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Show Army Air Base Kearns Utah Lieutenant Col. James L. Tobin son of James Tobin, 1082 Woodbury Wood-bury Road, Pasadena, California, has been appointed base surgeon at the Army Air Base, Kearns, Utah, this week. Commissioned February 6, 1935, Colonel Tobin has seen service in all parts of the United States in the past eight years and has at-' at-' tended several technical' schools including medical field sanitation school, army medical school, aviation avia-tion school and commanding general's gen-eral's school. He studied pre-medical courses at the University of Montana and graduated from Stanford Uni-verity. Uni-verity. His duties of base surgeon will include administration of a million mil-lion and a quarter dollar hospital, the second largest in Utah. He comes from Fort George Wright, Washington. ' Utah civilians working at this army air base are paying withholding with-holding taxes on their salaries at the rate of $13,560 a month. Payroll deductions for the withholding with-holding tax amounted to $30,601 in the three-month iperiod ended September 30 among civilian employees, em-ployees, exclusive of those working work-ing in post exchanges, reported Lt. Col. Joseph E. Kennedy, base finance officer. In the same per-od per-od those working in exchanges paid withholding taxes of $10,106, said Major Ralph M. Voorhees, exchange officei. Staff Sgt. Dean J.. Yates of Mona Utah, is missing in action after a European bombing raid, but his parents are keeping the Air Medal he won until he won until he returns. The 23-year-old tail gunnre won j the award for meritorious achive-1 ment in five bombing missions: over Continental Europe. It was presented to his father, John B. Yates, Mona farmer, by Col. Walter F. Siegmund, base commanding officer, at a military ceremony witnessed by the flier-er's flier-er's mother and his 14-year-old brother Don. "We feel sure that Dean will come back, ' said the mother. The base hospital, second largest larg-est in Utah, now is under the adminstration ad-minstration of Lt. Col. James L. Tobin, who was appoisted base' surgeon last week. Col. Tobin, whose home is at Pasadena, Cal. was transfered here from Fort Geirge Wright. He has been an army medical officer eight years When screen actress Marguerite Chapman paid a visit to this base last week she remarked that "Utah weather is wonderful'. I wish I could can some of it and take it back to California. She brightened the day for patients in three hospital wards, ate in one of the mess halls and met Pfc. John Drew Colt, son of Ethel Barrymore Colt. The first time ' vt. Ralph Butler But-ler wore an air force uniform, he didn't have to take the sergeant's orders too seriously he was playing play-ing a hit part in the movie "Air Force." Inducted four months ago and now stationed at this base, Private Pri-vate Butler's civilian job was a secretary to Hal' Wallis, screen producer who was in charge of the "Air Force" production. |
