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Things have been kinda jumpin'; around Mye
oldc iXS station11 for the past few days • 4c
finished our Spring cleaning, and just in
time too, for we were honored by a staff
visit, from headquarters. Staff members in
cluded Lt. Col. Raymond I. .mderson, Depty
Commander, 1929th Comm. Grp./ major Charles
J. Drake, Executive Officer of 1929 Comm.
Gp.,. Capt. Virgil Movey, Commander of the
anchorage ACS station, and Mr. Howard V.
Johnson, Chief, Flant and Engr. Division,
Headquarters 1929th Comm. Gp., Seattle, .date;
visiting our station, they continued on to
Tok, Delta Junction, Fairbanks* and then a
tour of S.E. Alaska stations. For Colonel
.aiderson,-Major Drake, and Capt. Money, it
was quite an introduction to the high platc-ai
land and salt water fishing. The trio were
taken on a fishing trip to Valdez and really
outdid the local commander and plant chief
by a scorL. of If to 0.
Our line crew returned Friday from TDY.
They have been in the Thompson Mass area res
toring telephone lines and poles that were
destroyed in a snow slide earlier this year.
They will still be .working in about the
same area, but will commute rather than
stay thcr
July 1 marked the first anniversary of the
Alaska Communications System’s transfer to
the .xir Force Communication Sc^vic • (^FCS)
The first year has seen most .army personnel
transfer, retire , or nut on blue suits of the
^ir Force. The organization now known as the
15*29th Communications Croup, has been *tailorc
to meet Air Force standards and procedures.
No marked changes however, have bc^n made in
basic missions, which is to provide a public
offering communication service to Alaskan
users.
July 1 is also the 2nd anniversary of
AFCS. The world wide command, established
July 1, 1961, maintains and operates over 51
million miles of communications channels.- Its
560 units are manned by some ii5j000 men and
women. nFCS is represented in Alaska by the
Alaskan Comm, legion, headquartered at Elm
endorf aFB, and its. subordinate, units.
Dave Lewis of Cur plant section is back
after a months absence. He and wife -Aura
and the cat went down to Valdez to operate
the ii.Cc> station there while Sgt. Hoyle and
his wife went- on vacation. The Lewis’ both4
look fine, and the cat appears to have lost
weight•
A 30th wedding.anniversary was celebrated
several weeks ago by Don and Velma Ballard.
Our sincere belated congratulations to Don
and Velma on the occasion. Jo understand it
was a. real wing-ding. It started out with a
cocktail party-at the Bill bunson home and
later on dinner at the Aanch House. We also
heard that like the first one, Don also
missed this one.( //hat does that mean, Don?)
Dan is chief of our A & U section.
Irv Wotasiak is outside fer a couple of
weeks ip Seattle. He took his wife Midge to
Virginia Mason where she underwent surgery
for a ruptured disc. Irv called us last
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Wednesday night and reported that .Midge
came through the operation very well and
would be up walking around in 3 or U days
and out of the hospital in a week. Mrs'.
Millard received a letter from Bill; Doris,
i and Bev Dye. They are in Colorado, like it
fine, and told Mrs Millard to tell everybody
K i for them.
,/c think our plant man .,1 J Topa deserves
a great deal of thanks and appreciation for
the outstanding job h^ is doing with the
■ Little League program, coaching and managing
the Glennallen Little League team. Topa spenc
all his spare and off duty time with the
Little Leaguers..preparing the field for a
ball game, lining up rides for away from
home games etc. Topa seems to enjoy what he
is doing and puts his heart into it. He is
really putting in a lot of time and effort,
into this project. Topa says the mes t re warn
ing that could happen would be if the parents
• and Glennallonitc-s would corns out and watch
the game.
g ''Children have more need for models than
of critics.'1
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