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Show Fast Help For Quake Victims The Intermountain West has been given another demonstration demon-stration of nature on the rampage. A series of sharp earthquakes caused death and destruction in the vicinity of West Yellowstone, Yellow-stone, Mont. As in similar emergencies, aid to the suffering was speedily sent. In Salt Lake County some 20 members of Sheriff George W. Beckstead'sc Salt Lake County Sheriff's Posse volunteered their time and energy to search for the bodies of a missing Salt Lake County couple. This was one of numerous cases of sacrifice and service which occurred during the tense days after the first major quake. For the second time within a month the U. S. Air Force whose main job is protecting the nation in time of war was thrown into a mission of mercy. The earlier mercy mission was centered in Idaho Falls, Idaho, a few miles south of the quake scene. Then Air Force jets flew rare botulism anti-toxin to a family stricken with the dread food poisoning. At West Yellowstone business firms once again teamed with the Air Force and with established agencies to provide fast (Continued on Page Four) Fast Help For Quake Victims (Continued from Page 1) relief. This type of cooperation is in the highest tradition of both the Air Force, the various government agencies including the Forest Service, the National Park Service, and American industry. |