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Show The Hillfietder, OATSC Sffrives to Assign Job Right Right Man to Henrie Miller Device Aids Testing Of Engines By Due to the present critical shortage of manpower, the talents and abilities of all civilian employes and military personnel will A completely automatic elecbe used as efficiently as possible at Ogden Air Technical Service trical control system designed Command as changes are made and certain types of work are to to costly damage on prevent enlarged in scope in line with developments in the Pacific, expensive . aircraft engines according to Maj. William G. Snyder, chief of the Control Sec- test and to provide safety meastion, personnel and base services division. ures for operators has recently With manpower quotas being decreased, personnel manageinstalled in one of the ment is a problem affecting every employe, enlisted man and been test cells at OATSC. engine officer at Hill Field. Maj. Snyder states that there is a place for The installation of this foolevery employe at OATSC and as the work loads are shifted or proof equipment on a second increased, and activities become more specialized every possible cell and effort will be made to utilize the talents of every individual. the is nearing completion, io intends department have the entire test block of 12 cells automatically controlled as soon as the instrument panelscan be set up. The new system protects the valuable $12,000 engines against the inaccuracies of manual con trol. The operators govern the entire test running of the engines with a high degree of pre cision by manipulating a series of levers and switches on an instrument panel. Any irregularities in the running of the engine are instantly flashed to the operator through a group of colored lights. If he is unable to shut off the engine immediately, the electrical system cuts it out automatically. Method Saves Tims This accurate method of control virtually eliminates any chance of damage to engines on the test block and will result s. in the saving of many manufacturThe system, ENLISTED PERSONNEL At Hill Field being interviewed for ll proper assignment. Here Cpl. Mitchell M. Harasimowicz questions ed by the Minneapolis-Honeywecontrols and Co., regulates Cpl. John R. Dowlers, left, and Cpl. Clarence Clark discusses clasoil pressure and temperature, sification with Pfc. James C. Cole. On the job interviews are simi- water and gas flow, and prolarly conducted by the military classification branch. vides a smoother, more accurate test of the engine. Oil temOverstaffing of some activities and changing of work loads will perature is controlled within one undoubtedly result in the necessity of transferring some per- half of a degree. Any variation sonnel. However, Maj." Snyder emphasizes the fact that each from safe limits snaps on the individual will be transferred according to his desires and abil- warning lights which pinpoint ities, and at an equal wage or increase in earnings. the trouble. Since efficiency is paramount and maximum utilization of Another tedious job which has personnel is imperative if we are to accomplish our mission and been eliminated by the adophelp to end the war in the shortest possible time, applied per- tion of this system is the switchsonnel management is a subject that is going to receive much ing of fuel during test runs. The attention at this installation and is a topic about which every- operator simply turns a dial oc-on one working or stationed at Hill Field should be concerned, ac- the control panel to vary the tane rating by switching from cording to Col. Paul W. Wolf, commanding officer. one grade of gasoline to another. Five Basic Principles This is done without interfering To achieve maximum utilization of personnel a program with the operation of the was established by the Army Air Forces. It is built on five All control valves are airengine. actiprinciples mutually beneficial to the AAF and to the individual. vated. Test 500 Engines 1. Get the right man on the right job. 2. Increase his availability for work. Engine test branch with 120 personnel ran test on 500 en3. Stimulate his will to work. gines last month. Each engine 4. Increase his capacity to produce. is subjected to a five hour and 5. Use him fully on essential tasks. fifteen minute run, beginning at The first principle of good personnel management is to 800 RPM .and building up to place every individual in the kind of job for which he or she 2700 RPM which is the maxiis best fitted. The AAF has thousands of trained classification mum takeoff power. and assignment specialists who discover, evaluate, and promote Acting assistant foreman, W. the proper utilization of the skills and capabilities of every G. Knowlden, pointed out that the time required for changing engines in a test cell at the end of a run taking down, the finished motor and setting up another has been reduced from four hours to an hour and fifteen minutes during the past three years. He attributes this and other such performances in engine test to the conscientious, hard working personnel- in the department. . man-hour- ... - I) 1 Testing Aircraft Engines """" " ... r rurxr A.ttm. assistant wtrvwT ...I.l....i ioreman in enrln. xmviriais nuiTuia orancn, is snuwu uiaiujiuiauiiK we tcvers on me instrument wnicn automatically controls operation oi aircraft engines test block. ur rt vr. Meet Your Supervisor Superintendent Has Wid Experience In Repair A typical ; ;X average American with a flair for getting things done is Patrick Buller, superintendent of the airplane redipair section in maintenance vision. Now holding one of the key positions on the field, he came here as a senior aircraft inspector in June, 1941, when this installation was hardly a skeleton of its present huge size and had only 60 employes. Quickly recognizing his ability in plane mechanics and executive talent in organization, the command assigned him to the airplane repair section as a general foreman of aircraft shops in June, 1942. In December of that year he was promoted to assistant superintendent and soon after was elevated to his present position. Buller's background qualifies him perfectly for his career at Hill Field. From ages 16 to 20 he was a machinist apprentice and from 20 to 29 he worked as an automotive mechanii several Salt Lake garaee? j.s4 ne entered the emnlovd of a Boeing Air Transport d pany in Salt Lake where hi ceived a thorough training engine overnaui lor a vear following 12 months he d as a line service mechanic Boeing, making routine aid checks and shooting troubW planes forced down in flight lie was piuinuin .111 crew chief in charge of maintenance shift with Un Air Lines shortly after ail had merged with that organ Hon. Two years later Buller red ea a uvu service appoint and assumed aircraft ma nance duties with the Ui States Army Air Corps deti ment at Salt Lake airport. worked his way up to senior craft mechanic and transfej to Hill Field in 1941. Though a native of Salt where he was born in 1908 now resides in Ogden withl Bible Classes End wife and two younger sonsj two older boys are in the an At Sahara Village services. Lt. James Buller, aj After an intensive three week lot in the air corps, has Ma course, the Vacation Bible School stationed at Carlsbad, New for the children of the Hill field ico, where he has been pilot I workers living in Sahara Village trainer bombers. S -c Thomas Buller has n closed for the season. The school held in the Sahara Village com- stationed in the South Pai is now a munity school building was for 14 months and Admiralty the Luin man nal National sponsored by the theran Council with the coop- lands. Sixteen vears of aircraft eration of the United Christian Pat Bull) Ministry which also constituted perience has givenand appre the combined Protestant effort keen knowledge tion of the industry. He int( for this section. worn, In ' charge of the school was to make it his life's suMiss Lillian Anderson who pervised all the school activities." Assisting her were two special 1 Bible workers, Miss Eleanor (Continued From Page and Miss Inez Olsen. Williams and Pvt. R. E. Also on the school staff were name r.n Williams' wife volunteer workers, Mrs. Harold lirih him nn the field. Trout, Mrs. Betty Messmer and Col. Zehrung was chiefi Miss Julia Black, all Hill fielddivision from I maintenance ers. There were 175 students enuntil i 1944. ruarv 29. rolled for the course. overseas assignment. 1- Col. Williams Ber-gend- ahl his-re- The Wolf k J$$H i by Sansone ft & is going hpariauarters the Air Technical Servicew Q mand at :an early date, rvmfprence tiuipciie in a maintenance chiefs of the a Williams Col. iv;,tv.i. fioiri i:: Enter Parades D (Continued From Page rescue eqii display of air-s. J ment. ai The parade will start j nr' ik inMcfoeden and proceedj nuim Hill Field M ington. The pants fall into xne Grant Avenue between Streets w ea i.:t ... RECLASSIFICATION and wage adjustments for some of the employees of the sheet metal branch of maintenance are being: discussed by Reuben G. Rheese. foreman, and Floyd E. Fletcher, chief analyst of the maintenance division. Miss Dorothy Breakey, an employe in the classification and wage adjustment branch, is working at the desk in the background. employe. This is because the AAF recognizes that it is wasteful not to utilize skills which required months or even years to develop. Of course the utilization of skills must be There are some types of jobs for which the number practical. of qualified personnel available exceeds the number needed. In such cases the AAF attempts to utilize an individual in a job requiring one vi ins scuuuuary skiiis. Sometimes, due to the emergency of the service. It U nppM. y to place an individual in a specific job reeardles of h! nence and training. But under the QU)XQgian3pf the AAF the effort, Jo assign .each m a ryjo participating in the pa adg be the ueanieiu Depot, ArmyTervicc pot, Ogden Arsenal General Depot and General Hospital. Housing Aid Asked A very acute ort.angctli 1 x...irf Lake-Ogd- jlWhy, ytt At a mttr of fact I cm rsthf busvl en area, the housing unit in the relations branch. oi fielder knowing thU is urged to contact r2 . J owj |