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Show HILL TOP TIMES Page 4 November 24 Budget Balancers at Hill Have Big Job Bottle Baby If you sit down at the end of the month with a stack of receipts, your check stubs, and lot of determination, and try to find out if you are- living within your income, you are indulging in the Americanism known as "balancing the budget." If you find you are within your but if you salary, you can relax are exceeding your wages and end up on the short side, steps must be taken immediately to control your All of which future spending. results in much groaning, a head to institute betache, and ter management of household af- and that includes cost controls of the iuaern A Force, the taxpayer gets the dim Through the cost accounting and mum production for his tax am the taxpayer him. Improve Your Rating through increased skills! - time-honor- liVl: Si fairs. ' Von have one house, vMZ se- - r (Photo by Bill Markel) i . "Hitting the bottle" is a favorite pastime for "Ike," pet racoon belonging to Mabel Adams, stock control. "Ike" is shown taking a "short nip" from a bottle of orange pop. He is one of the many pets raised by Mrs. Adams. A tame, playful animal, the baby acoon often follows Mrs. Adams around the yard or house begging for candy or .' am car perhaps, and your income taxes. Mutliply that by a couple of thousand and, you have the job that confronts the "budget balancers" at Hill Air Force base. Hill Air Force has thousands, of and employees, hundred of buildings it 'And tonnage. untqld equipment office cost accounting is up to the to determine how much it costs to operate the base and meet its payroll. job every Every hour spent on a all efforts and used of paint gallon spent to move a ton or supplies ib charged to a work order. ana worn Every day time cards orders arrive at cose accounting, and every day machine tabulate, count add, subtract and ; divide. for and Every nickel is accounted balanced against the, cost of labor and material. At the end of the month, the figures are totaled, checked and analized, and reports x mm. arts ed a family, ' Pop. ZOO'S WHO Layton Resident Has SmaBi Menagerie At Her Home Some people keep skunks as a hobby, others, find a lot of fun. in and then there's others like Mabel raising rabbits, hamsters, or horses Adams who has opened up her heart and her home to enough animals to almost stock a 200. Mabel Adams, stock control, supply, has turned her ranch home in Layton into a small menagerie. Her farm yard is filled with the Sounds of partridges, pheasants, horses, cows, chickens, ducks, wild, geese, fish, canaries, 2 doberman pinscher dogs, one mongrel puppy, and her favorite four young racoons. pets Feeding and caring for such a herd of .animals and birds doesn't sound easy, but for Mabel and her husband, William, it isn't a job, Base Is . "It's just fun." "We've always loved animals in and especially wild birds," says Drive Mrs. Adams. "We have a special Community Hill Air Forcee Base was official wildlife permit and so are allowed praised for cooperation in the to keep pheasants, ducks, and wild ly recent Community Chest campaign geese. by a' letter written to Brig. General "And believe me, during the hunt- Norris B. Harbold from Fred A. Kuhlmann "president of Community ing season, it isn't easy to keep our Chest of Ogden. foul all in one piece I've driven off The letter stated in part: "As we more than one bunch of 'hunters near the conclusion of our appeal who had their eye on one of .our big for funds for 1951 I wish to take this opportunity on behalf of the millards or pheasants.' Directors of the Chest the But the favorite pets of the Board of and the many thousands agencies whole menagerie are "Ike" and of of Red Feather Aid to recipients racoons. two the "Mike", youngest thank you for your coop personally "They . are such playful and eration this year .. . . Especially friendly animals," says Mrs. Adams. commendable this year, I believe, "Everyone gets a kick out of watch-the- was the Maintenance Section, unThey love to eat candy or der Colonel Root. His any kind of sweets and, they really handling of his section, thepersonal follow-ugo down on soda pop or cokes." and his personal interest eviThat the animals really love their denced throughout the campaign mistress is proven by the fact that certainly merits the finest thanks whenever she steps out of doors we have. The, letter concluded "We wish at they all run after her and follow her all around the yard. this time to convey to all the inwho either "Yes," says Mrs. Adams, "I know dividuals ihelped, just what they mean in the song through work or financial response, when they sing 'With a quack, for their generosity. Hill Air Force quack here and a moo, moo there' Base has done 'an outstanding servI guess 'Old McDonald' hasn't ice to the community in which it got anything over on us." operates." , Praised for Cooperation Chest m. . . . To win promotion and a bigger salary check, join the group of ambitious people who are attending our Night School. 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This accumulated report, containpering expenditures for everythejobmateformed on the base, and rials involved, is submitted to Air Materiel Command It serves as a Air yardstick to compare Hill Force base with other Air Maetriel area. It helps determine the amount 'of work Headquarters will assign to Hill Air Force base in the future. The amount of money spent by this base in comparison to the work accomplished allows the base a of its fairly comprehensive picture work efficiency. The cost of the month's operation is a crystal ball to predict future expenditures of the base and allows the budget people to estimate what it will take to operate next month. Keeping tabs on three or four million dollars each month is quite a job. But the cost accounting section does just that with the cooperation of the thousands of other employees on the base. The old idea of "It belongs to the government so it doesn't cost anything" is a thing of the past. 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