BEAUTY & THE BOMARC AMC family helped assemble her.

OGDEN

Missile Fever in Utah

Ever since Ogden AMA became prime depot for four top AF missiles (Bomarc, Snark, Genie, Bull Goose), employees at Hill AFB have been going around as though reacting to a shot of enthusiasm in the arm. Leaving work at night, they drive home to all sections of Utah to eat, sleep and talk missiles.

Nor are they the only ones. The Utah newspapers are doing it too. The magic of missiles makes interesting reading, especially when the news can be gathered right in their own front yard-with maybe a few feedlines thrown out by the information services office at OOAMA.

The sociological result is that the missile fever in Utah has spread to the public-at-large. A by-product of this is a minor form of press-agentry which one might expect to find in Hollywood or on Broadway, but not necessarily in Utah.

An eye-catching example of these local symptoms of missile fever (and press-agentry) appeared recently in Utah newspapers in the well-formed form of "Miss Bomarc," who, underneath it all, was Fran Frost, a blonde native missile from Kaysville who was an attraction in Utah much before the Bomarc got there. The story behind Miss Bomarc shows how missile-mindedness, originating within the AMC family, can manifest itself in the most unexpected of places (also see AMC FAMILY, p. 16).

It started when the Utah State Beauty Operators announced a hair-styling contest to be held in Salt Lake City. It so happened that one of the member operators was Audrene Yates, a Layton beautician, who had caught the missile fever from her husband Jay, who works in maintenance engineering at OOAMA. Taking her inspiration from the Bomarc, Audrene dreamed up an original coiffeur which promptly won first prize. As state winner, her hairdo (preferably on Fran Frost) will represent Utah in the national contest this summer.

But Audrene wasn't the only AMC family member to contribute to the story and the ensuing publicity. To set off the striking coiffeur, Margaret, wife of Captain Robert Alger of AMC's 28th Logistic Support Squadron at OOAMA, designed a black full-length sheath dress styled after the Bomarc and fitted it to Fran's facile frame.

*Note to unsophisticated male readers: The late Antoine was a bird-like, somewhat more than middle-aging New York hair stylist who wore his own hair in a curly swirl of dyed purple and frequently slept (while still alive, that is) in a lavender-satined coffin. Any time he came out with a new hairstyle it was a Cape Canaveral event for millions of women. But to most men he was a destruct.

The description of Audrene's coiffeur at the hairdo show in Salt Lake City (as reported in Hill AFB's Hill Top Times) sounded like a script collaborated on by the late great Antoine,* Jules Verne, and a glib pen pixillated by an overdose of sound vibrations from TV commercials:

"Out of the space age we now bring fantasy into fact with a 'Miss Bomarc.' This guided missile hairstyle was inspired by the supersonic Bomarc missile. It's a swirl-a-wave which features supersonic action from nape to crown. From a siren list, it cruises to a froth of fluff swinging from cheek to tip of ear. The nuclear payload goes into super action and long-range swirls 'intercepted by flowing lines and high altitude sweeps cruising towards its target of pixie bangs on the brow."

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