• ngressman to speak here Tuesday The Honorable Ed Foreman (R., N.M.) will be guest speaker for the Rio Grande Post of the American Ordnance Associa­ tion luncheon at 11:45 a.m. Tuesday in tbe White Sands Missile Range Officers Open Successor to Wind and Sand Mess. Mr. Forman is a member of the Armed Services Committee Volume 20-Number 24 White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico Friday, August 22, 1969 and among the mostknowledge­ able representatives in the field of national defense. The second individual in this century to serve in Congress from two different states, Mr. Foreman was elected to the 9 lst Senator Montoya visits Congress from New Mexico in 1968 after having been elected to the 88th Congress from Texas in 1962. He is a native of Portales, N.M., and was grad­ uated from New Mexico State Missile Range Wednesday • University in 1955 with a bach­ IJjr's degree in civil engineer- Latest developments in the fields of electronic warfare and ~ore than 50 people are ex- electronic countermeasures pected to attend the luncheon. were studied by u. s. Senator Among special guests will he Joseph M. Montoya D-N. M., Chris P. Fox, vice president Have during visits to White Sands and public relations of the State Missile Range and Holloman Air NAtional Bank in El Paso. you Force Base Wednesday. Rio Grande Post, AOA mem­ COL ROBERT M. THORNILEY Senator Montoya has demon­ bership is open to all u. s. strated a keen interest in air Citizens, and includes both defense, the antiballistic mis­ military and civilian employes sile program and antitank COL Thorniley systems as well as electronic warfare and electronic coun­ War Road 11 (Desert Road) termeasures. will be closed from Dona Ana Also in the visiting party were leaves WSMR Range Camp to White Sands Colonel John Ervin, chief of Departing this week for a new COL Thorniley served on the Missile Range from 8 a.m. to staff of the u. s. Army Elec.:. assignment in Washington, D. faculty of the Judge Advocate 3:45 p.m. Monday and Tuesday. tronics Command, and Colonel c., is Colonel Robert M. General's School at Charlottes­ Ft. Bliss will be firing on that Thomas R. Dolezal, director of Thorniley, White Sands Missile ville, va., from 1961 to 1966, part of the range continuously the Electronic Warfare Labora­ Range staff judge advocate for as an instructor in procure­ on those days to close the road tory, both of Ft. Monmouth, the past two years. ment law. He then served a year for traffic during the scheduled N. J. He will serve with the Armed in Vietnam, before coming to firings including the noon hour. Flying from Kirtland Air Services Board of Contract WSMR in August 1967. Traffic between El Paso and Force Base at Albuquerque WSMR during firing hours must Tuesday afternoon, Senator Appeals, an agency of the De­ He is a member of Phi Delta fense Department. Succeeding go by Orogrande or Las Cruces. Montoya spent the night in El • Phi, legal fraternity, and the Paso. He then flew to WSMR COL Thorniley as WSMR staff American Bar Association. ***** early Wednesday morning. Fol­ judge advocate will be Lieuten­ Departing for Washington Nine regular and volunteer ant Colonel James s. Talbot, lowing a visit with Major Gen­ this week-end, COL Thorniley WSMR Fire Department per­ eral H. G. Davisson, WSMR scheduled to arrive later this will be accompanied by his sonnel attended a three-day fire month from his current assign­ commanding general, Senator, family. Mrs. Thorniley, the fighting school at New Mexico Montoya visited the range's ment with Fourth Army u. s. former Virginia Simmons, is University. The classes, con­ Missile Electronic Warfare Headquarters at Ft. Sam Hous­ ducted by the State of New ton, Tex. the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Technical Area (MEWT A). REP. ED FOREMAN Jesse Simmons of Washington. Mexico, provide excellent fire Detailed briefings and in­ A native of Topeka, Kan., The family has been residing fighter training. spection tours were conducted at WSMR, and interested per­ COL Thorniley is a 1943 grad-· at 226 Jupiter, WSMR. The Regular WSMR Fire Depart­ in MEWT A throughout the sons in the Las Cruces, Ala­ uate of Eastern High School, Thorniley children are Robert ment personnel benefittingfrom morning. Official host was mogordo and El Paso areas. Washington, D. c. As an enlisted Jr., 17; Tracey, 14, and Tammy, the three-day training are Luis Lieutenant Colonel Richard c. The organization is sponsoring man, he served in the u. s. 8. Garcia, Albert York, Edward Chabot, commanding officer of a membership drive as part of Army Corps of Engineers in the Avalos, Elbert Smith, and SENATOR RECEIVES BRIEFING - Senator Joseph M. Montoya, D-N. M. (left). receives a local activities of the Elec­ its observance of AOA 's 5oth u. s. and Europe from 1943 to COL Thorniley was promoted James Rockwell. Volunteer fire briefing in the Missile Electronic Warfare Technical Area(MEWTA), Building 1624, during tronics Command, the Atmos­ anniversary. 1946. to lieutenant colonel in 1964 fighters who attended the his visit Wednesday. The speaker is George K. Roberts, chief of MEWT A's Detection and pheric Research Laboratory. Lieutenant Colonel Fred J, Ht; rect!i ed his law degree while serving in Virginia. He classes are John Behunin, Tracking Techniques Branch. Following his stay at WSMR, Senator Montoya spent an General Davisson and a group Frank (U.S.Army Ret.)is acting from George Washington Uni­ was promoted to full colonel Vicente Ramirez, Robert Haw­ afternoon at Holloman Air Force Base. (U. s. ARMY PHOTO by SP5 Donalds. Hood) of WSMR military and civilian president and will preside at last month in a ceremony in versity in 1949 0 He was com­ kins and Lonnie Guin. officials were hosts to the the meeting. A short business missioned in the Judge Advocate WSMR Headquarters attended ***** visitors at a luncheon at noon meeting will preceed the pro­ General's Corps in 1950 by Mrs. Thorniley and the com­ Roger I. Anglin, son of CWO Wednesday in the Bronze Room gram. and subsequently served in manding general of WSMR, and Mrs. Melvin E. Anglin, Scientists to probe of the Officers Open Mess. Robert L. Courtney, Las Japan, Panama and Guam. Major General H. G. Davisson. 219 Rossford Ave., WSMR, re­ In addition to General Davis­ Cruces, is program chairman cently completed the nation's pp son and Colonel Chabot, those and Carl Nordgren, El Pa ~:i, is only basic ROTC summer camp '' attending included Colonel R.J. secretary and in charge of at Ft. Benning, Ga. The camp high altitude waves O'Leary, Colonel W, H. O'Con­ reservations. Top soldier for offers six weeks of active duty nell, Colonel G. A. Peyer, U.S. training in lieu of two years of An experimental probe of the habited areas of the Pike and same time enable scientists to KE.EP 'ME &AL l ROL ll t.I G,# :.- Navy Captain G. D. Howard, on-campus training. upper atmosphere that will in­ San Isabell National Forests. more fully understand the Colonel T. c. Kearns, Colonel 7 - -- volve firing 5-inch projectiles The project is beingmanaged effects of these motions on com­ e o~.(-; ~ .. -~ T~ -" Roger is preparing for his J. G. Christiansen, Colonel G. by the U. S. Army Electronics July announced junior year at Central 1P-ssouri to 50 miles altitude has beeri munications. H. Farne, Major P. J. Blair, co~~\\)~/- State College in Warrensburg, announced by Army officials at Command's WSMR-based Another purpose of the pro­ First Lieutenant D. W. Holditch, Atmospheric Sciences Labora­ A'~~ \I 1. \ 1 ~ military bearing, and excellent Mo. where he is enrolled in the White Sands Missile Range. gram is to explain the structure Dr. R. H. Duncan, John H. Gran­ t¥'1 - . \I Specialist 5 Thomas J. An­ tory, command by Lieutenant of noctilucent clouds that occur .. __- - ·· _·_' \ drew, meteorological observer conduct. ROTC program. To be conducted near Climax, ger, Joseph L. Herring, McKin­ ***** Colo., scientists will fire about Colonel Richard c. Chabot. over high latitudes in sum mer at ley Jones, T, R. Jones Jr., D. with the Atmospheric Science Although this is the first The month of August was Project engineer is L. Edwin 11-s -~UR MONE'< -roo! time Specialist Andrew has been 50 projectiles, beginning Sept. about 50 miles altitude. D. Kasparek, Bertram L.Les­ Laboratory, ~ White Sands a special one for several in Williamson of El Paso, Texas. selected for Soldier of the 12, in an effort to detect and According to a WSMR spokes­ Iie, Thomas Reader, John F. National Range Engineering. The project is a joint effort man this type of cloud is seen w. Month, he will compete for measure vertical wave motions Redield and George K. Roberts. Rita M. Stuen, System Develop­ by the U.S. Army Test and just after sWJ .... et near the Artie Soldier of the Quarter later in the upper atmosphere. The Following the luncheon, Distributed to military ment Directorate, received a Evaluation Command's Ballis­ Circle and is postulated to be this year. program is expected to be com­ Senator Montoya boarded a heli­ and civilian personnel Quality Step Increase. Mable tic Research Laboratory in formed by water vapor carried As Soldier of the Month, he pleted Sept. 30. copter for a flight across the on White $ands Missile G. Quint, Plant Engineering Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., to the upper atmosphere inpart will receive a $25 savings bond, Two modified 120mm cannons range to Holloman Air Force R..