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Show THE JOURNAL 6 MAY 3, 1952. f SCENES SHOW RESULTS OF RAMPAGING MISSOURI IBD CROSS ADOPTS. flEW ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION METHOD correct positions for the back lift method of artificial :espiration, adopted by the Amerl Red Cross upon tan National recommendation of the National Research Council, are here illlus-IrateIn this method the victim b placed prone with the elbows bent and with one hand upon the ther. The cheek is placed on the band, with the face turned slightly o one side. The operator kneels n one knee at the head of the rictim. pres-lure-ar- . At its crest, the raffing Missouri swirls against the temporary wooden flashboarding erected atop the concrete flood wall that protects Omaha's warehouse and industrial district a few blocks from the downtown shopping center. At this moment the river was U feet oyer flood stare. From a marker station on a levee, a Union Pacific employe puts in a radio order for more material. Faced with a 30 foot flood crest, the permanent levees were heightened with loads of earth, sandbags and flashbo vds on both sides of the river. The craft in the background belongs io the Army Engineers. - m d,' FIRST STEP: To start the cycle the operator places his hands on the victims back so that the thumbs just touch! and the heels of the hands are just below a line running between the armpitsrjr SECOND STEP: He then rocks forward slowly, keeping the elbows straight, until his arms are approximately vertical, exerting steady pressure upon the chest. of All calls made on the key net were received in the office flood of the Pacific Railroads chief engineer, a member Onion two radio operators steering committee. In the above picture, from the waterfront. call consult a map after receiving a hurry day basis for more than a week." The net operated on a Thirty-fou- r little boxes took reporting the rise of the water from the marker stations spotted their place with 4,000,000 turn back the raging flood along the dikes. waters of the mad Missouri River . The radio equipment for the at Omaha and Council Bluffs this original key network", was fur24-ho- ur ; sand-bags- to 240,000,000 pounds-o- f at the Omaha city hall, sand. headguar-ter- s of the steering committee, at the office of Union Pacifics terminal superintendent and at the railroads .radio car. The latter is a complete radio nished by Union Pacific Railroad and largely manned by the com- laboratory on rails and its principal duty was to keep the nets panys communications people. tip-to- p shape. The This was later augmented by 20 equipment in committee virtually kept Motorola Handie-Talkipurcha- steering the swirling sed by the City of Omaha. To fill sensitive fingers in offices their the order, the Motorola company brown waters from in lofty downtown buildings via ground crystals IS straight hours and 3 automo21 Handie-Talkito match the U. P. equipment. bile units. Heart of the net was the conHandie Talkies were Twenty-on- e trol station established in the booted men office of Union Pacifics chief en in the hands of weary, who slogged through a morass of gineer a member of the steering water-soake- d pacommittee which directed the flood mud atop the torrent. the contained that fight in the two cities. Also in the rapets The remaining three were used office was a receiver used to moniby U.P. engineers and Omahas es -- - - In answer to a radio call, trucks bearing sandbags thunder through flood parapets erected in an industrial area near the river. THIRD STEP: Thousands of soldiers, airmen, construction workers and volunteers Then he rocks backward, slowly filled the more than 4,000,000 bags, using an estimated total of sliding his hands to the victims month. The boxes were the radio transmitters and receivers in the key communications network which directed what was probably the first successful thwarting of a major Missouri flood threat. Countless heroic stories have' already been told .of tlie men, bulldozers, Euclid trucks and sandbags which whipped the Mighty Mo. This is a report on the men with the microphones, who worked 24 hours a day for more than a week, calling i for men, sand and, machines at a weak point, direct-in- g tor the network of the Army Enfire commissioner who, like the food and coffee to; hungry gineers. Radio stations were also set up mobile radio units, drove from workers on still another levee and t - es . threatened point to threatened point. The final links in this complete net were monitor sets in the hands of the Army Engineers and the Omaha Public Power District, whose big plant a few feet from the river was a constant concern. The frequency used was 160.29 . arms just above the elbow. Continuing to rock backward, he raises the arms until resistance and tension are felt at the victims shoulder. Then he drops the arms and thus completes a full cycle. The cycles are repeated 12 times per minute, the expansion and compression phases being of equal length, and the release periods , of minimum duration. . " ' megacycles. A dramatic example of the net in action came when the flood was at its crest and a sewer three blocks behind the levee on the Omaha side exploded from pressure, spewing murky water into a busy industrial district. Within minutes three Handie-Talkiand two Mobile units were at the site to direct a night-lon- g ulti10 es mately victorious struggle against the Mighty Mos last and biggest effort. 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