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Show The Hillfielder August 29, 194 First Merit Award Winners P.adding, parade By Polly McQuown HOME MADE MIRACLE JOHN D. HANSEN, export stencil supervisor, bobbed up from tale about a traffic section this week to recount a human-intere- st boy, his mother, and the war a tale which reached its finish a couple of weeks ago when of Hansen and hero of this piece, doffed the khaki and breezed home to the farm in Roy, Utah. 1 Back in 1942 Zito, an affable k , z chap and favorite son, was in.d&L Iducted , in the army, and his Id n .juaAA&eA. overcome by mother, Lucy Zito, Were on hand last We dnesday to receive the first Air Technical SeJ 'shock of his departure, was THESE EMPLOYES . Col. Paul W. Wolf, standing in of Merit ever presented at OATSC. Awards Command ice stricken with a partial paralysis the made presentation. which affected her vocal cords. center, While she mutely sat home and counted the hours, John Zito spanned the ocean and collected the Purple Heart, five campaign stars, and a host of service ribbons, slugging and sweating it out in England, North Africa, John D. Hansen Then .one day about a month and Germany. France, Bicily, Italy, and Lucy Zito went to the telephone Imago things happened. heard her son's voice coming over the wires from Florida. first mediately she blurted out a greeting in response. For the mirtime in over two and a half years she was able to speak-t-he acle had occurred. John Zito, brother-in-la- w 1 They've Saved Manpower and Materials EARLY BIRD COOK, who with his wit and work has won the d honest admiration of all his colleagues, isn't the swaggering kind. ERNEST Maybe that's the reason a little job story about the first-ra- te he's been doing over in the welding and heat treatment branch of maintenance went unheralded until just the other day. But here are the facts: Day after day while the planes were flying and the men fighting Cook was at his post long before the rest of the command has begun to hum, cleaning and refilling heating furnaces and filling water vats. Day after days he expected no praise and received no extra pay, and when asked how come, he briefly replied, "It's a job which must be done." Tucked away for safekeeping are three meri- torious cards and letters which Ernest Cook indicate that he's been neither late nor absent for the past eighteen months, and as far as cooperation goes he's simply cracker-jac- k. Pre-wcalling: a cigar and candy wholesale dealer in Greeley, Colorado. Post-waspiration: to be as helpful as he's been in the past. ar ar STEINBECK SHEET-META- L free-lanwriter and LESLIE J. HOUSEL, a lead man in sheet metal, detests formulas, likes drawing, and would rather pen a good, lusty free-think- ce er, story than attend a baseball game or a bullfight which all adds up to the fact that this weekv Housel is planning big things for himself as soon as he ! finishes his assignment at Hill Field. In the immediate future he intends to go to New York, home of the publishing industry, V where he can satisfy his hankering for narrative in short order. And when this writing flows forth, he says, there won't be any frills or furbelows attached. Rather it will be a de- glamorized conceDtion of things. like that of his idols, Steinbeck and Hemingway, filled with q marked sympathy for the under Leslie J. Housel dog and a marked antipathy for the elite. Favorite pastime: reading everything from the Chicago Daily News to Erskine Caldwell. Favorite aspirations: to write a novel. ri ( li ifr - V If If A RETURN OF THE NATIVE JAMES E. KELTY, bland-face- d, genial superintendent of miscellaneous repair, was even more genial than usual last Saturday, for that evening he left for a ten-da- y vacation in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he will rest, reminisce, and perhaps rate a good, homecoming, for he hasn't been back to his old boyhood haunts in five years. An electrician for Union Pacific Stages before the war, he's made one of the most exemplary achievements at Hill Field in developing the electrical section of miscellaneous old-fashio- repair. FAR AFIELD DEVITT A. BOYER, left for San Bernardino, Calif., where he will attend a maintenance familiarization course covering crash fire trucks and related equipment. LOWELL H. ALVORD, communications engineer, is conducting a survey of communication facilities at PocatelloAAB, Mt. Home AAB, and Gowen Field, all OSENGREEN, automotive adviser, left In Idaho. EUKJr J N J nrue njt 4? . . . Employes pictured above are part of a group which sent their ingenu THE TWENTY-FIV- E working overtime to make suggestions during the month of July. In the cent stands Col. Paul W. Wolf, commanding officer. prize-winni- ng Employes Receive First Meri Awards Presented at OATS The first Air Technical Serv ice Command Awards of Merit ever to be presented at OATSC were conferred upon eighteen Hill Field employes last Wed nesday morning in the head quarters control room by Col. Paul W. Wolf, commanding of ficer. Although the award of merit may be presented for any outstanding job performance within the line of duty beyond normal job requirements, these employes merited their awards for submitting nraiseworthy suggestions. Also presented at the same award ceremonial were emblems for civilian service awarded to four division representatives on behalf of 172 other eligible employes within their division who completed six months satisfactory service within the War Department on August 1, and cash awards. forty suggestion Those -- receiving Awards of Merit were: Victor C. Adams (Huntsville. Seven suggestions for Utah) '""easea saieiy ana produc- Sanford Angell (Delta, Utah) Three suggestions, including an autosyn bearing fester of unusual merit. Jack K. Christensen (Salt Lake City) Six suggestions resulting in an annual savings of approximately $14,000. Orson J. Cooper, Murray, Utah) Suggestion for sparkplug buffing machine. George Craghead (Britrham City, Utah) Method for repair 01 cowi nap jackets. Raymond Eaton (Salt Lake City) Right angle attachment for use on standard rivet gun. Ancel H. Goolsbey (Haines, uregon) Production line for sneet metal branch. Paul L. Gray (Ogden) Three suggestions, including tion for an adjustable swivel to noid wooden props. Lewis L. Hains Jr. (Frisco, Method of salvaging Utah) I stems resulting in a saving of Division representatives wl received emblems for civuu Edward A. Hedlund (Salt Lake service on behalf of other a Jennie City) Three suggestions result- vision employes were: Norma in an Beutler. estimated of headquarters; ing savings Ripp nersonnel and Dase sein $30,000 in man hours and mate iopsrial. Jean JN. L;onn, ma"" nanp and Audrey JV1. OUUM Henry W. Leavitt (Ogden) Six devices, four developed in supply. collaboration with fellow workMac ers, two developed by himself. Austin M. Mangelson (Levan. Utah) Four devices developed Rules in collaboration with fellow instH workers. As by ATSC John W. Pintus (Salt Lake tion. required employes who were City) Five devices which have sent all on sick or annual lea resulted in a savings of approx both on the 14th and 17th imately $25,000. sick Raymond L. Rawson (Oeden) August, will be charged Four ideas for prevention of annual leave on" August damage to aircraft engines. arid I 16th, Major Bruce Arthur R. Smith (Ogden) Four suggestions resulting in an Strong, chief, civilian personi estimated savings of 14.000 man anniins0ri this Week. amenas a n nours. .This instruction ;nA in ..1II Rudolph Vynes (Ogden) Six vious instruction em adopted suggestions. week's Hillfielder to the on nhsent George J. Pflughaupt (Den men, on the 14tn A ver, Colo.) An adapter making annua i not he cnargeuj mu possible the use of Bell and x.wt 15th i Howell projectors, also a meth or annual leave u od of ventilating nroiection 16th. rooms and an improvement of room acoustics. Those employes receiving suggestion cash awards were: Philip L. Adrian, Alvin J. Ashby, William R. Barlow, George M. Batchelor, Everett P. Perkins, Joseph M. Bingham, Angus L. Blaylock, Frederick F. Bollin, James L. Cottrell, Archie L. Coy, Paul C. Crowder, Frank H. Dellenbach, Morton L. Eames, Arvil B. Harris, Hubert H. Hart, Henry C. John, Ber-neiA. Lange, Gail S. Lee, Frank T. Legacy. O. C. Lester, Donald ; Oliver J. Lewis, Abel L. Lopez, Earl E. Lucke, Axel W. Mars, George W. McClelland, Mildred C. Meyers, Albert A. Olsen, John W. Pintus, William J. Pintus, EdQlb win W. Smith, Einar H. Strand, nor Gordon R. Thornley, Ralph A. "I undrit.nd h. dr.w Timson, Kirtley E. Tucker, Wil..u. kit el longwr liam H. Umnlebv arid LponolH w $16,000. . Correction On Leave 1- 01 1 1 ce . |