PAOlI • A report by Fr&nk Christie, elec- tion committee ch&lnnan, highlight- ed this week's meetlng of the Com- munity Council board of directors. Council representatives voted to re- zone the Station so that its precincts conform with thooe establlshed by Kern County, and also to postpone the Council election, previously held each year in OCtober, to Nov. 2. the same day &S the state-wide general election. Arrangements have been made to place Community Council ballot boxes near county polling places in order to aecommodate voters. Tw'enty election workers will be needed to assist in handling COun- cil election work on Nov. 2, Mr. Christie reported. They w1ll be paid f1 an hour, and It is expected that tbeIr work of distributing ballots, maintaining a record book and watching the COuncil beJlot boxes will take approximately six hours. Persons interested in serving in this cap""lty should call Mr. Chris- tie at 71302. • In COIljaJIdIon with the election, nominations of candidates for 20 va.- cancies on the Community Council board of directors are now in order. according to Henry Newburgh, ......... ""'"' 6 and • P.M. cW". 1OcIdIw' MatIftt. ($pedal .....h 1 ...a. Soturdey MattM. 1 P.M. Suftdar TODA.Y SEPT. 17 " BENGAL IIIGADE" (" Min.) R oCk Hudson. Atlene Dahl Shorts, " Star Studded lict." (9 Min.) News (10 Min.) SATURDAY SEPT. 1. "VICTORY AT SEA" (93 Min.) World War II Documentary film Shorts. "Mice follies" (7 Min.) MAnNEE "LAST IOUNDUI'" (71 Min.) Gene Autry Shorts. "Cat Napping" [1 Min.) "Bat Man" Na. 2 (16 Min.) SUN.-MON. SEPT. 19·20 Poul Kelly, Walter flevok Shorts. " By 'NOfd of Mewse" (7 Min.) "Wild Boar Hunt" (10 MIn.) tuES.·WID. SEPT. 21·22 "TH! lAID" (Il Min.) Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft Shorts. "Rhapsody In Rivets" [1 M/n.) News (10 Min.) "lsi. of Destiny" (10 Min.) ntUIS..fIII. SEPT. 23-U "THREE HOUIS TO KILL" (79 Min.) Dono Andrews. Donna RINd Shorts, "Gao Gao Golloth" (7 Min.) "arcus on Ice" (10 Min.) News (10 Min.) chairman of the nominating com- mittee. Two candidates will be elected from each China Lake precinct, as well as from the off-Station Council precinct which encompasses all China Lake employes liVing outside the Station boundaries. NOminating petitions are avail- able now at the Community Council office, situated at the corner of Par- sons and Halsey, and may be ob- tained from Mrs. George Mayberry, Council secretary, Monday through Friday between the hours of 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. The deadline for filing the peti- tions' which must bear the candi- date's signature as well as th05e of five residents of his precinct, is Oct. I • . • Council directors at their meeting this week also heard a request from George A. Carson, music instructor at Burroughs High School, tor as- sistance in obtaining funds to be used tor the purchase ot new high school band unifonns. Approximately $3WO is needed to outfit a band of the size the school has been fielding for the past several years. Political 'forum Pla'nned Sept. 27 An opportunity to see and hear from some of the candidates who will be vying for state and federal political posts in the coming No- vember general election will be given Indian Wells Valley residents on Monday evening, sept. 27. A "Meet the Candidates" program will be held at the new Burroughs High School auditorium. on Sept. 2'1, and is sponsored by the Kern Desert Business and Professional Women's Club. One or both candidates for the following offices are expected to be present: Governor and lieutenant governor of the State of California; United States senator from Califor- nia, and the 14th Congresslonal Dis- ,trict representative. After brief talks on their respect- lve platforms by each of the candi- dates, there Will be a question and answer period similar to the pro- gram held earlier this year at the China Lake Community center, with the speakers responding to questions which are brought up by members of the audience. At a 'reception to tollow, local voters also will have a chance to meet and discuss specific political problems with the various candi- dates. Members of the local Business and Professional Women's Club who are working on plans for the program are Nancy Glover, Phyllis Wair, of China Lake, and Eunice Fowler, of Ridgecrest. PRACTICING the opening number in the servicemen's show, "This Is the NOTS." are Charles E. Thompson, AMI, left, and David Shaw, ABI. two members or tbe trio that will be featured in the program curtain raiser. Piano accompaniment is provided by Mirth Hammerber(, while .John Go- mez, SKSN. another show participant looks on. The third member or the trio, Larry llatfield, FT3. was unable to be present for tbe picture. 'This Isthe NOTS' To Open Run Monday at Community Center The curtain will go up on the all- servicemen's show, "This Is the NOTS," Monday, at 8 p.m., in the Chi n a Lake Community Center. Written and directed by Bea Moore, the show is being sponsored by the Enlisted Men's Club and will be presented for five consecutive nights at the same time and place. Seventeen local Navy and Marine personnel are participating in the production, which gives glimpses in- to the life of a serviceman stationed in the desert. Written as a musical comedy, the score includes scenes showing activi- ties at the brig, COmmissary Store, mess hall, Station Infirmary, and of an inspection at the Marine Bar- "",ks. Film Society Series C?e..~stoYf!:!~:~?ru~k- English farce, wUl be presented next Wednesday and Thursday evenings at 7:30 in the first of the fall series of programs to be given by the China Lage Film SOCiety. A total of e i g h t programs are planned for the coming series, and membership cards, priced at $2 per person, may be obtained at the Vie- weg School auditorium prior to the first programs next week. Arrangements to obtain member- ship cards also may be made by call- ing Ma.ry Evelyn Bryden at 72.262; Doris Stirton, at 77531; or Mary Lou Bothwell, at 72992. Other programs in the coming se- ries will offer such attractions as "Symphony Pastorale," "Gigi," ''The Silent Land," "Beaver Valley," and "Pennywhistle Blues." In all, there are 13 numbers sung by various members of the cast, in- cluding a love song, which uses the security sign at the Main Gate as a theme. John Gomez, SKSN, who was recently in the 11th Naval Dis- trict talent contest in San Diego, sings UNight Watch," the lament of a sailor who is standing a midnight watch, but whose thoughts are more concerned with his girl back home. Mrs. Moore Is a graduate of Whit- tier College, where she majored. in music. Two songs from "Whittier's Bloomin' Love," one of the shows she wrote while at the college and which was later reproduced on television in 1951, are included in ''This Is the NOTS." Mrs. Moore aJso was a mu- sic teacher in the China Lake ele- mentary school system during the 1951-52 and the 1953-54 school terms. Musical accompaniment for the show is provided by Mirth Hammer- berg, who is a graduate of the Chi- cago Conservatory of Music. Mrs. Hammerberg has had considerable experience providing piano accom- paniment, including playing for ''The Gondoliers," a Pasadena Playhouse production. Tickets to the show, priced at 50 cents per person, are available at the Commissary Store, in the sta- tion theater lobby, or from any member of the cast. Other members of the cast are Pfc's Frank Brown and James Ken- nedy, LTJG Donna E. Haney, Homer Dremann, PHI, Bill Tummel, YNI, Raymond Spornauer, SK3, David and Paul Hoffman and Emmett Os'Dorn, seamen, Bob LeFeuvre, HN, Earl Browning and W. H. Garst, SKBN, Eugene Williams, SA. David Shaw, ABl, Charles Thompson, AMI, and Larry Hatfield, FI'3. THE WUTHft Continued clear over the w"kend with vor· ioble winds increasing to 15 to 25 knots In the ofternoons. Maxi· mum temperature 92. Minimum temperature 53. VOL. X. NO. 37 Small Child Found After 6Hr. Search By Local Residents Anthony M. Kinney, 2%, was the object of an intensive search Sun· day evening when he was reported missing by his parents, DCt and Mrs. Leland Kinney, who live on Highway Six approximately one mile south of the junction of State Route 212. Clad only 1n training po.nts, the child wandered away from his home. When the parents were una.ble to locate him, they contacted Deputy Sheriff J . B. McKernan, about 7:45 p.m., and he reported the ma.tter to the Station security polioe. Accompanied by some 25 residents from China Lake and Ridgecrest, McKernan began a search and when he was unable to locate the young- ster. he again contacted the Station for reenforcements. Plve security patrolmen and a de- tachment of 20 Marines were dis- pa.tched to assist in the search. C8.li- fornia Highway Patrolman Robert Garrison, assisted by Sgt. Fred Cash, who was in charge of the Marines, organized the second search party. The child's trail was finally located and he was found approximately 1* miles southwest of his home about 2:20 a.m., Monday. He was taken to the s tation In- firmary where he was examined by LT Howard Raubitschek and re- leased. SignaI Strength To Be Doubled On Channels 2, 4, 5 Local television viewers will see a much stronger, steadier picture in the near future, as a result at an appropriation made by the recrea- tion council, according to George Sutherlen, who is in charge of the Laurel Mountain repeater station. The council, in a meeting held last week, authorized the purchase of ad- ditional equipment which will cost in the neighborhood of $4800. Auto- matic gain control amplifiers, chan- nel reamplifiers and new driver and final amplifiers are now on order and should be received in about siX weeks. Installation of1.he equipment will eliminate "rolling" and will dou- ble the signal strength now being received in Indian Wells Valley. According to Mr. Sutherlen, the new equipment, which will be in- stalled on channels 2, 4 and 5, will also broadcast color television with- out any modltication. 3 fu.\PE....ruRfS HCNsin; Area Max. Min. Sept. 9 ........100 50 Sept. 10 ...._ 96 64 Sept. 11 ...._ 95 56 Sept. 12 .__ 92 60 Sept. 13 ...._ 9.. ..9 -ee U.S. NAVAL ORDNANCE TEST STATION, CHINA LAKE, CALIF. Iva Kltchell Andres Sel"ovla Concert Association Announces Re-opening of Season Ticket Sales The fall season ticket sales cam- paign for the 1954-55 concert series at China Lake opened today and will continue for four weeks, through Friday, Oct. I.,o!!iclals of the NOTS Civic COncert Association announced. Some 36 salesmen, including mem- bers of the association board of di- rectors, will handle the sale of vouch- ers for the six concerts. Prices are $12, $10, $8 and $5-the latter for enlisted service personnel and students only. The 1954-55 concert series will open at the Station theater on Fri- day, Nov. 5, with a program by a widely known company of 42 singers and instrumentalists - the Robert Shaw Chorale and orchestra. Program No.2, on Wednesday, Dec. 8, will feature Andres Segovia, famous Spanish guitar virtuoso. The dates of other concerts and the artiSts that will appear are: Tuesday, J an. 4, 19.:;-WUlIam Olvis, young Hollywood-born tenor who has been a featured soloist on the Amer- ican Broadcasting COmpany network for two years; Monday, Jan. 31, 1955 - SoloOlon, outstanding con C e r t pianist from Great Britain; Tues- day, March I, 1955-the Budapest S t r 1n g Quartet, an instrumental group which has set the standard for chamber music px:esentations for more than 20 years; and on TUes- day, April 19, 1900 -Iva Kitchell, outstanding comedienne who com- bines ballet and pantomime. Members of the COncert Associa- tion committee who will handle the ticket sales are W. N. Stark, of the Propellants and Explosives Depart- ment; Mrs. Ruth Hurley. of the Technical information Department; R. W. Anderson, of the Personnel Department; Frank. Bothwell, of the C e n t r a 1 Evaluation Group; Mrs. Mary Highberg, 609 Saratoga, and Mrs. James Ca.rter, 703-B Nimitz. Other ticket salesmen are: Mrs. Sylvia Tillitt, George Carson, Mrs. Lena Waddock, Patricia Stev- ens and Carolyn Barker of the Chi- na Lake schools; LT D. E. COnroy, Mrs. R. F. Sellars, John Gomez, Merrill Penn, Mrs. Lucian Biber- man, Mrs. David Brink, Mrs. M. S. Clifton, A I e xis Dember, Charles D'Ooge, Mrs. Alice Floyd, L. C. Hed- rick, A. G. Hoyem. Dora Laughlin, Mrs. R. W. Mc- Clung, Mrs. Douglas Ordahl. Mrs. H. H. Patton, Mrs. H. R. Richardson, Gaye Ritter, Mr. and Mrs. K. H. Robinson, Mrs. Bernard Smith, Su- san Smith, George J . Todd, Mrs. D. S. Villars and Mrs. Howard Wil- cox. Captain Young Improving Rapidly Captain D. B. Young, USN, Sta- tion Commander, is reported to be improving on a steady and rapid basis. He has now been allowed, after more than a month in bed, to slt up and take short walks. He also enjoys the privilege of attending the hospital movies. Oxygen tent pro- cedures have been stopped. Although the doctors cannot com- mit themselves to release dates, it appears now that Captain Young may be released in a period varying between 30-GO days. The diagnosis insofar as is known now is still un- determined. Sept. 1......_ 9.. 52 Sept. 15 ...._ 91 61 SEPTEMBER 17, 19M New Bus Schedule Awaits Opening Of Richmond Road A revised school bus schedule, which will go into effect as soon as the southward extension of Rich- mond Road is open for school bus usage, was announced this week by Dr. Earl Murray, superintendent of China Lake schools. Transportation to and from Bur- roughs High School will be provided for students living in both Ridge- crest and Desert Park (the Wherry project), by the large high school bus. Seventh and eighth graders liv- ing in Desert Park will be transport- ed to Burroughs School by the small high school bus, as will the Rrefab area seventh and eighth grade pu- pils. The latter will be picked up at the corner of Santee and Richmond. The same bus that makes this stop, also will stop at Richmond and Thompson for first graders attend- ing Richmond School who live in the area south of the Burroughs School (COntinued on Page Five) Emergency March Of Dimes Receipts Hit Total,of $1159 Final results in the emergency March of Dimes drive were released this week by LT J. C. Hatch, Navy Exchange officer, who served as chairman for the campaign. The Supply and Fiscal Depart- ment led the list of Station depart- ment contributors with $198.90, for an average of 41 oents per employe, while the highest per capita came from the Technical Information De- partment, whose 72 employes donat- ed an average of 88 cents each. An assist also was given by the Supervisors Association, which held a March of Dimes benefit dance that netted a total of $229.50. Contributions totaling $1107.08 were received from the following de- partments and organizations: Supply and Fiscal, $198.90; NAP, $107.31; Test, $luI.93; 'Rocket, $91.77; Technical Infonnation. $63.33; Pub- lic Works, $59.27; Aviation Ordnance, $03.14; Engineering $.2.66; Research, $49.31; Command Administration, $23.63; Personnel, $17.36; central Staff, $14; Com m u nit y Affa.irs $13.69; Medical and Dental, $11.30; Propellants and ExplOSives, $10.74; Supervisors Association, $229.50; Dis- abled American Veterans Auxiliary, $2; and Brenda Harney, $7.24. Other 'contributions brought the total to $l1S9.38. , OCR Text: PAOlI • A report by Fr&nk Christie, elec- tion committee ch&lnnan, highlight- ed this week's meetlng of the Com- munity Council board of directors. Council representatives voted to re- zone the Station so that its precincts conform with thooe establlshed by Kern County, and also to postpone the Council election, previously held each year in OCtober, to Nov. 2. the same day &S the state-wide general election. Arrangements have been made to place Community Council ballot boxes near county polling places in order to aecommodate voters. Tw'enty election workers will be needed to assist in handling COun- cil election work on Nov. 2, Mr. Christie reported. They w1ll be paid f1 an hour, and It is expected that tbeIr work of distributing ballots, maintaining a record book and watching the COuncil beJlot boxes will take approximately six hours. Persons interested in serving in this cap""lty should call Mr. Chris- tie at 71302. • In COIljaJIdIon with the election, nominations of candidates for 20 va.- cancies on the Community Council board of directors are now in order. according to Henry Newburgh, ......... ""'"' 6 and • P.M. cW". 1OcIdIw' MatIftt. ($pedal .....h 1 ...a. Soturdey MattM. 1 P.M. Suftdar TODA.Y SEPT. 17 " BENGAL IIIGADE" (" Min.) R oCk Hudson. Atlene Dahl Shorts, " Star Studded lict." (9 Min.) News (10 Min.) SATURDAY SEPT. 1. "VICTORY AT SEA" (93 Min.) World War II Documentary film Shorts. "Mice follies" (7 Min.) MAnNEE "LAST IOUNDUI'" (71 Min.) Gene Autry Shorts. "Cat Napping" [1 Min.) "Bat Man" Na. 2 (16 Min.) SUN.-MON. SEPT. 19·20 Poul Kelly, Walter flevok Shorts. " By 'NOfd of Mewse" (7 Min.) "Wild Boar Hunt" (10 MIn.) tuES.·WID. SEPT. 21·22 "TH! lAID" (Il Min.) Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft Shorts. "Rhapsody In Rivets" [1 M/n.) News (10 Min.) "lsi. of Destiny" (10 Min.) ntUIS..fIII. SEPT. 23-U "THREE HOUIS TO KILL" (79 Min.) Dono Andrews. Donna RINd Shorts, "Gao Gao Golloth" (7 Min.) "arcus on Ice" (10 Min.) News (10 Min.) chairman of the nominating com- mittee. Two candidates will be elected from each China Lake precinct, as well as from the off-Station Council precinct which encompasses all China Lake employes liVing outside the Station boundaries. NOminating petitions are avail- able now at the Community Council office, situated at the corner of Par- sons and Halsey, and may be ob- tained from Mrs. George Mayberry, Council secretary, Monday through Friday between the hours of 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. The deadline for filing the peti- tions' which must bear the candi- date's signature as well as th05e of five residents of his precinct, is Oct. I • . • Council directors at their meeting this week also heard a request from George A. Carson, music instructor at Burroughs High School, tor as- sistance in obtaining funds to be used tor the purchase ot new high school band unifonns. Approximately $3WO is needed to outfit a band of the size the school has been fielding for the past several years. Political 'forum Pla'nned Sept. 27 An opportunity to see and hear from some of the candidates who will be vying for state and federal political posts in the coming No- vember general election will be given Indian Wells Valley residents on Monday evening, sept. 27. A "Meet the Candidates" program will be held at the new Burroughs High School auditorium. on Sept. 2'1, and is sponsored by the Kern Desert Business and Professional Women's Club. One or both candidates for the following offices are expected to be present: Governor and lieutenant governor of the State of California; United States senator from Califor- nia, and the 14th Congresslonal Dis- ,trict representative. After brief talks on their respect- lve platforms by each of the candi- dates, there Will be a question and answer period similar to the pro- gram held earlier this year at the China Lake Community center, with the speakers responding to questions which are brought up by members of the audience. At a 'reception to tollow, local voters also will have a chance to meet and discuss specific political problems with the various candi- dates. Members of the local Business and Professional Women's Club who are working on plans for the program are Nancy Glover, Phyllis Wair, of China Lake, and Eunice Fowler, of Ridgecrest. PRACTICING the opening number in the servicemen's show, "This Is the NOTS." are Charles E. Thompson, AMI, left, and David Shaw, ABI. two members or tbe trio that will be featured in the program curtain raiser. Piano accompaniment is provided by Mirth Hammerber(, while .John Go- mez, SKSN. another show participant looks on. The third member or the trio, Larry llatfield, FT3. was unable to be present for tbe picture. 'This Isthe NOTS' To Open Run Monday at Community Center The curtain will go up on the all- servicemen's show, "This Is the NOTS," Monday, at 8 p.m., in the Chi n a Lake Community Center. Written and directed by Bea Moore, the show is being sponsored by the Enlisted Men's Club and will be presented for five consecutive nights at the same time and place. Seventeen local Navy and Marine personnel are participating in the production, which gives glimpses in- to the life of a serviceman stationed in the desert. Written as a musical comedy, the score includes scenes showing activi- ties at the brig, COmmissary Store, mess hall, Station Infirmary, and of an inspection at the Marine Bar- "",ks. Film Society Series C?e..~stoYf!:!~:~?ru~k- English farce, wUl be presented next Wednesday and Thursday evenings at 7:30 in the first of the fall series of programs to be given by the China Lage Film SOCiety. A total of e i g h t programs are planned for the coming series, and membership cards, priced at $2 per person, may be obtained at the Vie- weg School auditorium prior to the first programs next week. Arrangements to obtain member- ship cards also may be made by call- ing Ma.ry Evelyn Bryden at 72.262; Doris Stirton, at 77531; or Mary Lou Bothwell, at 72992. Other programs in the coming se- ries will offer such attractions as "Symphony Pastorale," "Gigi," ''The Silent Land," "Beaver Valley," and "Pennywhistle Blues." In all, there are 13 numbers sung by various members of the cast, in- cluding a love song, which uses the security sign at the Main Gate as a theme. John Gomez, SKSN, who was recently in the 11th Naval Dis- trict talent contest in San Diego, sings UNight Watch," the lament of a sailor who is standing a midnight watch, but whose thoughts are more concerned with his girl back home. Mrs. Moore Is a graduate of Whit- tier College, where she majored. in music. Two songs from "Whittier's Bloomin' Love," one of the shows she wrote while at the college and which was later reproduced on television in 1951, are included in ''This Is the NOTS." Mrs. Moore aJso was a mu- sic teacher in the China Lake ele- mentary school system during the 1951-52 and the 1953-54 school terms. Musical accompaniment for the show is provided by Mirth Hammer- berg, who is a graduate of the Chi- cago Conservatory of Music. Mrs. Hammerberg has had considerable experience providing piano accom- paniment, including playing for ''The Gondoliers," a Pasadena Playhouse production. Tickets to the show, priced at 50 cents per person, are available at the Commissary Store, in the sta- tion theater lobby, or from any member of the cast. Other members of the cast are Pfc's Frank Brown and James Ken- nedy, LTJG Donna E. Haney, Homer Dremann, PHI, Bill Tummel, YNI, Raymond Spornauer, SK3, David and Paul Hoffman and Emmett Os'Dorn, seamen, Bob LeFeuvre, HN, Earl Browning and W. H. Garst, SKBN, Eugene Williams, SA. David Shaw, ABl, Charles Thompson, AMI, and Larry Hatfield, FI'3. THE WUTHft Continued clear over the w"kend with vor· ioble winds increasing to 15 to 25 knots In the ofternoons. Maxi· mum temperature 92. Minimum temperature 53. VOL. X. NO. 37 Small Child Found After 6Hr. Search By Local Residents Anthony M. Kinney, 2%, was the object of an intensive search Sun· day evening when he was reported missing by his parents, DCt and Mrs. Leland Kinney, who live on Highway Six approximately one mile south of the junction of State Route 212. Clad only 1n training po.nts, the child wandered away from his home. When the parents were una.ble to locate him, they contacted Deputy Sheriff J . B. McKernan, about 7:45 p.m., and he reported the ma.tter to the Station security polioe. Accompanied by some 25 residents from China Lake and Ridgecrest, McKernan began a search and when he was unable to locate the young- ster. he again contacted the Station for reenforcements. Plve security patrolmen and a de- tachment of 20 Marines were dis- pa.tched to assist in the search. C8.li- fornia Highway Patrolman Robert Garrison, assisted by Sgt. Fred Cash, who was in charge of the Marines, organized the second search party. The child's trail was finally located and he was found approximately 1* miles southwest of his home about 2:20 a.m., Monday. He was taken to the s tation In- firmary where he was examined by LT Howard Raubitschek and re- leased. SignaI Strength To Be Doubled On Channels 2, 4, 5 Local television viewers will see a much stronger, steadier picture in the near future, as a result at an appropriation made by the recrea- tion council, according to George Sutherlen, who is in charge of the Laurel Mountain repeater station. The council, in a meeting held last week, authorized the purchase of ad- ditional equipment which will cost in the neighborhood of $4800. Auto- matic gain control amplifiers, chan- nel reamplifiers and new driver and final amplifiers are now on order and should be received in about siX weeks. Installation of1.he equipment will eliminate "rolling" and will dou- ble the signal strength now being received in Indian Wells Valley. According to Mr. Sutherlen, the new equipment, which will be in- stalled on channels 2, 4 and 5, will also broadcast color television with- out any modltication. 3 fu.\PE....ruRfS HCNsin; Area Max. Min. Sept. 9 ........100 50 Sept. 10 ...._ 96 64 Sept. 11 ...._ 95 56 Sept. 12 .__ 92 60 Sept. 13 ...._ 9.. ..9 -ee U.S. NAVAL ORDNANCE TEST STATION, CHINA LAKE, CALIF. Iva Kltchell Andres Sel"ovla Concert Association Announces Re-opening of Season Ticket Sales The fall season ticket sales cam- paign for the 1954-55 concert series at China Lake opened today and will continue for four weeks, through Friday, Oct. I.,o!!iclals of the NOTS Civic COncert Association announced. Some 36 salesmen, including mem- bers of the association board of di- rectors, will handle the sale of vouch- ers for the six concerts. Prices are $12, $10, $8 and $5-the latter for enlisted service personnel and students only. The 1954-55 concert series will open at the Station theater on Fri- day, Nov. 5, with a program by a widely known company of 42 singers and instrumentalists - the Robert Shaw Chorale and orchestra. Program No.2, on Wednesday, Dec. 8, will feature Andres Segovia, famous Spanish guitar virtuoso. The dates of other concerts and the artiSts that will appear are: Tuesday, J an. 4, 19.:;-WUlIam Olvis, young Hollywood-born tenor who has been a featured soloist on the Amer- ican Broadcasting COmpany network for two years; Monday, Jan. 31, 1955 - SoloOlon, outstanding con C e r t pianist from Great Britain; Tues- day, March I, 1955-the Budapest S t r 1n g Quartet, an instrumental group which has set the standard for chamber music px:esentations for more than 20 years; and on TUes- day, April 19, 1900 -Iva Kitchell, outstanding comedienne who com- bines ballet and pantomime. Members of the COncert Associa- tion committee who will handle the ticket sales are W. N. Stark, of the Propellants and Explosives Depart- ment; Mrs. Ruth Hurley. of the Technical information Department; R. W. Anderson, of the Personnel Department; Frank. Bothwell, of the C e n t r a 1 Evaluation Group; Mrs. Mary Highberg, 609 Saratoga, and Mrs. James Ca.rter, 703-B Nimitz. Other ticket salesmen are: Mrs. Sylvia Tillitt, George Carson, Mrs. Lena Waddock, Patricia Stev- ens and Carolyn Barker of the Chi- na Lake schools; LT D. E. COnroy, Mrs. R. F. Sellars, John Gomez, Merrill Penn, Mrs. Lucian Biber- man, Mrs. David Brink, Mrs. M. S. Clifton, A I e xis Dember, Charles D'Ooge, Mrs. Alice Floyd, L. C. Hed- rick, A. G. Hoyem. Dora Laughlin, Mrs. R. W. Mc- Clung, Mrs. Douglas Ordahl. Mrs. H. H. Patton, Mrs. H. R. Richardson, Gaye Ritter, Mr. and Mrs. K. H. Robinson, Mrs. Bernard Smith, Su- san Smith, George J . Todd, Mrs. D. S. Villars and Mrs. Howard Wil- cox. Captain Young Improving Rapidly Captain D. B. Young, USN, Sta- tion Commander, is reported to be improving on a steady and rapid basis. He has now been allowed, after more than a month in bed, to slt up and take short walks. He also enjoys the privilege of attending the hospital movies. Oxygen tent pro- cedures have been stopped. Although the doctors cannot com- mit themselves to release dates, it appears now that Captain Young may be released in a period varying between 30-GO days. The diagnosis insofar as is known now is still un- determined. Sept. 1......_ 9.. 52 Sept. 15 ...._ 91 61 SEPTEMBER 17, 19M New Bus Schedule Awaits Opening Of Richmond Road A revised school bus schedule, which will go into effect as soon as the southward extension of Rich- mond Road is open for school bus usage, was announced this week by Dr. Earl Murray, superintendent of China Lake schools. Transportation to and from Bur- roughs High School will be provided for students living in both Ridge- crest and Desert Park (the Wherry project), by the large high school bus. Seventh and eighth graders liv- ing in Desert Park will be transport- ed to Burroughs School by the small high school bus, as will the Rrefab area seventh and eighth grade pu- pils. The latter will be picked up at the corner of Santee and Richmond. The same bus that makes this stop, also will stop at Richmond and Thompson for first graders attend- ing Richmond School who live in the area south of the Burroughs School (COntinued on Page Five) Emergency March Of Dimes Receipts Hit Total,of $1159 Final results in the emergency March of Dimes drive were released this week by LT J. C. Hatch, Navy Exchange officer, who served as chairman for the campaign. The Supply and Fiscal Depart- ment led the list of Station depart- ment contributors with $198.90, for an average of 41 oents per employe, while the highest per capita came from the Technical Information De- partment, whose 72 employes donat- ed an average of 88 cents each. An assist also was given by the Supervisors Association, which held a March of Dimes benefit dance that netted a total of $229.50. Contributions totaling $1107.08 were received from the following de- partments and organizations: Supply and Fiscal, $198.90; NAP, $107.31; Test, $luI.93; 'Rocket, $91.77; Technical Infonnation. $63.33; Pub- lic Works, $59.27; Aviation Ordnance, $03.14; Engineering $.2.66; Research, $49.31; Command Administration, $23.63; Personnel, $17.36; central Staff, $14; Com m u nit y Affa.irs $13.69; Medical and Dental, $11.30; Propellants and ExplOSives, $10.74; Supervisors Association, $229.50; Dis- abled American Veterans Auxiliary, $2; and Brenda Harney, $7.24. Other 'contributions brought the total to $l1S9.38. , China Lake Museum,Rocketeer Newspaper,Rocketeer 1950s,Rocketeer 1954,Rktr9.17.1954.pdf,Rktr9.17.1954.pdf Page 1, Rktr9.17.1954.pdf Page 1