The White Falcon - 26.11.1962, Síða 2

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WHITE FALCON
Monday, November 26, 1962
Community W elcomes
Serviceman of Today
More than two decades after the beginning of the
greatest war Americans ever fought, members of the Armed
Forces can appraise themselves and take pride in the
changes that 21 years have wrought in the military.
Is this to say that the serviceman of the years before
the war was inferior to today’s breed? No—but different
he certainly was. And as he changed so did the public
conception of him alter, until now he is regarded as a
valued member of the community.
For in prewar years the U.S. military tended to
isolate itself and he self-sustaining. Most service fam-
ilies lived on post. Their friends and acquaintances
were service people like themselves. They looked to
one another for social contacts; theirs was a tight
little world which the public at large only dimly com-
prehended.
As for the unmarried men, the average civilian thought
them a rough and lusty sort given to pay day drinking,
gambling and brawling. “Single men in barracks don’t
grow into plaster saints,” Rudyard Kipling once wrote,
and that about summed up the prevailing view of the
peacetime regular. He was a rough diamond, a loveable lout
who seldom associated with “nice” people.
Today’s serviceman has little in common with this
image, and for that reason the public esteem for members
of the Armed Forces is at an all time high. The military
takes an active role in community affairs. Men and women
in uniform get a warm welcome at civic events. The money
they spend is an important factor in the local economy.
It has been estimated that the military dollar turns over
five times in a community before it winds up in an account
or goes elsewhere.
Good reason, then, for the average American, if asked
his opinion of people who make the Armed Forces their
career, to answer: “Solid citizens.” (AFPS)
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 STANLEY E. ELLISON, USN
Commanding Officer, Naval Station Keflavik
CAPTAIN FRANK G. VESSELL, USN
Executive Officer, Naval Station Keflavik
LIEUTENANT COMMANDER R. C. POWERS, USNR
Service Information Officer & Officer-in-Charge
STAFF
Editor; David J. Howell, JOSN,
Mike L. Crump, JOSN; Stephen M. Caine, JOSA, 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-
smldja h.f., Reykjavik, Iceland, from non-approprlated 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 Departmant.
The Chaplain J Cctnet
By Fr. Richard C. Hunkins, LTJG, CHC, USNR
The Immensity of God’s Ceration
By the providence of God, and the will of the Govern-
ment we have dedicated our lives to serve, we find our-
selves in the rugged beautiful country of Iceland. Geo-
graphically, Iceland is a mountainous country with its
highest peak being Hvannadalshnukur, 6,950 feet high.
With the powerful beauty of the Icelandic Mountains, some
of which are actively volcanic, augmented with the un-
predictable weather and terrain, our thoughts are auto-
matically turned to a consideration of the power and the
majesty of the God who created such unique beauty, so
different from what we were used to back home.
During the past Summer one of the most dramatic
feats of North American mountaineering was accomplished
when six young men from the Eastern Part of the United
States climbed the southeast side of Alaska’s 20,320 foot
Mount McKinley, the North American Continents’ highest
peak. In trying to find the reason why these men would
undertake such a daring feat, their reason was summarized:
‘It is in the majestic stillness of high mountains that
the climber comes to discover the Immensity of God’s
Creation.” To get the most out of ones’ tour of duty in
this land of rugged beauty and splendor we can very
easily apply the reason given by the climbers of Mount
McKinley — Namely, use our time judiciously and through
serious thought and prayer, “discover the Immensity of
God’s Creation”.
In traveling and observing the sights of Iceland, we
can easily recall the words of the Old Testament Psalmist
(Psalm 103):
“Bless the Lord, 0 my soul! 0 Lord my God, you are
great indeed! You are clothed with Majesty and glory,
robed in light as with a cloak. You have spread out the
heavens like a tentcloth; you have constructed your palace
upon the waters. You make the clouds your chariot; you
travel on the wings of the wind. You make the winds your
messengers, and flaming fire your ministers”.
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PROTESTANT
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Chapel 11 a.m.
High School 9:30 a.m.
High School 9.30 a.m.
Chapel 7 p.m.
ipel Annex 7 p.m.
Chapel 9 a.m.
6:30
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3:30
Fellowship .....................................
Episcopal Service ..............................
Latter Day Saints ................................. Chapel Annex 10:30
Christian Science ................................. Chapel Annex 12
Church of Christ .................................. Chapel Annex 3
MONDAY: Bible Study Group .......................... Chapel Annex
WEDNESDAY: Senior Choir, Rehearsal .......................... Chapel
SATURDAY: Youth Choir Rehearsal ............................. Chapel
Senior Choir Rehearsal .................................. Chapel
PROTESTANT CHAPLAINS
Chaplan L. C. M. Vosseler. CDR, USN — Chaplain H. W Holland, LCDR, USN
— Chaplain W. C. Hitchens, LCDR, USN.
CATHOLIC
SUNDAY; Recited Mass ................................ Main Chapel 8 a.m.
Sung 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 31:45 a.m.
Tuesday ........................................ Acolyte Classes 7 p.m.
Thursday ................................ Choir Rehearsal (Chapel) 6:30 p.m.
Saturday ........................... Confessions (Eucharist Chapel) 7-8:30 p.m.
BAPTISM WEDDINGS, HOME BLESSINGS, ADULT RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION BY AP-
POINTMENT — CALL. EXT. 4111.
CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN
R. C. Hunkins, LTJG, USNR
JEWISH
FRIDAY Sabbath Service ..:.......................... Chapel Annex
7.30 p.ra.
Old Cannonball
Finding Recalls
Belvoir's Past
Ft. Belvoir, Va (AFPS)—Every
so often men at this Engineer
Center stumble across reminders
that their modern Army installa-
tion occupies land rich in historic-
al associations and that Belvoir in
French means “beautiful view.”
Most recent of such mementos
of the past is a 200-pound can-
nonball which the British lobbed
into the area during the War of
1812. By that time the splendid
mansion called Belvoir Manor was
a ruin—it had been razed by fire
in 1783—but its foundations and
chimneys remained standing. When
the British sailed up the Potomac
in 1814 they took these for forti-
fications and put them under fire.
In its heyday — it was built
from 1734 to 1741 — Belvoir
Manor ranked with the most im-
posing homes in the colonial
South. Col. William Fairfax, who
built it, was the cousin of Lord
Thomas Fairfax who owned a
sweeping estate which had been
granted him in 1688 by James
II of England.
Col. Fairfax, as general super-,
intendent of the estate, built his
manor of English brick, surround-
ing it with a formal garden, and
called it Belvoir in memory of his
ancestral English home.
When 15-year-old George Wash-
ington came to Mount Vernon in
1747 to live with his older half-
brother, he struck up a friendship
with Fairfax’s oldest son, George
William Fairfax, that was to last
a lifetime.
His old friend, now Col. Fair-
fax, in 1773 had to return to Eng-
land to take possession of ances-
tral estates he had inherited. He
left his manor in Washington’s
care, and in the next year wrote
him to dispose of all its handsome
furnishings; a new tenant was
taking over.
Washington complied, purchas-
ing much of Belvoir Manor’s con-
tents for his own estate. So, al-
though the stately Fairfax home
is no more, visitors to Mount
Vernon today get a suggestion of
the elegant style of life Washing-
ton’s friend and neighbor enjoyed.
Military Code
Curtails Bad
Check Cashing
Washington (AFPS) — Members
of the Armed Forces become liable
on March 1 to the new provisions
of Article 123a of the Uniform
Code of Military Justice that deals
with “making, drawing, or utter-
ing check, draft or order without
sufficient funds.”
The new section says:
“Any person subject to this
chapter who—
“(1) for the procurement of
any article or thing of value, with
the intent to defraud; or
“(2) for the payment of any
past due obligation, or for any
other purpose, with the intent
to deceive; makes, draws, utters,
or delivers any check, draft, or
order for the payment of money
upon any bank or other deposi-
tory for the payment of that
check, draft, or order in full
upon its presentment, shall be
punished as a court-martial may
direct.
Scientists Unearth
Primitive Artifacts
At Wallops Island
Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.
(AFPS) — Scientists from Aber-
deen’s Ballistics Research Labo-
ratories have turned amateur
archeologists while working at
Wallops Island, Va. missile launch-
ing sites.
As bulldozers scooped and shift-
ed the island’s soil for new con-
struction, they turned up weap-
ons and tools of primitive man
who lived there some 5,000 years
ago. Such traces of his inhabita-
tion have been buried down the
centuries by erosion and shifting
sands.
One of the finest artifacts of
this vanished race was found by
Charles E. Schafer of the Ballistic
Measurement Branch. It is a per-
fect specimen of a semi-lunar
knife which archeologists have put
in the 50-century time period and
which, while found in eastern New
England, has never before been
unearthed so far south.