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WHITE FALCON
Saturday, February 24, 1962
THE WHITE FALCON
UNITED STATES NAVAL STATION KEFLAVIK
WHITE FALCON’S mission — To inform and entertain all hands;
to serve as a positive factor in promoting the efficiency, welfare and con-
tentment of personnel.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM R. MEYER, USN
Commanding Officer, Naval Station Keflavik
LIEUTENANT COMMANDER R. C. POWERS, USNR
Service Information Officer & Officer-in-Charge
STAFF
Editor: Jim Pynn, J02, USN
Walt Pierson, J03, and D. R. Vanden Brink, SN, Reporters.
The WHITE FALCON is published weekly on Saturdays in accordance with NAVEXOS
P-35, revised June 1958, for free distribution to personnel of Naval Station Keflavik,
Keflavik International Airport, Iceland. It is printed commercially by the Isafoldarprent-
smidja h.f., Reykjavik, Iceland, from non-appropriated funds.
Opinions and statements made in articles published here are those of the authors
and are not to be construed as official views of the U.S. Government, Department of
Defense or the Navy Department.
Editorial
Communists Playing
‘Wordsmanship’ Game
Semantics, the science of meaning, is a favorite propa-
ganda weapon of the Communists and one they employ with
practiced cunning.
“IThe Soviets and ourselves give wholly different
meanings to the same words: War, peace, democracy
and popular will,” observed President Kennedy after
his Vienna meeting with Premier Khrushchev last
June. Now Dr. Stefan T. Possony, director of Inter-
national Studies at Stanford University’s Hoover Insti-
tute, has made a study of what he calls Communist
“wordmanship” for the Senate Internal Security sub-
committee which elaborates on the President’s point.
“The weapon of words,” says Dr. Possony, “is more
subtle and less immediately destructive than the atomic
bomb but, just like the winds and the seas which can hollow
out the hardest rock, it has the power of eroding society.”
Take, for example, that much-abused word capitalism—
in Soviet semantics a system in whidh property holders
make the laws to acquire maximum profits at the expense
of the exploited masses. We know the definition is pre-
posterous, and indeed so do the men in the Kremlin, for
after more than 40 years the most impressive economic
goal they can offer their people is “to reach and overtake
the United States.”
Another duality in semantics is negotiation. We see it
as an exchange of value for value, a willingness to com-
promise. But to the Soviets, says Dr. Possony, it is “a
conflict technique to facilitate conquest on the installment
plan,”
There are countless other examples. The Stanford pro-
fessor thinks the best defense against Communist word-
manship is “eternal vigilance based on profound skeptic-
ism.” For never was it more essential than now that
Americans—especially those of us in uniform—be alert
to semantic tricks in the utterances of Communist leaders
that can be detected for What they usually are—doubletalk.”
Glee Club
Will Sing at
Officer’s Club
The Station Glee Club, com-
posed of 12 members representing
various services at Keflavik, will
be presented at the Officer’s Club
next Saturday evening, March 3.
The club, in existence for 10
weeks, concerns itself mostly with
Sea Chanties and Folk Music. In
the future, however, other types
of music will be incorporated such
as Barber Shop and Modern with
the possibility of forming quartetts
using these for expression.
Club officials encourage all per-
sonnel to visit the Viking Service
Club on Monday and Thursday
at 7 p.m. who are interested in
becoming members of this fast-
growing, off-duty activity.
America’ is Name Chosen
hr Mew Attack Carrier
President Kennedy has selected
the name AMERICA for the at-
tack carrier CVA-66. The keel of
the new carrier, being built at
the Newport News Shipbuilding
and Drydock Co. in Virginia, was
laid Jan. 9, 1961. This ship is
scheduled for commissioning in
the fall of 1964.
Three former ships have borne
this name. The first in 1782. The
second, a racing schooner, was
acquired by the Navy in 1862.
The most recent was a German
liner taken over by the Navy in
July 1917. This ship served on
transport duty during World War
I.
Missionary Society
For Keflavik Ladies
OrganizedRecently
Several weeks ago, members and
and prospective members of the
Ladies Adult Bible Class, which
meets each Sunday morning in the
high school building, met in the
home of Mary Kelly for the pur-
pose of forming a Women’s Mis-
sionary Society at Keflavik Air-
port.
There were 10 ladies present for
the first meeting:
Lois Rice, Charlene Johnson,
Dimple Mclnvale, Martha Reed,
Sandy Certain, Sryretha Barring-
ton, Judy Kennedy, Yvonne Mc-
Kee, Mary Kelly, and Frances
Boyette.
Officers were elected and a reg-
ular meeting date was set fQr 1:30
p.m. on the 1st Thursday of each
month. The meetings are held in
the homes of the members.
Officials elected were:
President, Martha Reed; Vice
President, Lois Rice; Secretary-
Treasurer, Frances Boyette.
The February meeting was held
in the home of Sandy Certain. At
this time, a study of the Book of
Acts was begun with Dimples Mc-
lnvale teaching. It will be con-
tinued through the entire Book.
The next meeting is scheduled
for March 1 in thd home of Fran-
ces Boyette at 11 Algatha, Kefla-
vik.
Chaplain W. D. Powell has ord-
ered literature for the use of the
Society. Lives of women in the
Bible will be the next subject for
study.
Ladies interested in joining in
Christian fellowship and the study
of God’s Holy Word have been in-
vited to attend the next meeting
of the group.
Additionally, there is a Men’s
Adult Bible Class each Sunday
morning at 9:46 in the high school
building.
Notes From
Disbursin
By Ens. J. B. Stokoe
Military Payment Certificates
In the fall of 1946, Military
Payment Certificates were intro-
duced as a currency control in-
strument designed to prevent the
accumulation of foreign currencies
in the official accounts of U.S.
Forces overseas.
Immediately following the close
of World War II, there was an
excess of $500 million in foreign
currency in these official accounts.
This situation became the subject
of the personal attention of the
President of the United States and
of a Congressional investigation.
The Military Payment Certifi-
cate is not a dollar instrument in
the same sense as legal tender is-
sued by the U.S. government. It
is rather merely an instrument
measured in dollars — a purely
administrative device. The rela-
tionship between persons holding
MPC and the U.S. Government is
not a relationship between memb-
ers of the public and their govern-
ment, but rather that of employ-
ees to their employer.
The Department of the Army
has been given administrative con-
trol of the MPC system. The Army
is responsible for budgeting, fund-
ing, and accounting for the entire
system. Additionally, the Army
contracts for the printing of the
certificates, their stowage, and
their distribution. MPCs used by
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7he Chaplain A Cwnet
By Chaplain (LCDR) William Powell, USN
“He Closed The Book”
Every Sabbath Day the Reader of the Lessons of the
Synagouge, when he had come to the end of his lection,
closed the Book. So the Clergyman closes the Book on his
missal stand as the Benediction has been announced.
There are other areas in our land and heritage in
which the Book has been closed in a symbolical sense.
The early Americans carried three implements in his hands
— the Axe — the Gun and the Book. He felled the trees,
he built his home and his church.He shot game for his
table and pelts for his livelihood. He used the Book for
personal devotions, spiritual strength and educational direc-
tion.
Today that era is a closed book for the most part —
the axe is now our vast and industrial empire. The gun
is our armament and a vast arsenal — Our Power for
Peace. The Book is still the same — but it must remain
open.
The Book — be it Catholic, Jewish, or Protestant —
must now remain open because from it must grow and
flow that faith in ourselves and in God. It must become
the growing snowball that will remove the Avalanche of
Communist propaganda — for some thte Book is closed!
— For us it must remain open to await our contribution
to its pages and to receive its divine despensations!
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FSeruLces
PROTESTANT
SUNDAY
Episcopal Services .... Chapel ................... 9 a.m.
Adult Bible Class ..... Bldg. S-626 ........... 9:45 a.m.
Sunday School — Primary High School Buildings .... 9:45 a.m.
Sunday School — Jr & Sr. High School Buildings .... 9:45 a.m.
Worship ............... Chapel .................. 11 a.m.
Christian Science ..... Chapel Annex ............ 12 noon
Lutheran Service (3rd Sunday) .. Chapel ......... 2 p.m.
Evening Vesper Service .... Chapel ............... 7 p.m.
Fellowship Meeting .... Chapel Annex ............. 8 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Senior Choir Rehearsal ... Chapel ............ 6:30 p.m.
THURSDAY
Junior Choir Rehearsal ... Chapel Annex ...... 6:30 p.m.
SATURDAY
Senior Choir Rehearsal ... Chapel ............... 4 p.m.
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS
SUNDAY ................ Chapel Annex ......... 10:30 a.m.
PROTESTANT CHAPLAINS
Chaplain, Cmdr., Warren L. Wolf, USN; Chaplain, Lt. Cmdr., W. D.
Powell USN and Chaplain, Capt., Luther M. Neilsen, USAF.
CATHOLIC
SUNDAY
Recited Mass ........ Main Chapel ............. 8 a.m.
High Mass ........... Main Chapel ......... 12:15 p.m.
Religious Education (Children) ■ High School Bldg. 11 a.m.
Holy Name Society Communion (2nd Sunday) ......... 8 a.m.
TUESDAY—SATURDAY
Recited Mass ........ Eucharist Chapel .... 11:45 a.m.
TUESDAY ............. Acolyte Classes ......... 7 p.m
FRIDAY .............. Choir Rehearsal (Chapel) .. 6:30 p.m.
SATURDAY .... CONFESSIONS (Eucharist Chapel) .. 7-8 p.m.
Baptisms. Weddings, Home Blessings, Adult Religious Instruction by ap-
pointment — Call. Ext. 4111.
CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN
Father Joseph F. Zemites, Lt., USN
JEWISH
Sabbath Service Friday ....... Chapel Annex ...... 7:30 p.m.
Capital Had A John Kennedy 123 Years Ago
When President Kennedy was
sworn in as our 35th Chief Exe-
cutive, he wasn’t the first John
Kennedy to successfully carve his
niche in Washington politices.
The first Kennedy—no relation
to the President — was John
Pendleton Kennedy, Secretary of
the Navy during President Fill-
more’s administration.
Although the earlier Kennedy
was born over 166 years ago, his
life was similar in some respects
to the career of the President.
For instance, J. Pendleton Ken-
nedy was reared a Roman Catholic
and also served in Congress.
Like his namesake years later,
the Maryland-born politician was
an established author. In addition
to writing several novels of his
own,1 he assisted William Make-
peace Thackery on his novel, “The
Virginians.”
The earlier Kennedy also had
an immediate kin who was active
in politics. His brother, Anthony,
was elected to a seat in the Senate.