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Show Mechanic Who Gained Reconitx$) I Xs 1 C I II 5 y Vj Field's AER Winds Up Active Year With Excellent Record liSli' 'fill Hit Tripling the amount of aid given to soldiers and their families' through its office over the previous year, Hill Field's section of Army, Emergency Relief was a busy place during 1943. Recent figures of Army Air Forces branch of AER for section in the Air Service Command reveal that the Hill Field section ranks third nationally in repayment of loans with an average of 57 per cent ' as compared with 46 percent ASC national average. The base's AER shipped overseas in 1043, an anticU office is located in the AAB head pated change in demands for AERl quarters building. assistance was forthcoming. Where. last as formerly the majority of the of affairs summer in Ogden brought plenty flce's requests for aid came from of dollars into Army Emergency the soldier himself, the bulk o& Relief coffers. The Santa Ana the problems faced now come from army air base baseball team, which dependants of men on the battle, ieatured Joe OiMaggio and played fronts. to a capacity crowd here, and a Major Barton opined that as premier showing of "This Is the Uncle Sam sends more men across, Army", were the moneymakers. almost all of Army Emergency ReAs Major R. C. Barton, AER of- lief's tasks will be of a "home ficer, explained in an front" nature. interview, financial aid is far Stressed by Major Barton and from the sum and substance of assistants SSgt. Harry F. Lane AER activities. and Mrs. Frances A. Mallory is Especially advantageous to sol- the responsibility of diers and families is the office's everyone, soldiers and civilians direct contact with Washington's alike, to report to AER any and all Office of Dependency Benefits. "distress" cases involving soldier's This connection enables the Hill families. No matter what the de Field AER office to smooth off the pendant's trouble or soldier's rank! kinks in allotment problems that or present station, AER wants to may arise in individual cases. A- be told when assistance is clearlg llotments that have been made but needed. not received are not infrequent, The office here at Hill Field, d often causing financial hardship in with its cooperation! servicemen's families, and Army with the Red Cross, Utah State) e Health department and Weber Emergency Relief is a "red-tapeliminator in these matters. county director of public welfare, With huge numbers of soldiers is prepared to aid in any way. "AER-sponsore- &1 y. p. Price William I Ford a. Eugene D. Lyman For a holder to th designing t. steady Eueerip D. - 0rf L ,IU ram, aunng mi- f. aCS's own mechanics' magiesi nyaraunc department, cited in December's , . w issue of croscopic William inspection, JY3 , credit is Bven L. . i Ford, instrument mechanic in the SLiS.,n5Cha5icaI m&ne, itant general ioremnu i . devising a repair section, nbly, engine repair branch, and D. able tire press iron capable of re-for devising? tenance division, Norton, instrument mechanic moving tires safely in five min-i- n IN VMAflkO -DUsh rod gauge iW the same branch, were eiven u,tel wi,thout the use of bars and f.. rin trash rods. in ASCT, P,ae r.oU "an out that article points The . ... .MA rf era Mara magazine for December. ske, , coae tires. In removing the airplane graved ti inexperienced personnel to The article stated that the device tire from tne im it compresses the to the ce.nter o. the rim- The ch engine "v ui enables inexperienced personnel to part jn contact with ing incorrect nuwiwuDn easily overcome the difficulty of tire is mad! of plywood thus Jm- 'jtice said that before the device holding the race steady during in- - mating the need for cutting;. -A made, many snection. hydraulic lack exerts nio were unable to ascertain between two plates j?"ckinS.for.ce -u The race an nivnt aim. which types of engines a par-il" iastenea to lower and ply- ; plates e When push rod was intended the Lh2 ! as some rods vary as lit- movea apart, the rings come to ... of an inch Jjr ujr juibiusuupic mas a gether, breaking the bead. ui me pri., wnicn is neia nthera. apwiuu Lyman came to Hill Field as a The gauge enables anyone to de- - steady by the holder. aircraft mechanic and is junior The gyro is an extremely im living at Sahara Village. nine the correct roa in a mini-pun of time. It baa been in use portant instrument in an airplane, almost a year and a half, especially during blind flying, as yfprfce came to Hill Field in Janu- - it inaicates the relation of the anen-as a junior aircraft 7 gle at which the plane is flying mechanic, lives in Salt Lake to horizontal. Sty. Norton has since enrolled in a pilots' training school; Ford is still with the branch. Besides contribu Keena ting to the development of the race holder, Ford has designed a rotor inspection fixture, used in the in spection of rotors, and a lapping fixture for holding gimbal rings. 1 . Ford comes from Provo, Utah; is now living in Layton. He has been employed here for about two & i. . if years, first starting out as a me cbanic learner. H December issue of Plane "'si v port-instrum- H. ... STiodaU . - 10-t- ar in-nn- ch SSL'S : Kiln r r: . J t wood-rinw.- , - " end-of-the-y- ever-prese- Lovely to Look At mr 'W Child Care Cases Increase in Nov. frv EM Families in iff Four Lower m ' During November, 33,142 applications were approved granting federal aid for maternity and infant medical care to families of enlisted men in the four lowest pay grades of the military service. Annroval was wanted by the La Bu ta Donnrtment's Children's Lenreau, headed by Katherine F. Deon cases approved root Total cember 1, were 131,460. Mi Lenroot assured serviceman fathers of babies being cared for that tha health and safety of their wives during pregnancy ana cniia-hirt- h Hill Vlalila. rn1. KiUpack of Ogden, instrumental in assisting anr L.D.8. aerviee men ta keen ir religion intact, even though W deep in Arf ica. laillpack was employed In the inj"ata heinsr euarded." ffillirihl ection branch of supply from wives desiring: to lane M41, to October, 1942, when of the plan should go to advantage entered the armed forces. While clinic or to their a we he Inspected Anrtnr and fill out an appli aircraft supplies. was later stationed at Hill cation for maternity care. ith the 319th depot lanna these forms, as aO repair nlfala alsn local health or welfare state or (la Africa he was elected presld-- C agencies, Red Cross chapters and ?T' by his fellows and haa itrmv ajid nsvr reuei in holding Sunday school, tvtsi is . then, taken Mormon classes and ti,- - "ft.nnlipgtlnn . ::- private pnys;., The Red Cross to a clinic or nrovide the care. a special building for v,noUi. I. to doctor to (2 any wife go may j which to hold services The Uev hail aM.I.I - participating in the plan. the local rrom the arm chanlsJn to of such may be had orfrom MM a... a hos- from i . office public health rLKUlpack's mother. Alma The doctor then requests author,s employed in the -- wriwon here for payment of services and ization as liaison su- request forwards applications and or local health state the to proper recnaa a long rd m t -, j prompt wuw Jan. ic1 ervlc dMK back agency,on a or approval given or application. followed The same procedure Is the child ial Gas to obtain Infant care for . . of a serviceman. Authorized 111 EM In case of emergency, to a or hospital giving care iejr s iceman prejsnofrom Jw recuperating on PP"caJgonhoiS child may make TTunas received assistance b iMued epeeial "afSr treatment 1. rations for Uu i . .rom their homes or application Is approved k forme wries hft been f. pri-v- pre-nat- al &f K ''f 1;;".; At mmimimmt ' 'C C. ,'' - - , tx .v Grades Eligible CpL KiUpsMsk vf nt hand-in-han- be s Faith d" '3 v - " ' ' J - :v Xx - - WX - ' x ' " ' , ;- ' ' " ' t ' i (4S0z'W4MM - sac-meetin- gs. reted I- Wmmmmmm tea 'mmmmmmmmmmmm aB.IS.aa1 i Rations C S JC EL 1 jnounced ? onvJecence, the last week. navy departments, 1 01 an autAIHAklU maw of considerable ha rric maa'g rtcovery to i"4kin-.f""- M .'cSS Jme lined S?'.!L Miwut" sundard. nase'out- - m of care tc tant mothers or ,n'nfPu In the plan. chip cases stoned officers of the three grades art w '"p ,nP' hard-In- g three I '' (S";, ? gTneral mechanic - . .. ti. nsmai of where w'e stand It would A 'mynSJSee XuionVFrom awlSs- hWgh ta tt l-v-tle llelJ. 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