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Show Defense worker reports on county meeting Mrs. Wilda Nightingale, assistant as-sistant director of Civil Defense De-fense in Springville, reporting on a recent county meeting in Provo, at which Brig. General Charles C. Thorstensen, director direct-or of Utah Civil Defense Corps, spoke, relays the following information: in-formation: The state warning center is in the State Capitol has direct di-rect contact with six other centers maned by the highway patrol at all times. One of them is in the Provo County Building, which serves Utah County, Juab, and Wasatch County. Two other centers will be opened in 1965. These have direct contact with County Directors Di-rectors and sheriffs who have radios in their . cars. Within 3-5 minutes, all agents can be notified. Many of these centers do or will have auxiliary power. pow-er. There are several thousand radio stations which comprise the Emergency Broadcasting System 16 in Utah with new ones being added. KSL is state radio station and KOVO is Utah County station with KEYY to be added. All are connected by a network from which the President may speak any time, any where he happens hap-pens to be. The Governor or his delegate may then speak, at which time, the county and local directors give orders. All other stations must leave the air and stations are in direct contact with each other. One of the ultimate objectives is to have radio contact in public shelters. How the stations are notified is up to the Individual station some warning device is set up. Educational television is beginning be-ginning to develop contact with all schools but schools at present must usually depend on the siren or radio. One way of warning is to provide the schools with radios that are on all the time at the right station. sta-tion. These may be turned down, because when an emergency emer-gency exists, modulation would be increased. Federal matching funds are available for radios and television sets in schools. State Highway Dept. is divided di-vided into six districts with 100 equipment sheds in Utah. Nine radio monitors are ultimate ulti-mate goal with three now present. Radiological equipment equip-ment and trained personnel are available. American Fork is the area where this exists. Ultimate Ul-timate goal is to have telephone tele-phone and radio contact with other sheds so that others may know how safe that area is. |