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Evening star., 1955-06-16
Test Points Up
FaII-0ut Peril
BY a star stan correspondens

EMERGENCY PRESS HEAD
QUARTERS, Operation Alert,
June 16.--The Nationwide civil
defense exercise has confronted
the Eisenhower administration
with a major problem for which
there is no easy solution.
This is the fallout danger.
Top Government officials at
their secret relocation centers
somewhere outside Washington
had a lot to say about yester-
days simulated air attack on 81
cities in the continental United
States and it's territories. As the
mock attack ended, they re-
ported dutifully that serious fall
out problems had occurred in a
of the attacked areas.
They neglected to say, how
ever, that even some of the re-
location Offices were in the path
of a fallout from the simulated
bomb attack on Washington.
The prevailing wind at the
time of assumed attack would
have carried radioactive fall-out
southwestward q distance OF
perhaps 100 miles.
Civil defense spokesmen here
were a little vague on what
protection, If any, was afforded
at President Eisenhower's hide
away against the fall-out danger
and the extent to which the
problem has been considered in
preparing other relocation CEN
ters. About all they would say
was this:
There is adequate protection
against fail-out at some Of the
major relocation centers."
Protection at these relocation
centers is a relatively simple
matter. It is merely indicative Of
the vastly larger problem
This is the need for fall-out
protection for the millions who
might be forced to evacuate
American cities in the face Of
Evening star., 1955-06-16
Former MIG Pilot
Joins u. S. Air Force

NEW YORK. June is GA
former Polish Air Force pilot,
who escaped to Denmark in his
MIG plane two years ago, en-
listed in the United States Air
Force yesterday.
The fiier, jerry Jerry" JAZZ
winski, "a. married an American
girl six weeks ago and now lives
at Garden City, N. Y.
Evening star., 1955-06-16
President 5 Hill Hideowoy
IsNo Tent Operation

you get to chow on time or you
take pot luck-and a frown from
those who have to go looking
for it.
The Presidents sleeping quar-
tiers are in the same building
where he works. For the staff,
some of the nearby accommoda-
tions are quite pleasant. Some
of the others are quite rustic
and a bit on the pioneer side.
So are the working quarters in
many cases, but nobody was do
ing any public complaining.
Evening star., 1955-06-16
SIDELIGHTS OF ALERT
Officials Jump Gun
Before Sirens Go Off

at 2:08 pm. in "take-cover" sig
nal. AS the Pentagon workers
had in the earlier alert. other
Government workers were told
to go to their cars on this later
signal, wait q few minutes and
then return to their desks.
The Commerce Department
Civil Defense Organization has
been cited by District officials for
the seriousness with which the
members take their jobs.
There are more than 1,100 per-
sons with designated civil de-
fense tasks within the Commerce
Department building. Seventeen
known handicapped persons in
the building have been assigned
assistants who are given the jobs
of getting the handicapped out.
X Il -
Each of the seven floors Of the
Commerce Department Building
had deputy wardens assigned to
check all offices, Railways and
rest rooms to be certain there
was no "absenteeism." 1t was
found 100 per cent participation
had been obtained from the EN-.
ployes.
Youngsters at Jefferson Junior
High School, Eighth and H
streets S.W., knew exactly what
they were doing yesterday. But,
in at least one case, they
doubted it would do any good.
Some youngsters came out
Juggling priced books and even
notebooks they wanted to take
with them. One boy brought a
brand-new clarinet.
The doubter was a member OF
one of the many groups for
which no car showed UP. Prin-
cipal Hugh s Smith asked the
boy to run and have the leaders
of similar groups make q note
of the fact that no car was
present for them.
The boy started OF with a
noticeable reluctance, comment
ing over his shoulder:
Jaw We're already dead"
Evening star., 1955-06-16
BY MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
AP Stan Writer

80 AP Stan Writer
EMERGENCY WHITE HOUSE,
Operation Alert, June 16.-Pres-
ident Eisenhower's secret hide
away here in the mountains is
no tent city nor hardship
headquarters. .
The place from which he is
directing Government opera
tions in this preparedness test
is "off the record" to a major
extent. But he is comfortably
housed-much more comfortably
than some members of his staff
at the same general location.
His aides have authorized ac-
companying newsmen to say the
Chief Executive is based in a
wooded, mountainous area.
Under a voluntary censorship
system it is not possible to say
more than that it is within 300
miles of Washington. Nor is it
permissible to mention the
State or whether Mr.. Eisenhower
ever has been here before. The
site might be used in a real
emergency.
It can be said, however, that
around 80 members of Mr.. Eisen-
hower's White House staff were
on hand when he arrived here
early last evening. Most of them
already were at work.
The President went imme-
diately to his quarters. News
men we're barred from them,
but the glimpse they caught
made it plain Mr.. Eisenhower
wouldn't have to rough 1t during
his stay through tomorrow.
The Presidents dinner menu
wasn't made public. There was
speculation whether the fare
was the same the others had
hot dogs, sauerkraut, baked
beans and ice cream.
1t quite likely wasn't true, in
President Eisenhower's case, that
he had to show UP on time or GO
without.
At least one busy newsman re-
ported late to dinner. The hot
dogs and the sauerkraut were all
gone and he had to settle for a
couple of boiled potatoes, beans
and three slabs of bologna.
There is no doubt about it
Evening star., 1955-06-16

an actual enemy H-bomb attack.
Evacuation has become a
principle feature of the civil de-
fense program headed by Fed
eral Administrator Val Peter
son. But evacuees. as in yes
terday's test, would be sent willy
nilly out of the cities in hopes
that somehow and somewhere
they would find shelter against
the fall-out.
The administration has re-
quested Congress to vote $12
million for a survey OF evacua-
ton needs that would include
possible shelter facilities in a
l5-to-50-mile area around 100
American cities.
Evening star., 1955-06-16
Oscar Convoy
Takes Bethesda
Group 80 Miles

~ IIiiSS
Riding In a Oscar motorcade.
130 adults and 224 children from
the Sonoma area of Bethesda
yesterday fed their homes at the
sound of Operation Alert's first
siren.
The evacuation convoy
plagued by an unexpected mis-
routing. travelled more than 80
miles on country roads to New
market, Md. in Frederick
County.
The Newmarket hosts to the
evacuees are members OF one of
the Nations few farm groups
organized to receive, shelter and
feed urban dwellers, who would
flee to the country in the face
of imminent atomic attack.
The test flight was planned
entirely by members of the Ayr.
lawn Citizens Association. The
association covers the area
bounded by Old Georgetown
road and Ewing street en- the
east and west and Johnson ave-
niue and Greentree road on the
north and south.
Residents of the area ran for
their automobiles at the sound
of sirens at Wyngate School
and the National Institute OF
Health.
Other Minor Mishaps
Besides the misrouting Incl
dent near the line separating
Montgomery and Frederick
Counties, there were minor mis-
haps:
A Sonoma housewife, Mrs.
Robert Bingham of 9001 Seneca
lane, was forced to drop out of
the convoy near Damascus when
sparks began shooting out of her
auto cigarette lighter. With her
were her three daughters, Carol,
5: Edith, 4, and Barbara, 2. The
smallest child, it was finally
learned, had stuck two pennies
behind the dashboard earlier in
the day.
At the convoy's rallying point
at Old Georgetown road and
Wall lane. another housewife,
Mrs. j. w. Murphy. decided to
leave her car and ride with Mrs.
William Murphy, her sister-in-
law.
Suddenly, a few minutes after
the convoy rolled off, Mrs. ]. w.
Murphy remembered her car
lights were still on. The sister,
in-law, and the six children with
them, sped back to Wall lane,
doused the car lights, and were
given a police escort back to the
convoy.
Convoy leader Lewis M. Brans-
comb. chairman of the Ayrlawn
Civil Defense Committee, was
the central figure in the mixup
Iat a crossroads just inside Fred.
Ierick County.
Escort to County Line
Montgomery County motor
cycle policemen and police cruis-
ers had escorted the line of cars
to the county line. Civil defense
workers in Frederick County were
to take over the direction of the
convoy. Mr.. Branscomb expected.
Instead, a check-point set up
by the Farmers Emergency Civil
Defense Committee. Inc, of New
market was missed. Apparently
the convoy. without specific di-
rection took the wrong road just
after crossing the county line.
The convoy, the last car Of
which departed from the rally
ing point at 1924 pm. was
safely within the grounds of the
Newmarket School by lao pm.
AS it turned out, taking the
wrong road and bypassing the
check-point saved the convoy
riders both time and distance.
In the school at Newmarket,
1.-THE road-weary urban dwellers
were treated with genuine hos
pitality. Although the evacuees
had been instructed to bring
Emergency food and water ra-
tions, the women of the Farmers
Emergency Committee piled
them with cake, cookies and
milk.
Evening star., 1955-06-16
Operation Alert Is Called
Good Test of Real Thinq

was hoped they would shelter
people still alive.
Another team would be sent
over to the White House. just to
see If there might be any one
In the strong subterranean
shelters there. There were fires
to the east and west Of the
White House, but it was be-
lieved the mansion could be
reached by way of the open
areas to the south. Anyway,
this was the hope of Charles B.
Overman, chief Of the civil de-
fense branch of GSA.
Fire in North
A tremendous fire ragged in the
northern part Of the city from
Third and Upshur streets NV,
across to Sixteenth street. Bat
talon Fire Chief Clarence Noble
figured how to get men and
equipment there and what to do
when they got there because
there was no water in the mains.
Fires were building UP in the
Northeast, and there was no
water there, either.
Teams were pushing in from
the suburbs and clearing streets
so rubber-tired vehicles could
use them. Miles F. Rouse of the
Highway Department said one
team was working its way down
through the Soldiers Home area
and across to Eighteenth street
and Euclid avenue NV. People
were reported trapped In an
apartment house in that vicinity.
Messages were being sent to
the Health, Education and We'll
fare Department. now directed
from q more peaceful spot, ask
ing for medical supplies.
The Municipal Building with
Police Headquarters had prac-
tically been destroyed. Capt. Earl
Noble, of the CD liaison office
in the Police Department, said
six precinct stations had been
out and the Department
was operating only with the
outlying stations and about 10
percent of its uniformed force.
Peanut Bomb
All this, according to the esti-
mates, was from what really
was a rather small bomb that
burst high in the air. Not q
bomb but an atomic
bomb. Equal to 100000 tons Of
TINT. Ten times the size Of the
Hiroshima bomb. But that bomb
is regarded now as a peanut in
bomb size.
Fallout and radiation were not
regarded as too serious problems.
The fallout pattern extended to
theh south and southwest. This
was determined after earlier
calculations had been ref1gured.
The fallout pattern drawn up
was pieshaped. The point was at
Washington. The length was 240
miles, as far as Durham, N. C.
The eastern edge took in Will
liamsburg. The western edge lay
just east of Danville. Va.
Richmond was in the path. In
fact, Richmond got ~ twice. It
was also iii the path of the fall
out from the blast over Pitts
burgh.
But the radiation problem was
not too serious. Forty eight
hours after the blast the Penta-
gon, relatively undamaged, was
habitable. again. Efforts were
being made to reach 1t to learn
if the medical services there
could help in the civilian prob
lens.
All this is suppositious-hap-
PLY.
brought in and cared for. And
later there was mulligan stew to
hearten the "fugitives."
The take cover" signal went
off at 2:05 pm. Whereas the
original yellow alert bore the
code name 'lemonjuice," the
take cover or red alert carried
the name "apple jack"
Presumably the "all clear"
code-named "snow man." went
out at 3:48 pm. by conelrad
radio. Presumably, also. of
those left in the central part
of the city few could hear 1t.
Evening star., 1955-06-16

lit going of around here. You
said right out there?" He re-
turned to the suits and haber-
dashery.
Yesterdays exercise was a hy-
brid. The Government sent 49,
900 employees away from their
Jobs. Other toilers for Uncle
Sam kept plugging away. And
not happily, in all cases.
An employe at the Capitol,
who requested anonymity. said,
why do they go and we stay?"
It was a rhetorical question,
a nswered Immediately. Be
cause" this unnamed one con-
tinued. they're picking out the
ones who can die and the ones
who can live"
Clocks got around to the
precise moment when the script
had the unseen thermonuclear
object come bustling down on
Policeman Seymour's intersec-
ton.
That was when Mr.. and Mrs.
Alonzo A. Parker of Lynn, Mass,
here on a vacation, happened
along.
They had been looking around
some time, and had heard the
sirens and horns yelling that
Judgment Day was nigh.
"We thought it was air raid
drill Mr.. Parker said, "but no
body seemed to be doing any
thing.
Nothing Happens
up home when we have them
the wardens get out in the
streets. Everybody has to get of
the. street and the cars are
waved over to the curb and the
people in them have to get out
and take shelter. But here they
don't do anything"
Eleventh and F is noiser than
usual these days because a park
ing garage is going UP there
About 100 men were manhan-
ding the job yesterday. The air
raid drill meant naught to them
So it got to be 3 minutes
after the time Eleventh and F
theoretically went upstairs to fall
out someplace over Upper Snow
shoe, Manitoba.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Petersen
I1718 H street NV, house man.
ayers there for the Dacor House
the "Dacor" meaning "Diplo'
matte and Counselor officers Re.
tired" arrived at the corner.
Mr.. Petersen said the drill "is
a good idea" He knew he was
where the bomb had just theo.
Iretically done away with him
I"They've got to learn the raic
Signals" he said. How else are
we going to learn them? Except
Iby tests like this one?"
Skirted Disaster
John B. Azevedo. 3410 Forty.
first avenue, Colmar Manor, Md.
To- hacker. hauled in to pick ur
a fare. In three blocks, Mr.. Aze'
vedo had skirted disaster BY
only the margin Of the dust or
the skirts of his tenders. To be
fair, it was the opposition's fault
in every case.
Mr.. Azevedo, obstructed by a
traffic light, permitted himself
Ito comment adversely on mo-
Itorists who endanger a hackers
Longevity.
The passenger suggested, and
lit was a really asinine sugges-
Ition, that the other drivers might
Ibe concerned over the air raid
drill.
so that's what was going on,
said the cabbie. II wondered
what all the hootin' was about.
Evening star., 1955-06-16
BY FRANCIS P. DOUGLAS

BY FRANCIS r. DOUGLAS
Col. John E. Fondahl, Civil
Defense director. still working
today on imaginary problems
created by yesterdays make-be-
lieye blasting of Washington.
described the defense exercise as
generally a success
It provided information to be
used as the basis for future plans.
he said. It gave volunteer civil
defense workers a taste of the
problems they would be expected
to meet under an actual attack,
he added.
The civil defense staff and
volunteers were still wrestling to-
day with the seemingly insoluble
and fortunately hypothetical
problems caused by good part
of the Capital being reduced to
shambles.
Buildings Emptied
That was the assumption in
yesterdays exercises. which
swept President Eisenhower and
$4,000 other Government work.
ers to. refugees outside the city.
The exercise also sent 200. 900 or
more workers streaming from
Government buildings. presum-
ably to race for their cars and
take off on the escape routes.
Actually they went to their cars
but did not leave.
The preliminary reports from
this part of the test were ia
vorable. 1t was estimated that
most Government buildings were
evacuated in 5 minutes. 1t took
49, minutes to assign workers to
all cars available. There ap-
peared to be enough cars in the
area to carry all Government
workers.
It was reported from the Pent-
agon that evacuation of the
$4,000 workers there took about
Is minutes. But, 1t was esti-
mated that an additional so to
Is minutes would be necessary
to get all cars out of the park
ing lots.
"Burst" Over City
The bomb was supposed to be
exploded high in the air above
Eleventh and F streets NV. the
center of daytime population.
The time was set for 3:25 pm
By4 pm. the CD staff and VOL
urfeers were hard at work at a
command post set up in the
basement of the Armory.
Here various assumptions were
made. for the purpose of the ex-
erciSe. It was not 35 minutes
after the bomb went off, but 48
hours afterward. BY that time
1t was estimated that workers,
WHO had been dispersed to the
suburbs. could get into the city.
The assumptions then depict
ed&S disaster of a horror and
a4pitude greater than any big
cit9 has ever endured. These
wefA some of the make-believe
dess4ls:
ne killed numbered 82.04O
ann the injured 31,T6O. These
11AB00 casualties were suffered
in the estimated $4,000 persons
wtoshad not fed the city. With
in "a hours about 1000 more
were to die. bringing the death
ton to $4,000.
White House SpIintered
only q few fragments of the
White House were left standing.
The Old Post Office with its
cldck tower on Pennsylvania
avenue at Twelfth street was
gone. It was not a steel and con-
crEte building and it was close
tosthe target-zero point.
The Treasury and the Execu-
tive Office Building were piles of
rubble.
Parts of steel and concrete
buildings were standing. 1t was
assumed that if people had re-
manned In such buildings near
target-zero they would be dead.
Don't bother about them now.
Teams were being sent to the
Interior and General Services
Buildings. Near the edge of the
circia NJ cnnon1eta destination IL
Evening star., 1955-06-16
DID YOU HEAR
THE SIGNALS?

It is vital to you and I'M
portant to Civil Defense that
you hear the Air Raid Warm
ing Signals. Please fill out
and mail this coupon. This
information will help Civil
Defense to help you.
How did you hear the Alert
Signal at 1905 PM. yester-
day?
Loud q Faint q Not Heard c
Where were your
(Street Address)
How did you hear the Take
Cover Signal at 2:05 PM.
yesterday?
Loud q Faint q Not Heard [
Where were you?
IGfraaf AdfiroScl
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-05-11
Duck Banded in Ark.
Killed in North Russia
Three Years Later

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, R-
A pintail duck banded on the
nearby Arkansas National Wild
life Refuge in 1851 was reported
killed at Kresta Bay in Russia last
spring.
Refuge Manager Julian A. How
ard said it was the first Arkansas
banded duck he knew of ever to
have pierced the Iron Curtain. He
said he learned of the ducks I'M
usual flight when he received a
report from the Washington office
of the Fish and Wildlife Service.
Hundreds of ducks are tagged
each year on the Arkansas refuge,
wintering grounds of the famous
whooping crane, and data on the
migration Of tagged birds is used
by federal and state game officials.
Kresta Bay is just south Of the
Arctic Circle and on the same par
allel as Nome.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-05-11
First Graders Watch
AS Nugget Goes to Press

Thirty little first graders with
their teacher, Mrs. Foster, invad-
ed the Nugget Monday at press
time and witnessed how a news
paper is put together and printed.
Future interested newsboys saw
the process with curiosity and la
ter in the afternoon returned and
asked for jobs.
In the class are:
Joann Alexander, Harold Alexine,
Frances Aresac, Annie Attatayuk,
Margaret Attatayuk, Mary Carter,
Helena Dimmick, Meta May En-
ingowuk, Jean Foster, Lloyd Har-
day, Douglas Heath;
Lily Nagaruk, Angela Norbert,
Lawrence O'Connor, Ruth Okit-
kan, Sarah Oksoktaruk, Clifford
Oquilluk, Floyd Pauwok Jr., Ag-
mes Payenna, Randi Powell, Sill
verio Ruiz, Bernhart Savok;
Richard Scott, Henry Seelkoke,
Merrill Swim, Albert Teayoumeak,
Hannah Teayoumeak, Jeannette
Tiepelman, Philip Titus, Roy To-
buk, John Towner, George Tucker
Jr., Betty Tungwenuk, Russell
Wall1Ix
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-05-11
Frank Morris lis
NOme's New ARC
District Engineer

JUNEAU, May 3-The Alaska
Road Commission has announced
the appointment of a district engi-
neer for the Nome district.
Mr.. Frank Morris has been pro-
NOTED from assistant district engi-
neer of the Valdez District to dis
trict engineer of the Nome Dis
trict, vacant during the past win
ter as a result of transfer of Mr..
John M. Cooley to the Valdez Dis
trict as district engineer in No
vember 1854.
Except for three years with the
US. Air Corps during World War
III, Mr.. Morris has served contin-
uously with the Alaska Road Com
mission since 1889
Born at Kennecott, Alaska, Mr..
Morris is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Alaska. He served in
both the Anchorage and Fairbanks
districts before moving to Valdez,
primarily on pioneer survey loca-
ton and construction work
He is thus particularly qualified
for this new position at Nome,
where much of this type of work
is in progress.
Mr.. Frank Morris is due here
the middle of this month.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-05-11
TUESDAY BASEBALL.
National League

Brooklyn 8, Chicago 0
New York 8, Cincinnati
Pittsburgh 9, Milwaukee 6
St. Louis 5, Philadelphia 3
American League
Cleveland 9, New York 6
Chicago 4, Boston 2
Washington 7, Detroit
Baltimore IL, Kansas City l
Pacific Coast League
Seattle A, Los Angeles |
Oakland 9, Portland 8
San Francisco FL, Sacramento
10
San Diego 5, Hollywood |
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-05-11
n @ r 1 n =

City stickers for 1855 are re-
CURED on all cars. trucks and
pick-ups operated on the City
streets. except on government
vehicles.
Carrie NJ. McLain.
City Clerk
Publish May 9, II, 10, 1855
Evening star., 1955-10-21
Milk Thiei
Robs School Cofe

Alexandra police reported to-
day q school building and q
hardware store eon Duke street
were robbed last night.
A janitor said this morning
the StonewaIl jackson School
lat 3332 Duke street was entered
and q soft-drink machine rified
|of s. In coins. In addition. Is
half pints of milk were missing
from the school cafeteria. Also
broken into during the night
was the Croft q Anderson
Hardware and Building Supply
firm at 1850 Duke street.
Police said the burglar at
tempted to open the safe in
the hardware store after forcing
open q rear window.
Evening star., 1955-10-21
Teenoge Romance Figure
Loses Suit for Release

pie again ran on and finally took
rat poison near Roanoke. Va.
Dyes father, Of 514 Philadel-
phia avenue. Takoma Park,
brought habeas corpus proceed
ings through attorney Joseph e
Finley to have the boy released
from Seton, on the ground he
had not been committed there
by two psychiatrists.
Z After explanations by Judge
Noyes and States Attorney Al
ger Barbee, Of Montgomery
County, Judge Warnken pointed
out to the parents that the boy
was not committed as q mental
patient, but was merely held for
psychiatric study. Mr.. Barbee
explained young Dye win again
come before the Juvenile Court
at Rockville in about three weeks
for final disposition.
Judge Warnken refused t.
grant the writ and remanded
the youth 10 the custody Of the
ipstitution.