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Show u Bond Drive the for Kitty 16 Personnel and Training Programs Develop Saturday November 6, 1943 A modern airplane is afthemselves v during tfee swing shift, ... t. ana u j a leanuiiy compucaieu vuuig. Stress Efficiency You can't just hand a new Workers on the job are now is necestaught to do not only what to worker a wrench and tell him sary do it but to their task to fix it. First you must show well. Recruiting deficits have been up by a valiant struggle for him how. And you don't try made more efficiency. For example, the to make him understand the instrument repair branch of maindeluxe attend-tenance in one recent month Inin warehouse 10 re- Employes whole airplane. creased Its output no less than section, branch l, Above are employes of wareIf you can teach him the 700 per cent without any Increase parable propery to each left the in front, in 10 se cents shown kitty h put fifty mastery of just one important ofAnpersonnel. olvillan nnvdiur and use it to purcnase a right are J. iw, important part of the Of OSU $25 bond which is raffled off to and winne item propeller, carburetor, personnel management is . , . ,, emStandards Unit) one of a group of selected mtn; (Occupational turbosupe.rcharger, ignition, which analyses every job en tne etc. you have accomplished field and determines the rate of pay to which Its holder is entitled Swings a lot. Swing to civil service standvi-- m U7 o ggJJ"11' ; Supervisor that absenteeism has dropped cent since the start of the tern monthly bond raffles. Officer! rr j-- And after he hu learned, he according ards. For example, a mechanic will work better if you simplify hie helper at $1800 a year cannot ad living which mean diminish his vance to junior aircrarc mecnamc been assigned living worries as much as possible, until he has actually duties of a junior aircraft methe individfor it is seldom easy for chanic. He cannot be advanced uals to adjust themselves to the simply because he is an efficient role of war workers in the complex mechanic neiper. pattern of war industry. At Hill Administrative raises for efficien field, these problems fall in the do- cy are provided, usually main of the personnel and training of the jump to the next higher pay division. bracket While OSU now functions When Col. Berman arrived to ac- mainly as a control board on rais tivate the field three years ago, he es, it is planning a program of scibegan work on plans for a train- entific aid to help other agencies ing program, and soon the pro- on the field streamline their oper gram was being carried out by hU ating methods. The civilian personnel erancn in training executives. In the spring of 1941 courses for terviews new workers, classifies mechanic learners were set up, them, processes their civil service papers, and sends them to tne jods providing three months of training at Utah State Agri- where thev are most needed. It also Weber cultural college in Logan, ..... tries to keep tnera irom oeing i. II couegB in isgueu, ana vne voca- alarmed or annoyed by the amount tional center of Salt Lake City. of processing usually eight hours These courses were alternated or more which is necessary before with three months of shop experi- thev can go to work. ence and work at Hill field. It is worth noting tnat me snorc- By the end of the year craft age of new workers nas lorcea training was under way in aero re- considerable relaxation of former metal, engine employment standards. It used to pair, welding, sheet Aoninar iMthitr be required of an applicant tnat mimIp nalntlnor anil and canvas, instrument repair. he be a United States citizen. Now electricity, hydraulics and propellor it is not provided the alien appll repair. Courses in schools off the cant can give satisfactory evidence (Off Res- of loyalty. Age limits nave been post are known as ORT ervation) training. " raised also. In one of the supply warehouses where tippers are coat Start Training at Field In December, training at HiH ed with paraffin to prevent cor field was started, and a civilian rosion, the workers, all women, are training administrator was ap- mostly over 50 and some are over pointed. A valuable innovation here 70. was "upgrade" training, designed It Knows What Te De to enable personnel to learn inLike the old woman who lived creasingly important and increas- in a shoe, the civilian personnel kinds of work. branch has a lot of children some ingly well-pai- d For example, typists already pro- 11.000 workers at present but un ficient la general typing were like her, it usually knows what to trained in military communica do. It must find tnem a place to tions and phraseology; live (see .col. 1. page 15), see that electricians were trained in bomb thev have transportation to the control equipment; skilled workers field (see col. l, page lit, ration were taught how to instruct others their gasoline and tires if they In their crafts, and shop supervihave cars of their own, provide sors were taught safety measures recreation dances, sports, movies. and first aid. special entertainments and make While ORT training expanded to sure that they are paid regularly Denver, Boise, Pocatello, Seattle, and correctly. Spokane and Eugene (Ore.), the Until recently deductions from post schools moved Into the first pay vouchers (for war bonds, witn of seven fine new buildings of their holding tax, retirement, barracks. own. Both in numbers trained and rent, etc.) were written orr in quality of training, there was con lump, and workers often did not stant improvement. Soon 6,000 peo- know what they were for. Now all ple were being processed through deductions are separately Itemized on the vouchers, and payees are the. post schools every month. By June of this year, however. happier. the manpower shortage was For employe problems not spec! acute that retrenchments and re- flcally handled by any ether agen adjustments in the training pro- cy, there Is a counseling unit gram were necessary. ORT courses where troubled or pussled workers were restricted to a few schools come for help: human interest epi near the post and train sodes are daily occurrences. One Ing was discontinued in favor of episode, reported in a recent is tranilng, which means sue of the Hillfielder, ooncerns that workers learn while they colored lady with a complaint work. Mechanic learners became about her supervisor. Said she, of mechanic helpers. In the post tne supervisor: "He always says, schools, training was con we're gonna do this or we're gonna tinued on a voluntary basis that do that, we're not tired. Then he Is, personnel working the day shift stands around and makes me do all could take courses to Improve the heavy llftln. I finally got mad one-thi- .,'4fi!i Arthur 1 Out Shift if .auucr "wH assistant, Flight Officer ocnuits. J H K 1 ''if Sitf rd J? 1 I I V 7 pre-ser-vi- ce 1 'j 7 AMtanes. STILL DARK . . . Outside but the guests ef honor had already been dragged from their beds idem d but cheerful to Pine View Lodge. Above, instrument repair merrymakers are' shown eajejir sleepy-eye- -- r 1 v v - t J'ii. v Wi'.V.V.'.VJVXi I '!.'.. 'AU'. .W.-- . sub-dep- ot ; pre-servi- ce on-the-j- ob up-gra- de New Semi-Trail- Bus er - ' . n.' on-iie- ia 3 t'A 1 r&'-i'- , i ', ' ' s W ' STILL AWAKE . . . Although missing half their night's stoef sj Sears Roch, left, and Kemp Bourne at the swing shift party, we; was recently appointed head of the new chemical laboratory s a. a. a msttit MMlk -s DAnntA t J wsasv UN tWVTVH IIMHtO MfcegWUfJllw VI gSSJf a W WipOsTltA. tv. STILL SLEEPY . . . Sears. Roeh is helped out ef bed and held before the cameraman at his home In Ogden for a picture in his pajamas. i- - It's Really a Surprise Party Instrument Repair Throws Two surnriftA nartlMt . rtn anph a. BUTDrise that I sjays, no, we're not tired, we ain't done nuthin. but I'm tired and I'm auittinV The matter wa eiven' SeArci Rrvh and rmn Pniima norvontlv in honOf (A patched up through the counseling unit and tne colored lady remains new promotions by employes of the instrument repair happily employed today. naintanatlMi. 'I UUU. luouiwmwvv. A party had been pis- "Helen Guild Leaves Friday evening by tne For Nurse Training But w shift, day repair of . A..fiinffiii."- an . a. . ' . Helen R. Guild, administrate snirc, noc w w """Col. H. Arnold Rich. Utah selec a nartv for the morning typist in Purchasing and Contract utmost T ing orancn, supply section, will tive service director, has day In .ui urged all same leave tomorrow for St PauL If Im to the fs i. A7r fathers Guild has successfully completed facing induction Into the ner examinations ana will attend armed forces to keep their draft out or ineir sew "vr- - vk -the Nurses Cadet Corps school In boards informed pf their oocupa-tidnrt r and taken to ju. tnat. city. Lodn. Ocden canyon. tdct'J and family status. . and - Fathers to Inform Boards Status ... Staf & al - a directive) from Air Post Col. Rich to local board states, Brig. Gen. Howard A. Crl ha "efforts to shift employment by been appointed Assistant Chief of men subject to induction have Air staff. Operations, Commitments been regarded with suspicion, and and Requirements, of the Army an to avoid service, but in effort Ale Forces. Gen. Craig fills a vacancy created consideration of applications by wnen maj. uen. Barney M. Giles fathers for deferment lou would was assigned to duty as new Chief take Into consideration the char oi Air start. Prior to his new assignment, Gen, acter of the employment of the vraig served as Chief of Staff fathers, even though recently ac for the Mediterranean Air Com- quired, and the contribution that mand under Air Chief Marshal Sir they are making to the war effort Artnur W. Tedder, R. A. F. in vital civilian activities." . HOT.niNO iao PAH.ctRNnr.iui v Mhown above, are schedulpd to make their appearance on Hill ws win wrvc rtami only. aooMdinff mm '' ' To ty.f M its , "Heretofore," a swing'. hl?t held amnerpfr with chicken again BTT"" " .k t Lodge by the dayIn shift one W "Two parties wore us ww had a wot. -.- ft i With in a gold nnJ-Tte- J nresentea a W emblem, and a oV" nrevlously Wf, . Bourne, . -- .1. hAS instrumeniassUUnt ryij mnbMi to and Roch, formerly oraUrr man, has the new chemical . -- Ilangar No. I. |