The White Falcon - 30.04.1976, Blaðsíða 2

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Customer Inquiry
Holiday
The following Navy Exchange fac-
ilities will be closed tomorrow to
allow our employees to observe the
legal Icelandic holiday (Icelandic
Labor Day) :
Main Retail Store, Laundry, Driftwood
Cafeteria, Warehouse, Personalized
Services and the Service Station Bays
will be closed.
The Service Station gas pumps and
tire bays will be open.
All other Navy Exchange facilities
will operate on the regular schedule.
Bookshop news
A new service will be established
to assist in obtaining books desired,
but not carried in stock. The Navy
Exchange hopes this will satisfy
its customers.
An order book will be located at
the main store in the book shop. Fill
in the information contained in the
order book as it will be forwarded to
merchandise office weekly. The
exchange will record requests and
indicate in the last column the ac-
tion taken. Customers may check on
their order when visiting the book
shop again.
Taken into consideration are the
following factors: Many publishers
have a minimum order per title.
Others will not even consider ship-
ping just one book. If the exchange
obtains a reasonable discount, they
must have enough requests per title
for the minimum. They may lessen the
.problem by holding a customer's
order, if it is from one of the
publishers with whom they deal.
When ordering, if the information
is incomplete or not available local-
ly, the exchange may write for this
information, and delay a customer's
order.
All paperbacks are bought for
overseas exchanges through head-
quarters in Brooklyn. Titles are not
specified by the exchange, therefore,
all requests for paperbacks are ob-
tained through customer demand so a
regular order is possible for
Keflavik.
Patrons may use this order book
to request a magazine not presently
carried, however, minimums take
precedence, and enough demand must be
generated before inclusion to
exchange stock assortment.
Wreckreation
The health and welfare of every
individual assigned to the NATO Base
is dependent on the availability of
recreational facilities, equipment
and quality of leadership employed to
direct utilization of such assets.
Profit from Navy Exchange opera-
tions pay a major share of the
recreational program costs. Without
profits, cost cannot be met.
The Vending machines have, until
recently, been one of the biggest;
contributors to the recreation fund.
This is no longer true. Why? Delib-
erate abuse is replacing recreation
with wreckreation. In the last three
months the loss from machines being
broken into or vandalized is $200 in
merchandise and $300 in parts and
labor. A soda machine was almost
destroyed when it was ripped open.
A new soda machine today would be
very costly to replace. Loss to the
Recreation fund could approach $1450.
Wreckreation is costly! Once damaged,
some machines are never the same.
Most machines show wreckreation
scars, such as foot prints, hard
blows, broken knobs, etc.
There is a phone number on the
machine to call in case of malfunc-
tion. Please use this number. Help
prevent WRECKREATION!
Why doesn't the Exchange try to check
stock items and other fast moving items
that sell'. If Mildenhall can have a
great Exchange why can't we?
James E. Moore
Every effort is made to insure that
basic items will not run out. On occa-
sion certain basic items do run out tem-
porarily due to shipping delays, etc.
•Constant efforts are also made to im-
prove the merchandise selection over and
above basic necessities based on cus-
tomer suggestion slips.
Can you get Old Spice stick deodor-
ant?
P. Warwick, J. Warner, R. Warner
Old Spice will be ordered.
Please get BBs.
J. Kennedy
Only the Rod and Gun Club is auth-
orized to handle this item at this time.
Akfred Dunhill cigars, Monte Cruz.
W. Ford, K. Kristsansdottir, O.Zaklynski
Expensive brands with limited demand
cannot be stocked unless more customers
ask for them.
Unable to find bath towels, iron,
or photo album, the first two items are
essential to newly arrived personnel, I
don't see why you let stocks deplete.
An assortment of towels will be ar-
riving on a ship due to arrive tomorrow
and the irons should be in shortly.
Several types of photo albums are now
available.
Please consider opening the Exchange
for regular hours on Mondays as it would
help the people who come in from Rock-
ville and Grindavik.
In the past, the Exchange was opera-
ted on Mondays. This proved to be im-
practical due to local union regulations
and other factors. At present, we can-
not afford to extend working hours ex-
cept during the Christmas season.
More menthol cigarettes.
C. Nelson
Raleigh longs.
C. Quinn
If more demand is demonstrated for
these items they will be stocked. At
present, demand is extremely limited.
Can you order Sporting News or Base-
ball Digest?
M. MeAlpine
These publications were such poor
sellers in the past, it became necessary
to drop them.
Metal or wooden 3X5 file boxes.
These will be ordered.
My question is this, why is it that
when the Bosson's heads arrive it is not
announced over the radio or published
somewhere? Also, it is supposed to be
one per customer, but people are contin-
uously going through the line until they
are sold out. I have been here a year
and have yet to get my first one. If we
have to sign for the catalogs when they
first come out why can't the Bosson's
heads have the same policy.
We receive numerous inquiries on
Bosson's heads every week. Because they
are a handcrafted item and cannot be
mass produced, the supply is extremely
limited. Quantities are strictly ra-
tioned out among various stores around
the world including the Navy Exchange.
We do not advertise their availabili-
ty since the quantities we receive do
not last more than an hour or two. Moni-
toring the sales and keeping logs of
each sale is simply not 'practical. We
must rely on the Navy Exchange customers
to control line jumping as we rely on
you to help us control shoplifting.
The Navy Exchange Bulletin is compiled by exchange employees. The opinions
and comments expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the opinions and pol-
icies of the Department of Defense or the White Falcon Editorial Staff. Menr
tion of specific consumer products in this column is intended solely for the
benefit of authorized exchange patrons, and in no way implies Department of
Defense endorsement for those products. Correspondence or comments relating
to this column should be addressed to the Navy Exchange Officer.
ART TEACHER KATHY AUBURN prepares ex-
hibits for the Elementary School Art
Fair tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in
the Lower School Multi-Purpose Room.
The Art Fair will exhibit art projects
from the students in the elementary
grades.
TRAVEL
by Suzy Weissinger
The tour office has heard many ques-
tions concerning the Eurail Pass in re-
cent weeks. Basically you buy the pass
for two weeks to three months and it en-
titles you to first-class rail travel in
13 European countries. The first day
that you use the pass it is stamped with
the date and is then valid for the a-
mount of time that you have paid for.
You merely show your card when boarding
a train. You never have the trouble of
buying tickets.
The passes are available in the
United States only. The tour office has
application forms which you send to New
York with an international money order.
It is recommended that you allow at
least three weeks for your pass to be
mailed to you.
The Eurail Pass can save you quite a
bit of money if you plan to travel at
least two weeks and to visit several
countries. The cost for a 15-day pass
is $145. Children under 12 are half
price and under four are free.
The pass is not valid in the United
Kingdom and holders must have a pass-
port, Military I.D. card and leave pa-
pers are not acceptable when using the
Eurail pass. The pass is good in Aus-
tria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Hol-
land, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Portu-
gal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. It
is also good on some buses and on many
ferryboats and steamers such as those
that go up and down the Rhine.
Travel talk
A reminder to all the golfers: May
10 and May 19 are departure dates for
the eight - day golf trips to Scotland.
Prices include airfare from Keflavik,
hotel, two meals per day and transpor-
tation between courses.
If you plan to visit France, Belgium
or Switzerland this summer, come by the
tour office. New brochures on these
destinations have been received and will
really whet your appetite to visit these
beautiful countries.
The last concert of the season will
be held May 13 in Reykjavik. It will
feature selections by Beethoven and
Sibelius. Reservations must be made by
noon on Friday, May 7.
Loftleidir does not recognize mili-
tary discounts when you travel one way
from the states to Keflavik. Don't get
caught in this squeeze. For example, if
you get a hop on the rotator to the
states and cannot get a hop back and
wind up flying one-way commercial back
to Keflavik. Your price for that one-
way trip will cost more than round-trip
would have cost you.
NEWS
BRIEFS
Book «to
More than 500 books will be put on
sale next Tuesday and Wednesday in
the A. T. Mahan Elementary School
Library.
Students in grades four through
six will have the chance to buy books
during school Tuesday. Students in
Kindergarten through grade three can
make purchases on Wednesday.
Parents are invited to go to the
book fair between 3 and 5 p.m. on
Wednesday and help their children
make book selections.
The prices for the paperback books
range from 75c to $4.
The stork
Christopher Patrick Bartos was
born April 26 at 5:41 a.m. His mother
is Barbara Jane Bartos and his father
is AT2 Daniel Patrick Bartos. AT2
Bartos works for OMD Avionics.
Richard Leo Hoffmann was born
April 20 at 12:35 a.m. His mother is
Ann Marie Hoffmann and his father is
0T2 Richard Leo Hoffmann. 0T2
Hoffmann works at the Naval Facility.
Art
A painting exhibition will be held
in Keflavik tomorrow and Sunday at
No. 3 Tjarnargata, top floor (above
the bank).
It will be open from 4 to 10 p.m.
The exhibit will include paintings by
many of the best known Icelandic
artists. Admission is free.
Re-uper
MAC Carl A. Oglesby Jr. reenlisted
last Tuesday for six years. MAC
Oglesby works in the Security Office.
Money break
The commercial airlines have agre-
ed to extend the availability of dis-
counted military leave fares for an-
other year. The "Military Reserved"
fares permit personnel on leave to
buy reserved seat tickets on flights
within the Continental United States
at a 25 percent discount. The agree-
ment to extend the military rates was
worked out by the Military Traffic
Management Command and the commercial
airlines.
Academy women
Seven women have accepted offers
of appointment to the U.S. Naval
Academy class of 1980.
The seven are the first of 80 wo-
men who will be offered appointments
under the new law which authorized
the admission of women to the service
academies. The women will report to
Annapolis on Induction Day, July 6,
to begin plebe summer orientation
prior to the start of classes in Sep-
tember.
White
Falcon
COMMANDING OFFICER
Capt. John R. Farrell
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER
JOCS James A. Johnston
INFORMATION CHIEF
JOC Jerry L. Babb
EDITOR
J02 Glenna Houston
STAFF
J01 Jim Miller
J02 Jerry Foster
AN Bob Herskovitz
SA Barbara Schubert
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