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Show HiNfielder 7h A Drivers of Vehicles Are Siven Tests For Reactions ' Over 100 civilian driven of notorized equipment on the field this weekend underwent test, given by the employment branch in the clockhouse, to ascertain their reactions to different driving conditions. Military personnel who operate such equipment were given the same tests on Tuesday. Final figures on the tests will be computed to learn whether women or men react more quickly to these conditions. Also these results will be studied to learn whether older men react t the same speed as young men, Test were divided into those of performance and those where to the drivers were required ' w. n i4 iq m, A life v l-'ar- aae set of write the answers to a chaufquestions. Truck drivers, fork By Polly McQuown feurs, ad high lift and those were among operators WAREHOUSE WONDERMAN given the examinations. In the performance tests inGEORGE K. HORNER, five struments were used to test vis- and a half feet of snap and ual acuity, color vision, tunnel crackle, who spent a quarter of vision, distance vision, muscular a in warehouse work e reaction steadiness and eye-fobefore ne nung time. Test administrators were his hat down in on hand to operate the various warehouse 30v devices and make a record of can give an A- -l their findings. flavor to any Class B assignThe written part included ment. Coming tests of judgment and of traffic to Hill Field in regulations. the in done was Sept. 1941 .when The work the path wasn't clockhouse under the direction all primroses, of Mrs. Edna C. Peterson, superhe did amazing visor of the testing unit in the things with enemployment branch. Dr. Vernon terprise and elF. Larson is civilian chief of the bow grease and branch. endeared him self to small and Horner tall as straight shooter and straight thinker. Since then he's been top man in branch three, an audit clerk in payroll, and a Kaysville Nimrod togged out in hunting cap and jacket. But, he declares, ."Ware, house work that's my job!" He : might be called "Jim" or "Joe" t as well as "George," for he's typical of the common man who can spin a yarn or play a hand of poker or raise chickens. With his comfy house and strawberry patch (just wait for spring) he might be in pitching for "Better Homes and Gardens" too. Short cuts to success: would rather pat employes on the back than rap them on the hand; makes each warehouse into a neat, compact universe. In the language of his confederates, he's "a good egg!? life-tim- ot mtwwaHiv mm - f& CLEONE CLEONE A. WHITMAN, who likes books better than badminHIGH-CALORIE- ... D A DEVICE TO TEST DRIVERS Is operated by Jennie Johnson as 'Madge Mechan, one of the drivers of motorized equipment ton and travel more than teacups, at Hill. Field is tested. The instrument records reaction to objects has earned a sterling name for a the lateral extremes of the subject's vision. Let this anatomical blonde k nerseit m supDECEMBER DEVASTATOR ply. Twice more the chill out of December with a smile as heart warminrr than twenty Christmas carol and the brightness which beats tinsel. ribbons and flounces she would make a regular eye openH L times, hershe's suunder the Christmas tree but then who would want the. ; proved swathed in sift wrappings. Name: Eldora Melonson. No. II perior mettle by she obviously knows her pin-u- p plunging into p's and q's. Study in meaty job compliments of Lt. Madison Geddes. ... which would stymie most WELCOME ex-pe- rts and with FROM THE emerging flying colors. As direct and unwavering as a i Mrs. Margaret Henderson Mrs. Maurine Hardison newspaper Whitman she headline, packs the same forcefulness and nets the same results with an intellectual fervor, half astuteness, half ginger. And she's as neat as one of the tailored suits she wears. Once on the Hill Field welfare council, she's been doing unofficial welfare work of her own ever since, which may mean anything from darnirfg socks to making emergency phone calls. Fortes: an uncanny knack for plotting her life so that it will run without hitches: an executive itch which makes everything spring from her finger tips with beexcellence longs to the bluestocking tradition of culture and learning, TT fi nearis anal nowers: merited a going-awa- y present of an orchid when she bowed to Cupid and said her "I do's." An honor student at the U. of U., she's still reaping honors at Hill Field. made-to-ord- er ... MONITORS AND MEMOIRS GORDON BIGELOW, who "gets the facts" as chief researcher down in warehouse 48, i is as punctual as Big Ben. Dur Mrs. Belle Rosenstein ing the thirty-tw- o Mrs. Gcraldine Rostohar. months he's WIVES AND MORE WIVES been at Hill In fact that is all the HILLFIELD-E- R found in this week's collection of "GI billfold girls." It appears Field, he's turned off lights, J from this that most Hillfield GIs are firm believers In connubial locked safes, bliss and true to the little lady each vowed to "Love, honor and rung bells, and HENDERSON (top left) is making bey." MRS. MARGARET perf o r m e d a ber home with her parents in Louisville, Ky., while her husband hundred other Pvt. Hugh C. Henderson, adds to his point total by serving with odd tasks with Sqdn. B. 4135th AAF base unit. MRS. MAURINE HARDISON a Dromotn ess (top right) has a husband in the Army and one at home too , Xz7r 7J-- which might Don't get excited, both are one and the same, Pfc. Roy R. Hardison ualify him to f Sqdn. B, 4135th. Their home is in Clearfield, Utah, so such a be doorman at thing is possible. MRS. BELLE ROSENSTEIN (lower let) came VI , 1 the to Utah with her husband, Sgt. Julius Rosenstein of Sqdn B .; Gates.""Pearly Start nd they are living in Ogden. That way she can protect him from ing his work them thar Injuns." Their home is in New York City. MRS Bigelow rprorrl Viaf1r In ROSTOHAR (lower right) is living with her parents in the late nineties when he was a Fort Worth. Texas. Her husband, pfc. Felix Rostohar. is "sweatmodel son in his father's office, ing out a discharge" with the PMP Sqdn., of the 4135th. No Texan he's would ever say Texas isn't the greatest state in the union, but she civil heaped up thirty years of service since as" postal undoubtedly finds that it Isn't the same since Pfc. Rostohar went clerk and way to war. AH this goesl Joshow that the little lady is alwav tician (he'weather bureau statisIn the Army or just a civilian. persons In your pockfbook, whetherf- cwho makes a lark of T " ' , 1 ... ifJf: wy!,.'? GFR-ALDI- . " P HOME W8& ... . 1 II 1 i ... n ji " if. i HIS tlv ' wtrlt in ts . . . , :n iiic honor iasi " ... j.0 speaxing ai me iareweii mncneuu Col. Wallace H. Williams and Col. Harold M. "Uns", guests, can be see at the extreme left in tne piciu rc. secuon ker, civilian chief of the ibie at tbe right. publications-reproductio- ns . Farewell Hold EmDlovees I Luncheon For Lt. Geaae and Members of the g the lieutenant. section in m J publications-reproductio- Mrs. Carol Geddej ns maindivision staged a fare- tenance well party Friday noon during lunch hour for the chief of the section, Lt. Madison Geddes, who is among the many officers leaving the field to be separated from the service. Honored guests of the occasion were Col. Wallace H.' Williams, Col. Harold M. deputy for T-Younger, chief of maintenance. adding up figures) and he's never fumbled. Talk of school days brings the memoirs flooding back and sends him off on a verbal binge describing the days when he studied chemistry and collected rare woods in Missouri. Otherwise he possesses eternal composure which indicates a mind at peace with itself. Aptitudes: makes facts click their heels; has a camera eye for minute details is neither 3, that and employes seated at the luncheon sectLi were JeJ table for J lowing program. Shirley Nebeker, civilunj tfJJ of the section, acted of. ceremonies and ingg Col. Williams and tato who made short theyi expressed e";y Hot for the work donj the Geddes during been on the V? Other number a a were jrni he gram Arnet an.WHfi3 ilyn t.1 a vpa in the j iicltt aoie Geddes when long-suttcr- t hfjint1 .... ....a an" - The gala affair by a committee son' Tot patriarch nor personality kid but cille as indispensable as the desks or Vietta Allen, Vera A UIV.n1I chairs themselves. gjj |