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Show HILL . Light Tubes Present New Booklet to Improve Young Working Conditions; REMEMBERS Disposal Danger Required Reading for Supervisors WHEN Apparently harmless fluorescent In an effort to further promote light tubes can cause great physi- healthful, efficient and pleasant cal injury if broken without observ- working conditions between suping special precaution, according to ervisors and workers, the Air MaAir a warning issued by F. . A. Van teriel Command of which Hill has an is Base Force part, integral Atta, industrial hygienist of the published a booklet called "The National Safety Council. Supervisor's Job" which contains sup'er-visor- y The principal dangers arise from hundreds of suggestions for improvement, according to (1) inhalation of the dusts of bery- a civilian personnel official. The llium compounds with which the booklet, required reading for all tubes are coated. (2) slow healing supervisory personnel of the command, is replete with hundreds of of cuts that imbed the beryllium illustrations and pointed cartoons. ,in the skin tissues, and (3) inhalaof the book's content is tion of mercury vapor as the tubes theTypical statement on the flyleaf: "Apare broken, says Major H. F. Stein-boc- proach all problems with the belief that there must be a CAUSE and surgeon at Hill AF Base. a CURE." To avoid any personal health According to AMC officials, this hazard, the disposal and salvage illustrated, informative manual is section suggests that the base dis- intended to refresh the memories who have reof all position of fluorescent tubes be ceived supervisors training and to supervisor delegated to air installations sec- present a new tool to "assist those tion, telephone 307. supervisors who have had no previous training. Small numbers of tubes can be training in the Air "Supervisory and one at broken safely time, Materiel Command is not new," the then only after they have- been book states. "During the war years 5 the need for trained placed in a wet burlap bag, which of can be dumped without opening it. supervisors became very apparent. Many workmen were called upon to Inasmuch as the tubes are under take over the responsibility of supvacuum they usually implode or ervising and directing' the efforts even explode upon breaking. Heavy of others without having had any special training for accomplishing gloves and goggles should be worn. this new and difficult job. Some It is further cautioned that tubes advancements to supervisor jobs never be put out in the trash, resulted in failure and the workers asked to be put back to their old either on the field or at home, 'as jobs because the responsibility was this creates a hazard to trash col- too much for them. Other newly lectors as well as children who may made supervisors did a passable field of supervision while job in the think them likely playthings. a few - developed far beyond the expectations of those who made the . k, . - 1941-194- NEW AF PERSONNEL INTERVIEWED TO BE BY CHAPLAIN A recently established procedure at Hill Air Force Base requires all assignments." Throughout the booklet are suggestions to the supervisor such as: "You as a supervisor represent management to the worker and the worker to management;" "Give credit where due;" "Discipline (when necessary) Discipline is training which corrects a fault;" "There are no substitutes for experience and learning;" "There is always a right way to do every job," and "Who should be blamed when workers fail?" All supervisors at Hill Air Force Base have been furnished a copy of the booklet and are being required to study it thoroughly, the personnel official stated. newly arriving Air Force personnel to be interviewed by the Chaplain and the Special Services Officer at the base. This interview is for the purpose of briefing on recreational facilities and opportunities for religious contact and for orientation as to the standards of conduct expected of AF personnel, according to Capt. Everett H. Cormack, "I hear you stayed in a haunted Chaplain HAFB. house last night. What happened?" "About 12 o'clock a ghost came This procedure is a result of a recommendation by the new Air through the wall just as if there Council were no wall." Force Character-Guidanc- e "And what did you do?" which meets quarterly at Hill AF Base. "I went through the opposite wall the same way." "Tell me, who is the real bosa In your home?" Customer: Three of those apples "Well, my wife bosses the servants, and the children boss the you sent me were rotten. Til bring them back. dog and eat, and" "And you?" Merchant: That's all right, you "Well, I can say anything I like needn't bring them back. Tour to the geraniums.'' word is just as good as the apples. Friday, April 15, TOP TIMES IIIIIMMIM ii "Old-Tim- er By the 'end 'of June 1942of Hill exField was still in the throes tensive growing pains. About that time, scores of young hopefuls joined the ranks of its personnel count. One such, was a young high school graduate from Rigby, Idaho . . ., Dpfls Devona Jones. fast-mounti- ng ) & By MSgt Ralph L. Johnson Volleyball Softball . . . there is a great Anvnno interested in claying softball for the Hill AF base civ- of interest in vollpvhnii ilian team, which is entered in the base, both civilian and milirf Dffrtpn industrial leaeue. should do x u une io nave anyone irf contact Wayne Bradshaw, hangar ested in organizing a voiles) No. 1, extension 8410, or Kicnara luuniaiaciR can me ana give D. Boyer, hangaT No. 4, extension some info on how many te 8411: Thfire have been several prac there are. etc. Give mo. a rio- , 1 tices and one game scheduled with and help me get this the Hill military team (sponsored way. Seems to me that the woi can piay tnis game as well, if by the wuu ciud so rarj. better, than some of th , team'" manager, Wayne Bradshaw, an idea how about it That's feels that he nas a cnampionsnip team started and will certainly welcome all who are interested in nlaviner the erame. All practices will be held after work on the desig nated days, see Mr, tsraasnaw or Mr. Boyer for further details. Baseball . . The civilian baseball team is get c Dayton, O., March 30 Cold ting under way with Mr. Leland William H. Phillips, command M. Dopp from the facility service officer of the 862d USAF Sped section representing the team. Hill ized miss JONES beca nere, JJepot recently will be one of 10 teams expected to a member of the American Bowl Fresh out of school and anxious start the Ogden city league. Prac"299 Club" as a resull Deto start making her own way, tices have been called after work Congress' vona signed in at Hill as ' a clerk-typi- ing hours and on Saturday after- some in civilian personnel, and noons. See Mr. Dopp for further game with a local league vl which he plays. thru the nearly seven years she details. has worked at this base, she has Colonel Phillips is an enthusia mastered the full phase and scope Bowling who sports a 166 aven bowler, of that section, and now heads the The second annual Paramount However, during his recent sess processing unit of administrative Bowl employee's invitational bowl with a local service station te branch as supervisor. ing tournament will be held at the he posted games of 167, 299, If any of you commenced your Paramount Bowl in Ogden, April 189 for a 655 series. It was in sojourn at Hill -- Field subsequent 23, 24 and 25. Entered again this middle of his three-gam- e sej to June of 1942, you very likely year will be the Skymasters team when he did some super kegl; were greeted by a pleasant smile, of the Hill AFB League, which He had strikes in every frame, and were quietly and efficiently last year captured first place in the cast that final ball down the u given the assistance you required team event with a score of 3048. for his hoped-fo- r perfect game brown-eyeby this team a was is composed of: Sidney but the a This It perfect attractive young woman You may Johnson, captain, Surge Empey, en pin stood, andhit,"Colonel H not have known her by name, but Rosenau, Vic Workman and had to be satisfied with a 299 the reassurance of her easy smile Emu Milton Walter. stead of breaking into bowlia and the manner in which you were One Hillf ielder who will be gun charmed 300 circle. Observers a treated must have diminished your a perfect for money will be Chet that his 3 last ball was prize ning confusion as a "new hire," and was seven but the in the pocket, one who had of the bigno doubt one of the brighter spots Mahoney, then righted and stuck, of your early remembrance of this gest series bowled in Utah during swayed, becoming a mi 1948 with scores of for In addition to station. "299 ABC's of Club," the (I ber a 723. total of Mahoney and H. onel also made General Devona tells us that countless Mills, In son Mattev, in first the placed thousands of new Hillfielders have of Roll "Honor jChampioi Sports event doubles 1358 with a total. been greeted by her in her unique lei Mustang team of the Hill He received a commendation position. 'And besides the thou- The Ml General from certificate and Field had the league sands of you who have received highest scratch series with a 2640, but with and is to receive a ring embld direct, personal assistance from a low handicap did not place in atic of his achievement from Al this capable, reserved young womthe fVklnnel Phillins. who comma money. an, another phase of her interest86i?d USAF Specialized Dd is the the and proing job supervision More softball is under the jurisdiction which cessing of all your personnel records, from new appointments, sal- edThe NCO Club will be annrnarh- -- the Middletown Air Materiel Ai in regards to banking the soft- has 'k ary changes, promotions, demo personally promoted and bowl tions to terminations. In other ball adicts, who are forming the rolline nn intra-murwords, Devona has at her finger- first team. The team will be man league at the 862d, which has pj aged by "yours trulv" and MSet. video consiaeraoie recreauuu tips your full "case history." By a unanimous vote, the entire Thompson. At present there are- vantages to employees here. personnel of processing unit .avers plans underway to form- an interthat in Devona they have one of post soitDau league made up from Suitot: (To little brother) He the ablest, most cheerful, consid- teams representing each military to a show. ten cents to is It organization. erate, poised supervisors at this expected that station. Her calm and quiet de each outfit will appoint a manager Kid: No. I'll give you fifty erf to let me stay and watcn. meanor, her skillful management to handle its team. of her small, but important unit, sans friction, and fuss, have won LATEST IN LADIES' FASHIONS her the cooperation and admiration s. of her six Devona claims the Gem State as her point of origin and St. Anthony as the exact location of her birth on a frosty March 2 a auar ter of a century ago. She now lives at 3925 Raymond Avenue with her parents. She is an active member of the LDS 14th Ward where she employs her charm and sincerity in teaching the eight and nine-yeoios in a Sunday School class. To try to satiate her love of the out' doors and the beauties of Nature, she travels south to California in the winter and north to Yellow stone Park in the summer for va cation variety. She's gone, in for Dowiing and was a member of the Hill Field league team two years ago. ... . ... Officer Becomes Member '299 ClJ r " near-perfe- st ct pin-busti- i! ng . ... dark-haire- d, d, . 1-- 233-223-2- 67 ... al A. Mt 1 mm . e-- o fellow-employee- IV ar - Li m. t i Eenie wim you ; I Meenie!! Judge: Prisoner discharged! Mother: What did you learn in scnooi today, Clarence? Clarence: How to whisper with out my lips. 9 w Prisoner: but, your Honor, she Keeps irritating me all the time. Judge: How does she irritate you t Prisoner: Whv she ItMna mavi "Hit me. Beat me! Go on, just hit me once and Til have you hauled up baldhpnHoH re I batebefore that judge, and see what he'll do k va i , , 4r ' i' i Women have invaded wrestUng's squared circle. Here, Nell SteJ JSEC-?"!?he' MnneaPoll? match with Ilelei 1? u Pouna9 recovered and pmnea '" 17 muiutes. 5f |