Of current interest: Communications theme of civil defense conference held at electronics park

Some 280 Federal, state, county, and city officials, actively engaged in Civil Defense in all parts of the United States and Canada, attended a Civil Defense Conference at the General Electric Company´s Electronics Park in Syracuse, N. Y., on September 13. Communications was the theme of the meeting and the various speakers emphasized the importance of a reliable network in the event of a disaster, whether caused by an atom bomb or by natural phenomena.