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Show J sessional Leaders Visit B-2- Line Inspected 4 During Brief Tour More Than 20 Bases Included In Committee's Nation-wid- e Jaunt Service CommanHiiiT for Meritorious Aw ards Submitted a ervice Years' Service, Exceptional rtfork Is Eligibility Criterion !: 10 fais. rf -a- W .- fand traininer. ' wnployes absent .during M years of civilian duty due IMuy service are also, eligible in Hie award, it was provided nr department regulations. 11 v served in the military be credited toward the jred 10 years of service. ct jmples of outstanding meri-jas enumerated lervice, by department, each of which jnr be the basis for receipt of the ji, are as follows: will On a routine Inspection trip, Major Gen. Walter H. Frank, commanding general of the Air Serv ice Command, together with members of his staff, paid a rapid visit to headquarters of the Ogden Air Service Command and to the supply and maintenance divisions here last Monday and Tuesday. Gen. Frank conferred with Brig. Gen. Morris Berman, OASC com manding-genera- l, arriving at this field about 4 p.m. Monday and leaving on Tuesday morning. Traveling by plane, he had just completed a check of other ASC performance of td tasks, setting a record of dement, and inspiring others jprove the quantity and quality Exemplary l) work performance, Initiative in devising new : Gen. Frank And Party Visit Here time ' it and yni work methods and pro-that result in substantial & 3 in manpower, time, space,and other items of proor improving A expense I r aeaitn 01 woraers, .... iOotitanding achievements In string the morale of workers x trganization unit of the war Awnt with consequent in work performance im-jat- nt leprit.de corps. D Exhibition of initiative In of employes by fcretopment' who have no supervisory im-Kleading to the of the skills of the em- - CX re-iM- ty, &t i) i of Receipt a cash award, a suggestion which re- m m a substantial economy bw of personnel, materials, 'jipraent "JSaite arraneementa for the el 's, wrvices will be announced W future, Col. Out who haven't already their war bonds pur- - JTM thrOUffh thn of Jfcrtaf October ' riajtifntlnn 1942 will announced this week. Major Gen. Walter IX Frank nds were all received . mauve UUICC (Uiu installations and depots on the out from the payroll branch December 9, while Vj"ajr' Among members of Gen. Frank's WNovember, 1942, are now ioi.fv rgs Mufor Louise Kennedy, WAC staff officer for the Air i ?red and will be SUrvlna Command, who inspected days. WAC officers and enlisted person -o- -w w tlovesWniVnt Week Zmcil on Member 8 SJL! "wrvedivisoa S?n 41,2 rep-1- 0 on the em coun coming year wU hl week. It .was yesterday by r)aMPMent tTst Mm pres- - of ""veral out-L'- m from each dl-TV- to the ex. faS?.tno,nlnMn com-- 5 s W CilT' nL J.the Mn In The P"oe. of tk Html" - Charles R. Clason, (R) Massachusetts;, and Paul J. Kilday, (D) Texas, the senior visiting member. Earlier Sunday the group had visited the Salt Lake City Army Air Base and the Army Air Base at Kearns. Over 20 air bases have been inspected by tha in its trip. The committee arrived at Hill Field at 5 p.m. Sunday evening. and was escorted to the office ef Brig. Gen. Morris Berman, where they were greeted by Lt Col. C. C. Minty, deputy commander, and oth er OASC staff officers. Gen. Berman was absent attending a meet ing of the Air Service Command generals and officers on the West Coast. The group visited the lower warehouse area, where huge stores of air corps supplies are kept; toured sections of the supply di vision's activities and was shown ON AVIATION .. . , Inspected Hill Field on through the 4 (Liberator) main Sunday. Left to right: Congressmen Thomas It. Martin, Paul J. tenance and repair line In the Col. John S. MacTaggart. Kilday, Charles R. Clason and maintenance hangars. Dinner was . ; had at the officers' club. The committee then left for St Louis. where other air base Installations will be inspected, and from there will return to Washington, D. C. In an interview with the press. Congressman Kilday, speaking for the group, stated that they were with. very favorably Impressed In a short item appearing in the what they had een in the Ogden-Sa- lt Lake area and indicated that Salt Lake Tribune last week Sec As a result of numerous com ond Lt Joseph Kozloski, chemical in their opinion Utah had great for post-wdevelop plaints against the bracket-systeofficer at Mountain Home army possibilities ment as one or the major aerial deductions income tax formerly air base, complained that "some- centers of the west of used by the payroll branch, a one at Hill Field supply depot, The committee has been on tour straight 20 per cent withholding Ogden, Utah, doesn't know the air for the past two weeks, coming here from California. tax over and above exemptions will forces have modernized." be placed into effect on the payroll It seems Lt Kozloski wrote for an M-- 4 gas mask, thinking of the period ending December 3L Most of the complaints voiced new lightweight type issued all against the bracket taxation have men overseas, and received a gas been filed by employes whose over- mask for a horse by return mail. A little sleuthing by the Hill WAC recruiting committees entime pay threw them into a higher revealed the following in listing women between the ages of tax bracket and, as a result, felt fielder formation: (1) Hill Field does not 20 and 49 for service with the they were "losing money by making issue gas masks of any type off Army Air Forces will visit Midvale, more. exDlained Capt. Kenneth A. this field; that. is. the job of the Riverton, Draper and Sandy, Utah, Gaither, chief of payroll branch, army service forces depot in Ogden for interviews Friday and Saturwhich probably issued this one; and day of this week. who made the announcement. The new method of withholding (2) an M-- 4 gas mask actually Is Lt Esther J. B. Derr and SSgt which is ob Ralph Larsen will make up the taxes, merely a computation on an made for a horse individual rather than a collective viously a horse on Kozloski. committee appearing Friday at the tax post office in Midvale and Saturbasis, doesn't alter the total out day at the post office in Draper. picture, Capt. Gaither pointed ASTP On Way Out 1st Lt Milton Harrison - and In fact, the nation's tax soexperts iuen-ticIt was reported from Washing WAC Pvt Virginia Mariana are figure the two systems are end that payroll ton last Saturday, unofficially, that slated to conduct interviews Friin the hrnnrliea were sriven their choice as the army specialized training pro. day at the Harry Page store in to which method of deduction gram (ASTP) under which some Riverton and Saturday at the post would be used in eacn msiauauon. 140.000 young men are being trained office in Sandy. Interested women are urged to as specialists in 222 colleges and universities, is to be gradually liq contact the recruiters for additional information. uidated. B-2- : Mt. Home Officer's Straight 20 Tax Now To Be Used Complaint Horse Of Different Color , . ar m al waiting at the address their orifinnl nlwra Onnf. Gaither chief of pay-irnc- n. deliv-JtMnafe- Accompanied by Lt. Cols. George Inge and R. H. Thompson of the War Department general staff, Washington, D. C, the visiting party included three congressmen, Thomas R. Martin, (R) Iowa; Recruiters Launch Drive , 1942, Bonds 23i ee WAC MacTaggart 'xa Mailed sub-committ- Washington Comes to Hill Field (employes who are eligible to e war department emblem of meritorious civilian la are this week being forwarded from the various to the commanding general, prior jon and section chiefs of arrangements for the coming citation anpletion 'joay, it was revealed by Col. John S. MacTaggart, chief ...all.' Studying the great progress made by Uncle Sam's air forces, the congressional military affairs on aviation visited the Ogden Air Service Command headquarters and supply and maintenance installations at Hill Field last Sunday evening as part of a tour which has included most of the western states. nel here. Others who accompanied uen Frank were Col. John Hargreaves, Lt. Col, Whoplnck. ,, txrfl Tl ' VVli Lt. Col. Edward Palmer Boyles, Hnf anrl T. C. J. HUgheS, ..t to They left to return neav1 Patterson Field, unio, Command, ters of the Air Service V-I- co-pil- ot. Kindling Wood Still Available at Yard - - -- leave if two or three hours toof obtain necessary are Job from the I trananort it nol,1B' annual leave may be requested. t- Soldiers And Civilians Can dance Do when . or write To have you play a bazooka, or yodel? your friends laugh you tell stories? can you better yet a radio script? if you sum it all up, opany latent talents, at your portunity is knocking And remember, oppor- door. once. This tunity knocks but of means the be may for you to the SHver the Sftropolitan, ScreenVor the Palace wood is still available Kindling . i who wish to reclamaUon the at it purchase j.i..n..fcr officialsis stated being yesterday. A small fee but em load, each for charged . a. many of purvu.. pioyes may of as they care wood the bundles -- An Appeal to RThe hear The- - is to let us that we so you auditions for a first step from of radio broadcasts Field. a If you are interested, telephone call to Series from Hill Senant C B. cial Information Bldg, pave extension youf mr 1 Levy . Spe- 827t, way Office, "- - November Safety Record Best Made in ffill Field History The best safety record ever tained by Hill Field was made last month, Capt. Robert R. Afflick, OASC safety officer, announced yesterday. Accident frequency rating for November reached the new low of '4.63 which represents the e accidents per number of worked. million October's frequency rating was 13.02. Capt. Afflick said that the trend on the depot accident has been downward since the beginning of the year. He attributed the new record to the fact that the vigorous safehere ty program being conducted is now beginning to take effect. Safety meetings are being held all over the post regularly, safety training is in full swing, and the drive to guard properlyprocesses is bearall at-4afe- ty lost-tim- man-hou- rs on-the-j- ob seby5leal - llzzLl i Dyches, chief OASC engineer, said the record was to the sincere and hon est effort on the part of all supervisors to include safety In all work, including the use of personal protective equipment where necessary and the installation and use of mechanical guards. also due Employes Commended The sincere effort by all depot employes to remain on the job six days a week was also lauded by Capt Afflick, as an important contribution to the record. The safety department wished to congratulate all supervisors and foremen for their splendid cooper ation with safety engineers during the month of November and past months. The safety engineers can only advise," said Capt Afflick. They cannot enforce safety." In the past three months, as Fag Two) main-(Conunt- , |