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Show Armv to Fire Salt Hake Tribune MissUe&in lyTlay I9o5 > Wayne Area Special to The Tribune HANKSVILLE, Wayne County - Firings of the Army's longest-range missile system are nearing from Gilson Butte, 15 miles north of Hanksville. Members of the 2nd Bn., 44th Artillery - about 500 strong - arrived by convoy from Ft. Sill, Okla., commanded by Lt. Col. Thomas E. Marriott, Augusta, Ga., and are setting up operations to fire Pershing missiles for impact in a predetermined area of the White Sands Missile | Range, N.M. Head Batteries Two firing batteries are com-! manded by Lt. Larry E. Stun-1 kard, Rockford, 111., and Lt« John W. Irving, Tillamook, Ore. The battalion support unit is commanded by Capt. William T. King, Macon, Ga. The camp includes 20-unit tents, mess hall and infirmary and a CH37 helicopter based at the Federal Aviation Agency station five miles north of Hanksville for emergencies. Simulated Combat The Pershing missile firings will be under simulated combat conditions, battalion spokesmen said. The two-stage solid-propel-lant Pershing has a range of 100 to 400 nautical miles and is the Arm's newest and longest-range missile. It has been in Army troops' hands more than a year and has been fired successfully several times since August, 1963, in troop graduations and annual service practices. The battalion will be at Gilson Butte about two months. Utah Missile Site to Make Salt Lake JTribune ZZ^May 65 rershine Launch Debut WHITE SANDS, N.M. (UPI)-Pershing missiles will start winging over Utah and New Mexico again next week with resumption of training firings from a site near Green River, Utah. An Army unit stationed in Germany, Battery D of the 4th | : Missile Batallion, and a Ft. Sill,1 iOkla,, Pershing unit will fire the 35-foot, solid-fueled rocket, the Army's longest-ranged missile. New Test Site return to Germany about June 6. (Whether the German-based missile unit ever arrived at Hill Afb could not be learned Friday night ..because an Army officer •at Green River said the mission was "classified.") Army ofifcials said no range jof extensive enough size exists in Europe to accommodate the Jirings. Gilson Butte covers 255,-000 acres, 6,000 acres for the Army and the remainder for co-use with Other service branches. The firings will be the first from a new test site at Gilson Butte, Utah, some 400 miles northwest of the impact point on. the sprawling White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico. Both units are to fire a missile May 26 and the Ft. Sill unit will fire a second Pershing June 2. Ther. German missile unit began arriving, at Hill AFB Utah, Thursday and was to complete the move Friday. The unit will Plan Evacuation The few families in the area will be evacuated from the safety area south of the launch site during the firings. Some 600 personnel, both Army and civilian technical personnel, are to be at the site during the launchings. The Pershing has been launched from sites in New Mexico and from Green River, 40.. miles northeast of Gilson Butte, but next week's firings' will be the first from there. WIND & SAKD, WSMR ! Twenty soldiers of the U. S. I Army Electronics Research and | Development Activity at White ; Sands Missile Range have been : promoted by their new com-. manding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Herbert D. Harback. ; stationed at the Athena firing complex in^ Green River, Utah. Promoted to Sergeant First Class (E-7) are Francis M. Kelley and Raymond J. Reber of ERDAW's Missile Electronic Warfare Directorate. Specialist Five promotions: Wayne K. Lucht, Phillip L. Tu-tino, Wayne W. Dull, Ernest M. Jones, Robert B. Mitchell, William G. Moss, Richard M. Sch-river, Myron H. Taylor, Heri-berto Batiz, Francis Chaplin, and Shields S. McKnight. ] New Specialist Fours are • Wilmer A. Blankerbaker, Jr. Lawrence A. Graves, James K. Mittenzwei, Raymundo Mirabel, and Roni M. Oliva. WIND apsAra>; WSMR A second U. S. Army Pershing missile unit stationed in Germany has returned to the United States for. annual firing practice at Gilson Butte, Utah. | The unit is Battery B of the ] 1st Battalion, 81st Artillery, | commanded by Captain Rod- j erick L. Burke of Spencer, Massachusetts. The first unit, ' Battery D, 4th Missile Battalion, 41st Artillery, returned to Germany earlier this month. The second,, unit is scheduled to return tof its home station in Germany [ late this month. During practice firings, tactical ballistic missiles are launched from a point near j Green River, Utah, to a target j on White Sands Missile Range, j N. M: i While the 35-foot Pershing i missile has been fired onto the range for more than three years from sites in New Mexico and Utah, this will be the second series of firing's by. overseas based-Pershing units. !i The firing practice is conduct- LI (Conn--- inceno range 0 |