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The White Falcon
February 22, 1980
Conservation is everybody’s job
Why conserve utilities? Conserv-
ation is good and waste is bad. We
Americans have been taught that
since birth and ignored it nearly as
long. We overheat our buildings,
throw leftovers away, use twice as
much bath water as we need, and
drive to work alone in a car with a
high horsepower engine.
All this is neither good for the
economy nor good for the Navy- not
when practiced at Naval shore activ-
ities. Wasted utilities hurt all of
us in the Navy on all levels. They
hurt the Naval organization as a
whole, because the Navy must operate
on a limited budget that is being
watched more closely each year.
They hurt us in achieving our goals,
which are basically to keep our
ships and naval aircraft operating
around the calendar and around the
globe in top fighting trim. They
hurt us directly, as individuals
performing our jobs, because our
reputations, our job security, and
our ability to fund improvements at
our own activities depend directly
on how efficiently we run our
plants.
All of us are "for" saving money
for the Navy and the taxpayers in
general. We tend to ask, "How can
the operations of my department
really make any difference? And
conversely, we ask "How will conser-
vation help my activity? How will
it help my department? How will it
help me?"
Consider first the mission of the
activity. Conservation of utilities
puts it in a better posture to carry
out Its mission effectively. It can
better handle emergencies, for ex-
ample, and emergencies are inescap-
able in military operations.
Wasted utilities hurt the Navy no
matter where the waste occurs. The
goals of any conservation program
remain the same; to promote utili-
ties conservation at all shore act-
ivities all over the world.
Don’t be fuelish
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When the snow
goes,
the litter shows
We would like to thank all our
friends and the Hospital staff for
their help, prayers, and visits
after the accident and during the
long recovery period. May God
Bless you all.
Romie and Karen Brown
Stork arrival
Scott Francis Sorg was born at
10:54 a.m. on Feb. 19. He is the
son of LI1 Ronald A. and Ellen M.
Sorg. Petty Officer Sorg works at
the Naval Station's Print Shop, and
Mrs. Sorg works with Naval Station's
Personnel Office.
Recent history to know
The following are some Black her-
itage questions to answer:
1. James Farmer led: a) the South-
ern Christian Leadership Conference,
b) the Congress of Racial Equality,
c) the Student Nonviolent Coordinat-
ing Committee.
2. In 1969, the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee changed its
name to: a) the Student National
Coordinating Committee, b) the Stu-
dent Nonviolent Counseling Commit-
tee, c) the Student National Con-
gress for Change.
3. The Civil Rights Act was passed
in: a) 1960, b) 1963, c) 1964.
4. James E. Groppi was a white
priest who: a) helped found the
African Methodist Episcopalian
Church, b) led open-housing marches
in Milwaukee, c) wrote "We shall
Overcome."
5. Stokely Carmichael was a chair-
man of: a) CORE, b) NAACP, c) SNCC.
6. Air Force regulation 35-11 was
the beginning of eliminating dis-
crimination against military people
in securing off-base housing. It
was published in: a) 1958, b) 1969,
c) 1971.
7. The first black Chief Master
Sergeant of the Air Force was: a)
James V. Brown, b) Arthur Slayton,
c) Thomas E. Barnes.
8. Black military officers first
received pilot training at: a)
Miami Airport, Fla., b) Tuskegee
Army Air Field, Ala., c) Ellington
Field, Texas.
The answers to the above ques-
tions will be in next week's White
Falcon.
Visit your library
for good book
Anyone who has ever been to Hawa-
ii has probably enjoyed recognizing
a familiar beach or hotel in the
forces of crime in our 50th state on
the television program Hawaii Five-
0. The same pleasure of recogni-
tion, as well as the same kind of
action-drama, is found in a new mys-
tery by Noah Webster called An Inci-
dent in Iceland.
The hero is Jonathan Gaunt, a
Scottish civil servant who is sent
to Iceland on routine business but
soon becomes the would-be victim of
a hired killer. While trying to
find out the reason, Gaunt passes
many familiar landmarks, such as
Reykjavik's airport and harbor area,
the Loflieder Hotel, Keflavik Air-
port and base, and a "deserted lava
wilderness." (Who hasn't been
there?) He encounters several auth-
entic Icelandic characters and even
a few American servicemen. In
spite of his surroundings, Gaunt em-
erges as somewhat more human and
■less rock than McGarrett. But like
its TV mystery counterpart, An Inci-
dent in Iceland is fast-paced, light
arid puts an island on the map. It
is available at the Naval Station
Library.
Several other new arrivals in the
area of mystery/suspense include:
M/Blo The Burglar Who Liked to
Quote Kipling
F/Ebe A Lonely Place to Die
M/Est Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes
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