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JWP 2 Yet these people elect more than half the Congress - over fifty per cent of Congressional districts are rural and small town - and decide the election of Presidents, They send their children, ill-prepared, to swell the misery of the cities. Together with employment and health care, the pressing need of rural America is information and education - the two faces of the same coin. And their need is the need of all of us. We may not hunger when they are unfed; but we all suffer the consequences of their mental and social impoveris hmen t• Radio is the keystone of rural public communications. It can be supplemented by television where there is enough population within the coverage area; but in many parts of the Great Plains the population density is down to two persons per square mile. It can be supplemented by Telpak - most farm homes now have telephones; but not most country dwellers at large. Line and cable networks, with dial access to data centers, are needed too. Such systems are proving to be vital in the planning for rural medical care delivery systems. It is a necessity to locate vocational training at local sites, without requiring travel to distant centers. In the end, the com¬ munications grid serves government, law enforcement, education, rural area organization and development - all major phases of community life, and all vital channels of communication with the isolated rural or farm family. In a matter of months, communications satellites will be over the Eastern and Western halves of this country. At least two channels will be devoted to public and educational use - IF we are ready to use them. There must be ground systems ready to utilize their signals, to store and relay them.