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Show tafalgBMiMiesiMliM) " "w. ,r ir o,- y I i - s m. i s i U 4 1 v-- , h946 I t t ar ft s. VOL. 9 National AFA Crown Beauty Seeks who won the title of "Miss Utah Air Miss Helen Dairies (center) Power" at the Air Force Association Symposium last January, has She is seeking the been entered in national beauty competition. over will the AFA national who Power" Air "Miss reign crown of One of the New Orleans held at August convention to be contest is that she must qualifications for the national beauty Miss Daines has been taking flying lesspossess a pilot's license. So ons, arranged by the Utah Wing, AFA, and Southwestern Skyinc., "" 1 Blodgett (left) AFA official, and Pale R. Erickson, President of Southwestern Skyways. by Bert Manufacturing 70 Rocket Scoring Devices iiiii j : j misses a tun manuiaciurea at nm Air : uT.ii. j scoring j : nit-aiuseu to recora A specially device aesienea . . r-, 2 i . i fi. lot rocKets urea irom is Deing Force Base, according to Colonel Michael Cof field. Director I . jet aircrait J. tenance Engineering. . Hill AFB has recently been hand- a project of making up 70 of Ied rocket scoring devices that will el in rocket firing techniques, said IKalph J. from the ICommand project monitor; Clark, Manufacturing Branch, Workload Control, time aero Hill AFB was make up a workable scor- - Some tasked to . rne nrototvne was "Shops within Maintenance, espetested recently at Yuma, Arizona, cially sheet metal, armament, the lanaine results were so Kntisfnptnrv Production Control Division, and uwt uie Air r orce ordered 70 ol Maintenance Engineering Services mis type, Division, have all worked long The scoring device is made ud of hours and deserve recognition for a moving camera a ra- a job well done. In addition, Supply and picture I dar unit. These are mounted in the assistance to provide numerous bits j space normally used for the exter and pieces required has been 'ai.ngnt wing fuel tank. The lequipment is so set nn v.o it cords on film not only the flight oi the rocket fired, but also range p up by the ra dar set uuguiai mea. ms is reporriPH r analyzing the series 10 Jwy rockets v tvne An announcement in a local naoer 15 vears aeo stated that a mechanic learner test would be giv en by Civil Service and training would be started. The response to this announce ment was terrific. At that time 1941, many were out of jobs. Thou sands made application to take the test and 1800 Utah youths actually took it. One hundred of the top scorers were chosen to begin the first classes. Fifty of them reported to Weber College on June 10, 1941 to start mechanical training. A sis ter class of HO learners started at West Hierh School in Salt Lake City. Of that original' class who first started mechanical training at We ber Colleere. about a dozen and half are still at the base in vari ous positions, some of them top paying jobs. learners The first mechanic trained 8 hours a day, 44 hours a ? rf De ft mounted on ?e LCan.be Pilot is fly-f- f on an rUCtr "y,ng bC" Stalled his pilot can see if SltVffi ms aeticiences , ot, deter were and ImaVp P ans to correct them so used to re- :ord tvr !ices are ?omPetitive roc- i 5w Deiween coi;,; V1IL m pcin other., batches a kket-- f M differ-differ.m!"- 0 r?feV i 4,. "6 - - J8?Alr competitive orce unit9 T. Dy to perfect A- - their This initial class of trainees represented only a gesture toward the program to follow. An excerpt from the base history states, "ay the end of 1942 there were over 1300 in training and approximately that had conmleted training and were working in the aircraft shops and hangars." Thousands were trained bv We ber College, West High School in Salt Lake City and the Utah fetate lltnrnl College in Locan. Lat er on, when Post Schools was established at the base, they assumed the traininc responsibilities and the schools withdrew. "When I first came out here fifteen years ago, things were cer tainly different," recalled rrank w CaII. one of the orieinal stu dents at Weber, who is now a maintenance technician m common A Workload Control. "We were covered a processed in V ano base transient the building, hangar was just going up, and sand was everywhere." nn 9.-.- f . ii j .n. x CHECKING the camera and radar msiauea W. are device-which makes a rocket scoring Metal, Sheet ucts Engineering; Charles J. Grant, Law, Products Engineering. Oft tttai' tank Bursj 1 A s." rs prod. A. Colonel Foote Leaving Hill Col. Philip B. Foote, Director of Supply and Services at Hill AFB, leaves on July 1 to. take command of Maywood Air Force Depot, May- ' wood, Calif. His successor at Hill has not yet been announced. The Colonel came here in Novem ber 1933 following an assignment as Commander of the 24th Air Depot Wing, Clark AFB, Philippines. Col. Foote has a long career in the Air Force. After graduating from the University of California at Los 'Angeles in 1929, he entered flying training. He received his wings in 1931 at Kelly AFB, Texas. His first assignment overseas was in August 1943 when he was supply and maintenance chief for the Eighth Bomber Command in England. Later he served in a similar position for the Eighth Air Force under General Doohttle. Col. Foote's military assignments since then include supply chief of the 14th Air Force at Orlando, Fla., Mnro-nJ. Grover. suterinten an assignment with the Joint Aont nf Insnection Division. Main Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon as tennnre. who was with the original a member of the Joint Logistics Weber class recalled that he start Plans Group; and duty in Japan er! out in vears aeo in Eneine at Deputy for Materiel, Hq., Far Renair. "In fact, one of our first East Air Logistics Force. was, heln- - He is a graduate of the Command inha when we came here . in en- and General Staff School, Armed to set macmnery up ing gine repair. We later worked on Forces Staff College, and Industhe engine which powered trial College of the Armed Forces. Among decorations' the Colonel is and the entitled to wear are Legion of The foreman of the Electronic Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster and Armament and Test Equipment the French and Belgium Croix de Guerres with palms. Section, Evan A. Whitesides, was Col. Foote is married to the nne of the first mechanic-learneformer Patsy Walsh of Columbus, "I was 17 years old at that time, Ohio. He and his wife have reschool. I've been sided on base with their daughter just out of high on Bonnie, age 3. Continued 1'age 11 R-18- 20 whre Pilots from TaiCn tneir skiU SKIU. The PhotOBTanVn,. . airport because Hill AFB wasn't yet ready for them. B-2- 4's d3 . iZZJZ- week, and were paid $.j0 a month. They went to school lor about o months and then worked at the Army hangar at the Salt Lake . tV.o film aft roclfete"ing.the the THERE'VE BEEN some changes made in aircraft and Hill AFB in the last 15 years, the group above decide. They, along with others, were members of the first mechanic learner class setG up in rover, 1941. They are (left to right) Ray H. Allred, Morgan J. Frank W. Call, Harold G. Strand, and Evan A. Whitesides. tar-pap- er training pilots in rocket echni(iues. The device can m the trainee ent f:j .- aircraft. fl,,n H -- artrt came to the This ? Tomorrow of pictures it determine how close the wuse on the F.s other st Class Began t.. ;iv, o c a marks the fifteenth anniversary of one of the most important programs ever conducted mechanic learn at Hill AFB-th- e er program. Fifteen years ago, on June 1G, 15)41, the mechanic learner program was begun. The program was extremely vital at that time because this air depot, then in its infancy, was about to be called upon to repair thousands of war weary aircraft.. There were just not enough workers in this area skilled in this specialized work WnrVorc - wmilt jint- Vinve t.n Vie- of Main using a basic design developed by the Air Research and who have coordinated to make this Development Command. project a success. Technicians at Hill erot busv and "It has taken a lot of work by I made up a prototype scorine de- - many organizations on the base to Ivice modifying and improving the put this project over," he said. device n JUNE 15, 1956 On June 16, 1941 Northeast Air Command, Alaskan Air Command, Air Training Command, Far East Air Force, and United States Air Force in Europe. Hill AFB has set up a tentative deadline date of July 1st for completion of the 70 units. Mr. Clark expressed - praise tor the fine cooperation of the many different organizations at Hill Ar a Air Force personn- to train used 1 PUBLISHED AT KAYSVILLE, UTAH 5 1-- 5. accompanied NO. 12 nn Mic I 1956 . i I s i "A Decade of Security Thru Global Airpower" X. |