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Show PUBLISHED FOR HILL AIR FORCE BASE, JULY 20, 1951 LlVOC I r T auaJ wu uv. Dl ' t cu D. 8ne Met on - innnn iiuiiiuIWII3 ranctnrin Blood Procurement Car Arrives Monday Repairs J Stop at Hill AF Base to Secure More Donations for U. N. Forces For the toughest production ever given to Hill Air j flf 'm Base workers by the Air. uii nine uc- uncontrollable and hardships seven 4 Base workers put in 'OTrk weeks and even worked . i W8 COmpitJLeu 100 C the Air iroduction B-2- corn-near- ly 6 Force. . '. thirteen up in the repair line of sta-w- as set an to meet this rush schedule, station had a specific job to As lete. the planes moved line they re- modifications such as being the most modern ped with tag and gunnery equipment ible and the latest . in radio production the adar. schedule ! plane was Exchange Services Celebrates 56th Anniversary was so rigid that stamped with a at the first station so knew when the workers !ne to be completed. . Walk-now- n the line you would see W different deadline dates. e a plane reached the last deadline date had to and Vrespond with the current date sta-fth- . lithe planes left the last sta-ie- jr inspected and flight l Crews then arrived at Hill to to a stag-i- a Jerry the and then to combat zones. I were usually in the combat days after leaving Hill. were B-2-6's A wounded American Serviceman receives a blood transfusion where in Korea, The blood, supplied by the Bed Cross, was obtained from donations given by Americans to aid their fighting forces. Beginning next Monday, Hill employees will again donate blood for wounded servicesmen, when a blood procurement car arrives for a five-da- y stop. 30 I Raymond Eaton of the proj-(eontr- ol Freight Pilot Schedulings Equalized office stated, ."Only ;h complete cooperation of kers was this critical A program to increase the proalthough the input was planes was not on schedule ficiency of flying personnel ' Force Air started this week at Hill ( Douglas Aircraft factory." Base with the equalization of all wtcrm Damaged freight pilot schedulings and the additions of several new freight J::s Repaired Runs". Hill's pilots are "Feeder control surfaces from now National Guard and Civil airlifting some 320,000 pounds Patrol planes which were of freight each week. ft in a severe hailstorm at According to Captain John H. ten Air Force Base, Cheyenne, Freeman, assistant flight operations mg have been transported to at Hill, the new program will give ur orce Base for repair, it all pilots an equal opportunity to announced by Carl B. Seide increase their flying proficiency by wea activities officer at Hill. flying regularly scheduled freight proj-Mplet- g A pipeline of blood extending from Hill Air Force Base to U. N. fighting forces in Korea will be set in motion next week as the Charles O. Sweetwood Military Blood procurement railroad car visits the base for the second time, Emil Henderson, Red Cross field director, announced today. A five day visit of the blood procurement car beginning Monday July 23 will give Hill Air Force Base a chance to tap more of the two thousand blood donor volunteers who placed their names on the list in the first visit of the car for three days February, Henderson said. Onblood were drawn and sped on their way in April, almost 225 pints of to the Far East. tneir blood will be served reDuring five hours of operation freshments and before each day of next week, seven per- their work Hendersonreturning to explained. sons will be scheduled into the blood car each fifteen minutes, base officials said. For two and a half days Maintenance Directorate will control the schedule, then Supply Directorate will provide donors for a day and a half. The following day of operation will be split between the Base Executive office and HeadThe exchange service at Hill Air quarters and tenant organizations. Colonel C. B. Root, deputy com- Force Base, along with hundreds of and Air Force exmanding General, stressed the im- other Army located all over the world, portance of each volunteer meeting changes his appointment on schedule. "If will celebrate 56 years of continuyou fail to meet your appointment, ous service to military personnel, you have subtracted a pint of blood according to Captain Stanley F. that could have been obtained," he Shine, exchange officer. Next Wednesday marks the 56 said. Both military and civilian per- anniversary of the official estabsonnel have been encouraged to lishment of exchanges, Captain volunteer for the blood donations Shine said. On July 25, 1895 the as letters from Department of De- secretary of war, Daniel S. Lamont, fense pointed out the urgent need signed the general order that made for blood overseas for treatment hthe PX's an official part of Ameri and saving of lives of wounded can military services. Before that time, many unsucfighters. The blood car will be parked on cessful methods of supplying troops the east rail between the Head- with articles not issued by the govquarters building and the civilian ernment had been tried. Among cafeteria. Blood donors will be them were the "Sutlers", roving excused from their jobs for about traders who visted military instalan hour to give their blood Col. lations with wagon loads , of tobacco, whiskey knives, and other , , Root said. Four Red Cross nurses operate sundries. They charged exorbitant the car under the supervision of a prices, provided inadequate service Hill AFB doctor. Donors will be and caused so many complaints allowed time to rest after giving that Congress abolished the prac tice or allowing sutlers on military live-savin- hours to twin engine 30 deadline June the ly " ' their noon Five-Da- y ed Lir runs to all bases of the Air Materiel Command. The new schedule arrangement, which will go into effect immediately, will also better utilize the Aircraft and available Cargo-typ- e will allow for the transportation of more military passengers and cargo. , . . .... Early Entrants in Baseball Beauty Contest ra 35 Glamour Gals Enter Baseball's Jubilee" Beauty Contest :!den men. Today, exchanges span the srlobe to provide service to AmAHmn Baker "Reds" ball team is going all out to help make Hillfield f &t John Affleck park August 25th one of the best outings Hill of to have ever had according to John Sarlo, business manager Wayne Ogden are the Reds going to try to knock the socks off the Poca- wdmals, they are offering Hillfielders cut-raprices so tney can them do it. be admitted for will uniform in Military personnel on Hill Field their children can take all Hillfielders night while same tor each.-t20 cents just . c xnonini are just ior recognized real allure in Jills in riai prices iJWers on August 25. and jackets. RiiBvthe attractions jeans two "girlie' scouts that subThe "uield night will be a beauty the names of Hills dual winC "o lovelies will be picked mit ners will win for themselvesnexta " for Ween to over minor couple of season passes The consaid. Sarlo i ' Dasehall'c reign games year's jT. . i : 3- nrtlnH is still open. Names of projuuuee uueeiiH test be subspective queens shouldInformation Public the to Pllting the fnur militorv in. mitted to August rns in the Ogden area ac-r- 's Office at the base priorsubmitted in be 10 Sarin can Entries 10th. ti, name, so to wear the girl's the crown will any form just and telephone Ext. location Oh, Of uaw P10- vacation in work same the with fifr. , are included along a'a TT.li nonywooa. H.&te 35 girl th. data about the submitter. Tneir names were Pictures and names of contestitted oume oi tne more ants will appear in the August 17th Also , COnnnlnn. -m . issue of the Hill Top Times. which a '.and BulchrtfnHo Whilfl in that issue will be coupon delightful now dolls in will admit for just 20 cents each latest work in and dependants of Hill's military must rn displ ay theirsections where civilian Dependants workers. winning ways C fitu ng frocks a few talent be accompanied by their parents to from Maintenance have validate the coupons, however. H only te ......... ' Tv - yjtgx -- Pre-ga- ' 1 , i.t.. - h. fa,i reservations. Later, Congress authorized post traders to sell to military personnel those items not issued. About ordinary this time, officers in outlying posts, not serviced by post traders, banded together and formed cooperative canteens. This scheme became popular and gradually spread. When the War Department realized its suc cess, it authorized a similar agency for the benefit of enlisted g& una- ' ? to Photo by Sgt. E11W Balrd should win the title of "Baseball's If either of the two beauties above be ready, willing and able to "play Golden Jubilee Queen," she'd ball." Over 85 lovely ladies from Hill have already entered this beauty contest Two of the early entrants shown above are, Barbara (left) ,steno in the Adjutant General's office, and Patricia Kitchens, aircraft electrician. Two Hill AFB queens will be chosen at a contest to be held on Hill Field night at Affleck Park, August 25. These two girls will then compete with beauties from other miliat the finals, September 5. Winner of this contest tary installations trip to Hollywood. will receive an expense-pai- d Mc-Gra- th troops wherever they are stationed. From the handsome permanent type stores in the occupation areas of Germany and Japan to the mobile PX's that tour the combat front in Korea, exchanges bring familiar American merchandise to American military personnel. At Hill Air Force base, four retail stores, three canteens, and one service station are operated to provide service to military personnel. In addition to these exchanges, Hill AFB has charge of two branches at Mountain Home AFB and one at the air base at Salt Lake City. Thirty-on- e civilian and 40 military personnel are engaged in giving the best service possible to men stationed at this base. "PX's are operated as a service and a privilege for military personnel," Captain Shine said. "I would like to emphasize that these privileges are for the benefit of military and should not be personnel abused." Captain Shine further stated that on this, the 56th anniversary of exchange service, his organization pledges Itself to keep up the "best service for the world's best |