The White Falcon - 13.07.1957, Blaðsíða 3

Saturday, July 13, 1957
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Philly USO Show
Plays Full Schedule
The Philadelphia USO Show Which visited Keflavik Air-
port last week, had a busy time as they gave two perform-
ances at the Viking Service Club and single performances
at H-2, PI-3, and Tent City.
The show entitled “Quaker City
Variety” contained 16 different
novelty type acts which included
dancers, acrobats, singers, comed-
ians, etc. All of the performers
came to Iceland on a volunteer
basis, and for many it meant
sacrificing part of their annual
vacation from their place of em-
ployment.
The Philadelphia USO perform-
ers were under the direction of
Norman O’Donnell, who has been
directing USO shows for almost
ten years. Mr. O’Donnell noted
that all the performers were part-
time entertainers and held full-
time jobs which ranged from truck
driver to vice president of the
Pennsylvania Bank. He also men-
tioned that through their work in
the show, many of the part-time
performers later turned into full-
time professionals.
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A/3C ‘.nthony J. Li’ ario, of the a pi to 11' he ps Mi , Anita
Kondrr.il. get ready for her performance-in t e Phi'. . :ip; :j USO Show,
which was staged before standing room-only crowds, last week at the
Vikirg Service Club.
Behind the
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By A/2C Gary F. Mercer
NEW SHOWS
At this writing Chris Albertson
and Bill Pollard are sitting around
Studio B trying to think up a
name for Chris’s new show which
is now on daily from 3:30 to 5
P.M. The show will include a daily
serial and also Chris will give
recipes to his female listeners.
Records of all kinds will be played
including ones made by that well-
known personality Nervous Nor-
vous. In any event give it a listen
and eventually you’ll hear the
name of it; that is if they ever
think one up.
COMING UP
Bob Hope’s guests this evening
are Jerry Colona and Vera Vague
.... They do a sketch which takes
place in Tiajuana, Mexico and has
Colona in the role of a Border
Guard .... “Doctor Sixgun” will
soon be replaced by “Mr. District
Attorney” ....
.... TFK will broadcast the Base
Intramural League Softball
Championship games at the end
of July .... One program we
particularly enjoy is “Recollect-
ions at Thirty” (Sundays 3 P.M.)
Previews of the coming weeks
programs can be heard at mid-
night Saturday with Chris Albert-
son hosting ....
Look for something in the way
of live entertainment in the near
future as chances are good that
a base Theatre Group will be
organized to put on shows for
personnel stationed here at Kefla-
vik ....
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By A/2C William A. Starr _
The 932nd Airman of the month
for July was A/1C Robert C.
Smith, of the Radar Maintanance
section Airman Smith comes from
Eglin A.F.B., Fla., and more re-
cently from the 934th A.C.&W. Sq.
Bob makes his home at Rose Hill,
Virginia, and has a B.S. dgree in
Education from Lincoln Memorial
University in Tenn.
The Philadelphia U.S.O. show
made the long journey to Rock-
ville on Wednesday the 3rd. They
ate supper with the men and then
put on their program in the site
theatre. The 4th of July proved
to be a gay holiday on the “Rock.”
The U.S.O. show once again re-
turned for a shrimp fry at the
N.C.O. club and later on there
was dancing and more entertain-
ment in the airmen’s club.
The site softball and bowling
teams, although fighting an uphill
battle, are still in there pitching.
The bowling team won an impres-
sive 5 out of 8 games the past
two weeks and the Robins now
have a 7-12 record for the season.
One of the chief sources of tall
tales around Rockville has been
the R & R fishing camp. We have
heard rumors that T/Sgt. Frady,
T/Sgt. Hood, and S/Sgt. Dignen
fell asleep on the banks, even
though the fish were biting.
Everyone from the site sends
out special get-well wishes to
A/3C Hart, AP, A/1C Folden,
Radio, and A/1C Novy, Supply,
who are now in the base hospital.
Base Boasts
Unique Show
Few. if any other, military bases for American troops
can boast a foreign-language broadcast. Keflavik Airport’s
station TFK produces such a program—“Latin Rhythms.”
The show is a broadcast calculated especially to please
Spanish-speaking servicemen and devotees of South-of-the-
Border music.
Triplets Personify
Unity in Services
The Wildron family of Grand
Haven, Mich., has its own
Armed Forces team.
The 19-year-old Wildron trip-
lets represent three branches
of service. Joel is in the Air
Force, Jerry is in the Army,
and Julian is with the Navy.
New IM for 'Latin Rhythms9
Pfc A1 Zavala, right, advises le-.’.. cement, P"c Gar.:
technique pi lar to weekly Sp&i 'sh language pr<
Id Madurga; in mike
cm broadcast.
New m.c. for the Latin American
broadcast is Cuban national Gon-
zalo Madurga, a 25-year-old Pfc
from “A” Co, 2d BCT. Madurga,
whose home is Havana, is well
prepared to assume his new job.
By profession an actor, he has
studied at Havana Dramatic
School and New York’s Tamara
Daykarhanova School for the
Stage. Earlier, Madurga was five
years a professional photographer,
studying at the Kodak Cubana,
Ltd, and the American Academy
of Commercial Art.
Madurga is replacement for
Mexican-American A1 Zava'a, Pfc
from Chicago, who is due for an
August d'seharge from the Army.
Zavela’s Iceland job: supply clerk
for BCT’s “B” Co. Previously a
' ■ t at Chicago’s Wright
College, Zavella will soon study
l?.v7 at W -arnette U in Oregon.
Z-ivelio, 27, is also man of parts,
1 tirg music, gymnastics and
1 philosophy as off duty time con-
! somers.
i The pleasing Latin American
| show may be heard on K.I.A.’s
| own radio station, TFK, each
| Saturday at 1700 hours. Variety
within the wide-ranging area of
Latin music is its business. On
“Latin Rhythms” you will hear
everything from Mambos and
Cha-Chas to Boleros and Tangos
-—and, of course, the program’s
cordial Cuban M.C. is always
ready to hear special requests.
She Was on the Job
Akron, Ohio (AFPS) — Dorothy
Frient was tending her father’s
store here when a masked man
entered. She ran to call police,
who captured the intruder with-
out a struggle. It turned out to be
her father, who was holding a
handkerchief over his mouth after
having had some teeth pulled.
Rename AG Office
Washington (AFPS) — The Ca-
reer Management Division in the
Office of The Adjutant General
will be renamed the Officers As-
signment Division July .
The functions of the division
will not change, the Army said.
Befinfiid the
Camera
By T/Sgt Shelly Blunt
We at TFK-TV are becoming
more and more concerned as to
whether our viewers are receiving
the weekly TV schedules regul-
arly. In looking over the situation,
we found that time consumption
and personnel shortages prevent
delivery of the schedules to all
areas. To compensate for this, the
boys at IADF Message Center
are including a sufficient number
of these schedules in the organiza-
tion distribution folder to go
around.
We hope to have the kinescopes
of the “All-star” game played on
9 July aired this weekend.
King-Soldiers
Swap Salutes
Sunday, June 30, Pfc Bob
Gordon and Pfc Wm C Wilson
of HQ Co, 2d BCT, observed the
arrival in Iceland of the Swedish
Monarchs, King Gustav VI and
Queen Louise. As the Royal Party
passed close-by, the soldierly en-
listed men rendered respect to them
with a sharp salute. Smiling and
turning somewhat aside, King
Gustav returned the salute—with
a smile of friendliness.
Pfc Gordon is from Woodstock,
N.Y. and attended Carlton College
(Minnesota) and Columbia U; Pfc
Wilson is from Fredricksburg, Va,
and attended UCLA before enter-
ing the service.
Visiting Strategists Attend Keflavik Conference
Representing their headquarters at the second IDF Operations and Planning Conference, held at Kefla-
vik, June 19-20 were (left to right): Lt. J.S. Gardner, CINCLANT; Lt. Col. G.C. Mirock, MATS; Lt. Col.
F.J. Randall and Col. E.H. Druley, FIRST ARMY; and Colonel J.E. Blair, CINCLANT. Also in attendance
at the conference wore some 60 officers representing IDF Headquarters and each of the component forces
in Iceland. The conference members were welcomed by Brig. Gen. John W. White, who said the purpose
of the meetings was to provide guidance, exchange information and discuss operational problems con-
cerning the Iceland Defense Force.