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Show 1 PAGE 4-WfflTE SANDS MISSILE RANGER, FEB. 20. 1970 36 The Times-Independent Moab, Utah Thursday, Sept. 3, 1970 Sixteen Pershings Set For Foil Firing WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE., N. M., Aug-26-Sixteen Pershing Missiles will be launched during the fall series of firings scheduled for Balck Mesa, ne a r Blanding. Utah, from September through November. Units participating in the service practice firings are from the 2nd Battalion, 44th Artillery of Ft. Sill, Okla.; the Seventh U. S. Array in Europe; and the Federal Republic of Germany Air Force (FRG). Approximately 75 troops of the 2nd Battalion, comprising two batteries, left Ft. Sill today in convoy for their base camp at Black Mesa. They are expected to arrive Friday. ; Units of the Seventh Army will be operating tender simulated wartime tactical conditions, and will launch four Pershings on each of three firing days scheduled for them in September and November. All firings are scheduled to 'be completed within less than three hours each day. The Ft. Sill troops will launch two Pershings in mid-September, and the German Air Force Units will fire their Pershings in mid-October. All missiles are program- med to impact in pre-sel-sfcted safeity zones at White Sands Missile Range, some 400 miles southeast of the launch site. A third battery of the 2nd Battalion, which will provide support to the firing units, is already in place at Black Mesa. The 2nd Battalion is the only Pershing missile battalion stationed in the continental United States, and is commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Jerry A. Williams. White Sands Missil^ Range personnel will provide instrumentation, range control, communications, and ground and flight support. Also assisting will be field elements of the Pershing Project Manager's office of Redstone Arsenal, Ala., and the Field Artillery Missile Systems Evaluation Group of Ft. Sill. Bids are sought for repaying job at Utah complex An invitation for bids for the job of seal-coating and repairing streets, road and parking lots at the Utah Launch Complex of WSMR, at Green River, Utah, was issued this week. The job calls for application of a half-inch overlay of oil and gravel-chip 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 bumper-barriers, and repainting white-line and yellow-line traffic control markings. In the main cantonment area of the complex, the project will cover 54,111 square yards of streets and parking lots. On the various access roads and at outlying instrument sites and control stations, including the area known as "ROD Hill" and the blockhouse and launch pad area, seven additional phases of the project will cover a total of 45,319 square yards of paved surfaces. The invitation for bids was issued by the Purchasing and Contracting Directorate, WSMR Deputy for Logistics. Plans and specifications were prepared by the cognizant agency, Post Engineer, which is responsible for roads, buildings and grounds at the Utah complex as well as on the range. The 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. |