EPG Echo, July 15, 1943

              Volume I Erie Proving Ground, LaCarne, Ohio 15 July 1943 Issue 7
WD Authorizes Cash Awards For Suggestions

War Department Civilian
Personnel regulations just
received authorize the awarding of
from $5 to $250
for employee suggestions which result in improvement or economy in operations within the War Department.
Under these regulations
any Civil Service employee
of EPG  will be  eligible to receive an
award for a suggestion adopted on or 
after
June 1943.
In order ito facilitate 
the operation of a suggestion system, boxes are being installed in the vicinity of  each time  clock
and suitable forms
will  be on
hand at each location.
By 1 August it is
expected that  all  local
arrangements will be complete and
that the actual processing
of   suggestions     will   begin.
The local plan was submitted to the Personnel Advisory Board for approval
yesterday and final details
will be announced in the
next   ECHO.
In general, when the Commanding Officer authorizes
adoption of a suggestion,
the employee will be notified of the amount of the
initial award and payment
will follow. Adoption will
consist of actually placing
the   suggestion   in   effect.
Suggestions worthy of
further recognition will be
forwarded to the War Department Board on Civilian Award
for review and possible additional  reward.
EPG Soldiers Give Free Jeep Rides To Boys
Typical of the service EPG's military personnel is rendering in
Bond drives and patriotic rallies sponsored in Ohio cities was the
response for artillery exhibitions and soldier contingents to Bellevue
on  4  July  and  Medina  on  5   July.
Two officers and 10 enlisted men with artillery and jeeps l
from here  to participate  in  parades  and displays   in  those  cities.
The  EPG  detail  of   soldiers  and  officers  bivouacked   near  Medina Sunday night  and were  guests  of     the Medina    War    Bond  committee  for Monday's  noon meal,   and   of   the YWCA  of  Medina  at   a    chicken  picnic supper.
Soldiers   report   they  ate  chicken  until   it   "popped   out  of   their ears."
Maj.    H.   J.   Worst   and   Lt.   D.   E.   Yeagley were   in  charge  of   the expedition.     Enlisted men,   from the EPG Quartermaster Detachment,   on the two-day  trip were T/Sgt.   A.   J.   Weit,   T/Sgt.   L.   P.   Bentley,   Sgt.   C. H. Adams, Sgt.   W.   L.   Franc,     Sgt.   R.   Gilliam,     Cpl.    C.   W.     DeTemple,      Cpl. C. C. Small,   Pfc.   E.   R.   Bader,   Pfc.   C.   J.   Berly,   and  Pvt.   A.   L.   Cueva. T/Sgt. Weit  and  Pfc.   Berly are   in  the  above  picture.	

Civilian Clubs Name Officers
Bulletin - An EPG Field Day
sponsored by the Post Civilian
Clubs, will be held in August.
Pat Barrett, EOD, is  chairman of
Officers for the Control Board
of the EPG Civilian Clubs, elected just as the ECHO was going to
press, are: Rupert Pearce, president: Thelma Paul, vice-president;
William Fields, secretary; and
Marian King, treasurer.
Officers for  five area civilian
clubs
for EPG employees were
named  last  week.  Schedules  of
events for  the different  groups
will be  set-up as  soon as officers work  out  organization  details. Officers are:
Fremont area:   Sherman  Weisheit, president; Mildred  Gavitt, vice  president;  Anna Rose Rich,
secretary;  T. Ward Potts, treasurer.
Oak Harbor area: Rupert Pearce,
president;  Robert  Blose,   vice-president; Ruth Ranch, secretary;Jack Wade, Jr. , treasurer.

Gibsonburg area;  Harold Bork,
president;  Eve  Williams,   vice-
president; Thelma Paul, secretary;
Jean Johnson, treasurer.

Port Clinton: Patrick Barrett,
president; Marian King, vice president; Lois Brown, secretary; Ray Snider, treasurer.

 Toledo area: Robert Howe, president; William Fields, vice president; Emma Doris Roberts, secretary; Lloyd Carr, treasurer.