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White Falcon
November 18
1977
Page 2
TOURS &
TRAVEL
By Nancy Walker
Excursions in Iceland
Two or three day tour packages to
Akureyri, Husavik and the Westmann Is-
lands are available through the Tour Of-
fice effective now through Dec. 12; Jan.
6 through March 20 and April 1 through
May 1.
Akureyri is the second largest town
in Iceland, located on the north coast
of the country. Although Akureyri is
located only 60 miles south of the
Arctic Circle, it is noted for its mild
weather and flourishing vegetation.
Husavik, located on Skjalfanda Bay,
is a fishing village. Husavik is a host
for many tourists interested in sight-
seeing in northern Iceland. Nearby
areas are Lake Myvatn, with its abundant
bird life, Dettifoss waterfall and the
lunar-like area where the American as-
tronauts trained.
The Westmann Islands was the sight
of one of the largest volcanic erup-
tions of this century. Because of
the eruption in 1973, more than half
of the island of Heimaey was covered
with volcanic lava.
Prices of packages to these areas
vary according to length of stay and
hotel choice. Roundtrip airfare, air-
port tax and overnight accommodations
are included in prices. For more in-
formation, contact the Tour Office at
4200.
Christmas excursion
Spend Christmas on one of the
beautiful Mediterranean islands. A
two week tour to Mallorca, Spain is
now available through the Tour Office.
The tour, scheduled to leave Dec. 18
and return Jan. 4, includes roundtrip
airfare, airport tax and overnight ac-
commodations in your choice of eight
hotels.
Package prices vary according to your
hotel choice.
If you are interested, contact the
Tour Office at 4200 as soon as possible.
London happenings
To answer the many inquiries that the
Tour Office has recently had regarding
current happenings in London, the fol-
lowing synopsis of activities is of-
fered :
Art exhibitions
The Queen's Pictures (Silver Jubilee
Exhibition)—The Queen's Gallery, Buck-
ingham Palace (until year's end);
Chinese Paintings of the Ch'ing Dynasty
(1644-1912)—British Museum, London
(until Jan. 15) and The War Pictures of
John Piper—Imperial War Museum, London
(until Jan. 31).
Christmas Print Fair—Victoria and
Albert Museum (until Dec. 21);Eighteenth
Century French Landscape Drawings and
Sketches—British Museum (until March
5) and DeKooning: Sculpture, litho-
graphs and paintings—Serpentine Gal-
lery (until Jan. 8).
Festivals
21st London Film Festival—National
Film Theater (until Dec. 1).
Dance and opera
The Royal Ballet (program includes
Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Volun-
taries, The Invitation, The Concert and
Les Noces)—Royal Opera House, Covent
Garden (throughout November); The Royal
Opera (program includes Salome and
Lohengrin)—Royal Opera House, Covent
Garden (throughout November) and English
National Opera (program includes
LaBoheme, Euryanthe, The Tales of
Hoffman, Madam Butterfly, II Trovatore
and the Magic Flute)—London Colisieum
(throughout November).
Displays
Horticultural Fruit and Flower Show—
Royal Horticultural Society Halls, West-
minster (Wednesday); Christmas—Design
Centre (until Nov. 26); Celebrations (a
series of craft exhibitions to celebrate
the Silver Jubilee)—Victoria and
Albert Museum (through December) and
Toys—Design Centre (until Jan. 7).
Post Office sets mailing dates
Have gifts there before Xmas
According to the NATO base Post Of-
fice, the following Christmas mailing
periods will help to ensure delivery to
the addressee before Christmas Day:
Class of mail Mailing period*
SAM Oct. 15-Nov. 25
PAL Oct. 30-Nov. 30
Priority parcels (air Nov. 30-Dec. 13
mail)
First class (letters, Oct. 20-Nov. 25
cards, recordings) *no later than
From Dec. 1 to Dec. 26, bulk mailing
of pamphlets, books, forms and other
printed matter will be withheld from the
mails, wherever possible. This matter
seriously interferes with expeditious
handling of holiday mails, the Post Of-
fice states.
To ensure that letters and cards ar-
rive home for Christmas and to help
lower the workload on clerks, the Post
Office has the following suggestions:
1. Separate all of your cards and
letters according to size.
2. Check to see that all envelopes
are facing the same direction with the
address side up.
3. Group letters and cards by
cities and states. If there are more
than five letters or cards for the same
city or state, take a piece of paper
and write the city or state on it, at-
taching it to the front of the group.
Then tie or place a rubber band around
each group separately.
4. If there is not enough mail to
make separate city or state ties, mark
on the paper "mixed".
5. If your letters and cards are
going locally, put them in numerical
sequence by box numbers and mark "local"
on the paper and secure them with a
rubber band. There is a box located in
the Post Office lobby just for local
mail.
If you follow these suggestions, you
may spend a few minutes of your time,
but it would take the Post Office a few
hours to do the same thing.
Be sure to use your full and correct
return address on all mail, including
Zip Code. If you have any questions on
your address, contact the Post Office.
All mail posted at the Post Office
must have United States postage stamps
on it or it will be returned to the
sender.
For further information, contact
the Post Office postal clerks by calling
7981 or 2203.
Wives’ Club h
to that gift gi
By Marty Gaines
Your Christmas shopping is almost
complete except for your mother-in-law,
who is always hard to buy for. Or your
grandmother, who doesn't 8° out much any
more. Or how about your nephew or niece
away at school for the first time?
You've been to the exchange several
times but just can't find anything suit-
able.
Don't give up yet, the NATO base
Wives' Clubs annual Christmas Bazaar may
provide the answer to all your problems.
The event, sponsored jointly by the
Ladies' Auxiliary of the Fleet Reserve
Association, the Officers' Wives Club,
the Non-commissioned Officers' Wives
Club and the Windbreaker Wives Club,
will feature a vast array of homemade
gifts and decorations for the tree and
house. It will be held from noon to 4
p.m. tomorrow in the upper school multi-
purpose room.
Hot dogs, baked goodies sodas, coffee
and popcorn will be available for the
hungry shopper, and for the kiddies, the
A. T. Mahan senior class will be '
presenting a magic show. Drawing for
the four door prizes will be held at 3
p.m.
Navy Exchange news
Thrifty shoppers look for the items
under the "red price tags." You will
find top quality money-saving bargains—
look before your buy. The Navy Exchange
is always trying to pass on savings to
you, the customer.
Estee' Lauder
Estee' Lauder Beauty Representative
Sue Dehne is now demonstrating skin care
at the Beauty Shop by appointment only
Wednesday afternoons noon to 4 p.m.
Stop by Estee' Lauder counter at the
Navy Exchange Retail store or call 2141
and make an appointment for your skin's
sake. w
An added note about the beauty re-
presentatives is that they do not
handle cash at the store. These women,
Sue Dehne and Carolyn Lewis, represent
their respective companies and are not
hired by the exchange.
So don't get upset when they can
not handle your purchases...just be pa-
tient and let one of the regular sales
clerks/cashiers finalize your purchase.
They will get to you just a fast as they
can.
Personalized Services gift wrapping
Effective immediately, Personalized
Services is offering gift wrapping for
your convenience. Bring your packages
to the Personalized Services Center in
Bldg. T-19.
Wrapping will be done between 3 and
5 p.m. daily and 3 to 7 p.m. on late
shopping nights. You can either wait
for a gift to be wrapped or you can
drop off your package and pick it up
later.
Prices will range from 75 cents to
$3 per package which includes labor,
ribbon and bow.
Let Personalized Services be creative
for you and take just one more helpful
avenue to alleviate Christmas rush.
Diet Dr. Pepper, Diet 7-Up and Diet
Pepsi. And, if that's not enough,
NEX expects delivery soon of Diet
Rite Cola.
However, if your favorite thirst
quencher is beer, then NEX has light
beers which have reduced calorie
counts. Schlitz Light, Carlsburg
Klass I and Finnish Pilsneri—all
contain fewer calories tha^ other
brands carried.
Some people have already discovered
these items and are supplementing their
diets by buying these brands. The best
part about the Carlsburg Klass I and
the Finnish Pilsneri is the price—it
is low, low, low—along with the cal-
ories and you don't have to give up
taste to enjoy these beers.
Stop in soon and pick up a case.
Christmas mixes
The exchange has ordered a new line
of your favorite drink mixes and ex-
pects arrival before Christmas. The
brand is Schweppes and includes tonic
water,ginger -ale, club soda and bitter
lemon. The Schweppes label is known
worldwide as an outstanding mix item.
New Commissary products
The Commissary has established a
trial period for Icelandic pastries
and Icelandic cheeses for the holiday
season. If the demand is good for
these products, then these items may
become a regular year round product.
For Thanksgiving, the Commissary
expects to receive 11,000 pounds of
turkey. Pumpkin pie mix, frozen
pumpkin and fruit pies and stuffings
have also been ordered for your
Thanksgiving Day enjoyment.
An additional order has also been
placed for Christmas, and it is ex-
pected to arrive in the next two
weeks for Christmas.
Viking Hoagie Shop
That's right, starting Wednesday and
every Wednesday night thereafter, the
Viking Cafeteria will become, as if by
magic, the Hoagie Capital of Keflavik.
The shop will offer a variety of
hoagie sandwiches, hot or cold, with or
without cheese, lettuce and tomatoes.
And you can select the meat, type of
cheese and size of hoagie.
Each type of cold cut offered will be
priced according to weight. If you are
light eater, you may only want two
ounces of your favorite sliced meat; if
you're a heavy eater, six ounces may be
to your liking.
The great thing about it is you can
also mix your favorite meats to make the
kind of sandwich you enjoy most.
It's new and different, so stop in
and "make your own" hoagie.- That's
every Wednesday at the Viking Cafeteria,
starting at 5 p.m. There will not be a
hot food steam line during Wednesday
Hoagie Night.
Good news for weight watchers
Are you trying to lose weight, but
hate to give up your favorite thirst
quencher? Here is good news for you.
If your favorite thirst quencher is
soda, NEX has in stock Tab, Fresca,
as an answer
ving problem
There is no admission charge, and,
with the wide selection of unique items
available a visit to the bazaar tomorrow
may just help cross the "problem name"
off your Christmas shopping list.
CALL HOME
beginning Nov. 28
Reservations for overseas commercial
telephone calls will begin Nov. 28.
This will enable the Naval Station Tele-
phone Office to register times and dates
of calls with the Icelandic Post and
Telegraph.
In the past, many people have been
disappointed when not being able to make
calls during the Christmas season, be-
cause of heavy traffic experienced by
the commercial overseas exchange.
Reservations will commence at the
start of business Nov. 28. The tele-
phone number for booking these calls is
4600.
Reservations will be required for
Dec. 24, 25, 26 and 31 and also for Jan.
1.
Emergency
phone number 3300
The phone number listed in the Emer-
gency column of the Naval Station Kefla-
vik/Octqber 1977 directory page for the
hospital is 3200. This number should be
changed to 3300.
A day off!
The Special Services Department has
announced that it will be giving all of
its members the day off on Thanksgiving
Day, Thursday.
This means that all Special Services
activities, including movie theater,
bowling alley and gym will be closed.
Commanding Officer
Capt. Jack T. Weir
Public Affairs Officer
JOC James E. Dewater
Editor
J02 Jerry Foster
Staff
J02 Ray D. Oosterman
JOSN William M. Taylor
Gerald Hansen
The White Falcon is published
every Friday in accordance with
SECNAVINST 5720.44 for distribution
to U.S. military personnel, Naval
Station, Keflavik, Iceland, and their
dependents, and to military and
civilian employees of the Iceland
Defense force and their families. It
is printed in the Naval Station Print
Shop from appropriated funds in ac-
cordance with NAVEXOS P-35. The
opinions and statements made herein
are not to be construed as official
views of the Department of Defense or
the U.S. Government.
News items, questions, suggestions
and comments may be submitted by
calling 4612 or by visiting AFRTS,
building T-44.