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Show The Hillfielder P.adding Change in Quarters Increas of Maintenance Ud Output Branch Finishes in By Polly September 5 arciae McQuown ' Making Parachute, Clothing Rep) lH 105,213 Jobs In Single Month FROM SEPARATIONS TO NUTRITION ' DON C SPARKS who has done everything from admonishing the young and foolish to puzzling out army regulations, gave m c neaiin eaucauun ai i boost the other day when' he began instructing classes in nutrition, food handling, and tuberculosis at post schools. But the sum total of first-ra- te jobs he's Field Hill to since held coming like the almost sounds executive. He was of a big-tisupervisor of the separations unit, supervisor of the civilian unit when personnel in that unit was in its hey-dacharge of personnel strength and training charts in the headquarters control room, an administrative assistant to civilian personnel stalwart, C. B. Burris, and a payroll consultant. A1- -Don C. Sparks together he's as familiar on the civilian or clockhouse the field as the personnel building itself where he's conducted most of his affairs. Sooner or later; almost everyone on the field has run into him a dark unassuming chap, tailor, correspondwilling to untangle regulation mumbo-jumbence, or just hand out plain advice. At the present he's secretary of the Hill Field bowling league and the Hill Field welfare council. Personal indulgence: to play a practical joke or recount an j-- - MHI1II ihlll nl iW I MMl'HKm ilili ln"1 I 1 Employes of the parachute and textile branch, miscellaneous re pair section, maintenance division, have steadily increased pro recent move duction since-the- ir from the upper floor of the north blitz hangar to the old armament repair building, states Henry P. Daross,- branch foreman. Production figures have been climbing and are still on the increase, as shown by figures for the past three months. The four units of this branch parachutes, flying clothing, miscellaneous repair, and dry cleaning and wet wash completed 96,616 jobs in May, 100,309 in June and 105,-2in July, according to Daross. WATCHING . . . Two employes put the final touches on oi This branch repairs and reparachutes being repaired in the parachute unit of the vl makes all types of flying cloth- and textile branch, is i,es uiayson, unit foreman, left. ing and equipment everything Blake is in the center and Goldie O'Heran is at the right. to make the airmen comfortable and efficient while flying. The methods used are very and include several improvements invented by branch employes. All items move through a regular production anecdote. line in "an orderly and speedy MECHANIC fashion, with each employe perLAWRENCE R. MILLARD, aircraft welder, is going to dig forming a specialized job, redeep in his dungarees sometime this week and find enough ready ports William Edwards, assistcash to purchase an airplane, it ant branch foreman. 165 Workers Employed may be rather a mongrel of its One needs only to visit this species, he says, but it makes branch, in which 165 people are no difference to him, for give employed, of which only 12 are and see the clothing and him the time and tools and he men, other items upon arrival, and can convert any later, when they come off the car, plane, truck or mo- production line just like new, to ' realize the outstanding job betorcycle into a miracle of runing performed. ning precision. At six years of And the remarkable job of in was around he age puttering these employes, most of whom his father's workshop. At ten he are middle-aged has not was driving a car. When in high gone unnoticed. women, In May of this school, he transformed an old year a most unusual honor was Chevrolet into a racer, and a given' to the parachute and texlittle later he was repairing and tile branch when a special let welding all the way from Colo- ter or commendation came from FOUR WOMEN . . . Employes of the flying clothing unit rado Springs to Harvard, Nebr. Maj. Gen. V. E. Bertrandias, parachute and textile branch, increase production by the then chief of maintenance at can he repair every Not only dye forms or dummies in applying dye to flying packe ATSC comto auto and headquarters, in by existence, airplane right they are: Betty Helms, Martha Baker, Rose Hi mand of Gen. Lester T. Maj. R. can Millard Lawrence and Lona Griffith. but he relate their complete acting commanding genlife history, for he maintains a picture gallery of his own and Miller, of eral ATSC. This was accommachine operators to go to work sent to the supply war! keeps a voluminous supply of knowledge on tap. Minor callings: panied by letters an from on without leaving their ma- for storage and shipment dare devil and speed demon; keeper of bees. air base commander who army armv air forces SO had chines. received some of the repaired the world, ' BROWN BOMBER throughout reThe dry cleaning solution from Hill clothing Field and CPL. GEORGE E. RAINEY likeable GI with a grin a mile from Daross says that the moves the natural oil from the Col. Paul W. Wolf, comon rewas in com of items of clothii Rose's sands musical must be going strong wide, Broadway, Billy clothing and this officer at OATSC. manding of other flying equipment p edy, "Carmen Jones," when the The letter from the army air stored to insure the long life neats-fo- ot into service each momn of solution A the garment. army singled him out. But even field commanding officer said, United oil, saddle soap and water is Field, saves the part: "The clothing applied though he left the bright lights in a onvernment huge one in of the was in excellent flying finishing tut and the comedy, he didn't leave in all respects, condition and money. Over a year's in to steps. comparable run the music, and soon he was do- new clothing." Suits are then dyed a natural savings would dollars. Differ Repairs color and lacquered in thousands of leather of musical his Widely ing big things a Practically booth for every uniform spray waterproofing. own. One of the biggest of these which Two large industrial gj2S through the shop was at Hill Field in 1944 when for repairs cr.or.;oi renuirps machines, which are he organized and sang with the .ork. Every patch or the dry cleaning and operated by panel THURSDAY-FRi- q Brown Bomber quartette, choc- stitched in is of a different size wet-waunder the superunit and SeDtember 7 olate - colored foursome, who shape. But the skilled hands vision of Dan Dietz and Marlin me sewing machine operaThursday Matinee made Negro spirituals almost as ui tors and other specialists in the Roberts, shift foremen, handle TCvenines 7 and I the of the all whippopular as the flight make quick work of even clothes cleaning "Our Vines Have Ti ped up Christmas cheer with shop washing, drying and me most amicult Grapes" Christmas carols, went on a big deodorizing. The clothing is a tiymg suit job. Robinson, G. is ji more Edward than to to remove bond tour, harmonized over 50 per cent air and hung up u mien is reit garet reparable, any cleaning fluid, and then KSL, KDYL, and on the Hill tunuiuonea. SATURDAY Any damaged or moves on to the inspectors. Field Variety Show. Then one worn beyond that September 8 point are sal- Parachutes Also by one the boys were shipped vaged. It is not practical Repaired Matinee 1 to re9 out. First the baritone left, then pair them. Cpl. George Rainey of under Repair Evenings 7 and parachutes the bass and later the second tenor. Now with all his bomber n, Feature Types of flying suits which the supervision of A. L. Clay-so(Double buddies gone. Sgt. Rainey is looking toward musical comedy are overhauled in the mass prounit foreman, and the misGirls Leave I "Why Ft lake. 5ni duction reas soon as tailor he's can cellaneous make and In he manufacture it rnmoln the discharged. again think's shop, under the a T.onnard meantime he's serving as: chaplain's assistant, practicing operatic supervision of Earl R. Tipton, pair unit, supervised by Ben Wesl foreman of the flying clothing Larkin, follows the same genarias. Major accomplishment: songster in five languages. "Blazing The in which 107 people are eral pattern. unit, Trail. DISNEY DOUBLE employed, are many and varied. Charles Starrett, Cal Parachutes and the numerous Mathews PFC. STEPHEN M. GOORABIAN coaxes rhythms from the There are heavy, shearling-line- d items handled by the miscellaSUNDAY-MONDor a banana winter outfits and light sum- neous unit, such as flying boots, tenor sax as easily as you'd swallow a milk-shamer clothing. Some are one winter September helmets, canvas bags split which is another way of saying that Steve knows his sharps e; others Matinee Sunday some used for and flats as well as he knows his ABCs. He has toured all over piece, luggage purposes, a have Evenings i bm zipper, others have gloves and numerous other the country in big game dance bands. But shoving saxophones half a single dozen of the metal slide items, And icn "Kiss are matethe inspected; as an impersonator that he takes his fasteners. And the w and swing aside, it's probably Temple, are needed rial is deterrepairs Shirley for, repair biggest bow. To provide a small list of his attainments; he ap even more varied. Abel mined; the various articles are TUESDAY-WEDNEpeared on the "Texaco Star Theater, Kay Kyser s Show, Hedda First Step Is Cleaning rebuilt in an efficiently organtour to coast a on coast with Betty C.nlrmhcr 11- -' The clothing is first dry cleanHopper's Hollywood program, ized way; and come off the end Grable and Rochester as Jack Benny's voice, and in the movies ed, then inspected and the bad of the assembly and repair lines Matinee Tuesda TT.ioninPf! 7 ana as the voice in Walt Disney and Merrie Melody cartoons. He im spots ripped out. Material need- looking like brand new items. Tki stranee Alia personates all the Hollywood notables, including W. C. Fields, ed for repair is attached to the iTncle Harry Ronald Coleman, and Clark Gable. Needless to say, when he gets suit, and is ready for the sewing Inspection, after which they are Sanders. Gen 11 a or he be in for week the glamor so, his discharge heading Ella Fitzgerald spot on the map namely, California where he received his first shoulder the textbooks and whip off to college this fall when he frntTDGnlY.FRIV' a as encountered a major snag. Seems that after a bandsman, where he first rated blue rib professional boost tf years September n;k bons as an entertainer, and where his list of acquaintances reads of being physically disqualified for the army, he'scouple now caught in Matinee Thursday! the draft. With the shooting all over and khaki like a Hollywood Who's Who. and beginning ttflook Evenings 7Kidd as out of date as last month's shampoo, it's I to a be little going CAUGHT IN THE DRAFT "Captain ton, tame, he admits but he reports at Fort Douglas today. 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