Page Eight Radiothon Set To Raise Funds for Golf Center A fund-raising funfest aimed at raising money needed for com- pletion of the Ridgecrest golf complex-a family recreation center consisting of a golf driving range and a miniature golf cour- se-has been scheduled on Sunday, Jan. 28, at Joshua Community Hall, the Desert Empire Fair's permanent exhibit building. Live entertainment is planned to lure an audience to tbe fair- grounds, and there also will be a Radiothon from noon to 5p.m. dur- ing which donations to this com- munity project will be solicited as part of a Radio Station KLOA broadcast of the afternoon's events. Among the featured entertainers at this admission-free program will be the Franciscan Missionary Sisters, a 2:;'member all-girl or- chestra from San Fernando Valley. Other musical entertainment will be provided by the Burroughs High School stage band, the Desert Gospel Soul Singers, local bar- bershop quarter song groups, and the Looney Tunes. In addition, there will be vocal solos by Susan Rungo, the current Miss Ridgecrest-China Lake, and by Mary Martin; dramatic sket- ches by the China Lake Players, and organ selections played by Ted Edwards, chairman of the Ridgecrest Improvement Com- mittee, the group that is behind development of the golf complex. A cake sale and gift counter will be in operation at Joshua Com- munity Hall to augment the donations received from those in attendance as well as from those listening to the program as it is broadcast by Radio Station KLOA. Radio listeners will be invited and encouraged to call in their contributions, which will be picked up by members of the local Citizens Band Radio Club, who will be circulating throughout the community during the Radiothon waiting for messages informing them were donations are available. Those at the fairgrounds on the afternoon of Jan. 28 will have the opportunity to inspect the progress that has been made to date on development of the golf driving range and miniature golf course- located on property just east of the fairgrounds. An American Legion model of the French 40 and 8 trains of World War I vintage will be making trips carrying passengers to and from the exhibit building on the fairgrounds and the golf complex throughout the afternoon as an added part of the afternoon's en- tertainment. So far, the golf driving range has been graded, and a portion of the sprinkler system has been in- stalled, along with some of the poles for the fence that will mark its boundaries. In addition, the framing is up and a portion of the electrical wiring has been installed for a building that will house a snack bar and pro shop at the golf complex, and poles for tbe parking lot lights also have heen set in place. Entomologist To Speak At Museum's Annual Meeting Dr. Charles Hogue, Senior Curator of Entomology at tbe Los Angeles Natural History Museum, will he the guest speaker at tbe A STAG BEETLE holds the in- terest of Dr. Charles L. Hogue, Senior Curator of Entomology at the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, who will be the guest speaker at Tuesday night's annual dinner meeting of Maturango Museum. Class Scheduled In Cake Decorating Registration is now being taken at the China Lake Community Center for a seven week series of classes in cake decorating. The classes, to be taught by Rose Marie Suhr, will be held on Wed- nesdays at 9a.m., starting Jan. 31, or Thursdays at 7p.m., starting on Feb. I. Afee of $16.50 per person will be charged for the instruction. annual dinner meeting of tbe Maturango Museum. Price of the dinner, which will hegin at 7 p.m. Tuesday at tbe Chief Petty Officers' Club, is $4 per person. Reservations can he made by calling Ellene Grevelle, on Monday and Friday mornings, or Mrs. Alice Dubin, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the museum, NWC ext. 2368. Dr. Hogue, who recently returned from an extensive ex- pedition in the Rincon Forest of Costa Rica, will show highlights from a one-hour film and present a lecture, entitled "On the Trail of the Army Ant." The primary business of the meeting will be to elect three trustees from among a slate of five candidates. Charles Van Hagan and Gene Boehme, incumhents, and Dr. Kristin Berry, Caroll Evans and Pat LaBerge are vying for the three vacancies on tbe Mat- urango Museum board of trustees. With the 1973 meeting, the Maturango Museum is celebrating its first decade. The museum opened its doors in 1962. Kenneth H. Robinson, now retired from Civil Service, was elected as tbe first president of tbe board at the first annual meeting on Jan. 28,: 1963. The museum was founded large- ly through the efforts of the late Rhea Blenman, then the wife of Capt. Charles Blerunan, NOTS Commander at the time, and tbe first curator was Mrs. Sylvia Winslow. . - ."... - -~ ..-- -- ROCKETEER Friday, January 19, 1973 OPENS TON IGHT- Dick Benson (foreground), who plays the role of Bottom in William Shakespeare's " A Midsummer Night's Dream," looks pensive, while Steve McArtor (in blonde wig), as Thisby, pleads his case. Harry Pritchett, who will portray Starveling, looks on. The scene is one of the comical highlights of the play- produced by Cerro Coso College's Theater 27 class and directed by Pat Sch- warzbach. "Midsummer" opens a four day run tonight at 8:lS at the Burroughs Lecture Center and will be presented again tomorrow night and on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 26 and 27. Tickets, priced at $1.50 for general admission and $1 for students, children and military, are now on sale at the Gift Mart in Ridgecrest, the Station Pharmacy, and also can be obtained from mem bers of the cast. In addition, tickets will be sold at the door of the Lecture Center on production nights. Watercolorist To Demonstrate Techniques for Art Leaguers A watercolor demonstration by Vernon Nye, a member of the American Watercolor Society and president of the Society of Western Artists, wiII be presented at Monday night's meeting of the Desert Art League. The meeting, which is open to prospective members and guests, will be held at the Community Center, starting at 7:30 p.m. Nye was chairman of the Art Department at Pacific Union Special Seabee Night Slated at Disneyland A special Seabee . Night at Disneyland is coming up tomorrow at the popular amusement center in Anaheim. All military .-personnel and civilian employees of the Naval Weapons Center, and their families, are eligible to par- ticipate. Tickets, which cover the en- trance fee and the use of all facilities at Disneyland except the shooting galleries, can Ill! obtained at the Community Center at a cost of $4 per person. College from 1955 to 1969. He still teaches part-time, but has returned to iIIustration and watercolor work. Last summer he conducted a watercolor tour to Japan and plans to take a group on a watercolor tour of Hawaii next summer. He is best known for his paintings of the Napa Valley, where he resides, and for his art work depicting the rugged Nor- thern caJifornia coast. In his work experiences he produced posters for tbe U.S. Treasury Department and Federal Civil Defense and in 1953 created the official poster for the National Blood Campaign during the Korean War. From TO SHOWBOAT MOVIE RATINGS The objective of the ratings is to infor,," parents about the suitability of mev!" content for viewing by their d'lildren. (GI . ALL AGES ADMITTED General Audiences (PGI . ALL AGES ADMITTED Parental Guidance Suggested (A) . RESTRICTED Under 17 requires aa:ompany· Ing Parent or Adult Guardian CS - '::l"~~A'SCOpe STD · Sti'lndl1lrd MoIU~ Sc reen FRI. 19 Jan. " WHEN THE LEGENDS DIE" I STD lOS Min.1 Richard Widmark, Frederic Forrest (Drama ) This story is a carefully constructed, very moving and quite hOnest study of a young Indian's progression along the rodeo cir cuit from neophyte to practiced rider- to casual killer and finally to the point where he must desperately backtrack upon himself and try to r ight what went wrong . (PG) SAT. 20 Jan. -MATINEE- "THE 1000 PLANE RAIO" (ST D94 Min.) Christopher George, Laraine Stevens (Gl - EVENING- "YOU 'LL LIKE MY MOTHER" I STD 9J Min.1 Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy (Suspense Drama) Patty Duke, an about to-give·birth young Vietnam war widow, travels across country to visit the mother- in·law (a woman She has never met) only to walk into a night mare. IPG) SUN. oS MON . 21 ·22Jan. "PULP" {STD" Min.1 Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney (Action Satire) Michael Caine is a hack author who is mysteriously enlisted to ghOst-write the memoirs of aging recluse gangerster ·movie celebrity Mickey Rooney. Rooney has some real·life associations with the Italian underworld that closely parallel the fictional roles he played in his films. Caine soon d iscovers hirn~elf ~ ~Ii~h, iO the middle of a murder caper. Violence, sex and partial nudity may offend some. (PG) TUES. & WE D. 2J·24 Jan. " BARON BLOOD" (STD91 Min.) Joseph Cotton, Elk.e Sommer (Horrorl An evil German baron is reincarnated to wreak havoc in his family's castle. The baron's peculiar penchant for impaling the locals on his castle turret has reaped its own reward in the form Of a curse by one of his medieval victims. When the baron is coniured up, he is given a 2Oth·century opportunity to continue practicing his hObby, while posing as an invalid miliionaire. I PG ) THU RS. 25 Jan. "THE NEW CENTURIONS" (CS 105 Min.) George C. Scott, Stacy Keach (Action Drama) This is the story of several rookies put out onto the streets of L .A. for their first patrolS. Stacy Keach is an aspiring lawyer, who finds life "on the street" more exciting. George C. Scott is a great guy, who at one point slugs around a venal landlord for cheating wetback tenants and serves as a father figure to Keach . (R) FRI. 26 Jan. The Grand Land Singers present a special musical program at the Center Theater. 8 p.m. WIND-WAVE TANK BUILT Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have construc- ted a wind-wave tank. The new facility is 58 ft. long and 4 ft. wide and is capable of producing the equivalent of OO-knot winds at sea. PLACE STAMP HERE • Summary of Recreation Activities Presented Presentation of a report sum- marizing tile previous six montil's activities in the field of recreation and programs offered by Special Services highlighted Tuesday morning's meeting of the Joint Navy-CiviIian Recreation Council. Covered in the half-year report, which was presented by Gabe Imer, head of the Command Ad- ministration Department's Special Services Division, was information on the increased level of par- ticipation in all of the team and individual athletic activities of- fered at China Lake, along with a review of major equipment pur- chases, and construction and remodeling work-both planned and completed. There has been an increase in the total amount of non-appropriated funds available for use in financing recreation activities during the past six months, in comparison with this same period in Fiscal Year 1972, lmer noted. Employee Services Board ac- tivities brought in $34,164.72 for this purpose from June 16 to Dec. nwe tocketeel Hikers Retrace Historic Trek from Death Valley The historic trek of William Lewis Manly and John Rogers, scouts for the ill-fated Bennett- Arcane party that "discovered" Death Valley, is being repeated by two men from Placerville, Calif.. in a journey that got under way last Sunday. LeRoy C. Johnson and Richard .Bush began their trek at Furnace Creek Ranch, located in the Death Valley National Monument, and will reach the boundary of the Naval Weapons Center tomorrow morning. The route they will be following as they retrace the footsteps of Manley and Rogers from Furnace Creek to the fabled San Francisco Ranch, near Newhall, will take them across the Panamint Mountains via Redlands Canyon. They will then traverse the Slate Range at Manly Pass and come out of the pass near Trona, before heading west up Wilson Canyon, over the Argus Range and across NWC to Indian Wells, northwest of Ridgecrest. Continuing on, John- son and Bush will hike south to Last Chance Canyon and bypass California City. The pair will then cross Edwards Air Force Base enroute to Soledad Canyon and follow the canyon to the San Francisco Ranch. Fred Camphausen, a member of the Indian Wells Valley Search and Rescue Team and the China Lake Mountain Rescue Group, will accompany the hikers during the Wilson Canyon portion of the trip. Mter an overnight camp at the Star of the West mine in Wilson Canyon, Fred Weals, head of the Ground Operations Division's Projects Branch, will guide the two men across NWC ranges to tbe western boundary of the Center. Although the trip has a historical precedent, the two men will not attempt to duplicate tbe privations of the original desert crossing, which took place in 1850. Manly and Rogers had as their only food supply seven~ighths of a dried ox, and carried only a tin pot and half a blanket. Propane Gas From Canada Relieves Shortage Here By Jim Knight The NWC Supply Department recently laid to rest that hoary cliche, "Everyone talks about tbe weather, but no one does anything about it." In its place has gone tbe slogan: "It can be done!" Faced with the untenable specter of unwarmed homes and working areas because of the nationwide propane gas shortage, the NWC Command flashed a red alert which triggered Supply and Public Works TEAM action to solve the problem of protecting the health and welfare of Center inhabitants. The unseasonably frigid weather experienced here last month resulted in the coldest December on record, according to the Meteorology Section of the Engineering Department. The mean temperature of 38.7 degrees was one degree colder than tbe previous record set in 1968. The average high and low tem- peratures were 54.6 and 23.5 degrees, and the higbest and lowest were 69 and 8 degrees. Compounding the cold weather crisis was the shortage of propane and equipment to haul the gas, since the equipment of orie of Southern California's propane manufacturers broke down early in December. This mishap seriously hampered distribution, and NWC's local distributor could not locate an alternate source. However, one of the Center's distributors furnished Supply Department buyers a lead that resulted in finding a ' source in Canada who agreed to furnish both the product and the transportation. An immediate order for 9,000 gallons to supplement the Center's dwindling supply was delivered here by truck from the Canadian (Continued on Page 3) l~, 1972, while the Navy Exchange has added $35,183.14 to recreation program coffers-a figure that is up by $11,128.32 over the FY "i2 total. A check of the number involved in athletic activities shows that 47 teams (28 for men, 6 for women and 13 for girls) competed in various softball leagues, and participation also continued at a high level in bowling, swimming and tennis, imer noted in his report. In addition, golf club mem- Naval Weapons Centef'" China lake California bership hit a peak of 400 during the summer months, and a new sport (girls' flag footha1l) was added in the fall. Currently, there are 57 teams involved in basketball leagues for adults, boys and girls, Imer informed Recreation Council members. One result of this increased participation in athletic programs was noted on the Mojave Desert lnter-Service League front, where for the first time since the league was formed in 1955, teams from China Lake compiled enough Vol. XXVIII No.3 points for their showing in bowling, golf, handball and tennis to win the minor sports trophy in 1972. Major equipment purchases during the reporting period in- cluded an electric hoist for the Auto Hobby Shop, a new screen and magnetic sound system for the theater, and five ball returns for the Hall Memorial lanes. At the same time, approval was granted for use of non- appropriated funds for renovation of the golf pro shop and for work (Continued on Page 3) Jan. 19, 1973 INSIDE... Grand Land Singers Due Here ... 2 Farewell Fe!!! Held for Wards . ..4 Concert Planned Sunday ..... . .. 5 Sports ............. .. ...........6 Air Fair Coming to Inyokern ... . .7 Radiothon Slated Jan. 28 .........8 NWC Employee Among Women Picked for Navy Flight Training Jo Anne HelIman, a ~year-7925, prior to the next Community Council meeting on Feb. 13. , OCR Text: Page Eight Radiothon Set To Raise Funds for Golf Center A fund-raising funfest aimed at raising money needed for com- pletion of the Ridgecrest golf complex-a family recreation center consisting of a golf driving range and a miniature golf cour- se-has been scheduled on Sunday, Jan. 28, at Joshua Community Hall, the Desert Empire Fair's permanent exhibit building. Live entertainment is planned to lure an audience to tbe fair- grounds, and there also will be a Radiothon from noon to 5p.m. dur- ing which donations to this com- munity project will be solicited as part of a Radio Station KLOA broadcast of the afternoon's events. Among the featured entertainers at this admission-free program will be the Franciscan Missionary Sisters, a 2:;'member all-girl or- chestra from San Fernando Valley. Other musical entertainment will be provided by the Burroughs High School stage band, the Desert Gospel Soul Singers, local bar- bershop quarter song groups, and the Looney Tunes. In addition, there will be vocal solos by Susan Rungo, the current Miss Ridgecrest-China Lake, and by Mary Martin; dramatic sket- ches by the China Lake Players, and organ selections played by Ted Edwards, chairman of the Ridgecrest Improvement Com- mittee, the group that is behind development of the golf complex. A cake sale and gift counter will be in operation at Joshua Com- munity Hall to augment the donations received from those in attendance as well as from those listening to the program as it is broadcast by Radio Station KLOA. Radio listeners will be invited and encouraged to call in their contributions, which will be picked up by members of the local Citizens Band Radio Club, who will be circulating throughout the community during the Radiothon waiting for messages informing them were donations are available. Those at the fairgrounds on the afternoon of Jan. 28 will have the opportunity to inspect the progress that has been made to date on development of the golf driving range and miniature golf course- located on property just east of the fairgrounds. An American Legion model of the French 40 and 8 trains of World War I vintage will be making trips carrying passengers to and from the exhibit building on the fairgrounds and the golf complex throughout the afternoon as an added part of the afternoon's en- tertainment. So far, the golf driving range has been graded, and a portion of the sprinkler system has been in- stalled, along with some of the poles for the fence that will mark its boundaries. In addition, the framing is up and a portion of the electrical wiring has been installed for a building that will house a snack bar and pro shop at the golf complex, and poles for tbe parking lot lights also have heen set in place. Entomologist To Speak At Museum's Annual Meeting Dr. Charles Hogue, Senior Curator of Entomology at tbe Los Angeles Natural History Museum, will he the guest speaker at tbe A STAG BEETLE holds the in- terest of Dr. Charles L. Hogue, Senior Curator of Entomology at the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, who will be the guest speaker at Tuesday night's annual dinner meeting of Maturango Museum. Class Scheduled In Cake Decorating Registration is now being taken at the China Lake Community Center for a seven week series of classes in cake decorating. The classes, to be taught by Rose Marie Suhr, will be held on Wed- nesdays at 9a.m., starting Jan. 31, or Thursdays at 7p.m., starting on Feb. I. Afee of $16.50 per person will be charged for the instruction. annual dinner meeting of tbe Maturango Museum. Price of the dinner, which will hegin at 7 p.m. Tuesday at tbe Chief Petty Officers' Club, is $4 per person. Reservations can he made by calling Ellene Grevelle, on Monday and Friday mornings, or Mrs. Alice Dubin, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the museum, NWC ext. 2368. Dr. Hogue, who recently returned from an extensive ex- pedition in the Rincon Forest of Costa Rica, will show highlights from a one-hour film and present a lecture, entitled "On the Trail of the Army Ant." The primary business of the meeting will be to elect three trustees from among a slate of five candidates. Charles Van Hagan and Gene Boehme, incumhents, and Dr. Kristin Berry, Caroll Evans and Pat LaBerge are vying for the three vacancies on tbe Mat- urango Museum board of trustees. With the 1973 meeting, the Maturango Museum is celebrating its first decade. The museum opened its doors in 1962. Kenneth H. Robinson, now retired from Civil Service, was elected as tbe first president of tbe board at the first annual meeting on Jan. 28,: 1963. The museum was founded large- ly through the efforts of the late Rhea Blenman, then the wife of Capt. Charles Blerunan, NOTS Commander at the time, and tbe first curator was Mrs. Sylvia Winslow. . - ."... - -~ ..-- -- ROCKETEER Friday, January 19, 1973 OPENS TON IGHT- Dick Benson (foreground), who plays the role of Bottom in William Shakespeare's " A Midsummer Night's Dream," looks pensive, while Steve McArtor (in blonde wig), as Thisby, pleads his case. Harry Pritchett, who will portray Starveling, looks on. The scene is one of the comical highlights of the play- produced by Cerro Coso College's Theater 27 class and directed by Pat Sch- warzbach. "Midsummer" opens a four day run tonight at 8:lS at the Burroughs Lecture Center and will be presented again tomorrow night and on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 26 and 27. Tickets, priced at $1.50 for general admission and $1 for students, children and military, are now on sale at the Gift Mart in Ridgecrest, the Station Pharmacy, and also can be obtained from mem bers of the cast. In addition, tickets will be sold at the door of the Lecture Center on production nights. Watercolorist To Demonstrate Techniques for Art Leaguers A watercolor demonstration by Vernon Nye, a member of the American Watercolor Society and president of the Society of Western Artists, wiII be presented at Monday night's meeting of the Desert Art League. The meeting, which is open to prospective members and guests, will be held at the Community Center, starting at 7:30 p.m. Nye was chairman of the Art Department at Pacific Union Special Seabee Night Slated at Disneyland A special Seabee . Night at Disneyland is coming up tomorrow at the popular amusement center in Anaheim. All military .-personnel and civilian employees of the Naval Weapons Center, and their families, are eligible to par- ticipate. Tickets, which cover the en- trance fee and the use of all facilities at Disneyland except the shooting galleries, can Ill! obtained at the Community Center at a cost of $4 per person. College from 1955 to 1969. He still teaches part-time, but has returned to iIIustration and watercolor work. Last summer he conducted a watercolor tour to Japan and plans to take a group on a watercolor tour of Hawaii next summer. He is best known for his paintings of the Napa Valley, where he resides, and for his art work depicting the rugged Nor- thern caJifornia coast. In his work experiences he produced posters for tbe U.S. Treasury Department and Federal Civil Defense and in 1953 created the official poster for the National Blood Campaign during the Korean War. From TO SHOWBOAT MOVIE RATINGS The objective of the ratings is to infor,," parents about the suitability of mev!" content for viewing by their d'lildren. (GI . ALL AGES ADMITTED General Audiences (PGI . ALL AGES ADMITTED Parental Guidance Suggested (A) . RESTRICTED Under 17 requires aa:ompany· Ing Parent or Adult Guardian CS - '::l"~~A'SCOpe STD · Sti'lndl1lrd MoIU~ Sc reen FRI. 19 Jan. " WHEN THE LEGENDS DIE" I STD lOS Min.1 Richard Widmark, Frederic Forrest (Drama ) This story is a carefully constructed, very moving and quite hOnest study of a young Indian's progression along the rodeo cir cuit from neophyte to practiced rider- to casual killer and finally to the point where he must desperately backtrack upon himself and try to r ight what went wrong . (PG) SAT. 20 Jan. -MATINEE- "THE 1000 PLANE RAIO" (ST D94 Min.) Christopher George, Laraine Stevens (Gl - EVENING- "YOU 'LL LIKE MY MOTHER" I STD 9J Min.1 Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy (Suspense Drama) Patty Duke, an about to-give·birth young Vietnam war widow, travels across country to visit the mother- in·law (a woman She has never met) only to walk into a night mare. IPG) SUN. oS MON . 21 ·22Jan. "PULP" {STD" Min.1 Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney (Action Satire) Michael Caine is a hack author who is mysteriously enlisted to ghOst-write the memoirs of aging recluse gangerster ·movie celebrity Mickey Rooney. Rooney has some real·life associations with the Italian underworld that closely parallel the fictional roles he played in his films. Caine soon d iscovers hirn~elf ~ ~Ii~h, iO the middle of a murder caper. Violence, sex and partial nudity may offend some. (PG) TUES. & WE D. 2J·24 Jan. " BARON BLOOD" (STD91 Min.) Joseph Cotton, Elk.e Sommer (Horrorl An evil German baron is reincarnated to wreak havoc in his family's castle. The baron's peculiar penchant for impaling the locals on his castle turret has reaped its own reward in the form Of a curse by one of his medieval victims. When the baron is coniured up, he is given a 2Oth·century opportunity to continue practicing his hObby, while posing as an invalid miliionaire. I PG ) THU RS. 25 Jan. "THE NEW CENTURIONS" (CS 105 Min.) George C. Scott, Stacy Keach (Action Drama) This is the story of several rookies put out onto the streets of L .A. for their first patrolS. Stacy Keach is an aspiring lawyer, who finds life "on the street" more exciting. George C. Scott is a great guy, who at one point slugs around a venal landlord for cheating wetback tenants and serves as a father figure to Keach . (R) FRI. 26 Jan. The Grand Land Singers present a special musical program at the Center Theater. 8 p.m. WIND-WAVE TANK BUILT Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have construc- ted a wind-wave tank. The new facility is 58 ft. long and 4 ft. wide and is capable of producing the equivalent of OO-knot winds at sea. PLACE STAMP HERE • Summary of Recreation Activities Presented Presentation of a report sum- marizing tile previous six montil's activities in the field of recreation and programs offered by Special Services highlighted Tuesday morning's meeting of the Joint Navy-CiviIian Recreation Council. Covered in the half-year report, which was presented by Gabe Imer, head of the Command Ad- ministration Department's Special Services Division, was information on the increased level of par- ticipation in all of the team and individual athletic activities of- fered at China Lake, along with a review of major equipment pur- chases, and construction and remodeling work-both planned and completed. There has been an increase in the total amount of non-appropriated funds available for use in financing recreation activities during the past six months, in comparison with this same period in Fiscal Year 1972, lmer noted. Employee Services Board ac- tivities brought in $34,164.72 for this purpose from June 16 to Dec. nwe tocketeel Hikers Retrace Historic Trek from Death Valley The historic trek of William Lewis Manly and John Rogers, scouts for the ill-fated Bennett- Arcane party that "discovered" Death Valley, is being repeated by two men from Placerville, Calif.. in a journey that got under way last Sunday. LeRoy C. Johnson and Richard .Bush began their trek at Furnace Creek Ranch, located in the Death Valley National Monument, and will reach the boundary of the Naval Weapons Center tomorrow morning. The route they will be following as they retrace the footsteps of Manley and Rogers from Furnace Creek to the fabled San Francisco Ranch, near Newhall, will take them across the Panamint Mountains via Redlands Canyon. They will then traverse the Slate Range at Manly Pass and come out of the pass near Trona, before heading west up Wilson Canyon, over the Argus Range and across NWC to Indian Wells, northwest of Ridgecrest. Continuing on, John- son and Bush will hike south to Last Chance Canyon and bypass California City. The pair will then cross Edwards Air Force Base enroute to Soledad Canyon and follow the canyon to the San Francisco Ranch. Fred Camphausen, a member of the Indian Wells Valley Search and Rescue Team and the China Lake Mountain Rescue Group, will accompany the hikers during the Wilson Canyon portion of the trip. Mter an overnight camp at the Star of the West mine in Wilson Canyon, Fred Weals, head of the Ground Operations Division's Projects Branch, will guide the two men across NWC ranges to tbe western boundary of the Center. Although the trip has a historical precedent, the two men will not attempt to duplicate tbe privations of the original desert crossing, which took place in 1850. Manly and Rogers had as their only food supply seven~ighths of a dried ox, and carried only a tin pot and half a blanket. Propane Gas From Canada Relieves Shortage Here By Jim Knight The NWC Supply Department recently laid to rest that hoary cliche, "Everyone talks about tbe weather, but no one does anything about it." In its place has gone tbe slogan: "It can be done!" Faced with the untenable specter of unwarmed homes and working areas because of the nationwide propane gas shortage, the NWC Command flashed a red alert which triggered Supply and Public Works TEAM action to solve the problem of protecting the health and welfare of Center inhabitants. The unseasonably frigid weather experienced here last month resulted in the coldest December on record, according to the Meteorology Section of the Engineering Department. The mean temperature of 38.7 degrees was one degree colder than tbe previous record set in 1968. The average high and low tem- peratures were 54.6 and 23.5 degrees, and the higbest and lowest were 69 and 8 degrees. Compounding the cold weather crisis was the shortage of propane and equipment to haul the gas, since the equipment of orie of Southern California's propane manufacturers broke down early in December. This mishap seriously hampered distribution, and NWC's local distributor could not locate an alternate source. However, one of the Center's distributors furnished Supply Department buyers a lead that resulted in finding a ' source in Canada who agreed to furnish both the product and the transportation. An immediate order for 9,000 gallons to supplement the Center's dwindling supply was delivered here by truck from the Canadian (Continued on Page 3) l~, 1972, while the Navy Exchange has added $35,183.14 to recreation program coffers-a figure that is up by $11,128.32 over the FY "i2 total. A check of the number involved in athletic activities shows that 47 teams (28 for men, 6 for women and 13 for girls) competed in various softball leagues, and participation also continued at a high level in bowling, swimming and tennis, imer noted in his report. In addition, golf club mem- Naval Weapons Centef'" China lake California bership hit a peak of 400 during the summer months, and a new sport (girls' flag footha1l) was added in the fall. Currently, there are 57 teams involved in basketball leagues for adults, boys and girls, Imer informed Recreation Council members. One result of this increased participation in athletic programs was noted on the Mojave Desert lnter-Service League front, where for the first time since the league was formed in 1955, teams from China Lake compiled enough Vol. XXVIII No.3 points for their showing in bowling, golf, handball and tennis to win the minor sports trophy in 1972. Major equipment purchases during the reporting period in- cluded an electric hoist for the Auto Hobby Shop, a new screen and magnetic sound system for the theater, and five ball returns for the Hall Memorial lanes. At the same time, approval was granted for use of non- appropriated funds for renovation of the golf pro shop and for work (Continued on Page 3) Jan. 19, 1973 INSIDE... Grand Land Singers Due Here ... 2 Farewell Fe!!! Held for Wards . ..4 Concert Planned Sunday ..... . .. 5 Sports ............. .. ...........6 Air Fair Coming to Inyokern ... . .7 Radiothon Slated Jan. 28 .........8 NWC Employee Among Women Picked for Navy Flight Training Jo Anne HelIman, a ~year-7925, prior to the next Community Council meeting on Feb. 13. , China Lake Museum,Rocketeer Newspaper,Rocketeer 1970s,Rocketeer 1973,Rktr1.19.1973.pdf,Rktr1.19.1973.pdf Page 1, Rktr1.19.1973.pdf Page 1