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Show U.S. establishes emergency radio network An imminent or actual attack at-tack on the United States would find the Nation better prepared than ever to get official of-ficial information and survival instructions to the people through the Emergency Broadcast Broad-cast System (EBS) established by the Federal Communications Communica-tions Commission. EBS allows selected AM radio ra-dio stations to continue broadcasting broad-casting on their normal frequencies fre-quencies and with regular power even after an attack emergency is declared in order to get vital warning and sur vival information to the public. It would carry essential information infor-mation from the President and officials of Federal, State and local governments. EBS Succeeded the old Con-elrad Con-elrad system on August 5 after the Department of Defense determined de-termined that the .continued operation of the Nations broadcasting stations no longer long-er constituted a significant navigation aid to enemy bombers bomb-ers and missiles. The new EBS system permits stations to begin be-gin broadcasting emergency information in-formation almost instantly after af-ter an attack warning is received. re-ceived. Stations not affiliated with EBS, and all FM and television stations, would go off the air. Some of these facilities will be incorporated into future refinements refine-ments and extensions of EBS. To assure that vital emergency emer-gency broadcasting is not interrupted in-terrupted by fallout sufficient to force evacuation of the stations, sta-tions, the Office of Civil Defense, De-fense, Department of Defense, is providing fallout protection emergency generators, and emergency radio programs links to selected emergency broadcast stations. |