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Show Sun-Advocate, Price, Utah-Thursday, February 26, 1970 Bids sought for street work at G.R. base GREEN RIVER - An invitation for bids for the job of seal coating and repairing streets, roads and parking lots at White Sands Missile Range's Utah Launch Complex at Green River was issued Feb. IS, The job calls for applying a half-inch overlay of oil and gravel plant mix on a total of 99,430 square yards of paved surfaces. Also specified are repairs to dust and erosion control structures, drainage ditches and parking lot bumper barriers, plus repainting of white and yellow traffic control marking lines. In the cantonment area the project will cover 54,111 square yards of streets and parking lots. On various access roads and at outlying instrument and control stations, including "Rod Hill" and the blockhouse and launch pad areas, seven additional phases will cover 45,319 square yards. The invitation was issued by WSMR's Purchasing and Contracting Directorate. Plans and specifications were prepared by post engineer, which is responsible for roads, buildings and grounds at the Utah complex as- well as on the range. Bids will be opened at 2 p.m. Thursday, March 19, at the Purchasing and Contracting Directorate. The work is expected to begin in April or May, with completion scheduled within 180 days. Funds for the project were authorized as part of an Army maintenance program for " the 1970 fiscal year. The semi-permanent complex at Green River was built six years ago. Operated by the Army, it supports off-range firings of Air Force Athena missiles. Launcer in Utah and impacted in New I Mexico, the multi-stage Athenas are employed in the ABRES-Advanced Ballistic Re-entry Systems-program of the U. S. Air Force Systems Command's Space and MMissile Systems Organization (SAMSO). More than 200 persons are employed at Green River by the Army, the Air Force and various private industry contractors. 4 ^ The Times-Independent Athena Found Reports this week from military authorities indicated that peasants in Chihuahua State Mexico, about 200 miles south of the U. S. Border, had discovered a U. S. rocket nose cone containing radioactive cobalt. The rocket, which was fired from the mtissile base near Green River, was lost to tracking on July 11, and missed the White Sands Missile Range in Mexico by about 400 miles to land in Mexico. Authorities stated that crews searching for the missing research rocket had taken precautions against the radiation from the cobalt, which could be harmful at ranges up to 25 yards. The U. S. government apologized last month to Mexico for the error and asked for help in locating the missile. |
