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N e w Yo r k W i n g
In Snow Rescue

CIVIL AIR PATROL
U,S. AIR FORCE AUXILIARY

Combined Effort
Sa f ety Team
Of Experts
MAXWELL AFB, Ala_--A
National Safety Council has
been formed by Civil Air Patrol
to assist in the development and
administration of the
organization's nationwide safety
programs. It is composed of
representatives from six of
CAP's eight geographical regions
who were appointed by their
region commander, a medical
member and Lt. Col. Alton
Hilton, CAP-USAF's director of
safety.
Supported by the CAP
National Executive Committee
and National Commander, Brig.
Gen. Richard N. Ellis, the
committee held its first meeting
in New Orleans and elected Col.
Paul C. Halstead, Northeast
Region, to head the council as
chairman.
E l e c t e d t o t h e
vice-chairmanship was'Lt. Col.
Homer E. Jackson, Middle East
Region and to the position of
secretary Lt. Col. Jean Ferrel of
the Rocky Mountain Region.
"Council members are
exceptionally qualified and
represent some of the best safety
specialists within the civilian
auxili.ary of the United States
Air Force," said Colonel Hilton.
"Their qualifications range from
an experienced air transport
rated pilot to a safety engineer,"
he continued.
The council's medical
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WINTER WONDERLAND-This ph6tograph
was made by an Associated Press newsman
from a Civil Air Patrol plane. The picture was
reproduced in newspapers across the nation
following one of the heaviest snow storms in

r e c e n t y e a r s i n N e w Yo r k S t a t e . T h i s
snow-bound farmstead is located in Schoharie
County, N.Y. (Photo courtesy of Associated
Press)

Washington Cadet Named To Receive
S5,000 Reed Pigman Flight Scholarship
MAXWELL AFB, Ala.--The
second annual Reed Pigman
Flight Scholarship providing
four-months of flight training
valued at $5,000 and leading to
a commercial license, has been
awarded to Civil Air Patrol
Cadet Charles D. Moores of
Seattle, Washington.
Moores, an 18-year-old cadet
captain and commander o f

cadets in the Seattle Composite
Squadron, was named winner of
the grant by a Headquarters
CAP-USAF selection panel.
Should Moores not pursue
the scholarship, two alternates
were selected. They were
William R. Cotney of Oxford,
Ala., and Dennis G. Nash of
Battle Creek, Mich.
The flying scholarship was

Yi ins medals fi)r valor

established by Mrs. Reed Pigman
for the first time last year in
memory of her late husband.
The late aviation pioneer
founded American Flyers Inc., a
charter airline and flying school
at Ardmore, Okla.
The $5,000 grant pays for all
instruction leading to a
commercial pilot rating. Meals
and housing will "also be
fi~rnished during the four-month
period of flight training at
Ardmore. (Continued on Page 12)

NEW YORK-Civil Air Patrol
members joined civic, Red Cross
and Civil Defense officials, plus
hundreds of other volunteers, in
relief work in central and upper
New York State following one
of the heaviest snow storms in
recent years in late December.
The snow began falling
immediately after Christmas.
Two days later, the storm had
dumped more then 26 inches of
snow on the area with drifts
many feet deep.
Heaviest hit was the area of
Albany-Troy-S henectady in
mid-state and Plattsburgh in the
upper part of the state. A CAP
observer, after flying over the
section, reported that
"Schoharie County is 90 per
cent 'socked in'."
Sections of Massachusetts,
Vermont, Maine, New
Hampshire, and Rhode Island
also were hard hit.
Civil Air Patrol planes flew
reconnaissance over the
snowed-in countryside, seeking
those who might be in need of
help. Families in rural and
outlying areas were advised by
radio and TV to stamp out the
letter "H" in the snow if they
needed help or to signal planes
flying over in some other way.
Others were able to call in by
telephone for assistance.
The planes flew from a field
closed to all traffic except CAP
aircraft. Planes from as far away
as Long Island and White Plains
flew in to assist.
CAP volunteers joined others
in using snowmobiles anti
four-wheel drive vehicles to
move food supplies, medicine,
and stock feed to those who ran
short because of the holiday
period. Deep snow prevented
automobiles from moving.

Army Decorates Former Cadet
M I LW A U K E E , W i s c . - - A
former member of the Wisconsin
Wing. U.S. Army Sp5 Duane L.
Heda recently was decorated
eight times for valor in action in
Vietnam at a ceremony here at
the Gro~s-Yaksh VFW Post
6498. He received the medals
from Army Maj. A. J. Sheehan
while Capt. J. tt. Dennis read the
citation accompanying each.
Specialist Heda earned the
Distinguished Flying Cross, the
Air Medal with a "V" cluster,
Army Commendation Medal and
the Purple Heart all for services
in Vietuam.
Specialist Heda received the
Distinguished Flying Cross, the
nation's fourth highest
decoration and the Purple Heart
for heroic action while wounded
in both arms, May 9, 1969. He
held off the enemy with
accurate machinegun fire to
rescue wounded soldiers aboard
his aircraft.
Earlier the same week, he

won the Soldier's Medal for
going to the assistance of a
downed AH-1G Cobra Gunship
when he rescued the pilot from

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D E C O R AT E D - A r m y S p 5
Duane L. Heda, a former
member of Civil Air Patrol,
displays the medals he earned
while serving in Vietnam. He was
decorated for valor at a recent
ceremony in Milwaukee, Wise..

the burning aircraft that crashed
deep in enemy-held territory. He
continued to search the burning
helicopter for other survivors
and didn't pull out until the
intense heat made it impossible
to continue his search efforts.
He earlier earned the Air
Medal with the "V" cluster for
flying after dark missions over
an unsecured area, March 22, in
which he was to check the
security of a brid~e reportedlv a
target of destruction. He held
the bridge until the Vietnamese
Popular Forces arrived to relieve
him of his task. He earned the
fifth through tenth oak leaf
clusters to the medal for
completing more than 150 air
missions over hostile territory.
Serving as a member of the
9 t h Av i a t i o n B a t t a l i o n , 9 t h
Infantry Division, Heda received
the Army Commendation Medal
for exceptional meritorious
service from Dec. 2, 1968 to
Apr. 10, 1969.

CAP TO THE RESCUE-This Weasel from the Hazelton
Squadron 203 of the Pennsylvania Wing was used in a wide
variety of emergency services actions when 12 inches of snow
fell Christmas Day in the Hazelton area. Engaged in rescuing
stranded motorists and bringing an expectant mother to the
hospital with the weasel were Maj. Hubert J. Waskovich, 1st
Lt. William Stauffer and C/Lt. Col. Hubert J. Waskovich Jr. all
of the Hazelton Squadron. (Photo courtesy of the Hazelton
Squadron)
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CIVIL AIR PATROL NEWS

FEBI~UARY, 1970

Maj. Crawford Name{L
Senior Membership
Program Director
MAXWELL AFB, AIa.-A renewed, action-oriented emphasis is
being applied here to enhance the role of the senior member in Civil
Air Patrol.
National Headquarters, CAP,
officials recently reported two
events that point to a brighter
outlook for the more than
34,000 seniors across the nation.
The first action includes the
channeling of all senior activities
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa--The
under the management eye of
Iowa Wing personnel paid their the Deputy Chief of Staff for
last respects to Army WO
Operations. Previously, senior
Kenneth A. Luse (19), by
activities had been divided
presenting an honor guard and
between operations, which
fly-over to honor the former
handled the flying aspects of the
cadet commander who died in s e n i o r p r o g r a m , a n d t h e
Vietnam from hostile action.
aerospace education directorate,
T h e s o n o f M r. a n d M r s .
which maintained senior training
Edward Luse of Cedar Rapids
and incentive awards.
died when the helicopter he was
As part of this realignment,
on crashed and burned after
Maj. Gary D. Cmwford, a recent
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being hit by ground fire while
Vietnam returnee, was named as
giving air cover to another
director of senior activities. HIS
SENIOR CZiV!ZI[ : ::SC:SEi=I
downed aircraft.
tasks will be to oversee every
Funeral services were held
aspect of senior involvement in
Dec. 31 at St. Andrews Lutheran
Civil Air Patrol, an area ranging
Church with Rev. James Lesher
from training and educational
officiating.
opportunities to flying activities
and awards.
Luse joined Civil Air Patrol in
1963 and two years later became
The second event was the
the commander of cadets in the
formation of a Senior Member
Cedar Rapids Composite Sq. He
Advisory committee. This group,
with Col. William H. Ramsey,
was active in all phases of the
North Central Region
cadet program and earned his
private pilot's license in gliders
commander, acting as chairman,
is to investigate ways and means
at the wing's 1966 flying
encampment. A year later he
to improve the overall senior
;iiiiii ii!iiiliii!!i i!
member program. Each CAP
earned private pilot certification
region is represented so that the
in powered aircraft after
views of members throughout
attending a CAP-sponsored
the country will be considered.
flying training encampment.
The former Cedar Rapids
MAN WITH THE HAND on the pulse of Civil Air Patrol senior
Composite Squadron member
member programs is Maj. Gary D. Crawford, a recent returnee
placed first in the primary
from Vietnam and now assigned to Headquarters, CAP-USAF.
helicopter pilot class at Fort
Crawford oversees all aspects of the senior program including
(Continued from Page 1)
Waiters, Texas, in March and
numerous training and educational activities designed to
CAP members also provided
relief activities was Lt. Col.
earned his warrant officer rating
enhance the senior member's ability to warrant leadership
in July after placing third in his
transportation for nurses to and
Howard Vedder, a member of
positions of command. More than 34,000 volunteers of the
from a local hospital.
the wing staff and wing
class at Ft. Rucker, Ala.
more than 67,000 national membership are in the senior
coordinator for Civil Defense.
In one instance, Civil Air
category. (United States Air Force Photo by MSgt. Bill Bond)
Patrol volunteers spent an entire
CAP groups participating
day helping rescue pigs from
included Fulmount,
T r i - C o u n t i e s , P l a t t s b u r g h , putting 11 rescue units into
under a barn which had
Albany, and East Lake.
action.
collapsed from the weight of the
Thirty-six CAP aircraft flew
There were 23 CAP f'Lxed
snow.
102 sorties for a total of 155
radio stations on the air and 45
Other CAP members helped
hours. Two hundred twenty-five mobile units with 39 operators
man emergency telephones,
CAP members participated,
manning them.
answeiing calls for assistance.
H A M I LT O N A F B ,
CAP radio equipment
Calif.--Capt. John D. Ryan, Jr., m a i n t a i n e d t w o - w a y
son of the Air Force Chief of communication with all planes
Staff, Gen. John D. Ryan, was and ground vehicles.
killed on Jan. 12 when his F-4D
One CAP plane flew a
fighter-bomber crashed into San newsman over the hardest hit
Francisco Bay following take-off
area. They photograph he took
from here.
Everyone that travels by car
of a snowed-in farmstead in
Akron Novelty Mfg. Co.
should have an Auto First Aid Kit
The co-pilot, Capt. J. Travis
Schoharie County was used in
i n t h e i r c a r. T h i s k i t i s u n i q u e ,
3093 Main St., Akron, Ohio 44319
Nelson, was also killed in the newspapers across the nation.
as it contains Highway Safety
Please send, without obligation, information on how
Signals as well as being a fine
mishap.
Mission coordinator for CAP
I to make money selling AUTO FIRST AID KITS. (If
quality First Aid Kit.
sample is desired enclose $1 to cover cost of handling
Captain Ryan, who served for
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Cadet Luse

CAP Active In Snow Crises

Chief of Staff's

Son Killed
In Plane Crash

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The officers involved in the
crash, stationed at Holloman
AFB, N.M., were taking off on
when the accident occured.
Captain Ryan was a 1965
graduate of the Air Force
Academy and had been
stationed, at Hoiloman AFB
since mid-1969. He had
previously served in Thailand.

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C I V I L A I R PAT R O L N E W S

Hansen Heads Committee
To A i d C i v i l A i r P a t r o l
A L L E N TO W N , P a . , ' ~ l ' h e Tr u c k C a p i t a l o f t h e Wo r l d , " D e c . 2 1 , 1 9 6 9 - T h e n a t i o n a l c o m m a n d e r o f
Civil Air Patrol, enthused over Zenon C. R. Hansen's proposal that all operators of aircraft support CAP
through special memberships, has appointed him national chairman of the industrial/Corporate
Membership Committee. Hansen, chairman of the board and president of Mack Trucks, Inc., was named
to the newly created position by Brig. Gen. Richard N. Ellis during a special meeting at the Lehigh
Country Club.
Among those in attendance were Brig. Gen. F. Ward Reilly, chairman of the CAP National Board and
Brig. Gen. Lyle W. Castle, Reilly's predecessor and now CAP legal officer.
General Reilly termed
Hansen's concept as "the
greatest thing that has happened
to the Civil Air Patrol since its
formation."
Hansen's proposal, which he
will outline to corporations,
businesses and other persons
interested in aviation across the
nation, would provide a needed
s o u r c e o f r e v e n u e f o r t h e C A P.
A c t i v i t i e s o f t h e C A P, h e s a i d ,
now are supported "entirely by
loyal volunteer members."
"There is no direct dollar
support from federal agencies or
the Department of Defense", he
said, "except for certain
semi-obsolete aircraft and
equipment."
Hansen stressed that the
"record of the CAP in aerial
missions and its search and
rescue operations is something
of which it can be proud."
W h i l e c o g n i z a n t o f C A P, t h e
Mack chieftain stated, he was
unaware of its far-reaching
program until he attended the
annual dinner of the CAP's
Pennsylvania Wing on Sept. 6.
The Wing is headquartered at
Allentow n-B et hleh em-Easton
Airport under the control of
Col. Phillip Neuweiler, and U.S.
Air Force Lt. Col. William J.
Beez, liaison officer.
At the meeting, he added, he
learned much more about the
organization's activities from
Maj. Gen. Walter Putnam of the
U. S. Air Force, then national
commander of the CAP.
"General Putnam's talk
stimulated my thinking and
during the course of the evening
I gave deep thought to what we,
as corporate operators of
aircraft, should do to be of
assistance and support the fine
p r o g r a m o f t h e C A P, " H a n s e n
remarked.
He added: "I remember
wondering how I, as a corporate
chief executive operating
aircraft, would react if I received
a message that one of our planes
was missing, and to whom I
would turn to first for help. On
Nov. 6, I faced that experience.
"Upon arriving at White
S u l p h u r S p r i n g s , W. Va . , i n t h e
afternoon of that day to deliver
a t a l k t o t h e N e w Yo r k S a v i n g s
Bank Association, an urgent call
from the tower and subsequent
communication with my office
b r o u g h t t h e n e w s ' Yo u r j e t ,
number N1021B, was lost from
the radar screen making a
normal approach into the
Racine, Wisconsin Airport. No
other information is available.'
"While this crash occurred
over water under Coast Guard
jurisdiction, it could have
occurred within the boundries of
the jurisdiction of the CAP. I am
gratified that Mack's indicated
support through a substantial
gift to the Pennsylvania Wing of
the CAP in the month of

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satisfaction of knowing that we
Wing Commander Neuweiler,
were not motivated by our own
Major Edward Gittleman of
T W O - F L A G G I F T- Z e n o n C . R . H a n s e n , c h a i r m a n o f t h e
t r a g e d y b u t w e r e t h i n k i n g o f Allentown, wing project officer;
board and president of Mack Trucks, Inc., is presented a flag
o t h e r s a s w e l l i n a s i m i l i a r L t . C o l . B e e z a n d C a p t . P a u l T.
set, containing Old Glory and the U. S. Air Force flag, by U. S.
situation."
~ West, aide-de-camp to Gen. Ellis,
Air Force Brig. Gen. Richard N. Ellis, national commander of
Hansen said he also recalled P also attended the meeting in the
the CAP.
country club.
that just a few months before, a
plane that had been lost in
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C a l i f o r n i a o n M a r c h 11 , 1 9 6 7 ,
had just been found. This plane
was piloted by a friend of almost
30 years, with his wife and
daughter aboard.
Hansen, following several
sessions with officials of the
C A P, i s c a l l i n g f o r t h e
establishment of classes by a
change in the "regular
memberships" by-laws.
"I suggest that anyone flying
aircraft or having to do with
flying of aircraft be given an
opportunity through definite
classes of membership to
support the organization," he
stated.
He plans to discuss the
inclusion of corporations
through which businesses,
scheduled carriers, suppliers,
manufacturers and private
operators could become
members and support activities
of the CAP "at a cost directly
related to their exposure."

COMMTest-70
Set for March
MAXWELL AFB, Ala.-Civil
Air Patrol's annual nationwide
communications exercise
" C O M M T E S T- 7 0 " h a s b e e n
tentatively scheduled for Mar. 7,
announced Col. Andrew J.
R i t e h e y, C A P - U S A F o p e r a t i o n s
d e p u t y c h i e f o f s t a ff , r e c e n t l y.
The test is primarily designed
to test CAP's nationwide
communications network and
the communications personnel
responsible for manning these
stations throughout the nation.
To p a r t i c i p a t e i n t h e t e s t a r e
communicators from CAP's
National Headquarters, CAP
Region Headquarters, Wing
Headquarters, all subordinate
units and USAF-CAP Liaison
offices both at region and wing
level.
In a letter to field, Colonel
Ritchey urged all region and
wing personnel to coordinate the
appointment and utilization of a
CAP radio station to serve as an
alternate station for its
respective liaison station.
"Selection of CAP stations
serving as alternates should be
given careful consideration to
insure operational capability on
designated Air
Force
frequencies," be said.
Instructions and authority
pertaining to the appointment of
such station are contained in
CAP-USAF Regulation 100-1,
d a t e d N o v. 7 , . 1 9 6 9 , o f fi c i a l s

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BULLDOG WITH WINGS-Col. Phillip
N e u w e i l e r, c o m m a n d e r o f t h e P e n n s y l v a n i a
Wing, Civil Air Patrol, headquartered at
Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton Airport, accepts a
winged Bulldog from Zenon C. R. Hansen,
chairman of the board and president of Mack
Trucks, Inc. Others (from left) are Major

Edward Gittleman wing project officer: Brig.
G e n . Ly l e W. C a s t l e , C A P l e g a l o f fi c e r ; B r i g .
G e n . F. Wa r d R e i l l y, C h a i r m a n o f t h e C A P
National Board, and U. S. Aw Force Brig. Gen.
Richard N. Ellis of Maxwell Air Force Base,
national commander of the CAP.

Six Interim Commanders Appointed
In assuming command,
being appointed deputy
MAXWELL AFB, Ala.--Six
interim wing commanders were
C o l o n e l B a i l e y s a i d h e p l a n s t o commander in March, 1969.
Colonel Quilling is one of
recently appointed to direct
continue the work and
four members of the Minnesota
Civil Air Patrol efforts in their progressive programs initiated
Wing CAP who have put in more
various states,
during Colonel Pansey's
than twenty-five years in the
Lt. Col. Eugene A. Kerwin
administration. He said older
organization.
has been elevated from deputy
aircraft will be phased out and
Lt. Col. Harry Harkins, newly
commander for cadets to
replaced with newer equipment,
appointed interim commander
commander of the Hawaii Wing.
and the aerospace education
of the Georgia Wing, is a native
A n a t i v e o f B r o o k l y n , N . Y. ,
program for cadets will be
of Atlanta. During World War II,
Kerwin has also served as wing
modified and should result in
he was an instructor at Craig
increased cadet participation.
inspector,
Lt. Col. Donald R. DeFoe has AFB, Ala.
His CAP career has been
assumed command of the New
highlighted by numerous honors
Serving in various CAP
Hampshire Wing. A native of
and awards. Among his civic
positions through the years,
Detroit, Michigan, Colonel
involvements are memberships in
Colonel Harkins has recently
DeFoe retired from the Air
the Air Force Historical
held wing staff positions as
Force in 1964 with the
Foundation, Defense Supply
i n f o r m a t i o n o f fi c e r, a s s i s t a n t
permanent rank of Lieutenant i n s p e c t o r
and deputy
A s s o c i a t i o n, N a t i o n al
Colonel.
commander.
Aeronautical Association and
Colonel DeFoe has held many
I n K e n t u c k y, L t . C o l .
Restaurant
the Hawaii
important administrative and
Richard Dooley has succeeded
Association.
Assuming command of the
s p e c i a l p o s i t i o n s i n C i v i l A i r Colonel George B. Carter, Jr. as
Patrol, and in May of 1965 he c o m m a n d e r. A f o r m e r d e p u t y
Rhode Island Wing is Lt. Col.
was appointed Deputy Wing w i n g c o m m a n d e r, C o l o n e l
E d g a r M . B a i l e y. A n a t i v e o f
C o m m a n d e r o f t h e N e w Dooley pledged his time and
Ashland, Ky.,Colonel Bailey has
Hampshire Wing.
held various staff positions
efforts to continue the growth
ranging from squadron
Lt. Col. Gerald Quilling p a t t e r n K e n t u c k y h a s
joined the Minnesota Wing as a e x p e r i e n c e d u n d e r C o l o n e l
commander t o w i n g d e p u t y
cadet in January, 1943, and has
commander,
Carter's command.
held many positions of
He was awarded the
A native of Missouri, Colonel
Exceptional Service Medal for
leadership in the wing since that D o o l e y i s a c o m m e r c i a l p i l o t
participation in a hazardous
time.
who formerly served as wing
mission during floods in 1955. A
Before assuming command of operations officer.
the wing, Colonel Quilling served
He is currently employed as a
second award of this ribbon was
made for another mission in , as Chief of' Staff df'Miffn6sot~ ~ isalesman. ~[or tbe: Chocolate
)
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Commander

Other Side of Picture
I:)) Brig. Gem Richard N. Ellis
Civil Air Patrol members are well-acquainted with search, and
rescue and in the conduct of such operations. It is not often,
however, that we hear from the other side of the pictore-frnm the
victims who are the objects of these searches.
Recently, the following letter came across my
desk and 1 am pleased to pass it on to you. It
presents, in a dramatic way, what Civil Air Patrol
"is all about."
The letter was written to Maj. Gene McCardle
of White Plains, N.Y., several weeks after the
major had been instrumental in saving the life of
the letter's author. Although it is a personal letter,
Civil Air Patrol members everywhere can take
pride in Major McCardle's accomplishment-a'nd in the organization
of which they are a part.
Here is the letter:

CIVIL AIR PATROL NEWS

CAP-USAF
Is Target
Of Gripes
by Lt. Col. Edwin Lewis

FEBRUARY, 1970

Chairman's Comments

CAP and The Uniform
by Brig. Gen. F. Ward Reilly
An issue which has long been-and continues to be of great
concern to myself and to the members of the National Executive
Committee is a limited acceptance of Civil Air Patrol reflected by a
great many officers and enlisted personnel of the Air Force. The
reason can be attributed to several factors.

H e a d q u a r t e r s , C A P - U S A F,
recently has been the target of
complaints from governmental
agencies resulting from Civil Air
P a t r o l m e m b e r s u s i n g
Many Air Force personnel do not understand the true nature of
unauthorized methods of
requesting excess government
Civil Air Patrol, the full scope of its mission or its role and
property and equipment for
relationship to the Air Force as an official
their units.
auxiliary.
The complaints came from
In this area, the Air Force recognizes that its
such agencies as the Defense
Supply Agency, General Services
own effort to inform Air Force people has not
Administration and specific
been as fully successful as Air Force would desire.
government officials.
To remedy this, Air Force leaders from the
Since these agencies cannot
SecreJ~ary, the Chief of Staff and the Air Staff have
take action to sati/~fy requests
for property submitted by
directed renewed emphasis be placed on the Civil
individual CAP members, they
Air Patrol in the Air Force Internal Information
pass these requests to
"Dear Major McCardle,
program.
H e a d q u a r t e r s , U S A F.
'2 want to thank you and the rest of the Civil Air Patrol from the
On its part, every member of the Civil Air Patrol has a solemn
Such action then generates
bottom of my heart for the part you all played in spotting my m u c h w o r k , l e t t e r s a n d m e s s a g e s obligation to so conduct themselves, at all times, as to earn the
downed aircraft on August 9th near Lake Placid. I especially want fo a n d p h o n e c a l l s . A l l t h i s e f f o r t
respect and confidence of the officers and enlisted personnel of the
thank you, Major McCardle, for your skill in flying close to those d o e s n o t h i n g t o s a t i s f y t h e C A P
Air Force. This is especially true with respect to the wearing of the
peaks, under a low overcast, to find me. This saved my life, for the u n i t ' s i m m e d i a t e r e q u i r e m e n t .
uniform.
To a s s i s t i n e l i m i n a t i n g t h e
doctors have now told us that if I hadn't been found Saturday c o m p l a i n t s , a l l C A P m e m b e r s
The Civil Air Patrol uniform, with its distinctive insignia,
evening and evacuated Sunday morning, I would not have made it. s h o u l d r e f r a i n f r o m
e s t a b l i s h e s o u r O r g a n i z a t i o n a l i d e n t i t y. H o w e v e r, i t s c l o s e s i m i l a r i t y
"I think it is wonderful that so many people reacted so fast from c b ' r r e s p o n d i n g w i t h a g e n c i e s t o t h e A i r F o r c e u n i f o r m s o m e t i m e s e v o k e s r e s e n t m e n t a m o n g s o m e
so many different places to start searching for me. I would be very o u t s i d e C A P o r C A P - U S A F
Air Force personnel-probably because they do not understand that
much interested in hearing about the search operation from your w h e n r e q u e s t i n g u n i t p r o p e r t y. i t s s i m i l a r i t y i s i n t e n t i o n a l , i n d i c a t i v e o f o u r o f fi c i a l a u x i l i a r y s t a t u s .
Instead, see your squadron
point of view. Some of the details may be helpful to me in a paper I s u p p l y o f fi c e r a n d a s s u m i n g
There is validity in wearing of the uniform by the hard core
am preparing for the Flight Safety Foundation.
your need is valid, he will submit
professional management, administrative, and operational senior
a request to the wing material
"As you probably know, my injuries, although fairly fight under
personnel of CAP as well as an appropriate type of uniform for our
o f fi c e r.
the circumstances, were severe enough to keep me in the Lake Placid
If the property you seek for
cadets.
Hospital all of August. ! had a broken ankle, broken shoulder, y o u r u n i t i s a v a i l a b l e h e w i l l
The Uniform is symbolic of organization discipline and authority
crushed-in rib cage, bruised heart, fractured jaws, left cheek bone
issue it and if the item is not in
and left eye socket, fractured skull, and concussion. I recuperated at s t o c k h e w i l l p a s s y o u r r e q u e s t
in Civil Air Patrol and when it is worn it MUST be worn with pride,
to the wing liaison office who
dignity and respect. Careless, indifferent or sloppy wear of the
our summer home in Tupper 'Lake until Oct. I st and then returned
will take the appropriate action.
uniform is wilfully demeaning the uniform-an act punishable under
to our home here on Long Island to continue getting back to
One point must be kept in
t h e U n i f o r m C o d e o f M i l i t a r y J u s t i c e w i t h i n t h e M i l i t a r y. A n d i n
normal. The doctors say I can start back to work next week on a m i n d a t a l l t i m e s . A l t h o u g h y o u
Civil Air Patrol we intend to eliminate every vestige of Uniform
part time basis.
may have a valid need and since
CAP exists on property
impropriety.
"On the day of the accident I remember listening for planes all
day. Yours was the first I heard. I remember somehow getting out of d e t e r m i n e d e x c e s s b y t h e
Immediate corrective action should be taken to upgrade our
Department of Defense, there is
the plane and waving my blood soaked handkerchief so that if the
Officer personnel in the area of Military customs, courtesy,
never any assurance your unit's
plane was spotted you would know I was still alive. I remember you requirements will be satisfied.
leadership and training in the performance of their duty assignment.
Wing, Region liaison
made a low pass over the plane and wiggled your wings. I knew then
Criteria for officer personnel should be reviewed and upgraded to
personnel and National
for sure that I had been seen and help would come soon. How you
the highest practical level and the regulatory criteria for
Headquarters are charged to do
saw me VII never know. Before leaving Tupper, Dr. Berganinni (a
appointment and promotion, which in recent years has been
their best to assist your unit and
pilot who was lowered by helicopter Sunday aan. to tend to me)
will continue to do so.
somewhat relaxed, should be forcefully restated and enforced.
flew me over the site and, although he knew where to look, it took a
We ask your support. Refrain
All of these matters will be a subject of discussion with the
full hour to spot the plane. 1'11 never forget the feeling of relief I had f r o m s e n d i n g l e t t e r s t o
governmental agencies or
National Commander and will receive the full attention of'the
when I saw those wiggling wings. Thanks for everything.
specific persons in government.
National Executive Committee at its next meeting.
"F. Peter Simmons."
If you have a valid complaint in
In the interim, all levels of command must exercise their
the area of unit property
I would like to thank Major McCardle for sharing this letter with
acquisition, use the prescribed
authority in requiring strict compliance with the regulations
us and to commend him for his flying skill and for his ability in air
CAP complaint procedures
governing these matters.
covered in CAPR-123-3.
search which enabled him to effect Mr. Simmons's rescue.
i

These actions are in the highest tradition of Civil Air Patrol and
reflect great credit upon himself and the organization.

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Outlook

.... by Chaplain Vincent C. MerJ'eld

SCience Compresses Our Joy
No doubt, many of us
remember the time when we
shot a picture with the old box
camera and then waited in
anticipation for two weeks for
the final product. All during this
time we wondered just how it
was going to come out, and then
came the actual joy or sorrow at
what we produced.
Science has now ended all
that delightful anticipation. In a
matter of seconds we can snap
the picture and have the final
product in all its resplendent
c o l o r. A n d i f w e d o n ' t l i k e i t , w e
can just take another right on
the spot. A remarkable
accomplishment indeed. And
yet, I wonder which was more
fun.
F a r b e i t f r o m m e t o
d i s p a r a g e m o d e r n t e c h n o l o g y,
but I think the old way had its
charms, even though the results
were not nearly as good. Our
enjoyment was spread out for
us. We had fun taking the
picture~ and we had ,fun looking,
a t / j t / w b ~ n , , i t ~ t f m a l l y, c a m e . ~ '

between, there was the happy
anticipation. Modern science
now compresses our joy so that
in an amazingly brief space we
snap the picture, look at it---and
forget it.
Now let us look at other
forms of modern instant
gratification in our affluent
s o c i e t y. W e c a n p i c k u p t h e
telephone and without moving
from the chair can talk to people
t h o u s a n d s o f m i l e s a w a y. We c a n
switch on the television and
s t a n d r i g h t n e x t t o t h e
quarterback as he directs the
football team, or look directly
into the eyes of the President of
the United States as he addresses
the nation.
A generation ago we didn't
d a r e d r e a m o f s u c h
accomplishments; and yet, I do
not think that our lives were so
restless and unfulfilled as they
s e e m t o b e t o d a y. P e r h a p s w e ' r e
not equipped by nature to
handle the rush of sensual
exper,ie.nqes now available~ and,
p?esented,tpus.,~ , ,,~i~" .,

Instant gratification has hurt
u s i n m a n y w a y s . C e r t a i n l y, i t i s
a mistake to think that the most
i m p o r t a n t h u m a n d r i v e s and
of
w a n t s a r e c a p a b l e
i n s t a n t a n e o u s f u l fi l l m e n t and
that all human problems can be
s o l v e d n o w. A g o o d e x a m p l e i s
t h e V i e t n a m W a r.
Everyone wants it to be
ended as soon as possible, but
there are some who believe that
all we have to do it pull out--like
switching off a TV program that
we find boring or offensive. And
the impatience of young people
who want to be treated like
up
adults without growing
emotionally--it takes time.
Maturity does not come
without exnerience. Then there
are those in the church who
want change yesterday; and it
they don't get it, they quit. It
would seem that they are more
interested
i n t h e i r o w n
gratification
as opposed to
"sticking to
their guns" and
fighting for what they believe in.
Otherwise, their, belie@s car~'t be
worth much.
, :~ ..,. ~,:! ,~;

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FEBRUARY. 1970

PAGE 5

FAA, CAP Discusses
Resources. Integration
WASHINGTON, "D.C.--Plans
for greater intergation of Civil
A i r P a t r o l - F e d e r a l Av i a t i o n
Administration activities were
discussed in a one-day
conference of Air Force and
FA A r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s i n
Washington, D.C. in December.
The informal luncheon
meeting brought together
Pentagon leaders, Headquarters
CAP-USAF representatives and

FAA officials in a move aimed
to ensure greater cooperation on
safety and other programs
among the respective agencies.
Col L. H. McCormack Jr.,
C A P - U S A F, c h i e f o f s t a f f ,
representing Brig. Gen. Richard
N. Ellis, national commander,
reported on plans to attract
general aviation members into
CAP. He also discussed long
term planning for developing an
instrument training program
within the organization.
Dr. Theodore Marts, Deputy
for Reserve Affairs, Department
of the Air Force, who had
proposed the meeting, indicated
his belief that CAP slwuld use its
capability to better assist the
FAA in furthering its aviation
MAXWELL AFB, Ala.--Two
recent accidents reported to safety. He also cited other areas
CAP's National Headquarters where both CAP and FAA might
serve as grim reminders of the cooperate, particularly FAA in
need to check aircraft magnetos the instructional-training area.
Other topics discussed
after each flight, safety officials
included developing capability
here warned. Two pilots received
m a j o r i n j u r i e s f r o m a i r c r a f t fo? CAP to conduct instrument
propellers and in each instance flying and ground school clinics
for general aviation pilots; CAP
the pilot was pulling the
plan,
p r o p e l l e r t h r o u g h a f t e r t h e support
which FA A i s d e v e l o p i n g a
engine failed to start.
proposal airfield survey in which
The magnetos were off in
CAP participation might be
both cases and the engine fired,
sought and national and regional
causing the pilot leg injuries
CAP-sponsored flying clinics.
from the whirling propeller.
Dr. MarTs was joined by Col.
To p r e v e n t t h i s t y p e o f W i l l a r d H . S m i t h , s p e c i a l
accident, safety officials said, assistant to Deputy for Reserve
the aircraft magnetos should be
Affairs, DAF and Lt. Col. John
checked after each flight by
L. Bridges, chief, Civil Air Patrol
turning the mags off
Branch, Office of Air Force
momentarilly with the engine
Reserves.
running just above idle speed. If
C o l . A n d r e w J . R i t c h e y,
the engine continues to run with
deputy chief of staff, operations
the mag switch off, the aircraft
and Lt. Col. Alton L. Hilton,
should be grounded and
director of safety at Hq.,
appropriate placards installed C A P - U S A F, a t t e n d e d w i t h
until the discrepancy is cleared,
Colonel McCormack.
furthermore, all propellers
Representing John Shaffer,
should be inspected as if the mag
FAA Administrator, were: Oscar
switches were on, safety officials Bakke, associate administrator
said.
for general a~,iation affairs;
Ralph R. Lovering, special
A little carelessness around
assistant for industry operations;
propellers can be expensive and
Mervin K. Strickler Jr., special
can cost a life, they said.
assistant for aviation education;
Thomas J. Creswell, director of
training; and Andrew J. Prokop,
C h i e f , G e n e r a l Av i a t i o n
Operations branch.

CAP Concerned
About Pilots'
Prop Accidents

CAP HONORS EDUCATOR-Eugene Kropf
(right), holds a plaque he received from John V.
Sorenson (center), CAP assistant deputy chief
of staff for education and training for services
to the fiation and Civil Air Patrol. Cited as an
outstanding educator, aerospace leader and
patriotic American, Kropf is the public affairs
officer for Federal Aviation Administration's

western region, a member of the CAP National
Aerospace Education Advisory Committee and
pioneer in aerospace education workshop
activities. Also attending the awards
presentation ceremony in November in New
Orleans is Dr. J. Wesley Crum, former NAEAC
Chairman. (United States Air Force Photo).

of the SARDA
O e g
CAP T W O C 11 e s T o S p onsor

News Writer
Joins CAP

DOYLESTOWN, Pa.--Noted
newspaper woman, Mrs. Harry
McCann, Daily Intelligencer staff
w r i t e r a n d n e w s r e p o r t e r,
recently joined the Doylestown
Squadron after becoming
impressed with Civil Air Patrol
activities throughout the nation.
During the years she has
worked closely with the local
CAP unit and earned tile Civil
Air Patrol Certificate of
Appreciation for her outstanding
contributions to the
organization while covering
assignments for her newspaper.
Mrs. McCann also won the
Keystone Press award for
outstanding journalistic
accomplishments. This award is
presented by the Pennsylvania
Newspaper Publishers
Association, the Pennsylvania
Society of Newspaper Editor
and the Pennsylvania State
Lhiversity School of Journalism.
Needless searches can be
avoided by closing out, your
flight plan.

Safety Team
(Continued from Page 1)
member Lt. Col. Raymond B.
Maybrey is a senior Federal
Aviation Administration medical
examiner and until recently the
director of the FAA Washington
Medical Clinic in D.C.
The other council members
a r e L t . C o l a . R o b e r t W.
Griswold, North Central Region,
Fred S. Adams, Southwest
R e g i o n a n d M a j . C l i ff o r d L .
Stone, Southeast Region. The
Great Lakes Region and the
Pacific Region have not yet
appointed represen~tives to the
council.
The council's initial plans for
establishing a realistic safety
program call for the installation
of a safety officer in each CAP
unit, safety education program
to include instructional material
for safety officers, a safety
incentive program and the
development of a professional
attitudeby those operating
aircraft or ground vehicles.

Aerospace Education Ventures
M A X W E L L A FB,
ALA.--Civil Air Patrol will
sponsor an international venture
in aerospace education next
summer in cooperation with
Weber Slate College, Ogden,
Carolina
U t .a h , , a n d .E a, s t
~
Umverstty, Greenwlle, N.C.
Featuring a jet flying
classroom to five European
capitals--London, Berlin, Rome,
Geneva, and Paris--the 1970
International Aerospace
Education Workshop is designed
to give teachers, counselors,
school administrators, and other

Careless Preflight
Attitude "Is Cause
Of Accidents

One of the most common
types of !'war stories" heard in
hangar sessions are those
embarrassing incidents where
some pilot either neglected his
pre-flight altogether or was
careless in performing it. Who
hasn't heard of aircraft taxiing
out' with red streamers from the
gear pins flapping in the breeze?
Or known of a student pilot
wearing a T-33 fuel cap around
his neck after spewing jet fuel
over the countryside?
No one is immune. Take the
Quality Control Officer in
Vietnam who took off in a
freshly delivered OV.110 with a
wooden elevator lock still in
place. His face turned from
ashen-white to beet-red when he
found he'd taken a picture with
the lock standing out like a sore
thumb.
Stories of red-faced pilots like
these are humorous--if the blood
rushing to his face and making
him blush stays inside the skin.
Often as not, a careless pre-flight
causes a needless accident and
there's nothing humorous about
spilled blood.
Pre-flights are lifesavers, but
only if done properly. A poor
pre-flight is no more a lifesaver
than a life raft with a ~hol~ in its'

educators an opportunity to
tour Europe and at the same
time evaluate personally the
international imi~act of air and
space achievements, on today's
world.
The academic part of the tour
will include lectures by
internationally known leaders in
education, aviation, space
technology, military affairs, and
international relations.
Participants may earn-six quarter
hours of credit from Weber State
College, but non-credit and
special student may also register.
The tour will leave New York
July 14 and return to New York
August 4. Cost of the entire
tour, including university fees,
round.trip transportation from

New York and back, hotels,
meals, sightseeing, transfers,
taxes, and gratuities is $970.00.
Participants must be members
of Civil Air Patrol or of CAP's
Aerospace Education
Association. For full particulars
and application, write to
International Aerospace
Education Workshop
Headquarters, Civil
Air Patrol (CPED)
bhxwell Air Force
Base, Alabama 36112
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Tag Day Drive Nets Cadets $554
PALM BEACH, Fla.--The Palm Beach Cadet Squadron members
of the Florida Wing collected $554.18 for its operational and
building funds recently when they conducted a Civil Air Patrol flag
day drive here among local shoppers.
The donations will be used for the unit's operational program and
to erect a new building at the expanding airport, officials said.
Four cadets were cited for turning in the largest collections. They
were Cadet Robert A. Frost who collected $122.68 in voluntary
donations; Cadet Jon P. Matting, $108.92, Cadet Kevin P. Walkover,
$103.80 and Stephen L. Morris, $91.38.

Crowned Queen of Maryland Wing
BETHESDA, Md.--Cadet 1st Lt. Lorie Hall of the
Bethesda-Chevy Chase Cadet Squadron recently was crowned Miss
Maryland Wing of 1970 at the Cadet Advisory Council Ball at Fort
Holabird Officers' Open Mess at Baltimore. She earlier was named
the Outstanding Cadet of the Year award winner at the unit's annual
awards night and Christmas party at St. Paul's Methodist Church
here and awarded a solo flight scholarship in recognition of her
achievements, Capt. William R. Hicks, squadron commander,
announced.

West Point Cadet Addresses CAP Cadets
WILMINGTON, Del.--Senior Cadet Donald Goff of the West
Point Military Academy explained how his participation in Civil Air
Patrol activities enabled him to meet the standards for appointment
to West Point when he addressed members of the Wilmington Cadet
Squadron recently at their December meeting. He also outlined the
requirements for getting into the academy and later conducted a
question and answer period after showing the film "Making of a
Leader."

Hobbs Squadron Hosts Commanders
HOBBS, N. Mex.--The Hobbs Squadron of the New Mexico Wing
was host for the Southeastern Group Commanders conference and
the cadet advisory council here. Among the dignitaries attending was
Col. Dale Parsons, New Mexico Wing commander. During the
conference, Colonel Parsons presented the Hobbs unit the wing drill
team award for the squadron's achievements in a recent drill
competition.

Cadets Form Honor Guard for Burial
MOLINE, Ill.--Members of Quad City Cadet Squadron provided a
guard of honor, a color guard and pallbearers for the funeral of
former cadet Michael Lipe who died recently as the rebait of a "hit
and run" accident. He was a member of the Quad City Cadet
Squadron before his death.

Two Named to National Honor Society
BELLEVILLE, Iil.--Two Belle-Clair Optimist Cadet Squadron
members Cadet Capts. Claudia Tonsi and Mary Ann Hartmann have
been named-to the National Honor Society at the Academy of Notre
Dame at ceremonies last month at the academy's Regina Hall
auditorium. The pair was among 24 girls approved by the academy
for the honor society for demonstrating exceptional achievements in
academics, leadership, character and service.

Cadets Search for Missing Boy
BRONX, ~Y.--Three Bronx Cadet units conducted a massive
search of the New York subway systems for a mentally-retarded boy
listed missing between 14th Street and IRT Division in December.
Some 40 cadets compiled more than 360 man-hours while covering
more than 150 miles on the search operation.
Despite the intensive search of the subway system covering
Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn the boy was not found.
It is believed that he may have gotten off the train and wandered
into Manhattan or Greenwich Village.
The search was the second of its kind for the Bronx Cadet Group.
Four years,ago, the unit rescued a mentally-retarded youth from the
subway system after a ~hree-day search effort.
',

FEBRUARY, 1970

CIVIL AIR PATROL NEWS

Two WAF
CALENDER OF EVENTS
Assigned
To CAP Hq.
MAXWELL AFB, Ala.-Two
new WAF officers have been
assigned duty at CAP-USAF
Headquarters recently. They are
2d Lts. Krystyna Kraska and
Toni-Anna Bjorn.
A former school teacher with
the South Bend School
Corporation at South Bend,
Ind., Lieutenant Kraska is
assigned to the Deputy Chief of
Staff of CAP Personnel section.
Lieutenant Bjorn, a physical
educator with the Unit IV
Schools at Champaign, Ill., prior
to her entrance into the AF,
succeeds 1st Lt. Kathryn J.
Wilson as chief of the cadet
orientation section of the CAP
Cadet Special Activities. Lt.
Wilson is presently attending
Squadron Officers School at
Maxwell.
Lt. Kraska, a graduate of Clay
High School at South Bend,
Ind., attended St. Mary's College
of South Bend where she earned
a bachelor of arts degree. She
also attended the University of
Madrid in Spain, and earned her
Air Force commission through
the Officers Training School,
Lackland A F B , Te x a s , i n
December.
She is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Kraska of 227
West Cripe Street, Sbuth Bend.
Lieutenant Bjorn also was
commissioned through the Air
Force Officers Training School
at Lackland AFB in December.
Before entering the Air Ibrce
she graduated from the East
High School at Rockford, Ill.
and the University of Illinois at
Champaign with a bachelor of
science degree. While in college
she was a member of the Zeta
Tau Alpha and Alpha Sigma Nu
scholastic
achievement
fraternities.
She is the daughter of Mr.
Hartman A. Bjorn of 311 N. Day
Ave., Rockford.

EVENT
CAP Advisory
Panel Meeting
NEC Meeting
MER Conference
SWR Conference

PACR Conference
NEC Meeting
SER Conference
NCR Conference
RMR Conference
(tentative)
IACE Planning
Conference
National Board
Meeting

DATE

Feb. 4
Mar. 21
Apr. 10-12

Apr. 17-18

PLACE

Pentagon,
Washington, D.C.
Allentown, Pa.
Myrtle Beach, S.C.

May 9
June 5
Aug. 14-15
Aug. 28-29

Lake Murray Lodge,
Oklahoma
Las Vegas, Nev.
Anchorage, Alaska
Savannah, Ga.
Sioux Fails, S.D.

Sept. 11-12

Jackson, Wyo.

Sept. 30-Oct. 1

Washington, I).C.
Statler-Hilton,
Washingtorl, D.C.

GLR Conference
NI~.R Conference

Oct. 9-10
Oct. 30-31
Nov. 20-21

NEC Meeting

Dec. 4-5

Indianapolis, Ind.
Shelburne Hotel,
Atlantic City, N.J.
Maxwell AFB, Ala.

CAP Assists MAC
With 'Burn' Victim

BUTTE, Mont.-Joey Anderson spent Christmas Eve aboard an
Air Force aeromedical jet as it sped to Cincinnati, Ohio. There was
no Santa to make the tot hugh, even if he could have. No Yule
caroling. It might have been a matter of life or death-Joey's.
The 18-month-old boy had
suffered third degree burns over 60 per cent of his body and was
being airlifted to the Shrine
Institute Hospital in Cincinnati
in an effort to save his life.
The aircraft, a jet C-9A
Nightingale, belonged to the
MILLIS, Mass.--Five Norfolk l l t h A e r o m e d i c a l A i r l i f t
C o u n t y C a d e t S q u a d r o n Squadron at Scott AFB, Ill. Civil
Air Patrol volunteers from the
members earned Billy Mitchell
awards and promotion to cadet Butte area assisted in parking the
aircraft.
warrant officer recently here.
Officials at the Cincinnati
Mark Brewer, John Henderson,
Mark Jewell, David Johnson and hospital which specializes in
Frank Zersky Jr. attended the b u r n t r e a t m e n t r e c e n t l y
reported that Joey is still listed
1969 Massachusetts Wing
Summer Encampment at Otis in critical condition.
The emergency air evacuation
AFB to qualify for the awards.
Cadet Brewer is a squadron got under way when Air Force
instructor; Henderson, cadet Recruiters at Butte heard of the
adjutant-operations officer; child's plight from Shriner
Jeweli, cadet military education Hospital representatives and
officer; Johnson, drill instructor c a l l e d t h e D e p a r t m e n t o f
and Zeraky, one of three cadet D e f e n s e a t t h e P e n t a g o n ,
Washington, D.C., for emergency
private pilots in the unit.
assistance. The Recruiters, MSgt.
James Kruckeberg and SSgt.
Willis Cook also alerted the
members of the Butte
Composite Squadron to be ready
to assist with parking the aircraft
and crowd control generated by
the news of the airplane's arrival.
Capts. Hoilis E. Coon and
Juanita Hubber of the Butte
CAP unit commanded the cadets'
engaged in the operation. The
cadets were Jim Peterson, Mike
R o l p h , J i l l G r a t z e r, B e c k y
Renzema, Hal Hubber, Shelley
Jones, Ralph Gibbs and Jeff
Tong.
The MAC airerew engaged in
the humanitarian airlift included
Maj. Douglas Erickson, aircraft
c o m m a n d e r, M a j . Ta i C b u n ,
co-pilot, Sgt. Herbert E.
Dickson, flight engineer, Capt.
Mary E. Adams, medical crew
director, TSgt. Stanley Piasecki
COMMENDED-Navy Captain T. B. Purvis Jr. (center), deputy
and SSgt. Lacey Bell, medical
commander of the Defense Electronics Supply Center,
technicians.
Dayton, Ohio, receives a Civil Air Patrol certificate and letter
In a token of the grateful
of appreciation from Dayton-Gentile Squadron 704 officials.
appreciation of the Butte
Honoring Captain Purvis for his support to CAP are Maj. Roger
townspeople, the local Camp
Baxter (left), squadron commander and Lt. Col. Daniel
Fire Girls presented the MAC
aircraft crew with a bouquet of
Rosinsky, squadron liaison officer. Captain Purvis was
bright carnations.
recognized for his support to the organization at a ceremony
before his retirement from the U.S. Navy in December. (Photo
Follow your flight plan.

Five Cadets Win
Mitchell Awards

courtesy Of the Defense SUpply Agency)

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PAGE 8

CIVIL AIR PATROL NEWS

FEBRUARY, 1970

Moon Next for Polar Visitor
TUSCALOOSA, Ala.--"Some
people think the trip to the
Antarctic was the trip of a
lifetime and I know it was, but I
want to go to the moon now."
Back at the University of
Alabama here from a two.month
junket at the U.S. Antarctic base
at McMurdo Sound," Alan
Cockrell, a student at the
University, described this new
goal. It will mean more
education for this Civil Air
Patrol cadet.
"I'll have to get a Ph.D.
degree in geology with
specialties in lunar geology and
volcanic action probably to even
qualify. That's my aim now," he
said.
Cockrell, a junior in the
College of Arts and Sciences,
majoring in geology, said this
factor was "very significant" in
his selection for the trip. He and
John Coefield of Montana State
University were chosen in
August from some 32,200 Civil
Air Patrol cadets. The National
Science Foundation paid their
expenses.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Last fall, two Civil Air Patrol cadets, John A.
Coefield, student at Montana State University, and Alan H. Cockrell,
student at the University of Alabama, travelled to the Antarctic as
part of the National Science Foundation's annual scientific
expedition.
The two were attached to the U.S. Antarctic Research Program
and participated in many of the program's current projects.
The stories on this page describe something of their experiences.
The story about Cadet Cockrell was supplied by the University of
Alabama News Bureau. While it speaks only of Cockrell, it should be
personnel, boarded a Navy
McMURDO, Antarctica-Hercules aircraft for the
remembered that Cadet Coefield shared in all the activities. The Operation DEEP FREEZE's
three-hour flight to South Pole
story of the visit to the South Pole was supplied by U.S. Navy A n t a r c t i c D e v e l o p m e n t
Station.
Squadron Six (VXE-6)played
sources as were the photographs.
When they landed at the
host in November to two
southern end of the earth's axis,
members of Civil Air Patrol.
the group was met by Bill Van
p.m. after which we had free and their heads bear a marked
Tw o c o l l e g e s t u d e n t s ,
Steveninck, a seismologist with
resemblance to bird dogs with
time until we went to bed,"
sophomore John A. Coefield,
the U.S. Coastal Geodetic
long whiskers."
Cockrell said.
majoring in chemistry at
Survey, who acted as guide.
In addition to using seals as
At McMurdo, the Navy had
Montana State University, and
After a meal of truly
recreational facilities which they playmates, Cockrell took part in
junior Alan H. Cockrell, a
"southern" fried chicken, the
made available to the tourists. a study of mammals in their
geology major at the University
men toured the entire station,
Included were an officers club, underwater habitat. A television
of Alabama, were chosen by the
including a mile walk to the true
pool tables and movies. "They camera was set up under water
National Science Foundation to
geographic South Pole. It took
showed three old Audie Murphy
to watch the seals and study
longer than usual due to the
visit Antarctica.
c o w b o y m o v i e s o n e w e e k , " their living habits.
10,500 foot altitude, thin air,
During the week of Nov. 16,
commented Cockrell. "Football
Other studies were conducted
and the minus 37 degree
the two men, escorted by VXE-6
scores arrived about 24 hours as to the feasibility of marketing
temperature.
after the games were played, so
Scientific Studies
the fur and blubber of the seals.
"It's much easier breathing
4r 4r
we were able to keep up with "There sure are a lot of seals
back in Alabama," Cockrell
Scientific studies, performed t h e t e a m s . T h e A l a b a m a Band Penquins
noted.
down there," he said.
under the direction of
Mississippi game was broadcast
Coefield, who has spent most
established professionals
"When I first arrived at Cape
on tape, so I did hear one
of his life in Montana, had no
"We also banded about 50
absorbed most of the students'
Crozier," Cockrell reported, "I
complete game."
trouble adjusting to the thin air.
penguin chicks to study their
time-but not all. "One" of my
Most of his time was spent in saw what I thought were a lot of
Two days later, the cadets
migration habits. The chicks
biggest thrills was sitting at the work. American ingenuity came rocks along the water's edge.
took a 3~/~-hour, 910-mile trip to
don't stay close to their mothers
controls of the huge C-130
t h r o u g h w h e n i t c a m e t o They turned out to be thousands
Byrd Station, named for the
and the mothers apparently
Hercules, piloting it back from
of penguins."
dreaming up ways to pass, free
f a m e d e x p l o r e r, A d m i r a l
don't really care about their
the South Pole to McMurdo,
time, however.
According to the cadet,
Richard E. Byrd. The station is
babies. All the penguins just
approximately 900 miles from
penguins lay two green eggs each
almost completely underground.
bunch together without an inch
the Pole," Cockrell recalled.
Seals Snowballed
year, a day or two apart. In an
Escorted by one of the 12
of standing room between them
A private pilot by reason of
"'It was great fun throwing
experiment in which the Civil
scientists studying at Byrd, the
his many years as a member of snowballs at the seals," Cockrell Air Patrol members took part, and seem perfectly happy with
men were given a complete tour
the arrangement."
CAP, Alan felt quite at home said. "They didn't throw any the yolks were removed from
of the complex.
even in "that big monster."
back. Seals are rather
the eggs for protein study. "We
Catching the chicks to be
For the remainder of their
From March to September, it
nonchalant--we could walk right
were careful to take only one
banded proved to be quite a
time "on the ice" the students
is night in the Antarctic. All
u p t o t h e m w h e n t h e y w e r e egg from a mother," Cockrell
travelled to various areas and
supplies have to be flown into sleeping and they would roll said. "We would mark the first chore for the students. When
approached, the chicks would
participated in a variety of
the American's 20-man Polar
over and perhaps growl a little. egg she laid and then take the
waddle off at top speed with
scientific studies.
Base before the sun sets for 51/2
They reminded me of huge dogs.
second one. That way we didn't t h e i r p u r s u e r s s l i p p i n g a n d
months onz Feb. 20. This, in
They weigh about 1,000 pounds
disturb the penguin population. s l i d i n g o n t h e i c e . " T h e y ~ ~ i ~ i i ~
part, explaihs how Coekrell got
eventually fall flat on their
to fly easily to a spot that earlier
bellies and you can pick them
in this century claimed the lives
up. After banding they run back
of many brave explorers.
to the pack," Cockrell said.
: ~ ~ i ~
Cockrell has many pictures
but only a few souvenirs from
Catch Dragonfish
the trip--a greenish penguin egg,
some rocks and a bottle of
To study how fish live in the
glacier water.
icy waters of the Antarctic and
His clothes were supplied by
yet die when transported to
the Navy and he had to turn
warmer waters, the scientists
them in when he left, but they
fished through the ice and
served admirably to protect him
removed the hearts and livers for
from weather which, even in
study. Seal blubber was used for
summer, can dip to 30 degrees
bait and more than 200 fish
below zero.
w e r e c a u g h t i n O n e d a y. " I
caught a dragon fish," CockreU
Helped Biologist
said. "The scientists considered
Throughout the 10-week
it quite unusual and pickled it
period he and Coefield were
rather than cutting it up. It was
there, they helped biologists
an aggressive fish that put up a
from the University of
real fight. It looked devilish and
Minnesota study the life of seals;
had ears and pointed teeth."
worked with University of
Civil Air Patrol has been good
California biochemists studying
to him, Cockrell reported. CAP
the blood protein of fish;
helped him earn his pilot license,
studied the relationship of solar
put him on seven summer
flares to radio blackouts and
encampments, gave him jet
how to predict these events
orientation studies, enabled him
which ground all planes and blot
to travel internationally, and
out communications; and made
THE TIP END-CAP Cadet John
finally made it possible for him
several geologic and glacial
Coefield of Montana poses
to go to the Antarctic.
determinations.
FAR SOlYfH FLIGHT-CAP Cadet Alan Cockrell tests his
beside the world's farthest-south
Without a sunset to tell the
Cockrell's friends report that
knowledge of flying by acting as co-pilot aboard a C-130
point, the South Pole. He was
students and scientists when
they would not be greatly
Hercules aircraft en route to McMurdo Sound in the Antarctic
guest of the U.S. Navy on the
evening had arrived, schedules
surprised if the next stop for this
from the geographic South Pole. Alan said he felt right at
flight to the U.S. base at the
according to the clock were
talented young man really is the
home in the "big monster." (U.S. NAVY PHOTO)
pole. (U.S. NAVY PHOTO)
observed. "Supper was at 5:30
moon.

Navy Host to Cadets

On South Pole Flight

FEBRUARY, 1970

PAGE 9

CIVIL AIR PATROL NEWS

Te x a n . s S p o t

Plane Wreck
CONROE, Texas-Texas Wing fliers found the wreckage of a late
model Cessna 172 and the bodies of the pilot and three passengers
near Belleville, Texas, some 14 hours after becoming involved in the
air and ground search mission in December. Nine light aircraft flown
by pilots of the Texas Wing and helicopters from Texas Department
of Public Safety and Houston's Sheriff's office were involved in the
aerial search.
Some 70 senior members and
cadets from Groups 13 and 22
under the command of Lt. Col.
James L. Oliver were engaged on
the mission with Maj. Don Bray
the mission coordinator. Mission
headquarters was at
Montgomery C o u n t y A i r p o r t
near Conroe.
The missing plane was on a
OR the benefit of all
flight from Dei Rio to Houston
members of the Civil Air
when it crashed near Belleville.
Patrol, CAP News publishes
Also responding to the
the latest statistics of search
SARCAP were Civil Air Patrol
and rescue activities
members from Dallas who were
throughout the organization.
forced to return home because
These are unofficial figures
of poor flying weather in the
c o m p i l e d b y t h e
area.
D CS/Operations at CAP's
National Headquarters.

iiiiiii!!!iii!i!iiiiTii!Ti!i

F

CAP Unit
On Guard
At Crash

CAP SAR Activities
(As of Jan. 18)
Number
of missions .......
16
Number
o f a i r c r a f t . . . . . . . . . . 234
Number
o f s o r t i e s . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Flying
H o u r s . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703.9
Participating
m e m b e r s . . . . . . . . . . . 338
Mobile
Radios .............
9
Fixed
Stations ............ 24
Lives
Saved .............
0
Persons
Evacuated .......... 1
Persons
Assisted ............
1
SAR Objectives
Located ............ 4

THUNDERBIRDS WELCOMED-The United
States Air Force Thunderbirds are welcomed
and presented a Civil Air Patrol memento of
their return to Kirtland AFB, N. Mex., by
members of CAP Thunderbirds Cadet Squadron
IV, New Mexico Wing. The award is presented

ARRS Man in Vietnam says:

CAP SARTraining Put to Good Use

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio--Civil
LY N W O O D , C a l i f . - - A
Air Patrol senior members and
Ly n w o o d C a d e t S q u a d r o n
cadets maintained an
around-the-clock vigil at the Pike member who is now serving in
County hillside aircraft crash site the Air Force is putting his CAP
from Dec. 17-19 until the bodies
emergency services training to
of the
five victims were
good use while performing his
removed.
duties in Vietnam.
Killed in the accident were
In a letter to CAP's National
Glenda Barnes, Michael Gibson, H e a d q u a r t e r s i n w h i c h h e
Donald H. Martin, the pilot
D a v i d E . We i d n e r o f M o u n t requested CAP membership
Carmel, Ohio, and Billy Hinson renewal, AIC Jeffrey L. Whitted
said:
of Arlington, Tex. The plane was
on a flight from Cincinnati, Ohio
"It will interest you to know
to Parkerburg, W. Va. when the that a'Civil Air Patrol member is
crash occurred.
engaged in search and rescue
Engaged in the vigil were SMs
operations in Southeast Asia. I
Allen Howell, Mike Davis,
work primarily with the 40th
* These statistics do not
F r a n k l i n To t h a n d J e a n e t t e
include participation by
Aerospace Rescue and Recovery
Howell. The cadets involved in
Hawaii or Puerto Rico Wings.
Squadron as an aerial combat
the mission were Larry
documentary photographer from
Shunway, David James, Rerry
the 600th Photographic
Angel, Mike Bowman, Charles
Squadron.
P r o p p i n g a c c i d e n t s c a n b e ] B e l l , R i c h a r d K i m b l e r, P h i l l
Malone, James Fuller, Carl Bias,
"Our unit flies daily orbits
stopped-you can do it.
Randy Rhoden, Fred Nelson and n e a r s t r i k e z o n e s a n d i s
Martin Van Bibber.
immediately on hand to rescue

I

I

CAP Credited ~'ith Saves

Pilot Starts Kentucky SARCAP
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--A private
pilot who failed to close out his
flight plan triggered a massive
day long search for him by
members of the Kentucky Wing
in December. He was located at
Harlan, Ky.
The wing alerted 25 pilot
members and 30 observers to
begin flying missions for the
pilot listed as missing on a flight
from Ashland, Ky. to Tri-City,
Tenn. Four CAP airplanes and
15 member-owned airplanes
were used in the aerial search as
a total of 70 senior members and

downed crew members. We fly
the HH-53 helicopter
betterknown as the Super Jolly
Green Giant or affectionately
called by us the BUFF (Big Ugly
Flying Fellow).
"In my four months of
flying, I have assisted in three
search and rescue efforts in
which nine downed aircrew
members were rescued,

"Being a Civil Air Patrol
member makes the search and
rescue operations in Southeast
Asia even more worthwhile. This
is because of the training I
received in Civil Air Patrol. I feel
that such training will not only
be an asset to myself but to the
cadets l plan to work with on
my return to the United States,"
he concluded.

Californians Close SAR
After Finding Airplane

BURBANK, Calif.-Civil Air Patrol fliers spotted the wreckage of
a fight plane in Nehall Pass on Oak Mountain, Jan. 17, and brought
to a close two days of intensive aerial search operations by the
California Wing. Pilot, WO Clifford Shipser, and observer, ~O Tony
Colletti, were credited with the find.
Civil Air Patrol was called
into the search operation Jan. 15
after the Beech Bonanza plane,
piloted by Donald Cupt of
Delano, Calif., was reported
missing on a flight from Van
Nuys Airport to Delano.
Mexico Wing of Civil Air Patrol. Air Patrol with saving the lives
MANCHESTER, N.H.--The
In charge of the CAP
of the four after they became
New Hampshire Wing,
The Air Force's Aerospace
operations was Maj. Joseph W. commanded by Col. Donald R.
Rescue and Recovery Service at lost on a hunting trip in the
Q u i n n w h o l a u n c h e d 1 8 DeFoe, in December, responded
wilds of New Mexico.
Scott AFB, I11., credited Civil
CAP-member-owned aircraft and 'to an emergency situation by
The saves gave CAP 37 for
three ground teams in the search
rushing emergency electrical
the year, ARRS officials said.
effort.
power to homes and farms in the
A t o t a l o f 4 5 C A P s e n i o r towns of Enfield, Cannan, Lyme
The group, which earlier bad
members and four cadets were
40 cadets responded to the l e f t E l P a s o f o r a h u n t i n g
and Oxford, N.H.
engaged in the search. They were
SARCAP.
venture to Yellow Creek, N.M.,
A severe ice storm after the
was spotted from the air by a s u p p o r t e d b y r a d i o
S up porting air operations
Christmas holidays knocked
C A P N e w M e x i c o W i n g communications from two fixed
were personnel manning 13
volunteer pilot, who directed a
stations, six mobile units and 18 electricity out for approximately
fixed communications stations
three days.
forest service ground party in for airborne stations. The pilots,
and 27 mobile units including
observers and ground rescue
Using an Army-type truck
three airborne communications the find.
teams were members of Group t o w i n g t r a i l e r w i t h a b i g
New Mexico Wing fliers
stations. Ten CAP vechicles,
g e n e r a t o r, C A P m e m b e r s
One's Squadron 35.
eight CAP trucks and some 50
logged 46 hours in 10 sorties in
provided emergency electric
Also engaged in the search
support of the search and rescue
private automobiles were p/essed
e ff o r t w e r e t w o h e l i c o p t e r s power at different points to help
i n t o s e r v i c e t o s u p p o r t t h e operation.
crews from the Los Angeles
warm cold homes, run freezing
mission.
Found were Fred Kyle and County Sheriff's Department equipment to save supplies Of
Lt. Col. Richard R. Dooley, his two sons, Dave and Robert,
and the members of the Los frozen food, pump water for
was the mission coordinator for a n d a t h i r d t e e n a g e r, E r i c A n g e l e s C o u n t y F i r e
livestock and pump milk from
Thompson.
the search.
Department.
storage tanks into trucks.

Lost Hunters R ascued by New Mexico Wing
Y E L L O W C R E E K ,
N.M.-Four Texas hunters were
alive to usher in the new year,
thanks to efforts of the New

by C/lst Lt. Darwin K. Erickson and C/Lt. Col.
Russell Parmley on behalf of the CAP unit
which is named after the famed aerial
demonstration team. (United States Air Force
Photo).

Wing Raspond
To Power Cut

FEBRUARY, 19~[0.

CIVIL AIR PATROL NEWS

PAGE 10

Three Recruiters Honor Brooklyn Men
BROOKLYN, N.Y.--Two Brooklyn Group senior members
recently received honorary recruiters titles from three branches of
the Armed Services for promoting enlistment in the military services
and providing closer cooperation between the military and Civil Air
Patrol units in the area.
Named honorary recruiters by the Air Force, Navy and U.S.
Marine Corps were 1st Lt. Henry A. Shapiro, group information
officer and his assistant, MSgt. Edward LaPorte.

Tennesseans Visit Air Force Museum
T U L L A H O M A , Te n n . - - T h e Tu l l a h o m a C a d e t S q u a d r o n ,
Manchester, Winchester and Group VI personnel of the Tennessee
Wing recently were hosted on a trip to the Air Force Museum at
Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.
The group of 41 seniors and cadet members left Sewart AFB,
Tenn. aboard a C-130 aircraft for Wright-Patterson and were
welcomed to the base and museum by Maj. Gen. Lee V. Gossick,
former commander of Arnold AFS at Tullahoma, Tenn.
During the group's visit its members toured the aeronautical
museum and saw a full complement of aircraft from the beginning of
man's flight to the present day.

Unit Salutes Its Sponsors
PULASKI, Va.--The Pulaski Squadron of the Virginia Wing
recently saluted members of its new sponsoring committee and was
awarded a Civil Air Patrol Distinguished Unit citation for its services
to the victims of Hurricane Camille.
New sponsor committee members are C. V. Jackson, John R.
Powers and Miller Bushong. The three received sponsorship
certificates from Lt. Col. H. B. Little of Blacksburg and pledged to
help the squadron find a permanent meeting place.
Maj. W. Scott Poe, Pulaski Squadron commander, received the
Distinguished Unit Citation on behalf of his squadron. The unit was
cited for its service in the Lovington area during the hurricane in
August.

New Jersey Holds Military Ball
FORT DIX, N.J.--One hundred and thirty-five guests attended
the New Jersey Wing's annual banquet and military ball recently at
this facility. Col. Walter M. Markey, New Jersey Wing commander,
was the guest speaker and Lt. Col. Frederick Bell, deputy wing
commander, the master of ceremonies.
Among the guests were Brig. Gen. John Harreli, 438th Military
Airlift Wing commander; Col. John Herbert, CAP-USAF liaison
officer to the Northeast Region; Loren V. Skoog, McGuire AFB, Lt.
Col. R. I. Nakamura, Northeast Region, Lt. Col. Charles Wood, wing
chaplain and MSgt. David Kern, CAP-USAF liaison NCO to the wing.
A program of dancing followed the dinner at the Officer's Club.

Four Decorated At National Hqs.
MAXWELL AFB, Ala.--Four men assigned to Headquarters,
CAP-USAF staff were decorated for their services at a combined
awards and retirement ceremony here, Jan. 30, and congratulated by
Brig. Gen. Richard N. Ellis, CAP's national commander.
Before his retirement from the Air Force, Col. Charles A. Allard,
outgoing liaison officer for CAP's Southeast Region, Dobbins AFB,
Ga., received the Legion of Merit medal for his work with Civil Air
Patrol.
Two other liaison officers, Cois. Robert R. Johnston, North
Central Region and Robert R. Sauer, Great Lakes Region, also
received the Legion of Merit medal for similar services. Both are to
retire this month.
The Air Force Commendation medal was awarded to SSgt.
William M. Rehberg of the CAP-USAF cadet special activities
section. He earned the decoration for serving with distinction at his
previous assignment at Gunter AFB, Aia. where he was the
noncommissioned officer in charge of the publishing branch of the
32d Air Division.

APPOINTED AS CHAPLAIN-Rev. Gerald R.
Gardner (left), who was recently appointed as a
chaplain with the grade of captain, is welcomed
to the Ohio Wing's Squadron 905 by Lt. Col.

Hazelton Uses Aircraft, Weasel
To Rescue Snowbound Motorists
DRUMS, Pa.-Civil Air Patrol aircraft and a weasel snow vehicle were used by the Hazelton Squadron
203 personnel of the Pennsylvania Wing to assist stranded motorists, locate missing persons and evacuate
an expectant mother to a hospital when 12 inches of snow blanketed the Hazelton area Christmas Day.
The weasel was used to check motorists stranded on Interstate 81 while the CAP aircraft was flown over
rural areas to spot families in distress.
The squadron brought the asked to place a red marker on i m m e d i a t e l y r e l a y e d t h e
information to the squadron
stranded motorists more than 80 the snow and those requiring
headquarters and the weasel was
food a green marker. Pilots
gallons of gasoline while
e e i n g t h e s e m a r k e r s dispatched to the area.
providing others food. Mrs. Jane
Aneskevick of Tresckow was
transported by the weasel to the
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a baby girl. Six young campers,
stranded in the woods by deep
snow drifts, also were rescued as
the weasel crew worked
throughout the emergency
period recording 50 hours of
community service and traveling
approximately 340 miles.
INCLUDING
The weasel crew included
Maj. Hubert J. Waskovich, 1st
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Duncansville Cadet Colonel Wins Falcon Award
DU N CANSVILLE,
Pa.--C/Col. Richard B. Smith,
former Duncansville Flight 1401
c a d e t c o m m a n d e r, r e c e n t l y
received the Civil Air Patrol
Falcon award at the annual
Pennsylvania Wing military ball
at the state college. He became
the 51st Civil
Air Patrol
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fourth in the
Pennsylvania
Wing to earn
the award.
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the award for~
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distinction in the honor cadre
and demonstrating outstanding
achievet,:ents in aerospace
education, military leadership,
moral leadership while attaining
top physical fitness,

Charles McClellan, Ohio Group IX commander.
The pastor of the Alliance Church at Findlay,
he has long been active in youth activities.

at the 1968 CAP-sponsored
flying encampment at Frederick,
Md.

His academic and CAP
accomplishments earned him a
total of $1,100 in CAP
A member of the corporation engineering grants during 1967
since October 1963, he has and 1968 at the Pennsylvania
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lieutenant in the Air l~6rce
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serving as a staff member and
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FAA'S HIGH FLYING NAVAID INSPECTORS are the stars in
the agency's new film, "The Inspectors." With an introduction by
Gen. James Doolittle, the 16 mm, 27-minute, color film tells the
story of the FAA flight crews which log 17 million miles a year
checking the accuracy of the navigation facilities along the 250,00Q
miles of the nation's skyways. The film will be available in late
October from the FAA Film Library, Aeronautical Center, P.O. Box
25082, Oklahoma City, Okla. 73125.
LOW COST DMEs IN THE OFFING? FAA will test two different
inexpensive, low-powered, solid state DME systems, including
ground stations and antennas, early next year at the agency National
Aviation Facilities Experimental Center (NAFEC) near Atlantic
City, N.J.

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FAA PUBLICATIONS, 1969, POSTPONED. The new catalog of
FAA publications is not expected to be available before December
29, 1969. An order form for individual cost items will appear in
FAA AVIATION NEWS for November.
P R E PA R E F O R C R O S S - C O U N T R Y
FLIGHT-CAP-USAF Pilots Lt. Cols. Alton
L.Hilton (left), director of safety and John G.
Stewart, director of current operations, ready

the Cessna 310 aircraft recently given to
National Headquarters by the Air Force for a
cross-country flight. (United States Air Force
Photo by MSgt. William J. Bond).

Hunter and the Hunted
B e c o m e s C A P Wi n t e r S a g a
by Major Gary Crawford
MAXWELL AFB, Ala.--Alvin
Fleidermous, successful
businessman, private pilot, and
for the past three days, deer
hunter, slammed the door of
Bill's Backwoods Bar behind him
to keep out the biting winter
wind. The heat from the
potbellied stove was welcome as
he stomped the snow from his

Pilots Urged
To Avoid
Thunderstorms
by Maj. Gary Crawford
Like the rose that smells the
same no matter what you call it,
the cumulo nimbus is just as
mean whether you" call it a
thunderbumper, anvil head, or
thunderstorm. By any name it is
a phenomenon of nature that
merits the utmost respect from
all who fly. The kind of respect
that the ancient Teutons gave
their god Thor, whom they saw
personified in the thunderstorm.
Well, maybe not so reverent a
respect as that but at least as
much as you'd give a loaded gun
or fused bomb.
You might even think of a
thunderstorm as a "W-bomb" or
Weather Bomb. It's well known
that the energy brewed up in a
thunderstorm makes any
H-bomb built look like a
firecracker. Fortunately for the
pilot who blunders into one, the
energy release is spread over a
period of time. Ask anyone
who's been in one and he'll say
they are hairy enough as they
are.
If the Air Force and airlines
go to great lengths to keep their
B-52's and 707's out of
thunderstorms, it only makes
good sense for the private pilot
in his little bird to steer clear
a l s o . Av o i d t h u n d e r s t o r m s .
Don't offer your airplane up as a
sacrifice to Thor by making a
thunderblunder. (CPOS).

boots and hung up his red plaid
guy's trail tonight and they've
coat.
got a hot scent."
Since he was the only
"Boy, some people will go to
customer it wasn't long before
any length to find a guy whether
he and Bill were engaged in that he deserves it or not. Lemme put
time-honored barroom dialogue, some money in the juke and
the sharing of mutual troubles. maybe it'll drown out all that
" We a t h e r s u r e h a s b e e n racket."
rotten the last couple days",
Contemporary music being
observed Bill.
what it is, even the sound of the
"You can say that again," baying dogs and a dozen vehicles
Alvin agreed. "I was hoping for c o n v e r g i n g o n t h e b a r w a s
some snow for tracking but this drowned out and both Alvin and
Bill were startled when a crowd
is ridiculous. As fast as a deer
makes some tracks they get of cold but obviously in'ate men
and several excited dogs burst
covered with new snow. When I
through the door. Not even the
filed my flight plan they said the
weather would he marginal and Rolling Stones at max volume
they were right. I just barely could have covered up the burly
made it in before the storm hit. CAP colonel's voice as he roared,
"Are you the Alvin Fleidermous
I'll bet my plane is covered with
that forgot to close his flight
a foot of snow by now even
though I did push it back under plan?"
Alvin felt very small and
some trees. Sure dread cleaning
it off to go home, especially if I alone as he squeaked, "Yes,"
don't get a deer to bring back." just as Bill the bartender broke a
"You flew in, too, huh? Lot bottle on the bar. (CPOS).
of my customers were guys who
came into the strip but they all
ADVERTISEMENT
left a couple of days ago. They
were mostly all in Civil Air
Patrol and had to go look for
some missing pilot. Funny you
d i d n ' t h e a r a b o u t i t . Yo u i n
The Education Materials
CAP?"
Center (Bookstore) is happy to
announce that the new Catalog
"Naw, I haven't got time for
that. Let them use their vacation h a s b e e n r e c e i v e d a n d t h a t
time looking for some dumb distribution is being made in the
cluck that can't fly his airplane. m o n t h l y d i s t r i b u t i o n f r o m
I'll spend mine hunting. Say, I'll National Headquarters as well as
bet it's those CAP guys flying to individuals along with each
around up there scaring the deer order filled.
during every little break in the
There have been some price
weather. Probably their jeeps changes and the cooperation of
and trucks going up and down
all is solicited in insuring that
the roads ruining the hunting, the correct prices are listed on
too. I say if a guy can't handle
orders submitted to the
his airplane, let him walk out of Bookstore. Price changes are
effective 1 February 1970.
the woods."
"Well, don't know if I'd go
The new Catalog also
contains a notice whereby
that far but I'd sure like to
charge that guy they're looking individuals, ordering items from
for for the business I'm losing.
the Bookstore, may specify
This is my biggest week of the
delivery by either Parcel Post or
year and all the customers are
United Parcel Service (rather
off searching for a lost pilot. than the standard bookrate) at a
Hey, hear that? Sounds like small charge where expeditious
delivery is desired.
they'Ve got some dogs on that

Special Notice

PIREPS WANTED ON MIGRATORY WATERFOWL. In order to
develop more accurate information on the altitude and movement
patterns of migratory water birds, pilots are being asked to file
PIR EPS whenever they encounter flocks of birds. The reports should
be filed promptly with flight service stations, giving date, kind of
bird, height above ground level, location in relation to nearest city,
direction of bird flight, and time of sighting. Bird migration is
heaviest between March-May and September-November.
PRESENT AND FUTURE AIRPORT CAPACITY is the subject
of a new FAA report which provides planners with an accurate
means to determine the adequacy of existing and future airport
designs in coping with the steady growth of air traffic, i-he report
prescribes a method for analyzing airports to determine ~;apabilities
in terms of both the movement rates and the aircraft operating costs
resulting from the rates of flow of aircraft. "Airport Capacity
Handbook" (AD 690 470) is obtainable for $3 from the
Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information,
5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, Va. 22151.
PERSONAL IMMUNITY FOR PILOTS and others reporting near
midair collisions (NMAC) will continue for another two years: from
Jan. 1, 1970 to Dec. 31, 1971. The program, which started Jan. 1,
1968, seeks to encourage pilots, controllers, and others involved in
NMAC incidents to submit complete reports on these incidents to
FAA. Analysis of the 2,230 "near misses" reported last year was
completed in July 1969 and the "NMAC Report of 1968" has
recently been distributed. Continuation of the reporting program for
two more years will enable the FAA to assess the effectiveness of
corrective actions taken.
TAMING OF SONIC BOOMS is the task being undertaken by
scientists at the University of Tennessee under a $200,000 contract
from the Federal Aviation Administration. During the two-year
period of the contract, investigators will conduct both theoretical
studies and tests in wind tunnels, ballistic ranges, shock tubes, etc.
The University will study numerous sonic boom theories and explore
"~rtconventional supersonic designs to determine whether these
designs would result in improved sonic boom suppression.
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DEVELOPMENT OF A LOW-COST INSTRUMENT SYSTEM
which will warn pilots of the presence of other aircraft is the goal of
a $279,032 contract awarded to the Melville Space and Defense
System, Melville, N.Y. by FAA. Results of the 22-month study are
expected to lead to specifications for a practical and acceptable
airborne pilot warning instrument (PWI) system that would reduce
the possibility of midair collisions.
A L O O K I N TO T H E F U T U R E I N A I R P O RT D E S I G N i s
provided in a new FAA advisory circular which describes design and
requirements for two types of general aviation airports for jets and
larger aircraft. "Basic Transport Airports" accommodate jets
weighing up to 60,000 lbs. and "General Transport Airports" handle
aircraft up to 175,000 Ibs. Included are such topics as design criteria,
runway and taxiway widths, safety areas, clearances, design
components, crosswind runways, pavement considerations, airport
protection and property control, lighting, instrumentation and
marking. "Airport Design Standards--General Aviation
Airports--Basic and General Transport," AC 150/5300-6, may be
obtained free of charge from the Department of Transportation,
TAD 484.3, Washington, D.C. 20590.
FAA IS CONSIDERING LOWERING THE FLOOR of positive
control to 14,500 feet across the U.S., except the Golden Triangle
area in the Northeastern U.S. and the Los Angeles/San Francisco
corridor, where the floor would be 10,000 feet by 1975. FAA
Administrator John H. Shaffer, who announced the plan during a
hearing on mid-air collisions, also said that selected airway corridors
are planned to connect major traffic hubs which will be under
positive control down to 10,000 feet. In the "Triangle" and Los
Angeles/San Francisco areas the bases of these special routes would
be about 6,000 feet.

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FEBRUARY, 1970
Pilot's eye cue:

by Lilly N. Thai
Montgomery Squadron, Md. Wing CAP

Much research is done presently on anticollision devices and there
is also a lot of discussion about suitable 'downed aircraft locators'. It
occurred to us, that in each case, the human eye is still one of the
most effective and most available instruments. Do we know how to
use it properly, though?

ONE OF AIR FORCE's youngest first
sergeants, SSgt. Linda Wilson checks out
instrument board of small airplane and log
book entries prior to take-off. Wilson is a

warrant officer in the Civil Air Patrol's
Fairchild Composite Squadron and has logged
more than 200 hours in gliders and 30 in
powered aircraft. (U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTO)

Civil Air Patrol Warrant Officer Is One
Of Air Force's Youngest Sergeants

If you read through our observer training, SAR or mission pilot
manuals, there is hardly a reference anywhere on how to see or
observe.
The human eye, much as a television camera receives an image.
The image is transmitted (also electronically) to a receiver--a part of
our brain. The picture which forms in the retina of our eye is
eventually projected onto a screen of nerve cells in the back of our
head (our TV-tube). Now you see. But do you really SEE? If you
were to fall asleep in front of a TV set, picture after picture, scene
after scene projected onto the screen would unfold a story of which
you were not aware.

Aviation in its early days was confronted with this problem.
Then, the training consisted mostly of reminding fledglings to
"Watch for the Hun in the sun". The rather perilous learning process
by trial and error had survival as its reward. At the heart of the
matter was the knowledge of 'how to see' or what is now often
FAIRCHILD AFB, Wash.--In
than 200 hours in gliders plus sisters have begun to refer to called : Visual Perception.
nearby Spokane she is referred
approximately 25 h o u r s i n
Sergeant Wilson as the "Flying
The SEEING we are talking about, essentially is a watching of the
to as the "Flying Nun," but to powered aircraft.
Nun."
images which are projected back there in our head. If we piece the
her Air Force counterparts at
Sergeant W'i|lson earned her
this Strategic Air Command base
"During the time that I have pictures together, we see an event. That, however, is not all there is
she is known as the flying first "Flying Nun" tag working with worked at the home," Sergeant to it. A baby has fine eyes and it can follow events pretty soon, but
it takes time until it will understand a story. First it must learn to
sergeant of the Women in the t h e S i s t e r s o f t h e G o o d
Wilson said, "I have decided that interpret pictures and events. Essentially, this is what the pilot or
A i r F o r c e ( WA F ) S q u a d r o n S hepherd, a Catholic order
this is the field in which I would observer must do. We must learn to make an interpretation of the
which maintains a home for
Section.
like to work."
images which are received from around us or below us.
She is SSgt. Linda A. Wilson, teen-age girls who have problems
An Air Force-trained general
A tiny fixed dot in the sky, say in the periphery of our field of
one of the Air Force's youngest coping with today's society.
accounting specialist, Sergeant vision, can be received and be transmitted by the eye--and in turn be
first sergeants and staff sergeants Sergeant Wilson spends much of Wilson holds down first sergeant received by our nerve cell screen. But we may not see it consciously,
at age 21.
her off-duty time assisting the chores in addition to working in we may not perceive it. Now, if the dot were not fixed, but moving,
A fl y i n g b u f f s i n c e h e r sisters in their social work with t h e a c c o u n t i n g a n d fi n a n c e chances would be much better that we would perceive it. So would
teen-age days as a cadet member the girls. Because of her interest o f fi c e o f t h e 9 2 n d C o m b a t be the chances if we moved our eyes. If the dot moves and becomes
larger, we have learned from experience to interpret it as a probable
of her hometown Civil Air Patrol in flying and her decision to Support Group at Fairchild.
target of our attention--such as another aircraft.
enter a convent following her
squadron in Twin Falls, Idaho,
During the 1968 Christmas
A pilot well trained in perception ahnost literally can READ the
Sergeant Wilson has logged more release from the Air Force, the
holidays, Sergeant Wilson was sky and the best ones know how to 'speed read'. As in speed reading,
chosen from a field of volunteers we can improve our sky reading capability. But it is a process that
Flying Facts:
to fly on two combination mail must be understood and learned.
delivery-air evacuation medical
For the observ~er on a SAR mission, the reading process is more
flights to South Vietnam. '~rhis complex by an order of magnitude. If properly done, it is one of the
w a s t h e h i g h l i g h t o f m y A i r most strenuous exercises of perception known to man.
Force career," she said following
by Lt. Col. Raymond L. Maybrey
We know that a fixed point on the image screen is not nearly as
her return to the U.S.
well perceived as a moving one. Almost all of our SAR targets,
National CAP Safety Council
Still active in Civil Air Patrol however, are fixed points. To complicate matters, the observer has
Do you have a cold? Then
aspirin which can cause
programs, she is a chief warrant to read the unfamiliar terrain like a foreign language book or starkly
stay out of the air. You should
drowsiness and other serious
officer in CAP, assigned to the expressionist art.
clear your sniffles before you go
reactions such as high blood
Fairchild Senior Flight. Before
His task is to find the familiar word or the recognizable object.
flying.
pressure, increase in pulse, give
entering the Air Force three Moving over terrain at 500 feet and 120 mph requires the ultimate
y o u t h e j i t t e r s , d i s t u r b y o u r years ago, she was a cadet
The common cold spells
skills of speed reading.
trouble for the pilot. It is often vision and coordination, and also l i e u t e n a n t c o l o n e l w i t h t h e
Try sometimes to estimate the number of images which your eyes
associated to fatigue and may
lower your resistance to
Idaho Squadron. Her military
receive under these conditions in one minute only. It must be
hypoxia.
contribute to vertigo, hypoxia,
t r a ! n i n g i n C i v i l A i r P a t r o l hundreds. As in speed reading, the scanning process itself must be
So if you have a cold, ask
middle ear disease, and impaired
evidently paid off as she was
yourself it it's worth taking a l a t e r c i t e d a s C o m p t r o l l e r orderly to be effective.
vision.
chance of becoming one of
Most of the cold remedies we
Airman of the Quarter while
Then each instantaneous picture has to be SEEN, interpreted and
doctor ourselves with these days flying's bad statistics.
assigned to March AFB, Calif.
evaluated, all this in milliseconds. You probably have heard of some
B E T T E R S TAY O N T H E
Sergeant Wilson credits her studies on perception--like the one where they show movies and
contain antihistamines and
GROUND[! !!
"flash in" one or several frames with pictures which do not belong
flying training opportunities to to test the viewers (subliminal) perception.
Civil Air Patrol and especially'to
assistance of Air Force
Well, it was found that people can be trained in perception: The
Reservists assigned to Hill Air FAA is experimenting along those lines. The USAF and NASA have
(Continued from Page 1)
Force Base, Utah. '~rhey (the learned a lot, and more about perception becomes known every day.
Active in community affairs
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Reservists) were always willing
We think that some of these modern methods of training can be
in the Seattle area, Moores has
to take us (CAP cadets) up in a of use in our program. We think that we should learn about
spoken at numerous schools to
We carry the most comC-47 or C-119 for orientation scanning, fatigue and many of the other things which make up the
promote Civil Air Patrol and
plete stock of CAP supfl i g h t s , " S e r g e a n t W i l s o n concept of visual perception--or observation. Which reminds me of a
aerospace education advantages.
plies at guaranteed, savcommented. She said this was story:
Ings.
He has been credited with
especially appreciated by some
All new il~ms in stock.
During a recent flight check in our squadron a check pilot talked
starting a new CAP squadron in
of the newer cadets who had about VSO and the VSI and VFR and the VOR and all these V's
We stock sew-on cadet
Federal Way, Wash. This past
n ey~r flown before.
officers rank insignias
generated some uncertainty in a group of bystanding "oldtimers".
summer, Moores hosted two
and sew-on wings of all
Of her many trips sponsored The check pilot turned to the group and asked: "What does the
foreign exchange cadets in
types.
by Civil Air Patrol, Sergeant abbreviation VOR stand for?" and he received, as answer from one,
conjunction with the
Send now ,for youe f~e
Wilson recalls a visit to El Paso, the plausible conjecture: "Visual Observation Rules".
CAP cat~los.
International Air Cadet
Tex., which included a side trip
That sort of broke up the crowd. But after giving it many another
Exchange program.
to Juarez. "I best remember the thought, we have come to the conclusion that there might well be
glass factory, where we watched someVisual Observation Rules ....
though we don't know much
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the workers hand-blowing vases about them.
Wings Are For The Wise
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Colds, Flying Don't Mix

Supply
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Scholarship

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FEBRUARY. 1970

D E C O R AT E D - C a d e t W O s D i c k P a r k e r
(Center) and Tommy Ford, both of the
Colorado Springs Composite Sq., receive their
Billy Mitchell awards from Lt. Gen. Thomas S.
Moorman, Air Force Academy superintendent,
recently at formal parent's night ceremonies at
the Academy Community Center. A student at
Mitchell High School, Parker is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Albert L. Parker. Winner of a $600

PAGE 13

GOVERNOR HONORED-California Gov. Ronald Regan
(righ0, receives a plaque and
Honorary Civil Air Patrol"
Membership from Lt. Col.
Francis H. Hart, Sacramento
Valley Group IV commander, at
a special ceremony recently. The
by 1st. Lt. Doris M. Gensler
governor earned the awards for
DOYLESTOWN, Pa.--Civil h i s s u p p o r t t o t h e C i v i l A i r
Air Patrol members were
saddened to hear of the death P a t r o l a c t i v i t i e s i n t h e
Sacramento Valley area. (Photo
Jan. 7 of Warrant Officer John
Wampfler, 72, a mission pilot c o u r t e s y o f K e i t h F u k u i ,
with the Doylestown Composite Sacramento)
Squadron of the Pennsylvania
Wing. Believed to be one of the
oldest pilots in the organization,
NSC Applications
he continued to participate in
aerial search and rescue missions
Now Being
until a few months before his
Accepted
death.
He died in his sleep at home
here. Warrant Officer Wampfler
M A X W E L L A F B ,
was a member of the
Ala.-Applications are now
Doylestown unit since 1966 and
being accepted from senior
before that served with the
member commissioned
Coimar Composite Squadron.
officers and Spaatz Award
The veteran CAP aviator
cadets of Civil Air Patrol to
began his flying career in 1939
attend the 1970 National
at Frenchtown, N.J. and a few
Staff College.
years later he and some friends
The Staff College will be
cleared an area atop a bill near
held July 11-17 here at ~he
his home in Erwinna, Pa., for a
landing strip. This area has since
Air University.
become Erwinna Airport.
Deadline for receiving
A regular attendee at the Civil
applications submitted to
Air Patrol weekly meetings, he
Headquarters, CAP-USAF
kept current on all flying
(CPE) is April 15, officials
regulations and encouraged
announced.
teenaged cadets toward a career
in flying.

Doylestown
14o urns Loss
Of Pioneer

flight scholarship last summer, he has soloed on
a student pilot's license at Peterson Field. Cadet
Ford is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Ford. He is
a student at Palmer High School and is
currently engaged in ground schooling to
prepare himself for the Federal Aviation
Administration written examination. (United
States Air Force Photo)

Modified CAP Cadet ]::'ogram
Ready for .;uJ[y Kick-off Date
by 2d Lt. John D. McMahon, USAF
M A X W E L L A F B, and estimates the time: it will dates. The achievement contract
Ala.--Development of Dynamic
take him to complete
is made by the cadet under the
A m e r i c a n s , I n d i v i d u a l i z e d requirements.
guidance, con.trol and
Study, Activity Oriented and
Beginning, then, with the
mo t ivation of a designated
Achievement Contracts all are
Gen. John F. Curry achievement squadron staff member.
listed as the important parts of
and progressing Phase IV, the
The Phase I and II aspects of
the modified cadet program to c a d e t i s r e q u i r e d t o s i g n the modified cadet program will
become effective, July 1, 1970
contracts which commit him to
be discussed in the March issue
and mandatory for all units by specific achievement completion of the Civil Air Patrol News.
Jan. 1, 1971.
The development of dynamic
Americans and future aerospace
leaders is the ultimate goal of
the new program and CAP
educators have analyzed the best
methods of accomplishing this
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In addition, the CAP cadet
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selecting those activities in
which he wishes to participate.
Combining the two ideas of
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activities orientation is in
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program to go into effect.
Let's look at the specific
progress by which the cadet will
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program to earn and hold grade,
ribbons and gain access to more
leadership and special activities;
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C I V I L A I R PAT R O L N E W S

State Gives
CAP $15,000
Appropriation

Zero l)elbcLs

HONOR ROLL
" L t . C o l . D a v i d W. C u m m i n g s
Border Composite Sq. Commander
New Hampshire Wing
Highlanders Composite Sq.
New Hampshire Wing
* * *
New Hampshire is leading the pack in Zero Defects. Can
any wing challenge them?

CAP Educators Announce
Plans for Tour of Orient
MAXWELL AFB, ALA.--A
'nine-week summer study-travel
tour of the orient--including a
visit to Japan's EXPO 70--has
b e e n a n n o u n c e d b y D r. J .
Wesley Crum, Professor of
E d u c a t i o n , C e n t r a l Wa s h i n g t o n
State College, Ellensburg, Wash.,
98926.
Known as the "Summer Term
i n To k y o a n d To u r o f t h e
Orient," the schedule includes
sightseeing in Bangkok,
Singapore, Manila, Hung Kong,
Ta i p e i , a n d v a r i o u s c i t i e s i n
Japan.
Its main feature is the
opportunity for five weeks of
s t u d y a t To k y o ' s S o p h i a
University where students may
earn 71/2 to 12 quarter hours, or
5 to 8 semester hours, of upper
division or graduate credit.
Courses in the English language
are available in Oriental history,

OfficiaLs Warn
Public About
Gas Poisoning
M A X W E L L A F B ,
Ala.--Newspaper articles with
regularity continue to report
injuries a n d f a t a l i t i e s d u e t o
carbon monoxide poisoning.
These
articles and research
performed after each incident
demonstrate the general public's
total ignorance to the dangcrs of
insidious gas which cannot be
seen, felt or
tasted, safety
officials report.
Carbon monoxide is an
odorless, colorless and an
invisible deadly gas generated by
incomplete combustion of fuel
in heaters, furnaces, grills, wood
stoves and kerosene lanterns. It
is also an exhaust product of
internal combustion engines.
With the cooler and shorter
days, demands will be made on
heating plants, whether in the
factory or home, so safety
officials stress that these heating
appliances be checked by
competent servicemen.
Do-it-yourself mechanics should
hesitate to make repairs or
alterations unless they
thoroughly understand the
proper operation of the stove or
furnace.
Space h e a t e r s i n fi s h i n g
camp sites and
shacks,
bungalows s h o u l d h a v e b e e n
checked before the cold weather
arrived. Tightly constructed
structures with no provisions for
admitting air may become
coffins, officials stated. Burnish
fuel consumes oxygen and the
oxygen supply is insufficient,
the generation of carbon
monoxide results. Be sure a
sufficient air supply is available
at all times, safety officials

F E B R U A RY, 1 9 7 0

literature, government,
economics, sociology and art,
while those who wish may study
Japanese.
Basic cost of the entire
nine.week program is $2,195. It
begins 18 June and ends 18
August 1970. An official
announcement may be obtained
b y w r i t i n g t o D r. C r u m o r t o
S t r a s s e r Tr a v e l S e r v i c e , 5 1 9
Union St., Seattle, Washington,
98101.
Dr. Crum is h member of Civil
Air Patrol, and former president
of CAP'S National Aerospace
Education Advisory Committee.

WAYLAND, Mass.--A
$15,000 appropriation's bill was
recently approved by the
Massachusetts State Legislature
for use by the Massachusetts
Wing commanded by Col. Julius
Goldman.
The bill won the support of
Massachusetts Guy. Francis W.
Sargent, Berkshire County
S e n a t o r A n d r e a F. N u c i f e r o ,
Massachusetts Aeronautics
Commission Director Crocker
Snow and State Civil Defense
Director Allan R. Zenowitz.
The state appropriation will
be used by the wing to purchase
" new radio equipment to support
the CAP wing's statewide search
and rescue and emergency
services operations.
The wing was recently
commended by the state for
having one of the finest
emergency services operations
and the largest number of
aircraft owners and pilots in the
organization under the
CAP.AFX program.

CAP Medical Officer Briefs
Members on Drug Abuse
VA N N U Y S , C a l i f . - - " D m g
Abuse--The Chemical Cop-Out,"
was the subject of discussion at a
Civil Air Patrol seminar recently
at the California Air National
G u a r d a u d i t o r i u m a t Va n N u y s
Airport, said Lt. Col. Ronald
Steams.
Maj. Jane Hedges, Los
Angeles Group 1 assistant
m e d i c a l o f fi c e r, w a s t h e p r o j e c t
officer for the educational
session that provided basic
information on the dangerous
drugs and narcotics. It was
sponsored by Group I in keeping
with the Air Force policy to
disseminate information about
one of the most devastating
problems in the society:
"Today's youngsters are using
chemicals as a means of escape
and with alarming frequency. We
can no longer ignore the dangers
of drug abuse and dare not
remain uninformed," said
Colonel Stearns.
Those working with young
@eople today agree that there is
a better way for youth to "turn
on" and experience a new
feeling than to resort to the
chemical cop-out-The youth
who participate in Civil Air

Patrol activities find a more
realistic reward than drugs can
offer, officials said.

p o s s e s s i n g

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O M R B o x 4 2 8 B o i l i n g
Washington, D.C. 20332. Bid c
date: 31 MarchTb.
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C R A I G A F B , A l a . - Ve t e r a n N e w s p a p e r m a n , R o s w e l l
F a l k e n b e r r y, S e l m a Ti m e s J o u r n a l N e w s p a p e r e d i t o r, w a s h o n o r e d
for his support to the Civil Air Patrol flying training program
recently at the Military Affairs Committee meeting here.
Col. James L. Stewart,
3615th Pilot Training Wing
commander, presentedi
Falkenberry a framed letter of~
appreciation for the Selma
Times-Journal's donation to the:
flight, scholarship program which

MAXWELL AFB, Ala.-The newly appointed Data Systems
Committee, Dec. 15, was charged with providing assistance in the
development of an "Operating Statement" aimed at utilizing the
IBM 360-20 computer to simplify CAP reporting requirements while
providing wing and unit commanders with an effective management
tool. A questionnaire was sent to each unit seeking its evaluation of
IS items of information currently being disseminated.
Early results based on the 650 questionnaires already returned to
CAP's National Headquarters are published here for the members
information. When all the units respond, the tabulated information
will be studied in depth by the Data Systems Committee, officials
said.
Many of the items which will be recommended for inclusion or
elimination in the development of computerized management tools
f o r w i n g s a n d b n i t s w i l l r e s u l t f r o m t h a t s t u d y, a n d w i l l c o n t r i b u t e
to the futu~ direction of the organization,
The tabulated data bank items are: 1. number of seniors; 2.
number of cadets; 3. number of corporate aircraft; 4. aircraft
utilization; 5. HH SSB radio; 6. percentage of active stations; 7.
v e h i c l e s a s s i g n e d ; 8 . v e h i c l e s i n s e r v i c e ; 9 . FA A r a t e d p i l o t s ; 1 0 .
aircraft owners; 11. cadets tested; 12. passing rate; 13. information
officers reporting; 14. number of chaplains reporting and 15.
number of required reports.

enables CAP cadets to receive
private pilot training leading to a
solo rating or a private pilot
license.
The Selma Times-Journal was
the first local busine~s firm to
make a donation to the program.
A member of the CAP unit in
Selma, Cadet Patrick Durden
will soon reap the benefit of this
donation when he begins flight
instruction leading to private
pilot certification at Sky Harbor
Airport.
Since the Selma CAP unit's
rudimentary beginning in 1966,
membership has expanded to 40
seniors and 15 cadets. The unit
now has two aircraft and
headquarters at Craig.

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C O M M E N D E D F O R C A P S U P P O R T- R o s w e l l F a l k e n b e r r y
( r i g h t ) , S e l m a Ti m e s - J o u r n a l N e w s p a p e r e d i t o r, r e c e i v e s a
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FEBRUARY, 1970,

PAGE 15

Medical Squadron Geared
For All CAP Emergencies
ALLENTOWN, Pa.--Civil Air
Patrol has its own air evacuation
(AIREVAC) team here whose
members respond to all ground
and air emergencies on an
around-the-clock basis. Believed

Unit Commander
To Be Decorated
A I I e ntown Osteopathic
Hospital Administrator Daniel
G. Richardi has been selected by
the National Register of
Prominent Americans to receive
its national award certificate. He
will also be listed in the
perpetual register which is
maintained at the Library of
Congress.
Richardi is active in many
civic and professional
organizations, including
president of the Pennsylvania
Osteopathic Hospital
Association; chairman of the
membership committee of the
Hospital Association of
Pennsylvania; commander of the
Allentown Medical Squadron of
the Civil Air Patrol; board
member of the Greater Delaware
Valley regional medical program
and a board member of the
L e h i g h Va l l e y C o u n c i l o n
Alcoholism and Drug Abuse.

to be the only unit of its kind in
C A P, A M V E T S M e d i c a l
Squadron 3101 recently marked
its fourteenth year of service to
the nation as a CAP unit.
The unit was formed in 1956
when members of the staff of
Allentown Osteopathic Hospital
joined the civilian auxiliary of
the United States Air Force and
created the new unit by offering
their healingskills,
Approximately 34 medical
personnel are in the unit
commanded by Capt. Daniel O.
Richardi, hospital administrator,
Other hospital members in the
squadron include Dr. Ralph
Stolz, D.O.; Ethel M. Brooke,
unit information officer; Lt.
Louis Wilkinson, nursing services
chief; 1st. Lt. Duane Wilkinson,
administrative services officer;
Barbara D. Hayes, secretary and
Dr. Chester Kirk, one of the
founders of the squadron,
Squadron personnel can load
tents, medical supplies and
life-saving equipment aboard
mission aircraft in lessthan 30
minutes while responding to an
emergency call. The unit stood
alert to respond to emergencies
resulting from the Alaskan
earthquake in 1963 but was not
called intoaetion,

When blizzards swept New
Jersey and floods ravaged
Delaware in 1962, the medical
unit went into action and its
members earned two CAP unit
citations for outstanding services
during times of natural
emergencies.
The Pennsylvania wing
recorded its longest "Mercy
Flight" in September when two
pilots and a nurse flew from
Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton
Airport to Tulsa, Okla. to airlift
an injured Allentown woman to
her home.
Engaged in the mission were
pilots, Maj. Arthur Rutledge,
Capt. Richard Turner, both of
Philadelphia, and Lt. Rose
Zuanet, R.N., a member of
AMVETS Medical Squadron
3101.
The patient, Mrs. Joseph
Muzzel, received two broken
bones in her left leg in an
accident in Tulsa.
As the unit's primary mission
is to supply medical support and
trained medical personnel to
s u p p o r t C i v i l A i r P a r. t e l
emergency services efforts, the
squadron is continually involved
in aggressive summer and winter
training programs to sharpen the
skills of its personnel.
Its

CAP Educators
Plan Meeting
In Seattle
MAXWELL AFB, Ala.-Civil
Air Patrol's Aerospace
Education Association will meet'
Mar. 19-21 in Seattle,
Washington. The meeting will be
a feature of the 1970 National
Congress on Aerospace
Education sponsored by the
National Aerospace Education.
Council.
CAP's National Commander,
Brig. Gen. Richard N. Ellis, has
approved the Congress as an
o f fi e i a l a c t i v i t y. A i r l i f t w i l l
therefore be provided if it is
available. CAP and AEA
members who wish airlift should
contact their Regional Director
of Aerospace Education.
The theme of the 1970
Co ngress is "Aerospace for
Today's Teachers." Featured
will be a symposium for
directors of aerospace education
workshops and in-service
institutes. There will also be
many panels covering a wide
range of subjects, along with two
optional tours in the Seattle
area, a film theater, displays and
exhibits of instructional
materials, social events, and
organization meetings of which
the AEA meeting is one.
The purpose of the Congress
is to help meet aerospace
education needs at all levels and
in many curricular areas. For
details concerning reservations
and registration, write to Mr.
Walter Zaharevitz, Executive
Director, National ,Act°space
EdUcation= C~uncil, ' 806~5th
St., NW., Washington, D.C.,
20005.

IN COMMAND OF SITUATION-Capt. Daniel Richardi
(right) explains to cadets assigned to AMVETS Medical
Squadron 3101 at Allentown, Pa., the right procedure for
removing a patient from a light airplane.
personnel also participate in
Civil Defense and Search and
Rescue tests where their
knowledge of decontamination
and treatment of simulated
emergency cases is put to the
test.
Membership in this elite unit
is restricted to males and females
1 8 y e a r s o r o l d e r, o f fi c i a l s
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CIVIL AIR PATROL NEWS

FEBRUARY, 1970

CAP Commander Briefs Military
On Organization's Varied Missions
MAXWELL AFB, Ala.--Brig.
Gen. Richard N. Ellis, national
commander, has started a series
of Civil Air Patrol briefings to
U.S. Air Force major command
officials and specialized units
throughout the country.
Accompanied by Colonel L.
H. McCormack, Chief of Staff,
General Ellis recently told the
Civil Air Patrol story to General
Jack J. Catton, Commander of
the Military Airlift Command,
during a visit to Scott AFB,
Illinois.
While at Scott, the general
als0 visited the headquarters of
MAC's Aerospace Rescue and
Recovery Service. He briefed
Brig. Gem Allison C. Brooks,
commander of ARRS and then
listened to the ARRS briefing
which included status reports on
missions that were currently in
progress
involving CAP
personnel.
During a trip to Norton AFB,
California, the CAP command
briefing was given to Maj. Gen.
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Edward M. Nichols, deputy
inspector general for Inspection
and Safety.
The same visit included a
presentation to the Air Force
Aerospace Audio Visual Service
officials.
Other stops during the month
of January were at Langley
AFB, Va. and Shaw AFB, S.C.
At Langley, General Ellis visited
w i t h G e n e r a l W i l l i a m W.
M o m y e r, c o m m a n d e r o f t h e
Tactical Air Command.
At Shaw, the briefing was
presented to Maj. Gen. Richard
H. Ellis, commander Of Tactical
Air Command's Ninth Air Force.
Earlier briefings were given to
commanders of the Strategic Air
Command, Air University, Air
Force Logistics Command, and
Headquarters Command, USAF.
The series of briefings is
designed to show active duty Air
Force personnel the mission of
Civil Air Patrol and its
contributions to the aerospace
welfare and humanitarian needs

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Col. Larsen Dies
Of Heart Ailment
by 1st. Lt. Patricia Davis
PORTLAND, Ore.--Memorial L a r s e n w a s a c t i v e i n t h e
services were held Jan. 14 at the Washington State Patrol, served
E a s t Va n c o u v e r M e t h o d i s t a s G r a n d C h a n c e l l o r o f t h e
Church for Lt. Col. Albert R. Domain of Washington Knights
Larsen, Oregon Wing executive of Pythias, was past president of
o f fi c e r, w h o d i e d o f a h e a r t t h e L o w e r C o l u m b i a P e a c e
attack four days earlier.
Officers Association, treasurer of
R e v. R e a h S . D o u g h e r t y
the Northwest Antique Airplane
conducted the memorial services Club, the Danish Brotherhood
at which Chaplain (Lt. Col.)
and a member of the Vancouver
Clifford S. Berggren assisted and
Flying Club.
c a d e t s f r o m t h e Va n c o u v e r
Donations for flowers
Squadron served as ushers. After
received by the family will go to
the service Colonel Larsen's t h e O r e g o n W i n g ' s " C o l . A l
remains were sent to Seattle for
Larsen Memorial Scholarship"
cremation.
fund, which has been named
Colonel Larsen is survived by after the aviator.
his wife, CAP Lt. Col. Donalda
Larsen, son, Robert of Lincoln
City, Ore., four grandchildren, :::::
brothers Morris and Ernest and a
sister Helen DeLeo, all of
Vancouver.
A veteran of more than 20
years active service in Civil Air
Patrol, Colonel Larsen served in
the Navy during World War II.
He was also a retired State
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Patrolman and former deputy
commander of operations of the
Oregon CAP wing.
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A commercial pilot, he w&~ a
strong advocate of youth and
fully supported the
CAP-sponsored International Air
COL. LARSEN
Cadet Exchange serving as escort
officer to the wing cadets on
trips to Washington, D.C. in
1953, to Norway in 1954 and to
Florida in 1955. He served as the
wing's project officer several
years and was in charge of
housing, entertainment and
(Member Owned)
tours for the foreign cadets
visiting his state.
CAP NAME PLATES
While serving in Civil Air
$1.00 each
Patrol, Colonel Larsen earned
Over 11 $.85 Over 23 $.75
the CAP SAR ribbon, IACE
Add 25c for Handling
ribbon, blue service ribbon,
Postage Prepaid
cadet summer encampment
ribbon, leadership ribbon, a
E. ¢. STUENKEL CO.
meritorious service award and
P.O. Box 214
ECI diploma.
Brookfield, Illinois 60513
During his lifetime, Colonel

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of the nation.
In the briefings, which are
delivered by Colonel
McCormack, such subjects as the
multi-varied aspects of the
mission are discussed. CAP's
dominant role and participation
in Air Force authorized search
and rescue operations, its
assistance during national and
local emergencies, and the
conduct of its vastly expanding
aerospace education program are
described.
The visits are designed to
orient major air command
commanders with the activities
of CAP and its relationship with
the Air Force.
General Ellis hopes that by
spreading the CAP word at the
top of the ladder, as far as Air
Force command channels are
concerned, the CAP story will
eventually be known by all Air
Force personnel.
The series of visits will
continue with briefings to
Aerospace Defense Command
and the Air Force Academy
scheduled for February.

CAP Airlifts Feed
To Rescue Wildlife
M E C HANICSBURG,
Pa.--The Susquehanna Senior
Flight Squadron of the
Pennsylvania Wing recently went
into the wildlife conservation
business when heavy snows cut
off natural food supplies for the
wildlife on the Blue Mountain of
Cumberland and Perry Counties.
Working along with the Enola
Sportsmen's Association, the
CAP unit under the command of
1st Lt. Robert M. Ross flew over
the area and dropped 200
pounds of cob and cracked corn
feed from the CAP-owned
Aeronca L-16. Engaged in the
operation were SMs George
Plough, Chester Moorhead and
Capt. Earl Yarlett of Group 30.

CAP COMMANDER VISITS MAC-Brig. Gen. Richard N. Ellis
(left), national commander, visits with Gen. Jack J. Catton,
commander of Military Airlift Command, during a recent visit
to Scott AFB, Ala. (United States Air Force Photo by SSgt.
Eddie McCrossan)

Chaplain Merfeld Elected
MCAA Chapter President
MAXWELL AFB, Ala.--The a s s o c i a t i o n f o r m i l i t a r y
assistant national chaplain of the clergymen of all faiths, in all
Civil Air Patrol has been elected
branches of the armed forces,
president of the Alabama
the Veterans Administration and
C h a p t e r o f t h e M i l i t a r y the Civil Air Patrol.
Chaplains Association of
Chaplain Merfeld has been
America.
assigned to the National
Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Vincent Headquarters Civil Air Patrol
C. Merfeld, a Roman Catholic s t a ff s i n c e F e b r u a r y 1 9 6 8 ,
priest since December 1944, was
serving as assistant to Chaplain
named to head the state chapter, (Col.) Clarence E. Hobgood,
one of 50 groups across the CAP-USAF national chaplain.
nation. He has been an Air Force
chaplain since 1951.
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