Evening star., 1950-09-18
President Submits
Blueprint on Civil
Defense 10 Congress
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TENS and civil defense communi-
cations networks, issuing Federal
regulations on blackouts and cam
outage as determined by the mill
tary and co-ordinating civil de-
tense operations in a national
emergency. 10 @
Regional offices would link the
States with the Federal agency.
The Federal Government would
store and supply the type of
equipment peculiar to civil de-
fense. It would also bear part Of
the cost of community shelters,
communications facilities and
warning systems.
States Must Pay Part.
The States, however, were told
they would have to pay for their
own State civil defense Offices and
STATS, provide the facilities and
equipment not furnished by the
Federal Government and contrib
ute part of the cost for shelters
in the communities.
Communities were told to bear
the costs of local civil defense
director and staff, as well as the
training. equipment and shelter
costs not borne by State or Fed
eral Governments.
The 150-page blueprint" docu-
ment, entitled United States Civil
Defense" emphasized that NO
cities are expected to provide COM
pletely for their own protection or
for recovery after attack. Instead,
they are to build their plans
around their own resources to-
gether with what they can get in
the way of outside assistance in
an emergency.
Disaster Plan.
/ In event of a disaster, here's
how the planned set-up would
work:
To the State and it's area con-
troll centers would go warnings of
attack. CA warning system is
now being operated by the Air
Force until it can be taken over
by civil defense.)
From the State centers, the
warnings would go to communities
and finally, through public alarm
/. systems, to the people. If the
warning came early enough, there
might be partial evacuation from
the target area. At the alarm.
the people would take cover in
shelters.
The local control centers would
inform the various services of the
impending attack, marshal and
d1Sperse all civil defense forces,
and after the attack, assess the
amount of damage and order the
local forces into action.
From communities within a
radius Of roughly 20 miles, assist
ance would come by pre-arrange-
ment.
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II local and nearby forces were
inadequate to meet the disaster.
the local center would call the
State area control center to send
In mobile teams. These would
include rescue, first aid, emer-
gency feeding. Pathological and
chemical defense, engineering.
police and fire units.
If the mobile forces could not
cope with the disaster, the State
civil defense director would call
on the Federal civil defense
agency to arrange for help from
other States or, if neighboring
States already had mutual aid
pacts, direct appeal to the other
State could be made for help.
Exactly what the individual
citizen should be doing all this
time was not detailed. A series of
booklets on personal survival
problems in a modern war" was
promised, however.
The plan emphasized that CON
sistent with security, the people
must be told the truth about the
dangers of atomic, biological.
chemical and other types of war
fare which might be used" as well
as how effective a civil defense
program will or will not be against
these weapons.
Courses Encouraged.
Cities were told to encourage
their residents to take courses in
such self-protection measures as
flrst aid, fire prevention, emer-
gency health and sanitation and
ether courses sponsored by the
local. Red Cross or other com
munitieS agencies.
Householders are also to be
urged to equip themselves with
necessary tools and supplies for
the protection of their families.
Just what tools and supplies
should be accumulated will be
listed, theh planners said. in a
forthcoming "what-to-do" booklet
AS for shelters, the plan empha-
sized that providing shelters for
all the people in all places is
financially impossible. These three
types of shelter were recon-
mended:
Maximum strength shelters to
be built in limited numbers for
key personnel and facilities. i'm
portant to the community's safety
in an emergency.
Mass Shelters Suggested.
SubwayS, underground garages,
reinforced Easements of masonry
buildings and new reinforced con-
crete shelters for masses of the
population.
Reinforced portions of base
ments or shored-up dugouts for
small groups and families in resi-
dental areas.
1t was announced that detailed
plans for practical and inexpen-
sive family shelters and more
elaborate communal shelters are
being prepared. Meanwhile, city
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