•• # _ _ '.... -~~t --_.- ,- Page Eight ROCKETEER Friday, October 26, 1973 'Lion in Winter' To Open Tonight at Lecture Center The curtain will go up tonigh~ at 8:15 on "Lion in Winter," the James Goldman dramatization of a brief period in the lives of King Henry II, of England, and his family. Tickets, priced at $2.50 for adults and $1.25 for students, are on sale at the Gift Mart in Ridgecrest and at the Station Pharmacy. They can also be obtained from members of the cast or be purchased at the door of the Burroughs High School Lecture Center prior to per- formance times. The show also will be staged three more times - tomorrow night, and again on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 2 and 3. Fred Stahlman is to be seen in 'Star Spangled Girl' Cast Set By Director Alan Kubik, wbo will direct Neil Simon's hilarious comedy, "Star Spangled Girl," for the Community Light Opera and Theater Association, has announced the names of those selected for the cast. Andy will be portrayed by Stacy MacGregor, while the roles of Norman aod Sophie have been won by John Hanna aod Sherri Hamre, respectively. "Star Spangled Girl" will be produced on Nov. 30, Dec. I, 7 and 8, at the Burroughs High School Lecture Center. Assisting Kubik is Eleanor Lotee. Bruce Amos has been handed the chores of lighting director and Jim Feiser will act as technical director, stage manager and set designer. Ruth Howell is the properties mistress. Persons who hold season tickets to CLOTA productions are reminded they are not to discard the stub after seeing "Lion in Winter." "The stub will be accepted as admission to see 'Star Spangled Girl,'" said Kubik. "This is an extra added attraction for the 1973 season" he noted. the role of King Henry II. Stahlman's last performance for the Community Light Opera and Theater Association (producers of the play) was in "Guys and Dolls," in Which he portrayed "Big" Jule. He has appeared on-stage in num- erous roles for litile theater groups in the valley, but this is his first leading role. Suzanne Koerschner, who won CLOTA's· "best actress" award last year for her part in "Plaza Suite," has been cast as Eleanor. Mrs. Koerschner has appeared in other CLOTA productions, and has also had roles in Cerro Coso Community College's Theater 27 presentations. The role of Alais, mistress of Henry and sister of King Phillip, of France, will be portrayed by Mylde Loftus, a newcomer to the local stage. Also a newcomer is Mark Roether, who has been cast as Phillip. Three talented and experienced young men fill the roles of Henry and Eleanor's sons. They are Bob Norman, Wes Willett and Loren Dorrell, who will play Richard, Geoffrey and John, respectively. The man putting it all together- is J. D. Gerrard-Gough. He has directed ''Dial M for Murder" for CLOTA and is a graduate of the London Royal Academ'y of Dramatic Arts. In addition, Gerrard-Gough spent a couple of years acting with an English repertory theater group, touring with a different playa week for 50 weeks a year. Acting as. his assistant is Elena Vitale. Miss Vitale recently finished a stint as the technical dire~tor for CLOTA's "Hello Dolly," and she was the assistant director for one of the segments of "Plaza Suite." Others taking lead respon- sibilities in the production are Alan Paulsen, lighting director; Bill Beasley, stage manager; Liz Babcock, set designer; Grace Feiser, make-up coordinator; Vivian Childers and Eleanor Lotee, costume designers; June Renfroe and Ruth Howell, properties, and Pat Gallup, artist. HAUNTED HOUSE TO BE OPEN - As a prelude to Halloween, the High Desert Junior Woman's Club will provide the children 'of the community with a rare treat, a haunted house, located at 315 Dorado St., Desert Park. Guided tours by three friendly witches O. to r.) Marilyn Koesch, Eileen Evans and Linda Bego, will be conducted on Saturday, from noon to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9:30 p.m.; Sunday from noon to 5 p.m., and Monday from 3to 6 p.m. An admission of 25 cents will be charged and refreshments will be sold. Membership in the High Desert Junior Woman's Club, an organization devoted to community services, is open to women between 18 and 35 years of age. Projects are undertaken in the fields of Americanism, education, fine arts, health, safety, youth and conservation. Clubs Plan Halloween Parties Witches, hobgoblins and other Halloween spirits will be cir- culating tonight at the Naval Weapons Center as NWC's three top nightspots have planned masquerade parties. Drake Dierkhising, manager of the Commissioned Officers' Mess, is planning a costume party that will begin at 8:30. Dan Lydon's Dixieland Band will provide the music for dancing. A buffet dinner will be served from 7to 9:30. Price of the buffet is $5 per person. Ronnie and Patti Thompson will provide vocal en- tertainment during the dinner bour. Dierkhising, like the managers of the other two clubs, will give out prizes for the three best costumes of the evening. CPO Club Fete George Barnard, the Chief Petty Officers' Club manager, has signed up Maxie Montoya and the Batuka Band to play for his club. The music will begin at 9 p.m . The three top costumes of the evening will win prizes. Barnard will serve dinner from S to 8:30. All those who eat will order from the menu. "Easy Living" Booked "Easy Living," a local hand led by Mike Schad, has whipped up plenty of good sounds to play tonight at the Chaparral Club's masquerade party. Manager Walt Schimke' stated that the entertainment starts at 9:30. Prior to that, dinner, ordered from the menu, will be served at the club from S until 8:30. From TO PREPARING FOR BAZAAR - Members oflhe Newcomers Club are busy these days with preparations for their part in the WACOM Bazaar, which is coming up on Nov. 16 and 17 at the Community Center. Shown working on some of the Christmas ornaments that will be oHlred for sale at liThe Hang-Up" booth, operated by the Newcomers Club, are (I. to r.) Darlene Stein, Linda Bouse, Martha Dearborn, club president, Eileen Evans, vice-president, and Diane Mody. SHOWBOAT MOVIE RATINGS The'Objecflve 01 the ntings is to inform pertl'lts about the suitability of movie content for viewing by their d'llIdrtrt. IGI . ALL AGES ADMITTED Genet'a l AudiencH IPGI· ALL AGES ADMITTED Partl'llal Guioanc~ Suggpsted (511 · RESTRICTED Under t7 requirH accompany '1"19 Parlin! or Adult Guardian CS . Cinemucope STD · Slal'dard Movie Ser.n Re9ular starting ti m~ -1 · )0 p m . Mat lMt -1 P m. FRI . 26 OCT. "WALKING TALL" (125 Min.) Jo Oon Baker, Elizabeth Hartman (Action Drama) Ex·wrestler Jo Don Baker settles down with wife, Elizabeth Hartman, and children, Dawn Lyn and Leif Garrett, in Tennessee, near his parents, Noah Beery Jr. and Lurene Tuttle. Old pal Ed Call introduces Baker to the local Sin spot, run iointly by Rosemary Murphy, Arch Johnson and Kenneth Tobey. Discovering that cheating is going on, Baker is nearly slashed to death. (R) SAT. 21 OCT. -MATI NEE- "THE LITTLE ARK" (101 Min.) Gevenieve Ambas, Philip Frama -EV ENtNG- "MOLLY AND LAWLESS JOHN" (97 Min.) Vera Miles, Sam Elliott (West ern) Johnny Lawler is a prisoner in iail who is destined for the gallows. The Sheriff is a cold, indifferent man. The sheriff's wife, Molly, is a sexually repressed woman, who always has wanted a child, but is now in her .4OS. John tells Molly he is innocent. He flatters her sufficiently to bring out her feminity, which leads her to help him escape. ( PG ) SUN. & MON . 28·29 OCT. "BOOK OF NUMBERS" (91 Min.) Raymond St. Jacques, Freda Payne ( Drama) At Raymond St. Jacques' funeral , young Philip Thomas thinks back to the time they arriVed in depression·struck EI Dorado, Ark., to start a numbers operation within the large black community. Jerry Leon, a black enforcer for big boss Gilbert Green, a white, opposes St. Jacques when the racket proves to be lucrative. (R) TUES. & WED. 30·31 OCT. "THE DAY OF THE. JACKAL" (143Min.) Edward Fox, Alan Badel (Suspense Drama ) Having failed in an effort to kill ·General Charles de Gaulle, the French Secret Army Organization under the leadership of Colonel Rodin in early 1963 decides to hire a top foreign professional assassin to do the job. The man, reputed to have engineered the " gOing" of both Tru jillo and Lumumba, is British and is hired at a price of 5500,000. (PG) WED. 31 OCT. Special Halloween Thriller-IO p.m. THURS . & FRI. 1-2NOV. "LOVE AND PAIN AND THE WHOLE DAMN THING" (110Min.) Tomothy Bottoms, Maggie Smith (Drama) Th is is the moving story of a boy, barely out of his teens, and the straight.laced, almost . spinster who meet on a tour in Spain, become friends and then lovers. ( R) Supply Confab... (Continued from Page 1) SC, USNR, Officer-in-Charge of the Naval Regional Procurement Office in Los Angeles; Cdr. W. R. Guffy, SC, USN, Director of Supply at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak., Md., and Cdr. R. P. Perry, SC, USN, from the Office of Plans and Management, Defense Contract Administration Services PLACI STAMP HERE NAVMAT Laboratories Logistics Confab To Open Tues. With high hopes of setting a presentation, will move from the performance by each of the RAdm. Pugh to the closing com- the featured spesker at a hanquet history-making precedent, the lab to the Community Center, logistics support activities. ments at 11 a.m. Thursday by that same evening at the Com- Naval Weapons Center will host which will be headquarters for the From the opening remarks by Capt. T. R. Hendershot, NWC's missioned Officers' Mess. the initial Naval Material Com- remaining conference sessions. Director of Supply, the conference Riggs To Speak mand (NAVMAT) Lahoratories At the request of RAdm. Pugh, agenda is packed with presen- Logistics Conference, which will Rear Admiral K. L. Woodfin, tations, discussions and question- The roster of speakers during the open here Tuesday morning and Deputy Chief of Naval Material for and-answer sessions led by noted 21> day conference includes Leroy continue until noon on Thursday, Procurement and Production in speakers from nine NAVMAT Riggs, Acting Technical Director Nov. 1. Washington, D.C., has agreed to be Laboratories. of the Naval Weapons Center; who Among those scheduled to attend the keynote speaker for the COD- _ Wide Range of~biecls will discuss "Supply-Procurement- the conference are.30 Supply Corps ference, and also will be the Subjects to be covered range Interface with the Technical officers and key Supply Depart- moderator for a round table from those dealing with Organization," and Mrs. Mary ment civilian personnel from discussion Tuesday afternoon on procurement services to support Ferguson, top-ranking woman NAVMAT laboratories acros,s the the subject of "Procurement the research, development, test Civil Service employee, who is the nation, in addition to 10 of the NWC Assignments and Responsi- and evaluation ' .environment to Comptroller in the Office of Naval Supply Department's top man- bilities." problems and their solutions in Research. agement personnel. The prime purpose of this such areas as data processing and Mrs. Ferguson's subject will be Visitors To Be Welcomed nationwide conference is to im- storage..~nd transportation to "Influence of Incremental Funding The visitors will be welcomed at prove communications, enable the accommodate modern weaponry. on the Supply / Procurement 8 a.m. Tuesday in the Management representatives from NAVMAT In addition to presiding Tuesday Process." Center at Michelson Laboratory by laboratories to better appreciate afternoon over a roundtable Others with key roles in the Rear Admiral Paul E. Pugh, NWC the particular logistics problems of RAdm. K. L. Woodfin discussion on procurement mat- conference are Capt. J. G. Tapp, Conmiander, and, following a fihn one another, and to improve the Keynote Speaker !ers, RAdm. Woodfin also will be (Continued on Page 8) ~--------------~-------------------------------------------------------- "we IOcke'eel COMMANDER PRESENTS PLAQUE TO NAF - Rear Admiral Paul E. Pugh (c.), NWC Commander, holds a plaque com· memorating 25,000 hours of accident free flying established on Sept. 28 by pilots of the Naval Air Facility. He presented the plaque to Capt. R. S. Moore (r.), Commanding Officer of NAF, during a ceremony held in the Administration Building last week. Looking on is Lt. T. o. Ware, NAF's Aviation Safety Officer. The last hour of the 25,000-hr. flight record was flown by Lt. C. A. Fitz-Gerald III in a QT33A iet aircraft. RAdm. Pugh stated he was immensely pleased at this accomplishment. -Photo by PH3Jerry SiZemore Civilians Hired To Handle Navy Mess Cooking Duties When military men - or old- time veterans- get together, after the conversation has run the gamut of girls and cars, they usually talk about the "rotten KP duties they have pulled." KP (kitchen police), or "mess cooking," may be a thing of the past. With the exception of isolated instances, such as at recruit training centers, air stations with deploying squadrons, and places where civilian labor is not available, mess cooking will be taken over by civilian employees. China Lake is no exception. CWO P. "Mike" Moore, the NWC Supply Department's Officer in Charge of Food Service, has reported that 15 employees - seven men and eight women - have been hired to replace nearly all of the sailors who heretofore have performed KP duties at the main galley and the galley at the Naval Air Facility. Civilian substitution (CIVSUB) was instituted by Melvin Laird, former Secretary of Defense. The original plan called for 30,000 military billets throughout all Department of Defense agencies to be converted to civilian positions. First priority in the DOD program was to convert those billets that were unattractive to recruiting an all-volunteer force. Mess cooking has always been unpopular with junior entisted personnel, particularly those who report to a command after com- pleting "A" school. Civilians who are hired in as WG2 temporary (700 hours) em- ployees, will perform all of the (Continued on Page 4) Naval Weapons Center China Lake california Vol. XXVIII No. .43 Oct. 28, 1973 INSIDE ... Turn Back the Clocks ...............2 Taxi Schedule Changed ... ..... ....3 Halloween Safety Tips. ............. .4 30 Year Pins Presented .............5 Sports ..............................S Halloween Parties Planned .........8 NWC's Echo Range Setting For Electronic Warfare Joint Test Seasoned observers of the local scene may have noticed increased aerial activity during the past week in the skies over Indian Wells Valley and surrounding areas, and it's not without reason. What is transpiring is an Elec- tronic Warfare Joint Test involving Army, Air Force and Navy per- sonnel that is being conducted at the Naval Weapons Center's Ecbo Range. The current activity is the second increment of the initial phase of tests that are aimed at determining the feasibility day conference includes Leroy continue until noon on Thursday, Procurement and Production in speakers from nine NAVMAT Riggs, Acting Technical Director Nov. 1. Washington, D.C., has agreed to be Laboratories. of the Naval Weapons Center; who Among those scheduled to attend the keynote speaker for the COD- _ Wide Range of~biecls will discuss "Supply-Procurement- the conference are.30 Supply Corps ference, and also will be the Subjects to be covered range Interface with the Technical officers and key Supply Depart- moderator for a round table from those dealing with Organization," and Mrs. Mary ment civilian personnel from discussion Tuesday afternoon on procurement services to support Ferguson, top-ranking woman NAVMAT laboratories acros,s the the subject of "Procurement the research, development, test Civil Service employee, who is the nation, in addition to 10 of the NWC Assignments and Responsi- and evaluation ' .environment to Comptroller in the Office of Naval Supply Department's top man- bilities." problems and their solutions in Research. agement personnel. The prime purpose of this such areas as data processing and Mrs. Ferguson's subject will be Visitors To Be Welcomed nationwide conference is to im- storage..~nd transportation to "Influence of Incremental Funding The visitors will be welcomed at prove communications, enable the accommodate modern weaponry. on the Supply / Procurement 8 a.m. Tuesday in the Management representatives from NAVMAT In addition to presiding Tuesday Process." Center at Michelson Laboratory by laboratories to better appreciate afternoon over a roundtable Others with key roles in the Rear Admiral Paul E. Pugh, NWC the particular logistics problems of RAdm. K. L. Woodfin discussion on procurement mat- conference are Capt. J. G. Tapp, Conmiander, and, following a fihn one another, and to improve the Keynote Speaker !ers, RAdm. Woodfin also will be (Continued on Page 8) ~--------------~-------------------------------------------------------- "we IOcke'eel COMMANDER PRESENTS PLAQUE TO NAF - Rear Admiral Paul E. Pugh (c.), NWC Commander, holds a plaque com· memorating 25,000 hours of accident free flying established on Sept. 28 by pilots of the Naval Air Facility. He presented the plaque to Capt. R. S. Moore (r.), Commanding Officer of NAF, during a ceremony held in the Administration Building last week. Looking on is Lt. T. o. Ware, NAF's Aviation Safety Officer. The last hour of the 25,000-hr. flight record was flown by Lt. C. A. Fitz-Gerald III in a QT33A iet aircraft. RAdm. Pugh stated he was immensely pleased at this accomplishment. -Photo by PH3Jerry SiZemore Civilians Hired To Handle Navy Mess Cooking Duties When military men - or old- time veterans- get together, after the conversation has run the gamut of girls and cars, they usually talk about the "rotten KP duties they have pulled." KP (kitchen police), or "mess cooking," may be a thing of the past. With the exception of isolated instances, such as at recruit training centers, air stations with deploying squadrons, and places where civilian labor is not available, mess cooking will be taken over by civilian employees. China Lake is no exception. CWO P. "Mike" Moore, the NWC Supply Department's Officer in Charge of Food Service, has reported that 15 employees - seven men and eight women - have been hired to replace nearly all of the sailors who heretofore have performed KP duties at the main galley and the galley at the Naval Air Facility. Civilian substitution (CIVSUB) was instituted by Melvin Laird, former Secretary of Defense. The original plan called for 30,000 military billets throughout all Department of Defense agencies to be converted to civilian positions. First priority in the DOD program was to convert those billets that were unattractive to recruiting an all-volunteer force. Mess cooking has always been unpopular with junior entisted personnel, particularly those who report to a command after com- pleting "A" school. Civilians who are hired in as WG2 temporary (700 hours) em- ployees, will perform all of the (Continued on Page 4) Naval Weapons Center China Lake california Vol. XXVIII No. .43 Oct. 28, 1973 INSIDE ... Turn Back the Clocks ...............2 Taxi Schedule Changed ... ..... ....3 Halloween Safety Tips. ............. .4 30 Year Pins Presented .............5 Sports ..............................S Halloween Parties Planned .........8 NWC's Echo Range Setting For Electronic Warfare Joint Test Seasoned observers of the local scene may have noticed increased aerial activity during the past week in the skies over Indian Wells Valley and surrounding areas, and it's not without reason. What is transpiring is an Elec- tronic Warfare Joint Test involving Army, Air Force and Navy per- sonnel that is being conducted at the Naval Weapons Center's Ecbo Range. The current activity is the second increment of the initial phase of tests that are aimed at determining the feasibility