The White Falcon - 13.10.1962, Side 6

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WHITE FALCON
Saturday, October 13, 1962
SOVIET SUBMARINES—Two Soviet submarines are shown as they
were seen and photographed by the U.S. Navy during recent operations.
The Navy said the subs are believed to be capable of firing three short-
range ballistic missiles from vertical tubes in their conning towers.
While the Navy would not identify the area where these photos wefre
taken, it did say similar Soviet craft have been sighted in both the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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event you will not want to miss.
Wives of AFI officers will be
your sponsor. For this particular
luncheon, please make a separate
reservation by calling Julie Weil,
telephone number 3268 or Gloria
Warner 4253.
At the business meeting on Oct-
ober 3, committee reports were
read and discussed. An effort is
being made to secure the bowling
alleys on afternoons during the
week. This is being done to stim-
ulate bowling interest. Leagues
will be formed according to the
enthusiasm displayed. OWC re-
presentatives at the Women’s Con-
ference in Berchtesgaden are
Dorothy Knox and Toni Gray.
Don’t forget the Newcomers
Coffee on Wednesday, October 10
at 10 a.m. in the Terrace Lounge.
GIVE TO
AMERICAN
OVERSEAS
CAMPAIGN
Top Marksmen
Will Represent
U. S. At Cairo
Ft. Benning, Ga. (AFPS) —
Eighteen of the nation’s top shoot-
ers have been' selected from the
U.S. 1962 International Shooting
Trials to represtnt the United
States in the world championships
in Cairo, Egypt, Oct. 8-20.
Eleven were selected from the
World Skeet and Trap Tryouts
at Lackland AFB, Tex.
According to team captain,
Col. Thomas A. Sharpe, USA,
“This will be the strongest team
the United States has fielded
since WWII.”
The eighteen shooters selected
were: 1st Lt. Willis L. Powell,
SFC Lloyd G. Crow Jr., SSgt.
Norman L. Skarpness, 1st Lt.
John W. Torbush, 1st Lt. John'
R. Foster, SFC William B. Blank-
enship, SFC Lloyd Burchett,
MSgt. Frederick Schaser, Capt.
Cecil L. Wallis and Sgt. James H.
McNally, all of the Army.
Other service shooters were
Capt. William W. McMillan Jr.,
USMC; Capt. Franklin C. Green,
TSgt. Bernard A. Stoltman and
Capt. Thomas D. Smith III of the
Air Force; and 1st Lt. Gail N.
Liberty, WAF.
Accompanying Miss Liberty in
the women’s competition’ will be
civilians Marianna Jensen, Janet
S. Friddell and Trudy Schlernet-
zauer.
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Club tfeuJ
By N.J. Studebaker
The first submarine formally
authorized for the Navy was the
PLUNGER. She had a designed
complement of 1 officer and 6
enlisted men, was 85 feet 3 inches
long, and had an extreme beam of
11 feet 6 inches.
“INTRODUCING NEW OFFICERS” — On Tuesday,
October 2, the semiannual ballits were cast for club
officers and five ladies were elected to hold offices for
the October, 1962-April, 1963 term.
Mrs. Betty Bayne was elected^
new club president. A citizen of
Canada, Betty and her husband
have two children, Mark, three;
and Gregory, two years old. Mrs.
Bayne joined the Keflavik NCO
Wives’ Club in May, 1961, having
come from Perdue University, at
Lafayette, Indiana, where her
husband was attached to the
NROTC unit. Betty possesses dis-
tinguished leadership qualities and
has served previously as president
of our club, from October, 1961,
until April of this year. Again
holding the presidency, Betty will
conduct club business meetings,
and appoint committees, such as
those responsible for greeting new
NCO wives on the station, and
those in' charge of farewell gifts;
she will sit in on the board at
the Youth Center, which plans
the center’s activities on a month-
ly basis; in addition, she must
approve and countersign both the
minutes of each meeting and each
treasurer’s report.
A native of Illinois, Mrs. Ricky
Schuman is our new vice-presi-
dent. Ricky bcame a member of
the Wives’ Club on this station
in November, 1961. Appointing
hostesses for our monthly socials;
keeping membership lists up to
date, presiding in the absence of
the president, and performing such
duties as delegated by the presi-
dent, will become her new job as
You Name It — Miss Smith Former
Base Librarian Must Have Done It
Miss Mary Smith, the former
station librarian' and part time
nurse, left Keflavik last Saturday
for Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.,
where she will take the position
of ‘Reference Librarian.’
Miss Smith, who has been our
librarian for the past 26 months
and a Civil Service employee for
the past 12 years, has done enough
in her lifetime to fill several ord-
inary lifetimes.
She has a varied educational
background. She attended the At-
lanta Conversatory of Music,
Brenau College, Old State Normal
School, the Atlanta Division, Uni-
versity of Georgia and Peabody
College. She also took three years
nursing training at Crawford
Long Hospital.
She did postgraduate work in
pediatrics, public health and psy-
chiatry. She received a Bachelor’s
degree from Peabody College in
English literature and a Master’s
degree in Library science.
Her earliest ambition was to
be a bareback rider, and although
she has never done this, she says
that she still may get around to
it. She started out teaching school
an’d music, but decided that it was
too hard a way to make a living.
She became interested in nursing
when she had to nurse her father
for several years, and so decided
to become a n'urse.
While doing postgraduate work
in an insane asylum in Washing-
ton, she had a brush with death.
An Indian patient tried to choke
her. There were no male attend-
ants nearby. Luckily for her, an-
other Indian patient, who was in
a catatonic stupor and had not
spoken for two years, broke his
long silence and called for help.
Later, she became a pioneer
public health nurse in a very
primitive area where she felt it
n’ecessary to carry a gun. She
worked in a swamp where there
were no white families. She had
to spend months of her time try-
ing to persuade mothers that it
would be all right to let her take
their children to Atlanta to be
treated. She also worked in a
mountainous section where there
were many moonshiners who would
shoot first and ask questions later.
Miss Smith was called to help
in the Gainesville tornado and the
Ohio Valley flood of 1937. She
says the only thing she didn’t do
that some other pioneer nurses
did, was to ride a horse. She says
that they just did that to be
picturesque; It was cheaper to put
gasoline in a car than to buy
hay for a horse. While at Branau,
she heard Ralph McGill speak on
the German invasion of Poland
and Czechoslovokia. Soon after-
wards she enlisted in the Army
as a nurse. She spent three years
in the Louisiana swamps and the
Texas panhandle. Before World
War II, while in Louisiana she
was scheduled to be sent over-
seas ; however she came down with
the mumps and the other nurses
left with out her. She later found
that these nurses went to Bataan
and Corregidor.
In 1943, she was sent to Africa
in a large convoy. Her ship was
so crowded that she spent her
time hanging over the rail be-
cause there was no room to sit
down. While in Africa she met
many notables including Ernie
Pyle.
She was invited to Thanksgiv-
ing dinner aboard the destroyer
PANAY and found that the Exe-
cutive Officer seated on her left
was Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.
Since her right hand was infected
from soldiers wounds, and he had
been shot in the left hand, they
got together to cut their meat.
A handicap to eating on the de-
stroyed was that it was listing
badly.
In 1944 she was sent to an
evacuation hospital in France. She
went to France with a shipload
of French Foreign' Legionnaires.
While there, she was able to see
much of France and to decide that
she liked France and the French.
She later went to Germany to
work in a field hospital, and al-
though she liked the country, she
didn’t care for the people.
She was stationed in the com-
bat zone all through Germany and
France. Her most valuable piece
of equipment during this time was
a shovel. It came in handy to dig
a trench to jump into in case of
a bombing raid.
She treated many pitful cases
such as a man who had been
studying to be a concert pianist.
The greater part of his right
hand was shot off. After 1945,
she went to library school at Pea-
body. She then went to work in
an Army library where she was
called back into the Nurse Corps.
The Korean war had broken out
and she was sent to Japan. She
traveled extensively in Japan and
again found that her theory “one
can find one’s own kind of people
in any country” still held true.
The text of this article was
printed in 1955 by the Atlanta
Journal, her home town news-
paper.
club vice-president. Ricky has two
children, Dawn, aged seven, and
Dwayne, aged two.
As secretary of the club, Mrs.
Eunice Hamilton will be serving
in a second consecutive NCO
Wives’ Club office; Eunice has
just completed her duties as vice-
president for the past term. A
Washingtonian, Mrs. Hamilton be-
came a member of our club in
April, 1961, and she has two child-
ren, Debra, who is five, and a
new-born son, Scott. Her duties as
club secretary will include pre-
paring and signing club minutes,
and having custody of all current
official records. She will also af-
ford up-to-date copies of the club
constitution to members upon re-
quest.
Mrs. Anne Frank is the club
treasurer for this term; Anne is
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Notices
On October 18 at 7:30 p.m.,
Troop 364 will hold a Court of
Honor at the Viking Service Club.
All the Scouts of our troop have
advanced at least one rank since
the last Court of Honor and some
have even advanced two. We cor-
dially invite all personnel of the
Naval Station to attend this cere-
money—and especially request all
the parents of the Scouts who are
to be honored to attend. More
information to follow in the
White Falcort.
Attention all Navy personnel:
Applications are now being ac-
cepted for volunteers in the U.S.
Antarctic Research Program, 1963-
64 (Operation DEEP FREEZE).
Requests must reach the I&E
Office not later than October 15,
1962 and should be from person-
nel in any of the following
ratings:
Winter-over party ratings
ET RM YN PN SK DK CS SH
SH-122 EM IC EN DC SF CE
CM EO BU SW UT CN AG
AB PH HM DT and MR.
Air Develoment Squadron SIX
Ratings
RM JO AM AME AMH YN PN
SK DK CS AN AB PR PH HM
TN AD ADH ADR AT SK ATN
ATR AE AEI AMS DT.
Basic requirements for this pro-
gram are: 24 months obligated
service, clear record reflecting
sound moral character, no domes-
tic problems or indebtedness, be
physically qualified and be recom-
mended by the Commanding Of-
ficer.
Air Force Personnel: Specialty
Knowledge Tests for 5 and 7
level AFSQ’s will be administered
in the following career fields dur-
ing the week of November 5
through 10, 1962: 33, 36, 42, 43,
64, 71, 90, and 98. Air Force
supervisors are responsible for
submission of names of their per-
sonnel eligible and desirous of
being tested. Requests for testing
will be submitted through unit
commanders to arrive at Head-
quarters AFI not later than Oct-
ober 1962.