- Date
- 1982-08
- Kind
- Announcement
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- governmentpublic-servicecommunicationemergency-managementcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The August 1982 Deputy’s Office column explains the island’s “Attempt To Locate” requests for urgent family messages. It recommends road signs for summer residents and check-in information for vacationers so Deputy Ham Gebert could find them quickly.
Evidence limits
This is public-service guidance, not a dispatch log or record of a particular emergency.
Sources
- Explains that Charlevoix County Deputy Ham Gebert receives Attempt To Locate requests, often for emergency messages about death or serious illness. It advises summer residents to post a name or sign at the road and vacationers to check in at the boat dock or deputy’s office, with general location information. This is published public-service guidance, not a dispatch log or emergency-response record. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1982-08_Beaver-Beacon
- The held sixteen-page August issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the ATL guidance.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1982-08_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Deputy’s office publishes emergency-message locator guidance, 1982”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-deputy-attempt-to-locate-guidance-1982/, accessed [date], citing “From the Deputy’s Office: ATL’s,” Beaver Beacon, August 1982. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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