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Show 1 n it. s AIR FORCE AEROSPACE POWER FOR PEACE Top times '( "Syy" ' '"s"'" - '""""v U an unofficial newspaper published vew other Friday In the interests of personnel at Hill Air Force Baa, The niii Too Times Command. It is published by Inland Publishing; Company, Kaysville. Utah, a private firm, in no way coaw LogiBtic8 Utah, of Air of the Air Force. Opinions expressed by publishers and writers are their own nd I k. me r acted with rtonartment of the Air Force. .The'..ap J;pearance of advertisements in mis puoiicaiion. including inserts. '"" t " s Jees ,,. nt 'endorslment by the uepuimcnt ui uiv Air not constitute an rune ui ine proaucis or services advertised. February Vol. 22, No. 3 7, 1969 Dedication Ceremonies Ooeo Dssile Facility The $16.5 million Minuteman II Engineering Test Facility was dedicated by Maj. Gen. Robert H. McCutcheon, Ogden AMA commander, at ceremonies held at Hill AFB last Friday. Trainer Seminar Slated Feb. 0 w 17-2- Complex training devices will be displayed at a World-Wid- e Aerospace Training Equipment Seminar scheduled Feb. 17-2- 0, in Salt Lake City. Sponsored by the Ogden Air Materiel Area with headquarters at Hill Air Force Base, the four-da- y symposium will a chance for firstgive Utahns hand observation of some of the most sophisticated aero-space training equipment used in the Air Force. Congressman L. J. Burton Burton Scheduled As Club Speaker Laurence J. Congressman will be the Burton, guest speaker at the Hill Administrative Club Thursday, Feb. 20. t (R-Uta- h) luncheon 1 Byron Christiansen, president of the club, said that the luncheon will be held at the officers' club at 12 noon and the menu will feature Swiss Steak. Congressman Burton, Republican representative from Utah's First District, will discuss legislation affecting Civil Service employees and the impact of the new administration in Washington, D.C. I The congressman was successful in his first attempt at an elective office by defeating an incumbent in the election ld Nov. 6, 1962. He was reelected in 1964, 1966, and 1968. J Before his election to Confess he served as administrat- ive assistant to Governor of Utah for nearly three years. Prior to .that he was assistant professor jGeorge D. Clyde (Continued on In This Pa;e 43) Issue: Editorials 4 Disaster Preparedness.16 Vietnam Report 20 Question Box 24 You Said It 25 Command News 26 Career Girl 27 foreign Officers 28 On the Hill 38 Over Sp"rt j the Fence 42 44, 45 Logistic management of all aerospace training equipment for all weapon systems throughout the Air Force as well as such items as physiological research training chambers, ejection seat and driver test trainers is one of the missions of Ogden AMA. Seminar will The World-Wid- e a Feb. 17, at dinner meetopen ing at the Hotel Utah Motor Lodge with an address by Gov. Calvin L. Rampton on "Utah and the Importance of the Ogden Air Materiel Area." Maj. Gen. Robert H. McCutcheon, Ogden AMA com- ( Continued on Page 2) 8 1 facility through engineering changes and improved procedures to be formulated at the facility. The Minuteman II complex consists of an operational launch silo, above ground launch control facility, instrumentation complex, and guidance test stations. Simulation techniques per- mit the facility to reflect the operation of 50 missiles and five control centers. The in- strumentation facility permits (Continued on Page 47) UTAH l Also participating in the ribbon cutting were representa- tives from the Air Force Systems Command's Space and Missile Systems Organization, The Boeing Company, Auto-neti- c Division of North American Aviation Corp., Sylvania Electronics Corporation, Corps of Engineers, and the construction contractor, Okland Construction Co. of Salt Lake City. During the ceremonies signifying that the facility was operational and had been turned over to Ogden AMA personnel to operate, General McCutcheon said that the facility would enable the AMA to provide even more effective support of the Minuteman Weapon System. The Air Force expects to save many times the cost of the Mi AF3w I I j (I J BLOOD BOOSTERS Bettye McCutcheon, wife of Maj. Gen. Robert H. McCutcheon, Ogden AMA commander, washes the general's airplanei to carry out her part of a blood donor bargain. She is assisted by 1st Lt. Darrell O. Benham while A1C Ross D. Taylor, who was part of the scheme, watches the two work. General's Wife Washes Plane; It Was 111 for the Cause!' When it comes to promoting blood donations for service men in Vietnam, the Ogden AMA commander's wife is willing to "go the last mile." Washing an airplane doesn't wide and at Hill AFB sound like usual routine for a an to low, it plunged general's wife, but that's just was Mrs. to concern of special and "all what the lady did and where McCutcheon that's for the cause" promoting the "washing the airplane" the Hill AFB Blood Program. routine began. It happened like Bettye McCutcheon, wife of this: Maj. Gen. Robert H. McCutchLast month's drawing at the eon, Ogden AMA commander, base blood center seemed to be all-ti- is one of the most active sup- porters of the blood program. She volunteers to help at all blood drawings, which are held several times a month to meet the quota of approximately 700 units a month. Last year Hill donors gave 6,007 pints of blood. When blood stocks nation- - especially discouraging. Bad weather and the flu epidemic seemed to keep donors away and blood was desperately needed. Mrs. McCutcheon, dressed in her Red Cros3 Volunteer uniform, had been working in the center all day and, to help fill (Continued on Page 2) NEW PROCEDURE Two Deductions for Savings May Be Made from Paychecks Two allotments for savings can now be made from your paycheck. With no cost to employees, and without changing present procedures for sending paychecks to be credited to bank accounts, the Comptroller has made it possible for Hill AFB workers to allot two deductions from their checks for savings purposes. Procedures for the purchase of Savings Bonds and Freedom shares will continue as usual, Civilian Payroll officials said. iaWttf f-' t The allotments will be made to a bank, savings and loan asMaj. Gen. Robert H. RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONIES sociation or similar institution, McCutcheon, (center) Ogden AMA commander, wields the or Federal and State chartered ceremonies dedicating the 116.5 scissors at ribbon-cuttin- g million Minuteman II Engineering Test Facility. Assisting credit unions which agree to are CoL E. B. Mauck, director of Materiel Management; and accept allotments authorized to Col. T. G. Monroe, chief of missile deployment, Space and (Continued on Page 47) Missile Systems Organization, Norton AFB, Calif. Paper Out Early The next issue of the Hill Top Times will be distribut- ed one day early, on Thursday, Feb. 20. This is because of the holiday on Friday observed by federal installations in commemoration of George Washington's birthday which is Feb. 22. The next issue will be published on the regular delivery date. Mar. 7. |