The White Falcon - 21.03.1964, Blaðsíða 5

Saturday, March 21, 1964
WHITE FALCON
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Navy Policy Statements
On Pay Act
Clarified By Navy
The Secretary of Defense has emphasized that military
compensation should be kept abreast of productivity and
price changes in the national economy. Previous testimony
before the Senate Pay Subcommittee indicates the 1963
Pay Act is but one step in what should be a continuing
process of trying to bring military pay more in line with
pay in other sections of the go-®'
vernment and general economy.
The Chief of Naval Personnel has
stated that the 1963 Pay Act is
definitely inadequate to overcome
the serious personnel retention
problems of the Navy and must
be considered as only a first step
toward providing adequate com-
pensation to military personnel.
The 1963 Act did not provide
a raise in basic pay for person-
nel with less than two years ser-
vice. Ensign’s basic pay (with
less than two years) has not been
raised since 1952. Giving the
smallest percentage raises to the
most senior officers is not in con-
formity with civilian practice, and
certainly is no incentive to young
and ambitious junior officers.
Approximately 26,000 Navymen
received only token pay increases
because of loss of foreign duty
pay. While not directly connected
to the Pay Act, many more rea-
lized no increase due to concurrent
loss of proficiency pay, with many
receiving an actual loss in take
home pay (4,100 P-2 enlisted men
lost $60 per month augmentation).
Military pay is still below the
average for government civil ser-
vice and industry, and the dis-
parity will increase with automa-
tic 1964 civil service raises.
Eighteen interservice pay stu-
dies are currently in progress.
These studies are investigating
all facets of military pay, in-
cluding comparison with civil ser-
vice and industry.
The Secretary of Defense has
recommended a pay adjustment
in calender year 1964, and has
stated that he intends to seek re-
adjustment of service pay as re-
quired to avoid cumulative lags.
The Navy supports this appro-
ach an annual readjustment of
service pay can prevent cumulative
lags. To be effective, however, re-
adjustment must be predicted on
a base which provides equity
between military and civilian pay.
A gap now exists in that mili-
tary pay and allowances remain
less than civil service and non-
government employees; unless sub-
stantial adjustments are made to
eliminate this gap, we can expect
pay to continue to be one of the
greatest impediments to a stabili-
zed personnel program.
The Navy feels that action must
be taken to raise substantially
the pay and status of the Navy
“career” enlisted petty officer in
pay grades E-5, E-6 and E-7. The
pay and allowances of these per-
sonnel are inadequate to main-
tain appropriate status with coun-
terparts of the civilian economy.
The Navy cannot expect to com-
pete for career personnel with
private industry and the govern-
ment, if these enlisted personnel
are not able to maintain a com-
parable standard of living.
What are the efficiency grades
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2. What was the largest crowd
at any Olympic Game site?
3. What was the longest com-
petitive span for an Olympic com-
petitor?
4. When and where did the first
references to competitive swim-
ming occur?
5. Who is reputed to have had
the fastest service in internatio-
nal tennis in the last 30 years?
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Sen. Smith Presented With
Minnte Man Of Year Award
Senator Margaret Chase Smith was presented the Minute
Man of the Year award by President Lyndon B. Johnson
at a mid-winter conference of the Reserve Officers As-
sociation in Washington, D. C.
A special feature of the meeting was briefings by the
top military officers guiding the Reserve programs of each

The different services held their
meetings on Thursday, February
27. The National Council met the
28th with the banquet being held
that evening.
The Minute Man of the Year
award goes to the “citizen who
has contributed the most to na-
tional security.” Sen. Smith, cam-
paigning in sub-zero weather in
New Hampshire seeking the GOP
Presidential nomination, is the
first woman to ever receive the
award.
Mrs. Smith is second senior
Republican on the Senate Armed

ON THE AIR — Belgian officers from the Frigate De Moor go before
the AFRTS cameras during their tour of the station last week. The
officers were Lt. Cdr. Vandepitte, Captain of the De Moor and Ens.
John Linnekins, Executive Officer. Also on the tour conducted by Lt.
Claire E. Brou, Service Information Officer, were Kristjan G. Gisla-
son, of the Belgian Consul in Reykjavik and Lt. L. J. Economides
of the Navy Water Terminal.
Services Committee, third senior
Republican on the Defense Appro-
priations subcommittee and senior
Republican on the Space Commit-
tee.
It is an ROA banquet custom
to have more than a minimum
number of members of Congress
in attendance at its banquets.
Highest military and civilian
leaders from the Pentagon, in-
cluding the Joint Chiefs and ser-
vice secretaries always attend.
A special guest this year was
Prince Peter of Greece and a
delegation of 25 Reserve officers
from NATO nations attending the
conference. Prince Peter has at-
tended a number of ROA func-
tions in the past.
In line with the award to Sen.
Smith, ROA’s Air Section present-
ed a distinguised service citation
to William C. Lewis Jr., Sen.
Smith’s long-time legislative as-
sistant. Lewis holds the rank of
Brigadier General in the Air
Force Reserve.
Sen. Mike Mansfield (D.,
Mont.), Senate majority leader,
was presented a distinguished
service award for his help in gett-
ing key national defense legisla-
tion passed. Mansfield served as
an enlisted man in the Army, the
Navy and the Marines, first en-
listing in the Navy as a boy of 15.
In presenting the award, chair-
man Richard Russell (D., Ga.), of
the Senate Armed Services unit,
said, “I have always envied Sen.
Mansfield. I only got to Appren-
tice Seaman but the distinguished
gentleman from Montana once
held the exalted rank of Corpo-
ral.”
Spring to the golfer is more welcome than a thousand pretty coeds
to a beach crawling with college boys.
The slightest breath of Spring and the true golfer acts like he’d
just fallen madly in love, because he’ll do the strangest things.
For example, an Army sportswriter recently wrote of a pre-Spring
(as opposed to late Winter) golf tournament on his midwestern post,
reporting that entrants “braved 40-mile-an-hour winds and near-freez-
ing temperatures.”
In weather like that, it would seem that hitting the ball off the
tee is akin to something like swinging at a cement block with a solid
brass rod.
Anyway, the golf season is here, Spring or not, and Army, Navy,
Air Force and Marine Corps courses will be carrying heavy traffic
from now until late Fall.
So that those courses can be kept in tip-top shape, and so that
golfing temperaments can be kept below the boiling point, the United
States Golf Association has published the following reminders of
golf etiquette:
1. Don’t move, talk, stand close to or directly behind a player while
he is making a stroke.
2. Don’t play until the group in front is out of the way.
3. Always play without delay. Leave the putting green as soon
as all players in your group have holed out.
4. Let faster groups play through.
5. Replace divots. Smooth out footprints in bunkers.
6. Don’t step on the line of another’s putt.
7. Don’t drop clubs on a putting green.
8. Replace the flagstick carefully in an upright position.
9. Leave the course in the condition in which you’d like to find it.
* * *
EXTRA POINTS — The former director of athletics at the U. S.
Military Academy, Col. Francis J. Roberts, was recently awarded the
Legion of Merit ... A convenient free guide to the Federal rules and
regulations governing sport parachuting in the United States has
been issued by the Federal Aviation Agency. Free copies of the guide
(Advisory Circular AC 105-1) may be obtained by writing HQ-436,
Federal Aviation Agency, Washington, D. C. 20553 . . . The Hawaii
Marines edged the San Diego Devildogs, 76-70, to win the 1964 All-
Marine Basketball Tournament, held at Camp Smith, Hawaii. The
winners, paced by defensive whiz Bill Connolly, also placed sixth on
the All-Star team that will represent the Marine Corps in the
Interservice Tournament.
D0D Establishes
Information
For All Services
Ft. Slocum, N. Y. —Beginning
in July, the Army Information
School here will become the De-
fense Information School (DIN-
FOS) for would-be journalists and
radio-television specialists of the
Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine
Corps and Coast Guard.
The Department of Defense an-
nounced that the Department of
the Army will conduct the school
with the Secretary of the Army
charged with responsibility for
developing its professional stand-
ards and instructional programs.
The Navy journalist school at
Great Lakes, Ill., will be phased
out and its staff and faculty
transferred to DINFOS. The Air
Force has no information school,
but its personnel have been train-
ing with the Army here.
The first class under the new
setup is expected to begin in July,
officials said. Classes will be of
varying lengths up to 10 weeks.
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CHILDREN
ComlceDeFor,
Commander API,
Laud lac, Sac, ADC
“Commander Iceland Defense
Force joins the nation and the
Free World community in ex-
tending congratulations to
Strategic Air Command, Tac-
tical Air Command and the
Air Defense Command on the
observance of their 18th an-
niversary.”
Rear Adm. Paul D. Buie
Commander Iceland Defense
Force
“As we observe the 18th an-
niversary of Air Defense Com-
mand we can take pride that
during the years we have play-
ed a role in its mission. We
have seen many changes in
equipment and weapon sys-
tems. I take pride in noting,
however, that this anniversary
would go unmarked without the
mainstay of any military or-
ganization — the dedicated and
professional serviceman.
As we have met and over-
come challenges in the past I
am confident that with the
same esprit de corps we can
meet and overcome the chal-
lenges that face us in the fu-
ture.”
Colonel August E. Weil
Commander Air Forces
Iceland