The White Falcon - 21.10.1966, Side 4

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WHITE FALCON
Friday, October 21, 1966

PRIDE in motion
Doing their part
Weekly Feature
SORTING MAIL—PC3 Alan H.
Mann sorts incoming mail at Nav-
Sta Keflavik’s post office. Mann
also supervises the handling of
outgoing mail. The 20-year-old
Navy man hails from Dorothy, W.
Va., and has been stationed in Ice-
land now for nine months.
SECRETARIAL DUTIES — Mrs.
Jeanie Jackson is employed as
clerk-typist and secretary to the
NavSta Keflavik’s transportation
officer. A native of Atlanta, Ga.,
she was a teacher at the Frank
Knox grade school, Patuxent River,
Md., prior to arriving here last
April. Her husband, LCdr Joe T.
Jackson is assigned staff duties
at ComFairKef.
SHINE DOOR, SHINE!—Navy
Airman Terry C. Hunt, 21, of Bay
City, Mich., is the man cleaning
the swinging door in the chief petty
officer’s barracks. Hunt’s job is
compartment cleaner at the bar-
racks. Prior to his arrival here in
Iceland, last July, he was attending
the Air Controlman “A” school at
Glynco, Ga.
Teeth that do not come together
properly, cannot perform effec-
tively. Eventually, damage will be
done to the teeth, to the support-
ing tissue, and to jaw joints —
just as there would be damage to
gears.
Malocclusion — as this faulty
alignment of the teeth is called
— occurs most frequently when
the first teeth are being shed and
the permanent teeth are erupting,
but it may occur at any age.
Sometimes malocclusion is the
result of inherited factors such
as the size of the jaws and the
teeth. Sometimes harmful habits
or early loss of teeth through
decay are the major reasons.
Sometimes there is a combination
of causes.
Whatever the cause, prompt treat-
ment by a dental specialist known
as an orthodontist is required if
crowded, widely spaced or rotated
teeth are not to spoil a child’s ap-
pearance or damage his health in
later life.
Such teeth, those that are too
prominent or that meet impro-
perly, may interfere with chewing
and put an extra burden on the
stomach. Food particles lodge
more readily between teeth that
are not in proper position, making
them prey to tooth decay and gum
disease. There may also be strain
on jaw joints and muscles.
Consider the fact that jaw
muscles can apply 200 or more
pounds of force when a person
chews, and that this force is ap-
plied very rapidly — sometimes
in less than a second. It’s easy to
see how malpositioned teeth could
cause severe strain and damage.
Deformities of the jaws and
face may lead to malocclusion.
A dentist often can prevent con-
ditions leading to malocclusion, if
consulted early. That’s why he
should see your child at about age
two and a half to three — while
the first teeth are erupting.
Baby teeth are needed to main-
tain the shape of the dental arch
and the space required by the
permanent teeth if they are to
come in straight. Your dentist can
help keep these first teeth healthy.
He can put in a space maintainer
if first teeth are lost too soon, or
remove those that stay too long. He
can provide advice on correcting
habits that may be causing faulty
tooth position.
As the permanent teeth come in,
he can refer your child to an ortho-
dontist if such treatment is need-
ed. The critical age for correcting
malpositioned teeth is when your
child is 11 or 12, for at such time
the orthodontist can take advan-
tage of the normal growth of the
mouth and face to aid in making
corrections.
Does it weaken teeth to have
them straightened?
No. Teeth can be moved or ro-
tated in the mouth without da-
mage and without loss of bony
support. The teeth are moved
slowly by light pressure applied
by means of band and wires at-
tached to them.
The bone against which force
is applied dissolves slowly, making
room for the tooth to move; new
bone builds up on the opposite
side, to fill in the space and pro-
vide support.
Malocclusion can usually be en-
tirely eliminated. Function and
appearance is almost always im-
proved. And the result is a long
step toward keeping that smile
for a lifetime.
T
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BOOKSHELF
Miss L. Rigsby
The following books are in stock
at the station library for use by
service personnel and their de-
pendents.
A GIFT OF JOY, by Helen
Hayes is the autobiography of one
of the few great personalities of
this century. She is one who has
managed to achieve international
fame without losing her much-
prized “ordinariness.” This is a
collection of Helen Hayes’
thoughts, reminiscences, and anec-
dotes, as well as selected pieces
from her favorite writers.
WAR WITHOUT GUNS, by
Tanham, is of American civilians
in rural Vietnam—these young
Americans are helping the Viet-
namese villagers to build a sound
society, a more productive eco-
nomy, and an effective and re-
sponsive government after 25
years of war, enemy occupation,
and insurgency.
BACKGROUND TO VIET-
NAM, by Newman is a frank,
lucid account of a land war-torn for
twenty years. The author has
been immediately involved in both
the Viet Minh and the Viet Cong
wars. He has patrolled in paddy
fields and through jungles with
the French Foreign Legion and
the Viet-Namese Rangers,
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Northern Lights
Iceland’s ‘Show’
Iceland is one of the most ad-
vantageous locations in the world
from which to view the greatest
electrical show on Earth and
nature’s most unusual sky pheno-
mena—the Aurora Borealis or
“Northern Lights.”
A glance upward during almost
any cloudless night during these
winter months will reveal the
aurora resplendent in a dazzling
spectacle of changing colors.
There is an almost infinite
variety to the auroral display. The
lights may sweep across the sky
in waves, in streamers or in folds
like draped curtains. Or it may
be a stationary glow.
Colors Never Same
Sometimes there is little or no
color in these waves, sheets or
streamers of light. At other times
the lights may be rich in red or
green or pastel shades of pink or
blue. Rose color and lavender and
violet are common. Blue is rare
but has been seen.
The Northern Lights have been
seen as far south as New Orleans
and Cape Kennedy, but the maxi-
mum occurence of these auroral
displays is along the Arctic bor-
der. The greatest intensity is
along a path which crosses North
America from Alaska in a south-
easterly direction to Hudson Bay
and Labrador.
This line skirts the northern
coast of Norway and Siberia and
then crosses the south coast of
Greenland and nearly all of Ice-
land.
The Northern Lights cannot be
seen against a daylight sky al-
though they do appear in the day-
time. The great glare of the sun
blocks the sight from view.
To the human eye, the lights
are strictly a nocturnal pheno-
mena and for this reason may be
seen during the winter when the
hours of darkness are more ex-
tensive.
Caused By Sun Spots
It has been definitely estab-
lished that Sun spots are the
direct cause of the spectacular
show.
Sun spots are magnetic storms
of vast proportions on the sur-
face of the sun and they shoot out
electrified particles into space.
Those that come toward the
Earth’s magnetic poles and con-
sequently these magnetic poles are
the radiating centers of those
tremendous electromagnetic dis-
plays we call the Northern Lights.
The electrical particles from
the Sun spots strikes the upper
regions of our atmosphere where
the component gases (nitrogen,
oxygen and extremely minor
amounts of argon, helium, neon,
hydrogen and carbon dioxide) are
very much rarefied and cause
them to vibrate and glow in colors
characteristic of the various ele-
ments, just as a neon sign glows
when an electric charge is passed
through it.
The Sun spots that cause the
Northern Lights also cause the
magnetic storms that interfere
with radio receptions, telephone
and telegraph traffic and other
electromagnetic devices such as
compasses and various aviation
accessories.
Most Unusual Display
One of the most unusual dis-
plays of Northern Lights was
seen west of Norway and in the
north of Iceland on Sept. 18, 1926.
It appeared to be an arc to the
eye, but photographs showed it to
be composed of a curtain of rays.
The diffused form of the auro-
ral display reached the height of
650 miles. Calculations proved
this, although normally they have
an upper limit of 50 to 200 miles
above the Earth’s surface.
Prof. Carl Stormer, of the Uni-
versity of Oslo, Norway, claims
that no auroral lights ever come
closer to Earth than 50 miles.
Some Polar explorers with
years of experience have said the
aurora swish is nothing more than
faint noise caused by the freezing
of the moisture in the observer’s;
breath.
How this can cause a sound is;
not explained. But, it does pro-
vide something to talk about
during Iceland’s long winter-
months.
EN ROUTE TO TARGET — Flying in formation, three camouflaged
McDonnell F-4C Phantoms fly toward their target in Vietnam. Majo-
rity of tactical aircraft operating in Southeast Asia are painted a
mottled brown and green on the upper surfaces and a light blue on the
bottom to blend with jungle terrain and clouds.