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Show 3 October Jfi, HILL TOP TI Page 4 Methods Used in Local TooLCrib. Commended ii iiiimivhiiiu From Hill Doing .Magnificent Job Says Major Returned From Koret B-2aumMKttKftWff 6's Garcia. 3iiOT"T obwu me test of tim passed overhaul limits desna. Salt Lake, has rueered Washington Street, nomhat Air to nui ruiw been Garcia. Major of tour extended duty Base after an in Japan and Korea. Major Garcia went overseas in 1948, and spent GARNER'S 9 months in Korea. The Major was Dreviously stationed at jiui View Inn AFB from 1946 to 1948. O CHOICE STEAKS wviiio in Korea Major Garcia O JUMBO SHRIMP had the opportunity to observe Hill bombing and modified aircraft O CHICKEN staf ing the communist forces. O SANDWICHES 'Will modified aircraft are dome a magnificent job," according to the Roy, Utah Hiway 91 m on WiuM.. Open ata5 p. Major. "The men m tt.orea reauy V o.xl", appreciate the high quality of work turned out by the men and women Closed Sunday at this vital base." PHONE Ogden heavily armed light bomb- ers, sent to Korea irom nm ato, Abraham tutoIo,. $ i tj if t IS k N JJ .v Lake STORAGE - - - James R. Brown (left) foreman of Tool Crib No. 1 and Willard Mcfarlane, foreman Tool Crib Units, examine one of the neatly stacked shelves in tool crib No. 1, where over S million dollars worth of tools are taken ISSUE Mary Holwuttle of 1 tool crib No. checks over a tool kit being issued to Thomas C. Moffett from teletype repair section. Over 8,000 tool kits have been issued from this section. REPAIR C. E. Gorball (left) MoCrone are shown and George work the in at newly organized tool repair shop where thousands of dollars worth of worn tools are reclaimed and put back into ' ' use. care of. Awarding of Contracts Sets Standard For Other Air Force Bases to Follow Hill AFB Tool Crib ' To Private Business 1, Hill Air Force Base, has set a standard for other air force bases the world over to follow! Procedures for the care, storage and reclamation of delicate and expensive aircraft tools developed at this location will save Uncle Sam hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. The report of the annual air inspection made by the Air Materiel i Command Headquarters states that "these methods could be employed at all bases." These statements are supported by a sheaf of letters received, by James R. Brown, Foreman of Tool-an air force stock list price Crib No. 1 in tHe Hill AFB Air- having 14 cents so listed because they craft Repair Hangers. The letters of commend him for the skill enter- were purchased at these prices now a commercial replacement prise and effort manifested in de- have of $2.02. Quotations on a maprice new procedures. veloping chinist's scribe has jumped from 15 Another man who can corrober-at- e to 85 cents; a h pair of pliers Wilthese statements is Colonel 88 cents to $5.70; and a from liam H. Monay, Hill AFB Director air drill from $20 to of Maintenance. $65. "The suggestion that we have dee, Foreman Brown, Willard M. veloped something here at Hill Field Tool Crib- Unit, foreman worthy of imitation has gotten and Carroll E. Gorball, supervisor around to other bases," Col. Monay of the tool shop, all were said Wednesday. "Already officers concerned byrepair waste of good the from the San Antonio and Sacra- equipment, tools, paper-wor- k and mento bases have come here to involved by the old transportation study procedures and operations at method. Encouraged by Macfarlane, Tool Crib No. 1." Brown started reorganization of A tool crib in an airplane hanger Tool Crib No. 1 to include the tool is where tools are kept for issuance repair and sharpening department to workers. supervised by Gorball. HAFB Crib No. 1 "only" handles all paper-wor- k At one fell 6000 types of tools and equipment for control ofswoop, tools the under reranging In value from a few cents pair was abolished. So was the each to many dollars. Different transportation cost. So was much sizes of various types increases the of the condemnation of tools. Skilled total number of many, many thous- workmen could many of the ands of individual items. All of tools formerly repair to the descarded these have to be filed separately scrap heap. and kept in perfect condition. Now Brown estimates that tools The staff in Tool Crib 1 has at stock list prices amountvalued workto issued and "only" equipped to $3,926.48 daily are required. ing over tool kits containing ers 8,000 would an average of 125 items each. Total Of this total, at least $2,000 tools value of tools within its confines have to be expended for new recondiwere old not tools if the amounts to approximately $3,000,000. Up to four months ago, tools in tioned. Now grinding and boring tools need of repair had to be 'sent from the crib to the repair shop, some that have to be accurate within one of an inch are re' distance from the hanger. This in serviced. Torque meters worth $50, opitself was a eration. Two girls were required cable tension meters, machine indi to do the. paper work for control cators jeweled like a rare Swiss watch and other delicate guages purposes. In many eases, inspectors took are returned to duty "good as new" the position that it was cheaper to at the cost of a few dollars of labor buy new tools than to repair used and parts. More important still, Macfarlane tools, so tools were condemned and discarded. At a time 'when tools says, if it were not possible to re were plentiful and cheap, this poli- pair some of these devices at Hill, cy was sound. But when defense assembly lines reconditioning the needs expanded and tool prices be- big fighting planes of Uncle Sam's gan to hop into the air like kernels air fleet would have been shut down of corn in a red hot popper, this too frequently, for now many types of tools cannot be purchased at any belief underwent modification. Eight-inc- h screw drivers now price. , f six-inc- Mac-farlan- , ten-thousan- time-consumi- OPEN 8 AJVL to 10 PJtt. Daily & Sunday ng ill mm m 's. : Too hft kinds? Increases Job Security By Gail Martin Tool Crib No. - B-26- Contracting of Hill Air Force Base work to private contractors for performance off the base does not indicate that the Air Materiel Command plans to restrict activity at Hill AFB, Brigadier General A. H. Gilkeson, Hill Commander, said Friday. The awarding of contracts to private business firms increases rather than diminishes the job sec urity of Hill AFB workers. "Some workers feel, when thev see Hill AFB work going off the base, that there eroes their job down the drain," General Gilkeson explained. "Such a feeling is a mis understanding ox the facts." The Hill commander nointed out that the Air Materiel Command has always favored contracting to private business whatever jobs they could handle sDeedilv and econom ically. "When private industry can ao some or tne work, Air Force workers are left free to concentrate on technical and hierhlv critical de fense work that private industry is not equipped to perform." By concentrating on the highly specialized, technical work involved in the defense program. General Gilkeson declared that Hill AFB has been able to win and maintain a high ratine for sueed and effi ciency in the national defense pro gram. "Tne nigner we keep the ef ficiency rating of the base, the greater the volume of work whfoh will be assigned here," he explained. AMC adoDted the civil mnlnton. ance program partly because of the shortage of skilled workers in manv areas and partly out of a desire to stimulate private business in the vicinity of air bases, the General said. He emphasized that in thin way the national defense program neips to strengthen local economies rather than being a drag or a dis locating factor in civilian industry "There are many lobs that nri. vate enterprise cannot accent he. cause it is not equipped to do the work or cannot finish within the time limits set by the government" As an indication of how the Utah base's efficiency rating helps brine in more work.' it can ho HtH to the credit of the Hill AFB workers that we have been made the, headquarters for the supply and maintenance of airframe narfo tnr some of the speediest aircraft now used in the national defense pro gram, mciuoing tne 4 Thunder iet and the 9 Soorninn ' ro eral Gilkeson said. CO . AIM'S LENGTH BLUR K such happening to you, it yoor bifocals aren't fan't it? dofata Cm whole job. Visit a sfcOed optometrist and let him ex-pl- at how CONTINUOUS VISION LENSES can eliminate ARM'S LENGTH CURL 1 fCCI KOTHJNG DOWN, $1 A WEEK 2443 1 Washington Blvd. . . . 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