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Show Dugway Proving Ground, Friday, Jan. 27, 1967 Project HOPE Feature THE WORLDS MOST PRECIOUS GIF- THOPE The have miserable no other medicine but only hope . . ." So Shakespeare in Measure for Measure," and the Bard might well have been speaking on behalf of the millions of ill and af- laid flicted in many developing countries of the world. At the inception of Project HOPE, Founder Dr. William B. Walsh faced this grim reality when he said, Going through remote parts of the world Just for the purpose of treatment would be like walking through So we shall go quicksand. with a different purpose one of teaching and training." Since then HOPE has been carried successfully to Indonesia, Peru, Ecuador, Guinea, Nicaragua, and shore programs continue in all except the first. In 1867, the famous teaching ship is anchored off Carte gena, CoVlet-Na- lombia. More than neatly enclosed in a newspaper or brown bag, and who later leave the ship, richer for the precious gift of HOPE. Consider the boy whose burned-oesophagus was replaced with a new one . . . the pretty girl with eyes, her vision now corrected . . . the with a face deformed by a harelip, smiling from a remade mouth the woman with early cancer of the cervix, now spared years of prothe teenager gressive pain who had never been able to breathe properly since he suffered a broken nose eight years before, but now breathes freely .... a young bum victim given new ears from cartilage taken from his chest These people restored to healthier, happier, more productive lives are the real glory that is HOPE. You can help them by contributing your own share of ut once-cross- ed two-year-- old American physicians, dentists, nurses and auxiliary personnel have served aboard the ship. Over 100,000 patients have been treated . . . over 8,000 major operations performed . . . more than a million benefited through Immunization, examination and other services. But then statistics can never tell the full story of HOPE. The compassion of its purpose is best reflected in the faces of the patients who come aboard clutching their admittance papers, often HOPE. BOO ... ... Your Civil Service Retirement System This is the eleventh of a series of "Question and Answer articles on the Federal Civil Service Retirement System. Quo. tions answered are those most frequently asked about the system. Any other questions you may have will be answered by the Civilian Personnel Division, Employee Services Branch. Q. IS DEPOSIT in the Federal Civil Service Retirement System required to obtain credit for military service? A. No. Full credit is given for military service without any deposit to the retirement fund. Such service is free. Q. What credit is given if a civilian employee is placed on furlough or leave without pay to enter the military service? . A. THE ENTIRE furlough period is credited, without deposit, as civilian service if it ended no later than December 31, 1956. If it ended after December 31, 1956, full credit is allowed for the furlough period up to a maximum of 5 years. Q. May military furlough periods be credited as civilian service if credit for the military service itself is barred because the employee is receiving military retired pay or is entitled to social security? A. No. Q. HOW DOES PAYMENT of a refund affix a military furlough? A. Payment of the refund terminates the military furlough, and the individual may not receive further benefits under the Civil Service Retirement Act unless he later returns to a civilian position tmder the Act. Q. Is military service creditable if it is performed after final separation from civilian employment? A. NO. SUCH service may be credited only if the individual again becomes a member of the retirement system. Q. Do the provisions on the crediting of military service which are explained in this section apply to service performed with womens organizations such as the WAC, WAVES, etc? A. Yes. Q. IS SERVICE with the WAAC creditable? A. Yes. However, it is creditable as civilian rather than as military service. Desert Drifts by Barbara McDonald . The Womens Club extends a warm welcome to all newcomers and a Happy New Year to all. Our president, Kav Youm. will be leaving in the latter part of February and Jan Cook will assume the office when, she departs. Phyllis Dean is leaving and Dee Brauner has taken over her duties as coffee chairman. The Thrift Shop is once again open on Tuesday afternoons and Thursday evenings. Cookbooks are still on sale - contact Pat ' Mason. THE FEBRUARY coffee will be on Tuesday morning, the 7th. The luncheon will be on the 24th of February and Mr. Yoder of the Fish and Game Department will present a program and show slides. A Womens Club Bowling League has been started on Wednesday mornings at 9:30. Ruby Nieto is the president, vice presiand Flo dent, sergeant-at-arm- s There Black is secretary-treasure- r. are six teams with three on each team. Anyone who is Interested in substituting, please contact Flo Black. Participants must be members of the Officers Wives Club end must be willing to join the Womens International Bowl- VM me to LTC and Mrs. imer. Ralph is the new 4 instruction at the CBR came to Dugway from id 'Jackie came from sach, California. TURNERS have three - Ralph, 22 yean old; yean old; and Pam, 18 . Young Ralph is in Ja-- i the U. S. Army and 1 Pam ere in school in NaRalph has served as a United tions representative in Jerusalem and they have been stationed in Damascus. Ralph was also stationed in North Africa. The Tumen are avid golfen and enjoy playing bridge. Jackie is a beginning bowler and will take part in the Womens Club League. Welcome again, Jackie and Ralph. TECOM Projects Chosen for 68 The list of weapons and equipment to be tested at Army environmental test centers during FY 1968 was drawn up recently conference during a three-da- y at U. S..Army Test and Evaluation Command headquarters, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Nearly 100 representatives of military commands and agencies with requirements for testing materiel under arctic, tropic or desert conditions registered for the command's annual environmental test planning conference which opened on January 17. The group was welcomed by Major General Leland G.Cagwin commander of the Test and Evaluation Command, and Colonel John M. Gaustad, chief of the Test Analysis and Operations Office. The purpose of the conference was to formulate plans for testing materiel under extreme climatic conditions during the fiscal year starting July 1. Under study were test programs to be conducted by the U. S. Army Tropic Test Center in Panama, the U. S. Army Arctic Test Center at Fort Greely, Alaska, and the desert test center operated by Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. la is originally from Seattle, on, and Ralph is a Washington. 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