CAPT. S. M. SHELTON, USM
Commanding Officer
CDR• E. L. CRANCE, USN
Executive Officer
ADAK
SUN
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EDITOR: H. T. DAVIS, YN1 055-J or 365
CHAPLAINS CORNER
RESPONSIBLE PARENTS
By Chaplain V. Stenberg
Yesterday was Promotion Day in the
Protestant Sunday School program.' It
was an important day for the children
advancing from one department to the
next. It was a day to cause some
thinking on the part of parents and
future parents aboutthe responsibility
of being parents. The following art
icle is reprinted to present some of
these responsibilities.
uWe are citizens of the land' by
birth. We are parents by choice. We
elect to got married and establish
homes. As wo stand before the alter to
pledge ourselves to one another, we
become a home. When children come, we
are ushered' into the home’s full re
sponsibility.
Civilizations rise and rail, Karely
does a country fall to an enemy from
the outside if its homes are strong.
They need not be wealthy, nor even
wise. They must be good homes, with
fathers and mothers who love.
A good home is not one that escapes
the tragedies of life. The sinfulness
of man exacts its price in sorrows and
grief everywhere. No home can hope
for total exemption. The test comes in
meeting the limitations of life. When
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plans lie broken, does the home rally
in forgiveness and love? When tempta
tions strike, do- the members of the
home close ranks in charity and cour
age to sustain and overcome?
We do not want for wealth. Few homes
in our land go hungry. Thousands are
insecure and fearful, however, for
want of responsible love* Parents for
get their promises to love one another
until death* Their children grow up
haunted bytheir parents’ deliquencies,
robbed by their rightful environment
of affection. However lavish a father
may be toward his son, if he forgets
to love his son’s mother he will have
betrayed his son.
The well-spring of love is with
God. To seek Him is to seek love. To
send one’s child to church is not
enough. Better that father and mother
seek the fountain of love themselves,
and that their child learn from them
and their lives the love of a Heaven
ly Father."
AVIATION PERSONNEL TO SEA IN 1962 FOR
DASH DUTY (NAVNEWS )--Some aviation off
icers, pilots and non-pilots, and cert
ain aviation enlisted ratings will be
going to sea next year on destroyer-type
ships rather than carriers.
These men will have an antisubmarine
mission. Their weapons will be the un
manned sub-killer helicopter. The ships
will range from destroyer-size escort
vessels to cruiser-size frigates.
This is all part of the new DASH
(drone anti-submarine helicopter) prog
ram. The small helicopters now in prod
uction will be mounted on WWII built
destroyers which are now being modern
ized, four frigates and four destroyer
escorts now on the building ways, and
six or seven frigates and six escorts
in the fiscal year 1962 shipbuilding,
program. A few older frigates already
have helicopter facilities.
Each DASH ship .will carry two of the
unmanned DSN-type helicopters. ' They
will carry antisubmarine weapons aloft
to attack enemy submarine contacts be=
yond.the reach of ship-fired weapons*