The White Falcon - 24.10.1959, Síða 4

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THE WHITE FALCON
Saturday, October 24, 1959
NCO Wives Install New Officers
The Keflavik NCO Wives Club met in the Reading Room of the luxurious new NCO Club this month
for their semi-annual installation of officers. Following a short business meeting and dinner, outgoing
President, Mrs. Nellie Sogard installed Mrs. Skip Flanagan as President. Mrs. Tina Stanley was elected
Vice President; Mrs. Faye Brown, Secretary; Mrs. Doris Hedden, Treasurer and Mrs. Mary Lilli-
bridge as Parliamentarian. The club meets the first Tuesday of each month and a “Social Night” is held
on the third Tuesday of each month. Mrs. Sogard urged all NCO 'Wives, whether living on or off the
base to attend the meetings. All meetings are held in the Reading Room of the club. The new officers
sitting left to right are: Tina Stanley, Mary Lillibridge, Skip Flanagan, Doris Hedden and Faye Brown.
Holiday Season
'Early Out' Plan
Washington —. An “early out”
program during the Christmas-
New Year holiday period for offi-
cers and enlisted men in the con-
tinental U.S. has been announced
by the Department of Defense.
Specifically, personnel whose
normal expiration of obligated
service or enlistment would oc-
cur during the period Dec. 18,
1959, and Jan. 4, 1960, inclusive,
will be released during the period
Dec. 10 through 18.
The Defense Department said
about 8,500 military personnel
will be affected.
Excluded from the early out
policy are:
• Reservists undergoing six-
months’ active duty or training
under the Reserve Forces Act of
1955;
• Aliens seeking to qualify for
citizenship by completion of three
years of active military service.
The DOD said other service
personnel and other categories of
personnel may be excluded as re-
quired by the needs of the in-
dividual military service.
Prop-jet Hercules
For Rescue Work
Marietta, Ga. (AFPS) — The
first prop-jet SC-130B Hercules
ordered by the Coast Guard will
feature a master communications
system and a radar scanner to
aid in sea rescue and search
flights.
Currently undergoing tests here,
the SC-130B is equipped with a
unique 225-foot, flexible antenna
which hangs from the underside
of the cockpit.
The antenna is the nerve cen-
ter for the master system which
coordinates air and surface craft
while a search or rescue mission
is underway.
A radar scanner focuses a beam
over a 60-degree sector ahead of
the plane. This beam may detail
images from 200 yards to 200
miles away.
The SC-130B is powered by
four Allison prop-jet engines, with
a cruising speed of 370 m.p.h. and
a range of 3,500 miles.
Did you know that Army schools
teach more different subjects than
any single school, college, or uni-
versity in the world?
FASRON Promotes Smith
Aviation Electronics Technician Chief David N. Smith, a member of
FASRON 107, was promoted to Warrant Officer (W-l) last month.
Sworn in by Squadron Commander, Commander S. C. Cass (left),
Smith has been named Assistant Aviation Electronics Officer for the
Keflavik based Naval Unit. A native of Victoria, Tex., he attended
high school in Woodsboro, Tex., before entering the Navy in 1942. He
is currently awaiting transfer to Helicopter Squadron 5 at Kay West, Fla.
Sugar!

From Cuba, the land of sugar
comes proof that little girls are
made of sugar and spice and every-
thing nice. She’s actress Chelo
Alonso . . . she looks “sweet”, and
she does have “spice”. We all agree
she must be “nice”. Right?
Navy Establishes New
San Diego Command
Washington (AFPS) — A new
billet for a fleet air commander
at San Diego has been established
to help standardize the command
relationships of naval aviation
activities in the area, the Navy
announced.
Rear Adm. Dale Harris, who
was commander of the Naval air
bases in the Eleventh and Twelfth
Naval Districts, will fill the new
billet.
Rear Adm. Murr E. Arnolo
took command of the Twelfth
Naval District air bases.
AF Tests New Radar Antenna
For Use With SAGE System
The Air Force is testing a 50-ton boxcar-shaped distant
early warning radar antenna, packed with electronic im-
provements, for use in the SAGE defense network.
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4,700 Army EM
Slated for Pro-pay
Awards in Ocober
Washington — Hundreds of
combat soldiers will be among the
approximately 4,700 enlisted men
in grades E-4 through E-7 who
will begin drawing proficiency pay
during October, the Army an-
nounced.
The eligibles were examined
last August in 113 MOS fields in-
cluding Combat, Missile, elec-
tronic, nuclear and interpreter-
translator specialties. This is the
first time that linguists have been
included in the pro-pay program.
Thousands of light-weapons in-
fantrymen, also tested in August,
will being drawing the pro-pay
November 1, a personnel spokes-
man said.
The modern system, designated
AN/FPS-28, uses newly develop-
ed power tubes. Coupled with im-
proved amplitron and traveling
wave equipment, the radar will
have many combat advantages, the
Air Force announced.
The antenna, measuring 104
feet long, is mounted on a three-
story transmitter-receiver stru-
cture housing the 262 separate
units which make up the system.
Overall weight is 800 tons.
The Air Force will use the sys-
tem to gather advanced warning
data on high-flying missiles and
feed the results into the central
combat center. The SAGE system
then decides the best tactics to
destroy the target. These results
are transmitted to the North
American Air Defense Command
to begin defense measures.
Final tests have begun at
Houma Air Force Station, La., 60
miles southwest of New Orleans.
Sloppy Smoking Habits
Shouldn’t Be Condoned
So many people get satisfaction from smoking that there isn’t
much to be gained from debating the merits of the habit. But on one
point smokers and non-smokers alike can be in. agreement: The man
who smokes carelessly—especially in bed—is a menace to himself
and others, as dangerous as a firebug.
We can never know accurately, for example, how many disastrous
hotel fires originate in one person’s befuddled craving for “one last
drag or two” after turning in. We can never know how many persons
burned themselves to death because, stupefied by alcohol, they slipped
into sleep with nerveless fingers relaxing their hold on the lighted
cigarette.
Whoever indulges his taste for nicotine in this irresponsible
manner is—literally—playing with fire. He shouldn’t be tolerated
in any place where people are quartered. And the fact is that
most people do tolerate him until the inevitable happens and the
fire bell sounds in the night.
Any carelessness where smoking is concerned is criminal careless-
ness. Ask firemen who risk their lives because of the casually tossed
match, the smouldering butt. Ask foresters who battle terribly de-
structive blazes in the wake of vacationists and campers.
Whether you smoke or not, you can do more than look to your
own habits. You can lay it on the line to anyone you know who is
chronically sloppy about smoking. Don’t put up with him. Until he
disciplines himself and scrupulously watches his cigarettes and
matches he deserves to be treated like any anti-social offender. To-
day’s charred mattress (somebody else smelled smoke and caught
the blaze just in time) is tomorrow’s flame-gutted building. (AFPS)
Van Allman Better, Thanks
Pale but happy, A/2C Milton E. VanAllman greets Doctor Robert
I. Westbrook, Jr., and members of the C-47 crew that performed
an emergency evacuation of the airman last September 3. VanAllman
was stricken with appendicitis and was flown from the 933rd AC &
W Site. The C-47 was landed perfectly in the pitch darkness and
driving rain, with only a hand operated beacon to mark the landing
point on the tiny airstrip. Members of the crew, left to right, are
SSgt Robert A. Koehler, Radio Operator; Captain Albert D. Audette,
Jr, Co-pilot; Airman VanAllmann; Doctor (Captain) Westbrook, the
accompanying physician; annd Major O. R. Hubbell, Commander of
the 1400th Operations Squadron and pilot of the C-47.