= ae ee CHAPTER Ill, SECTION 4 fare, per diem, and two days salary on all San Francisco hires. This svstem effected a savings of approximately 2103.00 per each new emplovee from tnat area during the penod from 25 Mav through 31 December 1953. TRANSPORTATION Prior to the inauguration of the accel-rated recruiiing program, Holmes & Narver empiovees foiling to Bniwetoxk were transported be commercial airlines trom Los Anzeles to San Francisco and then oy chartered commercial bus or Navy bus to Travis Air Force Base. However. on 16 June 1953. chartered aireratt, fiving dhi- rectly to Travis Ai Foree Base, were started from Los Angeles. thereby eliminating the inter- mediate bus service from san Francisco to the Base. Each plane mad a capacity of 44 pa-~-ngers and was chartered only when a minimum of 25 passengers was avauable. During the peak of the hiring program, two chartered thghts per week Were Used, with cach flight averaging 34 men. The la=t chartered? theht departed Los Angeles on 2 December 1953. In ail. 27 flight- trom Los Anveles to Travis Air Force Base at 2° 179.06 each were chartered to carry a total of 95> men. This amounted to S22.0154"+ as compared to the co-t of equivalent comm: retl service €958 fares at SP5.56) on the amount of S24,294.55. By flsing directls to Travis. bus fares ttrom San Francisco to ‘Vravis) were climinated resulting in a further savings of fares at 31.94). *1.858.52 (958 A temporary group leader was appointed from within each zroup going overseas who was personsily responsible for carrying the group's collective personnel records to Jobsite. Fach member of a group was given a $25.00 advance on his Jobsite salary poor to leaving the Home Office. Travel was by MATS atreratt from Travis 10 Eniwetok via Hickam Field. Honolulu, and Kwajalein. Upon arrival at Travis and again at Hickam Field) the men were met hy an H&N. representative who escoried them through the MATS procedures. The flow of personnel was reversed in the demobilization incident to the end of the Operation. San Francisco hires were returned to their point of hire by chartered bus after ar: riving at Travis Ai Force Base; Los Angeles hires were furnished air transportation from the San Francisco airport. [In the event chartered buses or aircraft were not warranted due to the small number of returnees involved in a group, the men were in-tnicted to travel by commercial means and were reimbursed for this service. Figure 3-4 shows the monthiyv totals of men transported to and from Job-ite. OFF-CONTINENT TERMINATIONS The records and paper work required for off-continent termination settlements did not necessitate an increase in the Industrial Re- lations Department staff because the increase in termination near the close of the Operation coincided with a decrease in employment of new men. Terminations began to increase late in November 1953 due to the limiting date on "Q" clearances for Jobsite employees. This situation was brought about bs the fact that “P° approved employees had becn permitted to work in certain Jocations at the Jobsite up to aoertical security. date. When it became anparent that “Q" clearances on recent hires would not be received! prior to the limiting date, these men were declared surplus and terrninated, Off-continent terminations (for all reasons) during November totaled 164. By February 1954, 594 terminations had been processed. San Franc:rco returnees were processcd at the California State Employment Services office. This processing included termination physical examinations and security clearances; final processing was completed at the Home Office. The Industrial Relations and Accounting Departments maintained close contact to avoid any aelayvs i the terminating employees’ payoff commitments. Pav-off procedures for the San Francisco terminations were modified somewhat to allow fer the delay in receipt of preliminary paper werk relevant to these termi. nations. Vravel reserve checks were airmailed to San Francisco on the same dav the -Fobsite “emplovee departure wire” was received ino the Home Office. Chis arrangement, in most cases, provided immediate funds for employees terminating at San Francisco. However, unavoidable delays were experienced in the Honolulu pasoffs due to the time lapse involved in overseas mail service. From 1 June 1953 through 30 June 1954, a total of 3,749 off-continent emplovecs were processed and terminated: this total included 639 Honolulu terminations and 186 San Francisen terminatinne ON-CONTINENT RECRUITING Reermiting methods for on-continent em- plovees were essentially the same as for offcontinent cemplovees, ioe. by newspaper advertisements and CSEs facilities. and by use of three private agencies. Home Office applicants were screened hy a local police check, security checks. and the checking of three local references, JOBSITE PERSONNEL Site Elmer at Eniwetok continued ta be uscd as the personnel neadquarters and. although individual records were maintained on Bikini Atoll at site Tare for all emplovees permanently assigned to any one of the camp sites in that area, all permanent personnel records were initiated and maintained at Elmer. All Page 3-12 erm neee eee