The White Falcon - 31.03.1962, Síða 2

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WHITE FALCON
Saturday, March 31, 1962
Editorial
Salute to 49th State:
A Whopping Bargain
Ninety-five years ago, on March 30, we closed one of
the greatest real estate bargains in our national history
—and the irony is that a large body of public opinion was
in the scoffers gallery about the whole transaction.
“Seward’s Folly,” “Walrussia,” “The Polar Bear Garden,”
“The National Icehouse”—these were some of the derisive
names many Americans coined after Secretary of State
William H. Seward signed the treaty purchasing the 590,000
square miles of Alaska from Russia for the sum of $7.2
million.
Today, of course, we see Seward’s “buy” as an epochal
stage in our growth as a world power. It is more than
three years since another stroke of the pen — by President
Eisenhower — admitted Alaska to the Union as the 49th
State, making the Wheel come a full circle. The vast territory
that cost no more than the price of today’s Atlas missile
was at last an official member of the family.
Alaska is significant in our history, like the earlier
Louisiana Purchase — 875,000 square miles for $15 million
— as an example of territorial expansion by peaceful means.
Many of us have never set foot on our “Last Frontier”,
but we can be proud of the hardy and resourceful people
who populate it — some 226,000 by the 1960 census. It is
undoubtedly higher today, for the young state is still devel-
oping its treasure house of natural resources and attracting
newcomers drawn by its invigorating climate and scenic
grandeur.
MILITARY HOUSING ALLOWANCES
RECOM- RECOM-
PRESENT MENDED PRESENT MENDED
Without Without % With With %
Grade Title Dependents Dependents Increase Dependents Dependents Increase
0-10 ■ Gen. 136.80 160.20 (17) 171.00 201.00 (17)
0-9 Lt. Gen. 136.80 160.20 (17) 171.00 201.00 (17)
0-8 Maj. Gen. 136.80 160.20 (17) 171.00 201.00 (17)
0-7 Brig. Gen. 136.80 160.20 (17) 171.00 201.00 (17)
0-6 Col. 119.70 140.10 (17) 136.80 170.10 (24)
0-5 Lt. Col. 102.60 130.20 (27) 136.80 157.50 (15)
0-4 Maj. 94.20 120.00 (27) 119.70 145.05 (21)
0-3 Capt. 85.50 105.00 (22) 102.60 130.05 (27)
0-2 1st Lt. 77.10 95.10 (23). 94.20 120.00 (27)
0-1 2nd Lt. 68.40 85.20 (24) 85.50 110.10 (29)
W-4 CWO 94.20 120.00 (27) 119.70 145.05 (21)
W-3 cwo 85.50 105.00 (22) 102.60 130.05 (27)
W-2 CWO 77.10 95.10 (23) 94.20 120.00 (27)
W-l wo 68.40 85.20 (24) 85.50 110.10 (29)
PRESENT
With
Without With 1 With 2 3 or more
Enlisted Personnel Dependents Dependent Dependents Dependents
E-9 Sgt Mai 51.30 77.10 77.10 96.90
E-8 1st Sgt/MSgt 51.30 77.10 77.10 96.90
E-7 Plat Sgt/SFC 51.30 77.10 77.10 96.90
E-6. SSgt 51.30 77.10 77.10 96.90
E-5 Sgt 51.30 77.10 77.10 96.90
E-4 Cpl 1 51.30 77.10 77.10 96.90
E-4 Cpl 3 51.30 77.10 77.10 96.90
E-3 Pfc 51.30 51.30 77.10 96.90
E-2 Pvt 51.30 51.30 77.10 96.90
E-l Recruit 51.30 51.30 77.10 96.90
RECOMMENDED
With 3
Enlisted Without % With 1 With 2 % or More
Personnel Dependents Increase Dependent Dependents Increase Dependents Increase
E-9 Sgt Mai 85.20 (66) • 115.20 (491 125.10 (29)
E-8 1st Sgt/MSgt 85.20 (66) 115.20 (49) 125.10 (29)
E-7 Plat Sgt/SFC 75.00 (46) 102.60 (33) 120.00 (24)
E-6 SSgt 70.20 (37) 96.90 (26) 115.20 (19)
E-5 Sgt 70.20 (37) 96.90 (26) 110.10 (14)
E-4 Cpl 1 70.20 (37) 96.90 (26) 110.10 (14)
E-4 Cpl li 60.00 (17) *60.00 77.10 ( 0) 96.90 (0)
E-3 Pic 55.20 ( 8) 55.20 (8) 77.10 ( 0) 96.90 ( 0)
E-2 Pvt 55.20 ( 8) 55.20 (8)77.10 ( 0) 96.90 ( 0)
E-l Recruit. 55.20 ( 8) 55.20 (8) 77.10 ( 0) 96.90 ( 0)
l With 4 or More Years (’'■Savings clause recommended to
2 With Less than 4 Years prevent reduction in BAQ lor
( ) Recommended percentage increase current E-4's.).
THE WHITE FALCON
UNITED STATES NAVAL STATION KEFLAVIK
WHITE FALCON’S mission — To inform and entertain aU 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
COMMANDER F. G. VESSELL, USN
Executive Officer, Naval Station Keflavik
LIEUTENANT COMMANDER R. C. POWERS, USNR
Service Information Officer & Officer-in-Charge
STAFF
Walt Pierson, J03, and D. R. Vanden Brink, SN.
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-
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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.
Welcome
Moat4
Recent arrivals at Keflavik Air-
port, with previous duty and home-
towns are:
NAVY
Joseph A. Nichols, SN; Bayonne,
N.J.; Niagara Falls, N.Y.
Eduardo Ramos, SD3; MCB Four,
Davisville, R.I.; Manila, P.I.
Charles Wilson, SA; Bayonne,
N.J.; Niagara Falls, N.Y.
Barry M. Billard, AMS3; Chase
Field, Beeville, Tex.; Onset,
Mass.
Carl A. Hirte, Jr., BULCP; Port
Hueneme, Calif.; St. Paul, Minn.
Ralph E. Smith, PNC; NAS, Nor-
folk, Va.; Norfolk, Va.
William A. Pitts, RM2; NAVSTA,
Washington, D.C.; LaGrange,
Geo.
AIR FORCE
A1C Thomas R. Sedberry; Travis
AFB, Calif.; Charlotte, N.C.
A1C Thomas M. Morgan; Dover
AFB, Del.; Fredarici, Del.
A2C Billy J. Davidson; Walker
AFB, N.M.; Millersville, Md.
A2C James A. Clark, Jr.; Mc-
Guire AFB, N.J.; Harrisburg,
Pa.
MSgt. Troy L. French; Scott
AFB, Ill.; Cleveland, Ohio.
MSgt. James R. Zirkel; Walker
AFB, N.M.; Knoxville, Tenn.
MSgt. Floyd M. Myers; Olmstead
AFB, Pa.; Mansfield, Ohio.
SSgt. Ralph Hendrickson; Dover
AFB, Del.; Westfield, Mass.
Testing Again
Grim Necessity
When President Kennedy
on March 2 told the nation
and the world of his decision
to resume nuclear testing in
the atmosphere next month
unless agreement can be
reached with the Soviet
Union, he spoke with a grav-
ity befitting such an an-
nouncement. It was a wrenching
hard decision to make; few Presi-
dents in our history have faced
a heavier responsibility.
One fact is glaringly plain,
however. It was stated by the
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, General Lyman L. Lemnitz-
er, when he said: “In the light
of our studies of the recent series
of Soviet nuclear atmospheric
tests, the President, in the inetrest
of our national security and the
securiy of our free world partners,
has made the only decision that
could be made.
Consistent with its policies in
the past, the United States has
not, with the President’s announ-
cement, slammed the door shut
on an agreement with the Soviet
Union that would make our
open-air tests in April necessary.
At the upcoming Geneva disarm-
ament conference we will make
specific proposals to avert rene-
wal of the nuclear armaments
race. One provision will be for
control and a mutual moratorium.
But such a test ban must be an-
chored in a genuine Soviet desire l
to work for disarmament. *
If the' President’s tone was
grimly resolute, the record of
Soviet obstructions in the past ef-
forts to reach nuclear accord was
enough to have made it so. “No
single decision of this Adminis-
tration has been more thoroughly
(Continued on Page A.)
~The Chaplain A Corner
By Father Joseph F. Zemites
Colonel Glenn And Man’s Restoration
One of the greatest payoffs of the now historic space
flight by John H. Glenn was surely the renewed confidence
in man, or his restoration maybe, to his rightful place in
the whole picture of our mushrooming technology—the
first place, that is, at the center, the core, on top of it all
in spite of what was becoming a fearful ghost in the
coalesence of machines, formulae and techniques, seemingly
slowly squeezing man out.
During his flight, as we listened with prayers and
baited breaths, the ultracomplex machinery faltered
but, as someone has said so well, “......... the Marine
Magellan in his titanium caravel did not; he was all “GO”
from the countdown to the splashdown. He refused to play
the role of a mere bump on an electronic log.”
Questioned after his return, Colonel Glenn himself felt
that the most important technical result of his flight was
to establish the primacy of man in space. In a pilot’s off-
handed language he yet said something of great depth
of meaning when he quipped, “Now we can get rid of some
of that automatic equipment and let man take over.”
Perhaps too long now we have let the scientists, drunk
with their admittedly fantastic sucess in teehnicalia, lead
us to their creed of “Anything man can do, instruments
can do better.” Once guised as truth it was yet pretty
dismal.
“Black boxes” and super-engineering we shall continue
to need, of course, but maybe the God who fashioned us
so wondrously is smiling now with, a divine “I told you
so,” and we may now find again the ancient wisdom of
His first blessing to our race, “ . . . Increase and multiply
and fill the earth, and make it yours; take command of . . .
all that flies through the air.” (Genesis 1:28). Like space
vehicles maybe? And so even the cleverest substitute for
a human brain is only as good as man’s program fed into
it and the reliability of its manmade parts.
And so thank you, John Glenn, for perhaps recalling
for us God’s beautiful “ . . . Let us make man ... let us
put him in command . . .” (Genesis 1:26).
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SUNDAY
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Worship .................. Chapel ....................... 11 am.
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Senior Choir Rehearsal ... Chapel ............. 6:30 p.m.
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Senior Choir Rehearsal ... Chapel ............. 4 p.m.
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS
SUNDAY ............... Chapel Annex ....... 10:30 a.m.
PROTESTANT CHAPLAINS
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Powell USN and Chaplain, Capt., Luther M. Neilsen, USAF.
CATHOLIC
SUNDAY
Recited Mass ......... Main Chapel ............ 8 am.
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Religious Education (Children) High School Bldg. 11 am.
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Recited Mass ......... Eucharist Chapel ... 11:45 am.
TUESDAY .............. Acolyte Classes ........ 7 pm
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Father Joseph F. Zemites, Lt., USN
JEWISH
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