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Show Dec- 1968 Countdown Man (Continued from Page Four) long as I remain in this job assignment." He does not seem to mind too much. He has the satisfaction of knowing he has an important job to do for each firing, even if he never sees the firing itself. He is the son of N. F. Womer of Kingston, Pa. Following graduation from Fork Union, Va., Military Academy, her served in the U. S. Air Force from 1950 to 1954. In the Korean Airlift, he served as an aerial radar technician and radio operator on C-119 cargo planes. Employed by the Radio Corp. of America, Womer was chief electronics technician in the Grand Bahama Islands of the Caribbean, Atlantic Missile Range, from 1954 to 1957. He attended Florida State University at Tallahassee from 1957 to 1959, majoring in electronic engineering. For six years before coming to Green River, Womer was employed by Pan-American World Airways at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., first as a senior electronics technician and then as an operations representative. Womer's wife, Shirley Jean, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. 0. Lee of Yuma. Mr. and Mrs. Womer make their home at 7 Na-vajo Circle in Moab with their six-year-old son, Blaine, and two-year-old daughter, Janis. Womer's associate, Farrell, is a former U. S. Air Force officer with command pilot rating. He served from 1942 to 1963, retiring with the rank of major. A native of Minnesota, Farrell attended DePaul University in Chicago. He began flying in 1937 at the age of 16 and held a commercial pilot's license when he enlisted in the Army Air Corps during World War II. During the war he flew most of the U. S. types of twin-engine planes. During the Korean War Athc Launch Success GREEN RIVER - A single Athena missile launched Dec. 12 from White Sands Missile Range, Utah Launch Complex, successfully impacted on range. This was the sixth Athena firing during the past month and the 109th since the Air Force Research Program began in early 1964. The missile is used by the Air Force as an economical means of studying re-entry phenomena of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Launched near Green River, the 50-foot vehicles reach altitudes up to 200 miles before descending and impacting on White Sands Missile Range, some 400 nautical miles southeast. The Dec. 12th launch was completed at about 7:10 p.m. White Sands Missile Range provided ground and safely instrument support for the firing. French Cravat The cravat, as a term for a man's necktie, was originated by the French in the reign of Louis XIV to describe the neck scarf worn by the Croatian soldiers enlisted in the Royal Croatian regiment. he served in the Air Force's Air and Airways Communication Service (AACS) in Alaska, the U. S. and England. Prior to his retirement he served in England as commanding officer of an AACS squadron. Before moving to Utah Farrell was employed in Phoenix, Ariz., with the Social Security Administration. He is married to the former Dorothy Brown of Minneapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Farrell now reside at 159 E. Ninth North in Price with their five sons. TIMES 1NDKPENDEBTA Moah .^ | 20 Junoo Dynalectron \ Wins $4 Million i Army Contract An Army contract in excess of $4 million was awarded lo Dvnalectron Corporation by ' White Sands Missile Range for performance of services in support of missile launch facilities, it was announced this week by the Washington-based world-wide organization. Management, technical and logistic support services are to be provided over a three year period at the Green Ri- . ver Launch Site, : Blanding Launch Site, Gilson Butte Launch Site' and an instrumentation site at Wilson Mesa ' on the LaSal mountains. These sites are used to launch the U. S. Army's Per- . shing battlefield support and intermediate range missile, , and the U. S. Air Force's Athena missile which is used in the Advanced Ballistic Rs-entry Systems program within the free world's largest overland missile test range. Dynlaectron Corporatiil1 - through its five divisions and one maior subsidiary (Hydrocarbon Research, Inc.), is active in electronics; aircraft and missile maintenance; missile range operation and daia reduction, petroleum, petrochemical, arid steel process industries; crvogenws; and the international marketing of air- • craft and aviation equipment. |