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Show 4135th A.A.P.RU. They're never too young or too Id hi the army. Ask MSgt (Pop) Mooney. After over 25 years of ac tive service, he M flrolnar to school a It'a again. tough technical j , inspector's school so we wish Popj-althe luck in the i -- " l world. I there's Well, one man in the! outfit who never gives up. Sgt. Cornell Ralph went to work on his day off last' week, and worked1 all morning be- Elgner fore realizing that he didn't have to. What is the attraction, Ralph? Is it the gals or are you still bucking for another stripe? SSgt James Williams is a man who really goes to extremes. Last week he set a new season record in the enlisted bowling league, and turned around to buy cokes by reason of getting only two pfats on the first ball of the last f rime. But with a fat 605 actual score, who wouldn't be glad of a chance to treat? Wee Willie and his SSgt. Commando Brown, and Sgt (Amnesia) Cornell will bowl any room's team in the squadron. So, step up men, one at a time. Name your stakes. Another challenge: Pfc. E. F. Skowronskl and Cpl. W. D- - Robb rs will pitch against any horse-sho- e In the vicinity. They are the best team around here. How do I know? They told me so! Anyone questioning their opinion call "Whiter" Skowronskl at 8282 during the day or 8222 after five, for a test. Again, name your stakes. We have a new Plans and Training Officer, fellows, 2nd Lit. Harold K. Neal. He is also in charge of our orientation program, so you can expect to see Interesting programs from now on, men. Not to be outdone by the GIs is Luke Martin. He kegeled to an even 500 In a friendly game with Major Anderson and LL David Shaub, on Monday night. His high game was another even hundreds figure, 200. He had to have all the buttons sewed back on his shirt the next morning. Well, can you blame him? Lt Memories: Will you excuse me for just one moment while I bemoan the fact that a season of the best sport in this country has just officially drawn to a close. 1 was more sorry than any of you that we didn't go skiing last Sunday. It was a perfect day and more of you were ready to go than ever before. Oh well, we'd have probably gotten and broken a dozen all legs, anyway. Some of you will be (lad to hear that the local bus line till makes the trip every Sunday to Alta, If that s any consolation. Sgt Ray G. Eisner Reporter sun-burn- ed A Cave Man! r WAO Detachment Notes . HI, gang! I've acquired an addi tional duty as WAC reporter for the Hilllfelder. All words throw at me to constitute our WAC column will be greatly appreciated. To all the new girls who do not know it yet, our C. O-- Lt Ehhen is an all 'round girl and proficient in many sports. Incidentally you should see her tearing down Wildcat Mountain on a and I do mean a ski. Though our association with Lt Etten has been short, we're looking forward to a pleasant continuance. 4912th AAF Base Unit (Avn. Sq.) Pvt. Clifton B. Hassell, our comm is diligently spending jjoser, mo mema ua unuuin spare which. I think, should prove to be which, I wimc. should prove to be a success. A modest fellow, too. He doesn't say much about his work, and when he shows his compositions, many of which have been copy A-2- d, hop-stradd- le -t lt . Park "EM ROUGH . . . Louise AKMtton and Robert Paige are too stars of "Her Primitive Man," which is the Sunday and Mswasy feature this week end mi the Post theatre. He looks mild enough In this shot, hut that's Hollywood for you. ( - Stars at USES L righted and are very good, he m savs. - "Here's a There is a shortage of hose in little number. Not the WAC det, but none of us mind much. Just some- because it is all due to our beloved thlno- T find in Alexander pup, "Bussy" and .his belligerent mind and won- affections. All of us have watched, rierivi how ft would look on paper. with a fond eye, his growth from Well, Hassell, for my money they" a tiny pup. "Payday" (our cat) look and sound swell, too, as I'm looks on jealously, still vaguely sure everyone will agree when they considering a suit for alienation hear your "little numbers." of affection. Sneaklnar of snare moments, Have you been around the base TSgt. Bennie Herring spends his, Next too. in a musical manner. Every operations hangar lately? time you're there take a gander evening the orchestra, yet in its at the shapely 5 that has been infancy, gets together for rerightly named "Cookie" . . . pic hearsal. In front of them all stands ture and all! Much to her sur Sgt Herring, beating it out with prise, Pvt Mary Cook found she his baton and getting the men in had a namesake upon her return shape for their debut We hope it will bo soon. from furlough. Let us welcome thirteen new Pfc. John Derrickson can spot members to our happy throng. his mail, literally speaking, a mile A. Elsie are Allen, Helen G. away. How does he do it? Well, They Derrickson sends letters to Barron, Mildred C. Bennett, Mary Mrs. W. Byers, Helen L. Bryant Alta F. her hubby in a certain kind of enputs a certain number Cover, Amelia L. Dunckel, Myrtle velope and on stamps it Ifs always the Foss, Linhie J. Gibson, Betty J. of Hood, Barbara L. Murch, Helen L. same. Peters, Tena M. Stowartz. Those Williams Smith, Inc. (that's dewy-eye- d innocents, fresh from mess hall) deserves a complibasic, actually welcomed the sight our of snow. Well, they'll learn, won't ment on the way they handle the three times a day, they? Seriously, though, we're hungry hordes no gripes about the chow. glad to have you and hope you and with Sgt Sid. Alexander, Jr, will like your new assignments. Reporter. Rio (Van Winkle) and I have 458th Aviation Squadron been drafted. We're inclined, but Do you have fallen arches, flat not to play the bugle. What was feet or muscular aches and pains? that hour :45? Looks like well Are your muscles weak and flabbe off to music school come MonIf all this is true and you by? to learn a lessons. few day wisn io correct same, carry out the following instriirtiAn anil aaa There was a migration and at how quickly you get results. See a in hallucination I first, thought tr. t. instructor SB once and the det last week. It all started your and ante- when the floors splintered because squat-benwe scrubbed them too often and over your way to robust health and a powerful body. they had to be redone. The multi program colored parade of G. I. lassies was The physical training requires that all EM ere- at ah equal in comparison to a New six of hours physical training a Orleans mardi gras. At first I ana quite a strenuous pro thought the- - girl was just tall, but weeK nas been developed. The rediscovered she had on six hats. Our gram vised physical training schedule Charlie not only has a lovely voice, calls for the three tactical squadbut Samsons strength also seems rons to to be one of her possessions when 9 a. m.. take P. T. from 8 a. m. to with a makeun chum from she staggered out with two foot A road march of approximately lockers. Next came a mattress, jum. wno lor various reashapely legs, lot wose supported by two are unable to attend the which later proved to belong to 7sons m. to 8 p. m. in the evening p. "D. A." DeStaffeney. morning class. We were honored today with six A road march Of annrnvlmotclv guests from the WAVE barracks. ten miles was taken by members were Yeoman Henrietta There Sc or McClelland, Mildred Monk, Gene- withthe 458th Aviation Squadron full field MuInmMt Inst Wed vieve Vranicar, Francis Richman, Although quite dusty and Estelle Flanbard and SP (R) 3c nesday. urea on tne return trip, the morale Sylvia Kiosterud, who is a recruit- of the men was high and numerous er from Ogden. We were slightly marchinsr sonea were hMnt m fVia trimmed in the bowling game, but return we see that jaunt Surprise of the have better luck let's marcn was tne ract that Lt Evans, next time. sans eauinment of caur.v hUt i.t i Our ' second trip to Alta lodge me wnoie way. proved to be another success. Of Here is good news for all do- course. It was snowing so heavily icnuiu soiioau ana Daseball stars. we could hardly see each other, but All those men who have played or we knew we had been skiing, espelike to play either softball cially those beginners who were would baseball will turn in thir nan.- set apart from "the professionals" or the position they play to by soggy trousers. On our return and Ben Lee or SSgt Davis atSSgt their trip we piled into the truck and earnest convenience. is hoped covered up like bears. We were It some formidable teams will thoroughly exhausted, but a good that soon be formed to offer some keen nights sleep left no casualties. extra squadron competition. We really have a time keeping up with this army and its many It Seems as thnntrh nlam tnm ur, looked forward to bivouac for changes. But don't you believe long in the old saying, "A loss is a this squadron have more nr 1p a snare. April 24 was the gain"? Best wishes to Lt Rose' struck originally set for the first mary Hodgden, who has been re- aate . lieved as our executive officer, and day of bivouac, while m a big welcome to Lt Lucius A, naissanee tour of the nmnna. u Capt Knoble and Lt Cooper found Cooper , who has replaced her. me grouna to be much too mudddy Carolyn J. Armstrong, because of the spring thaws, to be Reporter. suitable for camnintr nut. Evidence of the muddy condition of the ground could be plainly Layton Ball seen by the amount of mud carVerdeland Dance ried on the persons of Capt Kno-Die ana it. cooper and the conLayton league Softball players dition of their staff car, by which they will be honored guests Saturday aimosi lost in the mud. night May 6, at the SSgt Samuel A. Davis. dance sponsored by the Verdeland Reporter. Park Tenant council in the recreation building. WAC Lieutenants Hill Field workers and military Eleanor J. Norton, rnnir.i -, personnel are invited to attend the ing and O- -l breakdown, and lone affair, according to C. Edward vunwoy, ur, returned Crasto, recreation chairman for from leaves in Texas and Penn the government housing area. sylvania. Return... Woman Grad of Famous Schc Works in Camera Repair Unit The Ogden Air Service Command counts one of the few women graduates of the famous Fairchild Aviation Corporation Camera School in its camera repair section at Hill Field. She is Phyllis C. McLain of Salt Lake City, the widowed mother of two children and a veteran of 16 years of photographic experience. As a high school graduate, Mrs. McLain was frustrated in her desire to pursue architectural draftUtah, but ing at the University ofalternative found an acceptable under the sympathetic tutelage of Keene-Polprominent Salt Lake photographer, who introduced her to the magic of the lens. From 1929 to 1942 she divided her time between the dark room and raising a family and even finding scattered moments to indulge in ner hobby, oil painting on velvet or satin. The latter has proved profitable as well as creative, a ready market awaiting her every effort A few months after her hus band's tragic death in 1942, Mrs. McLain seeking escape from the confinement of the darkroo- mwent to Fort Douglas where she engaged in sextant repair, and last Sept 27 came to Hill Field's camera repair. Here her Keen technical aptitudes were immediately recognized and she was sent to the Fairvhild school in New York. Today, hold ing a coveted diploma from tills famous school, she is engaged in --: t i k, ... Mrs. Phyllis Melaia j the exacting modification tad i pair of the latest in a!glrer aerial reconnaissance camtni t' ployed by the Army Air frwea, Retiring by nature, the Meal tressed war worker disclainii plaudits and ambition aceegtl provide a good home and 1eW nII Hon fnr her chiMroit " jfatsy, o. " .Tnkn 1 t i How ASC Saved Navy Plane In Canada Told in Collier's Cooperation between the Armyher nose up and away from and Navy has never been better northern wastelands, which had exemplified than in the story, "Res most written her fate. cue At 61 Deg. 30 Min." by Major It la a story of sheer skill Thomas H. Moriarty. of the Air Service Command. Amur Air dogged perseverance of those Forces, which appears in the May men who had with their boss, 6th issue of Collier's era! Frank, determined "Ei Forced to abandon a navy Lock asm Doe It" and who did it; heed patrol bomber PV-- 1 on the the complete, mushy sands of the black Nataahk-wa- n gether with oos of those cooperation river, in the cold lonelinoss of Canada's Province of Quebec, 'the men of the U. S. navy. sD 23rd of August, 1943, Lt (jg) C. E. a inspiring is It thrilling, Parent, U. S. navy and his crew weathered through storms of thought that the B-- 2 had found its and uncomproi discipline last resting place. Observing the wreck from the weather; a story every air. Captain Montgomery sized up American will want to read. B what was left of that $175.(KK bit Hill of air potentiality and decided that highly recommended to reading best the ers as among the Air Service Command, pioneers of airplane reclamation, could again the month of May. make the ship airworthy. With the motto of their boss, Major General Walter H. Frank, of Charles Killpack "Enthusiasm Does It" as their guiding theme, these ASC veterans Promoted to Sgt. of reclamation took on the job. On News of the promotion of SSc the 27th of August Lt. Col. Her B bert Williamson and Maj. Stanley Charles Kyle Killpack, former wi w. uorrigan, examined minutely Field employe, to that rank the miserable, sick old sea hawk, received recently by his' mothe compared notes on their findings Alma Killpack, also of from then on the army and navy Mrs. vioii So Killoack's wife,the' toiiea and sweated together (if one inn i i. mninvpJ in could sweat in that cold, bleak department supply dijuoutpost) until on the 13th of Oc- ceiving was eiu"Killpack Sgt tober at 8:41 a. m., Major Benja- from June, to www-Of-.Slfl mi,Inanortor min Frank Chapman of the Air Bll Mauiau. Statu XT a la now Service Command, and his Tech. Sgt Edward T. Van Sickl-e- HlUUIiVV. - - TtalvnndlsDel ute gunned the ship, and with the aid ing the same kind of work of the ground "commandos" lifted his mother reveaiea. Mrin a CUV co-pil- I ot M i- The Wolf by - j Sansone this I'S |