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Show ar's Herd Dead Commemorated Memorial Day About the Field In five Minutes Memory of Service Men wher. hTwa. serious S'tS stS illness of his iU. Major iTfkwp in charge of the Si HILL, FIELD, OGDEN, UTAH critically JUNE Hill Field Pauses In Honor of All Who Gave Up Lives 2, 1943 Born May 21, to E. BWreage a bouncing boY ---a : WEDNESDAY, and Mrs. James jT Bue Ordnance, Hill Field paused briefly from, Its war work on both Sunday and Monday to pay homage to the nations dead . . . and to remember the new thousands of graves of taby boy. . iwvni TWINS, T. Bain, -- nnd Unit born Ulc 15 Rav- - - shift supervisor of ffV,0, rtf twin riria. ' ' May7 American fighting men which in the past year and a half marked the course of the war in fronts throughout the world. On Sunday the flag hung at half mast until noon when it was raised. At Post Chapel at eleven o'clock Sunday morning there was a special union Memorial day serv ice conducted by Chaplains Curtis and Hemans, with a church parade and the 408th Army Air Force band, Hill Fields own, participating in w trr.ouuJ EKGAGED Miss Rouwn irf warehouse 20, to Keith Holbrook . ecti ill wc jEAVE tatW John P. Waisn Jf absence for about June 5. Cftmi' 'teat be, m e mm Second ueuunam ve win nave a 14 days starting OFFICERS Are away expect to reta few days. an army mission, urn to this field in on the service. Colonel Ed- They are: Lieutenant ward A. Sterling, Major Robert Hi Lieutenants Second Henry Earing, T Lazelere and Edward Urbanski, nd CWO Henry T. Lomax. FSdd tlond a. r, and Swing shift learned fire pretention tactics at special meetings it OASC Headquarters building HKE TRAINING working civilians ect sska, ecte hit Thursday night. ffk SSKH, First JO, men a leave of absence. Meyer buaj Jane S ever, ) no host Payroll and Records Branch Formed to Consolidate Task Second lied tactics, Orlando, FUu, course. D-da- y for a RECOVERING Miss Genevieve Van Derek, depot feature writer, h recuperating at her home, 351 L street in Salt Lake City, from Va operation at the Holy Cross jtapftsL She will return in about yree weeks to resume her duties tne Public Relations office. ACTIVITY It warehouse 42 storage bins. MOVED ouse 49 baggage, awaiting Carpenter crews are building new Workers in wareh- have moved, bag and to warehouse 54 and' are arrival of the new 6 C-4- material TRANSFERRED Mrs. Arthur was was transferred to ware house 00 from warehouse 23. If . el ILL Gertrude Moore of warehouse is quite ill at her home in Salt ltd til Consolidation of various units handling payroll records an interview. The new branch is in the Civilian Section of the Personnel and Train ing Division, and is under the juris rt diction of . Colonel John S. and Lieutenant Colonel Leonard F. Carter. Aiding Captain Hagerty in operation of the new branch is First Lieutenant William H. Bannard and Thomas L. civilian supervisor and chief clerk. New procedures are being in ' augurated with the view to the more efficient preparation of pay rolls and the elimination of many ' of the irregularities and discrepancies of the past, Captain Hagerty said. War Captain Hagerty is a World in that war. In I veteran,lifea pilot he was a certified civilian public accountant in Boston, Mass. He is new to Hill Jfieid, navmg recently come here after service in California and Iowa. Lieutenant Bannard has for 11 years been an expert in designing Mac-Tagga- army. Mr. McClanahan is also a veteran the last war, and has been en of m.v..... on payroll work for the govgaged has ernment for 26 years, spending 24 a transfer from tne Antonio Air Depot. San them at of '"-mj nay snuts. He was at Tampa, Fla., and At Ga., before coming to iw ALIGNMENT Major Charles lanta, March of this year. Field in Englehart, former base flight oeon, to Medical Section, OASC. PUSH TERMINAL PLANS RETURNED Prom an army lieutenant Colonel Thomas L. , vinww, xNeon ana sioux James returns to this field today Iowa: Lieutenant hllyOnion! or tomorrow from a trip to WashOhio, ington, D. C, and Dayton, oiecnman. in connection with the construction new air freight terminal .10 MAINTENANCE Assirned of the building. OASrf. teiiT- -f ruay were aecond Ueu- - last oKinF.TfTTP ln.Jtc JrGndleton nf married shortly. She t bit s aM cm, ud - - tm tkt ft 3 a two-roo- m To the signal sec- titmWt"yesterday was Second ut a Jtenant Norman tbt K. Cut Lunch Period To Thirty Minutes LEAVES HILL FIELD . . . After over two years of service here during which he saw Ogden Air Depot grow from an idea to one of the largest units of the Air Service Command, Colonel Russell J. Minty has been transferred to the Sacramento Air Service Command. The transfer of Colonel Russell J. Minty, maintenance official at Hill Field since February, 1941, to The lunch period for civilians was reduced from 40 to 30 minutes, effective last Saturday, ac cording to an order issued by Colonel Berman. Names of civilians violating the new directive will be reported to the Chief Civilian Personnel Section for disciplinary action. A change in the closing time of shifts also was made known at the same time. The schedule for the different shifts is now as fol . Sacramento Air Service Command was announced last Friday by lows: a. m. four White: Seven-thirt- y Colonel Morris Berman, command- p. m. Blue: Three-fift- y ' p. m. twelve-ing officer of Ogden Air Service twenty a.m. Command. Red: Eleven-te- n p. m. seven- Colonel Minty was engineering a. m. forty officer during the years t growth of the Ogden Air Depot. With the organization of the command area earlier this year, he became chief of the maintenance section, and remained so until succeeded by Colonel Manning Tillery a - few weeks ago. At the time of his A new deep well and booster transfer, the colonel was chief of pumps have been added to former the control section for this area. Colonel Minty served as a flying facilities for supplying Hill Field water, acording to Lieutenant officer at Hawaii, Wright Field, with Colonel David P. Thomas, chief Selfridge Field and the Fairfield of Utilities Division. Air Depot over a perior of years new well and pumps are The as his commissioning following in the same area as the ones alpilot in 1923. ready in use, and will serve the western storage area on the field and also Sahara Village, the hew housing project just' west of the field. The new facilities will be of particular value in fire protection for the storage area. New Deep Well and . Pumps Added Here Biern- - PHONE NUMBERS Four digit telephone numbers have been added to extensions on Hill Field. The extension numbers are in the 8200, 8300 and 8400 groups and may be reached by direct dialing from any telephone on the field. Until the new base telephone directory is distributed by the signal office, care should be exercised not to confuse the four digit numbers with telephones in Ogden and Salt Lake. FOUR-DIGI- T Cafeteria Meeting Wl ior d tion. hi aervico 8, attMij st Vr 5 Change Is Also Made In Closing Time Of Working Shifts Gift to Hospital Ogden Junior Red Cross in Valuable " " D. Miiler. Hill Field workers in need of more adequate housing will soon have a chance to move into new one- - and apartments, be ginning June 30, it was announcedof by Special Projects Branch Civilian Personnel. Currently under construction is a new federal public housing project known as Sahara Village, opposite tne soutn gate. When finally completed the village will contain 600 dwelling units. The first 200 units will be open for occupancy on June 30; the second 200 will be ready on July 30 and the remaining 200 units will be completed August 15. AuDlication for space in these units must be filed in advance with the Housing Unit of the Special Proiects Branch. Applications are now being taken, and the Housing Unit urges that all interested em' ployes file immediately. NAVY HAS SEVEN FLEETS Secretary Frank Knox announced that the navy, which had three fleets before Pearl Harbor, now has seven. Speculation has it that they were Atlantic, Pacific, soutn ra cific, South Atlantic, European, Southwest Pacific and Southeast Pacific. ve job. First 200 Sahara Village Units to Be Ready June 30 Space Applications Now Being Taken As Work Is Bushed eleven-forty-fi- Inter-mounta- in under one organization knownr as the Payroll and Records Branch, is expected to greatly increase efficiency, Captain Lieutenant William J. Hagerty, officer in charge, stated yesterday in to left here arrive at the AAF school of app- Fox has Transferred V" FORWARD Granted lieutenant Loren J. Brent-Bnge- r, for 11 days, effective June SCHOOL tssiit f of job . LOOKING to Officers and men and civilians dedicated the day to work at the war effort, the best to serve the cause of those who have already died in defense of their country. On Monday a Memorial day program was broadcast from the USO stage in downtown Ogden from eleven-thirt- y to a. m. over the facilities of station KLO and tke Associated network. Music was provided by the Hill Field band and Chaplain Spence asked for comfort to those who have been bereaved by the tragedy of war. With these brief intermissions, Hill Field went ahead with its war y. vet liiursday ascus cafeteria con or speeding up ri??? em tuts Thursday, hy dePrtmental to.t!'. v)n t h akJn . tte tftwta, Whenev. .. . J" yusaioie. ,Thee?v!?,Ea AS 7". t ka. repre-.Sn,e'.-d. The uPfn-- ? ne,a 1Mt t- ?ne wnen committee cap- "nprovements. w v has been na rvice ftaHMKw-iBfi--S"- writes a"1p time, as many and let c-- mP Newspaper Ser-- . .. ui ...iiuiin. imm frutnni And confined to thn " hoanltal would require. A. a gift from the Ogden estimated to speed up recovery by 50 per cent In point post wishes to express IU appreciation. nti ft 'JJIL r5de4equipm"nt teajwg by tne ugaen'fiiy, tne station nospitai couia not machine whlchfpresen acquire the machine through army T ioiifennnt wm ut in half the time necessary Colonel Theodore u. channels. The gift was very greatly apmedical secfor recuperation after setting of Bedwell, chief of thethe from by the hospital staff and preciated gift OASC, posacepted the tion broken bones is now in and Ira Paul of the officials of this military post The Burnett folArlyn session of the Base hospital Red Cross council cost of the machine was said to at the Ogden Junior be over $350. limited of its lowing a brief ceremony Because it was hospital last week when A MUCH MAIL i SETS FRACTURES . may now expect to be fracture-settin- g bed-capa- c- MILLION LIGHTERS TO ARMY The army exchange service has purchased a million lighters which, require no fuel and give off no flame for sale to troops overseas. The lighters have chemically impregnated wicks, holders and flints. When ignited, the wick glows, but does not flame. Wind only makes it glow more and light all the |