The White Falcon - 21.05.1965, Blaðsíða 3

Friday, May 21, 1965
WHITE FALCON
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ESSAY WINNERS—The four finalists of their respective categories
are (top left to right) Danielle Weymouth and Robert Taulbee, (bot-
tom) Gail McFarlane and Pamela Haynes.
Four Students Win Bonds
In 1965’s PTA Essay Contest
Four students from the NATO Base won $50 Savings
Bonds in the Keflavik Parent Teachers Association’s (PTA)
annual essay contest. The event took place Thursday even-
ing during the PTA’s meeting at the Alfred T. Mahan
High School.
The winners of the respective categories were: Robert
Taulbee, 10, a third-grader; Gail1^
McFarlane, 11, of the fifth grade;
Danielle Weymouth, 12, seventh
grade; and Pamela Haynes, 15,
a Sophomore.
Presenting the awards to the
four winners was Cdr William J.
McMahon, staff legal officer at
Iceland Defense Force (IDF) and
president of the PTA.
Main Theme
“I Am Proud To Be An Ameri-
can” was the main theme for the
essays. Children from the first
grade to students in twelfth year
high school participated in the
contest.
A panel of four judges studied
over the 51 essays submitted, pay-
ing particular attention to con-
tents, constructions and general
appearances.
The judging committee had a
lot of difficulty selecting the top
essays because all the works were
well written.
The members of the selecting
board were Cdr Louise Bareford,
senior nurse at the Station Hos-
pital; LCdr Alice V. Bradford,
U.S. Naval Station service in-
formation officer; Lt. Col. William
M. Rowe, USAF, assistant chief
of staff for Operations and Plans,
IDF; and Lt.Col. Gordon T. Fear-
son, USA, assistant chief of staff
for Logistics, IDF.
Each eassy had a code number
rather than a name so none of
the judges knew whose eassy they
were voting for.
Four Categories
The contest was divided into
four categories.
The first group from first to
third grade were to write between
25 to not more than 75 words; the
second group from fourth to sixth
grade 100 to 250 words; the third
group from seventh to eighth
grade from 200 to 300 words; and
the fourth group from ninth to
twelfth grade from 300 to 500
words.
CPO h)m
Club lleuA
by Helen J. Morgan
The regular monthly meeting of
the CPO Wives Club was held at
the CPO Club Thuesday evening
May 11.
Mrs. Helen Watson, the presi-
dent of the club presided. The
minutes of the previous meeting
were read by the Mrs. Mabel Jon-
es, the secretary.
(Plans were discussed for vari-
ous activities to be undertaken by
the members and chairmen for
several committees were selected
from members present.
The CPO Wives-sponsored Moth-
ers’ Day Bake Sale held May 8
at the Main Navy Exchange and
especially at the Thrift Shop
(T-101), was a great success.
Many thanks should go out to
the girls and the people who made
the bake sale possible.
Coffee and cake were served
after the business session and the
meeting’s door prize was given to
Mrs. Marilyn Bushaw.
Wives of all enlisted personnel
of all services in grades E-7
through E-9 are invited to attend
the next meeting June 8, at 7:30
p.m. at the CPO Club.
EDITORIAL
Navy Relief
Seeks Money
To Help You
Sixty years of service, to its
own people, is the proud record
of the Navy Relief Society.
That record has been made
possible by the generous donations
of naval men and women, and
civilian friends of the Navy, dur-
ing the past 60 years.
Asked To Contribute
Every navy man and marine on
this station will be asked to con-
tribute during this year’s cam-
paign which is currently under
way here. The period of the drive
commemorates the great sea and
air battles of World War II in the
Pacific where Navy and Marine
servicemen wrote the names of
Coral Sea and Midway on the
pages of history. ______
“What does it do for me?” is
the usual question asked by the
person solicited for a charitable
donation. In the case of this drive
it’s the other way around. It’s
what you can do for the other
man’s welfare that should moti-
vate your giving. Navy Relief
should be like insurance. Wonder-
ful to have but not collected every
time a small problem arises.
Your People
You are giving to the Navy’s
own organization for the relief of
distress among its own people—
your people.
The drive here in Keflavik is
being run through the Key-man
system and apparently the key-
man at Public Works is doing the
best job as that department leads
in the compaign in total monies in
this point. It has been requested
that each of the key-men report
their contributions to bring the
drive up-to-date.
O' WiOeA
Club
by Ruth Haines
The “O” Wives turned out at
the monthly coffee to bless a large
group girls who are leaving Ice-
land.
They are Celia Dinwiddle and
her mother, Mrs. G. L. Danford,
Jane McKemey, Jean Patterson,
Peggy Hoover, Dorothy Steak-
bauer, Muriel Merrow, Carol
Aftosmis and Betty Norris.
No new members were hailed
but is it expected that next month
there will be many new arrivals.
June Sampson is still looking
for more recipes for the cookbook,
so how about it! Let’s give her
some more!
The Cookbook Supper is this
Saturday, May 22, and if you
don’t have your tickets they may
be purchased at the door. Happy
Hour prices will start a 5 p.m.
and the supper will be served at
7 p.m.
The food will be prepared by
the “O” Wives from recipes to
be published in the forthcoming
book.
Don’t forget to call Alice Have-
land, 4276, for bridge reservations
May 25.
NEXT MOVE—Pondering over his move, Sverrir Olafsson (right), an
Icelandic technician at Armed Forces Radio and Television Service
Station, pursues “the game of kings” with Chess Champion Johan A.
Hansen, AX2AC, of VP-56.
Here * To your Culture
Chess Champion Hansen
Enjoys Reykjavik Matches
by George A. Simpson
Naval Station Keflavik can boast of having the Sea Ser-
vice Chess Champion on board.
Johan A. Hansen, AX2AC (aviation anti-submarine war-
fare technician second), of Patrol Squadron 56, has been
in many tournaments and won many trophies.
His most coveted prize came in November 1964 when he
was matched against 16 contend-* ^
ers in the Armed Forces Chess
Tournament held at Washingthon,
D.C.
Captures Title
He finished third in the tour-
nament but captured the Sea
Services title (Navy, Marine
Corps and Coast Guard contend-
ers) by winning five games, draw-
ing two and losing two.
Navy Times awarded him a
$75 bond for his achievement and
covered the week—long event in
two of its issues.
“Experts thought Navy sailor
Johan A. Hansen might have an
upset working, with a draw a-
gainst Rivera (an Air Force lieu-
tenant who won the tourney and
the only chess master in the
event), a win, and strong positions
in two games that went over the
time limit and still had to be play-
ed out,” reported the Navy Times.
Takes Third Slot
The newspaper continued in its
final article that, “He got off to
a fast start by holding master
player Rivera to a draw in the
first round, winning three in a
row and drawing his fifth round
match, against Albertson (a pri-
vate in the Army who placed se-
cond). Losses to Air Force Capt.
Harold M. Weiner... and Coast
Guard entry, Azcharias Chavez,
dropped Hansen into third slot.”
While not flying a routine mis-
sion with his crew, Hansen likes
to play chess—though he has not
had much time to play the game
since arriving at Keflavik in
March.
“Chess is like any other com-
petitive game,” maintains Hansen,
“if you are going to be any good
at playing it, you need practice.”
Likes To Challenge Icelandics
While in Reykjavik one time,
Hansen was invited to play a-
gainst some Icelanders.
“They take their games serious-
ly here as do most players in
Europe,” Hansen remarked.
When asked how he faired, the
chess player said, “I won all the
games played at the Icelandic
police station and broke about
even against a few taxi drivers.”
At any rate, Hansen says he
looks forward to going back to
Reykjavik to challenge the many
experienced players there.
Played Since 1951
The Sea Services Chess Cham-
pion says that he first started
playing the game in high school
back in ’51 but not seriously until
1959.
Hansen is married to the former
Miss Marilyn Voorhess and they
have two daughters: Jennifer
Lynn—8 and Janine Alisa—5
years old.
The Hansens make there home
at East Orange, N.J.
MEMORIZED PLAY — Developing
the Marshall attack, Sea Services
Chess Champion Johan A. Hansen
commits to memory many recorded
games played by the masters.
AF Leads Services
in Married Men
Defense figures reveal that
63.3 percent of all active-duty
Air Force males are married,
as compared with Army 46.7,
Navy 43.1 and Marine Corps
37.7.
Figures show that service
members have an average of
more than one dependent.
Again, the Air Force leads with
1.96, Army 1.4, Navy 1.18 and
Marine Corps 1.03.