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Show :actj Tciati Mkk d i) faf to ' W ea, Geo,, me :tioa : I PUBLISHED FOR HILL AIR itetj Number 3 FORCE BASE, APRIL 2, 1948 OkeBed Bill Ride employee Sharing r aedie . mlan ;e-- rtnig 3isht ) Legislature Amends Public Utility Act; Now Permits Sharing Auto Costs : " .Rid relet f areit srient spain id. Lads Lumber-in- g jmber Shortage omntsHill AFB claim Program with A special session of ride-shari- national lumber shortage made it necessary for the division to start a box :' jply ( lumber reclamation pro-- p at Hill A F base. To keep later from eating y consumption rill n y stockpiles, 11 men dis- andn: ltle crates, pull nails, and payit 1 resaw the cleaned lumber rJeC plywood so it can be used , I I lihl c iay icatn I average of 5,000 board feet lumber is con- pe and two-inc- h Hill at AF base each day. pd ed lumber is now making most 60 of that total. hard Benick, supervisor of eclamation project, makes cer- that every last stick of wood might be of value to a car eer or boxmaker is saved. Only sss scrap that can only be used kindling wood is turned over rp salvage yard. 211 AF base has storage capacity B,soeJOO board feet of new lum-- I Until just recently, this stor-'spawas filled to capacity and )ral carloads of new lumber b moved in each week to keep ce I lat way. the present time, supplies of ; And out comes the nails, making used boards Boxes and crates shipped to Hill AFB from all suitable for over the country are torn down and their lumber salvaged. Three of the workers engaged in the reclamation project are, left to right, Art Meenderink, Robert E. Burns, and James King. SCRE-E-E-E-C- ! II re-us- e. Hill Suggestions Save Gov't Money in '47 more common sizes of boards almost exhausted. Packing, Civilian employees of Air MaterIng and similar activities are iel Command led all Army and Air ba Force personnel during ating on a 1947 in the amount of money 'their ideas saved le lumber shortage is so acute for the United States Government. new stock can only be obtained led the field in the the Armed Forces by a joint They also to them in cash awards paid procurement board. in and the percentage e reclamation program is help-t- o participating in the of personnel suggestion relieve the to a t extent. All scrapshortage lumber gen-te- d program. At Hill A F base, $5,357 was paid on the field is now delivered out during 1947 for that central point where workers are estimated to be suggestions saving the govm over it and extract every ernment $121,554.28 a year. of useful lumber. of the past year 10.85 During turally, the reclaimed lumber the 79,216 civilians employed by varying lengths and widths.- AMC installations turned in a total not, in all instances, be sub- of 8,596 Out of this ted for new material, but all group 1,706suggestions. were adoptsuggestions cies on the field are using re- - ed, and a total of $79,067.26 was jjaed wood wherever possible. paid in cash awards. The estimated savings to the government because of adoption of these ideas was Some of the most spectacular scientific developments of the last war have been adapted to specialized uses in the weather station at Hill AF base. Most remarkable devices are the radar storm detection units, the ceilometer and the facsimile reproduc tion sets. The weather station now has in the operation two of these devices, and ceilometer and a fascimile set, Captain John C. O'Hara, public will soon have in operation a specinformation officer, and A. Wayne ialized radar unit for storm detecBaker, his assistant, left Monday tion. of this week for a conference of Until the advent of the ceilometPublic Information personnel at er, the measurement of cloud Wright-Patterso- n A F base, Day- heights was always subject to a certain degree of error . . . depend- ton, Ohio. To Attend Conference jy-Na- vy ft r t t i rm Resignations ;s to Command A large number of resignations employees who state they are f"3l ming to farm work has tipted maintenance division of-- ls to acquaint all employees facts concerning reemploy- - ( I Ordnance Department ran second in the entire field with 774 ideas. The suggestions ranged from simple ideas which were repaid with $5.00 awards, to complicated labor and money saving methods of operation which saved thousands of dollars and earned several thousand dollars for their originators. The overall suggestion and award program is part of the government policy of encouraging its employees to give serious thought to ways of improving their jobs. In 1947 alone the ideas gleaned from all divisions of both the Army and Air Force department netted' a total savings of $9,549,010.31 to the government and returned $176,241.68 in cash to employees making the sug- pivil Service is rapidly estab-- A ing registers for all positions udine the one vou are now oc- iring," Col. Marion D. Unruh, Uty for maintenance, told his kers. mployees who resign now with j intention fo regaining their '(tion in the fall when farm k is at a low ebb, will, in all ability, find it mighty difficult Jet their jobs back. Once regis-- I gestions. are set up, only those individ-- I on the register can be hired l vacancies. Very job on the field, from the Best to the lowest, is important tverall production. It is just like .... iilroad the engineer could-idriv- e his train from one stop to other without the help of the ion hand. to vacate your position repress a tangible loss to . . . the hmand," the maintenance chief i ng Remarkable Weather Devices Save and Lives Many Man-Hou- rs hand-to-mou- th ! ex- the transportation. However, a group of workers may not exceed.five persons in addition to the. driver of the vehicle and in no event to exceed three persons in any one seat; and it provides further that no individual may operate in excess of one motor vehicle. The old law, Title 76, Chapter 5, Utah Code Annotated, 1943, percarry mitted no one other than common carriers or contract carriers to Utah. of persons or property for compensation upon the public highways Mr. George A. White, Judge Advocate Office, acted in behalf of Hill employees during the Legislature special session. i ?etit, the State Legislature has passed additional ceptions to the restrictions of the Public Utility Act The bill, later signed by the Governor, making it law, legalizes the employee program in effect at Hill Air Force Base. Under the new amendment a group of employees may ride together in the automobile of a fellow employee to and from their employment provided that compensation is limited to sharing the actual expense of Credit Where Due The original design for the "Hill Top Times" masthead appearing at the top of this page was submitted by George Williams of Air Installations section and drawn by Alan Dyer of the Maintenance division. fP o yo ere Photo by Harold Goates WHETHER IT'S WEATHER is no longer guesswork at Hill AF Base with the ceilometer calling the shots accurately. Until the advent of this device the measurement of cloud heights was always subject to a certain degree of error. Now the observer merely glances at an automatic recorder to find the ceiling height and also its trend. Over The Top Hill Air Force Base ended its part of the Red Cross Drive with 109 per cent of the $2625 quota, according to Colonel Y. B. Kuykendal), chairman of the drive. In the final meeting of all the solicitors, CoL Kuykendall expressed his thanks to each person who contributed and to each of the solicitors. big upon the experience and ability of the observer. With the ceilometer, however, guesswork and inconvenience have been eliminated. The observer now merely glances at an automatic recorder to find the ceiling height and also its trend. In principle, the technique exemplified has been in use for many years. A strong beam of light is projected vertically, and at a mea-a sured distance from the beam detector picks up the angle of the reflected spot of light. In the ceilometer this method is highly refined. Instead of the old fashioned airplane headlight being used as the source of light, a highly developed projector with a light inten sity source of approximately Zo,000,000 candle power is used, instead of the observer measuring the angle manually, the detector scans the beam automatically and the angles are recorded on a chart in the weather station. Until just recently, the labors of 10 to 15 men were required to pro duce enough maps and charts for accurate weather forecasting. The weather observer has been liberated by a gadget called a facsimile set which was put into operation during November of last year. With three or four AF wea this set-uther stations prepare all the charts and transmit the results to all other stations in the U. S. A A tremendous saving in man-hou- rs results because only four stations prepare and transmit what was formerly required of 70 Air Force stations. The idea of transmitting pictures by electrical impulses is not new. Newspapers have used it for years. Its application to weather Is none ' the less quite novel. With the installation of the radar storm detection unit, which should be finished within two or three months, the weather station at Hill AFB will have all the latest equipment. By the use of the radar storm detection unit it will be possible to determine the location and Intensity of thunderstorms, the most hazardous element for a plane In equipment flight This, and otherweather staespecially designed for of cause flywill the further tions, ing safety tremendously. p, |