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Show P. G. Gets Publicity From "Bombing" Pleasant Grove's simulated "bombing" on Washington's birthday birth-day was almost as revoluntionary as the days of '76, if press notices it received throughout the West in the daily press are any criterion. So stated Coordinator Harold S. Walker after the event. "We were more than satisfied with the way the majority of the citizens acted. Not many cards were passed out," he said. The Daily Herald, Provo, and the Deseret News, Salt Lake Tribune Tri-bune and Telegram, all had stor-ie stor-ie of the "raid." ,. Some of the dailies ran spreads of pictures. The wire services also carried regional stories. As a matter of fact, Pleasant Grove is the first city in the Mountain West to have a simulated "bombing." Mr. Walker Walk-er said. Mr. Walker stated that since the demonstration officials took a test siren up Battle Creek canyon can-yon to see how it would function, but found that it could be heard only over one third of the area the east part of Pleasant Grove. The city council doesn't know what to do. We have been studying study-ing sound and find that by doubling doub-ling the power the sound doesn't go double the distance," Mr. Walker Walk-er said. In the near future, the coordinator coordin-ator said, there will be a test of all Utah county with existing alarms now set up. Alarm equipment equip-ment from Lehi to Payson will operate simultaneously in order to study "dead" spots in the county. "We hope that by making the tst for the whole county we will be able to determine where the 'dead' spots are," he said. Fire Chief Lloyd Dixon of Provo, Pro-vo, and County Defense Coordinator Coordin-ator James Stratton, of Orem, toured Pleasant Grove in Dixon's car and noted that people were cooperating in the "bombing." He was stopped three times by aux-ilary aux-ilary police for being in the danger dan-ger zone, he said. Mr. Walker said that fire wardens war-dens met and discussed the situation situ-ation and wardens policed their districts. Due to not being able to hear the warnings many people were disappointed and thought the "bombing" had not been held as scheduled. Mr. Walker stated that the siren could be heard better in American Fork and Lehi than in some parts of Pleasant Grove, and that a study of sound waves and air currents will be carried out in an effort to make all parts of the district audible. The defense coordinator also stated that Mayor W. Robert Marrott, Fire Chief Richard All-red, All-red, Police Chief Marion Adam-son, Adam-son, and Chief Warden Hoyt Shields were "more than satisfied with the way a majority of the men, women and children of the city conducted themselves during the 'raid.' " Wardens throughout the city have compiled a list of automobiles, automo-biles, trucks, telephones and safe ! places for shelter, and this effort may one day be a great benefit to the city in any emergency, Mr. Walker said. |