The White Falcon - 28.10.1966, Blaðsíða 1

U.S NAVAL STATION, KEFLAVIK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, ICELAND
Volume VII, Number 12 Friday, October 28, 1966
111 Ambassador To NATO
Meets With Iceland Leaders
NATO BASE VISITOR—The U. S. Naval Station’s Public Affairs Offi-
cer, Ensign William R. Brenneman (left) interviews United States
Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO),
James Cleveland during his official visit to the NATO Base last Tues-
day. (White Falcon Staff Photo)
Rich Sewell Elected
Toastmasters President
By Ray Murphy
It was election night last Satur-
day for the Vulcan Toastmasters
Club of the NATO Base in the
main ballroom of the Officer’s
Club. A record crowd of 75 toast-
masters, their ladies and guests
attended the affair. Guests of ho-
nor were Colonel and Mrs. Ric-
hard H. Broach.
Colonel Broach, commander, Air
Forces Iceland, served as instal-
lations officer for the special meet-
ing. At the conclusion of the re-
gular meeting, Colonel Broach
installed the new officers into the
club leadership and charged them
to perform their duties in the
traditions established by Toast-
masters International and their
predecessors in the Vulcan Club.
New officers elected were Lieute-
nant (junior grade) Rich Sewell,
president; Lieutenant Bill Haas,
educational vice president; Arni
Arnason, administrative vice pre-
sident; Runar Gudmundsson,
secretary treasurer; and Bill
Ward, sergeant at arms. These
officers will serve during the
term October 1966 through March
1967.
Outgoing officers were dis-
charged by Colonel Broach with
thanks for a job well done. Out-
going officers were respectively,
Toastmasters Ray Murphy, Gudni
Jonsson, Rich Sewell and Charles
Tucker
REGULAR PROGRAM
The regular program for the
evening included a table topic ses-
sion, conducted by Toaster Rod
McDaniel. Toastmaster of the
evening, Rich Sewell introduced
three seven minute speeches by
Toastmasters, Ludvik Karlsson,
Bill Goss, and Charles Tucker.
General evaluator for the evening
was Toastmaster Ragnar Hall-
dorsson, a senior Toastmaster with
two previous reigns as President
of the Vulcan Club to his credit
and is a man emminently quali-
fied to perform in the evaluator
role. Two coveted awards, made
regularly each six months by the
Toastmasters Club, “The Most
Improved Speakers” award and
the “Outstanding Toastmasters”
trophies were presented at the
Saturday installation meeting.
Receiving the “Most Improved
Speaker” award was Arni Arna-
son, from Reykjavik. Winning the
“Outstanding Toastmaster Award”
(Continued on page 2.)
United States Ambassador to
the North Atlantic Treaty Organ-
ization (NATO), James H. Cleve-
land visited with Iceland govern-
ment officials this week at their
request. Arriving at Reykjavik,
last Sunday, he met with govern-
ment officials for three days to
better understand the NATO
member internal policies.
Busiest day on the Ambassador’s
schedule was Monday, when he
met with Iceland’s Foreign and
Prime Ministers. At noon, he ad-
dressed the Vardberg Society-As-
sociation for Western Coopera-
tion.. Later in the day, he made
an official call at the U. S. Em-
bassy.
Tuesday, Ambassador Cleveland
visited the NATO Base at Kefla-
vik International Airport and met
with Rear Admiral Ralph Wey-
mouth, commander, Iceland De-
fense Force and was honored with
a luncheon in the Officers’ Club.
Also attending the luncheon were:
Captain Emile E. Pierre, comman-
der, U. S. Naval Forces Iceland
and Colonel Richard H. Broach,
commander, U. S. Air Forces Ice-
land. Other departmental and
staff officers from the NATO
Base attended the luncheon.
Commenting on the purpose of
his visit to Iceland, the Ambas-
sador remarked," You know any
country’s foreign policy is really
a product of its internal politics
and if you don’t have some under-
standing of what’s going on inter-
nally behind the scenes, then you’re
really not in business in dealing
with your opposite numbers across
the NATO Council table.”
Asked about Iceland being a
strategic point and one of the
prime places of interest in the
North Atlantic as well as an island
alone unto itself, Mr. Cleveland
said, “Well, it certainly is strate-
gic. It’s strategic politically too,
because, the Icelanders, having
a long tradition of being rather
remote from the world, have made
a quite deliberate decision to join
with their NATO allies in an
effort to contribute their strategic
position to a defensive strategy,
in the Atlantic.”
Continuing, the Ambassador ad-
ded, ‘.‘This is enormously important
to the rest of us and is therefore
worth the input and personal ef
fort that many of you make
here”.
“. . . . my position as the
wielder of part of the politica1
strength of the United States ir
the NATO contexts, is one end of
the business that you are also in
I’d even also put it this way, tha
whatever influence I have in the
NATO Council as the Americar
representative, is the product of
what you do here, of what you:
AWARD WINNERS!—Charles “Chuck” Tucker (left) received the
“Most Outstanding Toastmaster” award and Arni Arnason captured the
“Most Improved Speaker” award at a special installation dinner of the
Vulcan Toastmasters Club which met last Saturday evening at the
NATO Base Officers’ Club. (White Falcon Staff Photo)
Varied Deadlines For
Absentee Balloting
American servicemen will cast
absentee ballots in 50 states and
two possessions Nov. 8. Voters
are cautioned to give careful at-
tention to deadlines set for their
ballots to be in the hands of their
local election officials.
The deadlines vary consider-
ably. There are 29 different time
limits among the 52 areas. All
are listed below:
Alabama — Received no later
than election day; Alaska — Post-
marked no later than election day;
Arizona — Received by 6 p.m.,
election day: Arkansas — Recei-
ved by 6.30 p.m., election day;
California — Received by 5 p.m.,
day before election; Colorado and
Maine — Received by 5 p.m., elec-
tion day; Connecticut and Indi-
ana — Received by 6 p.m., day be-
fore election.
Delaware and Ohio — Received
by noon, election day; Florida —
Received by 5 p.m., day before
election; Georgia and Hawaii —
Received by day before election;
Idaho, Kentucky, Maryland, Mas-
sachusetts and Michigan — Re
ceived before polls close on elec-
tion day; Illinois, Minnesota, Ne-
vada, New Jersey, Oregon, South
Carolina, South Dakota, Utah,
Vermont, West Virginia, Wiscon-
sin and Virgin Islands — Received
by election day.
Iowa and Guam — Received in
time for delivery to election offi-
cials before election day; Kansas
(Continued on page 3.)
Navymen do on carriers in the
Meditteranean or in the Seventh
Army in Germany or the U. S.
Air Force in Europe. This package
of power is my only resource in
a sense, as the President’s repre-
sentative on the North Atlantic
Consul. If you weren’t doing your
jobs as well as you are, it wouldn’t
matter how well I did my job,”
added the distinguished visitor.
As to the future of NATO, Am-
bassador Cleveland concluded
with, “I think that NATO is es-
sential and therefore has a
enormous survival value of course,
but the most important thing is
that we think of it not only as the
defensive screen/shield, but also
as the power base from which we
can negotiate from strength with
Soviets to see if we can’t settle
some of the political problems and
then maybe stand down some of
this expensive military strength on
both sides of the Iron Curtain.
That’s the purpose of the exer-
(Continued from Page 3.)
Admiral Moorer’s
Navy Day Message
Yesterday Oct.
27, marked 191
years of service
by the United
States Navy. In
terms of action
and events, 1966
has been a con-
stant challenge
to our readiness
in the Atlantic.
The Atlantic Fleet proved in the
Dominican Republic crisis of 1965
—1966 as it did in the Cuban Cri-
sis of 1962 that the Navy was
ready with a fast, flexible re-
sponse tuned to the changing
political conditions of our day. The
hand of our Atlantic Fleet mo-
bility stretches to the South China
Sea as our deployed ships, squad-
rons and units are called to serve
in the Vietnam War.
In our Atlantic community our
forces are ready and strong. The
NATO naval exercise “Straight
Laced” conducted this past August
in the North Atlantic brought
into sharp focus the professional-
ism of the men, ships and aircraft
of our Navy as well as that of
five of our NATO Allies.
I am proud to report that our
Navy has proved its ability in the
Atlantic and thoughout the world.
I salute the energy, imagination
and determination of the Navy
men of our fleet around the world
on this Navy Day. —
Admiral Thomas R. Moorer Com-
mander in Chief Atlantic Fleet.