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Show HILL TOP TIMES 5, February 1EGAL 'PAYOLA' AF 3ig Dividends Earned By 408 For Suggestions Last Year The Air Force's suggestion pro gram paid off in big dividends for 408 Ogden Air Materiel Area employees last year. . Ray Odd, Ogden AMA suggestion awards committee executive secretary, said that the workers were presented $14,270 for their ideas to make Air Force jobs easier and less costly. Submitted at Hill AFB were 1,- R49 ideas nnfi flrfrvnt.arl vuarc SS4 Total cash savings to the Air Force from the tangible ideas was $1,1C2,S07, plus considerable intangible savings. The average was one sugges- tion adopted for every five submitted, said Mr. Odd. Eighty percent of the suggestors submitted one idea only. Receiving the largest award that can be given by the Ugden AMA $500 was Jack Williams, Clearfield. Mr. Williams, a supply requirements and redistribu tion officer in Ogden AMA's ma- - . ; teriel management directorate, suggested a new method of procurement of electrical potentiometers for training devices; His idea saved the Air Force $235,220 on the first simulator to which applied. 'inuteman' oves To West Area t The Minuteman Division of the Materiel Management Directorate, t , Air Force speaker, recently, graduated from the Air Command and Staff School, ad dressed local civic: organizations mm i complete I i 4 ana college Robert Hart, a supply require ' t errouns - durincr ments and redistribution officer i iw " the past week. in Ogden AMA's materiel management directorate, came up with A.; Bee h t o 1 d, the idea at Hill that saved the W 11 who is present- AF the most money last year. Mr. 1 ly stationed at Hart, Clearfield, received $200 for ,Truax Air Base, his suggestion to use tires on various aircraft Wisconsin, spoke authoriretreads. previously using Mr. Hart s suggestions saved tatively on "The USAF Today the Air Force $711,956 during the Maj. Bechtold and Tomorrow." first year of adoption. Since the He is a member of the Air idea was in his line of duty, nor Force's mallv he wouldn't have received Speakers' Bureau and was six outstanding Air War one of an award. The Ogden AMA sugcommittee him oiiege ana Air vommana ana $200 gave gestions due to the unusuallv lartre sav- - Staff School graduates chosen to I deliver addresses throughout the ings involved United, btates. as two Rated the top Ogden AMA suggestors from the stand- Major Bechtold was guest speak point . of number adopted were er for the Utah State University Kevis K. Kirkham, welder, and pnTr! f v,, Marvin J. McAllister, production ROTC at Provo, Og standards specialist. Kirkham, University civic den City Lions, Brigham City Salt Lake City, and McAllister, Clearfield, each had four sugges- leaders, Bonneville Kiwanis at tions adopted at Hill AFB. Salt Lake City, and the Salt Lake City Air Reserve Center. WHAT IS Prior to attending Command and Staff School, Major Bechtold AEROSPACE? was assigned to Central Air De To resolve the somewhat fense Force as Chief of Aircraft meaningless question of where "air" ends and "space" begins, Maintenance. During World War the Air Force calls this whole II, he served in the China-Burmindivisable operational medium India theater where he flew 98 "aerospace". It is the total Earth's the expanse beyond . liSllllllSt . IS 32-p- ly 24-p- . ! missions land logged over combat flying hours. His other overseas duty includes a tour in Germany, during-- ' the Berlin Airlift and a Greenland assignment. 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