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Show Ofcad rt Units r Top ASC Spark Plug Packers Have Own Work Slogan 'Keep 'Em Dry' of In Februarv In a corner of warehouse 21, branch 3, a mighty Important Job packing goes on and the handful of women there are doggedly and daily taking care of it in a manner that defies criticism. comSpark plugs the tiny devices which are the heart, of the bustion engine are packed for overseas shipment in this department and it's packing that has to be perfect Quantity in th La department doesn't stand In the way of quality Top Kick Brasel ASC Departments Top - v I. . Lt Andersen despite the fact that from Nov. l to 26, a record 1,660,317 sparK plugs were readied ror overseas snip-meby these women. Their peak was 291,412 plugs packed in a six-day period during this same montn. Logical question is what makes the seemingly simple procedure of plugs packing ordinary little sparkAnd it sp vital in the first place. can be answered in this way. When the plug on an automobile goes on the blink it may stall the motor and result in delay and inconvenience. What is true in the case of the automobile is multiplied a hundred-fol- d in a plane which may be fighting off attack with the lives of highly trained American boys at stake. If it stalls, it falls. Maintenance Second in . 1 1 Barrimger T Singleton I mwi I 8 OreenweQ Production I -- lilfiltf So k son-in-la- hitting six ' y V Hoskins Crowder f!! "1 V Velr Shrimpton V w m. axis in India, and t si & m h r. on one, of., doesn't have to be told that Thomas Walters Henry Hegstrom her packing efforts have a direct at bearing on bombing' efforts Air-Wac- s fighting fronts. Mrs. Smith is crewchief, & small, slight women, who nonetheless manages, as do the frwruns&&ft&'Yi n ., mtvmfA inound finished overseas crates. sne CANT FORGET . . . Almost a started at Hill Field in August of 1942, was the first women to work year on "the Bock." It wasn't enough to be the Redx. most active volunteer in her Cross' 01 guess wis iwi ot iob on the en. fJrst 0 th.t never go away, xnai tropical sun tire field. community, active in her church, A spark plug that is wet is proprietor of a flourishing business really baked it In." That was 1st Brasel of the 482nd spark plug that might as well have and a grandmother so Mrs. Ma Sgt E. Earl tma siae, so jars, smitn on stayed Squadron s reply to tne question Kristine an became Kimes Mrs. Mary Long, rie of how he keeps his sun tan all I and winter and incidentally part of a crew chief, Mrs. Mildred Menzies, and Mrs. colorful yarn about the dreariest Miss Today she is serving her country Egnes Hart, Dora Ludwig supplemented the fa- - at Ogden Air Service Command, year he ever endured. July 15, 1942, he flew from Pan- - miliar "Keep 'Em Flying" warcry ama to Ecuador, then after an- - with one of their own. They "Keep and hoping desperately for an over seas assignment. She has a good other hop, found 'Em Dry I' her himself on "The Rock." Proper First step in this "Keep 'Em reason for that ambition mother, father and twin brother name and a mouthful it is for the Dry" process of packing is a 1 w" approximately a thousand gle spark plug in a single contain-mil- all are prisoners of the Germans off the coast of Ecuador, is er. Second move in the battle in their native Denmark. Private Kimes, who is 48, was Little Seymour Island in the Gale- - against moisture and rust is the in Denmark, and came to born ten Brato containers of small in But packing palegos Archipelago. tar-ouKansas wno carton. 1. City in 1912. She lived there a u. conorts ouui sel and his enlistment in the Air-and maintained an outpost air Next, another waterprooofed car-ba- - until her on the leased island,J it's still ton. this time with ten of the pre- WACs last December. During the Pvt. Marie Kimes viously wrapped packages. And first World war she served with just "The Rock." seven mile On this five by heap then the waterproof paper which the Red Cross motor corps, and has ever active in the Red Cross Srasel is being supplemented by dipping in been can't do it by themselves and I of stone in the Pacific, since. want to have an active part," she spent eleven and a half months wax these days. She speaks, reads and writes and describes entertainment mere The final overseas crate wmcn . and Danish as "not a. darned thing!" Swim- our ladv packers boast has never Swedish, Norwegian. pointed out. "The have Germans a thirteen shot number she or of For to be sure what operwas back to years there been battered ming reported but them, though they have shipped ated the Success Kennels in Kan- persons from the community in else with ocean all around was even that wore thin when it thousands, is next. The smaller sas City, exhibiting her pedigreed Denmark where I was born,'' she salt water lor snowers, snaving,- sized cartons six to a crate get a dogs all over the area. Her hus- said, expressing also her fear that even drinking after it was dis- paper suit and a berth in a ply band, Frank Kimes, is in the mainher brother tenance salteven his of He likes North may have been one of tilled. wood box. And when the box is celery department plug-pack- day-shif- ers Pvt. Kimes Joins For More Active War Role - . . 1 1 co-pack- ers, I sin-isla- nd es ed paper-wrapp- ed se I I I producton or management. Management refers to effidr' uUlization of available man W producUon, to the average hours required per item of haul. ""j Five departments were fint production; three in manages In production the depanW were: generators, starteraTs buretors, gyros and bombt heads. In management: Tki maintenance, tool repair (tied? win control. First in production th the ASC was Spokane; . less these days! A load of beer brought on the island spasmodically meant, If you were lucKy, mayoe a can per man. unginauy assigned 10 uiuc Seymour for "only" six montns, Brasel landed there a Dude eer- geant, nnianed his island duty a first sergeant. And although rem iniscing with a grin that "Griping in the army must have reached its peak out there," mused that per haps a couple months on "The Rock" would make any G. L ap preciate Hill Field and its ilk. Well, he has that tan anyway. Offer $100 War Bond for Safety Award A Safety Ace Award carrying with it a $100 war bond is being offered by Air Service Command headquarters to either a civilian or service man or woman who may have "done something especially constructive for advancement of safety." Capt Robert R. Afflick, ground area safety officer for OASC, urges all Hill Field supervisors and commanding officers of all military units to submit names of those whom they think might qualify for such award. Send names of candidates to the industrial safety office, warehouse 17, extension 333. In submitting names include, if an enlisted man or woman, a paragraph concerning age, length of service, family status and any other information of interest The award is being offered to all area ASC installations, Capt Afflick said. sealed, nailed and 1 d for American Aviation, Kansas City. "The proudest moment in my .dded nrotection it' iust about as Private Kimes says, "was waterproof an article as any army life," the moment when I was sworn into couia demand. It'll stay dry! the service, because I am glad to - Grounded . . . This week were a serve the country where I have numDer of Hill Field soldiers ear lived such a good life." She said that she felt that anmarked for & cadet . training, as the army announced the transfer swering the call to help her country to ground duty of 36,000 men of would also be aiding the land of similar status. The reason: un her birth, Denmark. "If the people filled draft quotas and a general of Denmark are freed, they will nave to nave aid from us; they shortage of ground forces. t Sends Thanhs them. "My family would not take an enemy occupation without re sistance." Private Kimes' duties in the WAC detachment at OASC include those of mail clerk She tells with pride that she is the oldest mem ber of the detachment, in view of years, and has never yet reported to sick call in the army. "That's more than a lot of srrandmothers can say," she x said proudly. (, ' 1 Hill Field Contains Its Own Box Factory Which Manufacture for Export and Domestic Uses Unknown to probably half employes at this base is the fact that almost every box used here, wnetner for domestic or export purposes, is manufactured by the box factory now located in ware house 30. Headed by Lieut H. B. Wille, chief, plant maintenance branch, and Reginald A. Cam, chief supervisor, the box factory turns out between 590 and 600 boxes of all shapes and sizes every day. first management was Middletown, sirc in oftne overau or combing the above was Saal rating tonio. Three of the eieht firrt ' departments here also rated ft in production on the ASC Jani analysis of maintenance activm These departments were: 2 buretors, generators and stanr Shift supervisors in the stu! unit, electrical repair branch, j Paul Crowder and Vera Siap con; in generators, Willard E kins and Roland waiters. d buretor branch general is Harvey R. Hegstrom. Supervisors in the gyro der ment, instrument repair bin are Ben Thomas and Dot' Weir; in bombsight repair, Wt; I J. Shrimpton. Shop maintenance general I perintendent is L E BanW Bar ringer's section was also in management amons ASC 1 stallations in November, Decent IMS, and January, 1944 FeorW makes the third straight time I section has stood in first plteal In tool repair and fixture shift supervisors are R. E. Gw well and Hugh Henry. 1st LL H. Anderson is the cblel, pi tion control section. 1 steel-bande- J J Mrs. E. N. Smith, a Center-vill- e, Utah, woman with a the Report OASCs maintenance 'a stood In second place amo 11 other area air 1 mauds in February. ASC tenance report of production, t veport has reference to the age man hours required petit of overhaul. On the overall which! eludes managementrating vUtoT duction, OASCs fourth. In addition to the of division as a whole, rating eieht 6J nt lllitlllltll r . 1 . jig. Sides and ends are fasten-fab- le for these purposes. Metal ed together on the jig and then set straps are used to secure bos han ' f . on a conveyor belt At the other dles; package list plates, placed in end bottoms and tops are nailed side and out, contain list of con, in place and, essentially, that's all tents. Corrugated corner pieces are there Is to it also made for use in strapping Two types of boxes are made cardboard cartons. Una Merfcel here export and domestic. Export The chief supervisor said that a boxes are used in shipping Hill waterproof envelope is being pres- - . Recipient ef una Field supplies all over the world ently planned for construction in h. January. " and so must be tne xactory. it will be used as lining '- of w Lumber comes from lumber stor- and strong. They are made of ply- for export boxes. Harry I I age warehouse 39, and is trucked wood and cleated with seasoned He added that about ftft ner cent Squadron. " up and stored in one side of the lumber. Plywood is used to avoid of .11 box. uA on thm are Chosen as box factory until used. shrinkage and because it is water made here. The other 2 per cent entftiye ??. Merkel Actual box construction begins proof. "aU,t hTr'Tour 'rn with the ripping of lumber into the Domestic . here, bis type boxes are only : Ail poxea I nkuiniiita turned on . .in tne . . . warenouses. . desired widths and lengths, depend used on the field. Some of these seiner oenmae oy ine oox iactory are . nBjjty aJ ing on what type of box is to be domestic type are called project liivered to the warehouse request- rar.u just aans made. Next the cleats are ripped. boxes because they are built to cer11 nnnd 1., LUClJi. "I tllg Cleats are relatively thick strips tain specifications. For instance, Fiaced in operation recently, was narry "'"publicity J of wood which reinforce ends and some special or project boxes are a o " sawdust macblne which ."rX, expre", sides. They are nailed on by a me- made exclusively to house genera- willlarge ki4 draw off sawdust from the Miss Merkel jVrfi chanical nailing machine'. This ma- tors; others for superchargers, etc. various tne for xtS& g thanks and machines chine can drive as many as 52 Inside braces to hold the machinit to a huge bing located on and consideration nnails in 10 seconds, or less, de- ery solidly in place are also made. pipe side of the warehouse. the that north pending on skill of operator. Small The ends and sides are nailed and Mr. Carn said the fnrtorv has t- - the others.. . . i.uUf I boxes are nailed by hand on steel screwed t wv sii iiriv isivisif savI together for added .uaaw X16'u . nailing plates. strength. When finished, two coats ing only 28 workers Vr. Leaving the at C9J present When sides and ends are con- of waterproof Daint are nut on. ' Women, he continued, have six weeasl o jAWti structed they are placed on a case The factory also manufactures its time. con-- 1 Virginia. due te proved "VT.iirst unsatisfactory header rack from which they are own metal straps and package list stant strain under which they must He will attend soon taken and put in an adjust piaies. training. is avail work. Heavy machinery supply the-fabl- e h 1 J WS, t,. ... ed ' 1 1 ' 1 1 I -- wood-cuttin- ine , e- ...-r- f- lJ |