Stock Photo - ***MARCH 20, 1969, FILE PHOTO*** They are removing the effects of the calamitous ice. The return of winter weather with frost and snowfall has caused considerable damage to telecommunications equipment, especially to overhead telephone lines in the South Moravian Region, where 1,400 masts and 40 km of lines have been destroyed. Splicers are working hard on the repairs and our soldiers are also helping them. Petr Gajdusek , Cyril Soural and Frantisek Kretinsky from the District Administration of Communications in Vyskov dismantle a boom from a telephone pole on the Vyskov-Bucovice section. (CTK Photo/Frantisek Nesvadba)