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Show 8 Wednesday March I, 1944 GQ3003 a, TBasVLibrary Without the AidthSight To Show Former Owners of Field Land Mili Prints 'Life Photographer Now Work in Engine Repair Sends Studies ' ,Ay-- pgffijffifrafKg r ' gawwaWB X f V 9 wiisMsaasaawssaMss For Exhibition A Photographers and camera fiends nf Will Field are in (for a treat in the near future. A shipment of 24 salon prints from the lens of Gjon Mili, speed action xaie photographer, has just arrived from New York addressed to the base ' -- recreational library, building opposite the gymnasium. These highly interesting photographs will be displayed in the suspended gallery following "Art of China," the current exhibit. The library has received over 100 new books during the past week, many with 1943 copyrights. A partial list includes: Non Fiction CO Postmaster," Cpl. Thomas St. George; "Warfare," Oliver Lyman Spaulding; "This Believing ... -- . and engine repair, in particular, expand amazingly from a little corner in the old reclamation building to the modern structure which now houses it With 60 of her tares sold to the government for Hill Field and her son in the service, Mrs. Harris rented out her remaining land and offered her services to Hill Field. She has been on the engine repair supply job since November of '42. and likes the keep 'em flying part she is playing. Sixty acres of land in the east area of the field, 10 more in the southwest corner and 51 months at Hill Field between them, make the nephew and aunt Layton com bination here a mighty important one. World," Lewis Browne; "Which Way America," Lyman Bryson; "Conditions of Peace," Edward Hal-le- tt Carr; "Headhunting In the Solomons," Caroline Mytinger. Fiction iurp Cpl 3mH Mu r i ' ' HIM ':f- jklir no atr tax th con 6- - ... it doe posi Employment of Blind Workers Here a Noteworthy Success JUl-l- en ter ilgi len da Wlc wo idi Seiri a ws 2-- 2-- 10 200 Applied for Muster Out e Pay-sinc- February 10 when the base finance office here began providing mustering-ou- t d pay applications service for honorably-dischargemen, about 200 former members, now employed at Hill Field, have called at that office, Chief Warrant Officer Phillip Devlin Jr., assistant base officer, disclosed this week. Most of the men have been from Colorado, he said, and by far the majority of them have been from the Army. He said a few were former Navy men and that one marine had presented himself. ,Tne finance office provides the men with application blanks for mustering-ou- t pay, helps them to fill out same, and forwards them to the proper fi nance office the one serving the area in which they claim residence ce " war effort and make the most of it The same accident that robbed them of sight peculiarly enough equipped them for tasks which must be done in the dark. Their remaining faculties have been sharpened to the nth degree They scorn pity, regarding its acceptance as a form of weakness. Visual distractions, such as curvaceous of attractive proportions, fail to register. Rest periods are disregarded and the sightless only leave their bench when nature requires. Theirs is a devotion to work which might well be emulated by more fortunate brethren. In camera repair there are five men engaged in loading film magazines for gunsight cameras used on planes in combat training. Supersensitive, the film must be handled only in complete darkness. While this is an obvious handicap to the normal human, it is commonplace to them it is their world. Though working in a gloomy atmosphere, their spirits rise abon !wai Banter in the stygiaa ness humorously revealed blaclc that f X"") ) iK oat their number, unmarried k Clair Wheeler ,is familiarly kam as the "Wolf," because of his per cent vision, which permits Dd' (Po J to recognize a woman from a mat, and so signal her presence. In maintenance several are e ployed in the solenoid section it, the aircraft engine starter diviaios ad disassembling, assembling andunitt justing the delicate control wonA painstaking job, sightlesa ers not only do it better and quick er but set the spring tension W touch with unerring accuracy - an operation that normal workea have never been able to do, tva with wath of exnerience, "We check their worx wi tension meter," Supervisor Effl Jones explained, "and I haw P to find a spring that was not on the nose' They have an uncanajj wra. ability in this respect A ao to unable "k w, is person f with years of practice. -"The solenoid has upwan to numesmall parts, in addition which aw of rous washers many eachia very much alike. They put u its place without nesiwiperMF o. fhAV mvstery j the al complete concentration is LmJi swer." Seldom absent and never - - Kx fur "Winds of Spring," Walter Havlg-hurs- t; "Bird of Dawning," John Masefield; "Windswept," Mary Chase; "Drivin" Woman," Eliza beth Chevalier; "They came to a Blindness is no bar to employment at Hill Field. Work River," Allia McKay; "Young Matand "Death B. Stern; records testify that the blind are not only more products riarch," G. Taxes," David Dodge; "Portrait of on the jobs they can do, but they are also more efficient an American," Robert Coffin. two for borrowed Books can be Neither is morale a problem. "Gripers" and "goldbricW weeks and renewed for an addiabsence. They are grateful for u tional two weeks. Hours are; Week are conspicuous by their the to contribute to 8 oDDortunitv p.m. p.m., Sundays days 'e A special program for the presentation of Red Cross pins to women who have completed a required number of sewing hours for the Hill Field unit of the Davis County Chapter will be held in the north- west recreation hall at 7:90 o'clock Friday evening, March 3. The program also will Include the showing of films by the Red Cross. Mrs. Margaret Bennett, director of the ARC at Hillcrest, will be m charge of the program. Ma h us Is Charles Roog, blind. Demit EXPERT TECHNICIAN sight he works in the solenoid overhaul section of the maintenance division, where his sensitive fingers enable him to accurately set thi spring tension in the delicate starter control unts. Before finding his war niche at Hill Field, this blind worker ran a candy store in Delta Colorado, for 12 years. Over A Year Without Injuries Present Bed Cross Pins to Dorm Women P If 1 E-29- 0, NOT SO MANY YEARS AGO Rex Layton, left, and Chloe Lay. ton Harris, his aunt, worked and played right on much of the land that is today Hill Field. These days of war find them here still, but this tune at work in engine repair. Fifteen odd years ago a neigh 4 to Hill Field belonged to the pio-borhood kid named Rex Layton neer Layton and were passed down had the best times of his young life through the generations. Rex has had a finger hooting jack rabbits where Hill in Hill Layton Field's growth and work Field is now situated. And over practically since the day it started. oat the east aide of the field, Chloe Working for a local oil firm, he Layton Harris, his aunt, was busy delivered gas to contractors who got construction under way raising four girls and a boy and first for the field. But as things began running a typical Utah valley farm to hum, so did his enthusiasm and household. he signed up in the first class of But that was 15 years ago and mechanic learners here. kid nor neither the hunting-happ- y That was in June of 1941 and aunt could see makes his family-raisin- g Layton one of the oldest or even dream of Hill Field's rapid employes in length of service on coming and its subsequent demand the for their farm lands and personal tion field. He has seen the installain general grow from a couple efforts. of buildings to its present size, Today they can both be found hi engine repair building at Hill Field, where Rex has traded his rabbit gun for machinist's tools and Mrs. Harris works in the supply crib. And if their working hours aren't enough, they have the satisfaction of knowing that part of Hill Field is their old Layton land. No coincidence is the fact that their family name and the little town two miles south of the field are spelled and' sound alike. The first Layton, their ancestor, hit this territory back in 1847 as a member of the original Mormon battalion and before his days were finished, built the first mill and store in the vicinity and saw the pioneer settlement he was so much a part of named after him. That, was Mrs. Harris' grand father and Rex Layton's great grandfather. The acres later sold . -- r I eges pertaining thereto. , Vera includes fenroa, mA in,AM V Carlson, of Of"' L,-McCTair Wheeler, Washington W TM race; Charlie Boog. Clearfield, - djj R Pass and Jose City; and tnw Randle Fountain Green. Martha Royse Succeeds Kay Farnham at USO QM Students Visit Martha L. Royse,. graduate of the education department of the University of Illinois, has been named program director of the Ogden USO Center on 24th street to succeed Mrs. Kay Farnham. Mrs. Farnham has been program director of the USO for more than a year, and is well known among Hill Field military personnel and a single accident, civilian workers. Miss Royse as the painters' unit, shop maintensumed her duties at the Ogden ance section, maintenance division, USO last week. gathered for the above picture. Frank Fogel, foreman, said that Sgt. York to Marry according to their records a year was completed on Washington's Arlene Moulding birthday. Then, a day or so later, Arlene Moulding, employe in safety department officials informed Army Air Base message center, them that their record was actually and Sgt. Raymond York will be about 50 days greater. married March 8. Therefore, today the painters' Sgt. York is assigned to the Ord unit have chalked up the extraordinance section of the 482nd Air Base nary record of 426 days without e Squadron. The wedding will take a Injury. To safety officials this is phenomenal place in Ogden. because Supply, physical l?"'' lost-tim- iuib A sroup of 35 officers, at the Quartermaster Scnc-(M a. 5 --, IKUMl Service Forces ucp. "'7'II visited Hill Field today W v conducted on a tour 4of and of the division II a tnr the VlStt W. WoU,"f: Paul In " w.7rl Pctre are. left to and right: standing, Enos Hollobaugh supply division chief, Service Fr the Army Ward of George Johnson, Henry Steggell, Orleta Sigman, Arthur Higdon, depot. 1 if rank Fogel, foreman; Henry Call Streight, Dan Graham, Raymond Mutual Benefit Harris, assistant foreman; BUI Two Assess: h eafc, Schueddig, Asa Conaway Kneeling . l: iwi uenison, Fred Avery, John Fourteenth and uarnett. Glen Cochran, supervisor for the Mutual Benefit atan Dangerfield, John Clopton, due and will become dtfjV I ? eison Green. March 20, it was a .a Ansenc wnen tne was week by the society. alltWriie( ! picture taken were: Acton Rod well, John Members may pay .t w : uean, carl Strong. Harold Sherrod solicitor or make P'"- - & wick Schlupp, and William Rams emolove relations dell. personnel building. . jj B-2- i H often extremely hazardous. They have worked on flimsy scaffolding 60 feet in the air among the rafters on the giant repair hangars. They have climbed ladders, have perched precariously on rigging to get at practically inaccessible places with the brush. C E. England, assistant safety engineer, said if this unit could do it despite hazards involved so could every other department on the field, especially during March when a campaign for no e accidents throughout the post will be directed by the safety lost-tim- We Want 1000 New Workers For ""t,, ':,. Know Any1 1 |