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Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 29, 30 December 1938, Page 26

HE Wiliam 8. Paley Award given each year by the president of the CBS to the amateur who has conirisuted most usefully to the weliare of the American people, was formally bestowed upon R&R. T. Anderson, of Harrisburg, Illinois, at a luncheoi in New York recently, A report from the American Radio Relay League- states that Anderson achieved this honour for his work in saving the people of Shawneetown during the 1937 Onio River flood. With all other forms of communication broken down he worked his portable transmitter, W9MWC, for sixty hours with hardly a break, and he alone was responsible for summoning aid tothe marevoned people of the town.