ht Film slide show on 'Rafting Through Grand Canyon' set "Rafting 'lbrougb the Grand Canyon" will be the tiUe of a slide show and diacussion by Dwight Morgan during a Maturango Museum-sponaored program that will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Richmond School auditorium. Morgan, a bealth, algebra, and soclal studies teacher at BUI'I'OIIgbs HIgb School, bas spent the past three summers as a boatman for the American River Touring Aa8ociation (ARTA). In this capacity, be bas run most of the rivers on the West Coast, either as boatman for a tour or as a trainee. Among theae rivers have been the SIanilJIas, American, and Tuolomne in ~Callfornia; the middle andmain forks of the Salmon in Idaho; and the Rogue River in Oregon. " I've always been interested in the outo()(­ doors," said Morgan, who grew up in the Indian Wells Valley. "River-running is a natur al extension of backpacking-it's given me the chance to see a lot of country not accealble by trail." In addition to discussing the excitement and adventure of river running in the Grand Canyon, Morgan will comment on ARTA's problem of maximizing visitor experiencea wbIle still maintalning low environmental Impact. As a boatman for nine trips through the canyon a\ready, with four scheduled for tbis summer, Morgan is intimately acquainted with the project. Tbls Maturango Museum lecture will be free of charge and will feature slides taken by Bob and KristIn Berry, local residents who made the Grand Canyon raft trip last summer as Morgan's guests. Concert by Fresno State JaD ensemble scheduled A concert by 1be award-winning jazz ensembiefromFresnoStsteUniversitywlll be presented nest Friday, AprI\ 1, starting at 7:30 p.rn. at the Cerro Coso Community College lecture hall. Dr. Larry Sutherland, a jazz-trcmbonist, will direct a program of jazz and swing musical selections. The band, whose members Include Bill Lutjens, a recent graduate of Burroughs HIgb School, is stopping over here enroute to its par­ ticipation in the Las Vegas Jazz Festival. Tickets to next Friday night's program are priced at $1 each and can be purchased in advance at the Ststion Pharmacy or in Ridgecrest at Loewen's or the Music Man. Proceeds will benefit the Burroughs HIgb Schoolmusic~===t.~______-=~~the~Doo~b ~ le~E~~=le ~.'~'~ IN REH EARSAL- Practicing for their performances lonighl as pari of the Cerro Coso Communily College faculty recilalare (I.-r.) Paul J . Riley. dean of sludenl personnel services ; Lauren Green, director of the Cerro Coso I Desert Community Orchestra ; and Dr. Richard S. Meyers. college president. The event, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 7:30 at the college lecture center. Musical recital br lacultr members at Cerro Coso College set tonight By Mario Miles Music from Beetboven to blue grass will be featured during a faculty recital at the Cerro Coso Community College lecture hall tonight at 7:30. Tbere will be no admlsaIon charge to the event and the public is invited to attend. However, donations will be solicited to establish a music scholarsbip at the college. Tbe program bas been arranged by Winnie Nelson, music instructor and acting chairperson of the Cerro Coso music department. College admlnlstrators will join faculty members for the performance. Dr. Richard S. Meyers, president, will be the evening's clarinetist, and Paul J . Riley, dean of student personnel ~ces, will perform at the piano a\ong with ce\list Lauren Green, director of the Cerro CosoI Desert Com­ munity Orchestra in an excerpted presentation of Beetboven's piano trio in B nat major, Opus 11 for piano, cello and clarinet. A touch of country music will be supplied by Kim Breedlove, a fine arts graduate from Long Beach Stste University and instructor of drswing, painting and banjo at Cerro Coso. He will perform a medley of compositions, including "Sailor's Hom­ pipe," "Grandfather's Clock" and "Under SET FOR OPENING NIGHT - G.1en WIIlte lsealed.I right), who pl.ys Uncle Smellque In the Community Llghl Oper••nd TheoIler Assoc;"Ilon'. production of "o.ork of the Moon," lells the story of whal w.. missing whan the collin of Agnes Riddle wu _ed. The interesled townspeople ne IsI.nding. I.-r.) Karen Allieri, Br;"n Dettling, Greg O'Guin. Russ Higgins. Mike Ripley land. sealed. I.-r.l Becky Maltby, Scott Flood .nd Curtis Berk.r. The p;"y, which Is ""sed on the I_nd of Bao1Nlr. Allen. will open tonight .1 the Burroughs High School ledure cenler al ' :lS. Rem.lnlng perform.nces no schaduled for lhe same lime lomorrow night .nd on April 1 .nd 2. Tickets, priced .1 S4 for .dults .nd $2 for sludents through the.ge of 21, senior clll.en. and enllsled mllll.ry personnel••re on sal• • 1 the Gill Marl. Imporllum .nd Medical Arls Pharmacy In Rldgecresl. They will .Iso be n.l;"ble .1 the box oHlce on the ovenlng of euh performuce. Hollis Erdmann, who teaches voice at the college, will supply the vocal entertainment at the recital. He began his professional musical career as a member of the world famous Roger Wagner Chorale from 197~ 74, and has performed with such conductors as Zubin Metha, Eugene Ormandy and James levine. Erdmann will be accompanied by pianist Shirley Helmick, who also will team up with guitarist Linda Hartze\l in a performance of Minuett aud dem, "Duo Concertant," Opus 25 by Gui\ianI, for violin and guitar; and "Welscher Taz" by Hanz News\ider. Mrs. Helmick taught music in Arizona and California public schools for 19 years. She is an organist for the Naval Weapons Center's All Faith Chapel, and a member of a local string quartet and the Cerro Coso, Desert Community Orchestra. Miss Hartze\l is a graduate of Burroughs High School, Bakersfield College and California Stste University, Hayward. She is currenUy teaching piano and guitar privately and guitar at Cerro Coso. She and Mrs. Nelson will combine their talents in presenting selections by Diabelli. Museum to sponsor program by leading expert on orangutans Tickets are now on sale for a program by Birute and Rod Galdakis-Brindamour on "Orangutans, Indonesia's People of the Forest." Sponsored by the Maturango Museum, the program is scheduled at Burroughs High School Lecture Center on Tuesday, April 19, at 7:30 p.rn. More than 7,000 hours of significant ob­ servation of orangutans have been made by the Brindamours in a remote jungle area of Indonesia. Mrs. Brindamour's orangutan study was inaugurated in 1971 by the late Dr. LouisS. B Leakey. Tblspioneering work continues to cha\lenge widely be\d beliefs about the soclal structure and habitat of these great apes. Tbe Aprillecture will be the fourth special guest event the museum has arranged through the L. S. B. Leaky Foundation, beginning in 1971 with the appearance here of the famed Dr. Leakey blmse\f. In 1973, Dian Fossey spoke here on the mountain gorilla, and in 1976, Jane Goodall presented a program on the chimpsnzee_ Early purchase of tickets is advised since these Leakey Foundation lectures have been extremely popuiar. Tickets are available at the museum office between the hours of 9 to 11 a.m. and 3 to 5 p.m. week­ days, 3 to 5 p.m. weekends. The Gift Mart in Ridgecrest and the Ststion Pharmacy at China Lake also have tickets, as do members of the Maturango MUseum board of trustees. Admission is $2.50 for adults and $1 for students and senior citizens. INSIDE . .. llea'eatlooGuide to Desert .. .. ...........2 Four Recei'ie Muter's Degrees .... .. . . .. .3 Nev. 1 w..pons c."t.,­ March 25, 1977 Project 21 Team Cm!Jllenc!ecl .. .. .. .. .. ...4 Sports ... . . .......... . . .. . . . .. ... . . .. . . ..8 Chi.". leke Surplus Piopedy Auction Set .. .. .. .. .. .. .7 Ce llfornie Vol. XXXII , No. 12 MlIIica\ Recital ScbeGlled .. ... .... . ......• RANGE CONTROL CENTER PLANNED ­ Included on the Iisl of milll.ry conslruellon prolects to be sl.rled In Fiscal Yor 1'79 is. R.nge Conlrol Cenler thel Is to be Iocaled In the vicinity of the .ir field. The dr.wing .bove Is .n .rchlleel's concept of this new f.cillty lhal will consoIIUI••1I of the R.nge o.p.rlmen1's m.lor lesl.nd ev.lu.llon functions for _r.llon.nd control of Code 62 r.ng... This complex .Iso will Include Inslrum.nt_1on Developmenl.nd R.nge Oper.llons Su-" FulliHes. PrincipiiI functions of the Range Control Center will be the surv.lI;"nc. of reslrlcted .Inpllce. monitoring .nd control of lesl .lrcr.1I lin­ cludlng drone I.rgets) on .11 r.nges, .nd .I..,..c., .lrer.1I .nd r.nge use schadullng. IIWC embarks on ambitious plan to upgrade, modernize test and e,aluation facilities (Editor's NoI. :Thls Is lhe Hnl In. series For 30 years the Center's T&E faciUties of .rllclt. devoled 10 r.nge .nd lesl have been utillzed to develop, test, and f.cllily mocitrniullon. Specific .rllclts evaluate air-launcbed and seabome on lechnlcal sublects will be- publishad weapons systems for a variety of in later issues of The Rocketeer.) customers_Tbe princIpa\ sponaor of work is Tbe Naval Weapons Center bas embarked the Naval Air Systems Command, however, on an ambitious plan, called Project 21, to other Chief of Naval Material S~ modernize the air, ground ranges, expand Commanda and laboratories also utillze and support Echo range, and develop and NWC facilities. Tbe AirForce and Army are improve the propulsion, warbead, and increasing their utility of NWC facillties to envIrormental test facilities. Tbls long test aircraft and missiles, and private In­ range plan is focused on preparing NWC to dustry and o~ government ~encles have perform test and evaluation of weapons also utillzed the Center's ranges to evaluate during the next 25 years, into the 21st research and developnent systems. Century. Tbe blstory of the faciUties bas, however, The major goal in upgrading and been influenced by weapons programs. modernizing NWC's Test and Evaluation Many of the current test faciUties were (T&E) facilities is to improve the developed in the 1950s to assist in productivity and operational effectiveness developing ~c weapons. In addition, with wblch tests can be performed. This several ofthe ranges were instrumented for detailed look into the test and evaluation slower speed aircraft and unguided crystal hall extends up to the year 2000. weapons evaluation. Frelze placed on hiring lull-time permanent emplorles at la'r labs The Secretory of the Navy on March 12 advised off Naval activities that President Jimmy Corter hod imposed a portlol hiring fr_ze on off governmental ogencles. eHeellve March 1. This freeze Is applicable to off fuff time permanent (FTP) positions and wiff be In effeel until further notice. The Secretory of the Navy also directed off Naval odlvltles that were ov.... their outhorl.ed ceiling on March 1 to observe a complete hiring freeze until such time os ceilings were met. However. this Initial announcement did prOVide that those odlvltles whose FTP on-board strength did not exceed their Fiscal Year 1977 FTP ceiling authorization were authorized to fill thr_ of ev....y four FTP position vacancies. Since the Novol Weapons Center presently has on excess of 154 FTP employees over the 4.049 FTP positions authorized for FY 1977. a total hiring fr_ze was mode effedlve Immediately upon receipt of the Secretory of the Novy's message. Lost Monday. the Chief of Naval Material. In noting that the total number of FTP civilian personnel under the cognizance of the Director of Navy laboratories presently exceeds the FY 1977 assigned ceiling authorization. Imposed a total freeze on FTP hiring at off Navy laboratories eHectlve that dote until further notice. The Naval Weapons Cent..... a port of the Navy Laboratory System. Is now operating und.... the provisions of this total freeze on FTP accessions estobllshe<;i by the Chief of Novol Mot....lol. Tbe major air ranges are more than 20 years old. Tbey were conceIftd IIId built In the late 1950s and, in conjunction with the propulslon, warhead, and environmental test faclJlties, have been utillzed for IIIOI'I! than 20 years without any sIgnllIcant im­ provement or modernization. Newer facilities have been bullt by projects, but are limited in their capablllUes to special functions. Equlpm..1 Out of o.te Current methods of accomplishing work depend on the use of manually operated systems and dispersed equlpnent, and on the relisbillty and avallabillty of equlpnent that is beyond its usefu\ life. Trends in overhead anddirect costsfor NWC faciUtles show a rising requirement to the year 2000 and beyond. It is mandatory to reduce such costs by centralizing, automating and modemixing the NWC ranges to improve efficiency and reduce operational costs. By conducting an active program of modernization, It is the view of Jerry 1.. Reed, acting head of the Test and Evaluation Directorate's Long Range P\anning Office, that the capacity of the air and ground ranges can be increased from 3,000 test events a year in Fiscal Year 1977 to 4,500 events a year by 1915, and 8,000 events by the year 2000. Th.... Time Fr.mes Ev.l...ted Looking into the crystal hall and trying to predict the future bas meant using every mathematical, scientific, logical and blstorical source available In an effort to determine the unknowns !rem the Imowna. Tbe approach to Project 21 was hued on an evaluation of three time frames. - Tbey were near term (Fiscal Year 1977 to 1981), mid-term (Fiscal Year 1980 to Iggo), 8I!d long range (Fiscal Year Iggo to 20(0). Near term requirements were hued OIl project plans and sponaor interviews. Mid­ range data were 01Qined !rem tecIIDolOllY trends and plans such as the Naval Aviation Plan, and long range data were obtained from the anef of Naval Operations' plan 2000 and similar documents. Dick Murphy, Code 39011, headed the requirements studies using personnel from several major departments. Many trends were identified tbrougb this lConHnuod on p... 4) March 25, 1977 SHOWBOAT MOVIE RATINGS The objective of the riltings is to infor m pa rents about the suitability of movie content for viewing by their chiMiren . (G) - ALL AGES ADMITTED General Audiences ( PG) - ALL AGES AOMITTED Parental Guidance Suggested (R) . RESTRICTED Under 17 requires accompanying Plrentor Adult Gu.rdian CS · Cinemascope STD · Standard Movie Screen Regu lar starting time- 7: JO p.m . Prog ram sub ject to change without notice - ple.se check marquee. FRio 25MARCH " ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO' S NEST" (134 Min. ) Jack Nicholson, Lou ise Fletcher (Dram a) Nicholson is a free spiri ted convict who feigns insanity so he can spend most of his six month prison term under observation at the State asylum instead of straining his back at a work farm _Hitting the ward like an ear thquake, it isn' t long before Nicholson becomes the unoff icial spokesman for his feliOlN patients, doing everything in his power to shake them out Of their apathy while try ing to convince them not to swallow everything slung down their throats, gleefully disrupting the ordered apathy of the asylum. ( R ) • 26MARCH SAT. " THE HINDENBUAG" (126 Min.) George C. ScoN. A nne Bancr oft ( Adventure Dr ama) In 1937. cla irvoyant Ruth Kobert tel ls t.he F BI that the German zeppelin Hindenburg will be destroyed over A mer ican tet'"ritory . Scott is assigned as secur i ty officer on. the Frankfur t to Lakehurst, N.J., f light. Being under much strain and f earing the prediction may be true, Scott must contend with passengers and cr ew of the zeppelin, as well as a gestapo agent. l PG) . MON. 21 MARCH " MARATHON MAN " (125 Min.) D ustin Hoffman, laurence Oliver (Action Drama) In New York, Dustin Hoffm an, a student at Columbia Uni9ersity, becomes in· nocently embr oiled in a murderous intrigue w ith an extremely sadist ic ex· Nazi ( laurence Olivier ) . Th is film centers around the work of " The Division:' a govemmert agency which handles what the F B I can' t touch and the CI A doesn't want to deal w ith. They use Olivier to hunt and expose other Nazis. )OMARCH WED. " SPIRAL STAIRCASe" (89 M in.) Jacq ueline Bisset, Christopher Plummer (Drama) Helen Mallory ( Bissetl. an attractive young woman who has lost her power of speech as the re sult of a traumatic fire that cla imed the lives of her child and husband, is told by her friend and doctor that he has found a clinic in Boston which could restore her voice. The foliOlNing morn ing the.,. are to leave for Boston, but B isset must spend one more night i l) the hom e -of her invalid grandmother. In the past .,.ear , several deaths have occurred in this vicinity, each of the victims having had some serious handicap. Thus, Bisset fears tor her life. This spine-tingling tale takes Bisset through a ser ies of hair .raislng in­ cidents that will keep members of the audience on the edge of their seats. FR I. ' 6~OIl " BATTL E OF TH E GODFATHERS" (86 M m .) Henry Silva, Herbert Fleischman ( Action Dram a) Amer ican gangster leader Henry Silva gathers together his mob, his mother and his daughter, and travels to Germ any in order to take over an organized cr ime operation. Silva encounters a rival German leader (Herbert Fleischman) and this meeting later poses a problem as Silva's daughter and Fleischman's sonfall in love. This greatly com plicates matters tor the t wo war 1 0rds. ( R) Play delayed 'til summer Tbe China Lake Players' production of "Come Blow Your Hom" bas been post­ poned until this summer, according to the play's director, I. Rudyard Stone. Stone explainedthat bls job commitments have interfered with plans to put on the show in the inunediate future. Tryout dates will be announced later. .A.,u .s . GovlH"nmetlt _Printing Office : H 713-056 - No 1019 From : PLACE STAMP . HERE To : Only housing for military to be retained The Chief of Naval Operations, with the concurrence of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, bas approved the concept of retaining only those family housing units at the Naval Weapons Center needed to meet military persoMel requirements. This action is consistent with Department of Defense policy that communities ad­ jacent to military installations in the con­ tigous U.S. provide, to the maximum extent possible, housing needs of DoD employees. Tbe Naval Weapons Center is now in the process of submitting a detailed plan to implement this concept. Subject to approval of higher auhority, the plan will provide that over the next several years, occupancy of family housing units by civilian employees of the Department of Navy will be phased out and only military personnel and their dependents will be quartered on-base after that time. The plan also envisions retaining less then 1,000 of the Center's extsting housing assets with the remainder being excessed and, in some cases, demo11sbed due to the material condition of those units. The detailed plan now being prepared is entirely consistent with the general plans for Center housing announced by Rear Admiral R. G. Freeman ill, NWC C0m­ mander, on Jan. 19 of last year. Present occupancy of Center bousing is estimated at about 1,600 units. Unarmed Tomahawk cruise missile is launched over NWC An unanned u.s.Navy Tomahawk Cruise missile last Saturday new successfully to the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah after being launched in mid-air over the Naval Weapons Center range area. For this, one of several overland fligbts planned to test the Tomahawk's abillty to navigate to a predetermined area, the missile was captive carried here from the Pacific Missile Test Center (PMTC) at pt. Mugu under the wing of an A~ Intruder aircraft piloted by Cdr. T. D. Richards, Tomahawk project officer at PMTC. In the launch and escort aircraft with Cdr. Richards was Ed Emerson, contractor representative for General Dynamics. Following a flight 1 hr., 17 min. in duration, the Tomahawk circled the test range at Dugway, deployed its parachute and landed safely. Tbe missile was navigated by its Terrain Contour Matching (TERCOM) guidance system, which compares measured terrain heights stored in an on-board comPuter and corTects the missile's course and altitude based upon the navigation fix. Tomahawk's 20lIl FlIgIII Last Saturday's flight was the :1001 for the T~mahawk, wblch bas been test nown for more than 16 hours. It bas been launched from aircraft, underwater torpedo tubes and.shore-based platforms. In mid-February, a Tomahawk cruise missile was ferried from pt. Mugu to a launch point over the Wblte Sands, N.M., Missile Range. On this test flight, the missile was guided by a prototype version of the Navy-developed Scene Matching Correlation (SMAC) guidance system working in conjunction with the TERCOM guidance system. Tbe SMAC system matches vIsua\ im­ IConHnuod on p... 3) , OCR Text: ht Film slide show on 'Rafting Through Grand Canyon' set "Rafting 'lbrougb the Grand Canyon" will be the tiUe of a slide show and diacussion by Dwight Morgan during a Maturango Museum-sponaored program that will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Richmond School auditorium. Morgan, a bealth, algebra, and soclal studies teacher at BUI'I'OIIgbs HIgb School, bas spent the past three summers as a boatman for the American River Touring Aa8ociation (ARTA). In this capacity, be bas run most of the rivers on the West Coast, either as boatman for a tour or as a trainee. Among theae rivers have been the SIanilJIas, American, and Tuolomne in ~Callfornia; the middle andmain forks of the Salmon in Idaho; and the Rogue River in Oregon. " I've always been interested in the outo()(­ doors," said Morgan, who grew up in the Indian Wells Valley. "River-running is a natur al extension of backpacking-it's given me the chance to see a lot of country not accealble by trail." In addition to discussing the excitement and adventure of river running in the Grand Canyon, Morgan will comment on ARTA's problem of maximizing visitor experiencea wbIle still maintalning low environmental Impact. As a boatman for nine trips through the canyon a\ready, with four scheduled for tbis summer, Morgan is intimately acquainted with the project. Tbls Maturango Museum lecture will be free of charge and will feature slides taken by Bob and KristIn Berry, local residents who made the Grand Canyon raft trip last summer as Morgan's guests. Concert by Fresno State JaD ensemble scheduled A concert by 1be award-winning jazz ensembiefromFresnoStsteUniversitywlll be presented nest Friday, AprI\ 1, starting at 7:30 p.rn. at the Cerro Coso Community College lecture hall. Dr. Larry Sutherland, a jazz-trcmbonist, will direct a program of jazz and swing musical selections. The band, whose members Include Bill Lutjens, a recent graduate of Burroughs HIgb School, is stopping over here enroute to its par­ ticipation in the Las Vegas Jazz Festival. Tickets to next Friday night's program are priced at $1 each and can be purchased in advance at the Ststion Pharmacy or in Ridgecrest at Loewen's or the Music Man. Proceeds will benefit the Burroughs HIgb Schoolmusic~===t.~______-=~~the~Doo~b ~ le~E~~=le ~.'~'~ IN REH EARSAL- Practicing for their performances lonighl as pari of the Cerro Coso Communily College faculty recilalare (I.-r.) Paul J . Riley. dean of sludenl personnel services ; Lauren Green, director of the Cerro Coso I Desert Community Orchestra ; and Dr. Richard S. Meyers. college president. The event, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 7:30 at the college lecture center. Musical recital br lacultr members at Cerro Coso College set tonight By Mario Miles Music from Beetboven to blue grass will be featured during a faculty recital at the Cerro Coso Community College lecture hall tonight at 7:30. Tbere will be no admlsaIon charge to the event and the public is invited to attend. However, donations will be solicited to establish a music scholarsbip at the college. Tbe program bas been arranged by Winnie Nelson, music instructor and acting chairperson of the Cerro Coso music department. College admlnlstrators will join faculty members for the performance. Dr. Richard S. Meyers, president, will be the evening's clarinetist, and Paul J . Riley, dean of student personnel ~ces, will perform at the piano a\ong with ce\list Lauren Green, director of the Cerro CosoI Desert Com­ munity Orchestra in an excerpted presentation of Beetboven's piano trio in B nat major, Opus 11 for piano, cello and clarinet. A touch of country music will be supplied by Kim Breedlove, a fine arts graduate from Long Beach Stste University and instructor of drswing, painting and banjo at Cerro Coso. He will perform a medley of compositions, including "Sailor's Hom­ pipe," "Grandfather's Clock" and "Under SET FOR OPENING NIGHT - G.1en WIIlte lsealed.I right), who pl.ys Uncle Smellque In the Community Llghl Oper••nd TheoIler Assoc;"Ilon'. production of "o.ork of the Moon," lells the story of whal w.. missing whan the collin of Agnes Riddle wu _ed. The interesled townspeople ne IsI.nding. I.-r.) Karen Allieri, Br;"n Dettling, Greg O'Guin. Russ Higgins. Mike Ripley land. sealed. I.-r.l Becky Maltby, Scott Flood .nd Curtis Berk.r. The p;"y, which Is ""sed on the I_nd of Bao1Nlr. Allen. will open tonight .1 the Burroughs High School ledure cenler al ' :lS. Rem.lnlng perform.nces no schaduled for lhe same lime lomorrow night .nd on April 1 .nd 2. Tickets, priced .1 S4 for .dults .nd $2 for sludents through the.ge of 21, senior clll.en. and enllsled mllll.ry personnel••re on sal• • 1 the Gill Marl. Imporllum .nd Medical Arls Pharmacy In Rldgecresl. They will .Iso be n.l;"ble .1 the box oHlce on the ovenlng of euh performuce. Hollis Erdmann, who teaches voice at the college, will supply the vocal entertainment at the recital. He began his professional musical career as a member of the world famous Roger Wagner Chorale from 197~ 74, and has performed with such conductors as Zubin Metha, Eugene Ormandy and James levine. Erdmann will be accompanied by pianist Shirley Helmick, who also will team up with guitarist Linda Hartze\l in a performance of Minuett aud dem, "Duo Concertant," Opus 25 by Gui\ianI, for violin and guitar; and "Welscher Taz" by Hanz News\ider. Mrs. Helmick taught music in Arizona and California public schools for 19 years. She is an organist for the Naval Weapons Center's All Faith Chapel, and a member of a local string quartet and the Cerro Coso, Desert Community Orchestra. Miss Hartze\l is a graduate of Burroughs High School, Bakersfield College and California Stste University, Hayward. She is currenUy teaching piano and guitar privately and guitar at Cerro Coso. She and Mrs. Nelson will combine their talents in presenting selections by Diabelli. Museum to sponsor program by leading expert on orangutans Tickets are now on sale for a program by Birute and Rod Galdakis-Brindamour on "Orangutans, Indonesia's People of the Forest." Sponsored by the Maturango Museum, the program is scheduled at Burroughs High School Lecture Center on Tuesday, April 19, at 7:30 p.rn. More than 7,000 hours of significant ob­ servation of orangutans have been made by the Brindamours in a remote jungle area of Indonesia. Mrs. Brindamour's orangutan study was inaugurated in 1971 by the late Dr. LouisS. B Leakey. Tblspioneering work continues to cha\lenge widely be\d beliefs about the soclal structure and habitat of these great apes. Tbe Aprillecture will be the fourth special guest event the museum has arranged through the L. S. B. Leaky Foundation, beginning in 1971 with the appearance here of the famed Dr. Leakey blmse\f. In 1973, Dian Fossey spoke here on the mountain gorilla, and in 1976, Jane Goodall presented a program on the chimpsnzee_ Early purchase of tickets is advised since these Leakey Foundation lectures have been extremely popuiar. Tickets are available at the museum office between the hours of 9 to 11 a.m. and 3 to 5 p.m. week­ days, 3 to 5 p.m. weekends. The Gift Mart in Ridgecrest and the Ststion Pharmacy at China Lake also have tickets, as do members of the Maturango MUseum board of trustees. Admission is $2.50 for adults and $1 for students and senior citizens. INSIDE . .. llea'eatlooGuide to Desert .. .. ...........2 Four Recei'ie Muter's Degrees .... .. . . .. .3 Nev. 1 w..pons c."t.,­ March 25, 1977 Project 21 Team Cm!Jllenc!ecl .. .. .. .. .. ...4 Sports ... . . .......... . . .. . . . .. ... . . .. . . ..8 Chi.". leke Surplus Piopedy Auction Set .. .. .. .. .. .. .7 Ce llfornie Vol. XXXII , No. 12 MlIIica\ Recital ScbeGlled .. ... .... . ......• RANGE CONTROL CENTER PLANNED ­ Included on the Iisl of milll.ry conslruellon prolects to be sl.rled In Fiscal Yor 1'79 is. R.nge Conlrol Cenler thel Is to be Iocaled In the vicinity of the .ir field. The dr.wing .bove Is .n .rchlleel's concept of this new f.cillty lhal will consoIIUI••1I of the R.nge o.p.rlmen1's m.lor lesl.nd ev.lu.llon functions for _r.llon.nd control of Code 62 r.ng... This complex .Iso will Include Inslrum.nt_1on Developmenl.nd R.nge Oper.llons Su-" FulliHes. PrincipiiI functions of the Range Control Center will be the surv.lI;"nc. of reslrlcted .Inpllce. monitoring .nd control of lesl .lrcr.1I lin­ cludlng drone I.rgets) on .11 r.nges, .nd .I..,..c., .lrer.1I .nd r.nge use schadullng. IIWC embarks on ambitious plan to upgrade, modernize test and e,aluation facilities (Editor's NoI. :Thls Is lhe Hnl In. series For 30 years the Center's T&E faciUties of .rllclt. devoled 10 r.nge .nd lesl have been utillzed to develop, test, and f.cllily mocitrniullon. Specific .rllclts evaluate air-launcbed and seabome on lechnlcal sublects will be- publishad weapons systems for a variety of in later issues of The Rocketeer.) customers_Tbe princIpa\ sponaor of work is Tbe Naval Weapons Center bas embarked the Naval Air Systems Command, however, on an ambitious plan, called Project 21, to other Chief of Naval Material S~ modernize the air, ground ranges, expand Commanda and laboratories also utillze and support Echo range, and develop and NWC facilities. Tbe AirForce and Army are improve the propulsion, warbead, and increasing their utility of NWC facillties to envIrormental test facilities. Tbls long test aircraft and missiles, and private In­ range plan is focused on preparing NWC to dustry and o~ government ~encles have perform test and evaluation of weapons also utillzed the Center's ranges to evaluate during the next 25 years, into the 21st research and developnent systems. Century. Tbe blstory of the faciUties bas, however, The major goal in upgrading and been influenced by weapons programs. modernizing NWC's Test and Evaluation Many of the current test faciUties were (T&E) facilities is to improve the developed in the 1950s to assist in productivity and operational effectiveness developing ~c weapons. In addition, with wblch tests can be performed. This several ofthe ranges were instrumented for detailed look into the test and evaluation slower speed aircraft and unguided crystal hall extends up to the year 2000. weapons evaluation. Frelze placed on hiring lull-time permanent emplorles at la'r labs The Secretory of the Navy on March 12 advised off Naval activities that President Jimmy Corter hod imposed a portlol hiring fr_ze on off governmental ogencles. eHeellve March 1. This freeze Is applicable to off fuff time permanent (FTP) positions and wiff be In effeel until further notice. The Secretory of the Navy also directed off Naval odlvltles that were ov.... their outhorl.ed ceiling on March 1 to observe a complete hiring freeze until such time os ceilings were met. However. this Initial announcement did prOVide that those odlvltles whose FTP on-board strength did not exceed their Fiscal Year 1977 FTP ceiling authorization were authorized to fill thr_ of ev....y four FTP position vacancies. Since the Novol Weapons Center presently has on excess of 154 FTP employees over the 4.049 FTP positions authorized for FY 1977. a total hiring fr_ze was mode effedlve Immediately upon receipt of the Secretory of the Novy's message. Lost Monday. the Chief of Naval Material. In noting that the total number of FTP civilian personnel under the cognizance of the Director of Navy laboratories presently exceeds the FY 1977 assigned ceiling authorization. Imposed a total freeze on FTP hiring at off Navy laboratories eHectlve that dote until further notice. The Naval Weapons Cent..... a port of the Navy Laboratory System. Is now operating und.... the provisions of this total freeze on FTP accessions estobllshe<;i by the Chief of Novol Mot....lol. Tbe major air ranges are more than 20 years old. Tbey were conceIftd IIId built In the late 1950s and, in conjunction with the propulslon, warhead, and environmental test faclJlties, have been utillzed for IIIOI'I! than 20 years without any sIgnllIcant im­ provement or modernization. Newer facilities have been bullt by projects, but are limited in their capablllUes to special functions. Equlpm..1 Out of o.te Current methods of accomplishing work depend on the use of manually operated systems and dispersed equlpnent, and on the relisbillty and avallabillty of equlpnent that is beyond its usefu\ life. Trends in overhead anddirect costsfor NWC faciUtles show a rising requirement to the year 2000 and beyond. It is mandatory to reduce such costs by centralizing, automating and modemixing the NWC ranges to improve efficiency and reduce operational costs. By conducting an active program of modernization, It is the view of Jerry 1.. Reed, acting head of the Test and Evaluation Directorate's Long Range P\anning Office, that the capacity of the air and ground ranges can be increased from 3,000 test events a year in Fiscal Year 1977 to 4,500 events a year by 1915, and 8,000 events by the year 2000. Th.... Time Fr.mes Ev.l...ted Looking into the crystal hall and trying to predict the future bas meant using every mathematical, scientific, logical and blstorical source available In an effort to determine the unknowns !rem the Imowna. Tbe approach to Project 21 was hued on an evaluation of three time frames. - Tbey were near term (Fiscal Year 1977 to 1981), mid-term (Fiscal Year 1980 to Iggo), 8I!d long range (Fiscal Year Iggo to 20(0). Near term requirements were hued OIl project plans and sponaor interviews. Mid­ range data were 01Qined !rem tecIIDolOllY trends and plans such as the Naval Aviation Plan, and long range data were obtained from the anef of Naval Operations' plan 2000 and similar documents. Dick Murphy, Code 39011, headed the requirements studies using personnel from several major departments. Many trends were identified tbrougb this lConHnuod on p... 4) March 25, 1977 SHOWBOAT MOVIE RATINGS The objective of the riltings is to infor m pa rents about the suitability of movie content for viewing by their chiMiren . (G) - ALL AGES ADMITTED General Audiences ( PG) - ALL AGES AOMITTED Parental Guidance Suggested (R) . RESTRICTED Under 17 requires accompanying Plrentor Adult Gu.rdian CS · Cinemascope STD · Standard Movie Screen Regu lar starting time- 7: JO p.m . Prog ram sub ject to change without notice - ple.se check marquee. FRio 25MARCH " ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO' S NEST" (134 Min. ) Jack Nicholson, Lou ise Fletcher (Dram a) Nicholson is a free spiri ted convict who feigns insanity so he can spend most of his six month prison term under observation at the State asylum instead of straining his back at a work farm _Hitting the ward like an ear thquake, it isn' t long before Nicholson becomes the unoff icial spokesman for his feliOlN patients, doing everything in his power to shake them out Of their apathy while try ing to convince them not to swallow everything slung down their throats, gleefully disrupting the ordered apathy of the asylum. ( R ) • 26MARCH SAT. " THE HINDENBUAG" (126 Min.) George C. ScoN. A nne Bancr oft ( Adventure Dr ama) In 1937. cla irvoyant Ruth Kobert tel ls t.he F BI that the German zeppelin Hindenburg will be destroyed over A mer ican tet'"ritory . Scott is assigned as secur i ty officer on. the Frankfur t to Lakehurst, N.J., f light. Being under much strain and f earing the prediction may be true, Scott must contend with passengers and cr ew of the zeppelin, as well as a gestapo agent. l PG) . MON. 21 MARCH " MARATHON MAN " (125 Min.) D ustin Hoffman, laurence Oliver (Action Drama) In New York, Dustin Hoffm an, a student at Columbia Uni9ersity, becomes in· nocently embr oiled in a murderous intrigue w ith an extremely sadist ic ex· Nazi ( laurence Olivier ) . Th is film centers around the work of " The Division:' a govemmert agency which handles what the F B I can' t touch and the CI A doesn't want to deal w ith. They use Olivier to hunt and expose other Nazis. )OMARCH WED. " SPIRAL STAIRCASe" (89 M in.) Jacq ueline Bisset, Christopher Plummer (Drama) Helen Mallory ( Bissetl. an attractive young woman who has lost her power of speech as the re sult of a traumatic fire that cla imed the lives of her child and husband, is told by her friend and doctor that he has found a clinic in Boston which could restore her voice. The foliOlNing morn ing the.,. are to leave for Boston, but B isset must spend one more night i l) the hom e -of her invalid grandmother. In the past .,.ear , several deaths have occurred in this vicinity, each of the victims having had some serious handicap. Thus, Bisset fears tor her life. This spine-tingling tale takes Bisset through a ser ies of hair .raislng in­ cidents that will keep members of the audience on the edge of their seats. FR I. ' 6~OIl " BATTL E OF TH E GODFATHERS" (86 M m .) Henry Silva, Herbert Fleischman ( Action Dram a) Amer ican gangster leader Henry Silva gathers together his mob, his mother and his daughter, and travels to Germ any in order to take over an organized cr ime operation. Silva encounters a rival German leader (Herbert Fleischman) and this meeting later poses a problem as Silva's daughter and Fleischman's sonfall in love. This greatly com plicates matters tor the t wo war 1 0rds. ( R) Play delayed 'til summer Tbe China Lake Players' production of "Come Blow Your Hom" bas been post­ poned until this summer, according to the play's director, I. Rudyard Stone. Stone explainedthat bls job commitments have interfered with plans to put on the show in the inunediate future. Tryout dates will be announced later. .A.,u .s . GovlH"nmetlt _Printing Office : H 713-056 - No 1019 From : PLACE STAMP . HERE To : Only housing for military to be retained The Chief of Naval Operations, with the concurrence of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, bas approved the concept of retaining only those family housing units at the Naval Weapons Center needed to meet military persoMel requirements. This action is consistent with Department of Defense policy that communities ad­ jacent to military installations in the con­ tigous U.S. provide, to the maximum extent possible, housing needs of DoD employees. Tbe Naval Weapons Center is now in the process of submitting a detailed plan to implement this concept. Subject to approval of higher auhority, the plan will provide that over the next several years, occupancy of family housing units by civilian employees of the Department of Navy will be phased out and only military personnel and their dependents will be quartered on-base after that time. The plan also envisions retaining less then 1,000 of the Center's extsting housing assets with the remainder being excessed and, in some cases, demo11sbed due to the material condition of those units. The detailed plan now being prepared is entirely consistent with the general plans for Center housing announced by Rear Admiral R. G. Freeman ill, NWC C0m­ mander, on Jan. 19 of last year. Present occupancy of Center bousing is estimated at about 1,600 units. Unarmed Tomahawk cruise missile is launched over NWC An unanned u.s.Navy Tomahawk Cruise missile last Saturday new successfully to the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah after being launched in mid-air over the Naval Weapons Center range area. For this, one of several overland fligbts planned to test the Tomahawk's abillty to navigate to a predetermined area, the missile was captive carried here from the Pacific Missile Test Center (PMTC) at pt. Mugu under the wing of an A~ Intruder aircraft piloted by Cdr. T. D. Richards, Tomahawk project officer at PMTC. In the launch and escort aircraft with Cdr. Richards was Ed Emerson, contractor representative for General Dynamics. Following a flight 1 hr., 17 min. in duration, the Tomahawk circled the test range at Dugway, deployed its parachute and landed safely. Tbe missile was navigated by its Terrain Contour Matching (TERCOM) guidance system, which compares measured terrain heights stored in an on-board comPuter and corTects the missile's course and altitude based upon the navigation fix. Tomahawk's 20lIl FlIgIII Last Saturday's flight was the :1001 for the T~mahawk, wblch bas been test nown for more than 16 hours. It bas been launched from aircraft, underwater torpedo tubes and.shore-based platforms. In mid-February, a Tomahawk cruise missile was ferried from pt. Mugu to a launch point over the Wblte Sands, N.M., Missile Range. On this test flight, the missile was guided by a prototype version of the Navy-developed Scene Matching Correlation (SMAC) guidance system working in conjunction with the TERCOM guidance system. Tbe SMAC system matches vIsua\ im­ IConHnuod on p... 3) , China Lake Museum,Rocketeer Newspaper,Rocketeer 1970s,Rocketeer 1977,Rktr3.25.1977.pdf,Rktr3.25.1977.pdf Page 1, Rktr3.25.1977.pdf Page 1