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Show 1,1 .1,1 GENERAL RAWLINGS OUTLINES AMC OBJECTIVES FOR 1958 1 (SonlinGr Repot U. S. AIR FORCE You're Invited I Mate Military New Concept GUARDIAN OF FREEDOM FnK to submit items to this paper. This newspaper is for you and bout you. PAGE 8 4 yy s MMIffX We welcome com- ments, suggestions, 'Letters to the Editors', news items, social tidbits, and pictures. We want to hear from both mili-Itar- y and civilian. If you have call West Area Ext. news any 824 or 225 or mail your items j to Hill Top Times, symbol "K." ' VOL. 11 NO. 2 v JANUARY 24, 1958 PUBLISHED AT KAYSVILLE, UTAH Sets AFA Third Annual wmm Symposium held last announced that the third annual Air Power Symposium will be held March 28 and 29, according to Jim Bonner, general chairman. The event, sponsored by the Air Force Association, will be held in Salt Lake City at the Hotel Utah The symposium will climax Air Power week March A kick-o- ff Wednesday luncheon HI IP , 23-2- 9. ' Management Hill AFB's military and civilian personnel will be hearing a lot in the coming weeks about the Cordiner Report, according to Col, J. W. Jackson, Director of Per- sonnel at the 0ffden base' Just last weejc President Eisen hower submitted sweeping recom mendations in the pay structure of the Armed Forces based on the Cordiner Repoi,-The Cordiners Report isn't "an other gimmick" to raid the public treasury and capture a fat raise for the military, Col. Jackson pointed out. Instead, it is a new concept of military manpower management that promises to save the taxpayers approximately $5 billion a year bv 1902. It will in- crease our armed efficiency, or iorego tne savings while boosting efficiency 15 percent, the Col. said. One of Uncle Sam's biggest military problems is how to keep the men he has trained, at enormous cost, to handle the complicated arms of modern war. But skilled men are quitting as fast as they can. The AF has to train so many new men that d of technionly about cians are at combat readiness. Why? Because the skills Uncle Sam taught them can be made' to pay better in civilian life. President Eisenhower, in his . Banquets, forums, luncheons," and Sher events are set for the two- day symposium each with a star ; speaker. of the officials who have to be on hand include uenerai Hi. w. nawiings, amikj Gilbert Nettleton, Commander; vice president of Northrop; Ray Efertes, United Airlines; Dr. Roland Spalding, New York University; Lt' Gen. Joseph Atkinson, ADC Commander; Lt. Gen. FranSome promised cis Griswald", SAC Commander; Gen. 0. P. Weyland, TAC commander; Peter J. Schenck, dent of the Air Force Association; and John Loosbrock, editor of the Air Force magazine. event Topping off the two-da- y will be an Air Power ball which will see the crowning of a beauty queen who'll receive the title of "Miss Missile." February 28. Represented in this campaign will be Cancer, Heart, Arthritis and Rheumatism, Muscular Dys trophy, Crippled Children and Adults, National Society for Prevention of Blindness, Tuberculosis Association,, Crusade for Freedom and CARE. This is the second of two charity Editors' Note: The Cordiner Report is in two volumes. One drives, that will be conducted an makes recommendations on milnually at Hill Air Force Base, itary manpower and pay probColonel Hall said. Two drives are lems. The other covers similar necessary in order to comply with problems of civilian employees of the defense department. This recent Air Force regulations article concerns the military. The last drive, the United Fund Another article to appear soon will cover civilian aspects. Drive conducted during Novem AFB Hill saw donat ber, personnel ing $3,"j,840. This was to be dis- to Congress, has triVmfoH i m nnfi tho "fnllnuHnfr nr. recommendation i ij. i ueciueu 10 euro me xenaencv oi - CHARITABLE Lt. Col. William J. Hall (right) Chairman of the Campaign Commitee, and Col. E. F. Hubbard, Hill AFB commander; examine a citation awarded Hill for outstanding achievement in support of the CARE Food Crusade last year. Hill's generous donors will pile up more dollars to help the needy when the National Health Agency and Joint Crusade Campaign begins February 3. -- S' Mental Health and Cerebral Palsy. f,. DatPs nf thp Wthrnminp- drive relative worth to the AF. ine orainer report tooK its will provide at least two pay pe- name from Ralph J. Cordiner, pres ident of General Electric Co. who (Continued on Page 2) was chairman of a committee - that surveyed the pay systems of the armed forces more than a year OOAMA'S PRIME IN BOTH ago. ft-) F In general terms the Cordiner Plan calls for a pay system which will: Attract men to match the effort or contribution of the individual, place more emphasis on skills, less on total service, and be" flexible enough to keep up with economic Genio' Unveils .cVoodoov For-'Use-O- The Air Force this week unveiled for the first time one of the lat-s- t weapons of the Air Defense Command. J It is the MB-- 1 "Genie," a rocket designed to be carried in the belly Of the "Voodoo." . Hill AFB workers were espe dally interested in the event be- USAF for air defense purposes. cause OOAMA i3 prime in both the The nuclear warhead was designed Voodoo and the Genie, according by the Los Alamos Scientific Labto Colonel E. W. Miles, Ammuni-jio- n oratory. Its atomic yield is stated ). as well below nominal (20 Services Officer at Hill. The Genie was fired on The Genie will be armed with the of Defense In atomic warhead and two of the Nevada test site in July, 19."", to in be all carried will weapons collect additional data for develJDC jet interceptors. of other atomic-arme- d I The unveiling ceremonies took opment in the interceptor type rockets jlace at McDonell Aircraft Com-isn- family of weapons. St. Louis, Mo. Genie is classed as the most Col. Sidney Bruce, chief of the significant advancement in air deAED, North American Defense fense of the United States since the advent of radar, Col. Miles Command, Colorado Springs, the effectiveness of the said. The Colonel also noted that while OOAMA is prime in the rocTeapon plus the safety facto'r. ir The Genie is an rocket ket, the atomic warhead would not teveloped by ARDC for use by be stored at this base. changes. (Continued I I Editorial Short Story Contest Maintenance 'Winter- kilo-tons- AEC-Departme- izes' nt 3200 F-1- 01 C-m- 's Funds . 2 2 3 5 AMC Objectives for 1958.. 8 9 On the Hill y, de-tSrib- ed on Page 4f IN THIS ISSUE: F-10- ? air-to-a- ' one-thir- War Key to United States Sur vival," the meet will feature top officials and experts of defense , I The 19T)8 National Health Agency Crusade and Joint Campaign will get underway at Hill AFB February 3, according to Lt. Col onel William J. Hall, Chairman of the Campaign Committee, Hill United Fund Drive. The drive will continue through ri'innni'foi' AIR DEFENSE COMMAND officials and newsmen gather around the "Genie" (center foreground) at unveiling ceremonies held at ir atomic warhead missile will be used on St. Louis. The I he "Voodoo." (in background.) air-to-a- F-1- 01 Sports Press tcur New Civilian Advisory Council 10,11 12 12 |