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Show 6 votc wage ii Rates Hike 79 Wednes May 24, 1944 IMJUtKAJUUUJUm Employer Trail for Pro, Bennion Employe Counselor To New Levels I flillii 'I - Employes Brig. Gen. Berman Levels Scale To Local Industry MWM Heads Back to Idaho for ectives - : Declaring he wanted the ir ing rate of all positions affected hv th locality waee system raisea where necessary to levels equal to rates paid in surrounding local industry. Briar. Gen. Morris Berman, OASC commanding general, this race in week approved creases for 11 more position classl fications bringing the total' thus rased in the past two weeks to 58, General- Berman stated he is very much concerned about irregu larities of this kind and will con tinue to do everything within his rates of rights to raise the all positions that can be justified. He said these adjustments .would continue to be made as k)hg as it was possible to do it Around 800 locality wage em ployes are included in the 68 job groups adjusted. It was pointed out the locality wage plan is suffi ciently flexible to allow for ir ing adjustments when circum stances require. Employes concerned will receive CP-50- s (notification of personnel action) within a short time, it was A list of positions explained. changed plus new and old rates will be posted in all departments. The commanding general stated an intensive study is being made at present to determine other positions, for which ments may be made in the future. in-h- . two-wee- in-niri- ng - I in-hiri- ng I in-h- - I;.- .JPIIPIIt Professor Hugh C Bennion, former department head at Ricks college, Rexburg, Idaho, today serves as director of employe-counseliat Hill Field headquarters of the Ogden Air Service command. Professor Bennion is on leave of absence from Ricks and holds decrees from both the Universities of Utah and Iowa. ng . Lewis Twins Vary Yocdtions 1 JS?: : w f II. w iI I rm nrrir mn&fotowmmmmmmimm m Blair and Elaine Lewis, twins, of filthy, Idaho, are Just as difficult to identify today at ma Field headquarters of the Ogdea Air Service command as they were during their school days at Rigby Liberator sheet Ugh. Blaine is pictured working over some B-metal accessories In the maintenance division at Ilill Field, while 24 brother Blar, a radiator repairman, looks on. A ':.H Farmer Turned Mechanic ship-Di- - pr; Hardware Man Makes Good On Radio. Job w 1. 1 Aid Goes Along Traveling with Benson is a service representative fre Idaho wno will also interview tt applicants with Benson at emp( ment centers in Idaho community Mr. Benson will be gone appro imately two weeks on the rani ' ing trip . Grant Oatmull of New Plymoar Idaho, accompanied Benson. on i earlier educational trip from X according to Capt. Robert! Stafford, employment section of the Ogden Air Service S. civil Twelve years of hardware mer chandising experience were tem porarily shelved by Orville E. Chat- terton of Rupert, Idaho, when he joined the "Keep 'Em Flying" services at Hill Field headquarters of the Ogden Air Service Command more than a year ago. Now a radio mechanic engaged in the maintenance and repair of receivers and transmitters employed in Uncle Sam's largest Liberators and Flying bombers he is a former manager Fortresses of Reed's. Riteway Stores in ... Rupert. A native of Preston. Idaho.' he lived at 909 B street in Rupert be fore coming to Utah. His present address is 348 Laker Court in Salt Lake City where he resides with his wife and children,. Elaine, 11, and Richard, five years. ne ; - 1 5, mand. Visit Many Places The men will visit nearly e city and hamlet in Idaho, seel several hundred additional w era needed at Hill Field to g suv sure its continued and maintenance support of ti : ) army air forces.! Clerks, typists, stenograph warehousemen and unskilled pr sonnel both men .and women! are being sought by the ''Keep I Flying" services. Those withe kills will be given atreamlii train! post school and wmcn maxes tnera.aunost ma. ; diately productive. .far-flun- on-the-j- ob Sgt. E. D. Bates j To You, Now ." . A Ninth Air Force Service Command advanced depot, England The promotion of Ernest D. Bates from the grade of corporal to that of sergeant has. recently been an nounced by Headquarters of the Ninth Air Force service command advanced, depot service group .to which he is attached in England. Overseas since late in 1943, the soldier, a sheet metal specialist, is entrusted wth the task of airplane repair. He was formerly stationed at Hill Field. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest A. Bates, the serviceman's parents, reside at Rigby, Idaho. , - . Thunderbolt Representative . . Lyons of Republic Aciation rent operations, has been assisting corporation. Thunderbolt manufae the compak unit by banding, strip- turer, conferred with the class 18 ing and marking all compak ship- supervisor recently anent availabii ments on . the shipping branch Itv of certain aneclal Aircraft fnn la in this required to maintain processing lines. area. Lyons is AGP supervisor for Record Tonnage Branch six nepuDiic Aircraft. recently handled a record amount of material In one day 117 tons delivered to various branches and i sections of the supply division. Aids Compak Unit . . . The branch. In addition to ns H. P-4- rs ... - Talent Parade Finals Set Tonight is the grand finale place, and - $10 dane Acrobatic contortion spoxiara usey; smger oi popw ballads, Burdette Robinson oi Field: ISAF Depot contestant, J li Cary, who sings songs; tap dancer, Pat Leech; su Don Soelberg oi uat Depot, and Hill Field's, own W J semi-clau- of semi-classic- al 24 - I. ' Paul Lukas K. T. Stevens i; - :. THURSDAY-FRIDA- - Y May 6 "Show Business" Eddie Cantor George Murphy Joan Davis 25-2- I! ' SATURDAY May 27 . "The Yellow Rose of Texas" . ! . -- Roy Rogers Dale Evans .'; Sons of Pioneers ' SUNDAY-MONDAY Z' .in ,1 M Atwm tmed inMhanle Is Vermal IL Sngleton, of tSL Anthony, hmek experience toJsta VP9 of where he to supenW TJwST" . .5?T!!??mmnd. ma Uherator bombers. Slnsrloton Is nietuMd ImihwUm mm highly Important aowar aalts. JT i""!? May XS--2 "Three Men In White" Lionel Barrymore " Van Johnson -. Keye Luke WEDNESDAY " May SI "Cobra Woman" Maria Mantes Jon Hall Sabtr Youl just songs, Blaine be the contestants to pr ticipate at the regular schedrt time and place: Egyptian these Wednesday night, 8:80 o'clock. J This grand finale night pronir to highlight the present Egypu theatre Innovation programs, surely one not to be missed. son, will -- 11 in war stamps I I the third place winner. WEDNESDAY ' May "Address Unknown' it 8 t . Post Movies til of four previous Victory ; Talent rades. All first winners of the ii previous shows will vie for the 4 nounced prizes of $50 war boc first place; $25 war bond, sear Tho Wolf Hi? ! Ronald L. Benson of Moreland, Idaho, engaged as an interviewer in the employment section at Hill Field, headquarters of the Ogdea Air Service command, who is seeking additional help for the "Keep 'Em Flying" services. four-engi- Ever on the alert to guide planes into the proper traffic lane. Pvt. Katie M. Spear, control tower operator here at Hill Field, loves her work and says tfie most un happy days of her life were those spent between the time she left the army as a WAAC and reenllsted as a WAC. Having served in the auxiliary from January, 1943,. to Sep tember, of . the same year. Pvt. Spear asserts only illness in the family would ever have made her contemplate leaving the service. Early in January, 1944, her moth er's . health having improved, she took her oath as a member of the Women's Army corps and was im mediately sent to Hill Field from Fort Ogleuorpe, point of staging. Although as a member of the WAAC, Pvt. Spear acted in the ca pacity or secretary in the commandant's office at Fort Bliss, she says she is much happier in her new work as control operator. "It is a necessary, yet exciting and ex hilarating work. High up there in the control tower with the roar of planes overhead, dependent upon us to bring them in, we get that very satisfying feeling that we are a most vital part of the war ef fort," said Pvt. Spear. hi vvW, Reenlists As Control Aid ; TV AC . . L I - '("fisra Heading hack to Idaho last the recruiting dividend k a recent trip that ft him explaining Hill Field . ems'' i. i luniLi men Li, uuaiujukies La Ulgn mi . J . . was rtonaia I P gin siuaems, son of employment section. A Hill Field veteran himself 18 months who lias interview thousands of applicants here ink with the employ capacity branch, Benson spoke to numeit high school assemblies of gir j his recent tour. His present rett trip to his home state will, bn ever, be confined to meeting a arrangea aates wnn interested hi' school graduates and arrantt . . .l nm mnejo. tor employ menii at TT1M W reap K4 Wi u&zr by SansongJ |