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Show C 1 New Chief WRadioShow Time Ranges Broadcast )f of Honor' to Tgadge (1 at 8:00 P. M. Rights .m ja IB "None But rO-KD- YL Heart l!!lS-8:1- rS KOVO, 11:30-11:- KID, KVBS. KSI. 55 HF Pilot Flies Downed Near Evajiistoii B-2- "Melo- - Attendance charts for use in the presenteeism program .nave been distrib""u,to v,ang uted each installation of this command and are now on display m each branch of OATSC. This chart will show attendance of all personsperfect who are on the job 100 per cent of the time and will not replace or supersede any previously required records or charts nor be made a part of the timekeeping and leave recording system. Each chart contains enough space for 80 typewritten names and for the larger branches where more is space necessary, an additional chart wil be made available. Where large branches are y spread over a large area, charts wil be maintained at the unit level. On each chart a space is provided for checking the attendance of each employe from January 1 through June 30, 1945 in pay period intervals. Excused Absences' Perfect attendance is evidenced e by presence on the job during regular work hours. Absences which are authorized and will not be charged against perfect attendance include: (1) Administratively . excused tardiness not chargeable to annual leave or AWOL. (2) Compensatory leave or time off. (3) Time off for jury duty. (4) Time off for reporting for preinduction physical examination. (5) Absence for voting purposes. (6) Time off to serve on military court. (7) Absence for conventions or conferences in con nection with regular work. (8) Ab sence for civil service examina tion. (9) Absence to serve as wit ness before civil service commis sion. (10) Absence as a result of closing an installation for administrative reasons. (11) Absence as a result of climactic reasons. (12) Absence to give blood donations. (13) Absence to hold consultation with counsellors. popular new radio 5 Though the cast members it, with C getting plenty o 8:30 Wed-switching from to night to eight-fifteSt Now they are changing to Field's rnm l!T "Badge of Honor" is moving Qe night, Owner K replacing en beginning April 9. at me new wuc 17, 1942. s"'" sea- - was iormerijr a WhO !ir PERSONNEL SECTION . . . Major Bruce W. Strong is the new chief, civilian personnel section, Major Stewart C. Campbell who has left the field for a new assignment. Major Campbell arrived here August first class with the Stes coast guard, serving day nights. MC Master Sergeant g listeners with his way ' of talking and his fine singing. Pfc. Emanuel Heifetz continues to make friends with his Jack Larsen has already won night-o- United m , the Wth Atlantic, off Greenland, and t th Hudson Bay. He has tales t tell that would make your hair hnd on end, or make you seasick easy-goin- brilliant violining, assisted by Tech Sergeant Ed Stoker on the organ, proves fairly while Marvin Brown of producVie with its third show finding tion inspection weaves another fin the same old spot: eleven-lin- y mean plane tale about the Air Wednes- - Technical Service Command. to eleven fifty-fiv- e Ct of sympathy. "Melodic Flight" f Leave Regulations Are tlarif ied for HF Employes Annual I To clarify for the employes atV nkTCn tna naiftilntiAno urhinh ifAtr. ' the amount of annual leave can be accumulated, the folding excerpt is quoted from pubi- Vn c law 806: "Under authority K6 for the period of public law of the present accumulated annual Emergency, the hourly car-tie- d at the close of the not exceeding leave squivalent of forward alendar year. days may be 90 However, when acc- umulated annual leave equals r exceeds the hourly equivalent 60 If days, than hourly eauivalent nf IS Have iy be accumulated further in one calendar vear. Acnimn. not more V ted and current ss oi w days accrued leave in during the year taken by the emnlnvo if authorized, or may remain to cremi until tne end of the cal- r year at which time all leave excess of the hourly equivalent W daVS Will ho y be Iditinnal forfaits 1 Th. accumu- ay the employedays during the emergency will remain to credit after the emergency has to J3! exist." Example: On January 1, 1943, John Doe has 48 days annual leave to his credit. During 1943 he accrued 26 days and took six days vacation, making a total of 68 days accumulated beginning January 1, 1944. During 1944 he accrued a net of 22 days annual leave but the law reads that not more than 15 days may be added in one calendar year after a total of 60 days accumulation; so only 15 days instead of 22 is added to 68 making a total of 83. In 1945 he accumulates a net of 20 days but since 90 days is the ceiling for total accumulation, he can only use seven of the 20. Thus in three years he loses 13 days annual leave by accumulating more than the limit. There are but few employes at Hill Field who have accumulated annual leave over 60 days. The records of these employes are checked twice a year and they are informed how many days they have to their credit. If in July it appears that an employe will lose leave in January, he has ample time to take annual leave, when he can be spared from the job. Last week two OATSC flight test ' pilots successfully piloted a stranded 4 Liberator bomber out of sagebrush near Evanston, Wyoming down a hastily improvised runway and into the air. . 4 The had been forced to land in the sagebrush about two weeks ago when all four engines cut out on its ATC pilot, Captain Thomas Moore of Long Beach, Cal ifornia, who was en route to the west coast. Capt. Moore was able to land his plane with little dam age and no personnel injured by a combniation of great skill and good luck. Shortly after the forced landing, a group of OATSC maintenance employes were sent to the scene to make minor repairs and to aid in the construction of a temporary runway. Their work finished, last Friday afternoon, Capt. Arthur C.s, Wells, pilot, and Lt. Brian K. Moy-erboth of flight test section, experienced little difficulty in getting the 4 into the air and down to Hill Field, even though the venture was quite a hazardous one due to the fact that the runway was about one fourth the ordinary size and part of that perilous because of it being so moist. B-2- . IffiU 4 Capt. Wells Gets Bomber From Improvised Strip entitled totermoontoin net Hnor." KLO. KEUB, 5 Goes to Hdqs. Branches Displaying Attendance Marks Of Their Employes Heard Monday Be Charts to Aid HF Drive for Presenteeism B-2- AT ATSC . . . Major Emmersen P. Kron, who came to Hill Field August 7, 1944, has been transferred to ATSC headquarters where he will serve in the equip- - ' ment section. He attended the command 2nd general staff school at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, from January 1 until March 20. Kron was chief of branch Major 11 which was formerly the integrated photographic specialized depot. Before going into the army he was employed by the Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, pysi-call- N. Y. full-tim- co-pil- US Casualties Are Close to B-2- Mark 900,000 established its The army has losses at 780,043 since Pearl Harbor with total American combat casualties nearing the 900,000 mark. The latest navy report added 92,819 to the army toll, making a total of 872,862, which was an increase of 13,275 from a previous . Technical Library Gets New Books Wide Variety of report. The army's total, according to Reading Open Secretary of War Stimson, was based on a compilation of indiTo Hill Fielders vidual names received here through March 21 and reflected actual batA wide assortment of newly-a- r tle front developments through the books is now end of February and the begin- rived available at the Hill Field technining of March. A comparison of the army s cas- cal library. Stand-by- s ualties in the last reports show include DostoyevsKy s Crime and Punishment," Sons and 153,792 to 150,310 killed; 473,669 to 464,731, wounded; 86,335 to 88,- - Lovers" by D. H. Lawrence, and 209 missing; 66,228 to 64,430 pris- Steinbeck's "Tortilla Flat." oners. Of the wounded, 243,508 In the best seller class are "Image have been returned to active duty. of Josephine" by Booth Tarking- ton, "The Green Years by A. J. Navy Losses Similar figures for the navy in- Cronin, Stone's "Immortal Wife," clude 35,750 to 35,342 killed; and the more reflective "The Time to 41,882 wounded; 10,500 to for Decision" by Sumner Welles. The "Poetry of Dorothy. Parker 10,417 missing; 4, 267 to 4,266 prisoners. gives the collection tartness and An estimate of Japanese casual- "Your Kids and Mine" by Joe E. ties in the entire Philippine cam Brown supplies the human intertouch. paign was placed at more than est . Two 300,000 according to Stimson. Apanthologies, "Palgraves Treasury" and "Anthology proximately 172,983 of the enemy Golden had been counted killed and the of- American Negro Literature"; remainder of the estimated losses and "Seventy Gothic Tales" by Dinesen, "The New Book of Etirepresented the uncounted killed on land, losses at sea, those seri- quette", by Eichler, "African of ously wounded and the 2500 Jap- Queen" by Forester, "Oracles anese taken prisoners. No report Nostradamus" by Ward, and "Barewas revealed on American casual foot Boy With Cheek" by Shulman round out the collection. ties in the campaign. non-techni- HF Employe's Son Tells of Fighting Japs 42,-3- 02 . - Axis Poison i L Supervisors Are Filling Out Civilian Efficiency Ratings 1 J: 59, James Hunter it 6 nr ind nn- until we s wiiJ. m. - Inn cfnnriinff alive Or t mere isn a afloat, or raft a as buoy much as James E. Hunter penned AM 3C father, in a recent letter to his secJames E. Hunter of the traffic OATSC. at division tion in supply In a Drier resume i the most in action participating ui. f 4ha maior entTaee- memorauie It ments. AMi Hunter incontinued. th Gilbert k.nir i ail Siarieu took thern by islands, where we came the Marand next AM 3C -- P 6 a. SHERRY - -. nuivnuiK comnntinr run sight shown above has oeatn for mnw flM..M anil Tan alrm9.fl. Rnmbsicht branch Ployes R. r. Rowley, and, Marjorie Miller check one of these remarkably accurate mechanisms. Sperry Automatic Computing Gunsiffht T8 Aitinzinff " C? caim his O Gadget K-- 3 5?. io maiT. - th- a tM " K-- 4 Sperry ' nl. "'J1 auto-f- " Z "CB wmcn nas neipea . Planes far superior Bin.. c"emy S. This uncannv com- - j.fK5?f V lurrex machine guns, fr?m the old method of lne .J Plane toward thA tar. get it in 4u. far tumins shal islands, where we underwen o ana a seven one-n--- ""-torped- "" plane attack." a consider-- . dropped "The Japs , were . , able numDei ui rma hut wtv. not in a raid much good. Then came the -- pi"" . on xruK in lue the invasion of HoUandia,New Guinea. Saipan and two batties oi tne AM Hunter, 18. is a member L. D S. church and attends the to meetSunday night and midweek - enables tthe" hV-gunner but at the Hs without a. chaplain. A ""V" ktreet will be ings as fireman on the rail- who father, arrive there .... .tta road nas pee" M.iHntf at ter- - since 1944, and resides in Jan.. directions rific speeds in different and Midvale, utan. the necessity for instantaneous 1L. t in bombsight now wonting on xn.s has mechanism, r im-extra nxat complicated Sperry in specialized months by such mjnt m.d schools studying its inhas been at Hill Field He tricacies. .. years and hasn't that German r ucn.c-two and a half .kaant a dav. InB.SR?tRowley, the only employe -- ' and "wZ COmnnfina Fred at u" S"7, B,ht computes air nd the .peed of lt?'5iavity and h. I tar-ee- t f P.i. kv King As set forth in war department directives, efficiency rating forms for all OATSC civilian employes who have fulfilled the required trial periods, are being filled out as by their immediate supervisors of March 31st, according to Dr. Vernon F. Larsen, OATSC placement counselor. During the past few weels supervisors from all branches and divisions on the field have been attending classes in the civilian training branch on the forms, he said. preparation of these These reports, which are made After the immediate supervisor has rated an employe, a review- mg official , that person next in line directly over the supervisor who knows the work of the employe, will check over the rating to guarantee accuracy. After the reviewing official has gone over the report, it will be forwarded to the efficiency rating unit in the civilian personnel section, where the forms will be reviewed and scored. Employes Can Appeal A recent program for giving unout twice yearly on the perform ance of ungraded civil service em- graded employes an opportunity to set ployes, and once yearly on graded appeal their ratings has been that employes, not only give the super- up for employes who feel visor a chance to see at a glance their ratings are uniair. it is sugthe overall progress of his depart gested, however, by Dr. Larsen, ment, but they will serve as a gooa that enmloves attempt to iron out source of reference in peace time differences of opinion on the rat for the employe, Dr. Larsen point- ings with their supervisors Deiore ed out. Each employe will receive taking them to the board for ap a copy of the adjective rating he peal. received, and ungraded employes ine ionowing is quoiea irum will receive a copy of the actual AAF Letter 40-- 3 lb, dated March "exare 19th, for the information of all emrating form. The ratings cellent", "very good", "good", ployes: "fair" or "unsatisfactory". "Appeals may be entertained Chief Differences only if filed within 30 days after Among the chief differences In receipt by the employe of his copy of the official rating. Appeals will rating employes between this year and last are: (1) "Excellent" now be heard promptly and a decision means outstanding instead of per- or recommendation will be renfect, the reason being that very dered to the commanding officer few people could come under the by the board within 30 days after the receipt of the appeal. The deheading of 100 per cent perfect while many employes are out- cision of the commanding officer representative on standing in their work: and (2) or his designated boards each employe will be interviewed the basis of the appeal will be final and there by his suDervisor prior to being findings to further rated and his deficiencies will be will be no recourse I pointed out to him. - - |