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Show Huge MilitWy Section Marks Ogden Parade TLerxiers Cut Time Lost at Wednesday July 28, 1943 Q4DGG3 w Their Classes Hill Field Floats, Soldiers, Band in Pioneer Fete i Eight Floats Are Entered From Hill Field Base School Attendance Shows Big Gain 3 Under Competition t. fc3 r Hill Field's floats, equipment displays, and marching troops were outstanding in the huge annual Pioneer days parade in Ogden Saturday morning, when every military installation in the area and a number of defense organizations in Ogden were repree sent in the wartime display. Under the direction of the Ind trial Division Training office the Utah State Agricultural J lege, the attendance at the wl Production Training school, whJ mechanic learners for Hill Firf are taught, rose from 92 to w per cent as a direct result 'ot program that was set un for proving attendance during a W 1 week period. J. T, Wilson, supervisor at tf training school, in cooperation wil Paul Ahlstrom, personnel represe) "0 two-mil- Gen. .Ralph Talbot, Jr., commanding officer at Utah ASF depot, led the mammoth military section of the parade. With him reviewing the line of parade were Col. L. D. Fator, commanding officer of the Army Air Base at Hill Field; Col. Robert M. Harda-way, Bushnell General hospital at Brigham City; Capt. Omar D. Con ger, and Commander H. H. Hines of Naval Supply depot, and Col. Lewis A. Nickerson of Ogden Brig. . 7 2 " V-- V I 7!?& iSg y I ley' instructor of the Instrumd T Department, had full charge of ti program The- most effective contribuuJ factor to the success of the dril was tne spirited cooperation tl committee received from the structors and trainees. Classes d ganized and all trainees were couraged not only to improve the! attendance records, but to drij - for Col. Morris Berman, OASC com manding officer, was unable to attend, having been called away upon official business in the Command area. Hill Field was represented by eight floats displaying Air Cores equipment, including a 9 engine with gear section and nose section, a complete r-t- o mounted on a truck, a camouflage truck designed by Lieut. Robert Gordon, a turret display, a group of engines mounted on a truck, a small trainer plane, and the nose section of a All except the camouflage truck were arranged by members of the class-wer- to be in the "Red." own rules classes made tbef and regulations dilatory trainees who could ni supply sufficient reasons for al sences. Punishments ranged all uj way from extra work and explanf tions before the class members ducking in the canal near ta Individual P-3- campus. The first week in June found I per cent or 16. classes in the "Rei with only 14 per cent or 5 class in the "Blue." At the end of the month tl iiiiiilll B-2- 4. 89th Repair Squadron. An impressive War Bond picture had changed considerabl with only 14 per cent or two classin the "Red and 61 per cent 18 classes receiving the "Blue Ril float depicting a realistic battle scene was designed by Tech. Sgt. Martin Stern, Jr., and arranged by more than 20 members of the artists' crew of the Special Service Section. Lieut. K. B. Hutchinson was in charge of display of a group of Air Corps vehicles which were included in the parade, and a WAC 'recruiting float also was entered in the parade by WAC recruiting omce in Ogden in cooperation with Hill Field officers. Members of the 319th depot Repair Squadron, 31st Air Depot group, and 311th Depot Repair Squadron marched in review under the respective commands of Major Ralph C. Johnson, Major C. E. Peterson, and Capt. Edward B. Maguire. Major Ray D. Schell of 31st was acting troop commander. Members of the 408th Army Air Force band marched in the parade, Jed by W. O. Melvin Kornmeyer. In charge of arrangements for Hill Field's participation in the parade was Lieut. Col. Walter Eckman, commanding officer of the 31st ADG. Over $75,000 worth of War Bonds were sold at an auction on the n grounds surrounding the ty building immediately following award bon" lost at the beginni: of the program averaged betwei 1100 and 1200 per week. The four week after the drive was institu lost amounti showed man-houto 349. a difference of about hours per week or 100 days. Tl Man-hou- .rT "TV- - -- .JO..: -- I rs rs program is still functioning m similar results. Hvrum Smith, an instructor a large class in instruments h kept his class in the blue coiui seven out of eight weeks the pn cram has been in effect, lo s in the "Blue," a class must she that not more than one hour p trainee was missed during tl week. Offisrfi9 Tlance TVIwlit fr....v.... "m . J'M. Affair Is Planned By Signal Corps Here 'Wie-Wa- e' city-cou- we parade. Field officers, with thei and quests, will be enw nicht with a 'Wn the Officers' CM at dance Wag" where Sienal Corns officers nai Hill wives 28 New Officers Arrive at Field planned a big evening or iun amusement Major, Four Captains And 23 Lieuts. Assigned for Duty Captain John T. Quirk, base nal officer, is chairman oi committee in charge of events, new officer arrivals Twenty-eigWere announced yesterday by Col ht Morris perfect records Wall charts were posted ad since the "Blue" was for excelled attendance, everyone in the schoj to be striving for ta seemed "Blue." Red" on the chart showj unsatisfactory attendance and sot individual trainees and unpopular if they were se Berman, commanding of' Xiccr, OASC. uno major, lour captains, six lieutenants and 17 second lieutenants constituted the group w aw other members are Captain w" ard Nugent, Lieuts. Joseph V. m' Carthy and R. E. Schauff. n A special service orchestra the post will provide music, an decorations will be "strictly Signal raafiirinr demonstra1 ous tions of vari, signal equipm;'j rm. first I 12 lhJVh . skits and songs will be stag' ST of newcomers. A by committee nutmhrs. 'J W 1 ii ni, HRf . Members of tka officers tin Major Claude S. Buchanan. sAU 1 Uith their famil iam and SruestS Captain John W. Farrar, Wil liam J. Newman, Martin H. Imholt, : Sunday niirt1lnatal in an all01 V d and Ray K. Rodcsch. lUnreran CVluntV ' First Lieutenant Godfrey Engel, David F. 1""' with Park, Lt Col.arrangements. r t nt Jr., Carroll A. Hamilton, Frank F, Bunts, Jere B. Johnson, John T. Th Hav ' ttttM HontKl tO SWil 'twjfsXZi Kemp, and Marvin E. Swiecicki. ming in nearoy urnio prini5i Second Lieutenants Ralph L. ing, and playing volleyball. C. Otis Coldeway. Ira J Bridges, volleyball contest. Col. L. T. S. Nye, George Duzik, William N. tar' a tonm Aetoatoii Sadha'S te THOUSANDS OF SPECTATORS . . . Lined Ogden streets during-- the Pioneer day parade, last Henderson, Donald F. Loseke. Wal each time by a narrow mf Saturday twice, tcr J. Doolin, Jerome E. Schlanser, morning. Over two miles long this Kin. due to of Inclusion installations in the Ogden area, the year military James G. Constan, Vernon C. Music was was panorama of marching men, floats and exhibitions and military music. Hill Field was by four m1 amply sicians from provided Jay Needham, Clayton D. parade the special Ryan, Edward J. Welsh, Douglas represented with eight floats, the 408th AAF Band and hundreds of soldiers. Col. LHhurn D. Fator, and also by a recorj L. Pcarce, Robert D. Gafford, Linbase commanding officer, was on hand to see how his boys looked. Above, the Hillfielder camera man player operated by the Signal Con coln Moses, and Ruth L, Zuber. risked tys neekU get unusual angles a the parade. officer present. lf' rf i,,&k frthL 7UyiriV.?.v i, HYrtJjZ7tM U t .'j?"Ji SO ' - Iuge-bretie- n, s"-orchestr- |