The White Falcon - 01.08.1969, Qupperneq 6

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THE WHITE FALCON
Friday, August 1, 1969
What will your family doi
I DUNCAN, from page 3
cemetery plots for Greenville Me-
morial Gardens. But, unlikely as it
may seem, this particular job was
the road to his breakthrough into the
electronic news media. For when
WMUU refused to allow him to broad-
cast the 6 a.m. newscast, his employ-
er confronted the radio station with
a proposition: we’ll sponsor the
news if Tom reads the script. The
station conceded, and Tom was on
his way into a ten-year stretch of
newsmania — an addiction that few
news people seem to overcome.
After he was graduated from high
school, he began college studies at
Bob Jones University, but after a
year there, he became restless and
enlisted in the Navy on March 8,
1961. During his stay in Great Lakes,
he learned about the New Tribes
Mission a world-wide organization,
and visited their international head-
quarters in Woodworth, Wis.
From bootcamp, his career trail led
through two Fleet assignments to
Keflavik, to which he reported for a
one year tour in 1964-
After a two year tour at NAS Oceana,
Va. during which he met and married
the daughter of a New Tribes mis-
sionary, he returned to Keflavik in
November 1967.
He has become well known here for
his on-air and on-camera work in the
“7 O’clock News and World Report,”
on TV, the ‘‘Noon Report” on radio,
and “The Word in Music,” a Sunday
morning religious music program.
During his first tour in Iceland,
he had decided to become a mis-
sionary, and that decision will bear
fruit in just a few weeks when he
enters the New Tribes Institute,
Oviedo, Fla.
During the period August 6 through
August 23 1969, all private homes
on the Naval Station will be visited
by the fire prevention inspectors of
the Naval Station Fire Department.
Every family member contacted will
be briefed on fire prevention and the
importance of planning and rehearsing
an evacuation drill to insure prompt
and orderly evacuation in case of fire.
It is a fact that exit drills reduce
panic and that trained and informed
people have a better chance to survive
in the case of fire or other disasters.
Exit drills, planned and practiced, will
help develop immediate and orderly
evacuation. About 85% of home fire
deaths could have been avoided, if
orderly and organized evacuation pro-
cedures had been followed.
In planning fire evacuation, several
HOME FIRES
WHEN? WHERE?
SO...plan 2 ESCAPES
from each bedroom!
MAHAN SCHOOL REGISTRATION
SET FOR NEXT WEEK
points must be remembered.
For example, in many cases exiting
is delayed by persons searching for
pets or valuables, a search which can
result in a loss of life that could have
been saved had the person evacuated
immediately.
Also, in many cases persons re-enter
a burning building after they have got-
ten safely to the outside. This fool-
ishness has caused the loss of many
lives.
In a smoke-filled room, by staying
close to the floor, taking short breaths
and covering the face with a cloth,
preferably damp, a person can survivd^B
for a considerable lenght of time,
whereas a person not knowing how to
act in a smoke-filled room would be
overcome.
If there is a fire in a building it is
often necessary to find out if there is
a fire on the other side of a door. This
can be done safely by feeling the door
for heat, or looking for smoke seep-
age. As a last measure the door could
be opened slowly with the body braced
against it ready to close immediately.
In many instances when a person
wakes up smelling smoke, he or she
rushes to the door and opens it with-
out taking time to see if there are
fire and hot gases on the other side.
If there are, tearing the door open^
can lead to a tragedy.
It should be apparent that an escape
plan is necessary for every family.
“Operation EDITH” (Exit Drill In
The Home) is what you need. Per-
form an Operation “EDITH” with your
family. Today or as soon as possible,
gather your family and make a fire
evacuation plan and rehearse it. If
you need assistance call the Fire
Department phone 4217, or 4214 and
we will be glad to help.
Five points of importance:
There, he will undergo a year of
physical and academic training, be-
fore going on to jungle survival train-
ing in the Everglades.
The final phase of his training
will be at the New Tribes Language
and Linguistics school. He hopes
to be assigned to South America, when
his training is over about two and a
half years from now.
The A.T. Mahan School will be hold-
ing its student registration period for
the upcoming school year on August
6, 7 and 8, from 8 a.m. to noon, and
from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., at the school.
Parents must appear to register their
children. Birth certificates are nec-
essary for registering all children who
will enter kindergarten, and first grad-
ers who did not attend kindergarten.
1. Establish two alternate escape
routes for every family member.
2. Do not delay your exit nor calling
Fire Department phone 17. .
3. Close doors and windows behind \
you to retard spread of fire.
4. Select an assembly point outside
the house so that family members can
be accounted for.
5. Rehearse your evacuation plan.