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Show Boating Supervisor Speaks at Civil Air Patrol Meeting Norman Van Pelt, supervisor of boating development in Utah, was guest speaker at the regular meeting of the American Fork Squadron, Civil Air Patrol, last week. Mr. Van Pelt said there is no need for much of 'the misunderstanding mis-understanding so far asXhe new Boating Daw in Utah is concerned. concern-ed. The State Parks and Recreation Recrea-tion Commission has the power to add regulations to the Act which will be of benefit to the boating public. Most of the regulations of the Act are excellent, Mr. Van Pelt continued, and effort is being made to satisfy the boating public with proper regulations with the end result of more pleasure to boaters. He also discussed the problems of rescue on Utah Lake and proposed pro-posed that the American Fork Squadron assist in rescue and search on the lake with their two-way radios and their airplanes. air-planes. The local Squadrons have four airplanes ready for use in such cases. They also have available portable radios that can be placed in any boat; twenty -two mobile units; and two fixed stations. Headquarters for such a search would be conducted in the CAP headquarters in the American Fork City Hall. Mr. Van Pelt stressed the fact that the CAP has ten years experience ex-perience in search and rescue work and feels they will be able to greatly assist the looal authorities author-ities in this field. Merrill Liston I.S.O. |