The White Falcon - 29.04.1961, Side 4

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WHITE FALCON
Saturday, April 29, 1961
AACS Is Winner
Of Commander's
Trophy Honors
The 1971st AACS Squadron
amassed 260 points to cop the
Commander’s Trophy and to move
within one span of winning it
permanently.
The unit has won it twice in
a row; one more time and it will
belong to the organization.
Softball, badminton, golf, pool
and ping pong will head the sum-
mer activity which is underway
this month and will last through
September.
Headquarters AFI was a close
second with 235 points, followed
by Naval Air Facility with 210
points.
Here is the way the remainder
of the contenders ended up:
CAMRON ................ 160
VP-10 Patrol Sq....... 120
Air Base Sq........ 85
Civil Engineers Sq ... . 60
Hospital ................ 60
AC&W Sq (Rockville) 60
Supply Sq ............... 60
Transportation Sq .. .. 60
IDF ..................... 45
57th FIS ................ 40
USN Security Group .. 20
9th Weather Group, iDet
#13 .................. 20
AACS Leading
Trophy Chase
AACS is off to a good start
toward winning the Commander’s
Trophy again after picking up 14
points in ping pong and 18 points
in pool during the recent tourna-
ment held at the Viking Service
Club.
AACS has won the trophy the
last two times and one more win
will automatically place the
trophy in that organization’s
case permanently.
In the tournament, J. N. Jean
of Transportation took first place
in ping pong singles with Nick
Popovich of AFI second.
In the doubles event, C. H.
Brown and James Graham of
AACS teamed up to cop first
place, while Max Willingham and
Doug Carlile of Civil Engineers
won second place.
AACS made a clean sweep of
the pool tournament with Webster
Sunberg and Kenneth Knapp of
that unit taking first and second
place.
Transportation picked up 14
points, Hq AFI got 13, Civil En-
gineers 11, Supply, 9, Hospital, 2,
and Band, NAF and VP-10 pick-
ed up one point each.
Clean-IJp Appreciated
Col. O. B. Steely, AFI com-
mander during the temporary ab-
sence of Col. Benjamin G. Willis,
has sent the following letter to
Keflavik Airport squadron com-
manders :
“During the recent Base Clean-
up Drive, many hours of planning
and accomplishment of this pro-
ject were expended by you and
your personnel. I wish to express
my sincere appreciation for your
full cooperation and efforts in
making this drive a success de-
spite the inclement weather, which
ordinarily would have hampered
such an endeavor.
“I wish to extend to you and
your personnel my gratitude and
appreciation for a job very well
done.”
Roundup
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By AFPS
Sports Considered
Vital At AF Academy
Coach Ben Martin of the Air Force Academy claims he will have
14 juniors, 20 sophomores and 47 freshmen to form a grid team
from next season. This includes the return of 14 lettermen for 1961
action.... For the third straight year, Ernie Cates of Parris Island,
S.C., captured the Biddle Trophy for winning the individual champ-
ionship during the 4th Annual All-Marine Judo Tourney held at
Quantico... .Two Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind., keglers, Mike Wagner
and Jim Ellis, combined efforts to defeat pro bowlers Dick Weber and
Jack Curran. The Army pair rolled a three-game total of 1,214 to
win by 77 pins in exhibition play.... Three senior hurlers, Chuck
Davis, Gary Carlson and Ed Ettinger, will carry the burden of pitch-
ing assignments for the Naval Academy. ... Speaking of Navy, one
of the best grid tilts on tap in the East next fall will be between the
Middies and U. of Pittsburgh at Pitt., Oct. 28.... Servicemen interest-
ed in scuba or skin diving may be interested in an announcement of
the American Institute of Biological Science. According to its find-
ings, sharks are less likely to attack swimmers in light-colored suits
than in dark ones.... Gene Tunney, onetime world heavyweight champ
who headed the Navy’s WWII Physical Fitness Program, has been
mentioned by a leading sports magazine for appointment to the post
of national boxing commissioner.
SPORTING SLANTS—Retired Col. O. C. Krueger, former post
commander of Ft. Meade, Md., now the director of Milwaukee opera-
tions for Green Bay of the National Football League team....Bill
Cobbs of the 1st Mar. Div. cleared the bar at 6’1M>” to set a new
high jump record during the 1961 Camp Pendleton Intramural Track
and Field Meet....Vic Zarema, who led his team to the Northern
District and ATC championships last season, is back to manage the
baseball nine at Lowry AFB, Colo......Bob Lane, a standout intra-
mural baseballer at MCAS Kaneoche Bay, Hawaii, last year, has
graduated to the varsity nine and is holding down catching chores....
For the third consecutive year Travis AFB, Calif., copped top honors
in the MATS Volleyball Tournament.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK—“At the start of a season,” Baltimore
Oriole manager Paul Richards said recently, “if you think you have
a pennant contender, the club you must figure you’ll have to beat is
the one that won the pennant the year before. So, last year, I figured
we had to beat the White Sox and we did. But the Yankees beat both
of us.”
GCA Crew Commended For Save Of
Diverted Scandinavian Airliner
By 1st Lt. Philip A. Meurer
It was a dark rainy foggy day
at Keflavik. The GCA crew had
come to work and for them it had
proved to be a hard one. The mid
shifts are long dull shifts with
little or no traffic. Just a con-
tinual checking of the unit to
make sure that all would be pre-
pared in case they were called on
to bring an aircraft in.
The weather in the entire North
Atlantic had closed in. A C-118
had to feather one engine enroute
to Keflavik. But the weather at
Keflavik had socked in and the
aircraft was diverted to Prest-
wick. Keflavik was forecast to
have bad weather but well above
the 200 feet and % mile. So all
the aircraft in the area that were
to be diverted were diverted to
Keflavik.
At 0351 a Scandinavian DC-8
called Keflavik GCA for an ap-
proach. This 'DC-8 was diverted
from Sondrestrom to Keflavik. The
aircraft was picked up by GCA
and expeditiously identified by
the GCA pattern controller, SSgt.
Sherwood Gillette. The aircraft
was given a random approach to
Winners Are Named
In Essay Contest
The Dependent School recently
held an essay contest with stud-
ents writing on the subject, “Ice-
land.”
The winners are: High school:
First place—James Zartman, sec-
ond—James Peterson, and third
place—Art Weisman.
First place in the Grade School’s
contest was won by James Fuller,
Jennie Helms was second, and
Lora Jessup won the third place.
The contest was judged by Ice-
landic teachers and Defense Force
personnel.
final. The final controller, MSgt.
George Eager picked up the air-
craft at 8V2 miles and directed
him down to GCA minimums (200
foot ceiling and V2 mile visibility).
The aircraft remained at mini-
mums and executed a missed ap-
proach because he couldn’t see the
runway.
It was at this time GCA was
informed that the aircraft had
only 53 minutes of fuel remaining
and had to land here at Keflavik.
The pilot stated that he had bare-
ly seen the hig intensity lights
on his first approach. The Scand-
inavian aircraft had 53 persons
on board. The weather remained
with an obscure ceiling 200 feet
with 14 mile visibility. A short
pattern was made putting the air-
craft on final at 4 % miles. Ser-
geant Tager took positive control
and talked the aircraft to a safe
landing.
One of the maintenance men
was standing by the unit a scant
500 feet from the runway and he
was unable to see the aircraft on
his land roll.
Sergeants Eager’s and Gillette’s
names have been submitted to
Headquarters AACS in order to
receive credit for a save.
A letter from the vice presi-
dent of Scandinavian Airlines
(Operations Department) was re-
ceived this week. The letter said
in part. “That a safe landing
could be made was in no small
measure due to the efficiency of
the ATC and in particular to the
excellent performance of the GCA
controller under circumstances
when it is all to easy to lose one’s
nerve.”
AEROSPACE EVENT
Jan. 22, 1948 — The Navy an-
nounced that it was able to launch
V-2’s from carriers.
The Air Force Academy recognizes physical education
and athletics as an integral part of the cadet curriculum.
Considered essential in helping to build character and lead-
ership, the athletic program is officially equated at 121/2
semester hours. However, the® ~—--------------------------
complete program actually reach-
es far beyond this figure in value
received by each cadet during his
four years at the Academy.
Each cadet is required to take
the prescribed courses in physical
education as well as compete in
intercollegiate or intramural ath-
letics. Intercollegiate athletics
provide a soui-ce of competition
in individual or team sports
against other colleges and uni-
versities. Those who do not parti-
cipate in varsity sports must com-
pete in intramural activities.
The first department covers
both physical education and the
intramural program. Phys Ed in-
cludes judo, boxing, wrestling,
swimming, gymnastics, unarmed
combat, handball, volleyball and
badminton. Also in this program
are instruction and practice in
carry-over sports such as golf,
Well, Uh, Anyway!
According to the Official En-
clopedia of Baseball, the first
big league baseball game play-
ed at night was played at Cin-
cinatti in 1935, and not at
Yankee Stadium in 1946, as we
said in last week’s White Fal-
con. Naturally we could say
that Armed Forces Press Ser-
vice goofed, that is if we want-
ed to make excuses.
Thanks to TSgt. Bud. Rees,
foreman of AFRS, for bringing
this to our attention.
tennis and squash. These are so
termed because they represent
skills the graduate may take with
him into later life for continued
physical fitness throughout his
professional career.
The Intramural Program is
based on squadron competition
with wing championships being
awarded in all sports. At the end
of the year, the squadron having
the greatest number of points is
awarded the John J. Melanaphy
Trophy. Cadets normally compete
in a particular intramural sport
only one season, then are assign-
ed to a different activity during
the same season of the following
year. They are thus given the
chance to develop all-around abil-
ity.
During initial basic cadet sum-
mer training, cadets are prepar-
ed for the four-year physical edu-
cation program they will begin
during the Fall Semester.
Through conditioning exercises
and games,, the obstacle course
and recreational sports, they de-
velop physical strength, endur-
ance, agility and coordination.
The reasoning behind the sports
program reflects the Greecian ed-
ucational theory that it takes a
sound body to contain a sound
mind on one hand, and on the
other, it looks ahead when the
future generals will need an ag-
gressive spirit, physical vigor and
emotional balance.
(This is another in a series of
articles telling the story of the
Air Force Academy. Editor.)
Westman Islands Tour Offered By
Viking Service Club May 20-21
Reservations for a tour of
Westman Islands will be accepted
by the Viking Service Club begin-
ning at noon Monday.
The first tour to the mountain-
ous, craggy islands off the south
coast of Iceland will be made on
May 20-21 on the boat Herjolfur.
Heimaey or Home Island is the
only inhabited one of the group.
The 5,000 people living in Vest-
mannaeyjar depend entirely on
fishing for their living. During
the cod season, usually running
from early January to late May,
all available hands including
school children help process the
catches of up to 2,000 tons of fish
landed daily.
The islands are a place of rug-
ged scenic beauty. In the spring
hundreds of thousands of sea
birds flock there to nest in the
Golf Range Opens
The golf driving range at Kef-
lavik Airport is scheduled to open
up for business today, weather
permitting.
Located across from the Youth
Center, the range will be open
Saturdays and Sundays from 1
p.m. till 9 p.m.
During the week, the range op-
ens at 5 p.m. and remains open
until 9 p.m.
Clubs are provided and a buck-
et of balls will cost 25A
perpendicular rock faces along the
coast.
Fees for the tour are 725 kron-
ur each in six-berth staterooms
and 850 kronur each in two-berth
rooms. Payment is to be made in
kronur when making reservations
for the tour.
Military personnel must have a
recreation pass and be in Class
A uniform but civilian clothing
may be taken to wear on the boat.
Badminton Play
Begins May 16
The summer sports program
will get underway at Keflavik
Airport Monday with a meeting
of athletic officers, coaches and
managers, to discuss the rules and
bylaws of the badminton tourna-
ment.
The meeting will be held in the
Field House and will begin at
1 p.m.
The double elimination tourna-
ment, featuring both doubles and
^ngles matches, will start May
16. Entries must be turned into
the Athletic Office at the Field
House by 1 p.m. May 5.
There is no limit to the number
of participasts from each organi-
zation and players may compete
in both the doubles and singles
events.