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WHITE FAECON
Saturday, April 15, 1961
1971st AACS Tops
In Bowling For
Second Season
Recently the 1971st AACS
Squadron number one team did it
again. For the second consecutive
season the kings of the bowling
lanes has been AACS. The AACS
team finished the season with a
62-26 record. A roll off of the top
two teams in each of the leagues
was held to determine the base
championship. The 1971st crew
felled all comers by winning both
of the final games by 100 pins
(2796-2628 and 2540 to 2375).
High for the AACS Squadron
included: High team game 1034;
High team series 2837.
Statistics for the bowlers fol-
lows:
Names G Av. T.P.
Don Stacy 54 170 9209
Jim Ford 42 172 7234
Ed Johnson .... 27 167 4535
Butch Bowman 45 170 7657
Bob Shortledge 42 168 7084
Paul Dube .... 12 160 1931
Capsule Catchers
Awarded Coveted
Mackay Trophy
The unit that successfully snag-
ged in the air three DISCOVER-
ER capsules hurtling earthward
from space has been awarded the
Mackay Trophy for 1960.
Gen. Thomas D. White, Air
Force chief-of-staff, awarded the
coveted trophy to the 6593d Test
Squadron (Special) at Hickam
AFB, Hawaii.
Aug. 11, 1960, marked the first
time that a man-made object was
recovered from earth orbit, when
aircraft of the 6593d Squadron
were the first to spot the Dis-
coverer XIII capsule as it floated
on the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii.
A Navy helicopter, vectored to
the spot by the circling C-119s,
recovered the first capsule from
the water.
Eight days later, on Aug. 19,
a C-119 bearing the code name
“Pelican Nine,” piloted by Capt.
Harold E. Mitchell, snared the
capsule of Discoverer XIV as it
floated to earth by parachute.
Subsequent aerial retrievals were
made on Nov. 14, 1960 and Dec.
10, 1960, as 6593d aircraft, trail-
ing their special recovery gear,
snared Discoverers XVII and
XVIII.
The Mackay Trophy is award-
ed annually by the Chief of Staff
of the Air Force to the person,
persons, or organization accom-
plishing the most meritorious
flight of the year.
Gen. Eckert Retires
Lt. Gen. William Eckert has
retired from the Air Force after
31 years active duty.
He was awarded the Disting-
uished Service Medal for the out-
standing job he performed since
February 1960 as USAF Comp-
troller.
General Eckert has had a var-
ied Air Force career. He was
vice commander, Tactical Air
Command, when composite air
strike forces were being develop-
ed. He was involved in the Le-
banon operation.
During WW II he was a heavy
bomber man, commanding a B-17
group, before becoming supply
and maintenance chief for the
Ninth Air Force.
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By AFPS
Navy’s grid team will have a new defensive line coach next fall.
Carl Schuette, former asst, mentor at Colgate U., will replace J. D.
Roberts, who has accepted an athletic post at Auburn U....A1
Rushatz has been elected to captain West Point’s wrestling team. . . .
Charles “Bud” Wilkinson, head coach of U. of Oklahoma’s football
club, has been appointed as a special consultant on youth fitness by
President Kennedy .... Oscar Robertson, a rookie with the Cincinnati
Royals this past season, was the third highest scorer in the NBA.
Now he is wearing Army greens at Ft. Jackson, S.C.....High-scoring
Jack Sullivan of Camp Lejeune’s cage team and a member of the
All-Marine five, has inked a contract to play-for-pay with the N.Y.
Knickerbockers.... Dave Tremaine, who scored 273 counters for the
Navy five last season, has been tapped to captain next season’s squad.
SPORT SHORTS—Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, Air Force Vice Chief of
Staff, personally signed the announcement of the Armed Forces In-
vitation Skeet Championship to be held at Ent AFB, Colo., May 26-28
....Nelson Cross and John Martingdale of Fuchu AB, Japan, have
won the right to represent the Pacific Air Forces in the World-Wide
Judo Tournament to be held in mid-April! at Colorado Springs, Colo.
....Last year’s All-Navy 178-pound champ Jim Rosette battled his
way to the Eastern Gloves Heavyweight Championship by defeating
the world’s heavyweight champ’s brother, Ray Patterson... .With a
10-game slate before them, Navy Lacrosse players will be out to
defend their national championship rating.... Col. O. C. Krueger,
USA, Ret., former post commander of Ft. Meade, Md., has been ap-
pointed director of Milwaukee operations for the Green Bay eleven
of the National Football League... .The AAU sponsored National
Senior Boxing Championships were to be held at Pocatello, Idaho,
April 6-8.
DURING WWII DAYS it was: Terry Moore, ex-Cardinal out-
fielder, playing ball at Albrook Field, Panama... .The late Maxie
Baer, former heavyweight champ of the world, was an Army corporal
at Tinker Field, Okla.Johnny Mize of N.Y. Giants fame was a
Navy seaman at NTC Great Lakes, Ill.Bob Carpenter, then the
28-year-old president of the Philadelphia Phillies, was sporting Army
stripes.... On March 12, 1943, Yankee slugger Joe DiMaggio raised
his right hand for Army service... .Byron (Whizzer) White, Colo-
rado’s All-American backfield ace during the early 40s was a Navy
lieutenant with PT boats.... Billy Conn, onetime boxing opponent of
Joe Louis, was an MP at Ft. Campbell, Ky.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK: When Mickey Mantle of N.Y. Yankee
fame was asked what kind of year he would like to have, he said:
“I’d say hitting about .320, knocking in 100 or more runs and blasting
40 home runs. That,” Mickey continued, “would be a fair year.”
MATS Writers Tops
In Foundation Award
MATS letter writers won eleven awards to top all
major air commands in the 1960 Freedoms Foundation
Letter Awards program. ATC trailed with six winners;
SAC had five.
MATS third place winners, who
received $100 cash and a George
Washington medal included: 2nd
Lt. Shirley J. Bach, 1st Weather
Wing, APO 915, San Francisco,
Calif.; Capt. Ferris M. Johnsen,
1503d Air Terminal Sq., Tachi-
kawa AB, Japan and 1st Lt. Jan
Allen Wells, 20th Air Transport
Sq., Dover AFB, Del.
MSgt Charles E. Buchanan, Hq
MATS, Scott AFB, Ill., became a
four time winner with $50 cash
and a medal to lead fourth place
winners in MATS. Others were:
SSgt William G. Carter, 1255th
AB Sq., Wash. Nat’l Aprt., Wash.,
D. C. and Chaplain (Maj) John
T. Evans, 1611th AB Gp McGuire
AFB, N. J.
Fifth place winners who will
be awarded the George Washing-
Service Teams Lose
All service entries in the Na-
tional AAU basketball tourna-
ment at Denver, Colo., were eli-
minated in early rounds of play.
The Air Force quintet beat
Phillip’s Eelectric of Enid, Okla.,
112-90, before bowing to the San
Francisco Olympic Club 78-102.
Kirk’s Pharmacy of Seattle,
Wash., beat the all service cham-
pion Army team 114-111 after two
overtime periods.
Both Navy and the Marines
ton medal included: 1st Lt. John
T. O’Neill, 11th AMTSq. Scott
AFB, Ill. and TSgt George B.
Palmer, 76th ARSQ., APO 953,
San Francisco, Calif.
The remaining three men listed
as MATS winners could not be
located on MATS unit rosters.
MATSmen In
Training For
C-135A Jets
Technical school training for
McGuire AFB MATSmen sche-
duled to service and fly the com-
mand’s first jet powered cargo
aircraft began last month.
Four pilots and four navigators,
slated to fly MATS’ first C-135A
aircraft (modified KC-135’s) left
McGuire on March 1 for opera-
tional training at Strategic Air
Command’s Crew Training School
at Castle AFB, Calif. McGuire
maintenance mechanics left for
training at the Boeing Aircraft
Co. factory in Seattle, Wash.,
where the planes are being modi-
fied to meet MATS specifications.
The first of the big jet air-
craft is scheduled to arrive at
McGuire in June.
KA Keglers Chosen
To Play In MATS
Tournament At Scott
Twenty contestants for places on the Keflavik Airport
team to enter the MATS bowling tournament rolled 18
lines for the pay-off on April 5. Selected for the KA team
were Benjamin V. Yeager, CAM-
RON; L. E. Hendrix, 57th FIS;
Francis Mullins, Civil Engineer-
ing; James Peterson, Hospital;
Gene S. Rzepka, Weather; and
Kenneth D. Stanley, Rockville.
High individual scorer was
Yeager with 3,429 points, averag-
ing 190.
Second high was Hendrix with
3,338 points and 185 average.
Mullins was third, scoring 3,217
and averaging 178.
The KA keglers will join other
top bowlers from MATS bases
who will compete at the Scott
AFB, Ill. alleys in mid-May for
MATS team berths in the Air
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Sports
Quiz
By AFPS
1. If a professional boxer
weighs 133 pounds, what is his
fistic classification?
2. Who was the youngest man
ever to manage a big league base-
ball team?
3. Can you name some of Oscar
“Big O” Robinson’s accomplish-
ments?
4. When was the richest run-
ning of the Pimlico Futurity?
5. What college football team
does Wayne Woodrow Hayes
coach?
More MATSmen
Draw Pro Pay
More than 98 per cent of eli-
gible MATS-men are receiving
proficiency pay, MATS headquar-
ters has announced.
MATS Personnel officials said
that 13,067 airmen got the added
skill pay in their Feburary pay
checks, an increase of 1,091 men
since last November.
296 airmen received skill pay
at the P-2 rate on February 28.
Basic proficiency pay adds $30
to regular monthly pay of eligible
airmen and P-2 rate adds an ad-
ditional $30 to the monthly checks.
Doing The Lindy
About 25 flying crew-members
from eight Air Transport Reserve
Wings are doing a “Lindbergh”
across the Atlantic, ferrying
some 41 Flying Boxcars from
Dreux, France, to the United
States.
While going the other way and
flying in five man crews, the re-
servists are only beating the
“lone eagle” trans-Atlantic time
by five hours.
Their flights from Dreux to
the Azores to Newfoundland to
Mitchel AFB, Long Island, con-
sumes about 28 hours.
Thirty-four years ago, Charles
Lindbergh made it solo across the
Atlantic to France in the famed
Ryan monoplane, “The Spirit of
St. Louis,” in slightly more than
33 hours.
Force world-wide meet at Max-
well AFB, Ala., on May 25-26.
MATS keglers will compete in
six events which include men’s
and women’s team events, and
men’s and women’s doubles and
singles. The team that will carry
the MATS colors to the Air Force
tournament will be comprised of
the top six scorers in all men’s
events and the top four scorers
in the women’s events.
Team trophies will be awarded
to first and second place team
winners with individual awards
for members of the first place
team in both men’s and women’s
matches.
Individual awards will also be
presented to the winners in both
male and female competition in
the following events: all-events
winners, high singles winners,
high game winners and the high
series winners.
Rules of play will be governed
by American Bowling Congress
tournament regulations, with sub-
stitutions allowed according to
ABC rules.
Championships in both men’s
and women’s divisions will be de-
termined by total pinfall in the
singles, doubles, team and all-
events categories. Each competi-
tor will roll three games in these
events. Total pinfall for all three
events -yvill determine the all-
events winner.
A rules interpretations and
drawings meeting for all team
captains will be held at the Scott
NCO Club May 14, at 3 p.m.,
followed by a banquet that even-
ing.
AACS Man Digs
Unusual Crop
A part-time farmer from MATS
Airway and Air Communications
Service dug an unusual crop this
spring—a 30,000 year-old ele-
phant.
A1C Daniel R. Munro, station-
ed at McChord’s 1905 AACS Sq.,
hit something hard while plowing
on his uncle’s farm near Quincy,
Wash. The objects turned out to
be a section of bone and tooth
belonging to a hairy prehistoric
version of the elephant, accord-
ing to Pacific Lutheran College
professors who were called in to
investigate.
University of Washington dig-
ging crews are now removing the
remains of the stately beast, esti-
mator to be between 25,000 and
30,000 years old.
(Answers to Quiz)
1. Lightweight.
2. Lou Boudreau who took over
the Cleveland Indians at 24.
3. He set 15 University of Cin-
cinnati basketball records, 13 na-
ional and 13 Missouri Valley Con-
ference marks during his col-
legiate career.
4. In 1958 when the gross purse
was $168,020 and the net to the
winner, Intentionally, was $119,571.
5. Ohio State.