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Show Page HILL TOP TIMES 8 August 2!. 1175 "Help" Line Volunteers Get Involved, They Are Vital To People Problems This is a true story. Only the The girl's mother called HiH names and locations have AFB "Help" line to find out if been changed. anything could be done here to But it illustrates just one of help Airman Smith. the many areas where "Help" Nickie said, "I told the lady line volunteers help people in we would get right on it and trouble. try to get help from Rollins This story is even more AFB for Airman Smith. dramatic because it involved "I asked for her telephone Hill AFB's volunteer number so I could call her the personnel and an attempted results. suicide at a base over 800 "At 10:55 p.m. I dialed the miles away. Hill AFB Operator, told her Time: 10:45 p.m. who I, was. the nature of the Nature of Problem: Suicide emergency and asked her to Attempt put me through to Rollins AFB Help Line Worker : "Nickie" Social Actions Office. "At 10:45 p.m. I received a "There was no answer call from a lady whose there, but the Hill AFB daughter had received a call Operator suggested I talk to from Amn. Paul Smith, the Officer of the Day at Rollins AFB, New Mex. Rollins. "Airman Smith told the girl that he had taken some pills "The Rollins Operator then and had spoken to her in such said she would put us through a manner that it led her to to the Rollins Command Post. believe he was attempting "A Captain Moore answered suicide." and I explained who I was and the nature of the problem. "Captain Moore said he Scotsman Assigned would get right on it and would immediately start trying to To FTS locate Airman Smith. "He asked me to get back A Scotsman in the Royal Air with the caller to get any Force (RAF) has reported for an assignment at Hill AFB information I could on Airman with the 1551st Flying Smith's unit of assignment, type of work or specialty. Training Squadron. 1551st Squadron Leader Fraser "I told him I would and get it from Skea Forres. back to him Morayshire. Scotland, will rightthen "I attempted to dfal the train as an HH-5Jolly Green unidentified lady's telephone Giant Instructor Pilot He has served in the RAF number three times in for 13 years and has 3.000 succession. "It was busy, so I dialed the hours of helicopter flying 3 time. He is a graduate of Hill AFB Operator again and asked if she would break in on Edinburgh University and has the busy line for the served tours of duty in Borneo. emergency. "The Hill Operator did this Singapore. Cypress and the I and attempted to gain the RAF Central Flying School, information Captain Moore where he was an instructor in rescue and mountain flying for four years. We Buy Used Cars Squadron Leader Skea is And Trucks accompanied to Hill by his wife Kerstin and two; We Pick Up daughters. ITS MCK TO SCHOOl, P&1YE CtfSWUY - Used Cars $0 & had requested. "The lady could not give the requested information, other than Airman Smith had done some road fixing and base repair. asked if he had "I previously been assigned to Hill AFB. She said "no," then told me that Airman Smith had passed through Salt Lake City airport coming from Sandy AFB to Rollins and that she and her daughter had met and spoke with him the day while in Salt previous Lake City. "I asked if Airman Smith had been in some type of training at Sandy. She said he had, but had flunked out and was going to Rollins for OJT. She offered that Smith had got the pills at Sandy. "I inquired as to their purpose and she said she thought they were to calm him down. She also offered that when she had talked to him in Salt Lake City she had asked if he was depressed. He said something about he hid felt this way before, but that his "At 11:10 p.m. I had the Hill AFB Operator put me through to Captain Moore at the Rollins AFB Command Post. Captain Moore was on another line, so I gave the new information to a Sergeant who had answered the phone. "When Captain Moore came back on the line, he informed me that Airman Smith had been located and that the Rollins security police were on their way to his quarters. "Captain Moore asked for my autovon so he could call me back the results. "I gave him the autovon access and the "Help line extension; hung up, redialed the Hill AFB Operator and told her I was expecting a callback from Rollins and to please put it through to me. "At 11:15 p.m. Captain Moore called back and reported that Airman Smith had taken what seemed to be a dose of pain killers and was on his way to the non-leth- al hospital for observation. helped him out of it "She also offeren that his mother had died about two years ago; that he had been in a very bad automobile accident since then and had remarked he should have died in the accident and his mother should be alive, even though her death and the automobile accident were not connected. "The lady also stated that there was a stepmother in the MAR.NA tICD TO wvfnOrNG RING 3 the On spot 450 75 c repairs technicians on Accutron. All repairable & trained Watches iA I' I I- -.. ' Main Clearfield & Watch Jewelry Expert Repairing Phone 16 ) -- Clocks. S. . 875-075- 2 r r l I - V7Ui Parts For Sale at the suicide attempt because he did not seem depressed. "Captain Moore then made some inquiries into our Help line system at Hill and was very impressed with it. "I explained it briefly to him, thanked him for his exceptionally fast work in locating Airman Smith on so little information and hung up. "I then called off-dut- the time and effort worthwhile. the unidentified lady back and told her the results." The Hill AFB Help line is a necessary and vital part of the experiences as a Help line volunteer do not involve "life and death" situations, but every call is important and vital to the person with a All problem. Help line volunteers want to be involved and often do so in areas of human all experiences. SALES & SiKSC 773-138- 0 G ENERAT0RS A CCESS0RIES (FACTORY TO YOU) (One Mile East of So. Gate) HILL AIR FORCE BASE WESTERN SAGA If you call us right after reveille, 5H I surprised The Help line is staffed by volunteers. It requires tremendous effort and endless hours of y time. However, just one incident like the one above makes all Alternators picture now. -- notified and was on his way the hospital. "Captain Moore stated that the First Sergeant had talked with Smith that day and was Starters brothers and sisters had "She then told me that Smith had called her back since I last spoke with her and told her daughter it was a "dumb thing I did." Air Force community. It provides information, referral, listening and caring for people with problems. "Airman Smith's First Sergeant had also been to By Realtor PAUL C. SILLETTI Ij v.ummunvCHLin your money problems could be over by taps, ichli Acrne Sales' Ogden-399-246- 4 SLC - RISE IN COST! 487-549- 3 Since '50, the median value of a house has risen from S9.000 to S32.000, says Oakley Hunter, Chairman of the Board of the Federal Mortgage Association. 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