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NATIONAL BUARD NINCOMPOOPERY 1:20 .-1
Ranks of National Guardsmen and Regular Army troops dot the miniscule parade ground at the Nike
site at Denton. For the last
Hercules missile
Denton several years, the missile base has been manned by Regular Army troops of the Air Defense
Division, Command; today, the 49th Armored --
Texas
base. rational Guard is taking over the another site near Terrell also reverted to National Guard
control today.
Some sixteen Army and National watch the ceremony from the comfort
Guard generals
of folding chairs, while a large crowd of spectator stand around the tiny parade ground. STRAIGHT*LEG READS ORDER The ceremony begins with reading the order that turns the facility over to Captain FF'ed Jones of Denton, commander of A battery, 4th Battalien, 132nd Artillery, Texas National Guard. Captain Jones meets the regularr Army battery commander exchanges.salutes and handshakes, and gets a
Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Texas National Guard's 49th Armored Division taking over the Denton missile base.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.).[News Script: National Guard nincompoopery],
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February 16, 1964;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc954503/m1/1/:
accessed July 3, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.