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Show HuLtti.A. I "Published in the interest of the personnel of the Deseret Test Center i i i Published by the Transcript-BulletiPublishing Company, Touclc, Utah, a private firm, in no way connected with the Department of the Army. Opinions expressed by publisher and writers herein are their own and are not to be considered an official expression by the Department of tlie Army. The appearance of advertisements in this publication does not constitute an endorsement bv the Department of the Army of the products or services advertised. n fj ,y 9fV "'9?p Vol. 4 No. 15 Ft. Douglas, Utah 84113 I I I November 24, 1972 . PTC saves 93.913 Capt. W;S. Reeder Fy 72 suggestions break savings record MIA , 9 May 72 g $201.9 million of Government funds was saved as a result of over 81,000 employee ideas adopted during Fiscal Year 1972. meaTHIS WAS the sixth consecutive year that first-yesurable benefits from suggestions surpassed the $150 million mark, topping Fiscal Year 1968 by $7 million. Deseret Test Center person ei submitted suggestions is resulted in $93,619 savings to the Government. DTC suggestors received a total of $7,921 in cash awards for their approved suggestions. The single most promising aspect of the $201.9 million savings record is the fact that it was achieved with approximately 19 percent fewer suggestions processed. This means that the quality of employee ideas again improved tremendously. FOR THIS reason managers and supervisors' time was conserved and could be focused on valuable suggestions for improveclerical manhours spent on paments in Government operations and employee ideas could lie perwork was reduced significantly considered more rapidly. Over 225,000 Federal employees, or about one of 12 around the world, have been recognized for their ideas which have improved Government operations or services and for performan which has exceeded job responsibility. , A Captain William S. Reeder, Jr. was shot down on May 8, 1972, in Kontum province. He was on a combat mission And serving as Aircraft Commander of an AH-1Huey record-shatterin- ar G Cobra helicopter. It is known that Capt. Reeder escaped his helicopter and ran into the woods nearby. Because of the intense enemy fire, rescue attempts were thwarted throughout the day. There has been no further information' concerning Capt. Reeder since that first day. This action occurred near the Ben Het Ranger Camp which fell to the North Vietnamese cm October 12 of this year. Captain Reeder has been in the Army for seven years. He is a Regular Army officer in the Field Artillery. He had a previous tour of duty in South Vietnam from October 1968 to November 1969. On this tour he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star, Purple Heart and Air Medal with 46 Oak Leaf Clusters. Dugway, Utah 84022 i CAPTAIN REEDER 30-ye- Awards ar federal service awards recently by DPG Four DTC personnel were presented Commander Col. Arthur J. Kingdom (extreme left) and DTC Commander Col. Robert William Bikfasy of Munitions, who A. Shade (extreme right). The recipients are joined DTC in November 1962; Keith Wanlass of Facilities- - Engineering, who joined DTC in September 1954; John Schrier of Field Printing, who joined DTC in April 1959; and Ifoward Thompson of Chem Lab, who joined DTC in March 1951. 30-ye- ): Automation system installed at DPG An automation system with e the capability of monitoring and control has been installed at Dugway. LOCATED IN the Dugway Fire Station, .the Honeywell Delta 2000 system is now being used in a solely fire alarm role, but plans are under development by post-wid- Division which would expand its usage considerably. stations postTwenty-tw- o wide are being monitored for fire status. In addition to the Mrs. Amy Reeder with children Spencer and Vicki standard automatic alarm, the can give periodic system status reports for all points and individual status checks upon request for individual stations. MIA wife Facilities-iEngineerin- travels f or POWMIA information By Joy Eastland If your husband was listed as Missing in Action in Vietnam, what would your life be like? WOULD YOU react with despair or hope? Would you retreat from life or face it with courage? None of us know exactly what we would do, but we could all look to Amy Reeder for a fine example of a wife who is keeping the home fires burning and finding out all she can about the current POWMIA situation. Mrs. Reeders husband is Captain William Reeder, a helicopter pilot who has been Missing in Action in Vietnam since May of 1972. Mrs. Reeder has been working faithfully at publicizing the plight of these men and promoting such groups as Voices in 'Vital America (VIVA) and the National League of 'Families of POWMIAs. The distribution of literature, bumper stickers and bracelets is one of her special projects.' Mrs. Reeder has recently visited Washington, D.C. and Denver, Colorado for special meetings cm the status of tlie POWMIAs, and what is being done at present to prepare for their return. , SHE ATTENDED the annual meeting of the National League of Families of POWMIAs in Washington, D.C. durand their This league is ing October main goal is the humane treatment of prisoners, the effort to get information and names of POWs and men Missing in Action, and the demand that Hanoi uphold the Geneva Conventions. Until all our men have been accounted for, this organization will be working for their welfare and repatriation while aiding the families of these men. On Monday, November 6th, Mrs. Reeder and the FamAssistance Officer, Captain Paul Miller, left for Services ily Denver for a briefing at Fitzsimmons Army Hospital. The was held for families of briefing, Engress RECAP, POWMIAs to prepare them for the many problems and psychological aspects of the future repatriation. Mrs. Reeder lives at 11 East Knight, Dugway, with her Vicki. two children, Spencer and 14-1- 7. fivc-ycar-o- ld Plans under consideration would expand the usage of the system to include a monitoring and alarm watch over the boilet system in the Baker g area. A said that the representative system provides a more accurate, detailed monitoring system that the existing alarm non-politic- al one-year-o- system. temperatures 110 (accurate of to gency can be the alarm would automatically situations corrected from the centralized sound. From his control panel, controls fester than could be the operator could then turn done manually. on a heating unit in the lab FOR EXAMPLE, if a lab- 'immediately, saving the critioratory dropped below the cal time that would have minimum needed temperature been necessary to reach the lab. Plans beyond the Baker programmed into the system. a degree), BTUs, voltage, parts per million, in all, 63 difpercentage ferent types of input data. The system can record trends in any of these factors, measure accumulated run time, turn equipment on and off, and signal intrusion and critical conditions (such as high temperatures or high pressure). Where 22 points are now being utilized, die system has the capability of 39,000 points thus making the automation possibilities 'on post practically unlimited. SIMPLY BY pressing a button, a system operator can read any one or all of the fee-to- rs at any one or all points in the system. Or, if he prefers, such action can be done automatically at prescribed intervals, and printed out on a permanent record. Emergency situations in any phase of the system as programmed into the unit will give emergency alarms automatically. The system, is on a status. THE HONEYWELL sys- continuous-sca- n Since the system can contem can read such factors as humidity, pressure, flow rates. trol machinery, many emer area are "still in the future, according to Facilities Engineering, but the system will e be included in the master development plan for the post "Weve been trying to get such a system since 1958, the representative added. In addition to everything else, it insures conformity to AR's requiring sprinkling systems to be monitored by the post fire long-rang- mation system in operation at Utahs Ilill Air Force Base is utilizing 453 points. That base is also studying expansion of the systems roles. UNLIKE SYSTEMS requiring cables for transmissions, the Delta 2000 system operates over a single pair of wires, and can carry 50,000 bits of digital information per second. Impulses carrying status checks travel in frac- tions of a second. Alarm reports are automa- electritically double-checke- d cally, eliminating most false alarms. In the event of a power failure, the system has an emergency power supply. INCURRED EXPENSES in installing the system postwide are expected to be relaThe bulk of tively slight. guard. monetary outlay came with Equipment life is also pre- the acquisition of the consodicted to be extended, and le, according to Facilities -losses through malfunctions Engineering. should be significantly limited, Other elements of the syssince the system can identify tem include an intercom comtrouble the moment occurs, munication link to all points, and can cut off the machinery and a graphic unit which not when hu- would automatically display immediately manly noticed. points from which alarms are Another Honeywell auto received. station. SUCH AUTOMATION will conserve manpower by limiting the need for roving guard patrols which now perform system checks. Operating costs could also be reduced, since the system can turn machinery and controls on and off at the press of the centralized button not at the convenience of a roving Fireman Glenn Ashley (1) and Winford OHanlen discuss die new Honeywell Delta 2000 Monitoring System recently installed at the DPG Fire Station. The system is currently being used as a fire alarm device, but has the capacity to sudi as controlling temperperform many other functions Faature, flow, pressure and other critical factors cilities Engineering is making a study of possible adaptations for die system for Dugway. post-wid- e. Clothing distributed at Indian reservation SP4 Joe Reading and Norm Ruggles (r) load the last of 15 boxes of clothing collected by the Protestant Women of the Chapel for distribution to economically deprived Indians in the Four Corners area of Utah. Post Protestant e trek Chaplain (LtCol) Ross C. Wright led the to Bluff, Utah. 400-mil- The Bible carries the admonition to go the extra mile, but a Dugway chaplain and his two assistants went about 800 of them, to be exact. a few more than that The three drove to the St. Christophers Mission two miles outside Bluff, Utah last week with 15 boxes of clothing collected by the Protestant Women of the Chapel at Dugway. There they distributed the clothing to Navajo Indians residing in the Four Corner Area reservation. GREETING THE three Deseret Test Center personnel was Jay Ileisel, an Episcopalian who has spent seven years working at the mission. Mr. Ileisel discussed with DTC Chaplain (LtCol) Ross C. Wright, the problems facing the Indian in todays society, and the particular problems encountered in turning the mission over to the Navajos. Mr. Ileisel noted that the Four Comers reservation affords only limited resources for obtaining an education and productive employment. Chaplains Assistants Sp4 Joe Reading and Sp4 Norm Ruggles accompanied Chaplain Wright, and spent the night drive back in Indian hogans before beginning the 400-mile to Dugway. FIVE WOMEN spent an entire day sorting the clothes before they were traasported to the reservation. Twelve more boxes are scheduled to be shipped to the mission soon by Garrett Truck Lines. The clothing drive is an annual event sponsored by the womens organization. I MPs Fisher named Soldier of Quarter Specialist 4 William T. Fisher of the 65th Military Police Platoon, Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, was honored at the Utah Military Commanders Council meeting on Friday, November 17, for his selection as the Deseret Test Centers Soldier of the Quarter for the quarter ending September, 1972. Specialist Fisher was presented a plaque honoring his selection as Soldier of die Quarter by Mr. Harrison Brothers, Chairman of the Military Affaire Committee of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce. EVERY SOLDIER of the Quarter also receives a $25 merchandise award. Eligibility for Soldier of the Quarter is achieved by each soldier who has been previously selected as Soldier of the Month during the calendar quarter for which the award is to lie given. Specialist Fisher's competition was SP4 Bruce R. Charlton, USAII, who was Soldier of the Month of August, and SP4 Michael A. Petty, USAII, who was Soldier of . the Month of September. for the monthly and quarterly awards E-- 4 or below. A BOARD, convened by the Command Sergeant Major at DPG, selects the Soldier of the Quarter. Selection criteria used by the Board is the same as that used in selecting the Soldier of the Month. Principal criteria are knowledge of internal, national and local affaire; knowledge of Department of Army policies and regulations; military liearing and appearance; demonstrated performance and initiative, as evaluated by each nominees unit commander; and future value to the United States All nominees must be in the grade of Army. old Specialist Fisher is a native of GarThe den Grove, Calif. lie has attended Long Beach State lege in California and is pursuing a degree in art. SP4 Fisher resides at Dugway Proving Ground with his wife Mary at 37L East First. 24-ye- ar Specialist 4 William T. Fisher, 65th Military Police, receives the Soldier of the Quarter plaque from Mr. Harrison Brothers, Chairman of the Military Affairs Committee of the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce. SP4 Fisher also received a $25 award on behalf of tlie Army and Navy stores. |
