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Show Page HILL TOP TIMES 4 Editorials . . . Hill AFB Looks iWfjTJbP7ilMM& CHAPLAIN'S CORNER to 23rd Birthday Hill Air Force Base will observe its 23rd birthday Nov. 7. It was on Nov. 7, 1940 that Lt. Col. Morris Berman signed his name to General Order No. 1 assuming command. Since that date the base, later named in honor of Maj. Ployer P. Hill, began to count its birthdays We can all be justifiably proud of the outstanding achievements made by Hill AFB as it has grown from a desolate stretch of sand and brush to one of the largest Air Force bases in the world. Today, Hill AFB is Utah's largest industry, providing jobs for approximately 14,000 military and civilian personnel who are paid over $93 million annually. During the last 12 months Ogden AMA has passed many milestones. The year was highlighted by 25 Minuteman ICBMs returned from the launch site and repaired by Ogden AMA ; successful test firings of Ogden AMA repaired Min- DOCTOR'S HANDBOOK uteman missiles; the beginning of an airmunitions and testing facility in western Utah ; and installation and machine, Operation of the world's most powerful "X-raamong other milestones. Prove No special birthday observance is planned as the base moves more and more into its important defense missions. Drugs, Medicines But, as we count the 23 candles on the Hill AFB birthday In a recent issue the Journal cake, we can also count our blessings as members of a vital of the American Medical Assoorganization playing a major role in the nation's aerospace ciation reported on careful scienprogram. tific tests of the powers of five In looking back at what has been accomplished through of the most widely advertised our combined efforts, we must also look to the future and pain remedies, including plain dedicate ourselves to serving in a manner which will result aspirin. Plain aspirin was shown to be in continued progress. fully as effective as any of the If every member of the Ogden AMA will do his job with other preparations, mixtures or all his might, heart, mind and strength, we will meet our not, and less upsetting to the challenges and be around to celebrate future anniversaries. stomach. This is a situation which ap- pro-pella- nt y" Scientific Tests Powers of equally well to many classes of drugs the essential ingredient is just as effective as any o- - the large numbers of combinations of ingredients commercially advertised. Therefore, the Armed Services, including the Air Force, purchase these medicines jointly and in great quantities, and supply them to the service hospitals. Hes United Nations Holds World Hope Yesterday was United Nations Day. The United Nations is now 18 years old, and, very much like a "teen-agerit shows signs of approaching maturity. Not quite yet the man, but no longer the infant. While much publicity has been given to some of the less successful actions of the United Nations, its many positive achievements and its vast potential for good frequently get lost in the "hot" debate on the Assembly floor. However, it has been said by many world statesmen that "The United Nations is the hope of the world." The UN's Atomic Agency aims to promote the peaceful ", uses of atomic energy. Its International Labor Organization aims to promote social justice, improve labor conditions and living standards, and promote economic stability. Its Farm and Agriculture Organization aims to raise nutrition levels and living standards and improve production and distribution of food and agriculture products. Its Education, Health and Aviation Organizations have equally high aims for improving world conditions. Most of these organizations are accomplishing their purposes without fanfare. Air Force Policy members. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay has on several occasions pointed to the importance of legislation which would authorize the Air Force to construct several thousand new living units in the continental United Slates and at overseas installations. The Air Force approach to the housing problem is spurred by two considerations. that more adei.uate hoti g will do JTmch to boost the morale of Air Force families, and increase for the memOne is bers the attractiveness of the Air Force as a career. Secondly.' it will also incrcar-- Fvera j (Capt.) iwnj ruienit By Chaplain Joseph P. DeMartinig old naintinoT'vp noo,Vv,ii There's an t," 7 7 x u i 'yseencaU t w j o "6b wro a iiioiik performta iKujr rvf dine not. before a. statu p. Chric'o t,u.-.- . m. necteu wiui una ymuuug explains mat the monkfn J sen uuauie w cumpeie wim me more gnted members monastery, with men who could write poetry, hymi - ' uwm w wic iuouwuuo, ov iic uclci mined to offer W he alone could do, and do well. One night, as the comJ 1H J ..1.1 on me cnapei, and proudly starf to Jl slept, ne sneaKea act Deiore ner image. The moral hardly needs pointing out. Few hi talent to write, paint or carve masterpieces. But each' has his gifts. Ihey may be small and msigificant, bul are our very, own, and someone there is who can them. But aside from the moral a moment, the story als sions an analogy. I remember reading something by Wylie where he had a great deal to say about common amongst other things, that common man was at. best XI i aoie. Ana tne reason was uecause most men aian t ml up to Wylie's standards. They weren't as gifted, they as distinguished and they had none of his driveling ami Philip Wylie and his kind don't know what mail world go 'round. If a man's value were to be gauged bj standards, no one of us would be worth the powder ti us to perdition. The fact is, despite our lack of talent on have you, there isn't a one of us who doesn't possess trait, some quality, that is good and worthy of admiri But goodness and beauty are more than skin deep aa often we can see only what, meets the eye. St. Thomas A. Kempis tells us that every soul is in God's sight. St. Therese is to be given credit for a tiful thought when she compared all God's children to ers. Some, she said, God loves for their beauty, tl their fraerance. some for their color, some because del and hardy, and yet others because they're fragile cref He loves all. she adds, because they are His special God Not only is each of us unique in the sight of pet of us in our particular life situation has a unique for good. t When each of us succeeds in his own little way . m m 1 i A T 1 il 1 1 otfcej . contr. The policy of the Air Force is that when there is a standard item essentially as good as a commercial preparation, the Air Force will not buy the latter. The Air Force standard of "essentially as good as" is taken from the scientific reports of the medical profession. It is recognized that the scope of medicine is large enough to accommodate differences of opinion in many areas, but the difference of opinion of any single doctor is not enough to warrant a change in Air Force supply policy, particularly when there is an equally weighty, but opposite, opinion based on objective scientific evidence. Why More Air Force Housing None of the actions the Air Force is advocating to increase retention of its people is more important than one which would provide more suitable housing facilities for its DRf inr fion - ize this Dotential for eood, we make a unique as to God's kincdom. In His eyes this makes us just whose spec tional, just as distinguished as the man ents win the acclaim of the world. Vafrh for Stoned School Buses it is til that school bells are ringing again w reviewed the motor vehicle regulations pertaining Now i uuses. i.i I stuj Utah school buses come on base to pick upoe" must law the And attend nearby institutions. meet a school bus. base when we . . in don and remain a -rrnn, Pif her direction, 4 ur upon overusing uiccune, t'ontorl school bus. Not all of us have taken tne preca r the W , trmiinn. or . xm i ' sioppeu unui me uus jwuin nthf' nals us to proceed, or the flashing red lights turned ott. ,i i,vtit we musH'l .a- wnen we see tne uasning our a school bus. That is the law. Let's protect possession our children. 1 When there is a really new essential substance discovered, the Armed Services standardize it very soon. But the vast number of new preparations are truly just minor changes in old ones, or mixtures and combinations of them. Most city hospitals, and uni Quote of Note versity hospitals, in fact, use a i much smaller list of standard citato ai the world knows, tt, r . I drugs than the Armed Services a war. We do not want a war. tf An tint nOW , crK)ugn- -i do, and there is no doubt that already na medicine of a "medical school This generation of Americans has -oppress professor" quality could be prac- than enough of war and hate and w ' J wi tr vJiw., wt0fc'if. Wp shall be alert ticed without many of the drugs wor which are availabje for issue in But wo do our part to build a jshall'also Air Force pharmacies. are just. the .tpii ... tt;o,i . ! the weak are safe and strong 0 the effectiveness of Air less before that task or hopeless of its Force operations by givug Air Force members comfortable About women . . . Give a woman labor on not toward a 8!"Vjotflr.H we unafraid, an inch and ehe thinks the is laving quarters close to their duty areas. but toward a strategy of peace. ruler. |