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Show s Friday THE HILL TOP TIMES Page 4 iff" Hill Employees Pin-Baile- Injured on Base Five disabline accidents were sustained by civilian employees during August 1948 according to the report of the grouna saieiy section at Hill Air Force Base. One disabling injury was also sustained by an enlisted man of the field. By Les A supervisor or a foreman stands upon the first rung of trie executive ladder. Because of certain valuable personal qualities, he has been selected to direct the work of other employees. Unfortunately, in the average case he enters upon this phase of work uninstructed in the art of executive leadership and works into it so gradually that he may not realize that his functions as an executive have become markedly different from those of an employee without authority. Sometimes an employee is selected for a position of authority merely because he is a more skillful workman than his neighbors, and in such a case the choice may prove to be an unwise one. It is important to pick the man for deeper reasons than this; for the intelligence of the foreman, and his vision, leadership, executive qualities, and ability to interpret the principles of the concern that he represents may be highly important factors in the profit or loss of a business, and in the prestige, smooth functioning, efficiency, economy, and ultimate success or failure of the organization. We read of the "man behind the plow" of the lowliest laborer of the capitalist, the professional man, the artist, and the scientist. All are eulogized. But O, for the skill of the Hoosier Poet, to picture in homely verse the real key man of industry the hub of the masses the foreman! Human intelligence is valuable only as it is used. We are told that not more than one part of the average brain capacity is actively employed at any one time. If this is true, then a man may become an outstanding success by putting just a bit more of that "gray matter" to work than does his neighbor. In no place or one-thousan- - Norton in the world is there a better opportunity to show results and win success, than in foreman-shiposition p. Common sense, logic, initiative, and acceptance of responsibility are all that are required. We take loyalty, knowledge of the job,( and work capacity for granted, for without them no man has any right to accept wages or salary from an employer. Thousands of employers have though and said, at times: "Show me a man who does what he is told, and does it intelligently, and I'll show you a man who will be successful." Likewise, I say: "Give me a foreman who can accept responsibility, and I'll show you a man who will get results." What is there about responsibility that makes it so hard to accept? Nothing but unwarranted fear fear of failure, fear of consequences. It is true that every man who tries may fail, and that every man who leads must accept the consequences. Bear in mind, however, that straddling the - fence gets us no where, and that in accepting re sponsibility we at least expose ourselves to the probability of winning sometimes; and when we do win, the consequences that we were so afraid of turn out to be happy ones. Fear to accept responsibility is rank pessimism. If we are afraid, it is because we think we can't win. The class, composed mainly of veterans, was taking a psychology exam. One bright boy, who literally knew all the answers, began tapping them out in Morse code. But seconds later an answering tapping came from the instructor's desk. "Too bad, boys; I was Mundelein in the army, too." College Review. The enlisted man was injured while attempting to slide into second base at a softball game. His spikes caught in the hard ground, causing him to be thrown off balance and fracturing his right ankle. On the civilian side of the roster, broken toes, injuries include banged-u- p legs, bruised heads, and sore eyes. An employee of aircraft in his repair caught a metal chip out a while drilling right eye broken screw. Investigation showed that the employee had lost the sight of his right eye when just 12 years of age, and luckily, or the chip struck his right eye, causing infection rather than total blindness. Another of aircraft repair's workers was injured while closing the overhead door in Warehouse No. 17. He failed to stand clear of the descending door and it fractured his toes. In the flight test section, three employees were struck on the side of their heads by an aircraft tow bar. The tow bar was laying cross wise on the grill guard at the rear of the cletrac seat upon which the three workers were riding when the bar hit the corner of a hangar door. The sweep of the tow bar struck all three employees; how ever, only one was injured serious ly enough to cause loss of time on the job. The other two disabling acci dents during the month were caused by maintenance service section employees. A plant elec trician while stepping from one ceiling joist to another, stepped on some BX cable, slipped, and fell through the ceiling. He sus tained injuries of both leers when he crashed to the concrete floor un-lucki- 12 feet below. The other injured employee lost 12 hours of working time because his right eye was damaged when he drove his tug past the 9 wash rack and foreign objects were blown into his eye by the force from the spray being used to clean the aircraft. Orchard Club Between OH end New Arena! Entrances B-2- Everyone in a small town knows the news; they read the paper just to see if the editor gets it printed correctly. Eugene Baker, editor, Gorman (Tex) IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE in t Chicken BEER & Stoak Dinners - SANDWICHES - POP THE HILL TOP TIMES . . . It Is A Good Buy for Your Aa Dollar It Covers OVER A $1,000,000 MONTHLY PAYROLL AT HILL AFB It Is Distributed Each Pay Day It Is a Concentrated Market Of Over 4500 Waco Earners Call Advertising Representative JIM PETERSON OPEN 9 A. M. TILL 1 A. it Air Conditioned Phone Ogden September 17, at Peak As rs By Hugh Stewart Hill Air Force Base men's bowling league got underwav Monday, 13 Sept., in what promises to be the most successful season since its origin seven years ago. With twenty teams offi cially entered, the Hilltop league is now the largest in the citv of Ogden and second to none in enthusiasm. Unlike fancy diving, which is definitely known to have ori ginated in Scotland with the introduction of toll bridges, bowl! ing's inception is still vague and obscured. Some authorities be! lieve Rip Van Winkle and the Xittle Men of the Mountains started the whole bloom in' business. They add further, that while these Catskillian keglers played nine pines, inflationary tendencies after the Indian uprising caused a tenth pin to be added. So, using ten pins rather than the original nine, the following teams will vie for fame and prizes. TEAM CAPTAIN TEAM CAPTADy S. Johnson METAL MAULERS D. McCabe SKYMASTERS R. Killian GREMLINS COMMANDOS H. Aste H. DeBoer FLIGHT TESTERS Val Glover TIN TWISTERS SECURITY FIVE W. Nevilles HAVOCS D. Romano MARAUDERS Paul Groff AIR INSTALTNS. J. Hogge INVENTORY J. Davis S. Bernard LIGHTNINGS SUPER SONICS D. Bues Ray White JOLTERS THUNDERBOLTS Al Agee SUPERFORTS J. Stokes BLACK WIDOWS THUNDER JETS P. Cole S. Roach MUSTANGS G. Williams Lt. Overlee MNTN. SERVICE zme?f?43 i " - above composite photo graphically epitomizes the metric progress of air machines and air power. Though the background of sky re- The mains the samerthe Air Force has come a long way from the Wright Brothers' airplane (circa 1908) and today's Boeing XB-4- V.- f" . -f miDtm-Wii-- li.-- f nrtnlri- l.tf 'Stratojet". 7 It's A Long Way to Tiperary - but it isn't far to the Tender Fried Chicken, Satisfying Steaks, Delicious Jumbo Shrimp, et cetera, et cetera, at the Circle Inn. SO Come On In or, Come On Out and you'll find out at the 4931 CIRCLE INN SANDWICHES Garner's Phone SUNSET, UT. 00 Roy, Utah f AT TOO LOCATIONS Opposite Hill Field Main Gate Hilltop Service Mountain oad & Hill Field Road III YES SIR! CHUILE STEAKS AND Hiway 91 ii ISt; Fall Bowling Underway LakevJew Inn nil 1948 No Charge for Cashing Gov't Checks Ethyl 25c Regular 1 st Grade 23c Phillips "66" Credit Cards Honored |