4-Hours’ Radio
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[?]Samoa Back
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TNTIL recently Eastern Samoa J was virtually cut off from the outside world from sunset to mrise. There was a recent in ;ance when, due to an undersea irthquake in some other part of le Pacific, Honolulu wished rgently to alert Pago Pago to the ossibility of a tidal wave, but was nable to do so.
When the US Navy left Samoa in )51, a shortage of trained wireless srsonnel prevented the radio ;ation from having more than 8 ours’ communication with outside ations. Now, arrangements have made by Director of Communi itions, Ray Sparks Caldwell, to tsume 24-hours service. Nearly all le employees are Samoans, trained ir this work —including a charming male operator, Miss Masae Suioi, ?e 19, of Aug, American Samoa. ‘ M. Jean Breaud, Chevalier of the ;gion of Honour, very well known French Oceania as head of the *m engaged in several big public erks undertakings in Tahiti at pre
sent, was awarded the distinction of Knight of the Legion of Honour recently before departing from Paris for Papeete on one of his fre- Q uent visits. This was in recognition h* B meritorious association with the Resistance during the Allied landings in France, and his
subsequent activities as an expert road-maker. M. Breaud is at pre sent consulting with the French Oceania Government regarding an extended drainage system in Papeete, and will return to France with his wife (nee Mdlle. Nordman) in January.