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WHITE FALCON
Sunday, Novmber 11, 1962
"Anchors Aweigh"
Editorial
IVHat Are Y our Plans?
By G. C. Archibald, PNC, USN
Are you a first cruise man? What are your plans for
the future? Do you intend to enter college, private business,
work for someone, or reenlist?
In the event you do not plan to reenlist — how much
ground work is needed to pursue your choice and how
much has been done in preparation prior to your separa-
tion? Have you availed yourself of U.S.A.F.I. correspond-
ence courses to the utmost so that you may utilize USAFI
courses for civilian positions as you might use Navy Train-
ing Course in the Navy?
By chance are you part of that 18% of first cruise
personnel that do not have a goal in life when separated?
Maybe you are that part of the first cruise group that
looks only at the “good” side of civilian life and at the
same time looks only at the “bad” side of Navy life. Why
not give yourself and the Navy a “Fair Shake” and look
at both the good and bad of civilian and Navy life.
Maybe you are part of that group that feels “Every-
thing will be just like it was before I joined the Navy!!”
I'll work when I want, let Mom do the laundry, make my
bed and in general look after me.” But — did you consider
that Mom will be 4 years older; you may be required to
pay room and board and therefore you will have to work.
By working you may be required to join a union, pay for
your medical and dental expenses, or medical insurance,
also pay for life insurance, social security and income tax
as well as possibly contributing to your retirement fund
at age 65. All of this adds up to a real tidy sum. Consider
this — After a 20 year tour of duty in the Navy you are
still a young man, normally a Chief Petty Officer, and
the government has been putting away in name $165.00
per month (with interest) for you to draw upon after
you “retire” and start a new career in civilian life. In
order to draw an annuity equal to the Navy’s “retainer”
pay after 20 years you would be required to save a total
of $39,600.00 and that takes a very good paying job.
On the other hand if you have no ambition at all you
will not get ahead in either civilian life or the Navy.
Think it over — “What are your plans?”
Chaplain A
Corner
By Chaplain W. C. Hitchens, LCDR, USN
Slow Down And Live
That seems to be the slogan for any “safe driving”
campaign, but it also applies to much more of life than just
driving a car. We try to live all of our life too fast now-a-
days, and we actually miss so much by doing it.
In the old days if anyone missed a stage coach he was
content to wait a day or two for the next one. But today,
he lets out a squawk if he just misses one section of a
revolving door.
Too many people are in a hurry these days, and for
no particular reason it seems. They are just caught up in
the whizzy, whirly ways of the modern world, which cause
people to run to catch buses, dash across the street when
they don’t have the “Walk” sign, rush through a job, so
they won’t miss a coffee break. Haste makes waste, is
the old adage, but haste makes broken bodies too, man’s
greatest waste.
Slow down and live: Not just on the highway, but at
play, at home. That does not mean loafing or letting things
slide. It does mean applying calm, sure, safe and steady
habits and attitudes in everything you do.
The following poem purports to be a prayer, but it
is good advice for all of us.
“Slow me down, Lord, I’m going too fast. I can’t see
my brother when he’s waking past. I miss a lot of good
things day by day; I don’t know a blessing when it comes
my way.
Slow me down, Lord, I want to see more of the things
that’s good for me; A little less of me and a mite more
of Thee. I want the heavenly atmosphere to trickle through.
Let me help a brother when the going’s rough; For when
folks work together, it ain’t so tough.
Slow me down, Lord, so I can talk with some of your
angels, slow me down to a walk, Lord, slow me down to
a walk!”
VCO Wide A
Club %eu>A
By NJ. Studebaker
New
Chaplain
Chaplain R. C. Hunkins, Lt
(jg), reported aboard the Naval
Station on October 24, from the
Naval Hospital at Saint Albans.
Chaplain Hunkins, the new Cat-
holic Chaplain, replaces Chaplain
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Zemites who departed October 31
for Newport, R. I.
Before entering the Naval Ser-
vice, Chaplain Hunkins attended
the St. Louis Preparatory Semin-
ary and from there he went to
the Kendrick Thelogical Seminary,
also in St. Louis. After completing
his schooling, he was the Assistant
Pastor of St. Brendan Cathclic
Church in Mexico, Mo.
When asked why he came into
the Naval Service, Chaplain
Hunkins replied, “I love to travel
and during the war, I had one
brother in the Marines, one in
the Merchant Marines, a brother-
in-law in the Navy, another
brother-in-law in the Marine Air
Corps, and one brother in the Air
Force.”
Chaplain Hunkins’ Mother now
resides in St. Louis and three of
his brothers and his two sisters
are also living in St. Louis with
their respective families.
Three Navymen
Take Oath For
Re-Enlistment
Three Navymen raised their
right hand last week as they re-
peated the reenlistment oath after
Capt. S. E. Ellison, CO, NAVSTA.
Chief Freeman C. Baker Jr.,
senior lithographer at the Base
Print Shop took his oath Oct. 24,
shipping for six years after com-
pleting fourteen. His last duty
station was the Aircraft Carrier
USS NORTHHAMPTON (CLC-
1). Chief Baker wears four Good
Conduct Medals and is entitled
to five. He also wears the Na-
tional Defense Service Medal. His
wife Doris and two daughters,
Eva and Cherrie, await his re-
turn at 161 Morningside Drive,
Portsmouth, Va.
Gerald B. Hickman, Radioman
First Class, also reenlisted for
six years. Hickman works as a
circuit controlman for the U.S.
Naval Communications Station.
His last duty station was the
Marine Corps Reserve Training
Center at San Antonio, Texas.
He and his wife Carole have three
children, Joseph B., Daniel J. and
Kari L. The Hickmans’ call Wind-
sor, Ill. their home.
An Aviation Boatswain’s Mate
Third Class, George B. Hicks was
the third to reenlist last week.
He now is working for the Supply
(Continued on Page S.)
Friday, October 26th found the
newly-chosen “petticoat govern-
ment” of the NCO Wives Club one
step closer to office. At the home
of Mrs. Eunice Hamilton, two new
club officers were presented with
the more tangible responsibilities
of their posts, in an informal ex-
change of duties.
Secretary-elect Mrs. Hamilton
received the club minutes from
retiring secretary, Mrs. Jeanne
Mercer, while Mrs. Connie Young,
club treasuher for the April-Oct-
ober 1962 term presented her suc-
cessor, Mrs. Anne Frank, the fin-
ancial books and records as kept
by Mrs. Young for the past six
months.
These ladies will be officially
ushered into their offices at the
forth-coming installation dinner.
The retiring executives of the
NCO Wives’ Club are in charge
of preparations for the banquet,
which is expected to be well-at-
tended.
In their first official duties for
the club, Mrs. Betty Bayne, Mrs.
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