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Show NOTES FROM HILL FIELD Ogden Air Technical Service Command, Hill Field, announces appointments to vacancies arising in technical clerical and admins-trative admins-trative positions at that installation installa-tion will be made on an increasingly increas-ingly wide scale from the ranks of present employees as one phase of a broad skills inventory program pro-gram launched here. Designed to assign civilian personnel per-sonnel to positions commensurate with skills and to carry out a policy of promotions from with-the with-the ranks of present 'employees, the new project wll catalogue individual in-dividual abilities according to degree de-gree of proficiency, it was explained. explain-ed. As vacancies occur job interviewers inter-viewers will refer constantly to the tabulation in effecting reas-signments. reas-signments. Establishment of the Award of Merit as the official civilian award for service beyond normal job requirements in the Air Tech-nical Tech-nical Service Command was also announced. The Award will supplement war department service civilian cit ations. Plans to present the new award to persons qualifying at the station are underway. The Award of Merit Authorization Authoriz-ation were received from national headquarters. Announcement that the aircraft repair and supply installation leads all areas commands of the Air Technical Service Command in the United States with 13.57 per cent of its gross payroll allotted al-lotted to war bonds was received by the Sixth war loan chairman at Hill Field. With 97.14 per cent of its era. ployees participating in the payroll pay-roll deduction plan, the Ogden Command stands in second place on the basis of percentage of per-sonnel per-sonnel participating. Average for all twelve major areas commands in payroll allotments is 11.29 per cent while average f or - participa. tion is 94.14 per cent. Employees of the Air Technical Service Command with repair and apply installations throughout the U.S. led the entire Army Air Forces in number of labor and material saving ideas adopted dur ing the period from June to November, Nov-ember, 1944, by the ATSC suge tion committee at Wright Field. This information hes been received re-ceived by officials. ATSC workers have sent in 32,489 suggestions for improvements in procedures and equipment of which 3,577 were adopted. Cash awards totaled total-ed $118,649.80 and savings to the government were estimated at $10,208,512.45. |
