The White Falcon - 29.10.1960, Page 3

Saturday, October 29, 1960
WHITE FALCON
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Quarterly
Quiz Ends
ThisWeek
Airmen with a service number
ending in 21, 26, 41, 69, or 94 and
officers whose number ends with
01, 12, 28, 36, 48, 54, 79, 81 or
94 filled out sample surveys this
week.
From this survey the Air Force
is seeking opinions on a wide vari-
ety of subjects ranging from pay
and promotion through housing,
career plans, jobs and training
and comparision of civilian life
with a military career.
TSgt. M. E. Hicks, NCOIC of
Special Actions section, said this
is a broad brush description of
the nature of the questions ask-
ed in the survey.
In the enlisted area the ques-
tions are aimed at determining
the effect of recent personnel con-
trol actions, particularly those
concerned with selective reenlist-
ment policies.
Specific questions are asked
about the reaction to policy
changes which required reenlist-
ment within 24 hours, the eli-
mination of base of choice for
reenlistees (this has been chang-
ed somewhat recently), and es-
tablishment of only one enlist-
ment option—the six year term.
Officers will be asked for a
comparison of a military versus a
civilian career, the most favorable
and unfavorable aspects of mili-
tary and civilian life.
The October survey will inquire
into officers education and back-
ground. Officers will be asked to
indicate their level of training in
algebra, calculus, analytical geo-
metry, or trigonometry. Questions
are also asked on AFIT (Air
Force Institute of Technology).
Buth officers and enlisted will
be asked about subjects of mutual
interest such as housing, med’cal
care, and similar “family” ques-
tions.
Bridge Lessons
Given on Sundays
Bridge lessons are being offered
every Sunday night at 6:80 p.m.
in the Viking Service Club.
All, military and civilian, are
invited to attend the instructions
given by SSgt. Jim Brinkley. Ser-
geant Brinkley will accept assist-
ance from experienced players.
Those who wish to instruct should
call Brinkley at the Consolidated
Maintenance Squadron or SSgt.
Schultz at the Viking Service Club.
Halloween’s
Plans All Set
Without the real pumpkins, the
goblins of the 1960 Halloween
will make their rounds early at
some of the clubs and, of course,
the “trick or treaters” will be
around on Oct. 31.
Spooky motifs will be the theme
for the Oct. 29 dance at the Civil-
ian Open Mess. Favors and hats
that all good witches and goblins
should wear will be on hand for
patrons.
The NCO Open Mess will have
the KK Sextet, featuring Elly
Williams, to highlight their Hal-
loween dance Oct. 29. There, too,
the goblin supply man will bring
out his wares for the patrons.
The Armed Forces Open Mess
will observe Halloween Sunday,
Oct. 30. There’ll be no masking,
but the decorations will remind
customers that it is the season
for spooks.
Around the quarters, little live
witches and goblins will make
their rounds to “trick or treat.”
They’ll be seeking “sweet” favors
with containers of all descript. To
be sure there’ll many candies pas-
sed out that night.
Ground Safety is offering
some advice to parents on trick
or treating forays. They advise
that Halloween masks be checked
to be sure that the child can see.
Dark costumes are not visible at
night.
Arnold Gives Library
‘The Flesh Recalls9
A2C Gene Arnold of the 1971st Air and Airways Communication Service Squadron,
presented the Keflavik Airport Library with a copy of the first book his mother had
published. Entitled “The Flesh Recalls, a Poem of Love’
DONATES BOOK—A2C Gene Arnold of the 1971st Air and Airways
Communication Service Squadron this week presents Miss Mary E.
Smith, base librarian, with a book his mother wrote. She is Jeanne
Arnold of Albany, New York, where she is a newspaperwoman. The
book is a poem of love in which the author recalls her purpose in life
and how she is fulfilling it. Linked with the dispatches of the Creator
to Eve and her successors, the plot moves fast to a climactic ending.
AFR 311-23 Rewrite Offers New Training
Procedures for Young Career Officers
Officers are afforded an opportunity for broader training within their career field.
MSgt. Harold J. Saunders, NCOIC of the Officers branch, says an addition to AFR 36-
23, Officer Career Management, provides a step-by-step education and training program
which can carry an officer from
the lowest commissioned grade to
the star-studded top.
The program, which is titled
“Desirable Educatipn and Train-
ing Pattern”, is an addition to
the regulation. In addition to
specific educational qualifications,
the guide offers additional com-
ments that should prove helpful
in planning an effective career.
The reg itself contains a new
paragraph of considerable signi-
ficance “Nonrated officers who
are qualified may be utilized in
the Operations Career Area and
follow a dual progression pat-
Peacetime Survivors
To Get School Aid
TSgt. Alex V. Cramer, NCOIC of the Personal Affairs,
says the latest change to Air Force Pamphlet 30-1-1 will
make it possible for children of deceased veterans of peace-
time service to attend school under
War Orphans Education program.
The program, originally for the
sons and daughters of deceased
war veterans, has been broadened
by a new law.
Death of the peacetime veter-
an must have been caused by
actual performance of military
duties or resulted from extra-
hazardous service.
Children of deceased veterans
generally must be between 18 and
23 to be eligible. They may re-
ceive up to 86 months of educa-
tion with the government paying
up to $110 a month for their
schooling.
Veterans Administration offici-
als defined an “orphan”, for pur-
poses of this law, to be the child
of a deceased veteran whose other
parent may still be living. Re-
marriage of the surviving parent
is no bar to the child’s entitlement,
nor is personal income of the child
or the parents a factor.
tern.”
This means non-rated officers
can command missile units, a pro-
position that has been made be-<j,
fore but is now spelled out for
the first time in a regulation.
The officer career management
program embraces three broad
areas—scientific-engineering, op-
erations and technical support.
The plan is to have officers spec-
ialize in a particular career area
early in their military service.
The new reg also contains an
up-to-date version of the well-
known “U” chart which lists car-
eer areas. Chief change is the re-
moval of the “intelligence” speci-
alty from the security block and
making it a separate career field.
The new AFS is prefixed by the
major code number “80”.
In this career field the AFSs
are 8016, Intelligence Staff Of-
ficer; 8026, International Affairs
Intelligence Officer; 8074, Intel-
ligence Language Officer; 8095,
Air Tactical Intelligence Officer;
8044, Intelligence Photo-Radar Of-
ficer; 8034, Intelligence Com-
Miss Aseis Siguradottir
Reats Go-Cart Record
munication Officer; 8086, Air
Targets Officer; and 8054, Intel-
ligence Officer.
the work is a stirring work
of art, a frank and revealing of
feminine psychology. Jeanne, Arn-
old’s mother, develops the theme
of a universal rhythm and infinite
force in her verses. From the
book’s awed beginning to its clim-
actic finale, Jeanne is expressing
her love—serious, happy and
sometimes whimsical.
The publisher’s reviewer com-
ments, “The frank avowal of
monogamous love as the core of
being is transformed into an ana-
logy for all nature. Against this
is set the existence of unfaithful-
ness and an ardent and timely
plea for fidelity. The themes of
passion and fulfillment are re-
peated and restated with varia-
tions—much as the themes of a
sonata are developed toward an
all-inclusive and crashing finale.”
This daring and honest story of
a woman’s tender and passionate
affection for a man is developed
into the deep significance for an
“intellect of love,” far trans-
cending the mind’s intelligence.
From the literary standpoint,
the author’s probing into the deep-
er and finer emotions of human
experience, with love and creation
as a focal point, she illustrates
her contention that “poetry is the
forerunner of science.”
Jeanne Arnold is a newspaper-
woman in Albany, N. Y. She was
graduated from the Glens Falls
high school and later attended the
New York State College for
Teachers.
She first received recognition as
a poet at an early age, her verses
appearing in the Rutland Herald.
It’s Getting Late
Only 23 mailing days until
Christmas! It’s later than you
think! Mail delivery on parcel
post in the ZI cannot be assured
if it is not mailed before Nov. 20.
Mail’em early.
Miss Aseis Sigurdardottir re-
cently pushed her go-cart to
break the track record for women
at Keflavik Airport. She finished
the course in 17.5 seconds, just
seven tenths of a point off the
record set by Nielson.
GEYSER FED SYSTEM—Helgi Sigurdsson, at extreme left, director
of the Reykjavik hot water pumping system, explains how subter-
ranean hotsprings are used to heat Reykjavik to American engineers.
Bragi Olafsson, next to Sigurdsson, is secretary of the Association
of Chartered Engineers of Iceland. In uniform, left to right, are
Capt. (USN) Albert H. Bowker, Iceland Defense Force chief of staff;
and Col. Sidney Shelley, Army Engineer at Keflavik. Members of the
Keflavik Chapter of the Society of Military Engineers last week made
a joint visit at the invitation of the Icelandic society.