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Show Calvin Walker Gets Award from Weather Service WASHINGTON Calvin Walker of Pleasant Grove, has over 35 years of service as weather observer for the National Na-tional Weather Service at Tim-panogos Tim-panogos Divide and Pleasant Grove, Utah. It was announced on Tuesday, Sept. 10 by the U.S. Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Atmos-pheric Administration (NOAA) parent agency of the National Weather Service, that Mr. Walker is one of 29 volunteer observers selected nationwide to receive the John Companius Holm Award. John Companius Holm A-wards, A-wards, created in 1959 by the National Weather Service (formerly (for-merly the Weather Bureau) are made annually to honor volunteer volun-teer observers for outstanding accomplishments in the field of meteorological observations. The award is named for a Lutheran Luth-eran minister who is the first person known to have taken systematic weather observations observa-tions in the American colonies. The Reverend Holm made records rec-ords of the climate, without the use of instruments, in 1644 and 1645 near the present site of Wilmington, Delaware. Calvin Walker became the weather observer for the Tim-panogos Tim-panogos Divide Storage Gage Station, Utah, on May 1, 1944, replacing his brother Thomas, who had been transferred to Bryce Canyon National Park. He continued taking the monthly mon-thly readings at this gage until July 1, 1970, when his brother Thomas again took over. The trip to the gage was often hazardous haz-ardous during the winter when (Continued on page 3) Calvin Walker (Continued from page 1) the last 9 miles of the road to the gage were closed because of deep snow. On Sept. 1, 1946 he became the official weather observer for the community of Pleasant Grove. The equipment consist-eo consist-eo of a privately owned Sixes . Thermometer and a Weather Bureau owned Standard rain gage. Weather Bureau owned shelter and thermometers were installed April 20, 1948. Mr. Walker is still the observer obser-ver for Pleasant Grove and has now taken observations for 28 and one half years in this city. He has also completed 26 years of observations at the Timpanogos Timpan-ogos Divide Station. The National Weather Service Ser-vice has more than 13,000 volunteer vol-unteer obserwers who make and record daily weather observations ob-servations in all parts of the United States. |