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Show Page HILL TOP TIMES 30 iuy lacramento. - McClellan Air HQ AFLC Force Base, a "city within a city," is the largest military industrial facility in the state of California, employing over 25,000 military and civilian the Airlieft (Military the 1155th Command), Technical Operations Squadron (USAF), the 2049th Communications Group (Air Force Systems Command) and the 940th Military Airlift Group (Air Force Reserves). These important units, together with 22 other tenant organizations, make up the McClellan family. The huge base, covering 4,115 acres, is commanded by Col. Beverly E. Davis Jr. The mission performed by on - Workers F-1- "hter P A-- 1 and warning surveillance Also as item manager, is responsible for several classes of material SMAMA and equipment including various airframe components for assigned aircraft, elec- trical and electronic components and ground radar units. Personnel at SMAMA also manage the entire Air Force inventory of 62,000 ground generators which range in size from one half to 1,000 kilowatt output. Generators main- IT tained by SMAMA directly support every Apollo moon flight. At their McClellan - ALL ABOARD Project Bitterwine equipment, bound for Tuy Hoa, Vietnam where it will be used to construct an air base, is loaded aboard ship in Sacramento. SMAMA headquarters, employees provide mainand tenance, supply procurement services to five SMAMA includes both states California, Southeast Asia (SEA). As worldwide manager for worldwide and area Washington, Oregon, Nevada SMAMA procures, The and Hawaii - plus the Pacific the l, responsibilities. and California AMA is systems and Far East area, including stocks, supplies items and perused by the ll forms maintenance on that aircraft. An ll cold test chamber -- apply finishing touches of paint in SMAMA's new paint shop. Shop holds eight aircraft at a time. SPRUCE-U- 9, systems consisting of radar networks used to detect and track enemy and allied aircraft, earth orbiting 'objects and land and sea launched ballistic missiles. operations Wing T-3- Systems also manager include 12 assignments Logistics in Command the United States. is also McClellan headquarters for five major tenant organizations - the 552d Airborne Early Warning and Control Wing (Aerospace Defense Command), the 9th Reconnaissance Weather F-ll- l, 5, C-1- for the Sacramento Air Materiel Area (SMAMA), commanded by Maj. Gen. William W. Veal. It is one of five such Air Force Concentration and digital dexterity are vital ingredients in repair of delicate prercision instruments in Sacramento AMA's clean room. F-10- 0, and aircraft. This represents an inventory of 7,500 aircraft deployed at 304 bases in 39 countries. headquarters - worldwide for manager California; logistics support of 14 aircraft weapons systems, including personnel. The west coast base, located 10 miles north of the state capitol of Sacramento, is HANDS OF A SURGEON MSI M J . F-ll- Clellan Field after Hezekiah McClellan, an Am Air Corps pioneer in ft Ma; of charting Alaskan A; F-l- his life while testing 1300. Oil dll a nei 111 McClellan's yesterdawas constructed at McClellan have been crowded v: to test load stresses on the historic events. Names m of aircraft at temperatures Jimmy Doolittle, Geora 40 F. degrees. Marshall and "Hap" Ara A new paint shop, where fill its busy pages. aircraft can Although the Sacrameri eight fighter-typ- e F-l- BUILDERS CENTER BARGAIN 5672 SO. 1900 W. ROY, UTAH F-1- PH. 773-478- -- 1 6 Da 8 'GARDEN HAND TOOLSl BLACK & DECKER ELECTRIC TOOLS TRUE TEMPER GRASS SHEARS 4100 13" HEDGE TRIMMER $12.88 4120 IS" NE0CC TRIMMER $29.99 4200 TRIMMER GRASS 4110 SHRUB 1 HEDGE TRIMMER DISST0N CORDLESS CRASS SHEAR r 1 ttoitim slate $17.99 TRUE TEMPER PRUNER $1.79 TRUE TEMPER HEDGE SHEAR $4.69 SPADE SHOVEL $1.99 B0I $1.99 $1.99 RAKE HOE IHV CHALLIS CEDAR CHALLIS CEDAR $1.98 RUSTIC CEDAR HIM' RUSTIC CEDAR Iilir lUU' ITM MX 1 1 1 Ft. REINFORCED RUBBER SO FT. $6.98 . $1.98 VINYL (Fret Hon Hanpr Witti Rubbct Hot Purchase) REAL SPECIALS It 3 10 color 4 1 XKE 1 Hoc! It II J 4 $3.19 M. $4.19 R. 4 4 a I RIO CRANDE 4 colors ia stock (' Slii r STRIATED RtDO00 RUSTIC RE 0000 REDW000 BASKEmAVE ALL FENCE COMPLETE WITH RED10O0 POSTS $1.79 lia. n. $1.79 $1.79 Irn. R. JcoiorsiastoU, 4 III cetat ia dock J It 4 1 ha. R. I RAILS 2 WE WILL Call For Res Estimate 773 (781 I I 2 FURRING STRIP . . FURRING 2i2-- l HI 2 I ECONOMY Ml 2 STRIP.. Sf frcT rcoacnY 10' is- I si! - II -- - r-g- 2 iI 2 I 2 18 - 10' thru is 18' 18' Ih 16' If BIRCH iI 4 court 4 1 7 4 ) color LUMBER 1 $5 49 $3.29 $3.29 ia dock lrl. r. 25 i" i 35 I. R. iji iiawjuwi if I lj in a , . . mm 1 ROYAL 1 f M. MAHOGANY INSTALL I $5.29 HIGH WEST 1 14-41- M. COTE $5.59 stock PLYWOOD. 1 4 4 1 1 SAXDtD 1 SI0E EXT. 31 4 1 1 SANDED SIDE EXT. 2 4 1 1 SANDED I SIDE EXT. SI 4 4 - 4 1 3 1 1 1 SANDED 1 SANDED 1 1 SIDE EXT. SIDE EXT. y, Air Depot was dedicated i recently as 1939, it can traci its lineage to the earliest ds;i of military aviation. In 1911, Glenn b Curtiss, Maintenance of precision pioneer aircraft manufae instruments takes place in turer, established an aviaiSa in McClellan's "clean room" school on North Island where such items as central Diego Harbor. a vpar later this hi air data computers, vertical United Safl indicators and vertical the become school gyroscopes can be protected Army's firstfirst continger Thp from impurities in the air. c Electronic units, such as heavy duty ground radar are also components, on the island tj fc: rowboat on Thanksgiving rather unusual responsibility. refueling. then covered with a white paint (Coverlac) and shipped. As the site of one of Air Force's two environmental The health laboratories AFB, other is at Kelly Texas - McClellan personnel work closely with the community in analysis of environmental pollutants in the atmosphere and waters of the outgoing pA fragile Curt; pun pusher-typrepaired here. kn0U U Ihnn i As the staging area for .i 1 aircraft enroute to overseas Rockwell Field, pioneered bases in the Pacific and Far aerial bombing wur andaer East, McClellan has another instrument testing e ... Aircraft shipped by water By the 1920s a.wu. as transportation are cocooned was serving depotsupply maintenance conc prior to shipment. This activit sists of spraying a black Army aviation water-solubl- e solution called the west coast In the 1930s, theg Spralat on the aircraft. It is SERIES PLANET 1 colon ia dock CEDAR POSTS 1 RAIL REDWOOD 1 IT SO 1 ALL FENCE COMPLETE I 1" ( . PRE FIN IS HE D PANELING $1.49 llt . $1.59 yn. $1.29 llt u. $1.49 lia.lt. $1.98 tin. n. 3"i' 75 FT. NYLON CORD HOSE -- CEDAR PREMIUM CRAPESTAKE $ TRUE TEMPER LOPPING SHEARS FENCING SPECIALS .1 GRAPESTAKES $3.39 $7.95 $12.88 GARDEN TYMf S " GARDEN HOSES 1" $7.77 TRUE TEMPER GRASS SHEARS $25.59 7 $1.79 r m lit Ofl be painted simultaneously with no over-spragives SMAMA employees a big boost in accomplishing their maintenance responsiblitiess. $3.19 $5.29 $5.79 $4.89 $6.49 t. - was being cru" on the Navy facility . 4 moveuasnecessarj atmosphere and .citizen of CoW .p-- hJ Solution IW u"- - rnot obvious. In 1934. Arthur - - western geographical area secretary-manMcClellan's Sacramento served by laboratory. Administration in preparing young men for aircraft repair and maintenance work. McClellan, which began as the Sacramento Air Depot 22 jyears ago, was named Mc its Commerce, . ;5 lj , O J. and ftf f;;! nr Waters, a Miami Commerce o A the National jr Defense Assocm or.if |