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Show u Saturday November 6, 1943 Re-Nam- e 14 WAC Squadron On This Base huge,- sprawling, teeming, humming industrial plant, and a relatively comfortable place of residence for the soldiers and civilians who live on the post. It did not, of course, arrive at this satisfying condition by any overnight miracle. Once was a little cluster of shacks bravely confronting a sea of sand and dust in summer, a sea of mud and snow winter. The 907th WAC Hq. squadron inAnd Hill Field hasn't always la no more and In the future will so been the immediate be known as WAC Detachment alarms offar from Reas it is Recent Directives Also Expand Training Program No. 1, OASC, Lt. Nolle L. Jones, WAC commanding; officer, announced this week. The change followed a recent general order. Although reorganization is not complete, present plana call for the retention of the previous company organization in general, auch as keeping a separate payroll, training schedule, first sergeant, etc. A WAC manning table will no longer be kept, however, and apportionment of ratings will be made in accordance with the section in which the WACs work rather than as a separate it war Pearl today. Painters Compile y Record 249-Da- Top Field With No Lost Time Accidents Mark The painters unit, plant equipment section, maintenance division, compiled a record as of last Satur day, of 249 consecutive days with out a lost time accident, the best record on the base. Frank F. Fogel, unit foreman, said the record was made possible . because the twenty-fou- r employes the unit are experienced, composing old-tipainters who wouldn t con aider stepping on a scaffold they hadn t thoroughly tested, or climb- ing a ladder they knew wasn't safe. Each Friday a member of the safety department holds a meeting in the unit to discuss some phase of safety with them. A wooden sign in the department indicating the number of days without a lost time accident la changed each Saturday. Official Air Mail Service Is Begun A daily air mall transport service between Hill Field, OASC, and ASC headquarters at Patterson Field, Fairfield, Ohio, was inaugurated Nov. 1, to handle official mail between the two stations, it was revealed by . Major William C Ingram, acting assistant adju- tant general, OASC The new service will be run In conjunction with regular air freight runs presently in operation. Major Ingram stated that the new air courier service would cut by three days the amount of time formerly involved in mail passage. He said the results of a recent survey of the time required for delivery of regular air mail, parcel post, registered mail, etc., had in dicated a definite need for the new type service just started. Frances Robison Weds Mickey Perry Married recently In Salt Lake City were Frances Robison, buyer for purchasing and contracting, supply division, and Seaman First Class Mickey Perry. U. & N. Seaman Perry, recently stationed on a ship that waa torpedoed, la now in Newport News, Va, Mrs. has been at Hill Field a Perry laavav Transport squadron. a single array rifle wasn't There on the place, and only about .11 mair.ierb.th ... sand blew through the weather the floor stripping and piled up on InB?eMy wife and I got pretty hungry during that show. Q. Why? The Big Wind B. The electric power was out so . . . our stove was electric, we cook, to there was no way went downtown for a meal, ouc the xestaurants had electric stoves, too, and weren't putting out much. C. Remember the big trees blown vj,.--- - down in tne Birccia mere. Thevv stavea t anrA for about a week. . same Q. And that was tne about that? Tnrl Harbor. What a w.n when the news broke, we realized we had to protect the a Jap Vnr nil we knew carrier fleet might be standing oil the coast ready to give us the works. So we built sandbay --re- "vetmems zu or so t I m. I r thin OTtUt- - A- STOOGl were actually working on many C. That's right I remember. field. Some were caught with A. Anyway, one night the road the radio transmitters. If they'd all to the south gate was closed and attacked the post, too hard to get through and the got together could have taken it easily. they few people coming in were supHow? Taken the Q. post? posed to use the west gate. We'd C Well, there was no protec- been using our tractors to pull out civilian cars that were stuck, a but orders had been given to stop K&CentW that So some brass hat comes J bussing up the south road and not was own bis stuck. car, gets It a staff car. Well, the guards go down to take a look, see it's a commercial car, turn around and objection trouble. to helping rftrM in -- Hmmntea J August or September C That wind blew out used a dollar for the beginning of shifts Mke to nave t i? aof possibly during the day or transportaW called back after every tuiiu aMt waked up by a 0r mjdni,nt from somebody at a wanting to know what to do about something. The Christms. Alert C. Oh. beautiful, beautiful w Hidn't tret much of it jleep. while there. Remember that alert on Christmas Eve? Some leuows staved on the field for two days,A i aiioweaJ tney weren ..11 out, and their families didn't know wnere tney were uu mcjr Ana some wive gui point-to-poi- nt The buses are being delivered J the result of a survey of tranipot) cation prooieins maae m aeptembef by the district traffic office. AM San Francisco. The survey w&iiii ranged by tJapt. Arnold J. LaW assistant chief, traffic sectlorf OASC. C&pt. 1 T. E. Wherry, motor W officer, said that one of the n3 buses has been in service iinj last week, and 1that ma.the remaininf . . lour were scnequiea to arrive lit niCMMlS. this week from the Mt Raink B. What was that business about Motor Base, Washington. They ti the mysterious shots and the blood being provided by the ninth servic on the ground? I command. A. Oh. that Well, somebody for securing b Arrangements heard the shots, investigated and buses have been made by It Oof found the blood. There waa a lot B. H. O'Connor, chief of traffic iti of excitement until it transpired tion, OASC, and Lt Col. Edwvi that some character had chosen M. Lee, OASC ordnance officer. I LI! IB mtuvuiw iuv w Maw.. Oapt. Wherry emphasised tfci jack rabbit . , . That's the story the buses would be used only o anvhow. Hill Field. They will not be w Q. By the way. what was oone as passenger vehicles between th with those sandbag revetments you station and other points. Specif out the planes in? been determine uses have not A Oh. they were dismantled Capt Wherryyetstated that m after things quieted down. Colonel would develop as needs arose. Berman wanted them left up for a while, he said, as "a monument to hysteria." Q. Quite a phrase. C These things may seem funny WACs now, but they were deadly serious then. Not to mention damn trying , orientitic I. Vivian and damn uncomfortable. A. Well, they were the good old instructor at post schools, left la week for Fort Oglethorpe, Gt, days. C. Cut It out The only thing commence training as a memo good about them is that they're of the WAC organization. She will receive five weeks over . . . and that by sweating 'em out, we've now got one of the best training there after which damn air depots in the country. will enter WAC officer school emersrine. upon si a. Amen, po dner. a 4, gi I They will be m 1 1 1 . I Mat-snail- that year was worse. The wind was coming down out of Weber canyon 60 or 70 miles an hour, and it sandblasted the paint off my car. A. Mine, too. And plenty of other people's. taxed elephant trains in trW porting personnel about thj sub-dep- ot I Mr buses are scW uiea 10 do roiling over m Field's streets and highwp next week to assist the ovJ ate the field. i aw najMni niNbunr ivo semi-trail-er Joins the any cars in That was something, all right But in some ways I think the in With Additions (Picture on Page i new s Base Instructor rig C. sandstorm DUt rlrf,t rd..: .I.... 1.W Transport Problem To lie Eased some aircraft pistols. We had what would we chine guns-h- ut mounts? Quite have used for shotfew officers were borrowing their from rifles hunting and guns " Rblwl too damn busy to think worked about fighting. Seems like I on end. 16 hours a day for months C. Didn't everybody: B. I guess so. One night I got about eleven p.m. for dinner, , home . waa 411ttf- sittlnor down to . Wtw nice juicy steak when a pnone cau came to go back to tne nera. . 9KV 125 were ? it that fell altogether? B. I think it was 84 inches. oniy oiui 4 Hon. hundred and even wnere ww Harbor? It's really something to hear a the group of pioneer officers reminmen who built the post nTv iscing about the early days. Let's ?ut L,a. tune in on three of them as they SyPa directhir anT eVen one u cuddle their drinks, finger their i u MMf .of mnrAthAn noses and shoot the breeze. To one ilane. Of course nothing hap- protect their identities we'll call it happened. But we as them A. B and C And we'll refer pened-Ko .oaHw tnr- nnvthintr. Za UCH J to the newcomer with, questions we coma C Yeah. Matter of fact, appropriately as Q. had plenty of trouble with have A. Jeez, I'll never forget that the Japs right in this vauey. mere winter of '41. How much snow was were 10,00 of 'em in tne vauey member WACs will also participate In Friday after part or an expanded training; program out lined in a recent circular from Air Service Command headquarters. A camouflage course was begun last week and WACs are now wearing gaa masks to breakfast one day a week. In addition, the directive calls for two hours of drill and three hours of physical back to the gate. But the temtraining per week, besides regular go perature's below zero, and the guy basic training. might have frozen to death. So we pull him out in spite of orders. He's kind of mad, but grateful, and after that there's no more retreat formation pn noons hereafter as t Days; TinW Rlfffill Field's EarlyAlert tSlafB ivft N--J Buses for of the Big Wind and Christmas ... Field Routes The ..t Hill Field today i8 a unarmed troop, of about M nM Tell completion, a second lieutenant Miss Marshall has been an atructor in post schools since N( vember, 1942. Since that tune has tauorht well over 9000 employes. She also conducted new employes on a tour n nost. A familiar sight here A. Amen. five or Red Cross Classes Given at Hillcrest ii Fire Crew Aids Laytoa The Hill Field fire department aided the Layton fire crew last Joseph C. E. Withers week in extinguishing: a larre With an unbroken service rec blase occurring in a ord of 17 years since his original duck-pi- n bowling alley near the been Miss Marshall leadinf. Art, Handicraft Rita Middletown Air at theatre, Layton. One pumper proteges about, indicating to employment ana crew were Courses Will C. in the chief points of interest. sent. 1926, Joseph E. WithDepot ers, maintenance employe, was re Be Offered I cently promoted to civilian Gross-Wor- d Arrangements to conduct art and handicraft classes as a projr Withers began working here in I w-- ' a ect of the Hill Field branch, Davis 1941, and was among those August, Cross county Red chapter, are who assisted in establishing the it was an new depot He started as assistant nearing completion, nounced by Frank Hopkins, pres- to Major Younger, base technical Have you ever been stumped in the middle of a croKj ident of the executive committee inspector, and later became fore at a recent Hillcrest meeting. word puzzle, felt like ripping the thing to shreds for man in the aero repair section. Residents of Sahara Village, Lay-to- n in Back the early days at Mid of a three-lettword meaning something or other, and Sahara trailer parks, and Withers said, he worked Hillcrest are all invited to register dletown, on old Curtis JN-- 4 (Jennies); wondered just exactly what kind of people have the pai for the courses at the branch of- aisotne tne oKker Question to sit and dream the darn things up? fices in building 524, Hillcrest used by the army air corps Work completed In the classes Mark Alvin Ashby, supply division em- will be presented to various army u maae me iirst refueling expert' pwye in the research mia-nand auditing menu n in mwimwi hospitals, Mr. Hopkins said. ncn ha been highly success-Seven new members were ap- letter of commendation from his brf officer for the work 1 crosswora puzzle creator, havpointed to represent the residents engineering ne on this ship. did mg been publishing them nationally of the nearby housing projects on ror puzzle hounds for the last 18 the Red Cross board, lt was also years. made known. They are: Mrs. C. A, Considered one of the foremost Lewis. Pearl Waters, Hopkins, Fred if creators of the crossword Karl Tennyson, Myrtle Ray, John was on puzzle, Ashby his started Thompson and Ueorge Cornish. 50 career when he won a puzzle conOther members on the board test innnMHul f h Q.l T 1.. are: Joseph a Martin, Donald The parts inspection unit, ena-lnTribun in 109.1 nM Aust Noel Warner, Fred Lewis, r Alma White, Olga Webster. Mae repair branch, recently insurant- - tht ma i... v. , , Harris. Assisting Mr. Hopkins on ed a new and sneediep mtom r f han m A ki. the executive committee are: Dr, engine parts inspection based on published In nationally circulated line techniaue. newsoaoers. hnnUm R. S. Thompson, vice president, tne assembly ni Charles Arnold, foreman, indicated and has received over ana meute rticnois, secretary. $1900 for that the new method has stepped his trouble. up production of parts inspection His contributions have appeared as much as 80 per cent in some in "This Week." the Sumhv min. . Biani-essine section rii.lrlh.it - 4w aaiiia. . . . . -icuuirB parn main Ra)h k vsscaia Encs apeaar ft., " T1 to be familiar 7h with Npw v. 01 me insDectlon nrrwpaa . m n,tu. m. irvr v u., Of n.ta. new..wtuPLVJne" published over limits ssicsii m woric in nni i Aaui 01 rua r)iAatina Findings In a recent survey particular engine part, resulting in! AMm Ashby uung puzzies la really very of armed forces personnel show vcwim BKiii ana output. simple, or so Mr. Ashby would have that the average soldier receives you oeueve. The modest . creator 14 pieces of mail, flaal DOUKnt a BUM ... including newsWuhrtw tin. noun, papers and parcels, each week. AUUta tIOSeg Doors jmth abridged dictionary. Then h. nrv. It la verb, adverb, another This Is nearly five times as much of horse a or tton, The loJiai Phabetlcally every adjutant 3 as in World War L wo.rd'. ,u",x. Don't give up, though, that was tndidate school 8win Every week M.OMM piece of the graduation of thia " length H,a next Ashby says mail go overseas, about a fifth on Jan. r .cla"" ZLiIm , listing was comniled doesn't really consume it ;p5.nt wof that amount of iMJlr . all words three lett-- r. ... Mall bags 111 TVin ts,,,, In l.,tH Prior to coming to work tac. 01 - .ii i.. . iciu ihjx hiuni rtt are placed on every ship and were nsts made on the awing gave notice that no mo v",er. "eparate u plane leaving the United States cants for this ulpp"' ofna.worl containing four, five, alx duties on hla on . ' no 10 to " 1otr mmi m...' ... Crosa. Wonder what faring . - Free ; one-sto- ry SSnJJtlSA.ce tT Puzzle Maker tor n lears nas Keen at lt m-- lo 3 er tri-mot- or vrr ir - I New Ways Speed free-lan- ce Inspection e I .a.. I m.-..-i- Average Soldier Mail in Week I 1 Gets 14 Pieties M. .I""' 11 I ' .'r a1V4 m I .. M ,,hi ffe lf P"x Pfjuti! . -- w SO-ac- re M jrir-rjiTptw-r ' he rvarr may . |