The White Falcon - 09.09.1977, Page 1
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EML undergoes review
Recently reviewed, the current En-
vironmental and Morale Leave Program
cash reimbursable authorization por-
tion is now up for further reviews at
the Joint Chiefs of Staff and secretar-
ial level.
Headquarters U. S. Air Force/Logis-
tics Transportation has advised that
effective Nov. 1, 1977, all EML travel
will revert to a space-available basis.
Personnel who hold reservations or
obtain reservations before Nov. 1
should note that all reimbursable tra-
vel must be completed by Nov. 1.
Travelers who have inadvertently
been permitted to purchase a Military
Airlift Command travel authorization
for travel after Nov. 1 will be
denied space-required travel. How-
ever, they may request a refund from
Jleadquarters Military Airlift Command/
Airlift Service Industrial Accounting.
For more information on space
available MAC travel, call ABH3
Robert Benjamin at 7725.
P.O. sets new hours
Effective yesterday, the base post
office hours of operation are ar
follows:
Monday—Wednesday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Thursday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Friday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Saturday, Sunday and holidays—closed.
Note: The registered mail section
hours are 9 to 11 a.m. and noon to 3
p.m. Monday to Friday.
If payday falls on Thursday, office
will be open 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The side entrance to the post office
is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday
through Friday for pickup of insured
packages, checking in and out and mail
orderly information.
Monday slated for base housing
fire hazard inspection and drill
Fire hazard inspections will begin
Monday in base housing units, according
to the Naval Station Fire Department.
These inspections, which are geared
mainly to seek out and prevent fire
hazards, will also include the Exit
Drill in the Home Program (Operation
"EDITH").
This inspection series, which will
kick off the Fire Department’s annual
fire prevention emphasis and end with
Fire Prevention Week Oct. 9-15, will
be publicized daily on AFRS 1484 and
AFTV Channel 4 to remind occupants of
the inspections the next day.
The White Falcon will also publish
the inspection schedule on a weekly
basis.
Fire Department inspectors will
call each household between 5 and 7
p.m. the night preceding the scheduled
visit, in case the occupants might re-
quire adjusting their routine.
In addition, an introduction to the
program will be made on Channel 4, and
fire prevention films will be shown.
Fire and life safety hazards will be
reported to the occupants by letter from
the fire chief.
Visiting fire inspectors will deliver
home fire escape planning material to
residents, and they will explain the
contents to each family to establish
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a fire escape plan for use during Opera-
tion "EDITH."
Operation "EDITH" is planned to take
place Oct. 14 at 5:30 p.m.
During the inspections, fire depart-
ment personnel will test and replace
batteries in the automatic smoke de-
tectors which were installed in "pre-
fab" buildings and semipermanent
housing last fall provided that bat-
teries are available.
These smoke detectors should be in-
spected and tested on a weekly basis by
housing occupants. In particular, a
clicking will start when the batteries
begin to fail.
Installation of safety covers over
the push-button control panel on kitchen
stoves is also planned for those stoves
which were missed last year.
According to Chief of Fire Preven-
tion Astvaldur Eiriksson, "The United
States holds, by far, the world record
of fire deaths. There are 57.1 persons
per million of population in the United
States who die from fire each year."
"The second on the list is Canada
with 29.2 per million population. The
United States beats them by twice that."
"Australia has 14.8, four times less
4.85 people out of every one million in
France who die from fire annually, but
the United States beats them hy 12 times
that."
"But we at the Naval Station Keflavik
are not about to take part in this com-
petition."
"Almost half of these fire deaths in
the United States are among the one-fifth
of Americans under five and above 65
years of age—a tragic sacrifice of those
least able to care for themselves."
"This is a very serious situation:
the United States has a long way to go
in this respect. With 87 per cent of all
building fire deaths occurring in dwel-
lings, it is reasonable to conclude that
a good place to start reducing the number
of lives lost by fire is in the
dwellings."
"Therefore, Navy regulations require
that family quarters be subjected to
fire hazard inspection on a annual
basis."
"We have been doing this at Naval
Station for more than 15 years, and we
do thank God and the good reception
and cooperation on the part of resi-
dential public in this area, that
during this period there has not been
one fire death nor an injury."
The fire hazard inspection schedule
for Monday through Sept. 16 is as fol-
lows: Monday—9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Bldg
602; 1 to 3 p.m. Bldg. 603 and 3 to 5
p.m. Bldg. 604.
Tuesday—9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Bldg.
605; 1 to 3 p.m. Bldg. 606 and 3 to 5
p.m. Bldg. 607.
Wednesday—9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Bldg.
614; 1 to 3 p.m. Bldg. 615 and 3 to 5
p.m. Bldg. 616.
Thursday—9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Bldg.
617 and 627; 1 to 3 p.m. Bldg. 618 and
628 and 3 to 6 p.m. Bldg. 629, 630,
646 and 647.
Sept. 16—9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Bldg.
669; 1 to 3 p.m. Bldg. 671 and 3 to 5
p.m. Bldg. 670.
Radio station holds base-wide survey
K iwanis issues awards
r,ast weetc Perry Patterson, Kiwanis
Bru vice-president, announced two $500
scholarship awards during its weekly
business meeting held at the Officers'
Club.
Recipients of the awards are Sonja
Hocketstaller and Kathy Spaulding, both
of whom will attend the University of
Maryland at Munich, Germany.
Competition for the scholarship was
open to children of aeceased/active Bru
members and children of any member of
the Keflavik Airport community.
Criteria for selection was overall
performance, career plans and financial
need.
Examinations slated
All personnel participating in the
advancement examinations listed below
are to report to the A.T. Mahan High
School All Purpose Room not later than
7:30 a.m. on the date of the examination
in which they are participating. Per-
sonnel must have ID cards and be in a
military uniform. No parking in the
school parking lot, park automobiles in
the gym or theater parking lots. The
dates of the exams are: petty officer
second class Tuesday and petty officer
first class Thursday.
Buses enforce new rule
Base bus drivers are now authorized
to remove passengers who violate lan-
guage, trash or food policy at
the Security Department.
The Security Department will then
contact parents of youthful offenders.
Parents are strongly advised to con-
trol their children's behavior when rid-
ing base buses.
Navy Broadcasting Service Detachment
Eight (AFRTS) has distributed a radio
station survey throughout the NATO Base
community. Survey forms were sent to
all Naval Station departments and to all
tenant commands. Forms were also handed
out at the Navy Exchange and the Com-
missary Store.
Although the radio survey fulfills an
annual Department of Defense require-
ment, it also gives the listening
audience an opportunity to formally ex-
press their views about services pro-
vided by the radio station.
The survey consists of 14 questions
and tries to determine who the audience
is, what type of music is preferred and
what shows are the most popular by a
cross-sampling. The survey also asks
listeners to rate coverage of stateside
and world news and sports.
This station receives more than 86
hours of programs each week from AFRTS
Los Angeles. This material includes
shows done by such personalities as:
Winter is coming to the base soon and
if your coats haven't been sewn with re-
flective tape, now is the time.
AIMD will be doing this job Monday
through Friday from 8 to 5 p.m. for de-
partments only by appointments, PRC
Roger L. McGinnis, aircrew survival
equipment snop chief, said.
Charlie Tuna, Roger Carroll, Wolfman
Jack, Gene Price and a most popular
show "American Top 40" done by Casey
Casum.
When preparing the survey, detach-
ment personnel realized that some of
the listening audience might not be
able to identify these shows listed
within the survey. Rather, it was
understood that when persons indi-
cated the times they most lirtened to
the radio, this data would assist
with the determination of what shows
were the most popular.
NATO Base personnel were asked to
participate in the survey and then
return it as soon as possible to
AFRTS, building T-44.
Television survey
The broadcasting detachment has
also planned a television survey that
will be distributed sometime this
month. There is no requirement for a
TV survey and this will probably be
For those individuals who are not
part of a department, meaning dependents
and non-school-age dependents, the Rec-
reation Department will handle your
coats from Monday through Friday from
9 to 4:30 p.m. without appointments,
Chief Floyd C. Fesler, Recreation
Department chief, said.
the first ever done at Keflavik. As
with the radio survey, the intent of
the TV survey is to find out what the
viewing audience likes most.
The bulk of television programming
comes from Los Angeles and is circuited
throughout the world to all AFRTS sta-
tions. All programming is contracted
for by AFRTS Los Angeles from producers
who will allow their shows to be dis-
tributed to AFRTS stations.
The types of shows and the quality of
the programs is limited only by the
funds AFRTS can spend for shows
and by the number of producers who will
sell their shows.
Navy Broadcasting Service Detachment
Eight is responsible for scheduling all
these programs and is also responsible
for producing local news shows.
Radio/TV surveys
Once all the surveys have been re-
turned to AFRTS, all the data will be
fed into the computer for compilation.
The results for both surveys will be
printed in the "White Falcon".
Happy birthday AF
The Air Force will celebrate its
30th birthday Sept. 17.
In honor of the occasion, Air
Forces Iceland personnel will offer
displays at Hangar 830 from 2 to 4
p.m. There will be a cake-cutting
ceremony at 3 p.m., and several kinds
of aircraft will be displayed, in-
cluding the F-4C, T-33, EC-121,
CH-130P and the HH-3E.
This event will be open to the
public.
Reflective tape available
on base Mon.-Fri.
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