The White Falcon - 21.01.1977, Síða 1

( White FalcoiT)
Volume XXXIII Number 3
Keflavik. Iceland
January 21, 1977
Youth Center opens
its door to 150 visitors
SNOOPY PROVIDES ADDED ENTERTAINMENT by welcoming Youth Center open house
visitors (top photo), while young ballerinas (bottom photo) perform basic
ballet routines.
Story and photos by
The Youth Center held an open
house Sunday. The bill of fare in-
cluded various demonstrations, fea-
turing classes which the center of-
fers to the Naval Station’s youth
community.
The presentations included person-
al development, baton twirling, yoga,
ballet, tap dancing, tumbling and
judo, topped with some refreshments
after the demonstrations.
Starting with a mini-fashion show,
Mrs. Betty Christ's personal develop-
ment classes showed how young ladies
can bring out the best in charm,
poise, character and self-satisfac-
tion. The principle of the class is
based on bringing out the "inner
you."
Miss Karen Belin instructed her
students in baton twirling to show
various attributes of the art. The
baton forms included attention, march
JOSN Bob Herskovitz
and parade rest.
Mrs. Eileen Andrieu displayed the
mystic Asian art of yoga, with posi-
tions like the "lotus."
From out of the Zigfield Follies
came a chorus line from Mrs. Stella
Autrey's dance class, shuffling, tap-
ping and generally capturing the eye.
Beginning with a simple ballet
movement, the troupe showed a few
steps in tap dancing as well as som-
ersaults, cartwheels and round offs,
included in the class repertoire.
Judo instructor Ron Hartman led
judo students in a demonstration of
forward and side falls. After a
brief showing of simple flips, the
group displayed basic holds and
chokes.
Refreshments were then served,
highlighted by a cake depicting Youth
Center activities.
Undesirable Discharge Certificate abolished
The Secretary of Defense has an-
nounced that the military services no
longer issued the "Undesirable Discharge
Certificate" (DD Form 258) to individ-
uals being separated from the Armed
Forces.
Beginning Jan. 1, 1977, members of
the military services administratively
separated for misconduct or security
reasons (or who resign or request dis-
charge for the good of the service when
their conduct have made them subject to
trial by court-martial) will be issued a
"Discharge Under Other Than Honorable
Conditions" certificate. This certifi-
cate (DD Form 794) has been used in the
cases of officers since October 1954.
The change was recommended in con-
junction with the Department of De-
fense's continuing review of its admin-
istrative separation systems.
No change is being made in issuing
"Honorable" or "General" discharge cer-
tificates to those who perform success-
fully in the service of their country.
Also, no change is being made to "Dis-
honorable" and "Bad Conduct" discharge
certificates, which may be issued as a
result of court-martial proceedings.
Beginning in June 1977, former mili-
tary personnel with Undesirable Dis-
charge Certificates (DD Form 258) will
be issued DD Form 794, upon application
to their former service, in a manner to
be announced at a later date.
National Prayer Breakfast set
In conjunction with the National
Prayer Breakfast, the Iceland Defense
Force will sponsor a Prayer Breakfast
for military and civilian personnel
Thursday at 8 a.m. at the Top of the
Rock Club. U.S. Ambassador to Iceland
James J. Blake will be the guest speak-
er.
Each NATO command has an appointed or
a designated "key man" from whom an in-
dividual can purchase a ticket for the
Prayer Breakfast. Tickets can also be
purchased at the base Chapel. Cost is
$1.
Each year since 1953 a National Pray-
er Breakfast has been sponsored by the
U.S. Senate and the House Prayer Groups.
This year's breakfast is scheduled for
Thursday and is usually attended by the
President and other high ranking govern-
ment officials.
The Prayer Breakfast occasion is
founded on the idea that persons in po-
sitions of responsibility can meet to-
gether in prayer to rededicate them-
selves to the moral and spiritual values
on which the United States is founded.
It is desirable to focus attention on
this event so that military and civil
service personnel can join the Command-
er-in-Chief for a mutual expression of
faith.
IRS once demanded ‘cheerful’
returns from American taxpayers
Federal income taxes-due on April 15-
have been paid by Americans since Mar.
1, 1914.
Long ago they took over from protec-
tive tariffs as the number-one money
maker to keep the government going.
They are what Supreme Court Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes once called "The
price we pay for civilization." While
taxpayers may wonder whether they are
getting their money's worth, economists
say taxes are very likely here to stay.
It wasn't always that way. In the
early years the Nation got along without
any income tax. There was serious
thought about one to finance the War of
1812, but peace came first. The idea
finally took hold with the Civil War.
The Confederates never took in very
much with their income tax. But
Northerners soon found themselves paying
for most of the fighting, at the rate of
three per cent on all incomes above $600
and five per cent on those above
$10,000. The rates gradually dropped
and the law expired in 1871.
In 1894, the income tax was back in
the books. Newspapers gave the story
only an inch or two. Others had more
to say.
Sweet laughter
To critics, the income tax was so-
cialism incarnate, penalizing thrift,
encouraging dishonesty and perjury,
bringing on spies and informers and set-
ting class against class.
To one Congressional supporter, "The
passage of this bill will make the dawn
of a brighter day, with more sunshine,
more of the songs of birds, more of that
sweetest music, the laughter of child-
ren well fed, well clothed, well
housed."
But, almost before a bird could
tweet, the Supreme Court threw out the
income tax because it was a direct tax,
outlawed by the Constitution.
In 1913, the 16th Amendment of the
Constitution overcame this difficulty,
and from then on the yearly deadline for
income tax payments has been as certain
—if different in spirit—as Christmas.
The first Form 1040 appeared with
that 1914 income tax, the now-famous
number which was merely the bureaucratic
choice of the new Internal Revenue Bu-
reau, now Internal Revenue Service.
On filling out the form, one official
view loftily proclaimed that "those
citizens required to do so can well af-
ford to devote a brief time during some
one day in each year to making out their
returns...willingly and cheerfully."
Cheerful or not, it's time to be
working on those forms. April 15 will
be here sooner than you think.
Toastmistress International
vice-president visits NATO Base
Toastmistress International Division
Five vice-president, Ms. Eva M. Dun of
Helensburgh, Scotland, visited the Puf-
fin Toastmistress Club and other area
clubs this week.
Enroute to an international board
meeting in Norfolk, VA, Ms. Dun stopped
at Keflavik to address the Keflavik or-
ganization Tuesday evening.
The board, composed of 12 officers
and one parlimentarian, meets three
times annually.
This board, which governs the six
Toastmistress International divisions,
centralizes club administration, member-
ship and problems within the organiza-
tion.
A 14-year member of the Toastmis-
tress Club, Ms. Dun states that the club
was founded in the United States in
1937.
The club, a Toastmaster counterpart,
was begun by a Toastmaster's wife.
To encourage public speaking, the
club was formed to provide training in
all types of speaking situations.
During a typical Toastmistress Club
meeting, a business session will be held
after which impromptu speeches are ren-
dered, followed by assigned speeches.
By a member's speech-making experi-
ence, Ms. Dun explains, self-confidence
and poise will be gained, enabling the
speaker to inform, entertain or con-
vince an audience.
On several occasions, an individual
Toastmistress will deliver speeches on a
variety of subjects at the request of
groups.
The Puffin Toastmistress Club was es-
tablished at Keflavik about four years
ago.
Since the founding of Toastmistress
International, Great Britain was the
first country besides the United States
to start a club in 1948.
Canada also began its Toastmistress
organization about that time.
Thirty clubs are located in the South
African Region, one in Iran, one in
Greece and two in Spain.
A club will start eventually in India
while two clubs, one of which already
exists, are proposed at military bases
in Germany.
Another international club is based
at Rotterdam, Holland.
Thirty members are usually required
to found a local club.
The Toastmistress International will
host a convention in Washington, D. C.
in July.
The Puffin Toastmistress Club will
meet Feb. 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Admin
Conference Room.