The White Falcon - 17.03.1978, Qupperneq 1

Volume 34 Number 11 Keflavik, Iceland March 17, 1978
Keflavik notes
Easter dinner
In observance of Easter Sunday, the
Enlisted Dining Facility will feature a
"Special Family Dinner." The menu will
consist of French onion soup, grilled
beef steak to order, broiled lobster
tail, sauteed onions, baked potatoes
sour cream, seasoned whole grain corn,
polonaise broccoli spears.
All authorized patrons and their
guests are cordially invited. The hours
of serving are as follows: Military
enlisted unaccompanied - 3 p.m. to 4
p.m.; all others and with families - 4
p.m. to 6 p.m. No family will be served
after 6 p.m. The Enlisted Dining Faci-
lity will close at 6 p.m. on this parti-
cular date.
AFI day off
Air Forces Iceland recently author-
ized a day off for each unit preventing
an accident resulting $250 damage or a
lost work day during a two-month cycle.
This goal was an exceptional challenge
(during winter weather conditions which
were) posing an increased mishap poten-
tial, Colonel Leon W. Babcock Jr., Com-
mander Air Forces Iceland, states.
At the end of February, the first
cycle ended with no reportable mishaps
experienced by any Air Force activity
in Iceland. This outstanding achieve-
ment has resulted in each organization
receiving a well deserved day off, the
colonel adds. The specific date will
be established by each unit commander.
Dependent medical recbrds
To avoid last minute delays and con-
fusion, the Dispensary urges that
military members having dependents at
the NATO base be familiar with Bureau of
Medicine Instruction 6150.ID. When
transferring, either a spouse must check
out dependents and minor children's med-
ical records or authorize writing the
sponsor to receive these records
Written authorization may be made by
using Naval Medicine 6150/8.
Informed citizens best voters
To conduct an effective voting infor-
mation support program, voting assistance
officers/counselors must have certain
basic information and materials available.
The most important single item is the
federal post card application for ab-
sentee ballot (FPCA) which facilitates
contact by the voter with election offi-
cials. FPCAs are available through
normal service supply channels.
Information on the 1978 primary
elections schedule and the procedures
for applying for absentee ballots will
be provided through these voting infor-
mation sheets. "Clip-sheet" information
supplied to the editors of base news-
papers by the American forces informa-
tion service and other service informa-
tion sources.
The 1976 voting assistance guide is
to be completely revised; until distri-
bution of the revised editioned, voting
counselors should use the current voting
assistance guide.
Troop information programs may be
conducted with the use of armed forces
information films no. 265 "Have Your
Say" and no. 281 "What Can I Do?" In
addition to these films, Department of
Defense poster P-75B "Voting Information-
1978 (primary elections)" is available
through service channels.
Of the utmost importance is that
servicemembers know who their voting
counselor is and how to get in touch
with this person. To facilitate this
communication, voting officers should
maintain names and phone numbers of
unit voting officers.
PARTISAN POLITICAL SOURCES
The unit voting officer/counselor is
not a source of Partisan voting informa-
NCS issues WU Mailgram service
The Naval Communication Station
announces that Western Union has imple-
mented a new telegram called the "mail-
gram." Mailgrams are telegrams which
are sent by Western Union to a post
office near the recipient's address.
The key factor in processing mailgrams
is an accurate mailing address and zip
code.
Mailgrams received by WU up to 7
p.m. destination time will be delivered
in blue and white envelopes in the next
day's mail. (Sunday and holiday
delivery will be effected the next
working day.)
Auto inspection to close soon
If you haven't had your car inspected
yet you better get moving. There are
only three days left to have it
inspected before your car could be towed
away and you could be faced with some
stiff fines.
The last chance you will have to get
your car inspected will be Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday at the base car
wash (located behind Public Works) from
1:15 p.m. until 4:15 each day.
Uninspected vehicles may not be driven
after Wednesday.
According to Icelandic Police
authorities if vour vehicle is not
inspected by Wednesday JO tags must be
removed from the vehicle by the owner
and turned in at the Icelandic Police
station (gate 2). When Icelandic Police
remove JO tags, either on base or at the
March heralded Red Cross Month
"I have again proclaimed March as Red
Cross Month to remind all Americans of
the myriad services the American Red
Cross provides each day in communities
across the nation.
During the past year, as disaster
after disaster disrupted lives and brought
destruction to widespread areas of the
nation, Red Cross volunteers helped ease
the suffering of their neighbors. The
Red Cross blood program expanded last
year to play an even more important
role in our daily lives by providing
life-saving and life-sustaining blood
products to more and more ill and in-
jured Americans. Through Red Cross,
nursing, first aid, water and boating
safety instruction, we have the op-
portunity to train ourselves to care
for the infirm.
Finally, our men and women in the
armed forces, veterans and their
families look to the Red Cross for
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Western Union also retains its full-
rate and overnight telegrams.
Full-rate telegrams are handled be-
fore all other telegrams. Upon receipt,
WU telephones the message to the ad-
dressee and places a confirmation copy
in the mail.
Overnight telegrams (night letters)
received by WU before 2 a.m. at destina-
tion will be telephoned to the recipient
the next working day. A copy is mailed
for confirmation.
Telegrams may be sent on a 24 hour
basis from the Naval Communication. Sta-
tion, Bldft. 839.
tion. It is the counselor's responsibil-
ity to assist the voter with administra-
tive procedures to cast a ballot.
Partisan information may be obtained
by the voter from hometown newspapers,
the offices of political candidates in
state of voting residence, national news
media and, when available, the League of
Women Voters in the city or county of
voting residence.
EARLY ABSENTEE APPLICATION
Ballot preparation schedules are set
by election officials and are subject to
a number of pressures. While early
application for a ballot will not assure
its early mailing, unnecessary delay may
be avoided by doing so. Voters are urged
to send their FPCAS in early - 45 days
before an election - to assure that a
ballot will be sent as soon as it is
prepared.
ABSENTEE VOTER QUESTIONS
Questions by absentee voters should
be answered at the lowest level of
command as possible.
Each service will establish its own
means *.or relaying questions to its
respective voting action officers. How-
ever, to simplify handling these quesr-
tions, the following basic information
is required.
Voters: -Name, Social Security Number
-Street, Address of voting
residence (item //5 on the FPCA) ;
the red number is not suffi-
cient .
-Date when the FPCA was mailed.
-Reason for absentee ballot.
For more information, contact your
voting counselor.
gate, the vehicle will be towed off base
to the Icelandic Vehicle Inspection
Station and the owner will be subject to
fines in Icelandic courts.
After the vehicle inspection has been
completed off base, JO tags must then be
reobtained at the Police Station (gate 2)
before driving the vehicle.
After the tags are remounted on the
vehicle, the owner may then drive the
vehicle to the Naval Station Security
Department for a vehicle registration
and issuance of a Naval Station regis-
tration tag.
Whatever the reason you may have had
for not getting your vehicle inspected
yet, if you procrastinate much longer
it's going to cost you in both time and
money.
Icelandic Police will begin removing
the JO tags from uninspected vehicles
on Thursday.
OFFICERS' WIVES
CLUB charity
committee
chairperson
Cynthia Sefton
(left) gives a
check to Vinah-
jalp representa-
tive Helga
Bjornsdottir
(right) while
Melanie Maxon,
club president,
looks on.
Women’s groups share m
similar activities for *
Interests
At a luncheon meeting Tuesday, the
Officers' Wives Club presented a check
to Vinahjalp, an Icelandic social organi-
zation. Club officers were also in-
stalled at the meeting.
Vinahjalp provides material and
equipment contributions to handicapped
children's homes and hospitals.
For 18 years, organization members,
who are part of diplomatic, interna-
tional and military groups, have pro-
duced handicrafts, ornaments, decora-
tions, toys and baked goods to sell at
their yearly Christmas bazaar at the
Hotel Saga in Reykjavik.
The organization works independently
on its year-long project which leads up
to its bazaar. The work provides a
means of earning money for beneficial
causes and gives the women a chance to
meet women from other cultures and na-
tionalities .
The NATO base representation is
headed by Mrs. Jean Bernstein, wife of
Rear Admiral Karl J. Bernstein, Comman-
der Iceland Defense Force.
AFI sets NCOA, NCOL quotas
Air Forces Iceland has issued quotas
for the Air Defense Command NCO Academy
(NCOA) and NCO Leadership School (NCOL)
at Tyndall AFB, FL. Selection for at-
tendance is competitive; all personnel
considered must be a volunteer and meet
further criteria.
The NCOA is five weeks and the NCOL
is three weeks. Attendance is in offi-
cial temporary duty status. Call AFI
Education and Training at 7723.