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IIA%VAII MARINE rr'' Voluntary pay men! for delivery to MCAS I eeee sing/S I per four %Vet, lie rigid. VOI.. I I O. 39 KANEOHE BAY, HAWAII, SEPT. 29, 1982 TWENTY PAGES Census survey begins Monday 36,193 students out of a total Students in Hawaii's public official enrollment count of schools, including Mokapu 162,534 were found to be federally Elementary school, will bring connected, and the state received a home a federal census survey card little more than 7.8 million in Oct. 4. impact aid. This is less than $220 This annual survey determines per federally-connected pupil, as the number of federally-connected compared with the state's pupils in the public school system expenditures of approximately for whom the state receives funds $2,800 per pupil. under Public Law 81-874, the Parents are urged to complete Federal Impact Aid program. the survey card for each child Impact aid provides partial attending public school and reimbursement to the state for return them promptly to the educational services rendered to school. Failure to respond to the students whose parents live survey results in a significant loss and/or work on federal property. of money for Hawaii's public During the 1981-82 school year, schools. The beginning Blue Angels fly On June 15, 1946, the Blue in all the aviation roles required to Angels flew their flight support and maintain the demonstration to "demonstrate Squadron's maintenance, precision techniques of naval administrative and public affairs aviation to naval personnel and, it requirements. directed, to the public." Today, Early January finds the Approximately 1,200 Marines of the 37th Marine The Marines visited several countries during their deployment after 36 years, the Amphibious Unit 1982 Blue "Blues" moving to their winter returned to Pearl Harbor Friday after a six month deployment to the the Republic of the Philippines, Singapore, Angels accomplish essentially including Australia, the training home at Naval Air Western Pacific. landing on Iwo Jima same mission. Thailand and Japan. They made an amphibious However, that Facility, El Centro, Calif. Marines from the 3d Battalion, 3d Marines; Marine Medium Cobra Gold-82 in mission has and participated in two multi-national exercises, taken on new The Imperial Valley provides the Helicopter Squadron-165 (Composite); and Marine Amphibious Usher-82 in Australia. perspectives. Unit Thailand and Freedom Pennant/Valiant excellent weather conditions and Service Support Group-31, from the 1st Marine Unit have been By presenting Brigade, were deployed The Marines of the 37th Marine Amphibioius a faultless training environment for the aboard three ships of the U. S. Navy. The ships were the replaced in the Western Pacific by Marines of the 31st Marine display USS Peleliu, of aerial artistry to what Blues to prepare themselves for the USS Cleveland and the USS Peoria. Amphibious Unit. has now exceeded 152 million the upcoming season. spectators, the Blue Angels seek to For the next 60 to 70 days all attract talented and qualified hands devote total concentration youth to join them in the U.S. to honing flying skills to the fine Accidental find Navy and Marine Corps. This is edge of perfection required to an important function in an all- carry on the Blue Angels volunteer naval force. As 'tradition. The pilots fly twice a raise new questions "Ambassadors of bones Goodwill" the seven a week, each Bird day days with Blue Angels take naval aviation day beginning at 5:30 a.m, and Smithsonian Institution, to the public as a means of ending in the early afternoon with by Sgt Pepper Davis from the he also admitted that there may "WE'LL NEVER KNOW and his wife/co-researcher Helen demonstrating the quality of men the remainder of the day being not have been any changes at all. the wholestory, but this find is one visited the site Sept. 17 more and equipment comprising the occupied with a self-imposed An accidental find has James, He said once the fossils are piece in the puzzle, he said. through 20. Before that, Olson and According U.S. Naval service, When physical fitness program. All blossomed into a significant cleaned and scrutinized further - to Diane Drigot, the James were on Maui searching for traveling abroad, this role is emphasis is put on preparing the scientific discovery. a process that can range from environmental protection on bird life in early expanded as these young men and pilots and crew for the no- Fragmented fossil bird bones, new evidence months to years - they will be specialist here, to preserve the women represent our country and nonsense flight operations of the said to be about 123,000 years old Hawaii. able to determine the sizes and scientific value ofihe site, public have been found on the cliff side of shapes of the birds. He said some be and those who serve it. long show season to come. By mid THE access will controlled, Internally, the the Ulupau Crater here. This find UPON VIEWING of the species still exist, and some visits to the site will be considered Flight Demon- to late March, the Squadron is crater site, Olson called the stration Squadron strives raises new questions about the are totally extinct. on a case-by-case basis. to set a ready to debut the skills and discovery a slice of time. It tells us standard abundance and variety of bird life of perfection for its teamwork which they have what was here 120,000 years ago." contemporaries in naval aviation worked so diligently to perfect. before the Polynesians arrived. In early August, Gustav Paulay, As for the authentication of the thus enabling our Navy and Anticipation is felt throughout the age, Olson said there was no Marine Corps to continue to unit to "get on the road." The Blue a graduate student at the University of Washington, was reason for doubt, and it was safe to produce the finest aviators in the Angels are once again groomed assume that Paulay's find is the world. for the new season. examining a 120,000-year-old layer of fossil shells in the crater oldest bird fossil ever found in Sixteen officers and seventy- Once the season begins, a Hawaii. "I don't know of any four enlisted personnel comprise pattern of operation is establish- when he noticed bird bones in a layer of soil beneath the shells. fossil birds from an oceanic island the Navy Flight Demonstration ed. The number seven pilot that are this old," he said, Squadron, the Blue Angels. precedes the main body to each That indicated that the fossil bones were older than the layer of According to the paleontologist, Seven of the officers are tactical show site, by one day, to give a last the fossils were also the first fresh jet pilots, four of whom fly in the minute check on the myriad of shells above it. Paulay had the bird fossils water deposit to be located in the diamond formation, two as solo preparations that they have been state. He suggested that years maximum performance demon- completed over several months analyzed by Carla Kishinami of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. ago, the site was once a fresh strators and the seventh is the prior to each demonstration. On water environment. narrator for the aerial demonstra- the next day the demonstration She said the bones were possibly those of ducks, crows, geese, Olson said these fossils add new tion who also provides jet aircraft and C-130 transport hawks, finches and owls. Paulay dimensions to the bird habitation orientation flights for news media arrive and the pilots get their look theory of Hawaii. "This find could A SLICE OF TIME - Storrs Olson (right), and h is wife/research representatives. The Events at the show site. collected more than 200 samples of collects 125,000-year-old bird the fossils, now on a temporary indicate two things: it can say assistant Helen James (left), Coordinator is a Naval Flight WHILE VISITING AT loan to the museum. something (morphological) has fossils at Ulupau Crater, while Diane Drigot, air station Officer and is responsible for show sites, the Blue Angels visit Storrs Olson, a noted changed, and it can say how much environmental protection specialist, observes. (Photo by Sgt logistics coordination, and the hospitals and youth organiza- paleontologist and ornothologist of a chance there has been." But Pepper Davis) Public Affairs Officer is tions, speak to civic clubs and responsible for all public affairs attend school functions in order to matters. The MaintenanceOfficer provide positive community is in charge of the enlisted relations. They also talk to young maintenance crew and is men and women with potential not to burn wherever you are responsible for ensuring that the interests in Navy careers both on Learn ten aircraft assigned are kept in campus and at social gatherings condition. topnotch sponsored by local Navy and from home, too, THE SQUADRON'S FLIGHT Marine Corps recruiters. In This year commemorates the 60th kitchen, a dangling coffee pot wire could followed while away of the first Fire Prevention be the cause of a serious scald to an Surgeon administers to both the addition, the Blues devote a anniversary WHEN YOU ARRIVE AT THE Week. Over the years, Fire Prevention adventuresome toddler. Train yourself to physical and psychological needs portion of their time to publicizing be sure to ask the clerk reminded people of the keep wires out of the reach of children and hotel or motel, of the officers and the enlisted the flight demonstration in each Week has features of the of fire safety, particularly to help prevent serious burn injuries to about the fire safety personnel, and the Administra- city by way of TV appearances, importance building.