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Show 11 Tp Times UJins U. S. AIR FORCE Fml m Contest . . . Page 12 GUARDIAN OF FREEDOM i 9 ?d r, if r VOL.11 NO. PUBLISHED AT KAYSVILLE, UTAH 1 rvm tea JANUARY 10, 1958 to 111111(0 CIVIL SERVANT Typical of the over 11,000 civil service employees working at Hill AFB is Lane Adams, (above) MaintenDelta Dagger. Hill personnel ance, shown working on an joins the nation in observance of the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Service Act. F-1- 02 To Be Used For Anniversary Of Civil Service Hears Tests Ar.ir.10, Missile, Bombing Seventy-Fift- h 8 Hill Air Force Base joins other feder Next week January in observance of the 75th anniversary nation al the throughout Ogden Air Materiel Area, with of agencies Act by President Chester A. Arthur Civil of Service the the signing headquarters at Hill AFB, as- on lipiimW 1883. January 16, sumed responsibility for Wendover was this law which establish- It AFB January 1, according to Maj- ed the principle that those persons or General P. H. Robey, OOAMA privileged to serve the American f; Commander. people in Government career posts should be selected on the basis of Captain Charles W. Burgess, for- merit. of the Flight Safety mer Chief xu w I'll uviTiwi- t j ia to Branch at Hill AFB, was named Commission and im "regulate commander of Wendover. prove the Civil Service of the States." When the Act United Headquarters, United States was ' signed it covered approximate- - 1 J Air Force, recently stamped apf 3 more than 13,800 y jobs. Today transon the plans to proval l: work Federal Jf employees fer control of the base from the 2,000,000an " "tk 1 , under employment i equitable Command Air the Air to Tactical and Hannah Fred KEY MEN of adjutant activities (left to right) law. made this possible by system Materiel Command, parent orMajor Walter P. .Weigle, discuss their work with Colonel Jerome The theme of this year's observ AMA. for . Ogden ganization re-were functions W. Jackson, Director of Personnel. Adjutant ance is "Know Your Government." cently put under jurisdiction of the Director of Personnel. Transferred were all real estate, Its purpose is to report to the facilities, and buildings on the American public on the Federal base installation as well as the service and the people in it, be cause public understanding and ranges. During the initial phase of op- support is still the life blood of merit system. erations, some 20 civilians and 32 the Air Force military personnel will The Federal Government is the man the base, with the bulk of argest employer in the world. administration done at Hill. "Big government" is the of wars, international crises, OOAMA officials said that increases m population, continuing over and above the activities of the Lt. Col. E. J. K loess growing complexity of our the Air Depot function, Wenand public demand for economy,, The Adjutant's office has been given a new name and placed under dover will be used as in the past services. by various AF commands for jurisdiction of the Director of Personnel. The Administrative known be as staging of units engaged in will on now the Adjutant From bombing and gunnery training Services Division. Union on an itinerant basis. Although Colonel Jerome W. Jackson, Di not as many airmen will actualrector of Personnel, announced that Section. Under the Duplicating 5 there would be no change in' per- and Photo Reproduction BranchSec-is ly live at the Wendover base Photo overall as the the Lab, before, Duplicating activity sonnel or functions. The redesignation was directed tion and Silk Screen Section. The on the ranges will increase. Publications and Forms ManageEdward G. Mester, presiby the OOAMA commander and ment The base and adjoining areas Branch is made up of the is in line with organizational dent of the Federal EmployNew commander of the 2791st OOAMA also be will used the by Requirements and Distribution Ammunition Services announced ees Credit Union, changes at Headquarters, United Section, at Hill AFB is Lt. Col. Office and Hospital Forms the Management Air Research and States Air Force, and Headquarthis morning that the union Edward J. Kloess. Development and Publications Manage Section, is paying a dividend on ters, Air Materiel Command. Command detachment for tests of Col. Kloess reports here from ment Section. ServThe Administrative share savings of record 31 missiles and compon explosives of Chitose, under Japan, where he was in Majurisdiction Being ices Division, headed by December, 1957, at the rate ents. of the (028th AF Hospiis Personnel of charge Director the made is P. Walter 5 annum. of Weigle, jor per tal. not new to the Adjutant of Additional use of the range was up of close to DO people work$12,000 will Approximately Native of Belleville, 111., Col. a served it fice in because forecast in keeping with the as be distributed among 4500 ing in three branches: Mail Kloess received his M.D. degree at few a similar role OOAMA ago. of to years and responRecords signment members. Management first-lina e for In July, 1917, Washington University in St. Deputy missiles, sibilitySM-G-for three Branch, Duplicating and PhoA total of 2,518 Hill AFB SM-7- 3 Louis, Mo., in 1!.'52. He interned Administration (which later 2 Bull the to Penroduction Branch, and Snark, members will receive $18, Deaconess and City Hospitals at and IM-!Personnel into evolved Bomarc. Publications and Forms ManGoose, and 736.10. Utah General Dein St.' Louis. set was up Administration) Branch. agement Wendover has had a checkered pot's 1312 members will get His first tour of duty with the which took in the Air AdjutThe Mail and Records ManageThe 377 Ft. Doug$18,035.25. since activation career its Apri orarmed forces was with the Army ant General as part of its ment Branch includes Classified las members get $3,073.27 1IM2 a3 a the of then 2, adMedical He The Corps from Mail Section and Unclassified Mail ganizational setup. while the Navy Depot's 212 Ogden Air Depot with headquar unrecalled was in and 1!)41 has served continued activity jutant menbers receive $2,122.22. ters at Hill. The most famous with the AF since that time. der jurisdiction of Personnel Individual accounts have Wendover of the history chapter Col. Kloess' overseas duty as a and Administration until May IN THIS ISSUE: now been posted and pass was written in 11)44 when the .''.!:?rd medical officer includes 1, 195r,. At that time, the Air France be to books Bomb with may Gen. White Discusses presented Squadron equipped was elevated General and the latter Adjutant Germany during collectors or turned into the trained at the base for the 3 Space-Ag- e Missions of to staff level and remained so and WWII and Africa part offioffice atomic bomb for credit world's first entry, drop 4 e Air News in Brief in until the present time. On Aupost-wEurope years. cials said. Since the close of WWII Wen e Reserves Ready to Join gust 15, 1953, it was redesigThe colonel is also rated as a Mr. Mester stated that asdover has changed hands often nated Adjutant. 6 the Team of now total union sets the surgeon. flight from the 2nd Air Force to 8 lie and his' wife, Vlasta, reside e Happenings on the Hill Many of the Adjutant workers passing over $1,150,000 as compared Technical Service Command the have formerly served under Colon the base. His wife, a to $8(50,000 a year ago when 11)58 Calendar .... 9 when he was Chief of in 191.",; to SAC in 1U47. Reactivat onel Jackson the colonel describes as 4 a dividend 10 about costing Sports h cook with a continPersonnel and Administration from ed in 1W4, the base was assigned "a 11 was $23,000 paid. Family Feature to TAG in October of that year 1! MM until 19."2. ental flavor." 12-1- 1n .1 I i is 1 ntaift H&mi (Mir ffiitotoir if IPirMel civil-servi- ce by-prod- Credit Pays Dividend VI Commander Of Hill Hospital Is Col. (loess !) sub-dep- ot WVl-VX',- 9. . B-2- x ar Czecho-slovakia- top-notc- n, |