The White Falcon - 26.11.1962, Side 1

Volume II, Number 38 U.S. NAVAL STATION, KEFLAVIK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, ICELAND Monday, November 26, 1962
CPO Club Opens
Friday Nov. 30.
HITCHING A RIDE—A Piper Cub climbed up the back of this 1961 Ford Station Wagon at approximately
5 p.m. Monday. The cause of the mishap has not been determined. Details of the accident along with
the names of those involved will be published in News of the Week when released.
AFTS Features Iceland’s
Most Fraveled Woman
Halla Linker, wife of Hal Linker, producer of the
“Wonders of the World” television series is probably Ice-
land’s most travelled woman. As the female star of the
adventure and travel series she has visited 90 countries
AFRTS-Los Angeles has pro-^
cured the series which will be-
come a regular part of Channel
8’s schedule in March of 1963.
However, two episodes of the
series which deal with Iceland
have been made available as lib-
rary films and will be shown on
appropriate days.
The first episode to be aired
will be the “Vikings of Iceland”.
Halla takes her husband and son
David to her native Iceland to
see pools of boiling mud, erupting
volvanoes and a town built com-
pletely on hundreds of hot springs.
Included are scenes of Iceland’s
unusual farms where bananas and
oranges are grown among other
items. This segment of the series
will be aired on Saturday, Dec-
ember 1, at 7:30 p.m., as a salute
to our NATO ally on its Consti-
tution Day.
In the second Icelandic episode,
titled “Whale Ho,” Hal joins a
whaling expedition off the coast
of Iceland. He has some shaky
moments when the ship runs into
a violent storm. Highlight of the
film is the capture of a 70-ton
Channel 8 Goes
“Off The Air”
Channel 8 will be off-the-air
Monday through Thursday, Nov-
ember 26 through 29.
A temporary station will begin
operating on Friday, November 30.
An almost normal broadcasting
schedule will be maintained dur-
ing alternations.
whale.
Halla takes time to visit parts
of her country and tells more of
its history. Halla was left behind,
since it is not custom for whalers
to carry women on board — no
matter how widely travelled. The
show date for “Whale Ho” has
not yet been selected.
Santa’s Post Office
Open For Business
Eielson AFB, Alaska (AFNS)—
Santa Claus will again send greet-
ings to Air Force children, cour-
tesy of the members of Detachment
1, 55th Weather Reconnaissance
Sq. stationed here. Weather Ser-
vice personnel will continue a pro-
ject started seven years ago and
will use their free time to for-
ward Santa Claus letters to young-
sters all over the world. Here’s
how the project works: Parents
can write a letter to their child,
sign it Santa Claus, address the
envelope to the youngster, affix
the proper return air-mail postage
from Alaska, mail this letter in
a larger envelope to Santa’s Mail
Bag, care of Det. 1, 55th Weather
Reconnaissance Sq., APO 937,
Seattle, Wash. When your letter
is received at the post office, of-
ficially called Santa Claus House,
North Pole, an AWS volunteer
will open your letter and remail
the child’s message after affixing
the authentic postmark. Deadlines
for mailing these letters to Santa
Claus House is Dec. 15.
12 Appointed
To High School
Student Councel
Wherever people are found to-
gether in a joint cooperation, there
is always someone or something
in which they find leadership or
in which they look for guidance
in their activities. In most Ameri-
can high schools this governing
body is termed the Student Coun-
cil.
The first student council in the
Mahan High School was establish-
ed in 1957, the first year the
school itself went into operation.
It was in that same year that it
was decided to have a member of
the faculty as an acting sponsor
of the council. This is standard
procedure in most high schools.
The council has a relatively
simple system of representative
membership. In early September
the election for president of the
student body is held. It is his
duty to preside as chairman, or
speaker of the council’s meetings.
During the week between presi-
dential nominations and the actual
election, each grade is busy elect-
ing a Class President, Secretary-
Treasurer and Representative.
These class officers comprise the
Student Council; it is their duty
to attend all meetings. There are
certain qualifications necessary
for retention of membership, one
of them being that they do their
duties outlined to them before the
elections.
The meetings are scheduled in
advance, and the time and place
posted. Standard parliamentary
procedure is employed at the meet-
ings, for it has been found the
most efficient system.
The purposes of the council are
to schedule activities, such as
school dances, proms, and fund-
raising operations; make general
proposals to the student body,
such as the recent school color
campaign; and to help ordain aca-
demic standards, such as the pre-
requisites for the honor roll.
The grand opening of the new
Chief Petty Officers’ Club is sche-
duled for Friday, Nov. 30, A. F.
Nelson, the club’s president an-
nounced.
Capt. S. E. Ellison, Command-
ing Officer Naval Station, has
been invited to cut the ribbon at
1900, officially opening the club.
All E-7, E-8 and E-9 personnel
and their bona fida guests’ (see
IDF INST. 1710.A) are invited to
attend the gala event which will
include free liquid refreshments,
free buffet, door prizes and music
by the best dance band available.
R. D. Parrish, ADCS, the club’s
treasurer, stated that it is re-
quested for all members and their
guests to sign the guest log which
will be retained for historical pur-
poses.
The new CPO club will be locat-
ed in the present Polar Club,
which will be vacated by the air-
men on Nov. 26. In the near
future a contest to name the new
CPO Club will be held.
The “Big Top”, former CPO
club, was condemmed as a fire
hazard on Oct. 26. The end was
inevitable but came as a shock
to its members, for although it
was the ugly-duckling of all CPO
clubs, it was one of the most be-
loved and will be remembered by
Education, Rehab Training
Time Extended
Washington (AFNS) — Reserv-
ists, who were called to active
duty during the Berlin crisis in
1961, have been granted additional
time to complete their education
and rehabilitation training under
a bill recently signed by the Presi-
dent. The extension amounts to
equal time for services rendered,
officials said. Reservists, who were
called to active duty under execu-
tive order prior to Aug. 1, 1962
and those whose enlistments were
extended, benefit under this lib-
eralization of the original Korean
GI Bill.
every member who squeezed
through its doors.
For a few hours on Oct. 26 the
Chiefs were clubless but the Kef-
lavik Civilian Club immediately
offered its facilities to all E-7s,
E-8s, E-9s and their guests.
Air Force To
Simulate Huge
Nuclear Blast
Washington (AFPS) — The Air
Force will soon be able to simul-
ate the tremendous shocks created
by nuclear explosions.
A new facility to do the job is
nearing completion at the Air
Force Special Weapons Center,
Albuquerque, N. M.
Already scheduled for early
testing is the shock isolation sys-
tem of an underground ballistic
missile site launch control center.
The Air Force Systems Com-
mand said a full scale launch con-
trol center weighing over 25 tons
will be suspended within the fa-
cility for the shock tests.
Since a control center has both
launch personnel and electronic
equipment, it must be protected
from the shock generated by a
nuclear blast.
The shock isolation system pro-
vides protection much like shock
absorbers do for an automobile
on a bumpy road.
But whle a bumpy road pro-
duces shock from just one direc-
tion, a nuclear blast creates shock
from several directions. This
makes it necessary to completely
isolate a launch control center be-
cause the surrounding ground
may go up, down or sideways.
The new facility is the first of
its kind, the Air Force said, in
which schocks of this magnitude
from more than one direction can
be produced simultaneously.
HAPPY PEOPLE—American Ambassador to Iceland, the Honorable
James K. Penfield, admires the new stripes of Capt. Robert Towers,
Capt. Benjamin Partridge, Capt. Frank Vessell, and Capt. James
McMullan at a traditional “Wotting Down” party at the Officer’s Club,
November 17