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Show Lts. Chesterhultz and Arthur mJSk, Once Of Puerto Rico, Meet Again at Hill Field Acting as supply sergeant for a medium and heavy bombardment squadron in Puerto Rico, and then upending eleven months at the same job at an air base in Guatemala has given Lt. Arthur Nikas a lot of background experience for his recent assignment to supply division here. Lt. Nikas (then Sergeant Nikas) went to Puerto Rico in October, 1940, after enlisting in the Army a year earlier. In June, 1942, he was transferred to the Panama Canal zone, going a few weeks later to an air base out of Guatemala City. For nearly a year he was working in the supply setup for a 6th Air Force station that serviced all reconnaissance planes for one of the longest patrols in the AAF. Although their work was virtually the same all the time at the Guatemala base, Lieutenant Nikas worked constantly to requisition and distribute aircraft parts that were packed and shipped from depots such as the one here at Hill Lts. Schultz, Nikas EM Buddies At Puerto Rico M. Schultz Lt. Chester Lt. Arthur Nikas, and both recently assigned to supply division, were friends while they were serving as enlisted men at the Puerto Rican air base. They had not seen each other since Lt. Nikas, then Sergeant Nikas, was transferred from the Puerto Rican base to Guatemala in July, 1942. " of Meet Again Field. "Many shipments were sunk by enemy submarines before they ever . reached our base," the lieutenant commented. "We had a board with all shipments marked on it, and when one of them was sunk well, we just crossed that shipment off the board and requisitioned a new ' one. "Guatemala City was the cleanest I've ever seen in the world," he reminisced. "The political party that had been in power for the last twelve years was very progressive, and they were trying to clean up the city and improve native living conditions. It was against their law to throw any kind of debris, even cigarette butts, on the streets, and spitting in the street also was . prohibited by law. "Most of the Guatemalans are either Spanish or members of the Mayan tribes, of Indians. Their better buildings were of beautiful stone, and their costumes were anti-submari- ne Lt. Arthur Nikas colorful. "Our base was located in a valley, and the temperature remained Sbetween 70 and 75 all the year around. "A large number of natives were employed at the base, and the majority of them were very good workers." Lieutenant Nikas added that he'd like to go back overseas but this time he'd like to go to Europe or some place a little nearer the actual fighting. The officer calls Massachusetts, his hometown. Sa-le- Sheldon Bergeson today became Red Cross field director here at Hill Field, succeeding Edward B. KLsen who left for overseas as- signment Bergeson served here as assistant field director since Nov., 1942, during which time he was also responsible for military personnel at the Army Service Forces depot in Ogden and military detachments at Utah State Agricultural college m Logan. His first major' undertaking will be the direction and supervision of the Red Cross war fund drive at military installations in this area. Prior to joining the Red Cross field service in Oct., 1942, Bergeson served the Cache County school iur seven years as a coordinator and counselor. He also spent a year with the Utah State Welfare department after being graduated from the Utah State Agricultural college. He is a native or ixgan. mauii-- i Take Verdeland Park Housing Applications Housing at Verdeland Park has Deen secured for nearly, all appli-cantwho have been on the wait. ing list, and pending vacancies are available for families who have applied to date, It was announced mis week by Alien. Strong, resident manager of the housing prof s . ect. . Employes who wish to make an. plication for a home at Verdeland Park should call at the housing unit, employe relations branch, at run ieid, or see Strong at the Lay ton project office. . Promotions Captain T. O'Brien. Boxes From Hill Field Packed Best Declares HM IN ow in Italy Back in July, 1941, when HillWhen I See 8hinntn Field was just a young, sprawling giant with severe growing pains, and set a little homesick. LS Van W. Green came here to work way they say the boxeTf J?: in the supply division's property Field are packed best 12 when section only accountaing pHes axe damaged-k- eep oeople were mvoiveo... jmow mere good work. Keep it Coi.PuB5 S are hundreds. we will use It to beat tffLtS Van Green worKed in the Ol Sgt. Green's home classes as assistant property sup- SSS''rr& HOt Februply clerk before leaving in been employe ary, 1942. He joinedwasthe armed .VX1. staxioneu forces and for a ume here with an air depot group. Now his letters are postmarked "somewhere in Italy." One of those letters was received A. Lewis, chief recently by John for the property technical advisor ' accounting section at this depot , Mr. Lewis, according to reports receives literally from associates, ? scores of letters every month from service men formerly associated with him in supply work here. This particular letter was signea So-- t Oreen. It seems Sgt. ureen still has contact with Hill Field in the manner of observing supplies sent from this depot In his letter he said in part. "I'm glad I'm sun part or me Air Force. We are giving tnem hell here, and we appreciate une supplies we receive from Hill Field. 1 P t IOC Lorento K. Kimball, Joseph " i I Looking Around J I ''iLJ L Van W. Green With L. C. Evans One of the many oldsters, pre viously retired, but now in the harness again, driving for victory, is Gustaf Spong, former prospector, rancher, livestock raiser and fisherman, born in Vesteras, Sweden, and employed at Hill Field since I Y7 May, 1942. Spong is a packer in branch two, warehouse three, is 68 years old and doesn't look it, with a com- - John A. Lewis 'March of Time Film Studies Job Problems Hill Field Dance Draws Crowd To Salt Lake City Plans to provide for theof evpo present soldier problem explained war jobs are filmed and in a new "March of Time" stoit S More than 100 Hill Fielders pro e nounced the dance at the Union Building, University of Utah, last Saturday night, "the best dance we've had in Salt Lake City." Civilian workers, military personnel and their guests danced from nine until twelve o'clock to the music of Verdi Brienholt and his Salt Lake City orchestra. The dance was a "Sadie Hawkins" e affair, and clever sketches of Daisy Mae and Li'l Abner flanked the stage of the ballroom. Around the ballroom were placed clever signs indicating "hideaways for the men when the gals chas them." The dance was sponsored by the Hill Field Welfare association. Spe cial buses transported residents of Ogden, the civilian dormitories and Sahara Village directly to the Union building and brought them back after the dance. coming to. the post theatre, day and Monday, March The roles that both governmew and industry are playing into w solution Of what promises M fiejd-wid- Lt. Chester Schults $ J Chicago. m, Bergeson Named Red Cross Head T months service at Twenty-eight- h a part a Puerto Rican air depot is contriof Lt. Chester M. Schultz's bution to the war. Now he is asdisigned to branch four in supplysupaircraft with vision, working their plies at the beginning of last on lap. the of instead journey held In May of 1941 Lt. Schultz a reserve commission as second lieutenant in the infantry and was on duty as a sergeant in the air in corps. He went to Puerto Rico there base the when of '41, July was nothing but a maze of jungle swamps and temporary hangars under construction. The enlisted men were billeted in tents, and life on that particular post was anything but idle. Two years later, the base had bomb-prohangars, other bomband quarters buildings shop proof for the military personnel. The enlisted men and officers stationed in Puerto Rico were busy night and day servicing the thousands of bombers, cargo and fighter planes of. all kinds that flew into the base. It was in April, 1942, that Lt. Schultz began active duty with the air corps as a commissioned officer. For the next nineteen months he served as adjutant, then commander of a service group, and later as base engineering officer. Duties of the base included not only second echelon repair work on the transient aircraft, .but also maintenance and repair of the planes used for reconnaissance pa trol of the Caribbean waters. A watch was constant maintained for detection of German subs that might have strayed too near the base. The Puerto Rican base is an outerpost guardian of the Panama Canal. "It was not unusual to walk into the officers' mess and find fliers and other personnel from every one of the Allied nations eating at the same table," Lt. Schultz recalled. "The base was actually a Grand Central of the air. "Our enlisted men were largely replaced by civilians trained in depots similar to the Hill Field depot here in the states, and a large supply of Puerto Rican native labor was utilized to relieve manpower shortage," the officer related. "The natives served as warehouse men, clerks, typists, and on the auxiliary guard detachment" Lieutenant Schultz and his wife make their home at Ogden. The officers home originally was in . 6 Wednesday March I, 1944 6. the next national headache Gustaf Spong shown in the usual dynamic plexion as ruddy as a Jonathan A discussion of current event in apple. "In about 1936 or '37 I decided Iowa, piano numbers of Anton to retire," he said. "I was workDvorak, and a book review will be featured on the program of the ing for an Ogden construction Iowa club at its regular meeting at company at the time. "Then the war came along and 2:30 Sunday afternoon, March 5, I figured my place was in war in the southeast recreation hall at 4 V. HMcrest work, so here I am. Mrs. Elliott, a former member of Up until 1920 Spong operated a the Iowa state legislature, will dis ranch in Kilgore, Idaho, and cuss current events on Capitol Hill raised livestock. In 1920 he came of. Des Moines, to Salt Lake City, Utah, stayed and Charles E. about nine months and moved to Whiting, pianist, will present "New World Symphony" and "Stabat Ma Ogden where he has been living ter" by Dvorak. The story of ever since. Dvorak's life, which began in Iowa, He came to this country from Ruth Spencer Anderson, super Vesteras, Sweden, when will be told by Robert Campbell a lad of Miss Nellie B. Nichols will review visor of women's recreation activi 16. At 14 he had gone to work in ties, was in charge of arrangements one of that country's big steel ''One Foot In Heaven." for the entertainment mills. In the matter of hobbies: "Well," he says, "I guess I'd have to call it fishing and hunting, too." He's planning some big trips after the war. Most of it he does in Idaho. m e recreHe says about his ation, "I suppose you'd have to put down just poking around at home. Movies? Oh, they're all right, I ,f ., 4;, guess, but I always go to sleep. There's no profit in that." About two years ago Spong did some prospecting in Montana on a claim owned by a relative. "I panned some of the best gold you ever saw, my boy," he said, smiling with pleasure. "We only had to dig a few feet "I bought quite a few bonds durthe bond drive," he said, "but ing our pfcjj Ml I couldn't tell you how many, I'd Last Saturday night onW 9? have to count 'em." happened He has one daughter living in rapher "JS Ramaey Am., up AT THE DANCE For Hill Fielders In Salt Lake City hurt Satand one son in Ogden. urday night were, left, Mr. and Mrs. Chuck (Investigator) Wheeler Virginia His is in the armed o. Viang w. nd Mr. and Mrs. Jens (Investigator) Patterson. forces. Iowa Club to Fete Composer A. Dvorak Dancing life-siz- Intermission Time off-tim- V A5 ... son-in-la- w OASC Needs Your Hete io KftmnJT JL -:-- 'Emm -, Flvim J y |