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Show 21, 1950 HILL TOP TIMES Little Gals Do a Big Job Page Reception Honors General and Mrs. N. B. Harbold ATTENTION! All Hill Fielders! The informal reception held in honor of General and Mrs. Norris B. Harbold at the officers' club The Civilian Club will CLOSED last Sunday evening was one of the most outstanding social events of Until Further the season, according to reports of those in attendance. Well over one nundred officers As soon as information is available conaccompanied, by their wives attended the reception which was or permanent closing of held to better acquaint General and cerning Mrs. Harbold with Hill AFB asYour 'CIVILIAN CLUB', you will be notified signed officers and their ladies. , In the receiving line to greet all via this publication andor the Sand Hill Sift-ing- s guests were General and Mrs. Harbold and Colonel and Mrs. James S. Sutton, with Major Albert D. Fallows making introductions. Mrs. A. D. Fallows acted as hostess for A full and complete report will be printed the reception. The reception was held in the large lounge which was explaining this action; also a financial stategaily decorated with salmon-colore- d ment will pe printed to keep you fully informed gladioli by Mrs. Sutton and Mrs. Stuart Peterson. of actions taken by your Civilian Welfare After introductions, the guests Council. retired to the garden where cocktails were served. Following the reception, officers and their wives enjoyed, a. beautiC. E. SINGLETON, Infully arranged smorgasbord. Publicity Chairman cluded on the menu were cold roast Civilian Welfare Council. roast turkey, roast pork, roast ham, baked four salmon, beef, many colorful and tasty salads, and a myriad of assorted pickles, olives, and cheeses. Hosts for the smorgasbord were Major Eugene S. (Continued from Page 2) Ciolek, Major Abraham L. Hankin, "VACATORS" FROM STAT SERVICES and Major Nolan D. Baker. They went "Red M. Roberts were assisted by Captain Janice fishing in Idaho and wore out his boots dancing. Blount, Captain Sarah B. Holmes, Dick Woolley and Bill Koldwyn are vacationing in Yellowstone Park. Verla Hansen saw the parks in Southern Utah and Yellowstone and and Lt. Helen D. Skoronski. the sights in California on a recent trip. Arlington Willis just got back from Georgia. Yellowstone Park had as guests Joe Dana, Jim Higgins and their wives. DeVoe Mayhue and family spent their vacation at the same place. Dale Morris and wife took off for Missouri II and Earl Bartlett had his vacation at home "just taking it easy." Win Cartwright turned in his resignation. He may seek active duty in the reserve, we hear. Two supply employees, Fern One of the ladies in Maintenance MCPI refuese to work overtime Eldredge and Gene Borgogno, beunless her supervisor works along with her. Could be we need more came Mr. and Mrs. at wedding of this supervisor-employe- e relationship on the field. ceremonies held June 28, at the MORE KNOTS TIED home of the bride's mother in Dale Hufstatler of the co"3t accounting branch, stat services, said Salt Lake City. For the big day, "I Do" to Donna Covey from Ogden last July 7. The couple left the bride wore navy blue organdy, for a two week honeymoon. . . . Nanette Parsons, keypunch operator, white accessories and an orchid stat services, married Byron Jensen in Elko, Nevada on June 11. corsage. After the ceremonies, a They are making their home in Ogden. wedding breakfast was held in honor of the couple at the home of the bride's sister. A short honey- in the Installations squadron. the water is Always fine! moon to Bear Lake was enjoyed by Cpl. Schneider entered the U. S. the young couple and they are Air Force in 1941 and recently remaking their home in Ogden. Gene turned from a nine months tour of is an employee of inspection and with the Berlin airlift. He inventory branch, while the new duty for the Fun of it! Mrs. Borgogno works in the stock was stationed at Fassberg, Gerfor the Health of it! control section of supply. many, and as assistant truck master, was in charge of trucks used POOL OPEN DAILY AT NOON to to haul supplies from the railAirman-of-Mont- h head to the airplanes going to Berlin. The new "Airman of the Month" has been stationed at Hill AFB at the mouth of Ogden Canyon since March 1950 and resides on the base. be " Notice. j" "''i re-openi- ng pj , . nd OVER THE HILL -- ... Lou W. Bell, and (left) Joyce S. Juhlin are two of the four girls who meet and park aircraft at Hill AFB. When e tower notifies the girls that a plane is circling the field, to land,, e of the girls jumps in the yellow jeep, drives out to the runway' d leads the plane back to the parking ramp. (Lower left), This sfure, taken from the window of a 7 airplane, shows what a ot first sees when he lands at Hill AFB. Here Joyce Juhlin, mding in front of the aircraft, signals with her arms for the plane "come ahead." (Lower right), After the plane is parked, the t wooden "chocks" from their jeep and place them in front of girls and back of the wheels. Lou Bell demonstrates just how it's done as -. a z wneei. op) jllow me" C-4- teB" II AFB Boosts "Follow-Me- " Girls ho Park Aircraft on the Field r-- Pilots who land at Hill Air Force Base for the first time are or a surprise but it will be a pleasant one. When they taxi r plane down the runway guided by a jeep, it is still routine d when a pretty girl jumps out of the jeep, runs' to the t plane, and stands in front of the whirling nroDellers eivinc levi-gla- ring instructions that's different. "What's this?" the pilot probably thinks as he peers out the liT :j. iiou lung. j.T' uJ swear i.1matII- s- a 91 x must lnave ueen overseas pit. gin there waving signals. I've - never seen that before at an Air Ee base." it It IS a girl standing in front other signals for "all cleat", "brake lis plane waving parking ta- left wheel", etc. As high as 150 planes are handled ctions. Hill Air Force Base is of the only fields in the entire by the girls at this base in a single Force that has women greet day, but a daily average for in bound and outbound planes is park all incoming planes. hese women (called "Follow around fifty, says Joyce S. Juhlin, girls, not only because they're 738 Harrison, Salt Lake City, one ig and pretty, but because of of the four girls at Hill AFB who sign printed on the back of parks planes Rain or shine, wind or snow, the r ieeD) have auite a job to do. bn the tower tells them that a girls meet and dispatch their airis circling the field to land craft without a word of complaint. "In the summertime, we really Seof the girls runs out of the climbs into her yellow jeep get a good suntan," Joyce said. "But during the winter we wear rumbles out to the runway, explane sets down and follows long red flannel underwear," claimed Lou W. Bell, 3 Victory ieen to the narking ramp. he girl then runs to the plane Road, Washington Terrace, Ogden, who has been an aircraft servicer with waving arms gives to the pilot. She for two years. "Sometimes when "chocks' out of the thermometer gets down around wooden drags cold to climb into jeep, places them in back of zero it's pretty and stand in front in front of each wheel, and an open jeep but we propellers" pins and locks in the plane's of turning extra and clothing. per, aileron, and stabilizers. wear scarves wouldn't trade my job for I Really, sne aoout tne asks pnot p Js for fuel, servicing ana re- - any other on the field." "Other Air Force bases usually men park their aircraft," says have the also puoi pe girls help Hill Claud n he gets ready to depart Fraley, base and transient After the crew has entered maintenance hangar foreman, do"but an that the girls plane, she stands in front of we have foundefficient and dependwing with a "fireball" (fire exceptionally of able job. They have a knack an pguisher) in her hands while to really keep engines are started. After re- getting the pilots eye on them while they are waving bves the chalks and pins, and the parking signals. With their m everything is clear, wave to friendly, cheerful manner, it s easy Jpilot to taxi out and take off. for the "follow me girls" to get rm signals used by the "follow the routine information from the pilot that is needed." girls are standard and EngTve landed at bases from by all pilots. Arms held high Lt. Richsays Jima," Iwo to "com means land forward waving 7 pilot, and )id." Arms crossed means "em- - ard T. Taliaferro, seen girls I've ncy stop", a signal with the thl the only place me, Believe Rimlanes. the trinr p imitating cutting the throat when welcome sight, There are It'i a mighty jns "cut engines." 1 T i Supply Couple Say "I Do! ... SWIM RAINBOW GARDENS Title Conferred GENERAL ELECTRIC and MAYTAG APPLIANCES AT Barlow Furniture Co. CLEARFIELD 17 A-3- parK-instructio- "Buy Low ns C-4- 3 - 335-J-- 3 at Barlow's" ; CPL. A. J. SCHNEIDER "Airman of the Month" honors were given to Corporal Andrew J. Schneider by Brigadier General Norris B. Harbold, commanding general, Hill Air Force Base. Cpl Schneider, a carpenter in the 25th Installations Squadron, was pre sented a silver identification brace let by General Harbold in cere monies held July 10. The "Airman of the Month" award for May was presented to Cpl. Schneider for his leadership Qualifications, alertness, conscien tious attitude, and outstanding work you're fresh out of Guam, to have the first person you see from the cockpit by a smiling, pretty girl." BANK SMOKERY Ogden' s Finest Men's Club Washington Boulevard Dial Ogden, Utah 2313-231- 5 2-00- 51 Payroll Checks Cashed |