will provide instrumentation, range control, ' communicat- ions, , and ground and flight safety support throughout the firing, series. Field elements of the Pershing Project Manager's offpce at Bedstone Arsenal, Ala., and the Field . Artillery Missile Systems .Evaluation Group-of, Ft. Sill also will provide assistance. |