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Show 7 TheScag wll upply Depot at Clearfield, Utah For the Personnel of the Naval Vol. 1 No. 25 CLEARFIELD, UTAH Train Control Utilizes Radio for Big Efficency Gains Saturday, June 10, 1944 Allied Invasion Spurs Navy Independence Day Bond Drive Spurred by news of the allied invasion of France, plans for the Navy's Independence Day cash war bond campaign are now geared for a recordbreaking response from naval personnel—uniformed and cvilian alike. The Fourth of July campaign will swing into action at the Clearfield Supply Deoci on July 1 and will end in a smashing wind-up on July 8. In preparation for the July 1 to 8 campaign a Pledge Drive will get under way Monday at NSD. Early next week all civilians, officers and enlisted personnel on the depot will be contacted by minutemen. Naval Personnel Represent Depot In Bond Parade TWO-WAY RADIO COMMUNICATION . . . between Train Control and all engines and locomotive cranes is now in operation at Clearfield NSD. This is among the earliest applications of radio-telephones to switching operations in railroad history. Above Dispatcher Cl ark M. Hillam, Brigham City, is shown broadcasting orders to Engineer Robert C. Lofton, Salt Lake City, and Lester Day, Roy, who in turn relay the orders to conductors for execution. Depot Train Control Puts Radio to Ingenius Use in RR Car Switchings Casey Jones, legendary engineer of tors’ execution, thereby saving many hours per day over standard railroad early railroading, would be baffled by the new sight at Clearfield Naval Sup- operations. ply Depot this week—engineers talk- Dispatcher Keeps Track ing over telephones newly installed in On the dispatcher’s part, having his their cabs. Indeed, most engineers >f finger on all train movements at all today would be equally perplexed. times by radio telephone, he is able Investigating further, Casey or his (Continued on page 4) modern counterpart would soon find that railroading hasn’t suddenly turned t—t soft, with engineers idly gossiping over a party line. Instead he would witness the unfolding of another new miracle of increased efficiency along the vital supply line to the American fleet and fighting men, wrought by an ingenious application of the radio telephone. A new airmail run which connects Similar to Police System | with mail planes leaving Salt Lake Nearly everyone is familiar with the | City at 1730 daily was inaugurated use of radio telephone by metropol- last week at the NSD Navy Post Ofitan police forces, permitting two-way fice, announced. Carl M. Thurston, conversations between central office Sp (S) 2\c. All depot airmail must be and roving squad cars, and the al- in the Post Office by 1630 to catch most instant dispatch of squad cars to this run. scenes of crime. Specialist Thurston pointed out that Navy Post Office Inaugurates New Airmail Run A At the Clearfield Naval Supply Depot essentially this same principle is being applied to train control for one of the first times in railroad history. Thanks to newly installed radio telephones im engine cabs and locomotive cranes, engineers at the completion of switchings instantly com- municate with the dispatcher for new switching assignments for the conduc- Depot Needs More Workers to Help Supply the Fleet With its goal one extra war bond per person, the Navy confidently anticipates that July 4th results will far surpass those of last Pearl Harbor Day, when the total of $23,079,770 was rung up by Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard personnel, thereby outdistancing the $15,000,000 goal set Sailors, marines, WAVES and offibefore the opening gun of that camcers will represent Clearfield NSD in paign. military parades in Salt Lake City Double-Barreled Contribution and Ogden June 12 and 13, respecPointing out that the dates of the tively, at 7:00 p.m. These parades are Independence Day Drive coincide with scheduled among the opening events the conclusion of the Treasury Fifth of the Fifth War Loan Drive. War Loan Campaign, Lt. (jg) E. M. Preceded by the Union Pacific Band Rose, NSD war bond officer, states, the Clearfield section will be composed “Buy your cash bonds during the Navy of 80 marines, 120 WAVES and 150 drive, and they will be credited to both sailors. NSDs Parade Marshall will be campaigns. If you buy bonds before Comdr. Raymond J. Curry, commandthe Navy campaign they will be creding officer of the Naval Barracks at ited only to the Fifth War Loan and NSD. In addition the following offithe Navy will receive no credit.’ cers will participate in the parade: Lt. Also Series F and G (jg) Clifford E. Frey, Ist Lt. C. G. Lait, In the Independence Day campaign Lt. (jg) J. J. Leineweber, Lt. (jg) John Series F and G bonds may be purP. Graham, Lt. (jg) Harriett Cathchased as well as the Series E. erine Zimmerman and Ensign Virginia In announcing the Navy goal of ot S. Meyer. least one extra $100 bond per perThe Union Pacific band, which has son, Lt. Rose reminds NSD personnel cooperated with the Naval Supply that war bonds are not contributions Depot on numerous occasions, was oras such, and neither do they represent ganized 20 years ago by W. G. Jay money given to the government. They and has toured nearly every state in are sound and common sense investthe Union. Recently this 34-piece orments, with a 33 1-3 percent dividend, ganization completed a 12,000 mile payable at maturity. tour. Bandmaster for the group is Isa Tangible Contribution Shoore. Much more is at stake in this impending campaign, however, than the t—t Two Officers Promoted “Over 200 box makers, 50 addiCongratulations to Lieut. Edward J. tional male storekeepers and hunTurley, SC-V, USNR, and Lieut. A. B. dreds of laborers are needed immediCromwell, SC-V(S), USNR, who have ately,’ stated Lt. (jg) C. D. Hardesty, recently received their appointments SC-V(S), USNR, personnel officer. to lieutenant senior grade. As a result of the increased activity in the Pacific, larger quantities of material are being stored at the depot, and additional men are needed to handle the increasing work load: amount of interest returned by the government on our investment. Buying bonds is the one tangible contribution, above his work, that the civilian can make to the winning of the war. Remember ‘’They fight and die. You work and buy—Bonds.’ NSD Stock Control Supervisor Sets Five Year Non-Tardiness Record “Construction of new buildings, conversion of many of the supplies A man who hasn‘t been late to work in five years and who has taken from open to closed storage, and ad- no sick leave since 1922 is Roy Thomas, supervisor of the Stock Control Diditional packing in the Advance Base, vision of Incoming Stores Group, who is one of the oldest men on the NSD are all factors affecting the need for payroll from standpoint of age. more labor,’’ concluded Lieut. HarMr. Thomas came to the depot January 19, 1943, and has seen his desty. department grow from a personnel 2f six to its present staff of 80. A civil b—t Contractors Arrive Arriving at Clearfield this week were members of the Gibbons and Reed contracting firm of Salt Lake dispatching a truck to the Salt Lake City who have been awarded the conairfield to catch these mail planes tract for paving 1,500,000 square saves as much as 24 hours in the de- feet of open storage at NSD. livery of depot airmail. Mail catching This $480,000 construction prothe westbound plane arrives in Los gram was authorized by the Bureau Angeles at 2150 and in San Francisco of Yards and Docks to relieve conat 2146. Eastbound airmail reaches gestion in storage at the depot. The Omaha at 0250, Chicago at 0534, paved area will be utilized for stackthen changes for Washington, D. C. ing material not readily subject to and points East. deterioration. service employe for the past ten years, Mr. Thomas has been in accounting work since 1910. Born in Danville, Illinois, Mr. Thomas spent his boyhood near Huron, South Dakota, and was married in Marshalltown, lowa, in 1899. Of his five children, one is in the Navy, one is the wife of a Lt. Comdr., one is developing American oil interests in Arabia, and two are in San Diego. A former semi-pro baseball player, Mr. Thomas still enjoys a round of golf or a game of bowling in spite of his 65 years. His favorite indoor sport is bridge and in that game heis willing to challenge all comers. Roy Thomas |