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O F F I C I A L
COLORADO
P U B L I C A T I O N
WINOJCIVIL AIR
O F
T
H
E
PATROL
TMs Board will conduct a
fund raising campaign in the
month of February and establish the rules that applicants
w i l l b e c h o s e n b y.
The
Board will also administer
the funds and monitor the
fund raising progress.
Meritorious Service Award ribbon is pinned on Lt. Col.
Nathan L. Baum, (left) by Deputy Wing Commander Lt. Col.
B i l l M a d s e n . B a u m w a s c i t e d b y C A P N a t i o n a l C o m m a n d e r,
Col. Joe N. Mason, for outstanding leadership as Commander
of Group I. Be won special commendation for the outstanding
cadet training, communications and air and search rescue operations.
FULL FLIGHT SCHOLARSHIP
ANNOUNCED BY GROUP COMMANDERS
Group Commanders as a
committee will conduct a
wing-wide campaign among
~,4enior members to raise
scholarship funds for CAP
cadets to use in flight training.
Group Commanders will
make up the CAP Flight
Scholarship Board with each
Group represented. Lt. Col.
Baum of Group I was named
chairman of the Board.
JANUARY 1966
Major Harriett Starkey
A quota of $5.00 from
each senior member in each
unit has been established.
Contributions are voluntary
and a member may contribute any amount he desires.
One of the first such
scholarships is named in hono r o f H a r r i e i t S t a r k e y, f o r m er Wing Executive Officer who
was active in nearly every
phase of CAP activities during her fifteen years of membership in the organization.
COMMANDER'S CORNER
LOCAL UNIT
ADDRESS NEEDED
ON CAP PUBLICITY
C o l o n e l A r t h u r F. P u t z
C o m m a n d e r, C o l o . W i n g
R A D I O - T V- F I L M
Again in recent weeks, CAP members have rendered va
public service in air rescue operations. Our pilots and
who participated in these flights are to be commended.
m o r e , h o w e v e r, e x p e r i e n c e u n d e r l i n e s t h e i m p o r t a n c e o l
vital fundamental -FILE
uable
all
Once
one
A FLIGHT PLAN
folT h e t r a g i c d e a t h s o f D r. R a n d o l p h L o v a l a c e a n d h i s
lowing their crash on Independence Pass served to
size this simple fact. Had a flight plan been filed, it
likely the wreck would have been discovered 24 hours
Evidence at the scene showed the pilot, Milton Brown, urvived the crash for a time, walking around and
the
b o d i e s o f t h e o t h e r s . F o u n d a d a y s o o n e r, h e
lived.
Similar situations have occurred within the past two
On a flight last year from Colorado Springs to
pilot who crashed crawled a quarter-mile and started to
a lean-to, but was dead when found.
All of the efforts of this great organization are justified
a single life is saved, but the results can be multiplied
pilots will do themselves the greatest favor by followi~
one simple rule-- FILE A FLIGHT PLAN.
when
and
the
Colorado Wing CAP Newsletter is the official publication of the Colorado Wing of
the Civil Air Patrol, Colonel
A r t h u r F. P a t z , C o m m a n d e r.
UNIT FINANCE
REPORTS DUE
IN JANUARY
Published by the Wing Information Office Staff:
Wing Finance Offic, ,r Lt.
C o l . J o h n S t a r k e y h a s issued
a reminder to all unit C O r n manders that their 19{ 5 fl n a n dial reports are due t: ~ s
m o n t h . A l l t r a n s a c t i n ]s must
be posted from the un: t checkbook to Financial repc rt form
1 7 8 a n d t h e s u m m a r y ~orm on
t h e b a c k o f f o r m 1 7 3 nust be
in balance.
Lt. Col. Bernard Gebhardt
Staff Information Officer
Cpt. Earl Howey ..... Editor
Published at Wing Headquart e r s , P. O . D r a w e r C , L o w r y
Air Force Base Station,
D e n v e r, C o l o r a d o 8 0 2 3 0
J A N U A RY 1 9 6 6
ige 2
INCREASED P~ODUCTION
OF CAP television film spots
this year has resulted in increased exposure on television stations throughout the
c o u n t r y. W h i l e t h i s e x p o s u r e
is welcomed, it has created a
problem. In many areas of
t h e c o u n t r y, t e l e v i s i o n s t a tions are being besieged with
telephone requests for the address or phone number of the
nearest CAP unit. In most
cases, the television stations
do not know the name, address, or phone number of
the CAP unit hi their comm u n i t y. A s a r e s u l t , m a n y
persons who are interested in
joining CAP in some capacity
are discouraged from the
start. It also puts an undue
burden on the stations.
Most film spots have included a general statement
to "contact your nearest Civil
A i r P a t r o l u n i t . " To c o r r e c t
this situation, a closing audio
and/or visual tag will be included at the end of all future
film spots of a direct recruiting nature. This tag will direct viewers to write for information to the Civil Air
Patrol National Headquarters
at Ellington Air Force Base,
Te x a s . T h i s w i l l n o t , h o w e v e r, p r e c l u d e C A P u n i t s
from using their own local
t a g s . I n t h i s w a y, t h e i n t e r ested person receives general
information on CAP and is
directed to the nearest CAP
U N I T. M o r e i m p o r t a n t , t h e
local CAP unit remains the
prime motivating factor in
selling the program to the ~,
individual.
THREE RESCUE
MISSIONS IN
DECEMBER
Three aircraft were downed
or reported downed in Color a d o d u r i n g D e c e m b e r, r e s u l t ing in three CAP search missions. One was later discovered to have been a false
alarm. A helicopter pilot
found another while a CAP
pilot discovered the third.
The first search was started when August Halminiak of
Council Bluffs, Iowa, was reported missing on a flight
from Rock Springs, Wyoming
t o D e n v e r. A c c o r d i n g t o
Capt. Cliff Gau of the Wing
Information Office, it was later
discovered that Halminiak had
landed safely in Denver and
simply neglected to close out
"s flight plan.
A d a y l a t e r, D e c e m b e r 1 2 ,
a t w i n e n g i n e B e e c h Tr a v e l e r
on a flight from Aspen to Albuquerque, New Mexico
crashed on Independence Pass.
A b o a r d w a s D r. W. R a n d o l p h
Lovelace II, the chief medical
officer for the U.S. space
program; his wife Mary and
the pilot Milton Brown.
The search was made more
difficult because no flight plan
had been filed.
The wreckage of the Beech
Tr a v e l e r w a s d i s c o v e r e d f o u r
d a y s l a t e r, a n d a l t h o u g h t h e r e
was evidence that possibly all
three had survived the crash,
they were all dead when
search parties arrived.
On December 15, a Flying
~gers Air Cargo Constellation
carrying 41,600 pounds of toys
on a nonstop flight from Los
Angeles to Chicago crashed
on the west slope of 14, 371foot Blanco Peak. The wreckage was sighted the next day
by CAP pilot Clyde Helms.
Rescue parties reported that
all three crew members had
died in the crash.
W H AT H A P P E N E D
TO JOHN JANKAS
Whatever happened to John
Jankas ?
Jankas was the former
Civil Air Patrol lieutenant who
became the one-millionth enlistee in the United States Air
Force a year ago and who was
honored by the Mayor of Chicago and USAF's Deputy Chief
of Staff for Personnel, Lt.
G e n . W i l l i a m S . S t o n e . To d a y, a f t e r b a s i c A i r F o r c e
training and learning the business of missile mechanics,
he is assigned to the 455th
Strategic Missile Wing at
Minot AFB, N. D. and busier
t h a n e v e r. I n a d d i t i o n t o h i s
job moving Minuteman guidance
packages and warheads to the
150 missile sites of the vast
Minor complex, he continues
to log more flying hours offduty and is adding to his college credit log with afterhours psychology course at
Minot State College.
PA S S T H I S C O P Y O F T H E
CHANDELLE ON TO SOMEONE ELSE AFTER YOU
H AV E R E A D I T.
DEADLINE
Deadline for news and pictures for the February issue of the Chandelle is Jan. 21
JANUARY 1966
Page 3
PERSONNEL
CHANGES
The following personnel
c h a n g e s b e c a m e e ff e c t i v e l a s t
month. 1/Lt. Ronald Koprowski was assigned as commander of the Westminster
Sqdn. ; Maj. Carl L. Burley
a n d L o u i s e P. B u r l e y w e r e
assigned to Wing Headquart e r s ; L t . C o l . To m R . K i t e ley was transferred from
Wing to Group VI; Major
Mickey E. Fouts was assigned as advisor for OPS
a c t i v i t i e s o n W i n g S t a ff ;
Fraser Richards was assigned as Assistant Information Officer on Wing Staff and
C a p t . J o h n M a y h o ff e r w a s
assigned as Asst. Dep. for
M a i n t e n a n c e o n W i n g S t a ff .
The following Unit changes
were also confirmed: the
name of the Golden Squadron
w a s c h a n g e d t o E a s t J e ff c o
Composite Squadron; the
Yu m a S q u a d r o n w a s d e s i g n a t ed as an Emergency Services
Squadron; and the new Broomfield Cadet Squadron was activated under the command of
S / M A r n o l d R e a d e r.
MANY CAP
CADETS ON
AF ROSTERS
A recent survey of Air
Force personnel reveals that
nearly three per cent of all
airmen were former Civil
Air Patrol cadets and many
had attained a certificate of
proficiency before entering
the Air Force.
O H I O AT T O R N E Y N AT L .
CHAIRMAN
C o l . L y l e W. C a s t l e ,
C A P, o f C i n c i n n a t i , O h i o ,
has been elected to the post
of Chairman of the Civil Air
Patrol National Board it was
announced by Col. Joe L.
M a s o n , U S A F, C A P, n a t i o n a l
c o m m a n d e r.
A distinguished attorneya t - l a w, C o l o n e l C a s t l e w a s
elected as principle Corporate Officer of the 86, 000
member Civil Air Patrol by
members of the National
Board comprised of CAPts
eight region commanders and
52 wing commanders. He rep l a c e s C o l . P a u l W. T u r n e r,
C A P, a N a s h v i l l e , Te n n e s s e e ,
insurance executive who has
held that office for the past
three years.
The 14-year veteran of
CAP service was bern in
Beach, N. D. in 1922. His
family later moved to Rock
Falls, Illinois, where he attended school and lived until
his enlistment in the Army
Air Corps in 1940.
After attending service
schools at Scott AFB, Illinois
and Savannah, Georgia; he
was assigned to Nichols Field
in the Philippines, arriving
there just two weeks before
t h e a t t a c k o n P e a r l H a r b o r.
Initially assigned to the 17th
Bomb Squadron, he later became a communications specialist at General Douglas
MacArthurts headquarters in
Manila and when Corregidor
fell to the Japanese spent
more than three years as a
prisoner of war in Japan.
He was decorated for wartime service with the Purple
Heart and the Presidential
Unit Citation with two clusters.
Following his return to the
BOARD
United States in 1945 l e
joined the Civil Aeron mtics
Administration in Roc~ Falls
and was later assignee t o
E v a n s v i l l e , I n d i a n a , a ~ Ld finally to Cincinnati, OhiO .
C o l o n e l C a s t l e c o r n pleted
u n d e r g r a d u a t e w o r k a t Chase
College of Commerce and late r e a r n e d h i s l a w d e g : :ee
from the Chase Colleg e of
L a w. H e b e c a m e a s s l s t a n t
city prosecutor in 195 }, serving in that position fo] over
three years.
H e i s a m e m b e r o f the
C i n c i n n a t i B a r A s s o c i . " Lion,
the Ohio Bar AssociatJ on and
Plaintiff Lawyers AsS( ¢iation
of Cincinnati.
A s t h e n e w C A P N ~ ttional
B o a r d C h a i r m a n , C o l o nel
Castle will serve as a memb e r o f t h e B o a r d , a p p , )int
CAP region commande rs and
nominate members for posit i o n s o n N a t i o n a l c o m , aittees.
AURORA SQDN
CE LE BRAT ES
ANNIVERSARY
The Aurora Compo
Squadron commanded
R. M. Neil was one
most active units in t
in celebrating CAP's
n i v e r s a r y.
~ite
)y Capt.
f the
he state
~4th an-
Chairmaned by Ch~
(Capt.) Frank L. Swai
Aurora Squadron publi
the CAP story to the
city of Aurora and m~
the Denver area.
plain
n, the
~ized
entire
ch of
Mayor Norma O.
Valker
issued an official pro( lamat i o n n a m i n g a " C i v i l ] ~atrol
Week" in Aurora, whi ch app e a r e d i n l o c a l p a p e r ~ , along
with the "CAP 24th AI mivers a r y " s t o r y.
JANUARY 1966
];age 4
Aurora radio station
KOSI carried 24 CAP an,iouncements while radio station KHOW carried 12 such
spots. Station KHOW also
carried a 15-minute CAP
interview on the show "Runway Ramblings, " keyed to
aviation types. Chaplain
Swain also appeared as a
g u e s t o n t h e Wa y w a r d B a r k e r
Show on station KOA.
LETTERS
Lt. Abe Ohr
Civil Air Patrol
Dear Lt. Ohr:
Kiwanis - Air Force Kids'
Day has always been a community-oriented joint project
to honor and recognize
" Yo u t h - O u r G r e a t e s t N a t u ral Resource." It is impossible for an event of this type
to be truly a community pro~=
ect unless the community
shares in it one way or ano t h e r.
Yo u r u n s e l fi s h s h a r i n g o f
yourself, your talents and
your time, certainly were instrumental in making "OUR"
Kids' Day the biggest and
grandest in the entire United
States.
It gives me true satisfaction in expressing to you the
heartfelt gratitude of the Air
Force at Lowry and all the
Kiwanians in the area for
your complete cooperation in
helping to make Kids' Day the
tremendous day it truly was.
Thanks for sharing with all
of us in a job "Well Done."
A p p r e c i a t i v e l y,
Burton K. Wheatlake/ ,
General. Chairman
Kids' Day
GROUP I HOLDS
2 4 T H A N N I V.
DANCE
Group I Cadet Council
celebrated 24th Anniversary
of CAP by sponsoring a
dance last month at Contrails
Club on Lo~rry AFB featuring
United States Air Force
Academy band the "Falconairs "
C A D E T F O U N TA I N W I N S W I N G S
CAP Cadet Jerry Fountain,
son of Capt. and Mrs. Clarence M. Fountain of Evergreen, receives the silver
wings of a private pilot from
Group II Commander Law~nce Marshall. Fountain,
o earned his COP at
16 years of age won the
Penn Flight Scholarship
, # ~ 9 ~ ~
awarded by the Colorado
Wing as a result of a contribution from Mrs. Robert R.
P e n n o f D a l l a s , Te x a s w h o
asked that the money be used
for tMs purpose in memory
of her son who was killed in
an airplane crash and for
whom the Colorado CAP conducted an extensive search.
Sixty-two cadet couples
attended the dance along with
the following senior members:
GROUP I, Lt. Coi. Baum and
Major Ferrell, R.M.A.
S Q U A D R O N : M r. a n d M r s .
Theodore Wilson, LITTLETON SQUADRON: Lt. Richa r d R o o n e y C o m m a n d e r,
T H I S i s T O C E R T I F Y T H AT
, .............. B A B B I D G E L E W I S G
"" ''
U S A F L O CO WG OFC
is a (r,r,,,,n ~,e,,,,er ~t
' I
Automation has bit again as the CAP Identification cards for
1966 are being issued without a photo or other positive means
identification, and without the familiar old peel-off decal.
~1,~ere has been considerable comment pro and con. According to officers at National Headquarters the new ID card is
easier to process through the IBM tabulations.
JANUARY 1966
Page 5
Mrs. Belva Criswe]l, Mrs.
a n d M r. A 1 F i e l d s , E N G L E W O O D S Q U A D R O N : M r. a n d
Mrs. Lloyd Winter Comm a n d e r, A U R O R A S Q U A D R O N :
Captain Mike Neff Commande r, M r s . R o b e r t a L e n a h a n ,
M r. a n d M r s . B r u c e P l a t t ,
M r. a n d M r s . S t e p h e n s , M r.
a n d M r s . L o g a n G r a y, a n d
Janice Collins and escort,
L O W RY S Q U A D R O N : A 1
Meader and Richard Oaks
a l o n g w i t h M r. a n d M r s .
Wa l t K r a m e r o f D e n v e r
Emergency Services Sqdn.
THE DENVER POST
PERSONNEL
NOTES FROM
TAY L O R S Q D N .
Wed., Dec. 29, 1965 21
Three cadets from the
B o o k e r T. Ta y l o r S q u a d r o n
of Grand Junction received
Certificates of Proficiency
during a television program
dedicated to the 24th anniversary of the Civil Air
Patrol.
The Cadets, Dorothy
Banas, Larry Willers and
B i l l W i l l i a m s , J r. , r e c e i v e d
their awards from Lt. Col.
Marion Bowman (ret.) and
Lt. Col. Rex Howell (ret.)
during a 15-minute program
o v e r S t a t i o n K R E X T V.
CADET KISH GETS
S PA AT Z AWA R D
C a d e t D a n P. K i s h , 2 0 o f
the Arvada Sqdrn. received
CAP's highest award, the
General Carl Spaatz Achievement Ribbon. The award
was made in a special ceremony Dec. 29 by Maj. General Joe C. Moffitt, Adjutant
General of Colorado. The
award also moved Cadet Lt.
Col. Kish up to Cadet Colonel.
Kinh's accomplishment
may be judged by the fact
that he is only the sixth cadet in the nation to receive
this award and the first in
the Rocky Mountain Region.
The award includes a
$1,000 annual scholarship in
aeronautical engineering to
the college or university of
the winner's choice.
The Spaatz award caps a
distinguished career for Kish
who has previously won l0
CAP ribbons, completed
every phase offered by the
C A P a n d w o n m a n y a d titional
honors. In addition, h e
y o u n g We s t m i n s t e r H i t h
School graduate (class of '63),
h a s c o m p l e t e d t w o y e a ~s at
t h e U n i v e r s i t y o f C o l o 'ado
where he won the RO1 C r i b bon.
Cadet Kish is the on of
M r. a n d M r s . C h a r l e ~ D .
K i s h o f 4 6 5 2 A l c o t t S l ceet.
He is now in the uSA: Institute of Foreign
West Coast, at the
of Monterey where he
studying oriental
NO GNUS ! !
If there is no
in
the CHANDELLE
organization, your
, your
es ...
section or
it's the fault of the
We
H e ' s n o m i n d r e a d e r.
someassume that you did
thing. If you don't * cad
about it in the CHAI, DELLE
...ITrS BECAUSE YO DIDN'T SEND IT IN !
JANUARY 1966
PERSONNEL
NOTES FROM
GROUP I
N. Bernard Godlove,
Flight Instructor with United
Air Lines; Robert Growling,
a Martin Co. electrical engineer and Mrs. Eleanor
Arhutic an Air Force civilian employee have recently
joined Group I.
Major Jean Ferrell, also
of Group I recently became
the first female pilot in Colorado to achieve Senior Pilot
rating.
Nine members of Group I
were recently awarded the
Meritorious Service Award.
They include: Lt. Col.
Nathan Baum, Major Jean
Ferrell, Major William
B a c o n , L t . C h r i s C h a n e y,
C a p t . D a v e F u l l e r, L t . F r a n k
J e n s e n o f G r o u p S t a ff ; L t .
R i c h a r d R o o n e y, C o m m a n d
Littleton Squadron, and Ca~.
Richard Romer of the Littleton Squadron.
COLORADO
P U B L I C A T I O N
WINOJCIVIL AIR
O F
T
H
E
PATROL
TMs Board will conduct a
fund raising campaign in the
month of February and establish the rules that applicants
w i l l b e c h o s e n b y.
The
Board will also administer
the funds and monitor the
fund raising progress.
Meritorious Service Award ribbon is pinned on Lt. Col.
Nathan L. Baum, (left) by Deputy Wing Commander Lt. Col.
B i l l M a d s e n . B a u m w a s c i t e d b y C A P N a t i o n a l C o m m a n d e r,
Col. Joe N. Mason, for outstanding leadership as Commander
of Group I. Be won special commendation for the outstanding
cadet training, communications and air and search rescue operations.
FULL FLIGHT SCHOLARSHIP
ANNOUNCED BY GROUP COMMANDERS
Group Commanders as a
committee will conduct a
wing-wide campaign among
~,4enior members to raise
scholarship funds for CAP
cadets to use in flight training.
Group Commanders will
make up the CAP Flight
Scholarship Board with each
Group represented. Lt. Col.
Baum of Group I was named
chairman of the Board.
JANUARY 1966
Major Harriett Starkey
A quota of $5.00 from
each senior member in each
unit has been established.
Contributions are voluntary
and a member may contribute any amount he desires.
One of the first such
scholarships is named in hono r o f H a r r i e i t S t a r k e y, f o r m er Wing Executive Officer who
was active in nearly every
phase of CAP activities during her fifteen years of membership in the organization.
COMMANDER'S CORNER
LOCAL UNIT
ADDRESS NEEDED
ON CAP PUBLICITY
C o l o n e l A r t h u r F. P u t z
C o m m a n d e r, C o l o . W i n g
R A D I O - T V- F I L M
Again in recent weeks, CAP members have rendered va
public service in air rescue operations. Our pilots and
who participated in these flights are to be commended.
m o r e , h o w e v e r, e x p e r i e n c e u n d e r l i n e s t h e i m p o r t a n c e o l
vital fundamental -FILE
uable
all
Once
one
A FLIGHT PLAN
folT h e t r a g i c d e a t h s o f D r. R a n d o l p h L o v a l a c e a n d h i s
lowing their crash on Independence Pass served to
size this simple fact. Had a flight plan been filed, it
likely the wreck would have been discovered 24 hours
Evidence at the scene showed the pilot, Milton Brown, urvived the crash for a time, walking around and
the
b o d i e s o f t h e o t h e r s . F o u n d a d a y s o o n e r, h e
lived.
Similar situations have occurred within the past two
On a flight last year from Colorado Springs to
pilot who crashed crawled a quarter-mile and started to
a lean-to, but was dead when found.
All of the efforts of this great organization are justified
a single life is saved, but the results can be multiplied
pilots will do themselves the greatest favor by followi~
one simple rule-- FILE A FLIGHT PLAN.
when
and
the
Colorado Wing CAP Newsletter is the official publication of the Colorado Wing of
the Civil Air Patrol, Colonel
A r t h u r F. P a t z , C o m m a n d e r.
UNIT FINANCE
REPORTS DUE
IN JANUARY
Published by the Wing Information Office Staff:
Wing Finance Offic, ,r Lt.
C o l . J o h n S t a r k e y h a s issued
a reminder to all unit C O r n manders that their 19{ 5 fl n a n dial reports are due t: ~ s
m o n t h . A l l t r a n s a c t i n ]s must
be posted from the un: t checkbook to Financial repc rt form
1 7 8 a n d t h e s u m m a r y ~orm on
t h e b a c k o f f o r m 1 7 3 nust be
in balance.
Lt. Col. Bernard Gebhardt
Staff Information Officer
Cpt. Earl Howey ..... Editor
Published at Wing Headquart e r s , P. O . D r a w e r C , L o w r y
Air Force Base Station,
D e n v e r, C o l o r a d o 8 0 2 3 0
J A N U A RY 1 9 6 6
ige 2
INCREASED P~ODUCTION
OF CAP television film spots
this year has resulted in increased exposure on television stations throughout the
c o u n t r y. W h i l e t h i s e x p o s u r e
is welcomed, it has created a
problem. In many areas of
t h e c o u n t r y, t e l e v i s i o n s t a tions are being besieged with
telephone requests for the address or phone number of the
nearest CAP unit. In most
cases, the television stations
do not know the name, address, or phone number of
the CAP unit hi their comm u n i t y. A s a r e s u l t , m a n y
persons who are interested in
joining CAP in some capacity
are discouraged from the
start. It also puts an undue
burden on the stations.
Most film spots have included a general statement
to "contact your nearest Civil
A i r P a t r o l u n i t . " To c o r r e c t
this situation, a closing audio
and/or visual tag will be included at the end of all future
film spots of a direct recruiting nature. This tag will direct viewers to write for information to the Civil Air
Patrol National Headquarters
at Ellington Air Force Base,
Te x a s . T h i s w i l l n o t , h o w e v e r, p r e c l u d e C A P u n i t s
from using their own local
t a g s . I n t h i s w a y, t h e i n t e r ested person receives general
information on CAP and is
directed to the nearest CAP
U N I T. M o r e i m p o r t a n t , t h e
local CAP unit remains the
prime motivating factor in
selling the program to the ~,
individual.
THREE RESCUE
MISSIONS IN
DECEMBER
Three aircraft were downed
or reported downed in Color a d o d u r i n g D e c e m b e r, r e s u l t ing in three CAP search missions. One was later discovered to have been a false
alarm. A helicopter pilot
found another while a CAP
pilot discovered the third.
The first search was started when August Halminiak of
Council Bluffs, Iowa, was reported missing on a flight
from Rock Springs, Wyoming
t o D e n v e r. A c c o r d i n g t o
Capt. Cliff Gau of the Wing
Information Office, it was later
discovered that Halminiak had
landed safely in Denver and
simply neglected to close out
"s flight plan.
A d a y l a t e r, D e c e m b e r 1 2 ,
a t w i n e n g i n e B e e c h Tr a v e l e r
on a flight from Aspen to Albuquerque, New Mexico
crashed on Independence Pass.
A b o a r d w a s D r. W. R a n d o l p h
Lovelace II, the chief medical
officer for the U.S. space
program; his wife Mary and
the pilot Milton Brown.
The search was made more
difficult because no flight plan
had been filed.
The wreckage of the Beech
Tr a v e l e r w a s d i s c o v e r e d f o u r
d a y s l a t e r, a n d a l t h o u g h t h e r e
was evidence that possibly all
three had survived the crash,
they were all dead when
search parties arrived.
On December 15, a Flying
~gers Air Cargo Constellation
carrying 41,600 pounds of toys
on a nonstop flight from Los
Angeles to Chicago crashed
on the west slope of 14, 371foot Blanco Peak. The wreckage was sighted the next day
by CAP pilot Clyde Helms.
Rescue parties reported that
all three crew members had
died in the crash.
W H AT H A P P E N E D
TO JOHN JANKAS
Whatever happened to John
Jankas ?
Jankas was the former
Civil Air Patrol lieutenant who
became the one-millionth enlistee in the United States Air
Force a year ago and who was
honored by the Mayor of Chicago and USAF's Deputy Chief
of Staff for Personnel, Lt.
G e n . W i l l i a m S . S t o n e . To d a y, a f t e r b a s i c A i r F o r c e
training and learning the business of missile mechanics,
he is assigned to the 455th
Strategic Missile Wing at
Minot AFB, N. D. and busier
t h a n e v e r. I n a d d i t i o n t o h i s
job moving Minuteman guidance
packages and warheads to the
150 missile sites of the vast
Minor complex, he continues
to log more flying hours offduty and is adding to his college credit log with afterhours psychology course at
Minot State College.
PA S S T H I S C O P Y O F T H E
CHANDELLE ON TO SOMEONE ELSE AFTER YOU
H AV E R E A D I T.
DEADLINE
Deadline for news and pictures for the February issue of the Chandelle is Jan. 21
JANUARY 1966
Page 3
PERSONNEL
CHANGES
The following personnel
c h a n g e s b e c a m e e ff e c t i v e l a s t
month. 1/Lt. Ronald Koprowski was assigned as commander of the Westminster
Sqdn. ; Maj. Carl L. Burley
a n d L o u i s e P. B u r l e y w e r e
assigned to Wing Headquart e r s ; L t . C o l . To m R . K i t e ley was transferred from
Wing to Group VI; Major
Mickey E. Fouts was assigned as advisor for OPS
a c t i v i t i e s o n W i n g S t a ff ;
Fraser Richards was assigned as Assistant Information Officer on Wing Staff and
C a p t . J o h n M a y h o ff e r w a s
assigned as Asst. Dep. for
M a i n t e n a n c e o n W i n g S t a ff .
The following Unit changes
were also confirmed: the
name of the Golden Squadron
w a s c h a n g e d t o E a s t J e ff c o
Composite Squadron; the
Yu m a S q u a d r o n w a s d e s i g n a t ed as an Emergency Services
Squadron; and the new Broomfield Cadet Squadron was activated under the command of
S / M A r n o l d R e a d e r.
MANY CAP
CADETS ON
AF ROSTERS
A recent survey of Air
Force personnel reveals that
nearly three per cent of all
airmen were former Civil
Air Patrol cadets and many
had attained a certificate of
proficiency before entering
the Air Force.
O H I O AT T O R N E Y N AT L .
CHAIRMAN
C o l . L y l e W. C a s t l e ,
C A P, o f C i n c i n n a t i , O h i o ,
has been elected to the post
of Chairman of the Civil Air
Patrol National Board it was
announced by Col. Joe L.
M a s o n , U S A F, C A P, n a t i o n a l
c o m m a n d e r.
A distinguished attorneya t - l a w, C o l o n e l C a s t l e w a s
elected as principle Corporate Officer of the 86, 000
member Civil Air Patrol by
members of the National
Board comprised of CAPts
eight region commanders and
52 wing commanders. He rep l a c e s C o l . P a u l W. T u r n e r,
C A P, a N a s h v i l l e , Te n n e s s e e ,
insurance executive who has
held that office for the past
three years.
The 14-year veteran of
CAP service was bern in
Beach, N. D. in 1922. His
family later moved to Rock
Falls, Illinois, where he attended school and lived until
his enlistment in the Army
Air Corps in 1940.
After attending service
schools at Scott AFB, Illinois
and Savannah, Georgia; he
was assigned to Nichols Field
in the Philippines, arriving
there just two weeks before
t h e a t t a c k o n P e a r l H a r b o r.
Initially assigned to the 17th
Bomb Squadron, he later became a communications specialist at General Douglas
MacArthurts headquarters in
Manila and when Corregidor
fell to the Japanese spent
more than three years as a
prisoner of war in Japan.
He was decorated for wartime service with the Purple
Heart and the Presidential
Unit Citation with two clusters.
Following his return to the
BOARD
United States in 1945 l e
joined the Civil Aeron mtics
Administration in Roc~ Falls
and was later assignee t o
E v a n s v i l l e , I n d i a n a , a ~ Ld finally to Cincinnati, OhiO .
C o l o n e l C a s t l e c o r n pleted
u n d e r g r a d u a t e w o r k a t Chase
College of Commerce and late r e a r n e d h i s l a w d e g : :ee
from the Chase Colleg e of
L a w. H e b e c a m e a s s l s t a n t
city prosecutor in 195 }, serving in that position fo] over
three years.
H e i s a m e m b e r o f the
C i n c i n n a t i B a r A s s o c i . " Lion,
the Ohio Bar AssociatJ on and
Plaintiff Lawyers AsS( ¢iation
of Cincinnati.
A s t h e n e w C A P N ~ ttional
B o a r d C h a i r m a n , C o l o nel
Castle will serve as a memb e r o f t h e B o a r d , a p p , )int
CAP region commande rs and
nominate members for posit i o n s o n N a t i o n a l c o m , aittees.
AURORA SQDN
CE LE BRAT ES
ANNIVERSARY
The Aurora Compo
Squadron commanded
R. M. Neil was one
most active units in t
in celebrating CAP's
n i v e r s a r y.
~ite
)y Capt.
f the
he state
~4th an-
Chairmaned by Ch~
(Capt.) Frank L. Swai
Aurora Squadron publi
the CAP story to the
city of Aurora and m~
the Denver area.
plain
n, the
~ized
entire
ch of
Mayor Norma O.
Valker
issued an official pro( lamat i o n n a m i n g a " C i v i l ] ~atrol
Week" in Aurora, whi ch app e a r e d i n l o c a l p a p e r ~ , along
with the "CAP 24th AI mivers a r y " s t o r y.
JANUARY 1966
];age 4
Aurora radio station
KOSI carried 24 CAP an,iouncements while radio station KHOW carried 12 such
spots. Station KHOW also
carried a 15-minute CAP
interview on the show "Runway Ramblings, " keyed to
aviation types. Chaplain
Swain also appeared as a
g u e s t o n t h e Wa y w a r d B a r k e r
Show on station KOA.
LETTERS
Lt. Abe Ohr
Civil Air Patrol
Dear Lt. Ohr:
Kiwanis - Air Force Kids'
Day has always been a community-oriented joint project
to honor and recognize
" Yo u t h - O u r G r e a t e s t N a t u ral Resource." It is impossible for an event of this type
to be truly a community pro~=
ect unless the community
shares in it one way or ano t h e r.
Yo u r u n s e l fi s h s h a r i n g o f
yourself, your talents and
your time, certainly were instrumental in making "OUR"
Kids' Day the biggest and
grandest in the entire United
States.
It gives me true satisfaction in expressing to you the
heartfelt gratitude of the Air
Force at Lowry and all the
Kiwanians in the area for
your complete cooperation in
helping to make Kids' Day the
tremendous day it truly was.
Thanks for sharing with all
of us in a job "Well Done."
A p p r e c i a t i v e l y,
Burton K. Wheatlake/ ,
General. Chairman
Kids' Day
GROUP I HOLDS
2 4 T H A N N I V.
DANCE
Group I Cadet Council
celebrated 24th Anniversary
of CAP by sponsoring a
dance last month at Contrails
Club on Lo~rry AFB featuring
United States Air Force
Academy band the "Falconairs "
C A D E T F O U N TA I N W I N S W I N G S
CAP Cadet Jerry Fountain,
son of Capt. and Mrs. Clarence M. Fountain of Evergreen, receives the silver
wings of a private pilot from
Group II Commander Law~nce Marshall. Fountain,
o earned his COP at
16 years of age won the
Penn Flight Scholarship
, # ~ 9 ~ ~
awarded by the Colorado
Wing as a result of a contribution from Mrs. Robert R.
P e n n o f D a l l a s , Te x a s w h o
asked that the money be used
for tMs purpose in memory
of her son who was killed in
an airplane crash and for
whom the Colorado CAP conducted an extensive search.
Sixty-two cadet couples
attended the dance along with
the following senior members:
GROUP I, Lt. Coi. Baum and
Major Ferrell, R.M.A.
S Q U A D R O N : M r. a n d M r s .
Theodore Wilson, LITTLETON SQUADRON: Lt. Richa r d R o o n e y C o m m a n d e r,
T H I S i s T O C E R T I F Y T H AT
, .............. B A B B I D G E L E W I S G
"" ''
U S A F L O CO WG OFC
is a (r,r,,,,n ~,e,,,,er ~t
' I
Automation has bit again as the CAP Identification cards for
1966 are being issued without a photo or other positive means
identification, and without the familiar old peel-off decal.
~1,~ere has been considerable comment pro and con. According to officers at National Headquarters the new ID card is
easier to process through the IBM tabulations.
JANUARY 1966
Page 5
Mrs. Belva Criswe]l, Mrs.
a n d M r. A 1 F i e l d s , E N G L E W O O D S Q U A D R O N : M r. a n d
Mrs. Lloyd Winter Comm a n d e r, A U R O R A S Q U A D R O N :
Captain Mike Neff Commande r, M r s . R o b e r t a L e n a h a n ,
M r. a n d M r s . B r u c e P l a t t ,
M r. a n d M r s . S t e p h e n s , M r.
a n d M r s . L o g a n G r a y, a n d
Janice Collins and escort,
L O W RY S Q U A D R O N : A 1
Meader and Richard Oaks
a l o n g w i t h M r. a n d M r s .
Wa l t K r a m e r o f D e n v e r
Emergency Services Sqdn.
THE DENVER POST
PERSONNEL
NOTES FROM
TAY L O R S Q D N .
Wed., Dec. 29, 1965 21
Three cadets from the
B o o k e r T. Ta y l o r S q u a d r o n
of Grand Junction received
Certificates of Proficiency
during a television program
dedicated to the 24th anniversary of the Civil Air
Patrol.
The Cadets, Dorothy
Banas, Larry Willers and
B i l l W i l l i a m s , J r. , r e c e i v e d
their awards from Lt. Col.
Marion Bowman (ret.) and
Lt. Col. Rex Howell (ret.)
during a 15-minute program
o v e r S t a t i o n K R E X T V.
CADET KISH GETS
S PA AT Z AWA R D
C a d e t D a n P. K i s h , 2 0 o f
the Arvada Sqdrn. received
CAP's highest award, the
General Carl Spaatz Achievement Ribbon. The award
was made in a special ceremony Dec. 29 by Maj. General Joe C. Moffitt, Adjutant
General of Colorado. The
award also moved Cadet Lt.
Col. Kish up to Cadet Colonel.
Kinh's accomplishment
may be judged by the fact
that he is only the sixth cadet in the nation to receive
this award and the first in
the Rocky Mountain Region.
The award includes a
$1,000 annual scholarship in
aeronautical engineering to
the college or university of
the winner's choice.
The Spaatz award caps a
distinguished career for Kish
who has previously won l0
CAP ribbons, completed
every phase offered by the
C A P a n d w o n m a n y a d titional
honors. In addition, h e
y o u n g We s t m i n s t e r H i t h
School graduate (class of '63),
h a s c o m p l e t e d t w o y e a ~s at
t h e U n i v e r s i t y o f C o l o 'ado
where he won the RO1 C r i b bon.
Cadet Kish is the on of
M r. a n d M r s . C h a r l e ~ D .
K i s h o f 4 6 5 2 A l c o t t S l ceet.
He is now in the uSA: Institute of Foreign
West Coast, at the
of Monterey where he
studying oriental
NO GNUS ! !
If there is no
in
the CHANDELLE
organization, your
, your
es ...
section or
it's the fault of the
We
H e ' s n o m i n d r e a d e r.
someassume that you did
thing. If you don't * cad
about it in the CHAI, DELLE
...ITrS BECAUSE YO DIDN'T SEND IT IN !
JANUARY 1966
PERSONNEL
NOTES FROM
GROUP I
N. Bernard Godlove,
Flight Instructor with United
Air Lines; Robert Growling,
a Martin Co. electrical engineer and Mrs. Eleanor
Arhutic an Air Force civilian employee have recently
joined Group I.
Major Jean Ferrell, also
of Group I recently became
the first female pilot in Colorado to achieve Senior Pilot
rating.
Nine members of Group I
were recently awarded the
Meritorious Service Award.
They include: Lt. Col.
Nathan Baum, Major Jean
Ferrell, Major William
B a c o n , L t . C h r i s C h a n e y,
C a p t . D a v e F u l l e r, L t . F r a n k
J e n s e n o f G r o u p S t a ff ; L t .
R i c h a r d R o o n e y, C o m m a n d
Littleton Squadron, and Ca~.
Richard Romer of the Littleton Squadron.