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Show Bivisiotf 'ComiffereiDLde Ends jSix Generals Attend Three-Da- y Session Si Generals Attend Supply Division Conference " WMmiiiifj. Willi ' 1 X.' ft i Blueprinting Future - f PC-?- ' . lllilPIiiRI llliPlliliii A4 is n ASC Envoys J Set Tour oi )m Temple Block , Conferees Guests At Barbecue, Supper and Dance ASC supply division conferees will be conducted on a tour of Temple Square in Salt Lake City Wednesday afternoon following the conclusion of their two and one- - half day conference at Hill Field. Arrangements for the tour were made with L. D. S. church authori ties by Lt. Col. Vernee G. Halliday, base administrative inspector. division T. General Lester chief of Is Miller, Service the Air supply command, pictured at the Major nation-wide ueiegates were entertained at a supply conference which opened Monday at Hill Field and eon- - barbecue microphone "keynotins" the at Como Snrinca In Mnr. dudes today. Me is iuuucea oy ueic to ngnij nngaaier ueneral John M. Clark, MIddletown ASC; Major gan Sunday evening. Monday eve chief P. assitant O. of air Air Echels. Morris General forces: Brigadier General Berman. staff, Army tney attended a dinner-danc- e Ofden Air Service command, and Brigadier General Mervin E. Gross, office of the assistant chief of air ning held at the officers' club here, and stair, Army Air forces. Tuesday a buffet supper at the officers' club. Registers at Officers9 Club Reparable Goods Change Noted JHUI llliiiill ,::s: 'A if' Brigadier General Lyman Whitten, chief air service, Dn. MM&D, from headquarters AAF, was not present when the top but picture was taken Sunday, arrived in time for the conference opening. At the Offleers club Sunday, registration of conference delegates kept attendants busy. Brlsr. Gen. John M. Clark, commanding general f MIddletown ASG, Is shown registering with 1st 14. lone Conaway. Two Arranger "( 'fC', '74; ' ' vyn A Hill Field worker, Pearl seriously ill at the Dee hospital in Ogden, has received blood transfusions from emergency blood Wat-ter- s, 1 4x i" :1 ' OOUNEL PAUL W. T7CUT . . . "vppiy dlTtaton aUof, wae as respeaiibl, far arnnda she L eonfewMf rom7:30t7:fi0a.ra. donors here through the efforts of the Hillcrest Red Cross organization. Donors will also be supplied to give transfusions to Jay Chapman, Hill Field employe, also ill in the Bennett, Ogden hospital, Margart Hillcrest executive secretary of the unit, said this week. is no blood Inasmuch as there bank in Utah, transfusions depend on securing an emergency blood been donor who has previously declared. Bennett Mrs. typed, Those employes interested in the emerplacing their names on should list donors' phone gency Mrs. Bennett at extension 8458 or call at the Red Cross offices in dormitory 524. USO Officials Visit FacUities Two ranking USO officials ited recreational facilities at Field last week. The visitors, Mamie Davis, visHU1 as- sociate regional superyleor of the I?'fec,tive Jmmediately the base USO division of the Y.W.C.A, and USO travellers aid sucrasea auy rrom Mary Houk. '30 of the Kansas City, both pervisor, the service inspected office, Mo., r rffu. personnel, osleterU club, dormitory area and recreaannounced. tion activity "ls USES Reviews Absenteeism Hill Fielders In Manpower Blood Supplied Absenteeism in Utah industries MnvM fram s to 15 oer cent. Ken neth B. Johnson, manager, Salt Lake office, war manpower commission, United States employment service, said sunaay. nmttiii anv number of la' borers is " practically impossible thmmm ri vb ha said, "which means absenteeism is our richest avail able source or additional man Hivh absenteeism is a communi ty problem, he asserted, adding that illness, lnaoiuiy w nop, receive medical and dental care, .nnita Bualneas affairs after working hours, misunderstanding of importance oi jods ana a reeling of not being needed, poor relations caused by do not know how who supervisors to handle people, party "hangwere over," and transportation among the ctuer causes oi ao Emphasizing that In total war are vital, he said the task here is to keep production going without recruiting vast num bers of new workers. . man-hou- rs Branch six Over the Tee recently achieved the distinction of. having 100 per cent or its personnel signed up for war bonds under the payroll deduction plan. ence delegates, including six generals and more than forty division and section commanders and assistants, drew executive is-sio- n their three-da- y to a close this morning, the fifth and most important of such conferences yet held. "How can the Air Service command get the necessary supplies to Army Air forces combat units when they take over the air bases of Berlin and Tokyo," was a leading question asked of assembled delegates by Major General O. P. Echols, AAF chief of maintenance, material and distribution, from Washington, D. C. U. S. Army, Civilians Will Take Over Cafeteria Operation In compliance with Air Service. A Post Restaurant council is com command policy, a decision was posed of eight members, five of reached yesterday and immediately whom sure civilian employes, and announced to terminate the existthree commissioned officers. The ing operations of Hill Field's two civilian cafeteries on a concession oficers are appointed by Brig. Gen. basis on or about July 1, at which Morris Berman, commanding gentime the government, in cooopera-tio- n eral of the Ogden Air Service comwith the civilian employes' mand, and the civilian council welfare association, will assume re- members will be voted to that post by the welfare council. The base sponsibility for the active commander, who is charged with This move, intended to improve the responsibility of the operation cafeteria operating conditions and of the cafeterias, one in the industo enable a program of renovation trial area, the other in the dormiand betterment to go in effect at tory area, has appointed a post res- -. an early date, was taken in the in- taurant officer (Capt Schmidt) to terest of the employes of thl Og assume direct charge. Profits from operation of the two den Air Service command, it was stressed following the meeting pre cafeterias will go directly to the sided over by Lt. CoL C. C Minty, welfare association for its activ ities. Army regulations provide that deputy commander. In attendance were CoL Eugene "the profits derived from the opera B. Bayley, base commander, Col. tion tnereor will be disbursed as John 8. McTaggart, chief, person- recommended by the Restaurant nel and training division, represent- council and aproved by the local atives of the welfare council, mem- station commander, provided that bers of the Post Restaurant coun- tney may be expended only In concil and of OASC budget and fiscal tributing to the comfort, pleasure, office. contentment and the mental and An officer has been appointed at physical improvement of the memheadquarters, ASC, Patterson Field, bers of the local welfare associawho will serve as consultant In ci- tion." vilian restaurant and cafeteria opThe existing contract with H. E. eration throughout the Air Service Pulver, who has long operated the two cafeterias as a concession, procommand. The change from concession man- vides that the contract may be canagement and beginning of opera- celled at any time with SO days tions by the Post Restaurant coun- notice by either party. Tentative cil will be In accordance with army plans call for the change In opens-tlo- n to take place on, or about July dated 27 Noregulation, vember, 1942. Supervision will be 1, provided the many details reunder the Post Restaurant council maining to be worked out can be with direct management in the accomplished by that date. Further hands of Capt. Fred C. Schmidt Jr. announcement will be made from base mess officer and supervisor. time to time. 210-10- 0, New Lecatien . , Branch one is now located in warehouse 19. Prop have and 02-erty classes been transferred to brancn two. Mew supervisor is Harry Eh readier. 01-- A ASC supply division confer- General Echols, in addition to reviewing the enormous problem now being prosecuted successfully, declared: "Of course, Berlin and A recent change In Supply setup Tokyo are final d e sti nations. finds the reparable property secMeasured tion moving into Warehouse 19 by miles on land in along with the receiving and inthe European A much spection line. Result: theater, by vast greater volume of material will expanses of water henceforth be processed through in the Pacific, the line. there will be A disposition unit also has been many stepping-ston-thee added to receiving's operation bases which will separate all excess and 1 AAF will occupy obsolete property from Incoming which must be material. All unnecessary handling supplied by the of such materials is expected to be Air Service comeliminated as a result of this mand. Yet, reColonel Dana change. gardless of direcAll material for reparable prop Presided tion or distance, erty can be delivered to the west your plan of supply operations dock of Warehouse 19. A checker is Continued Pas roar on duty to receive such deliveries. (Column roar) P. Sfffl 4 Berlin and Tokyo Base Operations Seen on Agenda A |