The White Falcon - 16.12.1977, Blaðsíða 1
Volume 33 Number 50
Keflavik, Iceland
December 16, 1977
Keflavik notes
Special Christmas
programs on TV 4
Channel 4 will air approximately 14
hours of Christmas programming, begin-
ning tomorrow. Among the holiday spe-
cials, supplied by AFRTS Los Angeles,
are Perry Como in Austria, John
Davidson's Christmas Show, Bob Newhart,
Julie Andrews Christmas Special,
Christmas in Disneyland, Frosty the
Snowman, and a movie entitled "The
Gathering".
Christmas Day programming will in-
clude a football game along with addi-
tional programming of holiday nature.
Dec. 26, channel 4 will sign on at
noon, vice 3, in observance of the
legal holiday.
'Family Night’ at Galley
Featuring "Surf and Turf", a special
family night candlelight dinner will be
held Sunday from 4 to 6:30 p.m. at the
gristed Dining Facility.
^Bsingle and unaccompanied personnel
\^U.l be served from 4 to 5 p.m. while
families may dine from 5 to 6:30.
The menu will consist of French
onion soup, grilled beef steak, broiled
lobster tail with melted butter, baked
potatoes with sour cream, sauteed
onions, buttered corn and steamed
spinach.
Commissary hours changed
Starting Jan. 10, 1978, the Commissary
Store will change its late shopping
from Thursday to Tuesday to comply with
the weekly produce flight.
New hours of operation will be:
Tuesday—9:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. and
Thursday—9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
All other hours of operation will
stay the same.
£
n IMPROVE NAVY EXCHANGE SERVICES,
eland Bellefleur visited Keflavik,
providing training and guidance to
NEX personnel, especially in the care
and cutting of "afro" style haircuts,
(photo by PHAN Michael Blake)
Fire Dept, wins $500 NFPA award
For its entry in the National Fire
Protection Association Learn Not to
Bum contest, the Naval Station Fire De-
part has released its original submis-
sion which earned the department a $500
cash award.
Entering the contest in August 1977,
the NavSta Fire Dept, was declared a
co-winner with Ft. George G. Meade, MD
in October 1977. The entry, which
topped NFPA' Winning Reports in the
government and military division is as
follows:
"The "Home Fire Prevention" and "Exit
Drills in the Home" program educates
families in home fire prevention and
establishes a practice of family fire
escape plans in every home.
The residential area consists of 784
apartments, with occupancies of approxi-
mately 3,500 persons. Every apartment
is visited by firemen once a year. The
firemen concentrate their efforts to-
wards introduction of "Operation EDITH"
and correction of fire hazards found in
each dwelling.
Operation EDITH was executed for the
sixth consecutive time at 5:30 p.m. Oct.
5, 1976, with participation of all
families in the base community.
Family participation increases
Each year, patrolling firemen re-
ported that family participation in the
programs has increased. The greatest
participation was in 1976, and is
credited to less emphasis being placed
on fire hazards, and more effort to-
ward home escape planning and prac-
tice.
The findings of the home-visiting
firemen are stated in writing to the
occupants. Hazards that can be cor-
rected by the occupants are pointed
out during the visit.
A personal letter from the fire
chief, explaining the common home fire
hazards and Operation EDITH, is de-
livered to every family. Attached to
each letter is a perforated section,
which the family returns with opinions
and suggestions to improve the "HFP"
and "EDITH" program.
The family feedback letter gives the
public an opportunity to help organize
portions of the program. These personal
letters are delivered by the Girl/Boy
Scouts in this community.
In addition to videotaped television
shows and home fire safety films aired
during the EDITH period along spot
announcement on the American Forces
Radio and Television, the White Falcon
also published articles on home fire
safety and schedules of visits to
homes.
Handout material, "Home Escape Plan-
ning" and Home Fire Safety," were dis-
tributed.
When making fire safety presenta-
tions to the schools, firemen issued
promotional materials such as EDITH
balloons, rulers, pencils, etc., to
the students.
During 1976 and 1977 visits to new
families were included as they moved
in.
An 11-year-old girl saved four lives
by applying the principles of EDITH
during a fire in her home. During Fire
Prevention Week, she was rewarded for
her action. This incident is one
example of the success of the program.
The fire in her home started be-
cause of poorly arranged control but-
tons on the kitchen range. During the
last six months, the Fire Department
designed and installed safety covers
over the control buttons of 140 kitchen
ranges in the homes to prevent any
further fire incidents of this nature
in the community.
Smoke detectors installed
Beginning in January 1977, firemen
demonstrated and installed home smoke
detectors in 375 apartments to improve
the life safety in the community. Upon
approval, smoke detectors were also
installed in the remaining 409 apart-
ments .
The work of the firemen in the resi-
dential areas, to safeguard the lives of
the public, is highly appreciated. An
incident has already occurred when a
recently installed smoke detector awoke
an occupant to a smoldering fire, which
could have easily taken his life. Need-
less to say, the occupant was grateful
for the installed detector.
The Naval Station Fire Department is
convinced that the "HFP" and "EDITH"
program and the existing campaign to
physically correct fire hazards and in-
stall smoke detectors in the homes is
an effective program, which has pre-
served life from destruction on more
than one occasion.
LGen Hill named 9th NORAD chief
A veteran of 32 years of military
service and combat in two wars has been
named to succeed General Daniel James
Jr., as commander in chief of the North
American Air Defense Command—he is
Lieutenant General James E. Hill, 56.
LGen Hill, a native of Oklahoma,
assumed command of N0RAD at a change of
command ceremony last week at Colorado
Springs, headquarters for the United
States-Canadian organization.
Nominated for promotion to full gen-
eral, the ninth NORAD chief since its
formation 20 years ago heads a force of
some 53,000 people across North America
and at other locations around the world,
giving Canada and the United States
warning of air, space or missile attack.
The general also serves as com-
mander in chief of the Aerospace De-
fense Command, which is the US Member
of the two-nation defensive alliance
and is headquartered along with NORAD
at Colorado Springs.
LGen. Hill was bom at Stillwater, OK
where he was graduated from high school
and later attended both Oklahoma State
University and the University of Okla-
homa.
Commissioned in 1943, he became a
fighter pilot and a World War II ace,
credited with five enemy aircraft
shot down while flying 127 missions
in Europe. In 1950, he again went into
combat, this time in Korea, where he
flew 128 missions as an F-80 pilot,
downing one enemy aircraft.
His subsequent assignments have in-
cluded staff positions at Air Force
headquarters and with the Secretary of
Defense at the Pentagon as commander of
fighter and pilot training wings and
commander of the Third and Eighth Air
Force.
This will be LGen Hill's second
assignment in NORAD. In 1974 he was
named commander in chief of the Alas-
kan Command, with additional duty as
commander of the Alaskan NORAD Region
with headquarters at Elmendorf Air
Force Base near Anchorage. . He has
LGen James E. Hill
been vice commander in chief of Stra-
tegic Air Command since July.
PROVIDING SERVICE to the community is the purpose of the Kiwanis Club Bru of the
Keflavik Airport. Its service committee had 1,000 heart-shaped reflectors made
which were recently given to the NATO base students and nursery school children.
Commander Donald W. Dix (left) and Thorgrimur Halldorsson (right) assisted in
handing out the reflectors to Alan Kidder's (center) fourth grade class. Cdr.
Dix is the service committee chairman and Halldorsson is the corresponding
secretary for Icelandic affairs and a service committee member, (photo by PH2
Ron Pearce)