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Show The Hillfielder narctue Millions of Items her slacks the other day, shelved her phobias, and set out on a all Several million items for retypes of aircraft have been the by paired and manufactured section, manufacture and repair maintenance division, since it first came into existence, about W. January, 1942, states John superintendCampbell, section tour which carried her half way across the continent to Detroit. Motive: to discover "how the other half lives." Last week she returned from her jaunt full of bravery and banter, and as skeptical of the pillowed softness of an ordinary bed as a returning GI. She has memories of roughing it during the day and stopping at the swankiest hotels little towns could offer for the night all in all rather dismal affairs of a long ride in a grain truck and a moving van. In a dilapidated fruit truck she stretch into rode for a fifty-mil- e Ilene Nickerson the sunset while the driver chanted the ballad of Dan McGrew. Mainstays of her trip: jumbo helpings of ice cream; no schedules. e mid-weste- ent. MUSIC MASTER - - :::::::::::::; " down-to-ear- th BOOGIE BANDSMAN IRWIN T. TODD, engine repairman by day and bandsman by ? s night, is no freshman when it comes to pounding out the jive on the ivories. Grasping the rudi-- . ments of the piano when he was only eight years old, he has tus- -' sled with major and minors until he is something of a modest king of the keyboard. Three times a week he plays at the Clover Club and between times he gives out with a little fireside syncopation. He can play it sweet or he can make it sizzle, but he's willing to jump on the bandwagon any day for red hot jazz. His favorites are Tommy Dorsey and Harry James; his ambition: to be able to play like Goodman Teddy Wilson. old-time- Irwin T. Todd r, DOUBLE OR NOTHING JOHN TEE, Denver justice of the peace turned warehouse Inspector, was one of the first men at Hill Field to rate a cash award with his suggestion for a prop governor stand. Not to be outdone, his wife, Margaret Tee, drafting and blueprint clerk, shortly after received an award for a blueprint stand. Last week Tee popped with a couple of stanzas of poetry and it may be that Mrs. Tee will go Jyrical on us too at least, she has the arty urge being a member of the Ogden Art League and a former art teacher. FAR AND NEAR THOMAS E. ADAMSON, janitor chief, sometimes dubbed the "plain man's Edison," put out the welcome mat the other day for merchant marine son, Robert, who has his been out in the Pacific three times during the roughest and tough st part of the war, and plans to go out again. Adamson's other ar from home piloting a p.S4 SOn, Lt. Lloyd TAdamsnn. twenty-one-year-o- ld, Itillf SU Vi cou jut items 200,000 day. section manufactures This component parts and assemblies for any type of aircraft from sheet metal, raw stocks and plastics, etc., plates, various metal rn horse,-"Babe,- r ttioiK c were turned out in April of this year alone nearly 8,000 each LYNN J. LAWRENCE, tall, spruce, giver of advice in civilian in personnel last Thursday bid adieu to his private little cubicle left for and relations employe $ '. 3 Nyssa, Ore., where he win act as supervisor of music in a public school. During the fifteen months he's been at Hill Field, he's ironed out hundreds of problems with professional aplomb has conducted investigations, presided over discharges and disciplinary actions, and given employes' appeals and complaints a willing ear. Now he's going to brush up on his virtuosity as a violinist, cellist, flutist, and saxophonist. Past musicianship: played three seasons with the Utah State Symphony orchestra; studied with Maestro Henri Teminaka in San Francisco. He confesses to a liking for the moderns, particularly Lynn J. Lawrence Grofe and Gershwin. HI, BABE! LARNA NORTH, officially known as the attractive secretary to the miscellaneous repair duo, Bradley and Kelty, is less pub licly known as an expert horsemmmmmmmmmmmmmm woman. But the truth of the & ::::: matter is that she's been at home in the saddle ever since she was old enough to hold the reins. The other day she put her American saddle through the paces at the Salt Lake County Fair, and shortly before that she rode during the Covered Wagon Days celebration. Horses should be good pals, she says, and asserts that her horse is on as intimate terms with her as a lap dog. She has only to call, "Hi Babe," or some such trifle and "Babe" is at her beck and call. She owns an English riding habit but prefers the Lama North "comfyness" of levis and a checkered shirt, Equestrian delight: to go for an autumn can- ter in the hills. ::!::::::::::::::::::;r:::::x:::::::::::::: than More S Foreman Adds Safety Featurl For Planes Are Built or Repaired THUMBS UP ILENE NICKERSON, spirited miss in miscellaneous repair with more than a touch of high explosive in her nature, donned - or D By Polly McQuown hitch-hik- Vtcml Mamutfactuire, Repair Sectio Mas Built impressive Record m adSina September 12 parts, manufactures any item made from wood, and repairs items removed from aircraft due to damage or excess wear. Employes of this section, numbering 1,131 at the peak of war production, but now totaling 563, have performed a vital role in the war effort and in achieving victory over our enemies, according to D. D. Flegal, assistant superintendent. Section Furnishes Replacements Manufacture and repair section has had a major responsibility in manufacturing and repairing all items and parts for all the different types of aircraft repaired at Hill Field. As the planes arrive for overhaul ing and repair, employes in this section receive all damaged items from th airplane repair section and return new manu factured or repaired parts, to this section for installation. Two of the big projects on which manufacture and repair did an outstanding job were the P-LibThunderbolt and B-erator lines, states Superintend ent Campbell, who came to Hill Field from San Antonio in March of 1942. In addition, emre ployes have maintained, paired, restored and modified all parts assemblies and sub-a- s semblies for the following planes: 24 47 B-2- 5s, P-3- 9s, B-2- 6s, A-2- 0s, C-4- 7s, P-4- 0s, C-4- 6s and um"! m ... A new and speedier method of repairing generators is in use in the electrical branch of the miscellaneous repair section at Hill Field, headquarters of the Ogden Air Technical Service Command. Phillip L. Adrian, generator line foreman there, invented a generator holding fixture which speeds up the work. He received an award of $225 for this device under the suggestion award program. The old method of repair con sisted of disassembling the generator, then holding it firmly with one hand to keep it from moving or slipping off the work mter-coole- V; ;i ng ,L ffj ewe I or 10, kit Hi Generator Holdirm Fiyfu Facilitates Job of Repaii' er best-looki- Jllllilll THE INVENTOR Of a new generator holding fixture, L. Adrian, foreman of the generator line in the electrical of the miscellaneous repair section, is shown instructing Ivy Wongan of Ogden, on its use. The fixture was da to hold the generator firmly in place adding greater safe! convenience. This was part of the big job of keeping all aircraft repaired at OATSC in service and in combat areas. This section is composed of nine branches each with an important role to play in the Army Air Forces "KeeD 'Em Flying" program throughout the war. Wood Mill Branch The wood mill branch has been responsible for the manufacture, repair, modification and reclaiming of wooden items. such as jigs, forms, benches, pat- repaired or modified by the terns, landing skis, engine ship sheet metal branch. worked ping ooxes, bins and trays, onThe plexiglass branch to airplexiglass aircraft peculiar shelving, parts, propel lers, ana wings, fuselages and craft and vehicles and any other similar items. surfaces. The casting of aircraft, ve Manufacture. reDair and mod ification of metal items, such as hicle, powered ground equip ment and other parts, and per tools, fixtures, jigs, shop equipment, hardware, hydraulic jacks, forming blacksmith work as re-of ana aircrait parts, .have been quired for the same type is the job of the accomplished by the machine equipmentbranch. foundry snop branch. The welding and heat-tre- at The tubing and cable branch branch had charge of the ing did the same type of work and heat treatment of welding manufactured, renaired. and work not specifically designatinouuiea a numoer of items an- - ed for performance special pucaDie to aircrait, vehicles and ized shop sections. by eauinment powered ground such as rigid conduits, fuel and Plating Branch's forResponsibility sandblasting oil lines, hydraulic lines, va- allResponsibility items and all plating except cuum lines, anti-iclines, carbon dioxide lines, airplane and projectswasassigned to specialized handled by the plat shops engine control cables and cool ing branch. ant lines. and Repair, ofmodification Job of Sheet Metal maintenance items applicable Wings, fuselages and surfaces. to aircraft, such as coolant ra cownng and fairing, exhaust diators, oil coolers, metal tanks, stacks, rs ducts, shields and other th.n those snroucs, exhaust muffs, doors, integral with 'aircraft, airplane hatches, floors, brackets, tanks smoke tanks, and aftercoolers, and brackets are snmo nt tu was done by the metal tank and sheet metal items manufactured, radiator branch. transport. Adamson himself has received nine suggestion cash ..capcu up eigmy-nin- e aays of annual leave. CALIFORNIA HERE I COME DPAm,,m. T : jojmm, Deuer Known to her Intimates as 0 S7,a party Friday niht. SePt. 24, bid fellow em- lVo on the and then gracefully follwing dtre T bowed Hill Field nicturivn Monday aaet..i ,.,utu months service at OATSC. She left by plane ni"? for Woodbury college in California ir c ; a rates as chief juggler of army regulations fnn P!?niS'' (1) uerk in supply. (2) She reputedly :hasr ;"v"T,4av; I v ""llt;f"onsfiles on the field. B-1- 7s. fin j? ot bench, while the other haij used to unscrew the nuti also to manipulate the airl sure control. With the new device, th erator is locked firmly in and in any desired posita springs, while the air pri release is manipulated by bar which is convenient! cated near the feet of the er. A bicycle cnam coma encircles the generator, set Kir greater stability. The holder was conceit m the shoe and applied ary of 1945 by Adrian, for am of Montrose, Colorado, of Bountiful, Utah. Post Office Under (nil Opei New Sched The branch post officl cated in the OATSC heaij ters building, started x a new schedule M Henceforth the post officf be open on week days frcrt a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and on to 12 days from 8:30 a.m. De On Sundays it will all day. BUSINESS The i. BOOKLET GIS 8 businfl GI .5norfiv( about to sTart out th. on v- - Eunie ui i" i of Department has nreoared varh vear SSSS4."M? Iff . nesses are siai statPs with an equal cancellations because bling biocKs avoided. The Wle jet is Your ating numi y f" Own business, Wanteds FOR SALE Small good business. cafe. FOR SALt;nf, with two apartmc x i 33 ington on lot ana e coops Vi - - Call J J |