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Show I j Vol. 8 . ragrmft m j m w in HHiMMiHMn , THE DRIVE Two employees of Base Commander. Deon Rasmussen, left, and Georgia Kinsey, right, post information mwhs me prugress ueing maae in tne on the status report current United Fund Drive. HELP WITH mi r r- - ' SCI an No. 22 PUBLISHED AT KAYSVILLE, UTAH ifej lli November 4, 1955 Mm fe 7 Mart ' Two Weeks Left In Charity Drive Almost $25,000 in cash was pil- ing up at Hill Air Force Base the result of generous donations from Hillfielders to the United Fund Hill Ob Wlk Birthday Monday. By Dorothy G. Nelson November 7, 1040 Hill Field officially came Fifteen years ago Drive. into being. The drive has been gaining mothat very same date, the first civilian employee of the base mentum daily and is well on its hiredOnhimself in, took his own fingerprints, made up a badge and r to hoped-foof the way goal on himself "Hillfield Badge No. 1." pinned $75,000. That No. 1 employee is still a of exactly Cash Hillfielder. He is William G oyal on were and hand $24,375.46 pledges Bain, Chief of Weapons System way. These three operated the detotaled $30,567.84, according to pot from a little shack down by Branch, Materiel Support Division, the Earl Bartlett, drive chairman. west area. and bervices. So far in the drive almost 76 per supply "The first guy we hired was a cent of all Hillfielders have partici Bill Bain has seen Hill AFB staff car driver, Everett Barney," grow from just one civilian em- Bain recalled. "He and I went to pated. Base officials were proud of the ployee to the largest employer in Ft. Missoula and picked up a 1940 way civilian and military person the state of Utah with over 13,000 Plymouth and a 1038 Dodge and nel were backing the drive, but civilian and military persons on drove them back to Hill Field. That was the beginning of the very first urged an even greater effort fb its rolls. meet the goal by the closing date of As the No. 1 employee, he wit motor pool." November 18. nessed many "firsts" at Hill AFB. Today the motor pool at Hill From all over the field came In fact, in those early days he him- AFB employs about 180 people stories of outstanding interest and self functioned as the first Per- and has charge of around 350 vecontributions to the United Fund sonnel, the first Supply, the first hicles. Drive. Motor Pool, and the first Payroll. These two men made up the The 7th Communications ConBill came to Hill Field with the first "Payroll section" at Hill AFB, struction Squadron, commanded by first commanding officer, Lt. Col. too. To get their pay, they drove Captain Charles B. Zakskorn, came Morris Berman. Mr. Bain, who was down to Ft. Douglas and picked up through with 100 per cent partici- originally from Utah, was working their checks. Today the Payroll pation. This was an outstanding in D. C, at the time Section at Hill AFB hands out aprecord for military organizations. in Washington, office of the Air Corps. proximately $4 million in civilian the The squadron has 72 persons pres When he heard that Col. Berman pay checks each month. ent for duty. The drive was moni was planning on going to Ogden "The next persons to be hired were tored by 1st Lt. Fred Neidermeir. so close to his home to open up three clerk typists. Bill, acting as The Area Assistants office, head' an air depot, he asked the Colonel "Personnel Division," official the work100 ed by Denver Oviatt, reached if he was going to need any the all out made forms, fingerprintper cent participation early for ers. A few days after Colonel Ber ed the girls, and made up some their 13 people and hit an average man left for his initial visit of more badges. Civilian Personnel of $13.50. A graveyard supervisor Hill, Bain received a wire at Washtoday employs about 100 persons at the motor pool, Harry Smith, ington advisipg him to "come to take care of personnel matters donated $25. of the approximately 11,000 civi"It warms your heart when you Bill lost no time in returning to lian workers. see everyone meeting their re his home state and joined Colonel Bill remembers one of his first sponsibilities to charity so gener- Berman at the construction site of duties as sole member of the "Supously," officials said. "With just Hill AFB. They were joined by a a 7 airone last big effort, we can really civilian administration officer from ply Division." He met Sacramento in from craft flying do ourselves proud." AMC. Mr. John O. Weston, who and removed the first shipment of was ordered on CO 'days detached (Continued on page 7.) service to help get things under receipts All over the base, Hillfielders were a success. One orgood record. It was the Paint, Dope, Fabric and Laborers who participated 100 percent and donated an average of $11 each. Ihe men above are on the swing shift. They are (left to right) Marvin E. King, Steven Krago-vicGabriel Lopaz, Alcario Quintana, George Atferbery. Dale Absent when photo was taken were Webb, and Jacob Anderson. rablo ballegos and J. A. uallegos. Day shift employees who helped make the outstanding record were George A. Asuit, LeRoy Benson, Robert Bingham, Elmer Coleman, Edward Hadley, Peter Johnson, Eudoro Morfin, Andries Slinger, Jan Slinger, Fredrick wneeier and Kex Jones. THAN GENEROUS MORE pitching m to make the United Fund Drive ganization in Maintenance set an especially h, C-4- GIVE AND GIVE AO ATM , r,Vmt.ed Fund Driv T i, cL i Bin. , nni s the Administration and Processing This group of 164 people pledged $1,002. S10n' SuPP'y donations even higher members of the Shipment Branch donated cakes, cookies, sandwiches, and other for the cause. On the iney 80,0 an made 558-3were (left to Nareen Jensen, Nancy Mc Cul- nuwean cnecketts, Rea Smith and Tomasita Young. -- "ht General 98 Fellow 5 plan-S!m?lIt- Birthday Message Hillfielders: Monday, 7 November 1955, marks the 15th birthday of Hill Base- - 0n this occasion, I would like to take the mL opportunity to convey to all members of the Hill Force Base familv. greetings nas come a lnfir way n tne ast decade and a half, From f Us,early beginning of several weather-beate- n buildings e Hil1 has Krown to a value of more than ?338 on PARTICIPATION RATE IN UNITED FUND DRIVE ee 76 Cash Receipts $24,375.46 million3" tnis Phenominal growth to two things. First, oi sucn iommanciers as iiriganier ven-Ra- v E Paul Wolf, Brigadier General l!3 Berman, r .arlI3 Colonel Colonel D. Frank Willi,- -: Hackett, Brigadier General NwJ M- - Mrgan, Colonel James Sutton, Brigadier General L ,IarbW. and Brigadier General Adlai H. Gilkeson; wtonH team that has worked diligently nd fa'itfcfiim,litarycivilian n J. out mission assignments, So i carr,'ne l?T. the Past At present, a number of projects are 'a the r u rv""l wcn snould have a great bearing on our future, to hr,Vj?.' couP'ed with the spirit of teamwork and a united effort much air power as possible from the taxpayer's foliar " uout make mil go a long way toward surpassing the ia Vi "ai jo years. M. E. TILLERY Major General, USAF th LattLr,ibu.te er1 m ; oueri8n,P Commander MWmMMtMll Total Pledge r 4, V $39,567.84 Hi l"Hililfi However, Cash Receipts to date of our $75,000.00 are only 33 base goal. T l IIIIT "VH. FHie NO. 1 EMPLOYEE Bill Bain, Hill AFB's first civilian employee, Morris Berman, Hills poses with a photograph of Lt. CoL (then) with Col. Berman AFB Hill first commander. Bain transferred to next Monday. from Washington, D. C. fifteen years ago |