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Show WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGER, FEB. 5, 1971-PAGE 3 SANDS MISSILE RANGER, JAN. 22, 1971 Utah director among honorees receiving pins A. Muray Maughan, of Price, Utah, director of the White Sands Missile Range Launch Complex at Green River, Utah, was among some 36 employes recognized recently for having completed 20 and 30 years in government service. Representing a total of 820 years of federal employment, the honorees were presented lapel pins given through the Army's Incentive Awards Program. Major General E. H. .de Saussure, WSMR commander, made the presentations. Mr. Maughan, who entered federal service in 1940 and served a tour of duty with the U. S. Navy, came to the missile range in 1952 from the Soil Conservation Service at Dur-ango, Colo. Prior to being named director of the Utah Launch Complex in 1966, Mr. Maughan served as chief of Faculties Section, National Range Operations Directorate, assistant chief of the Technical Operations Office and chief of NRO's Program Division. His wife is the former Edna Anderson. Range Control Chief F.D. Moore retires It's good to be important, to stand head and shoulders above the crowd. It's also good, perhaps better, to bend down to the crowd and give someone a helping hand up. A veteran employe of White Sands Missile Range left government service last Friday to become a full-time "amateur geologist." F. Donald Moore, chief of Range Control Division of National Range Operations Directorate, retired from the assignment he had held since coming to WSMR in April 1952. Before that he was employed as an engineer with the Bureau of Reclamation at Fort Collins, Colo. During his 19 years at WSMR Mr. Moore had several different job titles; however, his duties remained much the same throughout - primarily supervising some 40 staff members engaged in coordinating all of the various test activities on the range into daily working schedules. This involved working on a minute - by - minute, hour - by -hour basis with an ever changing schedule and keeping track of tests being conducted over an area of several thousand square miles. He now plans to be a full-time geologist and to spend most of his time running a rock shop or traveling in connection with the shop. He became interested in rock hunting and lapidary work several years ago as a hobby. In 1965, he and Ms wife opened their own shop, the Pebble Pups Rock Shop, on State Road 28 between Las Cruces and Old Mesilla. The shop is a combination museum and sales store and contains an outstanding variety of minerals and gem stones. F. DONALD MOORE "I have heard that New Mexico contains some of every type of mineral and gem found | in the United States, with only one exception," Mr. Moore said. "I believe this is true. The exception would be the diamond, which is found only in j a few flaces in the United States." Don Moore served in the U. S. Navy during World War II as a pilot and instructor. He was commissioned as an ensign in 1944 and then served as a flight instructor training both Army and Navy cadets. Later he was assigned aboard the landing ship LSM(R) - 189 as a gunnery officer. For action in the Pacific during this assignment, he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal. He left active duty with the Navy in 1946 and entered government service as a civilian with the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of Interior. His wife is the former Willa Veign Chipman. They live at 1420 Roberts Drive in Las Cruces. They have a son, Major Jack Moore, who is a helicopter pilot assigned at Andrews Air Force Base. |
