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WHITE FALCON
Saturday, December 11, 1965
Polar Clubbers Lack
Interest, Lick Wounds
There isn’t much to say for ourselves we who frequent our club
is there? If we patronize the club we do have a right to gripe and
moan about its shortcomings and needs for improvement. But
hagling over such matters in the evening after several beers is not
the answer.
Where are you members when it really comes for good construc-
tive ideas and criticisms at the meetings where it counts?
True, there are some men appointed to represent each division
at these meetings. But when only six or eight of the 16 Advisory
Board members show up, what good can come from that?
We have no one to blame but ourselves for lack of interest, mo-
tivation and initiative both from attendance at the club and also
board wise.
Remember When
“Oldtimers” can remember when our club was once one of the
most profitable and well-attended on base a year ago. Since then,
it has turned into a vacant, mismanaged, curfewed and bankrupt club.
True, we were promised almost every improvement imaginable al-
most year ago to this day. But as men rotate to new duty stations,
so have last year’s plans been left on the drawing board or have only
partially been undertaken. So when new management takes over it
is blamed for someone else’s unfinished promises it can’t fulfill.
These are the problems we must face and face realistically. A
club cannot grow and nurture over spilled milk or old promises. We
seem to be feeling sorry for ourselves and one year is a long time.
What We Need
What we really need is optimism and the “can do—will do”
spirit to put our club on its feet again.
A new manager of the Polar Club has recently arrived, a chief, and
the road back to its once prosperous self can only be done by the mem-
bers patronizing the club, regularly attending its meetings and ad-
hering to its laws.
You may have noticed some changes that have appeared at the
club this past month:
1. More movies are being shown during the week. Instead of Game
Night every Tuesday, there are two Tuesdays reserved for movie
showings, the other two for bands.
2. Free juke box music is provided on Tuesday evenings before and
after the movie, and during band breaks.
3. The sound system for public address and movies has been installed.
4. Thursday Bingo Night has been rescheduled for only on Navy
paydays, while movies will alternate on on the non-paydays.
5. Plans are underway for conversion of 90 percent of the beer room
in back of the club to be used as a television lounge. (Scheduled com-
pletion—next month).
6. Plans have been approved for installation of a door and patio in
front of the snack bar. This will alleviate the nuisance of having the
waiters carry garbage cans through the club and dining areas. (Sche-
duled completion—two months).
7. Food specials will be periodically available at the Polar Club Snack
Bar on Tuesdays and Sundays, and will eventually be extended into
other days. Also, free coffee is available for the ladies.
Let’s Get Going
Since a new year is before us, let us make a resolution to help our
club in every way we can.
These improvements may seem small but it is saving the club
money which can be used in the future for better entertainment and
a better club in which to spend off-duty hours.
Monthly schedules of Polar Club activities are available at the
counter next to the duty petty officer’s stand.
Remember, it’s up to each and everyone of us that attend the
Polar Club to be an active member and be present at its meetings.
FRA News
The Fleet Reserve Association
(FRA) Branch 255, of Keflavik,
held their monthly business meet-
ing last Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in
the NCO Club.
Business discussed at the meet-
ing was the institution of a mem-
bership campaign. Last year at i
this time our Branch had one of
the largest memberships in the
Association. It has dwindled each
month by a few shipmates who
have departed for new stations or
members whose dues are delin-
quent.
With the amount of career men
stationed here in Keflavik there
is no reason why this branch should
not have one of the highest and
most active membership rosters.
The FRA is and has been in-
strumental in gaining benefits for
the career Marine or Navyman
through its lobbyist activities and
general influence on Capitol Hill.
In order to continue supporting
your desires, the FRA needs your
backing.
If the Association can carry your
name along with hundreds of thou-
sands of others as the backbone
of the Navy and Marine Corps to
the nation’s lawmakers with re-
quests for new and better things
for the career sailor and Marine,
then you are following the ideals
of the democracy you protect in
pursuit of more tangible benefits.
If you don’t belong to the Fleet
Reserve Association or if you are
behind in your dues, you owe it to
yourself and your shipmates to
get with the Association and sup-
port its proposals. For informa-
tion, call Dave Scott, ACl, at 5125,
Dutch Maisenhelder, J02, at 4156
or Tom Ronan, DKC, at 3128.
Wanted:
Live Talent
Do you have talent? Have
you ever sung, danced played
an instrument, emceed, acted or
mimicked before a live audi-
ence? What about those high
school and college plays and
skits you so eagerly partici-
pated in?
Out of the 3,000 or so per-
sonnel, wives and dependents
at this Naval Station, there
must be some with past ex-
perience at performing before
an audience.
We at Armed Forces Radio
and Television need such talent
for our annual Christmas show
over AFTV Dec. 23. Also a
show is being planned to per-
form at the Polar Club Christ-
mas Eve.
For more information as to
tryouts, contact Dave Scott,
ACl, at ext. 5125 or the White
Falcon office, ext. 4156.
JUST THE THING TO GO WITH COFFEE—That’s what Seaman
Dave O’Malley of the “Coffee Break” show over Radio 1484 thinks
about fruit cake. This particular fruit cake is the prizewinning entry
in the recent Coffee Break Fruit Cake contest. It was entered by Fred
Sykes, CS2, Ralph D. Remus, SN, and James W. Lemke, ATNAN. For
the recipe read Aunt Maizy’s Recipe column.
Three Heads Combine To
Win Fruit Cake Contest
The recipes used in this column are those submitted by
servicemen and their dependents. The recipe for this week
was a joint effort by Fred Sykes, CS2, Ralph D. Remus, SN,
and James W. Lemke, ATNAN. This was the recipe with
which they won the fruit cake contest on the “Coffee Break”
show over radio 1484. This recipe is for 25 servings so in-
gredients may be reduced for
Fruit Cake
Fruit, Candied, mixed, pieces 3 cups
Walnuts, English, chopped 2 cups
Raisins l*/2 cups
Currants 1/z cups
Flour, soft wheat, sifted 1 cup
Step 1: Combine above ingredients
and set aside for step 6.
Butter, soft 1 cup
Step 2: Cream butter
Sugar, brown, packed % cup
Step 3: gradually add sugar.
Cream until light and fluffy.
Honey % cup
Eggs, whole, well-beaten 4 cup
Step 4: Blend honey with eggs.
Flour, soft wheat, sifted 2(4 cups
Cinnamon 1 tsp.
Cloves, ground 14 tsp.
Nutmeg 14 tsp.
Soda 14 tsp.
Baking powder 14 tsp.
Step 5: Sift dry ingredients to-
gether. Add to the creamed butter
and sugar alternately with the
honey and egg mixture.
small families.
Juice, orange % cup
Vanilla 1 tsp.
Step 6: Pour batter over fruit and
nut mixture. Blend together light-
ly. Add orange juice and vanilla.
Step 7: Scale approximately 514
lbs. of batter into each well grea-
sed loaf pan (14 in. x 414 in. x 314
in.)
Step 8: Bake at 250 degrees Fah-
renheit until done, approximately
214 hours. Cover the top with
greased paper if it begins to
brown too much.
Well, there it is and a mouth-
watering treat I assure you. May-
be, the rumor that men are the
best cooks is true because none of
the housewives have contributed
their recipes yet. I’ll bet, though,
that some of you have some spec-
ial treats you like to brag about;
so send it in to the White Falcon
and they’ll get it to Aunt Maizy
and I’ll have the best ones printed.
Commissary Store Closed Dec. 13
The Commissary Store will
get the new Officer in Charge
next week when Lt D.J. Ches-
ley is relieved by CWO-4 C.L.
Boland. Lieutenant Chesley is
headed for a tour of duty with
the Naval Air Reserve Train-
ing Unit at the Naval Air Faci-
lity in Washington, D.C.
The Commissary Store will
be closed Monday, Dec. 13,
for Quarterly Inventory.
A THANKSGIVING TO REMEMBER—It was “service supreme” for
the airmen at the 667th Aircraft Control and Warning Sq. (H-3) on
Thanksgiving Day. .Noncommissioned officers at the site were “com-
missioned” cooks and waiters for the day and prepared and served the
turkey dinner with trimmings to the airmen on the site. Getting his
dinner on a silver platter is A2C Joseph M. Willett.