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Show I OIUME s 'It 11- ill - -- PUBLISHED FOR HILL AIR FORCE BASE, FRIDAY, JULY 9, I My n,,. --v n 1948 PLAN FOR. GRADED EMPLOYES First - Last - and Always Safety Within Grade Advancements Effective After July 1 Pay Period Federal Raises Become Law Pres. Truman Saturday signed a increasing salaries of some 1,300,000 federal employees. But he said it is "ridiculous" violation of the principles of sound management. Mr. Truman said that under the flat pay raises provided, the heads of some agencies will receive 0 annually, while some of their employees will get $10,300 a year. The measure gives pay raises to 480,000 postal workers and raises to 850,000 classified civil service workers, effective July 1. It also will boost many postal, rates next Jan. 1. Air mail rates go up lc an ounce. Third class and bulk mail rates also will be boosted. The extra money will help pay the cost of the pay raises. Mr. Truman said previous legislation substantially reduced the gap between upper and lower pay grades. It is further reduced by this legislation, he said. Under the law now, Mr. Truman said, starting employees may receive slightly less than $3000 a year, while some of the nation's outstanding scientists will get only $10,330 after 20 or 25 years service. bill $10,-00- $450-a-ye- $300-a-ye- William M. Morgan addresses members of the Utah Federal Safety Engineers Council. fety Iscussed ar Men Make Up Combat-Trie- d Programs ar First AF Jet Squadron Here The 71st Fighter Squadron based at March AF base is made production go hand men. They are men who have been members of the Utah up entirely of combat-trie- d Council weighed under stress and not found wanting. Snand,"Safety Engineers by Brig. Gen. William Ask Lt. Col. Robert L. Petit, Squadron Commander. He'll general of when thev r.B, tell you all about his men ana wnat tney can ao. wuss future safety programs. nthpr Air Force pilots in His operations officer is Major u Truro General invited cnnoH toe trave their ships full all members Frank J. Keller. Shot down over often .council to tour Hill AFB making turns that throttles, impris1944; in August Ifle lripa in Germany , j. ana tneir craits iu them see now oned at Stalag No. 3; moved by subjected : "hujis toPerformed. ir Work of 12 times excess in in pressures to another camp the Germans short turns it these nvmrSftr Kl ftea mat Rusdead of winter when the safety the . U nn , i flyers less experienced ' c De cauea sians got too close; liberated in cause the forward speed. the of Gsome of lose to lSi"tl0n England, April 1945 by General Patton's enneer at Hill AFB? -wide sweeping Third Army. Major Keller joined . ii rafif VyUl. (.bib made 1947. in the April squadron turns that enabled him to maintain are Paramount forward speed ana even commander him- constant Vral Mn"gulated operations" The squadron v. see where he was u .nuiHn't stated. self? There is a man! the finish line crossed he going, ofi?ianfhard. safety engi his of on competitors. ahead months 18 well After spending re13 President ne Guadalcanal, Col. Petit was short Homo Oeneral Officers who were turned to the states for ato the spectators at the race were so "ACluers i: Cant." u .ii- -j time and was then sent of Opfv.! Ransom D- - present Theater Kenny the flyers that they of Lp attitude Ord-iA00ele a year in the He spent erations. future competition banned Lt. ?0t: Commander R. C B I before reassignment to the have Force Air pnois. .ima m between D. D. Dunn, the formed by first squadron jet of name safety. the M SftDeTpot; Captain k! Force. TT.TE.puIL-- Hubbard, and Air fmm the veiling crowds at one His combat victories include desis now guid-u- : the races, the inColonel htLV?.5l maneuvers to test Saxton, D. K. aerial victory and 30 planes vion AAJ' Dikel, Lt. troyed on the ground. the air defenses of the Pacific R. l't0-- . Bradford, the northwest. During tne iest inAt the time the colonel joined Lou 'De- will seek out, YP-5- 9 s little flashy were using shoot GenerpiI01?11! H- - Norton, jet group, they theoretically and Aircraft. tercept J- - Honn-an- d manufactured by Bell aul L vpoi; F i. received the much down invading forces of ngi, Reuben G-- Later, his outfit "Shooting Star-- . One leg in the journey from Ba?e. EnSland Hill improved u aw Viosfi to their operating r number It was in a at Spokane AF base, was to the Colonel won last base that base wnere my was AF a Rl?e Hill He Kto meetig Trophy race. nnd servicing. Bad .oHnoJr of th w?,en Rhees' suPer- - year's Thompson the around AFB sheetmetal guided his roaring jet the squadron to reforced weather ho i?1 540 of record speed the at pylons longer than the on ground April main JatCnmu sPent a miles hour. per tne puota 0bfrvldg,e Bay near the anticipated and showed signs of wanting to intensified safe- Kgram Talk about chills and thrills ably rned out ln Arctic that race has them by the plane be on their way. life and prop- - load. On his second lap, Col. Petit again on The 71st squadron wasmuch read otherHiU AFB smashed a bird on his windshield. their Ced test to an the move e f a SS ior one moth re- - He couldn't see a thing. Just lightof that about streaks the &i be fiL k?master so that opaque red piece of inglass superior size of against of ning front back to civiliza- - blotted out everything the mighty Superfortresses. his speeding plane. "Safety and if - P frin"1?3 I 6& "T"' t ns China-Burma-Ind- ia ef O- Cs anL- P-8- B-29- 's. P-8- 0, P-8- 0, Seven-Eleve- n, "f - S eesjve man-mad- TBy Lee Florence Draft Estimate Set For First Year Definite word has been received from the Department of the Army Wage Coordination The Army probably will carry Board, Washington, D. C, that from 200,000 to 225,000 men in the a wage survey will be conducted n the Salt Lake Area. The results of this survey will determine whether or not the wages for ungraded employees will be increased and the amount of the increase if granted. in 19 through 25 year age group during the first year of the new pro gram, but until the draft boards are set up, procedures established, and the enlistment rate determined, that figure is only an estimate. If the estimate proves accurate, the approximately 200,000 new men will just about equal the net loss of strength due to the expiration of enlistments during the same period. If volunteer enlistments and keep up near the present rate in the following 12 months, only a comparatively few draftees may be required. While no one could be drafted until 90 days after the Presidential signature, Gen. Omar N. Bradley, Chief of Staff of the Army, said "It will take us that long to get the men registered and put the induction machinery in order." Registration of men 18 through 25 will begin as soon as draft boards are set up, which the Office of Selective Service Records estimates will take from 60 to 90 days. The president will make draft calls on the recommendations of the Armed Forces, as in World War City-Ogde- In a recent change of Civil Servregulations, the Commission has prescribed a within-grad- e advancement plan for graded emice ployees not previously covered. The change will benefit all graded employees serving under appointments of "temporary, pending establishment of a register," and "emergency indefinite." This new plan closely parallels the provisions of the Classification Act of 1923 which proykieH within-- 1 graded step increases - every 12 months to employees occupying permanent positions. Previously, employees holding appointments that were "emergency indefinite" or "temporary, pending establishment of a register," received no -- within-grad- e advancements. The granting of the periodic pay n. increases to employees covered by Since virtually all veterans will this change becomes effective as be exempted, training for the ma- of the beginning of the first pay v jority of the draftees will start penoa atter July 1, 1948. with basic training. After basic A board Will fnrmoei they will go to some of the smaller 23. 1948 with Mr.bePhillin TW niiAr units and, finally, to assignments from Washington, D. C, serving with major outfits. (AFPS). as jnairman. xne board will consist of representatives from the various Uepartment of the Army Installations in this area and nmh. Believe It Or Naval Supply Depot. ably the OAMA will serve as the host inThis is a story about a fish stallation, the communication reveals. that got away yet didn't! If that sounds fishy, read on. OAMA is required to furnish six When Paul Abbott, 260 Hampon the board. ton Ave., Salt Lake City, who members In addition to members coming is employed as an auditor at Hill Air Force base hauled a from the Classification and Wage rainbow trout out of Administration Branch, a repreWeber river, he danced around sentative will be selected from like a Ute Indian in an ant Supply, Maintenance Divisions and bed. As he proudly displayed it the Air Installations Office. The foremen of the various skills and to envious rod and reel boys, he noticed a small metal tag trades will be given an opporon the right gill. tunity to suggest the names of "What does that mean?" he companies which should be contacted for wage data. In the selecqueried of a fellow fisherman. "It means you get a buck from tion of the private employers, care nas 10 De taken that they repre KSL." he was told. n he'd better of indusquit sent a iair Thinking while he was still winning, he try. Building construction companies, laundries, restaurants, reproudly carried the rainbow tail trade outlets and financial home. Mrs. Abbot listened to the institutions are excluded from the story, then called KSL for consurvey. firmation. It was true. Send the tag into comDietion of tht the radio station and a dollar theUpon raw waee data will for would be sent by return mail, warded to Washington where, by she was told. use or statistical methods, a new When she got back to her wage schedule will be developed. husband, the fish was all cleaned Following last year's precedure and drawing hungry looks from the new wage schedule would be a couple of alley cats. come eiiective within about one "Where's the tag?" wifey month following the survey. . wanted to know. "Still on the gill over there where I cleaned . . . the . . . fi FOR TOMORROW'S . . ." But the sentence was never finished. Just disappearing was SECURITY a cat and the viscera of the GET ON THE once proud rainbow, tag and . cross-sectio- . all. And that's how the fish that was caught finally got away. ; BOND WAGON TODAY! 1 |