The White Falcon - 04.02.1961, Blaðsíða 3
Saturday, February 4, 1961
WHITE FALCON
KEFLAVIK ARTIST EXHIBITS CANVASES
Mrs. Viola M. Muth, wife of the dependent school superintendent, has
developed a base-wide reputation for her oil paintings of the south-
west Iceland area. Since arriving in Iceland in July 1959, Mrs. Muth
has painted some 30 different landscapes of which 22 have been sold.
Mrs. Muth exhibits a painting depicting the old Sandgerdi lighthouse
and some houses in Hafnir. Unlike native artists, most of Mrs. Muth’s
paintings have avoided the unusual and shown the more typical local
landscapes with the lava hills in the background and rocky, mossy,
lava foregrounds.
‘Dial M For Murder9
Lauded At Keflayik
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By Margo Nolan
“Why should anyone want to
murder someone as lovely as
l?aola Clark?” This was the ques-
tion whispered among the crowds
attending “Dial M for Murder”
at the Viking Service Club last
Sunday and Monday.
Tawny-haired and tempting
Miss Clark, making her stage
debut in the lead role of Margot
Wendice, warms the audience
with her accent, delivery of witty
lines, and sleek clothes. Dave Jar-
ratt, returning to the Viking
stage for a second appearance,
plays Tony Wendice. A repelling
success is his diabolical smile of
innocence while he plots her
murder. In the role of Max Halli-
day, Jack Willse’s voice booms
out. He wishes that he’d- never
sent a certain letter to Margot
which leaves her open to black-
mail when she loses it at Victoria
Station. John Rybka plays a calm
swindler, Captain Lesgate, and
Carl Mortimer creats a “Fibber
McGee and Molly”—Mr. Feeby
type of Inspector Hubbard.
Against a backdrop of a mod-
estly comfortable London apart-
ment, actors had to call their
own resources to project an at-
mosphere of mystery and intrigue
in the play by Frederick Knott.
SAC Is Lauded
Rep. Clarence Cannon (D-Mo.)
told the new session of Congress
that “we must make certain the
Russians do not lead in missiles
or in space vehicles. Only because
our Strategic Air Command still
makes risk of surprise attack un-
acceptable to Russia’s rulers have
we been saved from dire conse-
quences.”
The play zips the life of a
scheming ex-tennis champ Tony
Wendice who married Margot for
her money when she was a fan
of his. Since Tony preferred ten-
nis to other sports, Margot had
eased out of love with him and
larked around a bit with a TV
writer, Max Halliday, who con-
centrated on crime plots.
Things go awry when accom-
plice, Captain Lesgate, who Tony
has selected to commit the perfect
crime, meets a scissors death,
leaving Margot alive to do the
dialing. Determined that he
shouldn’t have to work for a liv-
ing (after all, he has a “groggy
kneepiece”), Tony focuses atten-
tion on laying the blame for
murder on Margot. Rascally writ-
er Max reconstructs the crime
and Tony is snared in his own
stocking, or rather one of Mar-
got’s.
The Keflavik Little Theatre
Group deserve kudos for testing
their acting abilities in a by-no-
means easy play to present. They
invite base personnel to join them
as tryouts for “Tunnel of Love”
will be given soon. The meeting
of the group is February 14.
Gen. Atkinson Retires
Lt. General Joseph H. At-
kinson, Commander, Air Defense
Command, will go on the retired
list in his present rank, effective
28 Feburary 1961.
The President also approved
the selection of Lt. Gen. Robert
M. Lee, currently Vice Command-
er, Air Defense Command, to suc-
ceed General Atkinson.
General Lee’s successor as vice
commander is to be named at a
later date.
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Eisenhower’s Proposed Budget
Would Give Air Force Increase
Of $450 Million Over ’61 Rate
Mr. Eisenhower’s proposed 42.9 billion dollar budget
for fiscal 1962 gives the Air Force $19,344,000,000 in
actual spending. Actual spending in 1962 was set at
$10,073,000,000 for the Army and $12,078,000,000 for the
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Navy.
The overall Defense Depart-
ment budget represents a 1.4 bil-
lion dollar increase over the fiscal
1961 budget.
Of the USAF 19.3 billion spend-
ing figure for 1962, more than
17.8 billion dollars come from hew
allocations. This represents a
USAF expenditure increase ap-
proximating 450 million dollars
over that in 1961.
Big items in the budget are
funds to complete activation of
27 intercontinental missile squad-
rons, to push the B-70 Mach 3
bomber to a scheduled 1963 test
flight, and to plow more than 1.6
billion into Air Force Research,
Development, Testing and Evalua-
tion programs.
USAF manpower is scheduled
to remain the same at its June
30, 1061 level of 823,000. Total
combat wings are scheduled to
shrink from 88 in 1961 to 84 in
1962. TAC is slated to lose one
wing, dropping from 32 wings in
1961 to 31 in 1962. SAC will
drop three wings in total strength
from 1961 to 1962, from 37 to 34.
The SAC loss in three wings
is made up by the conversion of
one wing to B-52 heavy bombers
and one wing of record breaking
B-58 bombers. In addition, 13 aut-
horized Atlas missile squadrons
and 14 Titan missile squadrons
will be completed to augment the
manned bomber force. TAC’s loss
of one wing also is being eased
For Survival
900 Calorie Unit Is Basis
For New Emergency Ration
A new all-purpose survival food packet developed to
meet emergency situations in all climates and under various
conditions is expected to join the military larder along
with such standbys as the familiarh
‘K’, “O’, and ‘10-in-l’ of WW II
fame.
Developed by the Army, which
is the Service having prime re-
sponsibility for food procurement
and development, the new food
packet is based on food bars of
uniform nutrient content which
may be bacon or cheese-flavored,
wheat careal, cornflake, fudge or
fruitcake.
The test prototype includes
four food bars packaged with in-
stant beverages in a 12-ounce
container to give 900 calories. The
packets can be assembled in a
variety of combinations to permit
tailoring the “meal” to fit nutri-
tional needs based on such vari-
ables as supply, probable energy
output, and length of time before
normal resupply can take effect.
Knowledge of nutritional re-
quirements under survival condi-
tions was limited when researhers
began their studies.
.Proceeding methodically, the in-
vestigators conducted their ex-
tensive field tests under condi-
tions paralleling those where (1)
resupply is not a certainity; (2)
there is a low water supply or
no water at all; and (3) units
cut off from logistical support
must remain effective through
their own efforts until relieved.
Scientific studies indicate food
eaten when there is a lack of
U. S. Is Superior
Goldwater States
Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.)
said in a lecture beore the Air
War College at Maxwell AFB,
Ala . . “any comparison of over-
all American strength with over-
all Soviet strength finds the Unit-
ed States not only superior, but
so superior both in present weap-
ons and in development of new
ones that our advantage promises
to be a permanent feature of
United States-Soviet relations of
the foreseeable future.”
water, or very little of it, should
contain no more than 8 per cent
protein. Food containing protein
percentages in excess of this,
when eaten without water, will
cause severe dehydration.
Thus a person in a survival
situation can eat as many bars
as he needs when water is plenti-
ful, or he can eat any one bar
when the water supply is low or
non-existent, without seriously
drying out his body.
Air Force Asks
$474,889,000
For Build Fund
The Air Force needs $474,889,-
000 to carry out its military con-
struction projects in FY ‘62. This
is the amount asked for in a
Department of Defense construc-
tion budget of $823,137,000 which
went to Congress in mid-January.
In addition to what the Regular
Air Force is asking, the Air Na-
tional Guard is down for $13,827,-
000 and the Air Force Reserve
$4,257,000. Nearest approach to
the Air Force is an Army re-
quest for $181,697,000; the total
for the .Navy is $148,467,000.
The money will be spent at U.S.
locations, overseas, and at “loca-
tions not specified”, according to
a breakdown by the Department
of Defense.
In addition to troop and family
housing, utilities, ground im-
provement, real estate, the money
will go into the following facili-
ties: operational, training, main-
tenance, research and develop-
ments structures, supply, hospital
and medical, administrative, and
community.
Even though you are soon to
Deross, remember that you have
a job to do HERE so long as you
are here.
by conversion in “substantial
numbers” of F-100 aircraft to
F-105 all weather fighters.
The introduction of the MACE
B also will bolster TAC. As in
1961, Air Defense wings will re-
main at its 19 in 1962.
The MINUTEMAN solid fuel
missile gets an increasing share
of the missile money as its pro-
duction date nears. And more
money will be spent on the
HOUND DOG air-to-surface mis-
sile. But neither the SKYBOLT
missile system nor the Navy’s
MISSILEER system has gained
new funds, both projects having
to make do with pi-evious appro-
priations. There also is less
spending on the joint USAF-AEC
program to develop an atomic
powered airplane. But the DYNA-
SOAR project is getting more
money.
In addition to the B-70 pro-
gram, MATS will have funds to
develop a long-range cargo craft
to meet modern needs. ATC gets
the money to add about 200 new
T-38 and T-39 jet trainers to.
modernize its flight training pro-
grams plus the addition of sup-
port role C-140s. There are no new
funds for B-52 or B-58 procure-
ment. But KC-135 tanker pro-
duction will be maintained at pre-
sent levels. The active aircraft
inventory will drop to 16,080 in
1962 from the 16,941 level of
1961.
Almost half the 19.3 billion
dollar USAF budget, 8.2 billion,
is bound up in aircraft and mis-
sile production plus the accom-
panying research and develop-
ment programs. This figure
breaks down into $3,761,000,000
for aircraft produrement, $2,860,-
000,000 for missile procurement,
and $1,618,000,000 for Research,
Development, Testing and Evalua-
tion programs. Military construc-
tion in USAF has dropped to
$521,000 from its $609,500 total
in 1961, while Army and Navy
military construction appropria-
tions are scheduled to increase
slightly. The construction decrease
stems largely from virtual com-
pletion of SAC’s dispersal con-
tracts.
USAF Reserve paid particip-
ants are scheduled for a modest
rise from its 70,800 manning
strength slated for 1961 to 72,000
in 1962.
Dining Halls Bid
For Hennessy Award
Culinary experts next month
begin the initial survey of mess
hall entrants in the 1961 Hennes-
sy Trophy Contest, an award that
goes to the base or station pre-
senting the best food services pro-
gram.
The award committee, which in-
cludes a representative from the
National Restaurant Association
as well as USAF experts, begins
its final round of surveys March
20 to April 7. The winner will be
presented the Hennessy Trophy
at the 42d annual convention of
the National Restaurant Associa-
tion in Chicago May 21. The two
runners-up also will be cited.
1960’s Hennessy Winners was
Little Rock AFB, Ark.
Keep your dial tuned to 1484
kilocycles, the light and bright
spot on your radio dial.