The White Falcon - 05.03.1976, Blaðsíða 3

March 5. 1976
CM3 LONNIE MAUCK rewires a dash board on a base bus. Electrical work is only one
of many skills required of construction mechanics. *
CEC & Sea Bees
celebrate anniversary
CM2 Mu W. Isaacson
named SeaBee of the Year
Thirty-four years ago, Mar. 3, 1942,
the Navy officially organized detach-
ments of Construction Battalions, Sea-
Bees, to undertake essential military
construction. Today is the 109th an-
niversary of the Civil Engineers Corps.
Both birthdays were celebrated at the
Top of the Rock last night with the an-
nual SeaBee Ball.
The celebration included a buffet
supper and dancing, the crowning of Mrs.
Mary Gehrke as SeaBee Queen and the
naming of CM2 Max W. Isaacson as SeaBee
of the Year.
The SeaBees began working in Iceland
soon after their formation and a quick
look around will show they, are still on
the job. Most of the SeaBees here are
members of the Naval Station Public
Works Department, headed by Commander
J. Monarch, Jr., (CEC), USN.
■ The SeaBees work along with Icelandic
^nd U.S. civilian employees who make up
the Public Works Department. Public
Works is responsible for a variety of
tasks:
The Transportation Division handles
care and maintenance of all military
vehicles, including base busses.
Utilities provides emergency repair
for heating, water, electricity, tele-
phones and appliance repair. It also
handles all maintenance in the family
quarters and barracks.
The Engineering Branch is in charge
of planning, estimating and design, and
Maintenance Control is the record keep-
ing function for maintenance work on the
entire base.
HT3 JEFFREY AUSTIN repairs a door track-
one of the many jobs performed in the
steel shop.
PHOEBEE
THE PHOEBEE is the symbol for all wives
and girlfriends of SeaBees.
CECN WILLIAM RIDZON makes repairs on a
cooking grill.
The United States was invited to Ice-
land to take over bases established by
Great Britain in 1940. In July, 1941,
the Navy sent personnel to Iceland and
hired civilian workmen to build facili-
ties for aircraft and anti-submarine
forces.
Following the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor, Iceland was one of the
first bases to receive detachments of
SeaBees. Civilian workmen, American and
Icelanders, built the first installation
in Iceland. The SeaBees arrived in late
1942 and helped to expand the construct-
ion of the convoy protection bases, and
Naval facilities began to grow at un-
precedented proportions.
Following the advanced SeaBee party,
the Ninth Construction Battalion arrived
to complete work on Camp Knox and the
airstrips add tank farms of Meeks Field
here.
By October, 1942, the SeaBees had
built a Naval ammunition dump and were
paving Patterson Airfield for the Army,
Meeks Field, Keflavik, was the largest
airport in the world when it was comple-
ted May 21, 1943. Later, Camp Maple
Leaf in Reykjavik was built by the Sea-
Bees and turned over to the Canadians.
CE2 DONALD RINDFUSS AND CECN RICKY
Keuhl perform maintenance on the base
lighting system.
Paae 3
SEABEE
The SeaBee symbol, the fixing, fight-
ing, building "bee" was originated at
the Naval Air Station at Quonset Point.
R.I. in 1942.
Ensign R. D. Woodward, a supply corps
officer, originated the word SeaBee and
Frank J. Iafrate, a civilian clerk, who
later served as a SeaBee, created the
cartoon symbol.
He drew a fighting bee—fighting mad-
with a sailor hat on his head, a spit-
ting tommy-gun in his forehand,-a wrench
in his middle hand and a carpenter's
hammer in his third hand.
The Bureau of Yards and Docks added
a Civil Engineer Corps insignia on the
bottom of each sleeve.
CE2 THEODORE ROGERS checks reported telephone trouble on the central office test
desk.
Schools celebrate
Mardi Gras
Members of the seventh grade class
celebrated "Mardi Gras" Tuesday with
a costume parade.
A.T. Mahan also commemorated Mardi
Gras with a costume ball that afternoon
in the school cafeteria.
According to Ms. Elizabeth Nixon, the
Bicentennial Coordinator, each grade re-
enacts historical events at both schools
each month.
Mardi Gras festivities, which are es-
pecially known in New Orleans, are also
celebrated in Memphis, Galveston, Texas,
Pensacola, Fla., and Mobile, Ala.
The commemoration stems from 1832
when Shrove Tuesday was set aside as the
day before Ash Wednesday, the beginning
of the Lenten season.
The Grand Duke Alexis of Russia went
to New Orleans in 1882. To welcome the
duke to their city, the citizens of New
Orleans hosted a ball in his honor.
In this respect today a "King of the
Mardi Gras" is still revered. He is
also known as the "Sovereign Lord of
Mis-Rule."
Auditions tomorrow
Auditions for the A. T. Mahan Variety
Show will be held tomorrow from 9 a.m.
to 1 p.m. at Andrews Theater.
Scheduled for the first week in
April, the show wants general interest
acts, three to eight minutes in length.
Contact Miss Barbara Brown at 4481 or
4150, or call Joe Derrick at 7008/5264
for further details.
Whenever possible, buy products
made of recycled materials or those
which offer opportunities for recycling
such as steel, aluminum, paper and
glass. More energy is used in produc-
tion of products from virgin materials
than from recycled or reclaimed materi-
als.
For example, producing steel from
scrap requires one-fourth less energy
than using virgin ones.
To make a product from recycled
aluminum requires about one-twentieth of
the energy needed for the same product
made from the basic ore.
When a consumer buys fabrics or gar-
ments, he should choose those that re-
quire little or no ironing.
Try to purchase products that will
last. More durable products save energy
that would be required for their re-
placement .
Acquire equipment such as automobiles
and appliances, pumps and fans, compres-
sors and boilers—all on the basis of
initial cost and operating costs rather
than on the basis of purchase price
alone.
Often products that are more expen-
sive initially, but are energy-effi-
cient, will cost less over a period of
years than lower-priced products that
consume more energy.
Ask for information about the energy
efficiency of the products you buy.
Under a voluntary labeling program, some
motor vehicles and appliances bear
labels, developed by the federal govern-
ment, showing their energy consumption.
Ask for comparative information if a
label does not appear on the product you
want to buy.