The White Falcon - 24.12.1971, Blaðsíða 9

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CALLER: A call was received from Lt. E. W. Huber over the week-
end of Dec. 11-12. Lt. Huber challenged the process used by the Com-
mander's Action Line to promulgate C. A. L. action. Paraphrased, Lt.
Huber suggested that C. A. L. print all calls in the White Falcon and
adhere to Z-Gram 60, which estab- --------------------------------
lished the Action Line Program, . , .
, , question and answer in the White
more closely. ^ „ ,
. C.A.L.: In regard to the Falcon' The Falc°n 6 n”
process used and the handling of deavors to publish a variety of
each individual's Action Line well-balanced, informative ques-
_ _ , tions and answers. Regardless of
call, Lt. Huber was given a per- , _
, , _ ,, , . ; . whether the question, recommenda-
sonal reply from the Action Line
Officer. For the benefit of all, tlon or complaint is printed,
the history of the C.A.L. is out- each Actlon Llne caller 13 9lven
lined below. a Personal reply and notified of
_ ’ , , _ . . _ • the action taken concerning his
The Commander's Action Line , „. . , 3
„ or her call. Since the estab-
was started at the NATO Base as ...
■j .. T__ . . . . _ . lishment of the Action Line
an idea of the IDF Assistant Pub- , ,
. . „,, . c- . here, the response has been over-
lie Affairs Officer. The first ... ...
.. - . , whelming. Although Action Lines
incoming call was received and , , , , ,
- . , . , . . throughout the world are run a
answered two weeks prior to t h e , . _3 ,
c n r. rrs m. little differently, the Keflavik
receipt of Z-Gram 60. When Z- , 1 „
_ NATO Base can boast one of the
Gram 60 was issued on Nov. 18,
. . . . , .. finest. In questions ranging
1970 it stated the purpose was , ^ .
"to encourage a free exchange of from the l°ng-needed repair of a
-ideas and recommendations between household fixture, to the verifi-
personnel and command on ways catlon of. an ,exlstln9 instruc-
^■improve a 1 1 aspects of Navy tlon' Actlon Llne has always an~
Wfe." Further, it stated that s^red every question promtly and
all comments and recommendations efficiently.
should be treated as if they had CALLER: Where do we report
been submitted on paper. C.A.L. erroneous entries appearing in
of course, expanded the mission, the telephone directory?
to include all services at the •C.A.L.: According to the
NATO Base. All calls concerning Telephone Officer, CEC Ralph
recommendations for improving the Wrl5ht, all corrections should be
various aspects of service life sent via memorandum form to the
were logged and then forwarded to Telephone Office in Bldg. 166.
the Commander, Iceland Defense The Party sporting the correc-
Force or the cognizant official. tlons should state the listing as
A recording device was ordered to ifc incorrectly appears and the
handle the 50 to 60 calls re- wa* lfc would aPPear it it were
ceived each day. Upon receipt of correct. The Telephone Office
the answer or approval or disap- also notes that shortly after the
proval of the recommendation, the holidays, a new personnel section
caller w a s promptly advised of for the ^rectory will be pub-
., . . lished.
the results.
As of Nov. 18, 1971, C. A. L. _____
has been fortunate to have the
automatic answering device i n
service. Although Z-Gram 60 does
not specify public printing of
calls and comments, C. A. L. has
attempted to publish those calls
of general interest, space per-
mitting. Because many questions
are of a recurring nature or are
limited interest to wide num-
^^Bs of personnel, (ie; "What
do I use to take skis or
^Tiomemade cookies off base?") it
i s impossible t o print every
WHITE FALCON
Bishop Ahern
completed visit
here Sunday
Bishop Patrick Ahern of New
York completed a successful 2-day
visit to the NATO Base Sunday.
Bishop Ahern arrived here Sat-
urday as a spe-
cial emissary of
his Eminence,
Terence Cardinal
Cooke, Vicar Gen-
eral of the Armed
Forces.
The Bishop was
accompanied o n
the v i s i t by
Brigadier General
John Albert, Deputy Chief of
Chaplains, USAF; Captain James
Killeen, CHC, USN, Director,
Chaplains Division BUPERS; Colo-
nel Robert Overman, Personnel Ac-
tions, Chief of Chaplains Office,
USAF; and Colonel Norman Metsy,
USAF, Assistant Command Chaplain
of Ent AFB, Colorado.
On arrival from Greenland,
Bishop Ahern attended a dinner in
his honor at the 56 Club. Spe-
cial dinner guests included the
American Ambassador to Iceland
and Mrs. Luther I. Replogle; Rear
Admiral and Mrs. John K. Beling,
Commander Iceland Defense Force;
and the Catholic Bishop of Ice-
land, Henrick Frehen of Reykja-
vik. Also attending the dinner
were Commander Air Forces Ice-
land, Colonel and Mrs. Budd
Butcher; Captain and Mrs. Jack H.
McDonald, Commander Naval Forces
Iceland, and various members of
the local military and religious
community.
Sunday morning. Bishop Ahern
participated in a 7 a.m. con-
celebrated mass at the NATO Base
Main Chapel before departing for
Copenhagen at 9 a.m.
Pre-schoolers gather a-
round Kris Kringle dur-
ing their Christmas
Party. The party was
held at the Youth Cen-
ter Dec. 17, giving the
'Grand Ole Fella' a
chance to relax with
the youngsters before
his big rush.