- , - - ---:--~-------- - , - - "-,- / \ . May 24.1957 Cdr. A. '0. Turner, USN Newly arrived Drone Operations OIIieer,' Cdr. A. O. Turner, rellorts for,duty at the Naval Air Facility from duty, on Staff, CO~IF'I,OG~ WINGLANT/CONT'L in Patuxent River, -l\Iaryland; This is Cdr. Turner's second duty at this Station. His last Station as- signment was from 1947 to 1950. He and his "wife Rose live at GOO-A Kearsarge ,vith their two sons, !\licbael 13, and "eraJd 10. Forces Day program. T'he picture was taken from a h~licopter at 9 a.m. as' the crowd arri~ed. ' Spe'ctacular Air,Show Highlights NOTS Armed Forces' Program More than 15,000 visitors were o~ the Station last Sat- urday to witness the gIost spectacular Armed Forces Day demonstration ever presented at the Naval Ordnance Test Station. ' Top attraction during the event pellant were ignited, and a' simu- was the air show put on by the Na- lated rescue operation by pilots of val Air Facility, with over 20,000 on thlJ' Civil Air Patrol and NAF. Lt. hand to witness the featured flights P.' J. Norcom, local Civil Air Pa- and firings. trol pilot flying a Piper Tri-Paccr, The TERRIER' guided missile dropped survival"gear to a downed provided the first real thrill of the pilot, who was then rescued by'an day by streaking out of its Marine NAF helicopter. , Missile Unit launcher at more than A local Marin'e Barracks Depart- twice the speed of sound to blast a ment, ecimpliment 'contributed to target drone out of the sky at what the show by staging a mock attack appeare'd to be more than five miles on ground positions, utilizing small away.' The overflow crowd was visi- arms' as well as a flamcthrower bly"impresscd'by"this awesome'dis: and demolition chiuge --to "polish play of ,explosive accuracy. off" the simulated enemy emplace- Four F6F propeller aircraft next ment. " , pcrformed an aerobatic demonstra- LCdr. Glenn Tierney, piloting an tion with aviators from thrce dif- F9F Cougar, capped the air show fcrent servic~s as pilots: Captain by scoring another hit, this time Robert Howard ,USMC; Command- air-to-air, with the Station's ever- er H. F. Lang, USN; and Major D. reliable SIDEWINDER guided mis- B. Scheller and Captain T. U. Mc- sileo All in all it was a bad day for Ehnurry, ,USAF. A brilliantly exe- target drones, but a good one for cuted loop over the crowd in front the 20,000 on hand who found it an of Hangar 1 was a highlight. exciting climax to another succcss- To keep' the show going at a ful Armed Forces Day air show at breathtaking pace, 48 Air Force air- NO'l'S. craft from George AFB came wing- In the afternoon, the visitors wit- ing over the field at. exactly the nesscd two firings at the SNORT scheduled,time of 10:52 a.m. with a track; toured Michelson Lab and supersonic. F-100 cutting in its af- Thompson Aeroballistics Lab; and terburncr low over the' runway to watched continuous movies depict- provide an exciting flyby. ing the work of the Navy 'at the Another feature of the shaw was Station,Theatre. They- doubtless left theair-to-ground rocket firing. Cdr., the Station with a greater know- ' R. R. Newman 'appeared first, fir- lcdgc of the Navy's part in this ing 84 2."75 MIGHTY MOUSE rocl{- eountry's "Power for Peace." ets from an AD Skyraider. LCdr. Robert Moore followed in an F2H Banshee with additional 2."75 ripple firings, and Lt. R. L.,Westcott, in an ,F9F Cougar topped off,the rocket display by firing eight ZUNI's, the Navy's newest air-to-ground rocket. Continuing the demonstration with tactical bombing techniques, VX-5 and NAF pilots were, invari- ably, on-target. Lt. E. R.Christie demonstrated the, over-the-should- er method, which proved to be the most cr-owd pleasing as well as the most accurate of the day. Lt. Christie flew an A4D Skyhawk. Other pilots d e man s t r a ti n g bombing techniques were Lt. S. B. Schoenberger and Lt. Hal Sparks in glide bombing 'at high altitUdes, and two Marine pilots, Capt. J. G. Martz and Major Don Wegley, in loft bombing. Lt. Joel Premselaar demonstrat- ed the mighty ability of the Navy'l> F4D Skyray jet to the delight of the crowd. 'raking off the NAB' runway, Premselaar pulled the sup- ersonic jet into. a steep, vertical climb almost immediately" show'- ing nothing 'but the glow of 'the af- terburner' to the crowd bela,,,, LCdI'. Lee Kirkemo followed with 'l low, high-specd pass over thc ~rowd in an A3D Skywarrior, the ;,\[avy's new carrier-bascd jet bomber. Other features included a pro- pellant-burning dcmonstration' in which 15,000 ppunds ,of llhe~t pro· NAFAIR SIIOW-~lore'than'20,OoOpeopie were at' NAFlast &turday t~ witness, the Station's Amied Polio Clinics Open For Military and Civilian Personnel, A polio immunization clinic will be held for persons from, six months to 40 years of age in the Anchorage Building {rom 1 to 4 p.m. next Monday, May 27,acc,ord- ing' to information received from Dr. H. H. Snydh, PUbli~ Health physician, Kern County Health De- partment. This clinic will provide first, sec- ond and third shots. of polio vac- cine. Interested' persons should compute their eligibility for second and third shots as follows: Second dose should be given one month to one year, after the first dQse; arid the third do~e shouid be given seven to'18 months after the'second dosC'. " Civilian Personnel 'Ca:pt~in H.' L. Anderson; Statlon Medical 'Officer, advises' all civil 3ervice employees to' avail thcm- selves of, this opportunity to ob~ tainpolio 'immunization at this Jme. However, employees receiving the vaccine must do so on a volun- ,tary, basis. Local residents of the Ridl?ecrest area: will, be permitted aboard the Station for the purpose of polio im- munization during the' above clinic hours. Visitor passes will be issued upon suitable identificatio'n for this purpose. This elinic is jointly sponsored by the Kern County Health Depart- ment and the Medical Department, NOTS; in keeping with thc eurrcnt 'policy as established by the Office of Industrial Relations, Navy De- partment. Military Personnel All military pcrsonnel and' their dependents are encouraged to' take advantag~ of the polio clinic held at the Station Hospital on the first Tucsday of each month from 3 to 4,p.m; .. , First, second, and thi'rd inocula- tions of polio vaccine will be given to military personnel and thcir de- pendents, ages six months and over. Children, undh 12 years of agc must be accompanied by their par- ents. No appointment is necessary. A copy of DD Form 737, "Certifi- cate of Inoculation,'" forwarded' to military dependents Who previous- ly receivcd poli() i no cui a t ion s , should 'be retained by the individ- ual concerned and, presented at the time of subsequent inoculations. These forms will not be issucd to military personnt>l. Record of in- oculn:tion will be entcred in the Health Record. U.S. Naval qrdnance T~st Station. China Lake. Calif. tion? Yes-86. '. Or by a, hospital membership plan in which monthly dues would entitie a member to small reduc- tionon hospital rates? Yes"':"66. • By staff doctors? Ycs-3. • By rcntal of office space? Yes -1. ' , , : • BY'bond issue? Yes-'-l. • Where do y,ou think the hos~ pital should be located?, Ridgecrest --172; Inyokern--25; Inyokern Itoad --9; Trona Road-I; China Lake-- 4;-Station Infirmary--1. ' These findings were the result of contacts made with 271 families representing 1008 individuals." Chief Quarterman Ex~msNowOpen Applications are now being ac- cepted for Chief' Quarterman (Uti- lities) 'a n <;I' Chief Quarterman (Buildings, Grounds, and Roads) competitive promotion ,examina- tions by the Detached Representa- tive, Board of Examiners 11ND (NS), Perllonnel Department at China Lake. , Quaiified pcrsonnel at China Lake and Pasadena Annex may ap- P.lY provided they are serving un- der a career or career-conditional appointment. Application card Form 5000AB must be received or postmarked not later than' June 12, 1D57. \ Vol 'XIII. No. 21 , :CommunicationsOfficer \Top High School Students'Honored Charles Walker. was named vale- dicto'rian and Gary Reynolds salu- tatorian for the Class of 1957 this weei{ at Burroughs' High School in' honor of their four years of schol- astic achievements. ' Receiving outstanding ratings in both scholastic abiiities and extra- curricular activities, the two boys I have played emportant parts in stu- , dent life at Burroughs, Kenneth W. I Westcott, vice-principal, stated. - The, two will participate in the Commenccment exercises scheduled to be held at 8:30 p.m" Friday, Jllne 14, in the Station Theater. Speaker for Burroughs' twelfth ancI" largest graduating' class will be Dr. Paul Smith, president of Whittier Col- lege; Walker, Who is a life member ~f the California Scholarship Federa-: tion, was recently named 'winner of the Elks Award to the Most Valua- ble Student. He was last year's Lt C ) F ank A. K'l delegate from Burroughs to the . Jg r lmpe, Boys State program; has served as The Station's new, Communica-. president of the Assembly Commit- tions Officer Lt(jg) Frank A. Kim- tee; received the Achievement Cup pel, USNR, reports aboard, after for outstanding: freshman; served two years of communications du- as a member of the Athletic Board !ies at NAS, Barber's I'oint, Hawaii. and has' been active in the Tennis Bcfore entering military service, Club. Lt. n:i~pel attemled Polytechnic In- Reynolds, also a life member of stit~te, B~ooklyn, N. Y. wh~re he the scholastic honorary CSF, served recClycd'hlS ?aeh~IOr de~ree III m~- as vice-president of the CSF; pho- ~hameal engllleermg. HIS home IS tographer for the' 1957 El Burro III Glendale, N. Y. year-book, and has been active in student' organizations. Walker and Reynolds will he hon- ored on June'13 at the annual all- school awards, assembly as Bank of 'America Achievement' winners while Reynolds will receive the tro- phy cup for excellence in the field of science ,and English and Walker will receive a certificate for' excel: lence in science. Walker is the son of Mrs. Nancy S. Glover and Reynolds of Mr. and Mrs. ,Roland W. Reynolds. Committee,ReveaIs First'Survey Study For New HospitdI ,', (This is the first ,of a series of re;. ports from a fact~finding committee 'presently investigating thefeasibil~ ity of establishing a comnHmitj! hos- pital in this area.) The first report of a survey con~ ducted by the Social Studies Group of the' American Association of University Women for the interim Medical Committee of, the Com- munity 'Council to determine. the feasibility of a community hospital in this area has been announced by Marion Olds, chairman. The study was conducted under the ,direction of Dorothic Shcpard. ." Intcrviewers were assigned to covcr areas' outside of' their own neighborhoods in the .China Lake, Ridgecrest, Inyol{ern' and Wherry housing communities; , In the China Lake area, 190 ques- tionnaires were submitted from the Hill area, Dormitories, old'Duplex- es, Prefabs,Normacs, and trailers. Forty-four, questionnaires we r ~ submitted from Ridgecrest, 17 from Inyokern, and 20 from the Wherry housing area. ' A recap of answers to :questions wh.iCh appeared in the qucsUon- naire follows: • Do you feel that another hos- pital facility is desirable in the In- dian Wells Valley? Yes-196. No- 71. • 'Would you and your family ,patronize such a facility if it were a, properly qualified institution? , Yes-169. No-50. • Do you think such a facility might be financed' by donations, Yes-37. o Or by the purchase of stock from a legally constituted corpora- Appreciation For Armed Forces Day Effort On Armed Forces Day the extcnt' of NOTS participation in national defense was demon~trated in excellent' fashion, both on the ranges and in the laboratories. The day's program was precisely executed in all' of I.------------:-----, its rnu.ny' aspects. I believe our visitors 'carried with them a reassuring, Pay Rents to impression of our work and the spirit with which we work. U 5 T . N Theprepa~atlons for Armed Forcefj Day were equally expressive 'of • • reasurer OW , ' 1 • ' New accounting instructions what could be called the "NOTS attitude/' This was cxemplified 'by the recehed from the Office of the manner in whlch Commander H. F. Lang tool{ charge' and direct~d the Comlltrollcr, De'partrncnt of the over-all program and tile way in which all organizatlons on'the Stati-on Navy require that rental checks '.' rallied behind ,him in what soon became essentially an all hands evolu- for Station housing be made , ':" tion. 1 payable to the Treasurer of the To all hands my thanks for prompt assumption' of responsibility and Unitcd States,' my congratulations for a most successful operatlon--Armed Forces Housing Office officials', re- Day-1957. I quest the cooperation of Sta- Captain' F. L. Ashworth tion residents in complying with tllcllew regulations. Station COlwnander " ) I " 1 , f., I ~. ~-- ---'"--- J .. O-J"-i-' ! ,..~,-~I-" ", j Commissary Store , Closes,for Inventory' TIle Commis~a!'y Store "ill be elo~ed for ,ilH'cntory next, \Ved- nesllay and Tlmn;day, l\lay" 29- 30. ' ...' Normal hours of oilCration wiII be effccth'e. Tuesday,: l\Iay, 28, and Friday, l\Iay 31. ' , IDl\1 701 Electronic Computer ' prize; Linda JoLove, 2nd prize; and Endr~ Winkle, 3rd prize.n:neeling in, front is Richard SnearIy, 3rd prize. The close competition for third place resulted in awarding four third place prizes. Conterst chairman for t~e Legion Auxiliary was Tillie l\Ia)·berry. .. ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS-Patriotic' know-how on the subjec,t of the Statue of Liberty earned these youngsters awards in'the Almiricrm Legion sponsored 'essa:y contest. 'Shown (I. to r.)· arc: Pat GilI{C~on,3'r£1 prize; Lynne Olds, 3rd prize; Raren 'Bjorklund, 1st What's New ••• or Old? Local! Poppy Poster Winners Named ,Winners in the Poppy Poster contest sponsored aimually by the Amcrican Legion Auxiliary 'for students in elementary grades, Junior and High Schools, have been announced by Mrs. Mae Beach, chairman of the John M. Armitage Auxiliary ,No. 684. ..\'\Tinning posters in' each group are forwarded to the 27th District Auxiliary chairman where ,they are j\ldged. "Vinning posters at this level' are then submitted to Stale 3.l1d National contests. Senior' High 3chool students did 'not sUbmit pos- tel's in the contest this year. Local Junior HighSchool win- ners are: Larry Smith" Inyokern, first prize, $3; Donald Peterson In- yol,ern, secc>nd prize, medal 'and citation; and Geraldine Decker, Ridgecrest, third prize, citation.' Fourth, fifth and sixth grade winners are: TolU Frisbee, China Lake, first prize, $3; Margaret Chapman, China Lake, second prize, medal and citation; and Robert C:arty, Ridgecrest,' third prize, cita- tion. . 'Judges of the locar contcst were Doris Aulds, Alma Huie, Ruth Gar- rett, Rosalie Peterson, Dorothy Diffily, and Rosalie Weir. . , ' , new reports are added to the li-' is not .located' in the four dcicu- ,, lbrary collection, the uniterms ments" examination of the' addi- which describe their contents are tional eight may be necessary. IBM 701 Computer B()0 n:I:~;~;;~~~~n:~;:~~\~~U~; £~~;::~~~;;;~E~2:~~:'t:f In-Tec'hn-I caI'D'at0' 'Se0 r'chi~~or~lt~o~~~~;; S:l~~: P:p t~~ :~;~:ti~r~~e~o~~;J~::ti~~,:~~oe:~~ , , eight uniterms to be designated for written prior lo a specific date. You've probably never, heard 'of Thaddeus P. ,Morton. a single search.' It will, cause the, Along with the accession number, accession numbers common to the compl,lter'indicates whether the That's a shame, too, for he made a great discovery. He i'u- these eightuniterms to ,be printed. report is a 'progress report or rio vented the electric light.", " . One may also assign weight or monograph, whether it is of ,local The reason for his obscurity may The chief difficulty in technical significance to the uniterms in' a origin, and whether it is classificd be attributed to the fact that one literature searcning where one of search, the relative weight being "secret.". ~ 'Thomas A. Edison had been issued the long ~stablished systems 'for determined by the order in which Assuming that' 75 searches of patents for the incandescent clec- cataloging reports is used, is that the uniterms are listed. In this eight uniterms each are made, the tric ,light some seventeen years impbrtant aspects of, their con- case the 701 will designate those total timEC rcquired,' _although par- prior to Morton's w,ork. And in tents are obscured, either by sub- accession numberscoinmon fothe tially dependent on the number of this :sad and simple tale lies a mo- jects too broad, or by the limited first two uniterms, those common accession numbers printed" is of , ' th d rr~'1TT.,.ff· qfrllll~lt:ll ral •.• ' before undertakinO" a re- number of subjects, 'under which to the first three, etc. Thus, if there e or er of ,45 millutes. ,~ search 'or devclopment ':;rojeet, the reports are indexed. To avoid is no literature in the file on pre- The machine procedure has bcen make sure someone hasn't beat'you this difficulty the UniteI'm System cisely the information desired; one proven accurate, and actual scardl- to it.: of Co~ordinate Indexing has been may look under the next be~t group es have' been made over the past ,This, of course,,!s usually a tough adopted at NOTS. of terms for the approximate in- six months. At such time as 'the de- job. In Morton's case it should have The system consists of analyzing formation desired.'" mand warrants, a daily schedule been easy. All he 'had to do, was the SUbject matter' of a document For example, a physicist is in- will be set up 'to process the re- walk down Main Street. But you into thought concepts called uni': terested in the "effect of the' at- quests accumulated during the day~ may be faced with the'prospect of term's, which 'may be a single word, mosphere on the propagation of At any time a search may be' made plowing through an entire library e.g., "pressure," or a phrase, such microw:;wes." This ',question is prc- visually by using th'e U~iterm of technical literature. And while as "body of' reVOlution," "heat sented to the' refenrence librarian Card File maintained 'in' the' Tech- you're nodding over some learne'd transfer," "rockets (2,"75)' Mark 2 on'duty who analyzes the meaning, nical Library. " ' , and tedious piece of irrelevarit writ- Mod 0.", breaks it down into uniterms to be Now that we have t,;ld you about', ing, someone at NO'L may be as- In the visual or manual applica- co-ordinated and puts the search the system, we hopc you will look suring himself of fame and a GS-15 tion of this system, as it is used at information on, a form for the use into it. If you wan~ further infor- by beating you to the punch. NOTS, a card is set for each uni- ,of the Computing' Branch. The Ii- mation about the basic catalo~inO" At NO'l'S an attempt has been term. When a report is received, the brarlan wei,ghs. the uniterms in 01'- , concept, ask t!1C TechI].ical Lib:ar;' made to make technical literature staff of the Reference arid Biblio- del' of rclatIve Importance, thc most IThe Computing' Branch will be searching easier for you. A cooper- graphic Branch analYZes it and se- general or most meaningful bcing happy to answer· questions about ative effort by the Technical Lib- leets the uniterms necessary to des- listed first, and, in '.sequencc, the, the computer, application, or' to ar- ra!y and the Computing Branch of cribe the contents. most specific or least meaningful range for demonstration~ to ,inter- t~e' Re~earch Depa~tm~nt has re- The report is then ass'igned an ac- term last, thus: "microwaves," ested groups. ' ' suIted III the applicatIOn ,of, the cession number which is entered 'on "propagation," and "atmosphere." !1---' ~~--.,------; IBM 701 Electronic, Computer to the appropriate uniterm card. It The form ls sent''to the ;Comp~t­ the problem. ' has been found that the contents, of ing Branch, key punched in IBM technical reports may be,sufficient-I cards and fed to the 701. The re- ly described by an average of eight suIts of the cooqIination are print- uniterms. , ' ed on paper and' returned' to the In using the system, one selects Technical Library. the combination of uniterms which In this example, four report most nearly covers the information numbers are found to' be common desired, and checks those uniterm to all threcuniterms an~ eight ad- cards; making a note, of the ace'es- diti-onal ones to the 'more general sion numbers which 'are common terms "microwaves'" and "propaga- to all the selected uniterm cards. tion." If the, desired information This list of accession numbers is ' , I ~__~ ';"' ~_l then turned over' to the librarian who obtains the corresp,onding re~ ports. At NOTS, instruction in the use of the system may be requested from the reference librarians on duty. I The process of visually determin- ing . the accession numbers com- mon to eight uniterms ... when several hundred accession numbers niay be listed under each uniteI'm ... is' tedious, time-consuming, and subject to enol'. The Computing B~anch at NOTS as a research project, has under~ laken the development of proce- dures and programs which will per- mit the IB~1: 701 Computer ,to per- forul this job. The entire Uniterm File of the Technical Library com- prising 'approximately 11,000 uni- terms which cover 18,600 technical reports', has been transcribc'd onto magnetic'tape. Since each'rep,ort is entered under several uniterms, the total of accession numbers prescnt- lyon the tape is near '100,000. As The highway of fear is the short- ed route to defeat. Committee Designat~d To ,Find Speaker for' . Baccalaureate Service Dr. Earl :Murray, Superintendent of China Lalw schools, announccd this week the annual'baccalaureate service for Burroughs High School 1!J37 graduation class which is pro- po~cd to be held in lthc Station chapel at 7 p,m. on Siuiday, June 9. A committee c'ol1sisting of Has- l,ell G. 'Wilson, 'Dr. Max Dubin, and John J. McLaughlin has been selected to provide a layman speak- ed to present the inspirational me,,- sage to the gradua~ion class.-rit the ba~calaureatc 'service. ' Dee Dee Cox As Dee Dee Cox ~CVItinued to re- late her introduction to NOTS, her animation emphasized the sincerity with which she spoke. "After six months at home, I accepted the po- sition of insurance representative and claims adjuster for NUTS Group Hcalth Insurance plan in the Departmcnt of Community Affairs." Before coming 'to 'China Lake, ,Dce Dee haq been administering the Health qroup plan' at Pasadena Anncx for the past seven years, in addition to having charge of the dispensary. It was there she met her husband John. ~ Registered Nurse Dee Dee's rich nackground as a registered nurse is barely hipped in her prcsent position, however, her training enables her to understand tile problems and extend expert sen'ille to the members of the plan. In addition to three years experi- ence as assistant hcad nurse of the mcdical surgical floor at the Cedars of Le~anon Hospital in Los Angeles, she holds a degrcc in nursing which she obtaincd at thc School of Nurs- ing at the Univcrsity of Michigan. This institution is' noted for the high .standards of its training cur- riculum.Its nurses and medical stu- dents arc train';:d by a staff of med- ical specialists in all fields of medi- ,cine. The bulk of thc students' sur- gical expericnce is conccntratcd on cxceptional 'cases such as brain and plastic surgery; congenital dcformi- tics; and complex thoracic and gen- eral surgery. ! l\IedicalProfession De'rrianding The requIreme~tsfor members of the medical profession are ve'I)' high. Students must have ,a strong Page Six de~ire to serve humanity, possess robust health, patience, emotional 3tability, and maturity of character. "The demands of the .profession are' extremely heavy. I've always been inipressedwith the nnselfish dE;dication 'of medical men and wo- men," Dee Dee added. '''If you don't like people when they're ,veIl, you sure as heck won't like them when By Phillys \Vair, they're sick!" Dee Dee, whose real name is Ma'r- "\'V'hen it was decided to garet, was born and raised in West move the' Engineering De- Branch, Michigan, a small town in P ' artment from Pasadena An- the northern part of the state. Al- though she has always wanted to nex to China Lake in 1954, be a nurse, her admiration for the my husband John, Associate family physician, a close friend of Head of the ,department, in- the family, further inspired her to serve in the medical profession. formed me that we would be As Dee Dee, chatted about her moving to the desert, too. At college' years, a delightful human fir,st, the prospect of living in interest story unfolded that bears repeating. During her first year in this "rio man's land" did not 'nursing school, she formed very appeal to me,' but within'a strong ties of friendship with her few months, I'd learned to roommate, LaVerne Hein. After graduation, 'thb two girls moved to , love this new way of life, the Los Angeles where they continued community and especially the to live and work together for 8 climate.'" years. During this time,.thcy met aIid dated Mrs. Cox's two sons, John and Robert. FinallY,: hi February, 1953, Dee Dee married John, and in April, LaVerne married Bob. Today, the two staunch friends are sisters- in-law. , An enduring friendship such-as this 'Could only' be experienced by one who truly possesses 8. genuine appreciation for mankind. " c, '.''''-~---- , OCR Text: - , - - ---:--~-------- - , - - "-,- / \ . May 24.1957 Cdr. A. '0. Turner, USN Newly arrived Drone Operations OIIieer,' Cdr. A. O. Turner, rellorts for,duty at the Naval Air Facility from duty, on Staff, CO~IF'I,OG~ WINGLANT/CONT'L in Patuxent River, -l\Iaryland; This is Cdr. Turner's second duty at this Station. His last Station as- signment was from 1947 to 1950. He and his "wife Rose live at GOO-A Kearsarge ,vith their two sons, !\licbael 13, and "eraJd 10. Forces Day program. T'he picture was taken from a h~licopter at 9 a.m. as' the crowd arri~ed. ' Spe'ctacular Air,Show Highlights NOTS Armed Forces' Program More than 15,000 visitors were o~ the Station last Sat- urday to witness the gIost spectacular Armed Forces Day demonstration ever presented at the Naval Ordnance Test Station. ' Top attraction during the event pellant were ignited, and a' simu- was the air show put on by the Na- lated rescue operation by pilots of val Air Facility, with over 20,000 on thlJ' Civil Air Patrol and NAF. Lt. hand to witness the featured flights P.' J. Norcom, local Civil Air Pa- and firings. trol pilot flying a Piper Tri-Paccr, The TERRIER' guided missile dropped survival"gear to a downed provided the first real thrill of the pilot, who was then rescued by'an day by streaking out of its Marine NAF helicopter. , Missile Unit launcher at more than A local Marin'e Barracks Depart- twice the speed of sound to blast a ment, ecimpliment 'contributed to target drone out of the sky at what the show by staging a mock attack appeare'd to be more than five miles on ground positions, utilizing small away.' The overflow crowd was visi- arms' as well as a flamcthrower bly"impresscd'by"this awesome'dis: and demolition chiuge --to "polish play of ,explosive accuracy. off" the simulated enemy emplace- Four F6F propeller aircraft next ment. " , pcrformed an aerobatic demonstra- LCdr. Glenn Tierney, piloting an tion with aviators from thrce dif- F9F Cougar, capped the air show fcrent servic~s as pilots: Captain by scoring another hit, this time Robert Howard ,USMC; Command- air-to-air, with the Station's ever- er H. F. Lang, USN; and Major D. reliable SIDEWINDER guided mis- B. Scheller and Captain T. U. Mc- sileo All in all it was a bad day for Ehnurry, ,USAF. A brilliantly exe- target drones, but a good one for cuted loop over the crowd in front the 20,000 on hand who found it an of Hangar 1 was a highlight. exciting climax to another succcss- To keep' the show going at a ful Armed Forces Day air show at breathtaking pace, 48 Air Force air- NO'l'S. craft from George AFB came wing- In the afternoon, the visitors wit- ing over the field at. exactly the nesscd two firings at the SNORT scheduled,time of 10:52 a.m. with a track; toured Michelson Lab and supersonic. F-100 cutting in its af- Thompson Aeroballistics Lab; and terburncr low over the' runway to watched continuous movies depict- provide an exciting flyby. ing the work of the Navy 'at the Another feature of the shaw was Station,Theatre. They- doubtless left theair-to-ground rocket firing. Cdr., the Station with a greater know- ' R. R. Newman 'appeared first, fir- lcdgc of the Navy's part in this ing 84 2."75 MIGHTY MOUSE rocl{- eountry's "Power for Peace." ets from an AD Skyraider. LCdr. Robert Moore followed in an F2H Banshee with additional 2."75 ripple firings, and Lt. R. L.,Westcott, in an ,F9F Cougar topped off,the rocket display by firing eight ZUNI's, the Navy's newest air-to-ground rocket. Continuing the demonstration with tactical bombing techniques, VX-5 and NAF pilots were, invari- ably, on-target. Lt. E. R.Christie demonstrated the, over-the-should- er method, which proved to be the most cr-owd pleasing as well as the most accurate of the day. Lt. Christie flew an A4D Skyhawk. Other pilots d e man s t r a ti n g bombing techniques were Lt. S. B. Schoenberger and Lt. Hal Sparks in glide bombing 'at high altitUdes, and two Marine pilots, Capt. J. G. Martz and Major Don Wegley, in loft bombing. Lt. Joel Premselaar demonstrat- ed the mighty ability of the Navy'l> F4D Skyray jet to the delight of the crowd. 'raking off the NAB' runway, Premselaar pulled the sup- ersonic jet into. a steep, vertical climb almost immediately" show'- ing nothing 'but the glow of 'the af- terburner' to the crowd bela,,,, LCdI'. Lee Kirkemo followed with 'l low, high-specd pass over thc ~rowd in an A3D Skywarrior, the ;,\[avy's new carrier-bascd jet bomber. Other features included a pro- pellant-burning dcmonstration' in which 15,000 ppunds ,of llhe~t pro· NAFAIR SIIOW-~lore'than'20,OoOpeopie were at' NAFlast &turday t~ witness, the Station's Amied Polio Clinics Open For Military and Civilian Personnel, A polio immunization clinic will be held for persons from, six months to 40 years of age in the Anchorage Building {rom 1 to 4 p.m. next Monday, May 27,acc,ord- ing' to information received from Dr. H. H. Snydh, PUbli~ Health physician, Kern County Health De- partment. This clinic will provide first, sec- ond and third shots. of polio vac- cine. Interested' persons should compute their eligibility for second and third shots as follows: Second dose should be given one month to one year, after the first dQse; arid the third do~e shouid be given seven to'18 months after the'second dosC'. " Civilian Personnel 'Ca:pt~in H.' L. Anderson; Statlon Medical 'Officer, advises' all civil 3ervice employees to' avail thcm- selves of, this opportunity to ob~ tainpolio 'immunization at this Jme. However, employees receiving the vaccine must do so on a volun- ,tary, basis. Local residents of the Ridl?ecrest area: will, be permitted aboard the Station for the purpose of polio im- munization during the' above clinic hours. Visitor passes will be issued upon suitable identificatio'n for this purpose. This elinic is jointly sponsored by the Kern County Health Depart- ment and the Medical Department, NOTS; in keeping with thc eurrcnt 'policy as established by the Office of Industrial Relations, Navy De- partment. Military Personnel All military pcrsonnel and' their dependents are encouraged to' take advantag~ of the polio clinic held at the Station Hospital on the first Tucsday of each month from 3 to 4,p.m; .. , First, second, and thi'rd inocula- tions of polio vaccine will be given to military personnel and thcir de- pendents, ages six months and over. Children, undh 12 years of agc must be accompanied by their par- ents. No appointment is necessary. A copy of DD Form 737, "Certifi- cate of Inoculation,'" forwarded' to military dependents Who previous- ly receivcd poli() i no cui a t ion s , should 'be retained by the individ- ual concerned and, presented at the time of subsequent inoculations. These forms will not be issucd to military personnt>l. Record of in- oculn:tion will be entcred in the Health Record. U.S. Naval qrdnance T~st Station. China Lake. Calif. tion? Yes-86. '. Or by a, hospital membership plan in which monthly dues would entitie a member to small reduc- tionon hospital rates? Yes"':"66. • By staff doctors? Ycs-3. • By rcntal of office space? Yes -1. ' , , : • BY'bond issue? Yes-'-l. • Where do y,ou think the hos~ pital should be located?, Ridgecrest --172; Inyokern--25; Inyokern Itoad --9; Trona Road-I; China Lake-- 4;-Station Infirmary--1. ' These findings were the result of contacts made with 271 families representing 1008 individuals." Chief Quarterman Ex~msNowOpen Applications are now being ac- cepted for Chief' Quarterman (Uti- lities) 'a n <;I' Chief Quarterman (Buildings, Grounds, and Roads) competitive promotion ,examina- tions by the Detached Representa- tive, Board of Examiners 11ND (NS), Perllonnel Department at China Lake. , Quaiified pcrsonnel at China Lake and Pasadena Annex may ap- P.lY provided they are serving un- der a career or career-conditional appointment. Application card Form 5000AB must be received or postmarked not later than' June 12, 1D57. \ Vol 'XIII. No. 21 , :CommunicationsOfficer \Top High School Students'Honored Charles Walker. was named vale- dicto'rian and Gary Reynolds salu- tatorian for the Class of 1957 this weei{ at Burroughs' High School in' honor of their four years of schol- astic achievements. ' Receiving outstanding ratings in both scholastic abiiities and extra- curricular activities, the two boys I have played emportant parts in stu- , dent life at Burroughs, Kenneth W. I Westcott, vice-principal, stated. - The, two will participate in the Commenccment exercises scheduled to be held at 8:30 p.m" Friday, Jllne 14, in the Station Theater. Speaker for Burroughs' twelfth ancI" largest graduating' class will be Dr. Paul Smith, president of Whittier Col- lege; Walker, Who is a life member ~f the California Scholarship Federa-: tion, was recently named 'winner of the Elks Award to the Most Valua- ble Student. He was last year's Lt C ) F ank A. K'l delegate from Burroughs to the . Jg r lmpe, Boys State program; has served as The Station's new, Communica-. president of the Assembly Commit- tions Officer Lt(jg) Frank A. Kim- tee; received the Achievement Cup pel, USNR, reports aboard, after for outstanding: freshman; served two years of communications du- as a member of the Athletic Board !ies at NAS, Barber's I'oint, Hawaii. and has' been active in the Tennis Bcfore entering military service, Club. Lt. n:i~pel attemled Polytechnic In- Reynolds, also a life member of stit~te, B~ooklyn, N. Y. wh~re he the scholastic honorary CSF, served recClycd'hlS ?aeh~IOr de~ree III m~- as vice-president of the CSF; pho- ~hameal engllleermg. HIS home IS tographer for the' 1957 El Burro III Glendale, N. Y. year-book, and has been active in student' organizations. Walker and Reynolds will he hon- ored on June'13 at the annual all- school awards, assembly as Bank of 'America Achievement' winners while Reynolds will receive the tro- phy cup for excellence in the field of science ,and English and Walker will receive a certificate for' excel: lence in science. Walker is the son of Mrs. Nancy S. Glover and Reynolds of Mr. and Mrs. ,Roland W. Reynolds. Committee,ReveaIs First'Survey Study For New HospitdI ,', (This is the first ,of a series of re;. ports from a fact~finding committee 'presently investigating thefeasibil~ ity of establishing a comnHmitj! hos- pital in this area.) The first report of a survey con~ ducted by the Social Studies Group of the' American Association of University Women for the interim Medical Committee of, the Com- munity 'Council to determine. the feasibility of a community hospital in this area has been announced by Marion Olds, chairman. The study was conducted under the ,direction of Dorothic Shcpard. ." Intcrviewers were assigned to covcr areas' outside of' their own neighborhoods in the .China Lake, Ridgecrest, Inyol{ern' and Wherry housing communities; , In the China Lake area, 190 ques- tionnaires were submitted from the Hill area, Dormitories, old'Duplex- es, Prefabs,Normacs, and trailers. Forty-four, questionnaires we r ~ submitted from Ridgecrest, 17 from Inyokern, and 20 from the Wherry housing area. ' A recap of answers to :questions wh.iCh appeared in the qucsUon- naire follows: • Do you feel that another hos- pital facility is desirable in the In- dian Wells Valley? Yes-196. No- 71. • 'Would you and your family ,patronize such a facility if it were a, properly qualified institution? , Yes-169. No-50. • Do you think such a facility might be financed' by donations, Yes-37. o Or by the purchase of stock from a legally constituted corpora- Appreciation For Armed Forces Day Effort On Armed Forces Day the extcnt' of NOTS participation in national defense was demon~trated in excellent' fashion, both on the ranges and in the laboratories. The day's program was precisely executed in all' of I.------------:-----, its rnu.ny' aspects. I believe our visitors 'carried with them a reassuring, Pay Rents to impression of our work and the spirit with which we work. U 5 T . N Theprepa~atlons for Armed Forcefj Day were equally expressive 'of • • reasurer OW , ' 1 • ' New accounting instructions what could be called the "NOTS attitude/' This was cxemplified 'by the recehed from the Office of the manner in whlch Commander H. F. Lang tool{ charge' and direct~d the Comlltrollcr, De'partrncnt of the over-all program and tile way in which all organizatlons on'the Stati-on Navy require that rental checks '.' rallied behind ,him in what soon became essentially an all hands evolu- for Station housing be made , ':" tion. 1 payable to the Treasurer of the To all hands my thanks for prompt assumption' of responsibility and Unitcd States,' my congratulations for a most successful operatlon--Armed Forces Housing Office officials', re- Day-1957. I quest the cooperation of Sta- Captain' F. L. Ashworth tion residents in complying with tllcllew regulations. Station COlwnander " ) I " 1 , f., I ~. ~-- ---'"--- J .. O-J"-i-' ! ,..~,-~I-" ", j Commissary Store , Closes,for Inventory' TIle Commis~a!'y Store "ill be elo~ed for ,ilH'cntory next, \Ved- nesllay and Tlmn;day, l\lay" 29- 30. ' ...' Normal hours of oilCration wiII be effccth'e. Tuesday,: l\Iay, 28, and Friday, l\Iay 31. ' , IDl\1 701 Electronic Computer ' prize; Linda JoLove, 2nd prize; and Endr~ Winkle, 3rd prize.n:neeling in, front is Richard SnearIy, 3rd prize. The close competition for third place resulted in awarding four third place prizes. Conterst chairman for t~e Legion Auxiliary was Tillie l\Ia)·berry. .. ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS-Patriotic' know-how on the subjec,t of the Statue of Liberty earned these youngsters awards in'the Almiricrm Legion sponsored 'essa:y contest. 'Shown (I. to r.)· arc: Pat GilI{C~on,3'r£1 prize; Lynne Olds, 3rd prize; Raren 'Bjorklund, 1st What's New ••• or Old? Local! Poppy Poster Winners Named ,Winners in the Poppy Poster contest sponsored aimually by the Amcrican Legion Auxiliary 'for students in elementary grades, Junior and High Schools, have been announced by Mrs. Mae Beach, chairman of the John M. Armitage Auxiliary ,No. 684. ..\'\Tinning posters in' each group are forwarded to the 27th District Auxiliary chairman where ,they are j\ldged. "Vinning posters at this level' are then submitted to Stale 3.l1d National contests. Senior' High 3chool students did 'not sUbmit pos- tel's in the contest this year. Local Junior HighSchool win- ners are: Larry Smith" Inyokern, first prize, $3; Donald Peterson In- yol,ern, secc>nd prize, medal 'and citation; and Geraldine Decker, Ridgecrest, third prize, citation.' Fourth, fifth and sixth grade winners are: TolU Frisbee, China Lake, first prize, $3; Margaret Chapman, China Lake, second prize, medal and citation; and Robert C:arty, Ridgecrest,' third prize, cita- tion. . 'Judges of the locar contcst were Doris Aulds, Alma Huie, Ruth Gar- rett, Rosalie Peterson, Dorothy Diffily, and Rosalie Weir. . , ' , new reports are added to the li-' is not .located' in the four dcicu- ,, lbrary collection, the uniterms ments" examination of the' addi- which describe their contents are tional eight may be necessary. IBM 701 Computer B()0 n:I:~;~;;~~~~n:~;:~~\~~U~; £~~;::~~~;;;~E~2:~~:'t:f In-Tec'hn-I caI'D'at0' 'Se0 r'chi~~or~lt~o~~~~;; S:l~~: P:p t~~ :~;~:ti~r~~e~o~~;J~::ti~~,:~~oe:~~ , , eight uniterms to be designated for written prior lo a specific date. You've probably never, heard 'of Thaddeus P. ,Morton. a single search.' It will, cause the, Along with the accession number, accession numbers common to the compl,lter'indicates whether the That's a shame, too, for he made a great discovery. He i'u- these eightuniterms to ,be printed. report is a 'progress report or rio vented the electric light.", " . One may also assign weight or monograph, whether it is of ,local The reason for his obscurity may The chief difficulty in technical significance to the uniterms in' a origin, and whether it is classificd be attributed to the fact that one literature searcning where one of search, the relative weight being "secret.". ~ 'Thomas A. Edison had been issued the long ~stablished systems 'for determined by the order in which Assuming that' 75 searches of patents for the incandescent clec- cataloging reports is used, is that the uniterms are listed. In this eight uniterms each are made, the tric ,light some seventeen years impbrtant aspects of, their con- case the 701 will designate those total timEC rcquired,' _although par- prior to Morton's w,ork. And in tents are obscured, either by sub- accession numberscoinmon fothe tially dependent on the number of this :sad and simple tale lies a mo- jects too broad, or by the limited first two uniterms, those common accession numbers printed" is of , ' th d rr~'1TT.,.ff· qfrllll~lt:ll ral •.• ' before undertakinO" a re- number of subjects, 'under which to the first three, etc. Thus, if there e or er of ,45 millutes. ,~ search 'or devclopment ':;rojeet, the reports are indexed. To avoid is no literature in the file on pre- The machine procedure has bcen make sure someone hasn't beat'you this difficulty the UniteI'm System cisely the information desired; one proven accurate, and actual scardl- to it.: of Co~ordinate Indexing has been may look under the next be~t group es have' been made over the past ,This, of course,,!s usually a tough adopted at NOTS. of terms for the approximate in- six months. At such time as 'the de- job. In Morton's case it should have The system consists of analyzing formation desired.'" mand warrants, a daily schedule been easy. All he 'had to do, was the SUbject matter' of a document For example, a physicist is in- will be set up 'to process the re- walk down Main Street. But you into thought concepts called uni': terested in the "effect of the' at- quests accumulated during the day~ may be faced with the'prospect of term's, which 'may be a single word, mosphere on the propagation of At any time a search may be' made plowing through an entire library e.g., "pressure," or a phrase, such microw:;wes." This ',question is prc- visually by using th'e U~iterm of technical literature. And while as "body of' reVOlution," "heat sented to the' refenrence librarian Card File maintained 'in' the' Tech- you're nodding over some learne'd transfer," "rockets (2,"75)' Mark 2 on'duty who analyzes the meaning, nical Library. " ' , and tedious piece of irrelevarit writ- Mod 0.", breaks it down into uniterms to be Now that we have t,;ld you about', ing, someone at NO'L may be as- In the visual or manual applica- co-ordinated and puts the search the system, we hopc you will look suring himself of fame and a GS-15 tion of this system, as it is used at information on, a form for the use into it. If you wan~ further infor- by beating you to the punch. NOTS, a card is set for each uni- ,of the Computing' Branch. The Ii- mation about the basic catalo~inO" At NO'l'S an attempt has been term. When a report is received, the brarlan wei,ghs. the uniterms in 01'- , concept, ask t!1C TechI].ical Lib:ar;' made to make technical literature staff of the Reference arid Biblio- del' of rclatIve Importance, thc most IThe Computing' Branch will be searching easier for you. A cooper- graphic Branch analYZes it and se- general or most meaningful bcing happy to answer· questions about ative effort by the Technical Lib- leets the uniterms necessary to des- listed first, and, in '.sequencc, the, the computer, application, or' to ar- ra!y and the Computing Branch of cribe the contents. most specific or least meaningful range for demonstration~ to ,inter- t~e' Re~earch Depa~tm~nt has re- The report is then ass'igned an ac- term last, thus: "microwaves," ested groups. ' ' suIted III the applicatIOn ,of, the cession number which is entered 'on "propagation," and "atmosphere." !1---' ~~--.,------; IBM 701 Electronic, Computer to the appropriate uniterm card. It The form ls sent''to the ;Comp~t­ the problem. ' has been found that the contents, of ing Branch, key punched in IBM technical reports may be,sufficient-I cards and fed to the 701. The re- ly described by an average of eight suIts of the cooqIination are print- uniterms. , ' ed on paper and' returned' to the In using the system, one selects Technical Library. the combination of uniterms which In this example, four report most nearly covers the information numbers are found to' be common desired, and checks those uniterm to all threcuniterms an~ eight ad- cards; making a note, of the ace'es- diti-onal ones to the 'more general sion numbers which 'are common terms "microwaves'" and "propaga- to all the selected uniterm cards. tion." If the, desired information This list of accession numbers is ' , I ~__~ ';"' ~_l then turned over' to the librarian who obtains the corresp,onding re~ ports. At NOTS, instruction in the use of the system may be requested from the reference librarians on duty. I The process of visually determin- ing . the accession numbers com- mon to eight uniterms ... when several hundred accession numbers niay be listed under each uniteI'm ... is' tedious, time-consuming, and subject to enol'. The Computing B~anch at NOTS as a research project, has under~ laken the development of proce- dures and programs which will per- mit the IB~1: 701 Computer ,to per- forul this job. The entire Uniterm File of the Technical Library com- prising 'approximately 11,000 uni- terms which cover 18,600 technical reports', has been transcribc'd onto magnetic'tape. Since each'rep,ort is entered under several uniterms, the total of accession numbers prescnt- lyon the tape is near '100,000. As The highway of fear is the short- ed route to defeat. Committee Designat~d To ,Find Speaker for' . Baccalaureate Service Dr. Earl :Murray, Superintendent of China Lalw schools, announccd this week the annual'baccalaureate service for Burroughs High School 1!J37 graduation class which is pro- po~cd to be held in lthc Station chapel at 7 p,m. on Siuiday, June 9. A committee c'ol1sisting of Has- l,ell G. 'Wilson, 'Dr. Max Dubin, and John J. McLaughlin has been selected to provide a layman speak- ed to present the inspirational me,,- sage to the gradua~ion class.-rit the ba~calaureatc 'service. ' Dee Dee Cox As Dee Dee Cox ~CVItinued to re- late her introduction to NOTS, her animation emphasized the sincerity with which she spoke. "After six months at home, I accepted the po- sition of insurance representative and claims adjuster for NUTS Group Hcalth Insurance plan in the Departmcnt of Community Affairs." Before coming 'to 'China Lake, ,Dce Dee haq been administering the Health qroup plan' at Pasadena Anncx for the past seven years, in addition to having charge of the dispensary. It was there she met her husband John. ~ Registered Nurse Dee Dee's rich nackground as a registered nurse is barely hipped in her prcsent position, however, her training enables her to understand tile problems and extend expert sen'ille to the members of the plan. In addition to three years experi- ence as assistant hcad nurse of the mcdical surgical floor at the Cedars of Le~anon Hospital in Los Angeles, she holds a degrcc in nursing which she obtaincd at thc School of Nurs- ing at the Univcrsity of Michigan. This institution is' noted for the high .standards of its training cur- riculum.Its nurses and medical stu- dents arc train';:d by a staff of med- ical specialists in all fields of medi- ,cine. The bulk of thc students' sur- gical expericnce is conccntratcd on cxceptional 'cases such as brain and plastic surgery; congenital dcformi- tics; and complex thoracic and gen- eral surgery. ! l\IedicalProfession De'rrianding The requIreme~tsfor members of the medical profession are ve'I)' high. Students must have ,a strong Page Six de~ire to serve humanity, possess robust health, patience, emotional 3tability, and maturity of character. "The demands of the .profession are' extremely heavy. I've always been inipressedwith the nnselfish dE;dication 'of medical men and wo- men," Dee Dee added. '''If you don't like people when they're ,veIl, you sure as heck won't like them when By Phillys \Vair, they're sick!" Dee Dee, whose real name is Ma'r- "\'V'hen it was decided to garet, was born and raised in West move the' Engineering De- Branch, Michigan, a small town in P ' artment from Pasadena An- the northern part of the state. Al- though she has always wanted to nex to China Lake in 1954, be a nurse, her admiration for the my husband John, Associate family physician, a close friend of Head of the ,department, in- the family, further inspired her to serve in the medical profession. formed me that we would be As Dee Dee, chatted about her moving to the desert, too. At college' years, a delightful human fir,st, the prospect of living in interest story unfolded that bears repeating. During her first year in this "rio man's land" did not 'nursing school, she formed very appeal to me,' but within'a strong ties of friendship with her few months, I'd learned to roommate, LaVerne Hein. After graduation, 'thb two girls moved to , love this new way of life, the Los Angeles where they continued community and especially the to live and work together for 8 climate.'" years. During this time,.thcy met aIid dated Mrs. Cox's two sons, John and Robert. FinallY,: hi February, 1953, Dee Dee married John, and in April, LaVerne married Bob. Today, the two staunch friends are sisters- in-law. , An enduring friendship such-as this 'Could only' be experienced by one who truly possesses 8. genuine appreciation for mankind. " c, '.''''-~---- , China Lake Museum,Rocketeer Newspaper,Rocketeer 1950s,Rocketeer 1957,Rktr5.24.1957.pdf,Rktr5.24.1957.pdf Page 1, Rktr5.24.1957.pdf Page 1