The White Falcon - 24.03.1945, Side 4

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THE WHITE FALCON is published weekly by and for (he
American Forces in Iceland, uader supervision of Special Ser-
vice Section, Iceland Base Command. Some material is supplied
by Camp Newspaper Service, New York City, republication
of which is prohibited without CNS approval. THE WHITE
FALCON has been passed by the censor and may be mailed
home for one-and-one-half cents.
We were beginning to feel
like IBC’s country cousins,
with Club 23 only a sort of
stepchild to Club 14, when
The While Falcon encourag-
ed us to put ourselves in the
news.
Since all of us are more
IBC Special Service Officer .Maj. Sidney E. Cockrell Jr.
Supervising Officer ........Lt. David Zinkoff
Editor .....................Sgt. John Moran
Associate Editor ...........Sgt. J. Gordon Farrell
News Editor ................Sgt. Robert Hill
Staff Reporter .............Pvt. E. C. Gray
Circulation ................S/Sgt. Rosario Tessier
AN EDITORIAL:
Do You Fee! Neglected?
Personnel! id some of the outlying camps tell us that
they occasionally feel they’re being neglected in The
White Falcon — that events of interest, potential feat-
ure stories, etc., which transpire in their units more
often than not “turn up missing” in this newspaper.
Unfortunately what they say is largely true. The Falc-
on is edited and published in Reykjavik, and the job of
getting it out on time each week keeps us so tied up that
we rarely have a chance to go far afield to gather* mat-
erial.
The Falcon staff consists of three men working full
time and one working part time. Allowing for T. D.
absentees, this leaves us but two men working full1 time
on the paper. And in spitc{ of a notion to the contrary;
members of the Falcon staff must participate in such
Gl pastimes as hikes, orientation classes, etc. We cite
these things merely to show that an adeqate coverage of
the whole Command’ is' an impossible task for the staff
itself.
Although we are making an attempt, to' visit outlying
camps (that is, those not in the Reykjavik, area) every
Saturday, much more than this is needed. The only
way for us to get adequate coverage is for men in these
units to tedee it upon themselves to. kc.ep us posted.
Some units are still unrepresented even in “Organiza-
tion News.” Now we’d, like to set the record straight —
anybody, any soldier in this Command, is free to
submit material to this paper. Naturally we can’t make
a blanket promise to publish everything we receive, but
we’ll do our best.
The White Falcon belongs to the entire Command and j
we'd like everyone to feel personally that this is so.
Without your assistance, however, we can do only a small
part of the job.
.___ J
SWENSON
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COlQt/iOQ*
"I hope I'm not too late to sign the sick book/'
PROGRAM BEING PLANNED FOR U S.
According to Army News
Service, an “immense” plan
for postwar electrification
of rural areas in the U.S.
lias been announced.
As revealed by C. \V. Kell-
ogg, president of the Edison
Electric' Company, the ex-
tension of electrical service
will require many years to
develop ami will cost an
estimated *750,000,009.
Kellogg said that approxi-
mately a million rural famil-
ies will be affected—-600,000
of them on farms and 400,000
in rural non-farm homes.
Electric companies will
spend $290,000)000 to build
the required lines, he said,
while the new customers are
expected to spend $500 each
for wiring and other initial
equipment.
Qapaht&i
WHAT IS YOUR FAVOR-
ITE TYPE OF DANCE
MUSIC?
“Waltz music is definitely
my favorite
type, of dance
music,” says
Sgt. Walter R.
Siwicki from
Rochester, N.
Y. “While I
have no fav-
orite band,” lie adds,. “I pre-
fer to listen to a name band
play the “Blue Danube.” A
fruit farm manager in civil-
ian days, Siwicki is now
with Hq. IBC.
An RAF man, LAC J.
Molls express-
remind me oi 'mMXMmm
the sofl| winds ||||||
and sunshine
of my home in North Dev-
on.” Before entering the ser-
vice, Rolls was a grocer at
Lynmouth, North Devon.
Sgt. Raymond F. Van Valk-
enburg from
Black \ River,
N.Y., says that
he definitely
prefers swing
and blues
music. “Woo-
dy Hermann
and his band are my favorit-
es —and especially when
they swing out on ‘Wood-
chopper’s Ball! They really
send me with their lie])
brand of jive, yeah man!”
says Van Valkenburg.
“I’ll take waltz music any
old day. of the
week for rest-
ing and sack
time,” says
Pfc. Walter
Baker Durant.
From i Wey-
mouth, Mass.,
Durant wishes that Wayne
King were , back on the air
with his program of waltz-
es. “Usually, though, the
music sounds the same no
matter who plays it,” "Walt,
says.
Mass. Considers Bill To
Tax Those Who Imbibe
In Boston, a bill-has been
introduced in the State Leg-
islature which would dem-
and an annual license fee of
two dollars to be paid by “li-
quor drinkers.” Money coll-
ected would be used to off-
set the' $79,-009,-009 a year
which chronic alcoholics
cost the Stale.
German Soil Will Hold
No Soldier Dead Oi U.S.
No American soldiers are
being buried in German
soil, an AP report stated
recently. To keep U.S. troops
from being, interred in en-
emy ground, the dead are
being brought:hack 40 to .50
miles from German battle-
fields to a cemetery in Belg-
ium. Lying in the green.roll-
ing bills some six miles from
Aachen, its raws of, crosses-
mark many American graves.
Navy Reveals Use Of Five
Carrier-Type Aircraft
Five different types of
planes are now being used
on U.S. carriers, the Navy
lias just revealed.
The first-line carrier plan-
es- npw include three light-
ers — the Corsair, the Hell-
cat and the Wildcat; one
dive-bomber, the Helldiver;
and one torpedo bomber.
or less publicity conscious,
we leaped at the chance.
A lot of important people
live down this way, and
things happen to us too.
Furthermore, this gives us
an opportunity to deny sev-
eral vicious rumors which
some “city dwellers” seem to
be circulating, it is certain-
ly not true that we are just
digging ourselves out from
under the last snow and
that for two weeks nobody
went to Reykjavik except on
the back of an Icelandic
pony.
The bulldozer did knock
down a few telephone poles,
but we should.like it defini-
tely understood that we nev-
er had to communicate from
one camp to another by me-
ans of smoke signals. The
report that Mr. O’Toole, our
assistant, field director, was
lost for three days with a
birthday cake which he was
attempting to deliver is
grossly exaggerated.
Next week is Easter, with
open season for bunnies. On
Friday comes the Easter
dance.
From week to week we
intend to ramble along, mak-
ing brief comments on pe-
ople and- events. Our first
column is mainly to introd-
uce our sector and Club 23
to the public.
Anyone who wants to ex-
' plain our faults and humble
us completely can do so
simply by remarking that,
this obviously is written
from “a feminine point of
view”!
GI PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Second time winner of our “GI Photo Contest” is Pfc. Don Gurney of Camp
Olympia. The above picture shows a rural scene near Thingveliir. To each week’s
winner go a cartoon of cigarettes and an 8 by 10 enlargement.