October2,1981 'Festive parade tomorrow will be highlight of Desert Empire Fair It's fairtime again in !be Indian Wells Valley, and the highligbt of this year's Desert Empire Fair (DEF), which began Wednesday evening and will continue through Sunday, will be the big parade tomorrow morning on No. China Lake Blvd. in Ridgecrest. "The Trail to Desert Fun" is the theme 01 the 1981 DEF parade, which will begin at 10 a.m. at !be intersection of French St. and N. China Lake Blvd. The route for the festive procession will follow Ridgecrest's main street to a dispersal point at the triangle fonned at the junction of China Lake Boulevard and Inyokern Road. SPECIAL DINNER PREPARED- The Enlisted Dining Facility is now featuring ~ specYI dining out night once a month during which military personnel, their depencien!S and guests are invited to enjoy food speda!!ies from different coun- tries. On Sept. 17, it was nalian Night ilt the EDF. Among nearly 200 diners in aHendilnee were Capt. Jude Lahr and his tilmily and their guest, Bob Hillyer. The sump.ious mul included spaghe"i and meilt INlis with homemade beef ragout, y"1 cutlets, beef brascio~, homemade lasagM and ravioli, broccoli, an assorted salad tNir, and dessert (chocol.'e cream pie, peach cobbler, and banana cake). Shown in this photo checking the food service hot lin. before the first of the diners arrived are MCS Patrick Klan, the galley chief (in foreground) aMi MSl Antonio Fermil. - Photo by PH2 Benita Tetreault Riding in a car in the prologue of the parade will be Elliott and Larry Fox, long- time residents of the local area who moved here in 1934, who w·ilI be the gt1lRd marshals of tbis year's event. The Foxes will be joined in !be forefront of the procession by the winner of the Uttle Miss Desert Empire Fair Contest; by the DEF Pioneer Days Queen, Lisa DeWitt; by Cliff Urseth, president of the DEF board of directors; and numerous dignitaries such as Gene Tackett, County Supervisor; and·Phil Wyman, State Assemblyman. According to Roberta Leighton, chair- person of tbis event, there will be more than 125 entries that will be spread out among the five divisions of this, the 31st annual Desert Empire Fair parade. Lively melodrama to be staged by Chino Lake Players, CLOTA Principal categories in the parade competition are equestrian, bands, majorettes, drum majors, color guards, drill teams, floats and a miscellaneous category that includes decorated vehicles and bicycles, antique automobiles, clowns and novelty entries. Memben of !be anna Lake Playen ~ !be Ccmmunity Ligbt Opera and Tbealre Association (CLOTA) will combine !beir talents to present a lively melodrama. The lint two stagings of "Virtue Triumphant" will be !be highligbt of a dinner-thealre nigbt at !be Enlisted Mess on Tltursday and FrIday, Oct. 1>16. TIckets are priced at $6 and reservations, wllich are required. can be made by callini! '-900. Tbe final two showings of "Virtue Triumphant" (or "Hor~ce Comes Home from !be Laundry") will be produced as a part of !be Maturango Junction festivities on Oct. 17-18, with aU proceeds going to the museum's building fund. Participants in the melodrama, which is being directed by Elena Vitale, and the roles they will play, are: Susan Cragin, as Daffodil (the heroine); -- IG ) "ll"GE~AOMIT'(O G......, AOId......, (PGI AllAGESAOMlftED P.r.,,'••C...d•...,. ~".d ( A, RESTRICTED ~, 'I'f'tI .....'U(....,.",,,•• ,......, •• Ad..11 ~ ••,... Regu"r st.rtlng time 7:00 p.m. FRIDAY OCT. 2 ....YONDTHE REEF" Starring Dayton Kane and Maren Jensen (Romantlc-adv.• rated PG. 91 min.) SATURDAY OCT. 3 Matinee-J :30 p.m. ".EDKNOeSAND BROOMSTICKS" (Animated, rated G, 91 min.) 7p.m . "APOCALYPSE NOW" Starring Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen (War.drl"ma. rated R. 153 min.) SUNDAY, MONDAY OCT.•, 5 "ELVIS" Starring Elvis Presley and David Scott (Biographical, rated PG, 102 min.) WEDNESDAY OCT.7 "CHEECH AND CHONG'S NEXT MOVIE" Starring Cheech Maren and Thomas Chong (Comedy, rated R. 92 min.) FRIDAY OCT.' "THE AWAKE NINO" Starring Charlton HestCAI and Susannah York (Horror·drama, rated R. 101 min.) Tom Summers, as Edgar (the bero); Bob PinDey, as Walpole Wilpole (!be villain); Karen Buehler, as Veronica (the villainess); Art Owens and Jim Goss, as waiten; Gerry Baker, as the fire chief; Dori Tilford, Rud Slone and Ralph Vuono, as firefighten; Jud Vuono, as the operator; and Rud Stone, as the fa!ber. The program also will include a variety show emceed by Pinney. The show will include songs by Bill Altieri,. Jan Auster- man, Alex Bellen, Karen Buehler and Elena Vitaie; dancing by Ken and Jan Austerman; and comedy skits by Austennan and Vuono and Tilford and Stone. Car tire sale continues Tlte Goodyear tire sale that has been going on all week will continue today and tomorrow at the Navy Exchange service station. TIres are being offered at savings up to 15 percent, and mounting and balancing come free with the purchase. Rainchecks will be available if the tires sought are not in stock. Purchases of tires can be charged to Chevron credit cards. School bands that will be providing a solid musical beat for marchers and other par- ticipants in the parade include those from Burroughs High School, Trona High School, Murray and Monroe Junior High . Schools, and from the I. G. Hook Junior HighIn Victorville. Each of the bands will be accompanied by Its own majorettes and drill team. Tlte Naval Weapons Center will be represented in the parade by the NWC Naval Sea Cadet Corps, and by Bluejackets of the Year, ATC Ricbard Oubre and AMH2 Marlo Mercado, who will be clHlivision marshals of one of the divisions in the parade. Others honored by their selection as division marshals are Mike Molner, theater manager and fonner Ridgecrest Chamber of Commerce president; Dr. Peggy Rogers, fonner head of the NWC Aircraft Weapons Integration Department; and Graham Waiker, who is the new Boy Scout executive A bit of the rough and tumble will occur tonight when the Burros varsity hosts the Saugus Centurions in !be Golden League opener at Burroughs High School at 8 o'clock. The sopbomore game will precede the varsity at 5:15 p.m. Price of admission for this tilt is $2.50 for general admission, $5 for reserved seats, $1 for ASB card holders, and $1.50 for students without cards. TIckets can be purcbased before the game at the Activities Office at Burroughs High School or at the hox office before the game. ++t The Chi Alpha Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi is sponsoring an art auction and exhibition tomorrow night at the CommunitJ>Ce*t_ "11IIa-e will be a reception at 7 o'clock with the auction to follow at 8. This event is being produced by the Creative Art Auctions Inc., of Los Angeles. A donation of $2 per person will include wine and hors d'oeuvres, and a piece of fine art will be given away as the door prize. For tickets or more information contact Pam Bradley by calling 37>9067 or Paula Leach at 37>2315. +++ The Maturango Museum has planned a tour of the petroglyphs tomorrow starting at 8 a.m. at the museum. Those interested in joining this outing can sign up by calling the museum at 4~900 as soon as possible. Afee of $2 per person will be charged for non-members. Since this is an all-day trip, participants must bring their own lunch and water, good walking shoes and a full tank of gas. for the Indian Wells Valley. The fifth division marshal was not known at !be time the ROCKETEER went to press. Following the parade, the fairground gates will be open at 1 p.m. and the awards won by the parade participants will be presented starting at 1:30 in the rodeo arena. DEF activities will continue until 11 p.m. on Saturday; from 1 to 10 p.m. on Sunday, and this evening from 5 to 11 o'clock. Fairgoers will find a wide variety of carnival and midway attractions brought here by the BuUer Amusements Co. of San Jose, as well as food and refreshment booths that are being operated by local clubs and organizations. Special activities scheduled this evening in the outdoor stage area on !be midway include a western dress contest at 7 p.m., a contest for freckle-faced youngsters at 8 p.m., and competition in root beer drinking at 8:30. Local entertainment is also scheduled on the outdoor stage at 6:30, 9and 9:30p.m. PROFESSIONAL ENTERTAINMENT Professional entertairunent is planned at 3 and 8 p.m. Saturday, as well as at 3 and 7 p.m. Sunday. Featured will be Moore's Mess of Mutts; Chester Cable, world's best foot juggler; Wini-McKay, aerialist; John Regis, comedian and master of ceremonies; George Goulding, who plays !be electric organ; and the original bannonica band. Following the professional entertainment on Saturday afternoon, a watennelon eating contest is slated at 4:30, and judges will select!be best entries in a pie baking contest at6:3O. In the rodeo arena on Saturday from 2:30 8 p.m., memben of !be 4H Club will exhibit !beir animals; and the day will end with a motorcycle thrill show at 6:30 - also to take place at the rodeo arena. A pie-eating contest at 2 o'clock will start the activities on Sunday afternoon, and the annual celebration will be concluded by a demolition derby that will get underway at 8 p.m. in the rodeo arena. Sandwiched in between !be opening and closing events on Sunday will be a frisbee- throwing contest (3 p.m.), and turtle and lizard races (4:30and5p.m.). New admission prices in effect at Center theater New admission prices went into ef- fect yesterday at the Center the"'er. Beginning Oct. 1, there is a SO cent increase (from 8S cents to S1.35) for tickets sold to persons 12 years of age and over for admission '0 the theater, and there is a reduced price of so cents for youngsters from' to 12 years of age. Children under 6 yurs of age are ad· mined free of chArge. No advance tickets to the movies are now being sold. For those who sliliMy. theater admission tokens in their possession, they can turn them in at the Community Center for ill refund of 85 cents each on weekdays between the hours of 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. and from 2 to 4p.m. Such refunds will be made between now and Oct. 31. *U.5. Governm.nf Printint Offin: ,.., No. 4S From: PLACE STAMP HERE To: I J nwe COOPERATIV E EFFORT - Three of the four winners of the Technicill Director's AWilrd stilnd by the results of their hilndiwork - the MICRAD Attitude Reference System (held by Dennis Sorges, 'ilr left) which was applied to the vertical seeking ejection seat. Seen with Sorges .ue Gene Drew and Bruce Heydlauff. RilY Morrow, the fourth iIIwilirdee, WillS not ilble to be present for the picture because he is recovering from surgery. - PH2 Benita Tetreault 0ct0ber2,l111 Vol. XXXVI. No." NAVAL.. WEAPONS CENTER CHINA L..AKE CAUFORNIA App ication of MI RAD to vertical seeking eiection seat tests works out well Four Naval Weapons Center engIneen joinUy received !be Technical Director's Award Monday at the Commander's meeting for their achievements in applying a MICRAD Attitude Reference System (MARS) to the vertical seeking ejection seat. The men so honored were Dennis Sorges, Bruce Heydlauff, W"1lIiam R. (Ray) Mor- row, and Gene Drew. They each received a letter of commendation, an engraved paper- weight, and a $300 stipend that accompanies this special fonn of a Superior Achievement Award. Making !be presentation was Frank Koemeyer, bead of !be Weapons Planning Group, who represented Bob HiJlyer since Hillyer was on travel. MARS establlsbes whicb direction is up- by using microwave radiometrY (MICRAD) - so that !be ejection seat will estabillb wbat direction to take !be pilot who has bad to eject from!beaircraft that is in difficulty. Two . systems tests clem-.ted !be feasibility of !be concept. The lint test was conducted from a cockpit oriented in a 30- degree bank attitude and was !be first.flight test of any airframe that baa \lied microwave guidance signals for trajectory control. The second test combined both upper and lower bemisphere control Ian to provide succesaful seat recovery from a cockpit suspended 100feet ahove!be I!rouodIn. 1~ degree bank orientation. Bowen gets post of Deputy Support Director These tests, together with anotber effort to gather microwave radiometric measurement. under various en- virorunental conditions, confirm the validity of !be MARS concept to provide viable guidance signals for vertical seeking seat steering. James R. Bowen has been selected to fill !be position of Deputy Support Director (Code02A). This new position has been establisbed to assist the Support Director (Capt. John Patterson, who also serves as Chief Staff Officer) in all areas of directorate policy, planning and management. Bowen, who has headed I'roject 2000 since June 1978, says that bis primary respon- sibilities will include review and monitoring of ......"....ce requirements to be sure that optimum use iJ; made of people, funding, space, equipment, plant modernization, travel, contracts and expertise in support of !bedirectorate's mission. He will also explore new headquarters and local requirements to determine the best methodology to implement these requirements - in short, be will be the liaison person to make those things bappen that need to happen. Project 2000 will also fall under Code 02A so that it will best be able to continue its operation, although someone else will be appointed to head that office. Bowen began working at anna Lake wblle be was a student at !be University of ArIzona, spending two summen on board as .a summer employee in 1956 and 1957 before beginning as a Junior Professional in February 1958. He bad grown up in Tucson, attending local schools and earning a Bacbelor of Science degree in Electrical Press problems at print shop delay newspaper delivery Problems geHing your Rocketeer on Fridays lately? Don't blame the guard mail delivery. The difficulty has been due to press problems at the contractor operation where the Center newspaper is printed. If any difficulty with the operation of the printing press occurs so that the papers are not ready for pickup by NWC Transportation Division by 10:30 a .m., they cannot be sorted in the mail rooms in time for delivery with Frrday afternoon's guard mail. The Rocketeer regrets any in. convenience that this may cause. but it is beyond the control of. the staff. Engineering. On completing bis Junior Professional tours, Bowen worked as a design engineer in !be Engineering Department. Amoag his earUest managerial responsibility was that of being project engineer for !be Chaparral guidance control. From that assignment, be became the technical manager on !be AIM- 9L missile and then !be development manager for Agile. On bis return to !be Engineering Department, Bowen was associate division bead of !be Project Design Division under James R. Bowen Burrell Hays. He became the head of bis division, and was serving as bead of the Engineering Design Division when Project 2000 began in 1978. Project 2000 is a study of the entire physical resources at the Center to deter- mine their best uses and to determine what is needed to provide the best possible work- ing envirorunent to meet the Center's mission within budgetary limitations. Originally scheduled to last less than two years, it has proven so useful that it has now been insitutionalized and will continually be updated. Bowen has put many of the skills in presentations that he has learned on the job to use in one of bis main off-the-job in- terests, his service as a Field Represen- tative and local chapter president for !be Full Goopel Business Men's Fel10nbip Intemational. AIfIIUP ofl of thIa orgIIIliation,lnebIdInlL , ..!1lbead for a tw..eek trip to South Africa law this month as a form of outreach program, a lay ministry. He and his wife Glada (better known as Rusty) share a love of camping and fishing; !bey and !beir three SOlIS, Michael, James and Jason, bave spent many a vacation camping in favorite spots in Arizona. II'lbere's not been much Ume for camping lately," notes Bowen, "but now that !be hoys are off on their own, maybe !be two of us will stiJI be able to slip away for a few days up in!be mountains now and then." The major advanlalles of this approach are complete independence from !be air- craft inertial Instrumentation and au ''iJ>. stant on" p8BIIive abiUty to _ local vertical. Also rommenc!ed in !be letter of nomination for !be four men slped by Carl Schaniel, bead of !be 0rdDance Systems Department, was !be interaction, coor- dination and cooperation of personnel from four NWCdepartments. Sorges, an aerospace engineer who came to !be Center in 1976, Is !be system project engineer. He was responsible for overall program implementation and !be devel- opment of the seat propulsion and thrust vector control systems. Sorges is in !be (Contlnutd on Page 3) Center authorized to exercise unlimited procurement authority The Naval Weapons Center was granted Torrance, CalIf., a firm that will provide unlimited procurement authority on con- approximately 1,000 fuzes with special tracts for supplies, services, and research tooling for Walleye I and ITmissiles. and developmentin September 19110. In FY lilli, NWC baa awarded $U million Prior to October of last year, contracts for to smaIJ businesses under !be smaIJ anything in excess of $100,000 were bandied business set-aside procedures; !berefore, by the Naval Regional Contracting Office, thIa contract llreatly contributes to not only Long Beach, according to Lois Herrington, meetiaR butexceediD8 thIa assignedgoal. NWC's Small Business Specialist (Code Contract details that were ironed out over (05). a period of three months (after proposals by In compliance with and implementing !be bidden were sublpitted) were bandied by Small Business Act, !be Deputy Secretarj of Jeff MerIam, !be contracting officer who is Defense assigns Small and Disadvantaged assistant bead of !be NWC Supply Depart- Business Utilization Program goals to each ment's Contracts Division, and by Paul military department. NWC is assillned an Reagon, a contract negotiator employed in individual small business, small business the Code 25 ContractNegotiation Branch. set-aside, disadvantaged .(minority) and Tlte technical coordinator on this contract woman-16. TIckets are priced at $6 and reservations, wllich are required. can be made by callini! '-900. Tbe final two showings of "Virtue Triumphant" (or "Hor~ce Comes Home from !be Laundry") will be produced as a part of !be Maturango Junction festivities on Oct. 17-18, with aU proceeds going to the museum's building fund. Participants in the melodrama, which is being directed by Elena Vitale, and the roles they will play, are: Susan Cragin, as Daffodil (the heroine); -- IG ) "ll"GE~AOMIT'(O G......, AOId......, (PGI AllAGESAOMlftED P.r.,,'••C...d•...,. ~".d ( A, RESTRICTED ~, 'I'f'tI .....'U(....,.",,,•• ,......, •• Ad..11 ~ ••,... Regu"r st.rtlng time 7:00 p.m. FRIDAY OCT. 2 ....YONDTHE REEF" Starring Dayton Kane and Maren Jensen (Romantlc-adv.• rated PG. 91 min.) SATURDAY OCT. 3 Matinee-J :30 p.m. ".EDKNOeSAND BROOMSTICKS" (Animated, rated G, 91 min.) 7p.m . "APOCALYPSE NOW" Starring Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen (War.drl"ma. rated R. 153 min.) SUNDAY, MONDAY OCT.•, 5 "ELVIS" Starring Elvis Presley and David Scott (Biographical, rated PG, 102 min.) WEDNESDAY OCT.7 "CHEECH AND CHONG'S NEXT MOVIE" Starring Cheech Maren and Thomas Chong (Comedy, rated R. 92 min.) FRIDAY OCT.' "THE AWAKE NINO" Starring Charlton HestCAI and Susannah York (Horror·drama, rated R. 101 min.) Tom Summers, as Edgar (the bero); Bob PinDey, as Walpole Wilpole (!be villain); Karen Buehler, as Veronica (the villainess); Art Owens and Jim Goss, as waiten; Gerry Baker, as the fire chief; Dori Tilford, Rud Slone and Ralph Vuono, as firefighten; Jud Vuono, as the operator; and Rud Stone, as the fa!ber. The program also will include a variety show emceed by Pinney. The show will include songs by Bill Altieri,. Jan Auster- man, Alex Bellen, Karen Buehler and Elena Vitaie; dancing by Ken and Jan Austerman; and comedy skits by Austennan and Vuono and Tilford and Stone. Car tire sale continues Tlte Goodyear tire sale that has been going on all week will continue today and tomorrow at the Navy Exchange service station. TIres are being offered at savings up to 15 percent, and mounting and balancing come free with the purchase. Rainchecks will be available if the tires sought are not in stock. Purchases of tires can be charged to Chevron credit cards. School bands that will be providing a solid musical beat for marchers and other par- ticipants in the parade include those from Burroughs High School, Trona High School, Murray and Monroe Junior High . Schools, and from the I. G. Hook Junior HighIn Victorville. Each of the bands will be accompanied by Its own majorettes and drill team. Tlte Naval Weapons Center will be represented in the parade by the NWC Naval Sea Cadet Corps, and by Bluejackets of the Year, ATC Ricbard Oubre and AMH2 Marlo Mercado, who will be clHlivision marshals of one of the divisions in the parade. Others honored by their selection as division marshals are Mike Molner, theater manager and fonner Ridgecrest Chamber of Commerce president; Dr. Peggy Rogers, fonner head of the NWC Aircraft Weapons Integration Department; and Graham Waiker, who is the new Boy Scout executive A bit of the rough and tumble will occur tonight when the Burros varsity hosts the Saugus Centurions in !be Golden League opener at Burroughs High School at 8 o'clock. The sopbomore game will precede the varsity at 5:15 p.m. Price of admission for this tilt is $2.50 for general admission, $5 for reserved seats, $1 for ASB card holders, and $1.50 for students without cards. TIckets can be purcbased before the game at the Activities Office at Burroughs High School or at the hox office before the game. t The Chi Alpha Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi is sponsoring an art auction and exhibition tomorrow night at the CommunitJ>Ce*t_ "11IIa-e will be a reception at 7 o'clock with the auction to follow at 8. This event is being produced by the Creative Art Auctions Inc., of Los Angeles. A donation of $2 per person will include wine and hors d'oeuvres, and a piece of fine art will be given away as the door prize. For tickets or more information contact Pam Bradley by calling 37>9067 or Paula Leach at 37>2315. The Maturango Museum has planned a tour of the petroglyphs tomorrow starting at 8 a.m. at the museum. Those interested in joining this outing can sign up by calling the museum at 4~900 as soon as possible. Afee of $2 per person will be charged for non-members. Since this is an all-day trip, participants must bring their own lunch and water, good walking shoes and a full tank of gas. for the Indian Wells Valley. The fifth division marshal was not known at !be time the ROCKETEER went to press. Following the parade, the fairground gates will be open at 1 p.m. and the awards won by the parade participants will be presented starting at 1:30 in the rodeo arena. DEF activities will continue until 11 p.m. on Saturday; from 1 to 10 p.m. on Sunday, and this evening from 5 to 11 o'clock. Fairgoers will find a wide variety of carnival and midway attractions brought here by the BuUer Amusements Co. of San Jose, as well as food and refreshment booths that are being operated by local clubs and organizations. Special activities scheduled this evening in the outdoor stage area on !be midway include a western dress contest at 7 p.m., a contest for freckle-faced youngsters at 8 p.m., and competition in root beer drinking at 8:30. Local entertainment is also scheduled on the outdoor stage at 6:30, 9and 9:30p.m. PROFESSIONAL ENTERTAINMENT Professional entertairunent is planned at 3 and 8 p.m. Saturday, as well as at 3 and 7 p.m. Sunday. Featured will be Moore's Mess of Mutts; Chester Cable, world's best foot juggler; Wini-McKay, aerialist; John Regis, comedian and master of ceremonies; George Goulding, who plays !be electric organ; and the original bannonica band. Following the professional entertainment on Saturday afternoon, a watennelon eating contest is slated at 4:30, and judges will select!be best entries in a pie baking contest at6:3O. In the rodeo arena on Saturday from 2:30 8 p.m., memben of !be 4H Club will exhibit !beir animals; and the day will end with a motorcycle thrill show at 6:30 - also to take place at the rodeo arena. A pie-eating contest at 2 o'clock will start the activities on Sunday afternoon, and the annual celebration will be concluded by a demolition derby that will get underway at 8 p.m. in the rodeo arena. Sandwiched in between !be opening and closing events on Sunday will be a frisbee- throwing contest (3 p.m.), and turtle and lizard races (4:30and5p.m.). New admission prices in effect at Center theater New admission prices went into ef- fect yesterday at the Center the"'er. Beginning Oct. 1, there is a SO cent increase (from 8S cents to S1.35) for tickets sold to persons 12 years of age and over for admission '0 the theater, and there is a reduced price of so cents for youngsters from' to 12 years of age. Children under 6 yurs of age are ad· mined free of chArge. No advance tickets to the movies are now being sold. For those who sliliMy. theater admission tokens in their possession, they can turn them in at the Community Center for ill refund of 85 cents each on weekdays between the hours of 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. and from 2 to 4p.m. Such refunds will be made between now and Oct. 31. *U.5. Governm.nf Printint Offin: ,.., No. 4S From: PLACE STAMP HERE To: I J nwe COOPERATIV E EFFORT - Three of the four winners of the Technicill Director's AWilrd stilnd by the results of their hilndiwork - the MICRAD Attitude Reference System (held by Dennis Sorges, 'ilr left) which was applied to the vertical seeking ejection seat. Seen with Sorges .ue Gene Drew and Bruce Heydlauff. RilY Morrow, the fourth iIIwilirdee, WillS not ilble to be present for the picture because he is recovering from surgery. - PH2 Benita Tetreault 0ct0ber2,l111 Vol. XXXVI. No." NAVAL.. WEAPONS CENTER CHINA L..AKE CAUFORNIA App ication of MI RAD to vertical seeking eiection seat tests works out well Four Naval Weapons Center engIneen joinUy received !be Technical Director's Award Monday at the Commander's meeting for their achievements in applying a MICRAD Attitude Reference System (MARS) to the vertical seeking ejection seat. The men so honored were Dennis Sorges, Bruce Heydlauff, W"1lIiam R. (Ray) Mor- row, and Gene Drew. They each received a letter of commendation, an engraved paper- weight, and a $300 stipend that accompanies this special fonn of a Superior Achievement Award. Making !be presentation was Frank Koemeyer, bead of !be Weapons Planning Group, who represented Bob HiJlyer since Hillyer was on travel. MARS establlsbes whicb direction is up- by using microwave radiometrY (MICRAD) - so that !be ejection seat will estabillb wbat direction to take !be pilot who has bad to eject from!beaircraft that is in difficulty. Two . systems tests clem-.ted !be feasibility of !be concept. The lint test was conducted from a cockpit oriented in a 30- degree bank attitude and was !be first.flight test of any airframe that baa \lied microwave guidance signals for trajectory control. The second test combined both upper and lower bemisphere control Ian to provide succesaful seat recovery from a cockpit suspended 100feet ahove!be I!rouodIn. 1~ degree bank orientation. Bowen gets post of Deputy Support Director These tests, together with anotber effort to gather microwave radiometric measurement. under various en- virorunental conditions, confirm the validity of !be MARS concept to provide viable guidance signals for vertical seeking seat steering. James R. Bowen has been selected to fill !be position of Deputy Support Director (Code02A). This new position has been establisbed to assist the Support Director (Capt. John Patterson, who also serves as Chief Staff Officer) in all areas of directorate policy, planning and management. Bowen, who has headed I'roject 2000 since June 1978, says that bis primary respon- sibilities will include review and monitoring of ......"....ce requirements to be sure that optimum use iJ; made of people, funding, space, equipment, plant modernization, travel, contracts and expertise in support of !bedirectorate's mission. He will also explore new headquarters and local requirements to determine the best methodology to implement these requirements - in short, be will be the liaison person to make those things bappen that need to happen. Project 2000 will also fall under Code 02A so that it will best be able to continue its operation, although someone else will be appointed to head that office. Bowen began working at anna Lake wblle be was a student at !be University of ArIzona, spending two summen on board as .a summer employee in 1956 and 1957 before beginning as a Junior Professional in February 1958. He bad grown up in Tucson, attending local schools and earning a Bacbelor of Science degree in Electrical Press problems at print shop delay newspaper delivery Problems geHing your Rocketeer on Fridays lately? Don't blame the guard mail delivery. The difficulty has been due to press problems at the contractor operation where the Center newspaper is printed. If any difficulty with the operation of the printing press occurs so that the papers are not ready for pickup by NWC Transportation Division by 10:30 a .m., they cannot be sorted in the mail rooms in time for delivery with Frrday afternoon's guard mail. The Rocketeer regrets any in. convenience that this may cause. but it is beyond the control of. the staff. Engineering. On completing bis Junior Professional tours, Bowen worked as a design engineer in !be Engineering Department. Amoag his earUest managerial responsibility was that of being project engineer for !be Chaparral guidance control. From that assignment, be became the technical manager on !be AIM- 9L missile and then !be development manager for Agile. On bis return to !be Engineering Department, Bowen was associate division bead of !be Project Design Division under James R. Bowen Burrell Hays. He became the head of bis division, and was serving as bead of the Engineering Design Division when Project 2000 began in 1978. Project 2000 is a study of the entire physical resources at the Center to deter- mine their best uses and to determine what is needed to provide the best possible work- ing envirorunent to meet the Center's mission within budgetary limitations. Originally scheduled to last less than two years, it has proven so useful that it has now been insitutionalized and will continually be updated. Bowen has put many of the skills in presentations that he has learned on the job to use in one of bis main off-the-job in- terests, his service as a Field Represen- tative and local chapter president for !be Full Goopel Business Men's Fel10nbip Intemational. AIfIIUP ofl of thIa orgIIIliation,lnebIdInlL , ..!1lbead for a tw..eek trip to South Africa law this month as a form of outreach program, a lay ministry. He and his wife Glada (better known as Rusty) share a love of camping and fishing; !bey and !beir three SOlIS, Michael, James and Jason, bave spent many a vacation camping in favorite spots in Arizona. II'lbere's not been much Ume for camping lately," notes Bowen, "but now that !be hoys are off on their own, maybe !be two of us will stiJI be able to slip away for a few days up in!be mountains now and then." The major advanlalles of this approach are complete independence from !be air- craft inertial Instrumentation and au ''iJ>. stant on" p8BIIive abiUty to _ local vertical. Also rommenc!ed in !be letter of nomination for !be four men slped by Carl Schaniel, bead of !be 0rdDance Systems Department, was !be interaction, coor- dination and cooperation of personnel from four NWCdepartments. Sorges, an aerospace engineer who came to !be Center in 1976, Is !be system project engineer. He was responsible for overall program implementation and !be devel- opment of the seat propulsion and thrust vector control systems. Sorges is in !be (Contlnutd on Page 3) Center authorized to exercise unlimited procurement authority The Naval Weapons Center was granted Torrance, CalIf., a firm that will provide unlimited procurement authority on con- approximately 1,000 fuzes with special tracts for supplies, services, and research tooling for Walleye I and ITmissiles. and developmentin September 19110. In FY lilli, NWC baa awarded $U million Prior to October of last year, contracts for to smaIJ businesses under !be smaIJ anything in excess of $100,000 were bandied business set-aside procedures; !berefore, by the Naval Regional Contracting Office, thIa contract llreatly contributes to not only Long Beach, according to Lois Herrington, meetiaR butexceediD8 thIa assignedgoal. NWC's Small Business Specialist (Code Contract details that were ironed out over (05). a period of three months (after proposals by In compliance with and implementing !be bidden were sublpitted) were bandied by Small Business Act, !be Deputy Secretarj of Jeff MerIam, !be contracting officer who is Defense assigns Small and Disadvantaged assistant bead of !be NWC Supply Depart- Business Utilization Program goals to each ment's Contracts Division, and by Paul military department. NWC is assillned an Reagon, a contract negotiator employed in individual small business, small business the Code 25 ContractNegotiation Branch. set-aside, disadvantaged .(minority) and Tlte technical coordinator on this contract woman-