Armored Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, March 6, 1970 Page: 1 of 18
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"For heaven's sake don't
look at it."
That is the advice offered
concerning tomorrow's solar
eclipse by professor Ralph
McKinley of Central Texas
College and it pretty well
summarizes the advice which
has been coming from medical
authorities and astronomers
during the last several weeks.
The doctors are not trying
to spoil anybody's fun and
McKinley and his legions of
sky watchers are not hiding
VOL. 28 NO. 8
SENTINEL SHORTS
Happenings
AS THE POST BRUSH-IN continues Satur
day at Sports Arena No. 1 military dependents
whose names begin with Q R S or can ob
tain treatments with a zircate treatment paste
which has in nine clinical studies reduced cavities
30 to 80 per cent. Next week dependents with
names beginning with the remainder of the alpha
bet will be treated.
CHOIR DIRECTORS are needed by the 1st
Armd. Div. chaplain's office. Within the next six
weeks there will be at least three openings. The
positions are open to both civilian and military
personal. The directors are paid five dollars for
each service or practice. Interested persons who
have the ability to play most standard church
music on the organ should contact the division
chaplain's office at 685-6219 or 685-6718.
AN ART COMPETITION covering work in
oil or acrylic painting drawings watercolor
prints or mixed media will be held in July by
Fourth U.S. Army. All entries must be the orig
inal work of the entrant and both military and
dependents are eligible to participate. For addi
tional information contact the Arts and Crafts
Center Bldg. 3 or phone 685-2417.
THE MONTHLY ORIENTATION for newly
arrived military families will be conducted at 1
p.m. Wednesday. Attendance is mandatory for the
servicemen who is married and has a family on
or near post or for an adult member of his family.
The orientation will be held at Theater No. 1.
POST LIBRARIES are putting 200 more
new records on their shelves today for the listen-
iug pleasure of Ft. Hood soldiers. These records
are in addition to the 200 which were added to the
libraries' collection less than a month ago. Stop
in and see what there is to hear.
TOYLAND AND THE GARDEN SHOP will
be open on Sundays beginning this Sunday. Lo
cated in Bldg. 105 the shops will operate on the
same hours as the Main PX 12:15 until 5 p.m.
Inside Story
Ft. Hood soldiers and their families will be
included in the 1970 census to be taken April 1.
More about the people count on Page 2.
Editorial 4 Social Notes 6
Classified 17 Sports 12 13
Eye Catcher 16 Movies 14
any professional trade secrets.
It is ju'st that eclipse watching
is a pretty dangerous venture
even with the use of
homemade aids.
Discussing the problem
eclipse experts at New York's
Hayden Planetarium pointed
out that persons who would
not normally even glance
briefly at the sun become curi
ous during an eclipse and
stare. The intense solar radia-
ion can damage the eye cause
retinnal burns and in ex
treme cases lead to blindness.
Smoked glass welding gog
gles or sun glasses do not
provide sufficient protection
and while the Smithsonian
Institution claims the eclipse
can be safely viewed through
to a a
medical experts deny the ex
istence of any safe means
of directly viewing the eclipse.
The Smithsonian suggests
that a double thickness of
black-and-white film not col
or which has been exposed
A REVIEW
By SGT. BARRY ABISCH
Information Specialist
The Ft. Hood Little Theater
(FHLT) production of Eugene
Ionesco's one-act play "The
Lesson" opened its three-night
run at the Entertainment
Center yesterday and if past
performances by Ft. Hood au
diences are any indication it
is a shame the play cannot
run several days longer.
As the choppers cleared the
tree line at Ft. Sam Houston's
Arthur M.- oArthur Field in
of anticipation with a touch
of bewilderment swept over
the faces of an estimated
crowd of 47.000.
It was the 60th Anniversary
of the birth of military avia
tion and the largest historical
military air show ever held
in the Southwest.
Mai. Bernie L. Young
operations and training of
As simulated airmobile assault begins choppers mow into position.
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Theater-goers on post seem
to rely upon word-ofimcuth
advertising and there are
going to be a lot of press
agents wandering around post
praising the Little Theater
on by S a
morning.
At a press preview earlier
this week despite some rough
edges which the presence of
the audience polished off
quickly last night one thing
Southwest's Largest Air Shoiv
ficer 55th Av. Bn. Ill Corps
headed the 120-man Ft. Hood
contingent. Several pilots and
the aero rifle platoon of Trp.
D 6th Sqn. 1st Cav. 2nd
Armd. Div joined pilots and
choppers from the 181st Avn.
Det. Ill Corps for the show.
About 30 aircraft consisting
of Hueys Cobras OH-6s and
OH-58s were sent for the ex
hibition an airmobile
assault.
"I believe our effectiveness
then
For Heaven's Sake Don't Watch Solar Eclipse
to very bright light and com
pletely developed will offer
sufficient protection. Baylor
iv it W a
Williams however recom
mends that a minimum of
five or six strips of the film
be used at the start of the
eclipse.
Many medical doctors
however continue to favor in
direct viewing. A simple
device can be constructed
from a piece of cardboard
and a piece of white paper.
Upon completion Ft. Hood's new theater should look something like this.
Stage Lesson Is Well-Staged
If a pin hole is made in
the card it can be used as
a lens to project the image
of the sun onto the white
paper.
Television provides an
alternate means of safely
viewing the phenomenon.
Many of the astronomers
—-and there will be hordes
of them scattered along the
path of totality from Mexico
to Nova Scotia who will
be in to
eclipse will not even see it.
ARMORED SENTINEL
FORT HOOD FRIDAY MARCH 61970
became evident: the theater
group chose a challenging
piece and then proved itself
at least capable of meeting
the challenge.
Kathleen McNamara and
Rod Strauss as the principle
characters are in fact more
than capable. She playing the
Pupil despite her limited
stage experience and he as
the professor despite a youth
which seems to constantly
47000 View Mock Assault
really surpr.sed the audience.
.We gave them the whole pic
ture of the air assault as
it is used in Vietnam except
for the live fire. The assault
was typical of our operation
at Trp. D" Capt. John
S a a a if a to
leader siad.
The entiie assault was car
ried out as if in an actual
engagement. An aggressor
force with blank ammunition
was stationed at the end of
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fight for control of the actor's
voice.
And the decision to do the
play in the round in the En
tertainment Center rather
than on the Little Theater
stage enhances the pro
on I on
which is at once clever
it be in a
it in
overbearing seems to have
See LESSON Page Two
the long field as two light
observation helicopters made
contact. Cobras were then
called in to simulate their
part in the assault.
Seven Hueys deposited the
rifle platoon on the field and
a simulated battle was fought.
An Army tky crane and a
in ok
he it a
artillery piece and a truck
behind the troops. Th
medevac of a wounded soldier
And there are eclipse experts
who have never seen one. The
favored method among the
pros is to use sensitive in
an a to a
tracking cameras.
The warnings against look
ing at the eclipse extend to
he us of
binoculars and other magni
fying devices which intensify
the already dangerous radia
tion.
At Ft. Hood meanwhile the
effects of the eclipse will be
Construction Of New 1000-Seat Theater Begins
Construction is underway
near the Fairbanks Dental
Clinic of a new 1000-seat mo
tion picture theater which will
when completed replace ex
isting Theater No. 4 in the
2nd Armd. Div. section of
os a in to a
spokesman for Post Special
Services.
The new facility the first
theater to be opened at Ft.
Hood since Theater No. 1 was
completed in 1956 is being
constructed by the Army and
Air Force Motion Picture
Serv'ce (AAFMPS) and is
part of an overall theater ex
pansion plan which calls for
a total of five theaters on
post.
The design of the new
theater which was selected
by AAFMP
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Parking will be provided ad
jacent to the new theater and
will be accessible from Head
quarters Avenue and from 31st
Street. The construction site
is located behind the roller
skating rink and the enlisted
men's club.
Prime contractor for the
project is and N Construc
tion Co. of Lubboock Tex.
AAFMPS will separately pro
re an ha in a
concluded the division display.
"We may have adjusted our
tactics a little bit for the
show but we gave the au
dience a good idea of what
happens" Young said.
About the only thing that
threatened the show was the
weather but the skies over
San Antonio cleared Sunday
and the urogram came off
on schedule.
The show was a joint Army-
See ASSAULT Page Two
droit off infantrymen. Later a medevac chopper picks pa wounded man to conclude the demonstration.
negligible since central Texas
lies well west of the path
of totality. The moon's shadow
will begin to pass in front
of the sun at approximately
10:36 a.m. and the maximum
cover will be reached at ap
proximately 11:54 a.m. when
73.5 per cent of the sun's
disc will be covered. It will
all be over at 1:13 p.m.
While viewers in the area
of the toal eclipse a 85-mile
wide strip stretching from the
South Pacific through the
is virtually iden
tical to a theater located at
Wripht Patterson AFB in Ohio
with engineering modifications
made to adapt the structure
to the building site and other
local conditions. It is being
constructed primarily of
masonry and brick with
architectural highlights enhan
ced through the use of cast
stone.
auditorium chairs stage
draperies and projection and
sound equiDment. The film
service wi'l also provide the
changeable ietter sign ticket
registers and advertising
display frames.
Total cost of the project
which is not part of the con
struction funds approved for
Ft. Hood by congress is ap
proximately $514000.
Initial so:! borings of the
site were made in late
February 1969 and ground
0
b* e0"s'^®^
Gulf of Mexico along the
southeastern coast and up the
Delmarva peninusla toward
Nantucket Cape Cod and
Canada will experience a
mid-afternoon return of night
time darkness at Ft. Hood
the effects will probably be
negligible.
At best it might appear as
if a cloud cover passed in
front of the sun and Mc
kinley predicted that if it is a
hazy day the eclipse might not
be noticed at all.
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was broken for the project
last month. Work is expected
to be completed in early 1971
with the initial opening ten
tatively scheduled for
February of that year.
Theater No. 4 which will
suspend operations once the
new theater is open is housed
in a temporary World War
Il era wooden structure on
24th Streei near the com
missary annex and like the
new theater it is designed to
See THEATER Page Two
Family Planners
Benefit From ISA
By SSGT. TONI LOFTON
Information Supervisor
Did you know that the number of people
on earth is growing more than twice as fast as
the food available to feed them?
The world's population of 3.3 billion will dou
ble by the year 2000 unless the population ex
plosion is checked. .and Planned Parenthood-
World Population's (PPWP) goal is just that.
.PPWP is one of the agencies covered under
the International Service Agencies (ISA) and a-
long with the National Health Agencies (NHA) is
actively holding a joint fund raising campaign
here at Ft. Hood. The campaign has a goal of 100
per cent participation and will continue through
April 10. The ISA and NHA are both engaged
in the war against pain hunger and affliction.
The 1960s were christened—hopefully—the
"Decade of Development." The wealthy nations
would assist the newly developing countries of
Asia Africa and Latin America to achieve the fun
damental human rights necessary for democratic
progress. .the right to learn and work and grow.
the right to adequate nourishment and medical
care. .the right to raise children decently. At
home too America would make a renewed effort
to aid her own millions in need. the poor sick
and hungry and give them an opportunity to gain
a rightful share of this nation's unparalleled abun-
cicincG
But now the beginning of the 1970s is upon
us and it is clear that most of these promises
and plans have fallen tragically short of fullfill-
ment.
Planned Parenthood America's pioneer fami
ly planing organization has warned consistently
that this would be the outcome so long as parents
here and abroad are denied the basic right to
determine the size and spacing of their families.
The greatest population increase is taking place
in countries that are last able to afford it.
Throughout Asia Africa and Latin America in
come growth per person is declining food is
scarcer than before World War II. The small
gains achieved in raising living standards are
See PARENTHOOD. Page Two
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