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Show jl il exportation Is leJLu MT, Greatly Improved Jl i. .11 - But They WERE flan Helps Elephant Trains:t Army Cares for EM 111 on Leave ijnployes 'lxng Battle to of proceeding there to the post schools, 2atdistance away. Reluctant to that direction . on foot, a passing soldier and if there was any handy . niportation. "wSi yes." the soldier answered ,(j9Utdy, "you just take the in halted him ier's answer could have been in all innocence, for he de-'wr- ed cs 10 we opra-u- r m referring are hauled to and fro bet- where clock house civilian workers punch aammistra-tin- n areas. of this sort were called Francisco fair, because the power anitj were actually rigged up to look like elephants. When- similar trains appeared at Hill Field to ease the intra-potransport problem, the name stuck, although the trains here are drab and workaday affairs which do not look like elephants at all. at eared world' San the - st a Problem It Wm The lady's ire was no than the very real of Hill Held old-timwho not only trouble getting from on the field, but also from their homes to the field first place. The road leading up to the south gate used to be more than was cow trail, greater had here to there getting in the wrath a sot improved hardly and it by winter's ice and BOW. a car in trouble would line of cars struggling behind it The cars bus halted, unable to get a new start from a standstill on the slope, would all have to back down me nui in order to make a new run for the gate. u tne winter of 1941 It was ften necessary for post utilities' ne and only snow plow to remove snow primarily for the purpose f showing where the road was. Sometimes atop a whole op the hill m re- Hill Fields New Firing Range Plan Urge 'Share-Rid- e' Until a few months ago the Office of Defense Transportation regarded buses as the favored mode of worker transport, but has 2 now switched its enthusiasm to a to make program the most of private car use. Spot checks show that the average num ber of workers per car coming into Hill Field has risen to 4.3. On the field itself ancient open air sightseeing cars, vintage of 1910, are a familiar sight. These were obtained from the Saltair TS SITTING POSITION . . . And shooting for ree ord. This Is a familiar scene at the new range located ble for firing the rifle, pistol, carbine, and subbelow the water reservoir. Facilities are avalla line, in whose shops they lay wait just machine gun. ine for the junk heap, and last April six trains daily started op eration between the clock bouse and the west warehouse area. The pos traffic section has some even older equipment in reserve, at tne elevated Ogden Arsenal shops 1903, railway cars dating back to wnen York New from Active in Setting purchased that city tore down its iamous Third Avenue EI. Up Courses Today the transportation prob Adopted By ASC lem is largely licked. Conditions are nor ideal not per are they fect anywhere in America, what R. J. Dyches has been appointed with gas rationing and snonage chief safety engineer of Ogden Air of rubber. But at Hill neia era Service Command, Captain Robert "share-the-rid- e" Dyches Now Chief Safety Engineer New Pilots Raft Sealanes ... " v.n-inn- tat .....uA. ul""'" er j Hillcrest residents er framing traffic was also period-leall- y slowed up by searches for nrious contraband articles. To rivers these searches seemed bimsical and arbitrary. To post Given ffldals wrestling with the prob-"Type 'worker transport, the drives seemed less than Over perfect also. Four days after Pearl Harbor fly Army Air Force pilots who new e situation was summed up thus: the seven seas now carry a transportation from type life raft sufficient to seat m to Hill Field is problem At acute vn men comfortably and oast M time there is only private ing enough equipment to siock a Mportation, which is unreliable store. J dependent on the driver . . . general The new rare, now usea am Jbose whims, deficiencies or plain eouioment on the larger planes, luck may involve duty ard t,mm bulkheads, a new promptness" a polite phrase for . Mines or absence "of five or vertical Previously personnel." the raft perand have been used erger Big Heta tended sharks or forated gunfire by One means of lightening the to collapse at the torn area and ""Port burden was the Bam-enr- .1 , Ik. ni.Klina.nLa into waivt. Rlat!.. .11- - 1 ...vi-- i. Now with either the top or the !?Wfen Ogden and Salt Lake wtnm of the supporting tube wy. Since Clearfield, nearest stop the remaining 7T the Bamberger Hn- la mora punctured aid a can keen- the rait WVVWIIS two miles from the field, the afloat and J" upright containing Hill Field workers SwitrVioJ i ti. . -wit uwrs wmM maunv j ai? ? f,e,d by Pusher engine. Alter Wtvlna .1 L I 4 rn uw eieciric tins um eiectric neater u r Over 250 sponded to the "help wanted" call from local canneries during the recent tomato season, according to Edithe H. Graham, director of to a hospital? welfare and recreation in the dorMembers of military organisa- mitory area, who was in charge tions becoming ill while on furlough of the arrangements. Transportation for the recruited will be cared for in the nearest e workers was furnished no such hospital to army hospital. If and from the Hillcrest guard is the in soldier ..... apvicinity, may nn , nnu..ri m various canneries. '""'v'v "'"'"'' ply for admittance in a civilian gate by the information as to the Complete is If in illness the hospital. line vtrnsuj I'HK FAT LADY . . . Aokml a r.T of duty or if injuries were not number of workers needed for the the negligence or carelessness, the crops yet to be processed will be Moimy hw results we see above. bill will be paid from a special posted throughout the dormitory fund maintained by the Surgeon area following definite word from the canneries, Miss Graham stated. erating from Ogden and struggling ployes can get to and from work General. ' In case of question regarding along with ancient equipment with a minimum of inconvenience line of duty status a special investi- the man himself ie liable for hoswhich it could not replace because and on the field itself they are gation officer will be appointed at pital expenses. of priorities, was greatly assisted able to get from one place to an- the scene of the man's hospitalizaFurlough status ceases automaticwhen the field administration ac other without undue delay. tion by the commanding officer of ally upon admittance to any hosu may be said that transporta his home unit If the illness is pital. The soldier resumes the unquired three big tractor-trailbuses and leased them to the com tion has ceased to be one of the proven to be NLX (not in line of completed portion immediately upmajor headaches of management. duty) or the result of negligence. on release. pany. School buses were also . pressed into service, after the Ogden school board was persuaded to change the school hours in order to facilitate this double duty. J The board finally sold four units outright for Hill Field use. .lu. train." I Trains Will Be Posted :Ki story f Whereupon so goes the 'ie lady, thinking that the soldier Vu being sarcastic about her Uindage, knocked him flat, f Whether fact or fancy, the sold- ana tne For Bill Payment part-tim- ele-jis- nt ween the gill field's in and out Men Liable Future Wants of Local Firms Many soldier on furlough like to know the answers to such questions as: What do you do if taken sick while on furlough? Do you lose your furlough time if confined lady of ample a newcomer irtnVield, found herself in the little while ago a niions and heft, which Hillcresters Aided Canneries 250 Negligence Makes tet Better Service Is Won and desirous 11 Saturday 6, 1943 November Afflick, safety officer, an nounced yesterday. rwha rnme to Hill Field in December, 1941, as the first safe ty engineer at this command. Lt " R. rAi , rMiurd F. Cartel, then a captain, was the first safety offl cer. Captain Carter and Mr. Dyches set up a safety program consist for ing of courses of instruction oeen since has which supervisors adopted by the entire Air Service Command. Mr. Dyches was trans ferred to Hill Field from the Og UCU j a ..anai where he U.wasS. chief En nfficar for the construction days gineers during xie at the Arsenal. home in Ogden. m. v r fX?v!' 4"'"-- "-- - 'Pit,''-:?',- 1 ? MARK FOUR" . . . Someone calls eat, said target umber four dip ef these target are new to be checked for m aeere. Twenty-fiv- e available to Hill Field personnel and group In the area which make the necessary arrangement. With the new target pita and other facilities, Hill Field' range I now rated with the beat down Stiff Penalty Can Be Imposed New ffill Field Firing Expect Claim quicklr grew cold, and Allowance " passenaers. One fine For False "" the anow wu M to Be Best in the West "P that h. vr Range lewra on mo under re,.VMLtno worker waded the c MIC IB vL ?m morning -- i - it. 11.. A firing range which it Is expected, will eventually rival any army firing range in the west be-is now located on Hill Field just low the field's water reservoir. In use since September, improvement are being constantly added. Whereas the old range had facilto any unlawful pay ities for only six men to fire at It is also tarsum received under tne ac w v one time, the new one has 25 for services ren gets and has facilities for firing to the rifle, carbine, Zed by them" ny contrwt Any gun, and pistoL Work done to prenotwithstanding. the gun faciliviolating this sectioni H pare -- was done by the 31st Air ties Oim of ' a fine ' to notjM '' ' Depot Group. nnr more than iiww. soldier's dependents Somewhat lighter penalties apto "e field the who ha been Servicemen'. DendenU Allowance ply to any person under the act "- -: drifts, arriving 1942, but stm pen'i"--" of to payment entitled out SJj'Oerably undeserved of aorta. In those an? try to "chisel" n,hn nntinues to accept paythV i!L Was conmonly remarked soldier's record his each after and notification SJeE without tw pIetoWe more tired when should be accurate and up to date ment to it ceased. Penaltytor this the field than they right wZ w In this respect when they left may be a nne up These penalties, in .i.nnmi.nt uo to one year, or both, .ore SLrt ? knee-dee- p V W" recently, commercial buses aeen llponuwt um vi.i and Salt Lake City. . C,??" wrh. lUvelt War ? ,e H,u JKtfle, . n.ni car now carry Ioad' nd -- that lhe WeMera still sub-machi- . H-k- sub-machi- ne . ,rom Clearfield into a w -- - ne - organixations on the as well as the auxiliary mili tary police have been doing all their firing on the new range, and it is available for personnel of other nearby organizations, providing they make the necessary with preliminary arrangements base Capt Harry inJ. Mrachek, the base defense, range officer, plans and training office. Other range officers are: Lieut Gordon S. Kaufer, assistant; and SSgt Hugh K. ' Fredley, " "range Military field officer. 1 |