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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1952)
FOURTEEN MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, June 15. 1952 Radio Hams Plan Defense Exercises On Week-End Trip The required shovel, axe and bucket will be only a small part of the equipment each group will have on hand when mem bers of the Rogue Valley Radio club camp on Siskiyou summit on Saturday and Sunday, June 21 and 22. This occasion will be the 16th annual field day sponsored by the National Association of Ra dio Amateurs and the American Radio Relay league. Rogue Val- ley club members will set up battery-powered and gasoline driven generator transmitters and receivers at the summit. To Tax Capacity In this full dress rehearsal the communications facilities nan died by amateurs will be taxed to full capacity. A nation-wide network will be established. Brief messages will be exchang ed, as in actual emergency, con- cccning location and number of operators. The information will parallel that which an amateur station handling civil defense messages would report to a con trol center. Officials of the club here said that civil defense leaders are in terested in the field day since radio amateurs will have to form the backbone of communi cations in a major disaster, American Telephone and Tele- erarjh company, according to Federal Civil Defense adminis tration chart, plans to lean heav ily on amateurs for radio sup port of wire facilities. Mobilgas, portables and fixed stations, about 6,000 altogether across the nation, will partici pate in the field day. Priiet Offered Prizes are being offered to Rogue Valley club members to spur interest. There will be awards for the first contact aft er 4 p.m. June 21, for the most contacts, the greatest distance, the last contact before 4 p.m. June 22 and hardest luck (break downs and least contacts) There will be a ladies' registration prize. : All interested are Invited to watch operations and learn what Is being done by radio hobbyists. Those going to the site are in itructed to go through the large "cut" on Highway 99 at the summit of the Siskiyous then to turn off to the right. The site is a short distance from the highway. Remedial Work Given At Phoenix School Phoenix Remedial work fo the first eight grades will.be of fered in summer school at Phoe nix, starting June 16, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon, Monday through Fri day for six weeks, according to E. R. Jones, superintendent . of schools. Arrangements for the school were made between Southern Oregon college at Ashland and the Phoenix public schools. James sold, with classes under the supervision of David Barker, Lincoln school, Ashland. The children may take special remedial work In certain subject fields and any others desiring to take such work this summer may attend. Due to some remodeling being done at the grade school, classes will be held at the Phoenix high school, the superintendent concluded. Vacation Bible School Slated in Rogue River Rogue River Vacation church school will open at Hope Presbyterian church on Tues day, June 11. The school will continue four days each week from 9 a.m. to 12 noon until July 3. The program opens with study period, followed by a craft period which will provide in struction in making puppets as well as other art work and dra matic use of the finished pup- pels. There will be a recreation I period, music and a closing wor ship service. The final program will bo Thursday evening, July 3 when j the public is invited. 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