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Show Page HILL TOP TIMES 12 March Hazardous Cargo Shouidjij Be Transported on Aircraft BIG QUESTION Retire or Not? Decision Difficult To retire or HQ AFLC not to retire! Under some the decision circumstances, hard one. Reduction in Force (RIF), for example, can is a A series of separations. a trigger involuntary Lack of funds to pay employees, abolishment of positions and base closures are other causes of this type separation from a civil service position. Employees who lose their jobs in these cases may be eligible for discontinued service retirement. Not of can everyone however. A man with 20 years of creditable federal service at if five of age 50 can apply those years have been with civil service and if he has been under the civil service retirement system for at least one of the two years preceding his retirement. At the mark, age is not a factor if an employee meets the other requirements listed above. A big question mark in retirement of any kind is pay. The rule for those who retire Subtracting of A vp Oeden. (AFLCNS) Next Issue: Deferred and Mandatory Retirements. income Key Positions Open WASHINGTON (AFNS) Air Force is seeking colonel increase when she reaches her 55th year. reduce the impact of RIFs on military bases, the Civil Service Commission has To relaxed maintenance somewhat in recent months. When a base is in a RIF situation, employees whose jobs are not directly affected by the RIF now may apply for (evening). The cost is $3.75 a plate whether for adult or child. 8 AUTOVON r flee! Sure do enjoy the Royal Service they give you at I OGDKN AUTO PARTS and they gladlv handle mv glass breakage even though I have TOIiriC tCUVf ( insurance. , - officer volunteers for second tours in SEA. A number of director of maintenance positions in key tactical fighter wings will be open this summer. Interested colonels are advised to call Hq. USAF, The Pentagon, rules on retirement its discontinued 6, - " This $2,592. officials. personnel remains stable and will not should be made by April 7 by calling or Fran Mazer, ph. Lil Rubin, ph. 3793 (day) or 399-408- per cent, 10 however 2 per cent for each would year under the 55 total a income her give yearly Reservations 825-279- releasing their jobs to individuals who do not wish to retire. Applicants still must meet all and service age requirements, however. In complicated situations and civilian personnel experts note that no two cases are alike advice is to seek counsel of local civilian 55-ye- ar 25-ye- ar service retirement, might be earning roughly $8,000 a year. Her annual pay under discontinued service retirement, if she met the age requirement, would be approximately $2,880. Jewish Passover Seder Set Hill AFB personnel are invited to attend the Passover Community Seder to be held Saturday, April 10, at 6:30 p.m. The event will be held at the Ramada Inn, 2433 Adams discontinued discontinued service is to slice 2 per cent off the pay scale for every year under 55. A GS-- 6 secretary with 20 years of service at age 50 on qualify, or 78427. A serious aircraft inririont occurred because ammonia hydroxide fumes escaped from an improperly packaged bottle. This caused the mission to be air aborted. The investigation of the incident disclosed that one of the passengers on the plane recently was delivering a box which contained several bottles of this liquid. The flight crew was not aware of the contents of the package prior to the inflight emergency. Another incident recently occurred within AFLC in which an aircrewman was requested to deliver a package to an organization at his destination airfield. After receiving the package, the pilot further investigated and found the parcel to contain a solution of sulfuric acid. The pilot was aware of packaging requirements for dangerous cargo and averted a potentially hazardous situation. These incidents point out the need for hazardous cargo education for all personnel as well as aircrews, and passengers, according j J ACCESSORIES Sales I Si out-of-sta- te j Service j I j i I ,"v' I i I 't''?18 fcs4:'. Vv- I t--t i "- , v v -V. w,- ; 28, I i to Maj. Roy E. Keck, Chief, Flying Safety. Explosive, flammable, and corrosive materials or materials with toxic or irritating fumes should not be carried aboard an aircraft or crew members, Major Any transportation materials through of this will Operations 2, Keck requirement t tJ! Transport Division In addition, DDForral3s, Special Handling" Certification, should to the outside Z of contain Package material compliance with Safety officials to show AFMjii said. R0TC Night Held at Club A high school R0TC night was held at the officers' club, March 24, sponsored by the Ogden Chapter, Utah Air rurce Association. social hour, followed dinner, and was by attended members, guests partners and Harvey Howarth, president, said by their chapter that the program helped determine what support the Utah AF A can Kive high schools to make R TC more attractive and r. in.M" ic (.;..; r High school I; .v from 0iyp3 i made 2 on the nigh n I ,., , rj i - President Designates P0W Week of Concern New Mini-DuneBug- the enemy was The first American still being held en on Ma: 26, 1904. 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Even in captivity, of sense continue to serve our nation in the highest do honor and duty to country, we owe them, in turn, less than our strongest support and our firmest pledge that we will neither forget them nor abandon them. to This government has made and will continue make strenuous efforts in behalf of these America in w who are prisoners of war or missing in action, the to pligM" face of the enemy's callous indifference to loca sought have we their and men families, these attrtu the attention of the world on the barbaric North Vietnam and its agents throughout In1" 1949 se The Geneva Prisoner of War Convention of humamurw forth the minimum standards for treatment applying to all prisoners of war. borne on Dcths nations, including all of those involved accedcdM the Southeast Asia hostilities, have Geneva Convention and have pledged to observe humane standards. In view of the continuing disregard of this convent and basic humane standards by North Vietnam anai agents their refusal to identify all of the being held, to permit impartial inspection camps, to release the seriously sick and to pc prisoners, to provide humane treatment, their famui prisoners to correspond regularly with con and in view of their adamant refusal to of prisoner! nppntiatinn rpcarrfine the release congress of the United States has, b? houj(ffl resolution 16, requested the president to M" ff period beginning March 21, 1971 and ending for Pnsonw 1971, as "National Week of Concern War and Missing In Action." toftf Now, therefore, I, Richard Nixon, Prf51. United States of America, do hereby da,g"carj period as "National Week of Concern' who are POW or MIA. 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