[IRCA] Auto wrecks: Ray Edge, Carroll Seth, Hal Wagner

[Charles A Taylor <MWDXer@xxxxxxx>]

At 12:44 PM 3/8/2007 -0800, you wrote:
>Apologies! I should have read the next post.  John beat me to my 
>assumption!  Those were tough days for 'the builders' of NRC.  Ray Edge, 
>Carroll Seth, Hal Wagner & unfortunately several others all victims of 
>automobile accidents.  In the 50s-60s there were few (if any) freeways or 
>interstates, many two & even worse three lane roads and most people drove 
>like maniacs (we did)......On the good side there were no L.A. freeways either.
>
>Don K.
>(again)

Don,

Right again. It was Carroll Seth and Hal Wagner who were killed in an auto 
wreck on the way to the 1962 NRC Convention.

This threw a terrible shadow over the proceedings. I was too young to know 
the gents.

And then the "uprising" that caused the then-to-be IRCA to break away, 
starting life as the National Radio Club, Incorporated.
That was an unintentional side proceeding to the convention.

Perhaps some of you remember Donald M Roller and David E Roys, who were 
largely instrumental in at least provoking the
"uprising."  IRCA is the result.  IRCA is too much a part of me to quit now.

And, it was at the 1972 IRCA in San Diego that Don Erickson and I got into 
hysterics when the hotel house detective (DEE and I
called him the "louse defective") began watching us IRCAers a bit more 
closely than DEE and CAT thought appropriate.

Suspicious bunch, we were.

Ray, Ernie, Don.  Gone.

Requiescat in pacem.

Charles







>John Callarman wrote:
>
> > Ah, ha, as I read on, and note Charles' description of "Ernie" at the 
> Indianapolis 1962 NRC convention ... rather brusque and worked for NYPD 
> .. Ray B. Edge, who published the NRC bulletin, worked for the Buffalo, 
> N.Y., PD, and could easily be described as "rather brusque." Ray died in 
> an auto accident in 1965 while he and several other family members were 
> returning from a tour of the Corning Glass Works, where the late Carleton 
> Lord, another of the legendary figures of BCB DX, dating back to his 
> columns in Radex in the '30s and NNRC in the '40s and '50s, worked.
> >
> > John Callarman, KA9SPA, Family Genealogist, Retired Newspaper Editor, 
> DX-oyente, Krum TX (AKA Qal R. Mann, Krumudgeon)
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