The White Falcon - 17.03.1967, Side 3

Friday, March 17, 1967
WHSITE FASLCON
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by SK2 Barry Gray
The operation of any naval ac-
tivity requires an accurate ac-
count of all financial transac-
tions involved in carrying out its
mission.
At the Naval Station Keflavik,
this is just a part of the work
carried out by the Comptroller
Department. Located in Building
T-740, the comptroller, Lieutenant
Commander David W. Olmstead, is
responsible for financial matters
concerning all naval activities in
Iceland. Lieutenant Commander
Olmstead, assisted by the deputy
comptroller, Paul Wesely, ad-
vises, encourages, and assists
station managers in improving fi-
nancial management techniques.
The budget section, supervised
by Charles Merlotto, performs
all budgeting for money needed
for the operation of the naval
station. This section issues sta-
tion budget guidance and assists
department heads in the pre-
paration of budgets and justifi-
cations for funds. It also re-
commends distribution of available
funds to station managers as re-
quired by program requirements.
The fiscal section is headed by
Lieutenant David A. Aleva and
accounts for and furnishes infor-
mation on expenditures and costs
of all naval activities in Iceland.
This section is divided into two
sections: accounting and dis-
bursing. The accounting section
is further subdivided into four
parts; allotment accounting, cost
accounting, inventory accounting,
and timekeeping and payroll.
Chief Petty Officer James Bran-
ham supervises the allotment ac-
counting branch and maintains the
official accounting ledgers and
supporting records covering com-
mitments, obligations and expen-
ditures of all official funds al-
lotted to naval activities here.
The section also maintains 150
ledgers for the various allotments
assigned to this activity. The pre-
paration of these ledgers involves
the processing of over 6,000 docu-
ments per month. The ledgers en-
ables the section to determine the
status of funds at all times in
relation to amounts spent and
amounts available for obligation.
The section makes all necessary
reports to various Naval Bureaus
for money assigned to this ac-
PAYDAY?—Ensign Michael Rosen-
markle (right) disbursing officer,
counts neatly packed bundles of
U. S. currency as Chief Petty
Office George T. Alverson, ac-
counting chief, looks on. The dis-
bursing office handles the payroll
of all Navy and Marine personnel
stationed in Iceland. (WHITE
FALCON STAFF PHOTO)
tivity.
The inventory accounting
branch, under the supervision of
Jonas GuSmundsson, accounts for
all material held in stock by the
Naval Station supply department.
The section also breaks down all
charges against the naval station,
and charges them to the indi-
vidual department concerned.
The cost accounting branch,
headed by Chief Petty Officer
George T. Alverson and super-
COMPTROLLER DIRECTOR —
Lieutenant Commander David W.
Olmstead (right) director of the
comptroller department discus-
ses accounting matters with one
of the enlisted accounting person-
nel, Second Class Petty Officer
Barry Gray. (WHITE FALCON
STAFF PHOTO)
vised by Norma Pulle, maintains
cost records on standing and
specific job orders assigned and
utilized. The branch compiles all
statistical cost accounting data
and reports its figures to the ap-
plicable Bureaus. It also main-
tains plant property records and
coordinates the completion of
data in connection with the phy-
sical inventory of plant property.
Plant property reports are for-
warded monthly to the Navy
Regional Finance Center, Nor-
folk, for holding fiscal accounts
for naval activities here.
Processing documents affecting
the pay of over 600 Icelandic and
American civilian employees is
one of the various functions of
the timekeeping and payroll
branch, headed by Gisli G. Gud-
mundsson. The branch prepares
the payroll and pay vouchers for
individual pay records. This
branch is always alert for the
necessary deductions from pay re-
cords. Among the deductions for
Icelandic employees are income
tax, areataxes, and in the case of
employees under 25, compulsory
savings of 15 percent of their
final pay.
The disbursing section, under
the disbursing officer, Ensign
Michael Rosenmarkle, handles
over 2,000 military pay records.
This section prepares the pay-
roll for all Navy and Marine per-
sonnel stationed here. Holding a
military payday every other
Thursday is just one of the many
tasks performed by this section.
Once each month a disbursing clerk
makes the trip to H-2 site to pay
the personnel there. This section
also pays all bills incurred by the
naval forces here. It also pays all
travel and temporary additional
duty claims. The section pro-
cesses over 600 vouchers for pay-
ment each month. It reports all
expenditures to the Navy Regio-
nal Finance Center, Cleveland,
Ohio.
The maintenance of all finan-
cial records is a complicated pro-
cess utilizing the professional
skills of experienced and well-
trained personnel in the Comptrol-
ler Department. The vast amount
of paperwork involved in the de-
partment’s mission frequently re-
Hospital Outpatient
Clinic Service
It has become increasingly popu-
lar for dependents and their
children to utilize the Station
Hospital Outpatient Clinic after
normal duty hours. This places an
undue burden on the staff and the
one doctor on duty whose primary
mission is to be available for
emergencies and to care for the
inpatients.
This notice serves to stress the
point of cooperation with the Sta-
tion Hospital staff and to avoid
visits to the Outpatient Clinic ex-
cept in a bonafide emergency. The
hospital staff wishes to serve
everyone eligible as competently
as possible. This can be done most
efficiently during the regular cli-
nic hours and by appointment,
when the entire staff and all phy-
sicians are available. Your co-
operation will benefit everyone,
most of all, those in need of help.
quires personnel to work in their
off-duty hours. The accomplish-
ment of their mission keeps
local department heads as well as
the various Bureaus and Offices of
the Navy up to date on financial
matters concerning the naval for-
ces in Iceland.
COST ACCOUNTING BRANCH—
Norma Pulle, supervisor of the
cost accounting branch, discusses
statistical cost accounting data with
Second Class Petty Officer Donald
E. Welsh, accounting clerk.
(WHITE FALCON STAFF PHO-
TO).
Square Dancers Shift
To Wednesday Nights
Keflavik Squares has changed
their dancing day from Sunday
afternoon to Wednesday evenings,
commencing March 22 at 7:30
p. m. in the Captain Robert Sparks
Rod & Gun Club.
The last dance was held Sunday,
March 12 at the Sand Hut where
the Squares met and held a pot
luck dinner following the after-
noon session. The pot luck din-
ner is a once a month affair
scheduled by the club. Twelve
couples attended and dancing was
enjoyed for several hours.
The dance scheduled for March
22nd will include a membership
drive for new square dance enthu-
siast. Square dancing is fun and
anyone can learn. Lessons are free
to anyone or couple interested.
Most all the popular tunes to-
day have been adapted for square
dancing. Some are: Winchester
Cathedral, Bird of Paradise, Yel-
low Polka Dot Bikini, and a host
of others.
Emergency —
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the ski would be aboard a C-130
cargo plane due in Keflavik at
about 3:00 am March 1. The plane
was meet by Lieutenant Comman-
der Swartz and George Howser,
Supply’s Department coordina-
tors on the project. The plane
actually arrived at 3:30 am and
the ski was in the hands of Ice-
landair representatives as soon as
it was off-loaded.
On March 2, an Icelandair plane
departed from Reykjavik to re-
cover the crew and complete the
supply run of the downed air-
craft. The flight returned the
afternoon of March 5. The crew
is reported to be in good condi-
tion.
Pledging Their
SUPPORT
To
OtferAeaA Combined
'Jedetal Campaign
Chief Master Sergeant Richard
Welch, keyman (left), receives a
contribution for the campaign
from Lieutenant Colonel Frank J.
Pietryka, commander, 932nd Air-
craft Control & Warning Squad-
ron, located at Rockville.
Joe Mudge, Federal Electric
manager of Dye-Five and cam-
paign liaision officer (left), accepts
a pledge card from Gustav Moel-
ler, site technician.
Major Charier Winter, campaign
liaison officer for the 57th Fighter
Interceptor Squadron (right), re-
ceives a contribution from an un-
identified airman before taking off
on a mission.
Conrad Hagstrom, A. T. Mahan
High School principal and cam-
paign liaison officer, accepts a
pledge card from Gladys Zabilka,
superintendent of schools aboard
the NATO Base.
CIVILIAN STAFFED—Handling the payroll for the 600 hundred
American and Icelandic civilian personnel on the Naval Station Kefla-
vik, these six employees work on their off-duty time to keep the re-
cords up to date and add to the efficiency of the Comptroller De-
partment. (WHITE FALCON STAFF PHOTO)