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CROP ON THE TRACKS - While disputants In the Chi
cago and North Western Railroad strike meet in Washing
ton, D. C. a lone stalk of corn grows between the rails at
Chicago, symbolizing the frustration of the line's 30,000
commuters Farmers and businessmen in nine states are
following progress of the talks. More than 1.000 members
of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers went on strike Aug.
30 against the C&NW, idling a total of 16,500 employees.
(UPI
Civil Defense Is Aided By Citizens
By SHELLEY SINGER
Unltad Press International
Chicago (UPH Operators of
citizens band radios in the
Cape Canaveral area recently
joined police in the search for
a man accused of killing
waitress near Cocoa Beach,
Fla. The fugitive was caught
an hour after the units were
pressed into service.
A citizens band team in
Sioux City, Iowa, set up base
and mobile units to help local
police during floods last
spring. i
A citizens band operator in
Chicago was returning home
one cold, snowy night last
winter when he came upon a
stalled auto occupied by
man, his wife and two young
children. The car had no gas
or heat and the father had no
money. The citizens band op.
erator called state police, who
sent a car to the scene.
Citizens band radio is a band
of radio frequencies establish
ed by the Federal Communica
tions commission (FCC) ex
clusively for personal or busi
ness communications by in
dividual citizens.
70,000 Radios
The FCC estimates there
are now more than 700,000
citizens band radios in opera
tion in the United States.
About 5,000 of those are mem
bers of a new national organi
zation called Radio Emergen
cy Associated Citizens Teams
(REACT).
The movement to organize
operators into an emergency
network began last winter.
Since then, 225 groups have
been organized in 45 states.
REACT is based in Chicago
and is sponsored by Halli
craftcrs company.
Earl Gray, national director
of REACT, said the Idea start
ed as a volunteer emergency
telephone network In areas
where emergency communica
tions are poor. Now, he snld,
Civil Defense authorities arc
expressing Interest In the pro
gram.
"The organization can be
most valuable in cases where
power is out and only mobile
equipment can be used," Gray
said.
The Winnebago county,
Iowa, group, for example, is
affiliated with Red Cross, Civ
il Defense and volunteer
emergency radio net units.
Works With Agencies
The Cape Cod, Mass., team
covers more than 18 communi
ties. It works with state po
lice, local police, the sheriff's
office, the National Guard,
the Coast Guard, fire depart
ments, Civil Defense and the
county emergency league.
lis available equipment,
which belongs to cither mem
bers or working-agreement (or
ganizations. Includes nine
trucks, four boats, one light
plane and nearly 100 other
vehicles.
In many cases, indivdual
policemen are members of
REACT teams in their spare
time.
In Sturgis, S.D, Gray said,
the REACT 24-hour monitor
station is the police depart
ment itself.
Each REACT chapter moni
tors an emergency channel in
its communily 24 hours a day
to relay accident reports and
emergency calls for help.
Membership is free - and
open to any group of three or
more citizens band operators.
Members include business and
professional men, service sta
tion operators, policemen, fire
men, ambulance operators,
farmers and sportsmen who
have installed the two - way
radios in their homes, offices
and cars.
Under FCC license and reg
ulation, any citizen over 18
years of age can operate a
citizens band radio set. The
radios have an effective range
of from five to 10 miles, de
pending upon equipment and
terrain.
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was awarded to Mrs. Ona Paul, Mcrifiird,
for her best box of fruit (pears) at the
Oregon State Fair In Salem. Because 85-
jeiir-oid Mrs. Paul could noi aueno me
presentation ot the trophy, Mrs. Ben Fulton,
above, received it for her.
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Rensselear, Ind. -UPD- For
mer President Dwight D. Ei
senhower hit the campaign
trail for an old friend today
and beamed, "It gives me a
bang to get back into the po
litical harness."
Eisenhower flew to Indiana
for a giant picnic in the home
town of his old political ally.
House Minority Leader
Charles A. Halleck.
Local Republicans hoped
the afternoon chicken barbe
cue would be the largest ever
held in these parts and would
strengthen the entire GOP
Hoosier ticket.
Eisenhower's plane landed
at West Lafayette, Ind., on
the first leg of his first cam
paign trip of the 1962 con
gressional campaign.
He speaks tonight at Rens
selear at a big "Charlie Hal
leek Day" rally expected to
draw 25,000 to 30,000 per
sons. "You must realize I am out
here on a bit of a political
chore," Eisenhower said with
a smile as he greeted about
600 persons who welcomed
him at the airport. "It gives
me a bang to get back into
the political harness. I'm go
ing to do all I can to get
Charlie Halleck elected the
next speaker of the House of
Representatives."
Baltimore In a single
molecule of human blood
there are an estimated 16,669
atoms.
Portlander Appointed
To Traffic Committee
Salem - lUPti - Gov.. Mark
Hatfield Wednesday appoint
ed Mrs. J. Richard Nokes,
Portland, to the Oregon Traf
fic Court Rules committee.
Mrs. Nokes succeeds Mrs.
Muriel D. Lezak, Portland.
Vale Grazing
Revision Studied
Salem - IUPD - The chief of
the U. S. Bureau of Land Man
agement in Oregon said
Wednesday efforts are under
way to revise the agency s Bt
million acre Vale project to
meet objections of ranchers
and others.
Russell E. Getty, Portland,
reporting to Gov. Mark Hat
field's Natural Resources
Committee, said revisions in.
elude putting more money in
the first year into reseeding
of grazing lands and other
phases of actual work with
the land.
Congress has appropriated
$1 million for the first year
of the $16.5 million, seven
year program
Initially, the BLM planned
to pump only a quarter of the
$1 million into actual land
improvements. But Getty said
the hope now is to apply
$500,000 to this.
Getty said the new first
year schedule would divert
$100,000 from construction of
a controversial office build
ing in Vale, and other facili
ties including a warehouse
and shops.
Scenic Areas Set
Along Highway 101
Portland -Mini- Fifty - nine
miles along Oregon's coastal
Highway 101 have been desig
nated as "scenic areas" by the
Oregon Scenic Area Commis
sion.
The commission said the 59
miles are in four separate
areas. They were picked from
102 miles originally proposed.
One area extends from
Whale cove below Depoe Bay
to a point north of Agate
Beach.
Another is a three - mile
stretch south of Waldport
near the Gov. Patterson Me
morial State Park, plus a span
through the Siuslaw National
Forest from Cape Perpetua
south to Berry Creek in which
a seven-mile stretch along the
east side to the highway is not
involved.
A four-mile area between
Gardiner, and Elbow Lake was
designated, as was an area
between Port Orford and
Brookings.
The commission termed the
action as "steering mid-
course.
The commission recently
neid hearings on the coast.
200 Bill Collectors
Gather in Portland
Portland - 0IPII - Some 200
bill collectors were here to
day as the Western Regional
Unit of the American Collec
tors association opened its an
nual three-day conference.
Max Lesman of Portland is
chairman of the conference.
VOLUNTEERS ARRIVE
Manila - IUPD - A group of
154 U.S. Peace Corps volun
teers arrived Wednesday in
the Philippines for two-year
assignments as e d u cational
aides on the southern island
of Mindanao.
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