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WHITE FALCON
Saturday, February 18, 1961
EARNS STAR AWARD
Bryan Steely, son of Col. and Mrs. Oscar B. Steely, has earned the
Star Scout Award at Keflavik Airport. Making the award is Com-
mader Paul T. Kissling, commander of the Naval Air Facility here.
The ceremony took place Feb. 2. Scoutmaster Pepper Joyner, looks on.
Olafur /. Hannesson skrifar um:
Hitt eg Jietta
Nylega hafa jmr slokkviliSs-
menn veriS gerSir aS flokksstjor-
um a slokkvistoSinni, Jjeir Bjorn
Magnusson, Halldor Marteinsson
og Helgi Jakobsson. La hefur
Ragnar Gudmundsson tekiS viS
starfi sem flokksstjori i motu-
neyti.
Ingileif Gunnlaugsdottir og
Jakobina H. Hinkle hafa verid
raSnar til framreiSslustarfa a
veitingastofu hotelsins og Svan-
hildur Sigurgeirsdottir sem bok-
ari i verkfrseSingadeildinni. Med-
al nyradinna starfsmanna hja
Verkfrsedingadeildinni eru FriS-
rik H. Fridriksson, vidgerSamad-
ur, Hannes G. Helgason og Ingi
G. Hjorleifsson, tresmiSir, Gud-
mundur Pengilsson, murari, og
Hedinn Jonsson, malari. Pad var
skemmtileg tilviljun, ad sama dag
og Hedinn var radinn hingad til
starfa, vard honum ljost, ad hann
hafdi unnid Volkswagen bifreid i
happdrsetti.
Hrafnhildur Halldorsdottir,
simstulka, hefur nylega hstt
storfum her, svo og Kristjan R.
Kristjansson, er starfadi i voru-
skemmunum.
Nokkud hefur borid a J>vi, ad
starfsmenn hafa skipt um stett-
arfelag an j)ess ad lata skrifstofu
starfsmannahalds vita um bad.
Petta getur ordid til bess a3 tvd
eda fleiri stettarfelog i senn inn-
beimta argjold fyrir eitt og sama
timabil. Til ad koma i veg fyrir
ojjaegindi af fressum voldum, er
naudsynlegt ad lata skrifstofu
starfsmannahalds vita um slikar
breytingar.
AEROSPACE EVENT
Feb. 2, 1960—The USAF, in a
2,000-mile flight test of the Titan,
achieved a successful separation
and ignition of the second stage.
Three firefighters, Bjorn Mag-
nusson, Halldor Marteinsson and
Helgi Jakobsson, have recently
been promoted to Firefighter Crew
Chiefs. Ragnar Gudmundsson has
now been appointed as lead kitch-
en worker in Dining Hall #2.
Ingileif Gunnlaugsdottir and
Jakobina H. Hinkle have been
hired as waitresses in the Ter-
minal Restaurant and Svanhildur
Sigurgeirsdottir as accountant in
Civil Engineering Squadron.
Among the newly hired employees
in C. E. are Fridrik H. Fridriks-
son, maintenance worker, Hannes
G. Helgason and Ingi G. Hjor-
leifsson, carpenters, Gudmundur
Thengilsson, mason, and Hedinn
Jonsson, painter. It was a pleas-
ant coincidence that the same
day Hedinn was hired it was an-
nounced that he had drawn a
Volkswagen in a lottery.
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Hrafnhildur Halldorsdottir, te-
lephone operator, has recently re-
signed, as has Kristjan R. Krist-
jansson, warehouseman.
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Several incidents have occurred
where employees have joined an-
other union without previously
notifying the Civilian Personnel
Office. This frequently results in
two or more unions demanding
their annual fees simultaneously.
In order to avoid inconveniences
caused by this, it is necessary to
advise the Civilian Personnel Of-
fice of such changes.
AEROSPACE EVENT
Feb. 6, 1950—The Defense De-
partment announced test-firing of
Navy’s “Mighty Mouse,” the first
successful “air-to-air-rocket.”
Two Teams Tied
In ‘Mural Race
Air Base Squadron and VP-10 have won three straight
games while losing none to take an early lead in the intra-
mural volleyball race. Four teams, Naval Air Facility,
Supply, Transportation and A ACS®"
have won two and lost one to
pace the leaders.
Bunched at one and one is Den-
tal Clinic and Hospital, while AFI
and CAMRON have won one while
losing two. Civil Engineers, Rock-
ville, and USNSGA have yet to
win a game.
Three games are played each
night, with each team playing
three stanzas.
To get the season underway,
ABRON beat Rockville 15-1, and
15-12, to win in two straight sets.
In the second game, Transporta-
tion edged AFI 16-14 in the first,
then lost the next two 10-15, and
9-15.
VP-10 won two straight over
AACS, the first 15-13, and the
second 15-7.
On the second night CAMRON
bowed to NAF; AACS took Sup-
ply, and Hospital edged Engineers.
The third round of play saw
VP-10 down AFI, Transportation
beat Rockville, and ABRON take
USNSGA in two straight sets.
New AF Communications
Command Established
Keflavik Airport’s 1971st Air-
ways and Air Communications
Service Sq. will become part of
the Air Force’s newest major com-
mand when the Air Force Com-
munications Service (AFCS) is
established on July 1.
Activation of AFCS will bring
to 19 the number of major air
commands. It is expected that the
new command will number ap-
proximately 58,000 officers, air-
men and civilian technicians.
The announcement of the new
command was made by Air Force
More Than 19%
Of Flying EM
Are In MATS
More than 19 per cent of the
23,000 Air Force enlisted men in
jobs which involve flying duties
are in MATS, a MATS spokes-
man said this week.
Despite the modern Air Force
trend to limit flying crews to of-
ficers only, the MATS strategic
airlift force still requires more
than 4,500 airmen on flying status
or whose duties require frequent
flights.
MATS airmen serve as flight
engineers, radio operators, load-
masters, aerial photographers,
flight traffic specialists, medical
service specialists, and survival
technicians on regular crew status.
Major H. E. Robertson, Head-
quarters MATS Chief of Flying
Status Branch, DC S/Personnel,
said, “These airmen are all ex-
perts in their particular duties,
and are indispensable to the fly-
ing mission of MATS as it exists
today.
• “And, as long as our mission
involves the concept of strategic
airlift throughout the free world,
the services of these specialists
will remain an essential part in
the continued performance of that
mission.”
Cadets Make List
Two hundred-five cadets at the
Air Force Academy have made
the Superintendent’s list. To
qualify, cadets had to score 81
per cent or better in both aca-
demic and airmanship courses.
This honor is objectively re-
cognized by the award of a silver
star and wreath insignia for wear
on sleeves of the uniform.
Chief of Staff Gen. Thomas D.
White in an address before the
71st annual Chamber of Com-
merce dinner at Montgomery,
Ala., on Jan. 30.
Creation of the command fol-
lowed several years of study aim-
ed at securing reliable, adequate,
secure and instantaneous com-
munications. It is considered a
vital necessity in an age of ICBMs
which shaved warning time
to 15-30 minutes, General White
said in his address.
The new command will assume
responsibility for operating Air
Force tele-communications point-
to-point and air-to-ground on a
global basis, as well as terminal
and on-route navigational aids.
Transfer of communications
operating responsibilities from
major commands and AACS will
be done on a “Time-phased basis
with estimated completion date of
July 1, 1963”, according to USAF
all-commands wire 397/60.
Headquarters spokesmen stres-
sed the point that no’ large scale
shift of personnel is anticipated
in creation of the new command.
The command will operate ten-
ant communications units on
every Air Force Base throughout
the world.
AFCS will be headquartered at
Scott AFB, Ill., home of the pre-.
sent AACS, making Scott the one
base in the world with two major
commands headquartered there.
Other play since the young
season started saw AACS win
over Hospital, ABRON beat NAF,
Dental Clinic defeat CAMRON,
Supply down AFI, Transportation
slap USNSGA, and VP-10 win its
third straight by dropping Rock-
ville.
Here is the schedule for next
week’s activity:
Monday, AACS and AFI; CA-
MRON vs. Transportation; and
Engineers vs. Rockville.
Tuesday; ABRON vs. Trans-
portation; AACS vs. Rockville;
and CAMRON vs. VP-10.
Thursday; Engineers vs. USN-
SGA; Dental Clinic vs. Supply;
and Hospital vs. NAF.
Friday; AFI vs. Rockville;
ABRON vs. VP-10; and AACS
vs. USNSGA.
All games begin at 6 p.m.
United States
Still Leading
‘Space Race’
The U. S. need not look abash-
ed when the world asks what the
space race score is.
As of Dec. 25, 1960, the U. S.
had 16 vehicles in earth orbit, 11
of which are still transmitting
useful scientific information.
This, out of 31 put into orbit
since the U. S. launched its first
satellite, Explorer I, Jan. 31,
1958.
Explorer I is now silent but
before it shut down it discovered
the Van Allen radiation belt, a
major contribution to the advan-
cement of world science.
The U. S. S. R. has only one
object in earth orbit, and this
one, described as Space Vehicle
1, launched May 14, is silent.
Compared with the U. S., which
put 31 vehicles into earth orbit,
the U. S. S. R. succeeded in get-
ting only seven into orbit in an
undisclosed number of tries.
In space probes the U. S. has
Pioneer IV, launched Mar. 3,
1959, in solar orbit after trans-
mitting valuable data on two
radiation belts, and Pioneer V,
also in solar orbit since its launch-
ing Mar. 11, 1960.
Of the U. S. S. R.’s two space
probes only Lunik I, launched Jan.
2, 1959, is in solar orbit.
WINS MERIT CERTIFICATE
Miss Margaret Jessup, a stuhent at Keflavik Airport Dependent High
School, was named a finalist in the 1960-61 National Merit Scholarship
Program. Here she receives a Certificate of Merit from high school
Principal Patrick Johnson.