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Show Hill TOP YOUR KEY CIVILIAN REPRESENTATIVES The Vt Ben r ied from Page TIMES New Key Civilian . 1, CoL 1), around here with your AStwe got a racket. It's you Representatives inan office r 2 around life C it live the of Riley slowly ilfdope, I thought to my- - he was stranger that Varf v-- Lte - telling a his job fit necessary and today he is Q kid me into thinking he : finable. And I don't have L, to do with his job -- I don Qow his boss. I'm just anoth-- I making an "honest V tQ pay my taxes with. Qto me that looks kind .of stu-jhand the like my dog biting it. After all, the tfwas feeding ,Force is supported entirely by Congress, gj appropriated by Congress is merely a reflection of the masses, the opinions Air Force Bases Hill of each j thousand plus employees were start griping just for J:he sake that Hill was inef-fepiping nt that the taxpayers it would-b- e too long until nearly every-- i the same in the state shared lion. Then the first thing you n, Zowie! Congress lops off our uomic head and you and I are 0 mbers of the Club, dues in advance for just one year. 'antastic? Not at all. A corn- organization, club, or beer is Known dv us employees, and being wasted, 52-2- ir, or clientel. Employees of be it governmental or kely owned, should "take pride ibers outfit, boost its get a chance. it Esprit and brother, they got company and kk whenever they k Marine Corps calls Corps tars for more and better pub- - relations, Yours truly, JOHN DOOLEY Office Boy , I eputy officer i , "5 ?JL - Z: ri was made Out of He: (attending the night classes-- Lt. Col. S. Y. . ii HELLO 1 ISstfll ? 2700-poun- - ur; ta-hf- S at Stewart Firfd. cnargea up overseas from Dec get you in England, "When someone tries to base have he may ball aT. u"any in tne trcn to play lite t- h- Ym:l - r th orces. riISWS ""''tlx ! intentions." AiPi ItFII n""m 1 Tour Base "Dear Sergeant Hancock, I enjoyed the train and the plane too. I have never been in a train before, so I want to thank you for letting us ride on the train. I didn't know where you start a plane, but one of the men showed me. Sincerely, s Jack Minnock" Typical of the 36 letters received Monday by TSgt. Morck Hancock, member of Hill Air Force Base Public Information Office, is the one quoted above. letters were These "thank-you- " students of from 36 third-grad- e who School, Ogden, Washington were taken for a tour of Hill Air Force Base, Wednesday, April 6, 1949. The students, and their teacher, Mrs. Alice Ralston, were first taken for a ride on the Hill AFB shuttle train from the main clock house to warehouses near the flight line. The children were then given ln ' . '. . . iiiil AFT., wearine-- the old Verna Duncan, teiepnone headsets recently put into and the new type telephone operators' headset (right) is about two service at IIAFB. The new type headset (left), is much more nounds lighter than the old type aid in the transmission of meagS T& Tof 'the" headset! are now in operation with six more expected in the very near future. - KANSAS. WAS JUST &JONES.OF MANKATO. C!n -- noe uurM UF FLEW 1.1 ri itr Mix i nc vwwr'- -t ri.. ?BERS actTS,1HJF PHILIPPINES WITH A FLI6MT OF 7 TRUTH IS STBANSEP THAN FKTION" Tue uia rtec.n iCTFft IM T14F iureSEP6FANT. JAN. 31, 1946 AS A mr Uawah School Children 1 d nas 4 GIRL" Models Telephone Equipment ' officer B-2- How fat she is; She used to wasn't-Th- e reason is She daily doesn't. you much trouble?" "No, not much. I Chic Co-e"No matter how big the case is around here has think don't anyone shock . . it's the plates that it." out about found So said Merlin L. Rawson, This six-inc- ot IT'S EASY f at college). "Does your history give d: civ-teJ- hold-dow- . you!" deputy director foreman of the Hill Air Force of Supply Divi Base battery shop. sion, Hill AP section has charge of cleanThis Base, according storing, repairing and chargto Brig. Gen. ing, all batteries used at this base. Wm. M. Morgan, ing jobs excluded!) commanding (Personal The shop has all sizes battery general. wet of storage batteries and types C ol. Moseley of car, truck, everv type for plane, transferred from electric lift and crane employed at Boiling AF Base, thTs huere air base. Rawson said Washington, D. However, it isn't the size of the C. His first as that determines the voltage, signment there battery number of plates inside the it's was chief of the case that counts, stock control for charging 200. dif section, followed ferent size batteries are available the position in this s by .a shop. All batteries, regard-ion-re 01 !:-.- .: of amount volts, .T of supervisor the ana transportation, then Vfi. from eight to ten hours to "ni ipo of dePuty for supply. quire For instance, tne type uc Moseley has a as long record charge. in passenger cars takes just servce. In a d to the as to charge serv-eas .Prlnd- long batteries used in electric cranes. and clerk When airplanes and trucks are or me War Dept., at Hill AFB, the batteries stored 47s u from Dec. 30, 1934 un Jan. icuo are taken out, repaired, charged, central batAir Force military and stored, in this one is one orIt section. storage " to tery that is always that ofui,adjutant ganization atan Hill ffifi urea. ley rresTS ; You'll Get a Charge Supply Named April 2. 1949. - rs Two Weeks Remain In Cancer Drive d their mmmtmss SriM8' Hillfielder was If you think a chuck hole needs filling up or if you think you are in need of better lunch room facilities or if you think Jim should get a raise because John got one and he doesn't do half as much work no matter what 'your "thinks" are contact your Key V 1 Civilian representative and give tm mm f j him your ideas on how personal jibjm, min Anwil relations can be improved Or how ieTen of ISeV took over. the post can be improved in gen" 7L civu,a 'e.cie.a mmnZ reoresent Hill personnel to eral. He will carry the ball from an committee meetinir are shown uMr. there. J. C. McDonald, inspector general ' New members have been chosen to represent each department. They SUttn' dePutyToa7derrWho w,' i will serve from April 1949 to April comptroller; Merl Fowfer, baseeUutv? 1950 when elections will again be iUUa supply held. and Lee Florence, personnel & administration. The key civilian committee members are sitting up front right next to the drivers seat and if it is at all possible for requests to be Spring Sprouts granted they are the ones to do the asking. New Arrival Since 1941 when the committee was first formed, they have met with the Commanding General on Record Broken The coin containers for the April the first of each month to Cancer Drive may have missed New green shoots are not the air their Tuesday difficulties. Jf a satisfacyour attention when they were set only things that are s tory decision can't be reached dursprouting this ing the meeting then the task is out in your particular unit about two weeks ago. In case they did, spring. To prove the statement, we assigned to someone to check on. you are hereby reminded, requested hasten to quote Joe Lehner, admin- Then the improvement is put into ana urged to take a look around istrative assistant of health educa force or if it can't be a logical reason is given why it can t. for a box captioned "GIVE TO tion in the base dispensary. CONQUER CANCER," which has Newly elected and selected repa handy slot for insertion of silver Spring delivery of new models resentatives with the deat the hospital "OB" ward reached partment theytogether coins. represent are: E. C. Some fellow over in maintenance a new high on April 5 when Capt. Henderson, C. F. Hull, Inspector division saw it, and realizing the Gordon L. Jackson ushered not General's office; M. A. Niland, Wel-do- n Wooziey, Comptroller's office; urgency of said drive, inserted a one, two or three, but TEN new Paul J. Ronnfeldt, Merl Fowler, $10 bill as his share. Now, maybe all of you are not feeling quite babies into the world . . . six blue-ta- g Joseph L. Ogden, Base Executive that flush, but surely with a total special (boys) and four pink-ta- g office; L. H. Florence, Reid Moore, and Personnel Administration; of over 4,000 Hillfielders, many specials (girls). Four were born times the paltry $300 that has been almost simultaneously. "This, we George Dean, Jack Millar, Elwood Murphy, Kay Collings, Kenneth collected to date can swell the think, establishes a" record for the Hogan, Grover Monson, Directorate coffers. of Supply; Charles E. Pfeiffer, It's pay day again, and there's OB Clinic," Lehner said. Robert C. Kay, Melvin L. still two more weeks left in the Coincidental with the announce Raymond Schwartz, Donald A. J. E. Close, cancer drive, which ends April 30. ment of the 10 births came the an Meyer, Earl H. Sutton, Grant E. So, when we make a final count nouncement that Capt. Jackson, Williams, Emil A. Woodward, Diand reporting, how about digging Chief of the OB Ward for the past rectorate of Maintenance; B. F. down a little deeper and helping Pulham, Dale H. Goodwin, MATS out on a most worthy collection ten "months "will be leaving Hill & AACS; William R. Manning, Air cause, which may very well bene Field soon for McClellan AFB, Reserve detachment and Lorraine fit you or someone dear to you, Sacramento, California. Ford, public information office. fT.a-sVI- t oey During the month of March 1949 three civilian employees, all members of maintenance division, sustained disabling injuries, thus rais-- i ing the ground safety accident frequency rate to 4.16 per million man-houof exposure, as compared to 3.43 for the month of February 1919, according to a report made by Geo. E. England, safety engineer, Hill AF Base. Three employees of Hill neglected to take the necessary, precautions, and the following accidents happened. One employee while operating a power shear, placed his left index n finger under the guard of a machine When the clamp. was operated, the hold-dow- n clamp severed the tip of his finger. Time lost: Five working days. Another employee while handh section of ling a four-fo"I" beam, dropped it on his left foot, fracturing his great toe. Time lost: Almost 3 working days. The third worker, engaged in 9 aircraft was salvaging a struc arm with a on the right crane ' hook, causing compound fracture of his forearm. Time lost: 19 working days. "Remember, no job is so important, and no service is so urgent that we cannot take time to perform our work safely," England said. Chosen I to myself Working Safely Decreases at Hill a demonstration by the flight-lin- e fire department crash crew. After the fire department demonstration, the students were shown a cartoon on camouflage at theatre. Then the base training-aid- s the children were allowed to go set up for the occa thru a sion, thus ending the three-hotour, showing some of the activities of Hill Air Force Base. B-2- 9, ur In some TIIOT STARTERS spinal columns, all the bone is lumped at the top. The law gives the pedestrian the right of way, but makes no provisions for the flowers. Two can live as cheaply as one can play poker. "Baloney is flattery so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we like it." -- .. B-J- HE FOU6HT MIS WAV OUT OF THE SHIP. ONLY TO BE PKKEP UP BY THE ENEMY ANP SENT TO A JAP PRISON GAMP SGT JONES WAS LISTED AS MISSING ANP WAS POSTHUMOUSLY AWAPPEP THE PVONTHS LATER FLYING ROSS. DISTINGUISHED HE WAS FOUND IN A JAP PRISON CAnP fliV RETURNED TO HIS REJOICING FAniLY. faster mrzT7.. a cttacc ;crv.FANT WITH THE HAND MOPTHEPN LUZON. wt.. GULK SHIPS IN LINGAYEN SANK hitting ORDEPEDTOIANDATO.APK THOUGH FIELD WAS TOSSED AND BATTEBED OFF ITS COURSE BV TYPHOONS AND MAP TO BE DITCHED. IT CPACKED UP ON HITTING THE WAT EB. IN HELPING THE ES 7 THEPAPIOAAANTOESCAPE,S5T.JONES TRAPPEP IN THE SINKING BOBEK. BEAPE otfai ir.r. AS OF THE 3 --. "' APPIl.fWaT. BASE UNIT, AF - -- - JONES WAS ATTATHEP TO BOLLIN6 FIELP, WASH, D.. |