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Show - I F Id (ft nn 'Continuing 11 JJTOffii il ft? h All Depts. First Suggestion Winner Lost-Tim- e Hill Field, Ogden, Utah Accident Is Suggestion Winnei Experienced Here Field's safety campaign e accident L a no Cnth in March suffered its casualty last week when 'l maintenance employe was truck from behind by a tow ijuotor and received a broken ill lost-tim- w A- GEORGE M. BATCHELOR . , . Electrical repair branch, whose machine for banding armatures saves time, Improves work and frees expensive equipment for ether work, one-ha- f M v i ... W 3 .. " .) . . . Electrical repair, saved time with a starter clutch plate resurfacing assembly. Also makes salvage of used plates possible. AL.VIN F. Fox equipment '; !Iail Your Easter -- , , " " 2& Right Away Easter mail to . A. has that Easter mail must be tat immediately if it is to reach ae addressee by Easter Sunday, .April 8. Overseas Army mail should be .tfdressed with the soldieers full me, his rank, army serial num- organization and unit, Army Office (APO) number, and louId be sent in care of the at the port of embarkation .rough which thee mail is routed. . ad-,lls- ed 'a. , :. (t post-But- er Sllfieldkrs wkd Married on March 12 were Kath- , (Pat) Dokos of Third De " "BJ JISlVIMfSI WWW of domestic supply "statistics nch. Wedding took place in ballroom nt th Ron TimnnH Wi Father John Vasiliaden of the wk Orthodox Church of Salt t:iiy officiating. w Change in Leave Reports Will Be Hade This Friday see-he- revealed that new em-jprocedure for reporting slek ? emergency leave wU be beginning Friday, Mara Tf tat-JM- ed J"" r'"n g. o. OarapbetL OASO personnel ehief, said fere-w- id supervisors throughout 2" ef this week me next. lie rearrangement, t truak lines "Ogdea, Salt Lake and Kays-l"- J u the leave unit here an r" field will be Informed completed. bulletin (tt-l-) the new proeedare wiU -- pjMished next week, he said. "Jew OASC ex-fni- ng I t ilfip Ik 360-da- that day. New job titles and hourly rates which go with each ungraded position will be officially introduced pertain principally to mechanical to employes concerned on Form and craft positions. Any position Notification of Personnot included under one of the four nel Action. services of the Classification Act Information will be posted on of 1923 is considered ungraded . bulletin boards showing hourly .Major Campbell said no salaries rates and equivalent per annum would be reduced as a result of the rates in order that the employe can hew plan. In most cases they will determine his equivalent per annum salary. be higher. Charts will be posted on bulletin Reason for the change, it was oointed out. is that under the old boards indicating salary steps for system a uniform salary was paid all grades as well as lines of prothroughout the country without re- motion. Further information on this new gard to wages paid by industry in certain locality and witnout an system will be forthcoming in subexact method established to com sequent issues of the Hillfielder. pensate for differences in duties and responsibilities among the va rious trades. Consequently, army air forces employes were paid a diiierent wage, and in most cases not as Nation-wid- e much as employes in industry, sec collection of musical ondly, sufficient grade levels and instruments for the soldiers at the rates of pay did not exist so as to front began in the Ogden and Salt pay on the basis of difficulty of Lake City areas this week, as fam the job, duties and responsibilities. ilies at home began to round up For example, under the old plan, hundreds of saxophones, banjos all journeymen received the same and other instruments that lie for salary; the new plan permits dif- gotten in closets and attics of ferent rates for various types of many homes. Sponsored by the Army as a journeyman positions. Third, the new plan is flexible and rates may means of building morale of fightbe adjusted from time to. time to ing men, collection of these laid' meet local conditions. away instruments will make it Job descriptions have been pre possible for soldiers all over the pared and ranked by an impartial world to form orchestras and jive committee according to relative groups in their camps or posts. Coca-Col- a importance based on experience Bottling Company Is and training required, application acting as national agents for col required, responsibility involved, lection of the instruments, which physical demand of the work and may be taken to any grocery store. working conditions. filling station, drug store or other Wage surveys are also in prog place that sells bottled Coca-Coress in this locality to determine for pick-u- p and delivery to the the prevailing wages being paid for Army. AH Instruments except pianos, these same duties. A range of five steps for each grade will then bull fiddles, or phonographs are be assigned by the War Depart urgently needed, acording to R. D. ment Wage Administration Agency Day, manager of the Ogden Coca in accordance with the prevailing Cola Bottling Company. The drive will last through March 27. rates in this locality. The new plan makes provision On new bed FOR SALE Sacrifice. for merit increases. An ungraded room act; one dinette eet. red leather eeat worker may be promoted to a one new act. radio battery Learlnc state, Mr. Colton, Sstenelon 8360. Dajr higher step rate, not to exceed one Contact nut. as re a step rate, within his grade ward for efficiency. The merit in creases thereafter may not be made more frequently than at six- month intervals. A chronic ab sentee. an employe who tries to beat the clock, one who shows lit tie or no interest in his work will not be entitled to receive 0, ... ElecOLIVER O. C. Lester trical repair branch, who devised testing and repair stand for landing lamp motors, also a poavy brake to test landing lamp tors. WILLIAM L. HOEHN . . . Final assembly, suggested leaving front cam oil pressure lines on engines while cleaning, saving about tea minutes per engine. la . . . Elecwho trical equipment repair, made an attachment to generator up that speeds actesting machine more makes it and testing curate. PAUL. G CROWDER New ASC Manual Is Now Off Press gyro A new training manual, oninstru-T-nnInstruments, developed by school branch and post employes, has recently been published by ASC headquarters and dis issued from there for general servthe Air tribution throughout ice Command. Th manual, a training TO, con' tains general information as to the Aiuiration of the Soto, the overhaul r th fllcht Indicator, and the Atiarh si nl nf the turn The manual will be used as an aid In providing Instruction on gyros, both in the classroom and !r Information released yesterday ""n the civilian personnel re w Launch Drive for Soldiers' Music Wrong. Planning to send Jt' - 111 WW work on the sixth day and also for work over eight hours per day if approved in advance. Under the new plan overtime will be paid on the sixth day of work only if the employe is in a pay status for 40 hours during the week (actual work, sick leave or annual leave). Heretofore, overtime has been computed on a yearly basis and y period prorated over a which, in effect was only an increase in the daily rate of pay. The same amount of annual and sick leave will accrue under the forthcoming arrangement However .annual and sick leave may not be charged on the sixth or overtime day, which means that an employe affected by the new plan may not be on leave on the sixth work day and still receive pay for AC-CP-5- kitten. Sat boy or girl overseas ? The War Department ..SSSsS- , - W I fe He said the new system, evolved-by the Wage Administration Agen cy of the War Labor Board, Washington, D. C, and already in oper ation at the Sacramento and Spokane air service commands, is commencing on the 27th in order that the following Saturday will be an overtime day under the new arrangement The 27th falls on a Monday. Saturday will thus be the end of a full work week under the system and employes affected by it will be entitled to time and lf for that day. All ASC installations will be affected by the new system in the near future, it was stated. The locality wage rate plan bases the new hourly rates, wherever they are established, on prevailing wages being paid by other industries in the particular locality affected. Only employes affected will be ungraded employes and certain in spectors and storekeepers in the supply division. Ungraded positions ck Cards Locality Wage System to Begin Here March 27th - Around 700 OASC supervisors have been given detailed information regarding the new locality wage rate system scheduled to be adopted at this installation the 27th of this NIELSON . . . Instrumonth, Major S. C. Campbell, civilian personnel chief, re- THELMA ment repair, who suggested new vealed last week. Under it pay of ungraded employes will procedure for Issuance of parking passes to the physically be converted from a per annum to an hourly basis. handicapped. lost-tim- com-'llet- ed PI Details Surrounding New Plan oc-Ijur- more radio program on Vety will be broadcast from sta-fa- n KSL. is Salt Lake City during at campaign month. Two other ave previously been presentea. i9tte will be announced later. I The safety caravan showdepart-!sen- ts its tour of OASC last Monday. Theoretically, a Hill Fielders listened to the atics of Moe and Joe, fictitious nfety engineers, saw the right and .wrong to dress for the job as 'aodelled by Miss Right and. Miss Wednesday, March 15, 1944 Over 700 OASC Supervisors Given f&pt. Robert R. Afflick, OASC Vety officer, said the mishap early Wedneesday morning 12:20 a. m. Hie injured worker 'wis proceeding down one of the fiiiles of a repair hangar when 'ruck down from the rear. Capt Afflick said the tow motor nnu iperator was inexpeneiiueu 'uparently became confused when Ufronted with several persons talking in the aisle. I Undaunted, safety officiate here 'ice continuing the campaign with (doubled vigor determined that be the last 'the accident should Wing March. ( The interdepartmental maintenance safety trophy, awarded monthly to that department with $e best accident frequency rating, vUl be presented today to the (jtp maintenance section. General 'pperintendent is Lynn Barringer. e accidents during Jtbsd no the Tebruary, the month for which Af-2Why is being awarded. Capt said several other enalnte-We- e departments had no lost-accidents and for this reason 'linor injuries are usually the basis far rating. Other departments with no lost-fe- e injuries were manufacture and 'itpair, accessories and miscellane-repair, flight test, vehicle and Motorized repair, radio repair, ad- and blue-pin-t, miaUtration, drafting and chemical laboratories I One 7 in-gra- de nromotions. Under the new system ungraded employes will be paid for each two weeks period rather tnan semi monthly as in the past In a year such an employe will receive (26) checks rather than twenty-si- x twentv-fou- r (24). as heretofore. Each check will be slighUy less than the former on the Job. the finest ones, but over a year's period sal It has been pronounced aries will be the same or more publication of its kind in the ASC Half-ton- e illustrations have been than usual. In no case will they the be less. iiwmi nrofuselv throughout Work Time the Same work. Emnloves affected will continue of dormitory to work cizht hours per day, six CssmoDolitans with overtime at unit two met last week, planned an days rate ofweek for and one-ha-lf time the Easter play. ... semi-month- nr ly Reduced Rates for Long Distance Get Earlier Hour The redueed rate period long distance telephone calls en at Field, has . been advanced from 7 p. m. t I p. m T. A. Paulas, telephone representative at Fort Douglas annoanced last Effective March 1, the change wiU assist In spreading the evening traffic load, Paul ubanpointed add!-- 1 at It will provide ttonal hour for soldiers to put through home calls. lie added that the same reduced rates which apply during the period from 8 p. m. to 4:S a. mV alo are la effect all day HlSl (sundajrs. J" - '& ROGER R WOOD . . . Airplane repair, who showed now wfor use time by using his adapter en all aJ driven arnuupe Prince screwdrivers. Reed TAKE OI COURSES Thousands of military personnel all over the world are siuuihs courses through the U. S. Armed Forces Institute, which offers hundreds of standard high school and college courses, one iee, w titles the soldier or r as many Institute courses as desired. Lt Sylvia Kornit at special service section in the Base gym la quesready and anxiousas totoanswer courses. tions and advise |