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Show OIL ft INDUSTRY ft BUSINESS NEWS Pershing Firings to Start Near Hanksville MOAB TIMES INDEPENDENT 27 MAY 1965 BY DON ROBINSON The first firing of a Pershing missile, the Army's long range missile, were to begin at 6 a.m. Wednesday, from the new Gilson Butte site near Hanksville. Four firings of the 35 foot, solid fuel rocket are currently slated. A White Sands, N.M. release stated that an Army unit stationed in Germany, Battery D of the Fourth Missile Ba-tallion and a Fort Sill, Okla., unit would fire the rocket. The Pershing will impact 400 miles to the south at Whtie Sands. A second Penhing firing is due June 2. The use of the German-stationed unit is due to the absence of an adequate range in Europe for training. The new Gilson Butte base covers 255 thousand acres including 6,000 i acres for the army and the rest for other service use. The tsite is mainly temporary, requiring only excavation work in iitsjconstruction. It replaces a site near Blanding. I Report Hints I S.L.JPribune 26Jarj.&5 j . Missile Path ,.; ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ;.'- The Air Force might" decide to add new states to the flight corridor over which missiles are fired in a study of missile warhead re-entry, the Associated Press learned. Auth'oritative sources said the , Air Force wants to increase the < size of warheads used in the study. The^ vehicle now used by the Air Force Ballistic System Division is the Athena Missile, which is fired from Green Riv-i er, Utah, to White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico, 417 nautical miles away. The pencil-shaped Athena is limited in the size of the pay-load it can boost, and the Air Force is considering larger vehicles capable of carrying pay-loads more nearly duplicating actual intercontinental ballistic missile warheads, a source said. Salt Lake Tribune Athena Shot 8 August 1965 From Utah Goes Astray WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M:. (AP)-One of two Athena missiles .fired from Utah toward the Army's White Sands range, overshot the target area and landed 18 miles southeast of Fabens, Tex., a military spokesman, said- Saturday. The spokesman said there were no reports of damage or injury as a result of the over-! shoot. He said the errant missile! apparently, landed "way out in the 'boondocks." The first missile fired early Saturday impacted in White Sands, the spokesman said. Both Athenas were fired from the test \ complex near Green River, Utalh, as a part of an Air Force study of ballistic missile re-entry. ' "We don't know what happened to the second re-entry vehicle," an Athena official said of the overshoot. I WIND & SAND, Friday A U. S. Army Artillery Battery stationed in Germany successfully fired a Pershing missile from Gilson Butte, .Utah to Specialist Saves Sergeant's Child Wind* Sand 16 Jul 65 A White Sands medical technician saved the life of a two-year-old boy by a daring rescue in the swirling- waters of; Utah's Green River Independence Day. Ernest Mitchell Jr., son of Sergeant and Mrs. Ernest Mitchell, fell into the river and was swept beneath the surface by currents. \ Specialist Five Haskell Bur- j ris - on temporary duty at the range's Green River Missile Test Complex - plunged! into the water after the young- j ster and towed him to safety. 18 June 1965 WSMR, NMesj . White Sand;; Missile Range this week. Second TJ nit • The firing, by Battery B of1 the 1st Battalion, 81st Artillery, i was part of the unit's annual firing- practice. Overseas units I must firs the 35-foot Pershing' i from Gilson Butte to WSMRt because no range of sufficient j size is available in Europe. | The unit was the second! German-based artillery battery j to fire the Pershing onto the j range this month. The first j unit fired the missile and re-1 turned to Germany earlier in! June. The most recent firing-unit is scheduled to return to Germany late this month, Entails Launching- ' Practice firings entail the launching of tactical ballistic missiles from a point near Green River, Utah to a target on WSMR, Pershing missiles have been fired onto the range from New Mexico- and Utah site for more than three years. |
