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Show WESTERN AMERICANA, All I v-- , iito.V t,a i'.i - 4tf 1 . Sd- -, '.'-I- - l I' V Vv. V'.-.- - ? . - Patrick Handrahan. Administration Services Office, Maintenance, cleans the rollers on the microfilm printer. (USAF photo: George Whetton) E. Garrett Elkins, Base Distribution Section, 2849th Air Base Group PAPERWORK a logs priority delivery. (USAF photo: SSgt. Frank Garzelnick) TASK 'JUT v ... . - - LISTINGS Elaine Kelly, Data Products Division, Materiel Management, explains an item correction to her supervisor, Margaret Shumway. (USAF photo: Robert M. " CONVERSATION Charles Taggert, Commodities Production Management Branch, Materiel Management, checks by telephone on the status of a training device undergoing repair in Maintenance. (USAF photo: George Whetton) if is Elaine Kelly, E. Garrett Elkins, Charles Taggert and Patrick Handrahan have one thing in hancommon. They are all Hill AFB employees. dicapped BASE has about 1,900 handicap coded employees, said Jackie Call, Physical Handicap Placement Coordinator, Civilian Personnel. "This includes employees who have had heart attacks or those with emotional THE reolly problems as well as those with obvious physical handicaps." Elaine Kelly is, confined to a wheelchair. In 1957, she found out that she is diabetic. "It became really bad in 1970." She had to use crutches. A foot was amputated in June 1973. One leg was amputated in January 1974. "My remaining foot won't stand the pressure and so I have to stay in the wheelchair." Mrs. Kelly is doing the same job Makela) im your she did before receiving a handicap code. "The office has really worked with me." HER JOB in Data Products Division, Materiel Management, is to edit computer input for Air Force wide ammunition shipments. "We had to l rearrange somethings in the office so they were more convenient for her," said her supervisor, Margaret mimid' Shumway. "My job was the kind of job that I could stay ,with dispite my handicap. I have been offered other jobs since but I have to consider things like the physical layouts and shift work," Mrs. Kelly said. "Her handicap hasn't made any difference in how she does her job. I can still count on her to correct any exceptions and give the item manager a lot of information and help," said Mrs. Shumway. "Her Vol. 27 No. 46 ' OtPlAi i. "J ever, attendance, is very She office. better than others in the is unnact it uses leave only where ecessary. "Mrs. Kelly is a very efficient in her work even on days where she is in pain from her handicap." with computer products requires knowing the formats continued Mrs. Kelly. "If the right format is not used, it (More page 8) Ogden, Utah WORKING November 8, 1971 The Hill Top Times is an unofficial newspaper published weekly in the interest of personnel at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, of Air Force logistics Command. It is published by Mor Media Sales, Inc., a private firm, in no way connected with the Department of the Air Force. Opinions expressed by publishers and writers are their own and are not to be considered an official expression by the Department of the Air Force. The appearance of advertisement?, including supplements and inserts, in this publication does not constitute an endorsement by the Department of the Air Force of products or services advertised. |