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4/27/43
"All the defense personnel who will operate the newly constructed stations must be trained, and each one specifically who will operate a station must obtain a permit from the FCC. This permit is not hard to get after training, it means the passing of an elementary FCC test. Many Defense Councils have organized classes in WERS operation.
"’Under OCD' s recommended plan, blanket licenses are ob¬ tained from the Federal Communications Commission for all the Civilian Defense radio stations within one area of operations.
Thus one WERS system covers a district warning area, and the equip¬ ment and operators of the entire district are available to any stricken community. This prevents 'freezing', for under law. oper¬ ators in one separately/licensed community cannot work in any other unless they bring equipment with them.
"Licenses are issued only to municipal or local govern¬ ments, such as cities, towns, townships, or counties. They are not issued to police departments, fire departments, or Defense Councils as such.
"WERS is invaluable not only in war disasters, but in the fearful and sudden catastrophes of civilian life flood, fire, hurricane. Civilian Defense forcescan rapidly be called out, warn¬ ing can rapidly be given, outside help can be summoned. "
OCD Director James M. Landis declared: "Thousands of Defense Councils, particularly those in target areas, can now substantially increase the effectiveness and flexibility of their defense forces through the WAR Emergency Radio Service. OCD strong¬ ly recommends that every community take steps immediately to give itself this added protection in case of enemy attack or local catastrophe. "
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FTC ISSUES COMPLAINT ON S-W DIATHERMY
United Diathermy, Inc., 1537 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, is charged in a complaint issued by the Federal Trade Commission with the dissemination of false advertisements concerning the device designated "United Short Wave Diathermy" which it sells in inter¬ state commerce.
The respondent's false representations made in news¬ papers, illustrated booklets, radio continuities and other adver¬ tising media, the complaint alleges, are to the effect that the device, when used by the unskilled lay public in the treatment of selfdiagnosed diseases and ailments by individual self-application in the home, is a safe, harmless and effective method for the relief of pain in chronic conditions of rheumatism, arthritis,
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