The White Falcon - 31.03.1962, Síða 3

Saturday, March 31, 1962
WHITE FALCON
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Icelandic Beauty
Eyes Hollywood
Pulchritudinous Sirri Steffen, a svelte 24-year-old lass
One man with
COURAGE MAKES A
MAJORITY."
... Anc/ce tv (Jackson
SIRRI STEFFEN, ICELANDIC BEAUTY QUEEN and Hollywood starlett took time
out between her recent TV show and personal appearance at the Naval Station, to
visit patients in the Station Hospital. Sirri shakes hands with James B. Cole, CSSN,
as Gordon Wright, CS3, looks on approvingly.
WIVES TAKING PART IN FUR FASHION SHOW on
March 21 are from left: Merryl Collins, Nell Brown, Miki
Woolums, Alice Haveland, Marie Sebenius and Sue
Driscoll. The furs featured came from Norway’s oldest
furrier L. Johnsen Company.
Red Cross
Serving All
Units Here
By Sheldon Bergeson
ARC Field Director
Have you wondered what
services the local Red Cross
office gives? Without releas-
ing names, for Red Cross
files are confidential, follow-
ing are a few specific ser-
vices recently given to men
at this station.
We delivered a message at 1
a.m. to a young officer of the
VW 11 Sqdn that his 5 day old
baby was in a critical condition.
Leave was granted but the first
available flight was 22 hours later.
Before he departed we had re-
quested and received another med-
ical report that the baby had
slightly improved.
A Red Cross wire confirmed
that the father of a NavComSta
man had suffered a stroke and
was in a coma. The man had but
three weeks left on his tour.
He held an important job and felt
he should leave only if death
was imminent. Leave, with PCS
orders, was granted after we
verified thru his father’s doctor
that life expectancy was less
than 2 weeks.
A marine on leave was granted
a 10 day extension after we con-
firmed by wire that his mother
was undergoing major surgery
and her doctor recommended his
continued presence.
The seven-month old son of a
VP-5 man was placed on the ser-
iously-ill list in a Naval Hospital
with bronchial pneumonia. The
doctor thought it not critical en-
ough for the father to come home,
but wished the man to be kept in-
formed of the child’s progress. The
hospital Red Cross director sent
three periodic reports thru this
office to keep him informed. The
child recovered.
Yes, men in every unit in this
area received some type of Red
Cross service every month of the
year. In March the Red Cross
turns back to you for supoprt.
who twice appeared on the local television station, has
also been on Stateside shows with Art Linkletter and
Raymond Burr (Perry Mason), as well as others.
Fur Fashion Show
Is Sponsored by
Station Wives
By Lois Glab
One of the most enjoyable pro-
grams ever presented at the OWC
luncheon was the Fur Fashion
Show, which followed the monthly
luncheon held March 21st.
Sponsored by the Naval Station
Wives, who put forth a great ex-
penditure of time and effort to
make it such a splendid success,
the Fashion Show featured furs
sold by the L. Johnsen Co. of
Oslo, Norway. The furs, designed
exclusively for Johnsen’s by Miss
Helga Baasland, are handmade.
Present with Miss Baasland were
the Icelandic representatives of
Johnsen’s, Norway’s oldest fur-
rier: Julius P. Gudjonsson and
Valur Palsson. Mr. Gudjonsson in-
formed the ladies that any of the
garments can be ordered and de-
livered through the Navy Ex-
change.
The furs featured were an ar-
ray of mink; muskrat; squirrel;
Persian lamb; Kalgone, a Chin-
ese lamb; Norwegian lamb; Nor-
wegian natural sealskin and
mole. Fur hats were also model-
ed by the beauteous models:
Marie Sebenius; Nell Brown;
Meryl Collins; Miki Woolums;
Sue Driscoll and Alice Haveland.
Tiny seals cavorting on minia-
ture icebergs served as gay cent-
erpieces and were the creative
work of Miki Woolums; Estrelle
Vogel and Gloria McMahon. Com-
plimenting the theme was the
Baked Alaska dessert which fol-
lowed the sumptuous luncheon.
Betty Jane Miner arranged to
have the furs brought in for the
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“But,” says Sirri who was Miss
Iceland of 1959, “I usually play
roles as Swedish, Italian, French
or Yugoslavian because they can
tell I’m not American because of
my accent.”
The 5-foot, 4-inch, 111-pound
beauty has also been active in
Hollywood. She recently completed
a movie, “Hitler’s Life Story”, in
which she played the part of a
nurse. The picture will be released
soon, Miss Steffen said.
Sigridur Geirsdottir (she took
her stage name from part of her
father’s last name and a short-
ened, modernized version of her
own first name) is the oldest
of three girls. Born in Reykjavik,
she went to Sweden, when she
was seven, with her parents. Her
father is a lawyer and business-
man who travels extensively.
Sirri attended schools in Sweden
and Switzerland and is a graduate
of the University of Iceland.
Third place runner-up in the
Miss Universe Contest in 1960,
the Icelandic beauty queen
measures 37%-21-35. Along with
other contestants in the Miss
Universe Pagent, she made an ex-
tensive tour of the Near East and
other countries.
Miss Steffen has already been
assigned a new role in an “Alfred
Hitchcock-type thriller”, as she
describes it. The film deals wrth
the illicit marijuana trade. *1
will begin work on it when I
return to the States,” said Sirri,
“as well as a singing role in an-
other motion picture.”
The beauty queen, who is a tal-
ented vocalist, has been in her
native Iceland since mid-February
for a short visit. She will return
to Hollywood in early summer,
according to present plans.
And gentlemen . . . she’s single!
NATO - for Western Defense
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There is a good, and frightening,
answer.
In 1944, after the defeat of
Nazi Germany and Japan, Britain
and France, together with the
United States and Canada, rap-
idly demobilized and disarmed.
There was a longing for lasting
peace which animated men of good
will everywhere. Together we put
our trust in the United Nations,
confident that reasonable discus-
sion and honest bargaining would
resolve the problems that always
arise between independent nations,
as between independent men.
KREMLIN BACKS DOWN
But the stark fact was that the
Soviet Union did not demobilize
or disarm or even bargain hon-
estly in the U.N.
At the first the free world may
have misunderstood Russia’s in-
tentions. Before and during the
war Russia had seized parts of
Finland and all of Latvia, Lith-
uania and Estonia.
Might not Russia now release
these nations? Men of good will
thought so, but not for long. In
1945 Russia set up a Communist
Minority as the “people’s govern-
ment” in Poland, saw to it that
those who objected were impris-
oned or killed, and took over the
country.
The same pattern was followed
in Bulgaria, Roumania, Albania,
East Germany, Hungary and
Czechoslovakia. Within five years
Russia seized nearly 400,000
square miles of territory contain-
ing 90 million people, without fir-
ing a shot. The intent of the Com-
munists became clear: to engulf
all of Europe, either by treachery
or by war, and so in time to rule
the world.
U.S. TAKES ACTION
If the United States was to
remain free, or even continue to
live, in the shrunken atomic
world, Russia had to be stopped.
In 1946, when the Russians threat-
ened to seize the oil-rich country
of Iran, President Truman issued
a warning that made the Russians
blink—and they backed down.
The United States again stepped
in when Russia demanded “rights”
in Turkey and tried to establish
a Communist government in
Greece. But despite these victories
for the free world it was clear
that neither the United States nor
any other single nation could long
hold the Russians in check.
Militarily, Russia was the
strongest nation on earth, and
daily growing stronger.
NATO FORMED
Against this background, in
April, 1949, the United States at
last broke its tradition of peace-
time isolation and joined the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization,
NATO, in company with 11 free
nations: Great Britain, Canada,
France, Belgium, The Netherlands,
Denmark, Portugal, Italy, Iceland,
Luxembourg and Norway. In 1952
Greece and Turkey became mem-
bers of the alliance and in 1955,
the Federal Republic of Germany.
PEACE HAS BEEN KEPT
Since the creation of NATO,
peace has been kept and not an
inch of Europe been ceeded to
Soviet Russia. Whether war would
have broken out without NATO
is impossible to say.
Certainly NATO has robbed any
potential aggressor of the tempta-
tion to attack a weak and divid-
ed Europe, deprived, as it once
was of American help.
But the United States is not
the “rich uncle” who pays all the
bills. Since NATO was founded,
European members of the al-
liance have paid for 85 per cent
of the total cost. They have sup-
plied 60 per cent of the equip-
ment and supplies used by Euro-
pean NATO forces, and have pro-
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