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Show A srl v-- OASCV yuil Communications Xre Cared r"or bv KffiVint Ft AJ-..- J ---" ; August 23, 1944 rff jQUMEQffiS Discuss New Rating Form -- jh .. Thousands of Phone Galls Handled Daily (1111 Base Signal Keeps 'Em Talking ifilt iiilliii By Larry Evans Major Joyce clapped the receiver down and leaned back in his swivel chair.. "See what I mean?" he said. "That's just one of our headaches. Somebody calls in here to ask if extension is working. He's been getting the busy signal for two hours now. We check it. It's open. We send a repairman over. What 111 does he find? Somebody's just disconnected the entire KGKADED EMPLOYES RATED . . . Nearly 7,000 OASC ungraded ' th a phone and moved it elseiviui......... wcca, Hers wb Mner.la.Ilv for t.. luimaii nnnuiM ranl . . nnc iv cilrat-t-iff where. See what I mean?" n caiftuvM In 201 files. Left to also such-and-su- ch rCnii,K - - B o right, talking over the riven are: Glen. Hatton, supervisor, station 10, 4 line; Don-- 1 v. Murray, aircraft mechanic,- and Anrel Garliardi. airrft ' mechanic Wkn, placed B-2- - - , fapa. Uncle Accept Congratulations' - f t !v- 1 - REPAIRMAN . . . Capt. Edward W. Curran, assistant base signal officer, left, watches Sgt. Martin A, Boehme, wire chief, make repairs on a desk telephone. Repairmen handle about 100 ph&nes every month. . ; But despite this and other hindrances, the base myriad signal office, headed by Major Joseph P. Joyce, Jr., communications and base signal officer, continues to furnish about 12,500 OASC military and civilian personnel, with smooth, courteous service. Since its first operator plugged in the first call, base signal's responsibilities have multiplied prodigiously. That was in July, 1941. They had one switchboard then. Now there are three going night 1 :W!.:WIP rr.- 'i . ' 'foUaV'- I - lain (" PHONES HARD TO GET Spiking current rumors that the wartime shortage of phones is near an end and all you have to do is just order them, a representative of the phone company in Ogden yesterday said that the scarcity of vital com- -, munications equipment, and par' ticularly telephones, is more acute than ever, and in the near future will be even more stringent. CANT TELL FROM HERE . . . Who looks most pleased, Papa ill Turner, left, or Uncle Ted Turner, right. Papa is chuckling over ?1 awel congratulatory note. Sharon Lynn arrived last week to ISft and Mrs. William H. Turner of supply's AGP branch. TSgt. intl Turner, just returned from 32 months in the Southwest Pa- jiic, pulls on his pipe and exults. He is a new member of the Hill- fielder staff. GI Merriment at Service Club "There has been a serious shortage of telephones for some time," he said. "This will not be eased in the near future. The present outlook is for the shortage to be felt even more keenly. Approximately 600,000 phones will shortly be released for civilian use for all the United States. The quota in the Ogden area of necessity will be small. The situation in the rural districts is particularly acute. Existing orders will absorb all the equipment we will be able to get. There will be no easing of the phone situation," EXPERTS Jack M. Reay, principal engineering aide, and Earle C. Wilkinsen, chief engineer aide, are shown discussing a technical repair problem in the switch room. The switch room acts as a kind of clearing house for all inter-offitelephone communication. ce (n 0 Hl! ill and day manipulated by ten operators who work on three shifts. Supervised and trained by veteran operator Jean Bailey, these girls, some of whom had never before had on a pair of earphones, sit calmly before their boards and handle thousands of calls daily. In one sense these calls, coursing along the wires of a huge, bewilthe life blood dering network, are Distended eleof the installation. ments are fused together and X' transformed into an integrated whole. The left hand knoweth TOUR OPERATORS . . . Left, 14. Mary C. Herdina, assistant base what the right hand doefh. Base signal Is answerable for the signal officer, looks on while three of OASC's ten operators manipulate .the field's three switchboards. The system was activated in Installation, maintenance and opSeated, left to right, Leah B. eration of the hundreds of phones July, 1941, with onlxoneD. operator. and Cleo F. Stringham. Weidlein Wanesyk, Frances here. Bulk of installation and maintenance is done by 12 enlisted are those you can dial "9" on and flopped them off by Zz per cent. men. Ogden. B's are those located Maj. Joyce said. We've got eight Besides telephones the office is call in private quarters which demand per cent to go. responsible for all fixed electrical payment for calls. C's .One thing every person on this personal also include communications which e' phones. field should remember is this: regular radio fa- are telegraph, teletype and When tempted to overindulge, cilities. Equipment used by the You can't call outside on them. The trouble lies in misuse of reach for an air mail letter instead. AACS (army airways communications system) and weather station "A" phones, Maj. Joyce said. in base operations is on the list. Someone wants long distance for personal business. Sorry, the op- The fire telephone system is in erator says, but you , can't do it. stalled and repaired oy case esignal There's nothing the signal office can do about it. It's simply against So is the personnel. war department regulations. inmmnni((lnn MiuiDmenL Transfer of Major Claude S. BuA survey made by the office Call for Repair Men to the AAF overseas rechanan 60 per cent last week revealed that Often employes will attach placement depot at Kearns, Utah, of outgoing OASC messages were. modifications to phones which is was announced this week from prece-- also rules. In one instance stamped with a priority Onlv in Tier cent should red against were tacked on two headquarters. lights Major Buchanan has been as have been, which makes for an phones. Moving to a new office signed to OASC since July, 1943, This condition other headache. some 'workers snip the cords and wnen ne was named assistant adin more impediments simply puts their phones, with them. ministrative inspector. During Nocarry mes wav nf rpallv important tin This, however, is a job for the re- vember and December, 1943, he sages, Ma. Joyce said. He named pairman. Give him' at least 24 served at Colorado Springs, Colo, one incident not on mis iieia hours' notice and he'll take care of inspector. colonel gave operational it for you. If you do it yourself, as field air to where OASC he was chief, Returning nrlnrllv (next to hiehest nrece- - you'll be doing business under a and inspection, supply dence) to a message concerning different extension number though inventory division, until April, 1944, and the location ox nis cnauiieur. may not know it from .until his transfer last T1tvfM facilities are main you his Job as week then in Maj. ' Aiding Joyce a technical inspector, tained here capable of transmit base ' signal officer are Capt Ed- office was of the air inspector. ting- data to any? business house In ward W, Curran,' assistant base His homo is in Dayton, Ohio, the- country hMtlnf receiving signal officer, and 1st Lt Mary C. Prior to his entrance in the army, mesbase equipment Only 'outgoing assistant sigHerdina, AC, . he was a patent atsage channel oMi ": to civilians is nal officer.- - Chief engineering aide July, 1942, f Western Union. Is Earl C. Wlldms. Jack Reay is torney, at Wright 'field, Ohio. i Trunk lines pleased from , the principal engineering aide. Alfred Back Again Capt. Jean A. Berg, telephone company were secured Hestmark and Cleone Smith are an eye to a) certain volume of assistant storekeeper and property former chief, branch one, has been with mHrxm hllllnMf. VfliT this reOSOn clerk, respectively.' Another assigned back to OASC and wilt ' is Dee Elwell, telephone serve as assistant chief in branch personal call on official phone UDOO in wan pcparwimik ic fourV Prior to his first assignment maintenance man. : latlons. A recent WD order requires a here ho served several months in the Alaskan theatre during the Jap. There are three types of phones Xt uer cent eat la toll costs tt nere class A, B and C. Class A's official sails. So far OASC 'ha occupation of Klska and Attu. L 1 'I aA . GIs GET TOGETHER . . there )N H Abflve photo was taken at the If always a lot of fun in dance last Tuesday night dresses dance fJOASC Service Clab. WACs In their new to the tune ef seed music with their GI escorts. rjvMuerfantastic" Tuesday night similar dances are to be held at the 4135th AAP Base Unit and its components. all-- GI of-du- ty finalists in Boys and Juniors " 7 4T inter-offic- . Inspection Officer Leaves OASC inter-offic- - . - x . r " - L'-vJ- i t -- T.V.:. , V old-tim- er . r 5 ihe winner's defeiiinTVt:.'..::: ;"H.7.1- lrPr. OASC tmrnament finished up this week. "T C-- ri.' v |