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The SUN, Flagstaff, Arizona, Friday, August 13, 1982-9 Code Talkers to be Recognized PHOENIX (AP) Navajo Indians, leaving their sprawling Southwest reservation 40 years ago for the beaches and jungles of the Pacific, used their language to carve themselves a niche in American military history. Twenty-nine Navajos, volunteers all, were the advance guard of what was to eventually total several hundred Navajos who would serve with Marine units during World War II's Pacific campaign. The Navajo code talkers, as they were dubbed, helped create a coded version of their language that was used to defy the efforts of Japanese listening in on American military communications. Their work which remained classified until the late 1960s helped "speed the Allied victory" in the Pacific," President Reagan said in a proclamation issued July 28. The presidential proclamation designated Saturday as National Navajo Code Talkers Day.

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About 70 former code talkers are expected to attend, said Carl Gorman, one of the original 29 code talkers and past president of the Navajo Code Talkers Association. Gorman, 73, said Thursday he volunteered for the Marines shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Thirty-three years old at the time, he had to lie about his age to enter the Marines, said Gorman, interviewed by telephone from his Window Rock home. It was not until he and the other 28 Navajos completed boot camp that they were told they would be assigned special duty. "We never realized that they were going to use our language as a code," he said.

Although Philip Johnson, who grew up on the reservation as the son of missionaries, is credited with first proposing the use of code talkers, Gorman said the Navajo Marines did much of the work in adopting their language into a code suitable for military use. Because the Navajo language lacked words for many military terms, the code talkers had to designate substitutes in numerals. letters and words, Gorman said. "We set up the code and off we went." he said. The code talkers were assigned to Marine divisions participating in the campaigns for such island Japanese bastions as Guadalcanal, Saipan, Iwo Jima and Tarawa.

Gorman, assigned to the 2nd Marine Division, served in a regimental communicatins unit until he was wounded at Saipan and returned to the United States, where he spent more than a year after the war in a veterans hospital. Looking back on the work of the code talkers, Gorman said he is proud of the code talkers' contribution to the war effort but believes the code itself could have been broken by the Japanese. It wasn't, he said, because the Japanese didn't put enough effort in it at a time when they were being kept off-guard by the Americans' island-hopping strategy. "The war was moving so fast and furious," he said. If the Japanese had Farewell Set for Wingate meeting will be conducted 6 p.m.

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Bob- and will be leaving Flagstaff Thursday. Flagstaff Salvation "I hate leaving Flagstaff. It's a good community and there are a lot of good people up here. But, I'm looking a Tempe church forward to new challenges," he explained. Wingate has been commanding officer in the Flagstaff area for years.

As commanding officer, he has performed as pastor of the church and executive director of all programs including the thrift store, he said. Replacing Wingate will be Lt. Mike Brooks. Though Wingate has only been an officer for seven years, he has attended the Salvation Army Church since he was 10. A reception with refreshments will follow the regular meeting.

-TV Open House Is Planned Sunday KNAZ-TV will be hosting an open house Sunday afternoon from 1-5 p.m. at its new television studio and offices at 2201 N. Vickey St. The recently completed building houses one of the most modern and up-to-date small market television facilities in the nation, featuring the state of the art in television technology, according to station manager Dan Modisett. KNAZ-TV is owned and operated by Capitol Broadcasting Co.

of Jackson, and the new facility culminates a year and a half of technical improvements since purchasing the former KOAI in February 1981. Cowboy Art to Be Displayed at Barn Members of the newly-established Arizona Cowboy Artist League (ACA) will present their first showing of artworks starting at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Art Barn. According to Winslow artist Rick Morrison, the show organizer and only Northern Arizona member of the group, about 40 western paintings will be featured in the exhibit. Also, Morrison said, all of the participating artists will be on hand for the reception Saturday, which is open to the public.

Doug Rade, director of the facility on North Fort Valley Road near Sechrist School, said champagne and other refreshments will be available. The show will continue through Sept. 28. Morrison said ACA had "been in the planning stage for two years," but really got organized in December. "This is our first show," said Morrison, a 31-year-old painter whose works are best known on the West Coast.

Other members whose works are well-known in the Southwest include Charles Blaylock, Gordon Jemeyson, Chuck Bowles, Bob Eckel, Bob Aldrich, Dave Hasler and Jessie Lange, who is establishing a reputation for her western bronzes. Morrison said ACA also includes a number of beginning artists. Arizona residency, a reputation for doing western art, and the invitation of the members are the only requirements for membership in ACA, Morrison stated. 'Images' Show Set Sunday at Museum Sunday, a new exhibit titled "Images of the Colorado Plateau" will open in the Museum of Northern Arizona's special exhibits gallery. No admission will be charged between the hours of 1 and 5 p.m.

On display will be paintings and sculpture by artists past and present from the museum's fine arts collection. Such artists as William Leigh, Louis Akin, Earl Carpenter, Maynard Dixon and Phil Curtis have, over the past 100 years, recorded the color and richness of the people and places of Northern Arizona. Works by these and other contemporary artists will be displayed on a rotating basis throughout the exhibition. The exhibit, which will run until Oct. 8, and then again from Oct.

25 through Nov. 26, was planned, designed and installed by exhibits assistant Jeremy Adair and arts associate Katherin Chase. "The fine arts collection is as old as the museum itself," said Chase, "and it reflects the good taste, wisdom and foresight of three people in particular: Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton, co-founder of the museum and an accomplished artist herself, established the collection. Over the years, both Edward B. Danson former director of the museum and former president of its board of trustees and Clay Lockett Indian trader, anthropologist and special friend of the museum have contributed many art pieces to the fine arts collection." On the afternoon of the opening, Capriccio will continue its ongoing series of Sunday concerts in the patio.

From p.m., the duo of Walter Spalding, classical guitarist and lutenist, and Charles Spining, pianist and harpsichordist, will perform a potpourri of classical and traditional music. Refreshments will be served. The Museum of Northern Arizona is located three miles north of downtown Flagstaff on U.S. 180, and is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m..