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z f M A. VI 6 51st Year Medford United Press Full Leased Wire Price 10c Tribune United Presi Full Leased W 2nd Section MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY. 30, 1957 Pages 1 to 6 Means of Saving Life in Case 'It' Falls Unchanged Since Olden Days Kdltort not: W ar llvini 1b the age of the intercontinental ballistic inm.I, fail oat and radio-activity. So person In the tnited States is un affected. For somt the rltk it Rrrater. The two million person living in the San Francisco Bav Area are keenly aware of their prime target status because of naval and military installations. How many would sur vive an atomic or thermonuclear blast? What irf the latent develop ments? How have shelters rhartmd since World War II? The following di.patrh Is the first of a series or three that attempts to answer these questions. Br WILEY MALONEY United Press Correspondent San Francisco (U.Pj Basic means of saving your life in case "it" falls on you have not changed since cave man days BLIGHT KNIVES Bergman's SHOP 1012 Crater Lake Highway PHONE 2-6771 you either run or you hide. "It" is the irtercontinetal bal listic missile (ICBM) with an atomic or themonuclear war head. This weapon's development and we are on the verge of hav ing it announced formally as accomplished has led to greater emphasis being placed upon shelter in combination with evacuation. You may have only a 15 minute warning that "it" is com ing. The other choice, then, is the same taken by our cave man ancestors when the enemy was throwing "rocks. You duck or get under cover. The Federal Civil Defense Ad ministration inperprets "run or hide" by the words "space and shielding." Space, of course, means putting distance between you and "it." Shielding, natural ly, is shelter. There is no third method of preserving life in event of undeclared ICBM war fare. The best thing is not to be in the spot where "it" drops. No Shelter Perfect "Space and shielding," said FCDA Administrator Val Peter son, "are our most Important devices or tools in civil defense. There is no shelter in existence today nor will there be, that will withstand the worst blast and thermal effects of themonuclear explosions. But through our re search and study, we believe that a standard of shelter can be achieved that will give ac ceptable probabilites of sur vival." Adequate bomb-proof shelters now have become necessary be cause warning time has been cut so drastically. This makes it im possible to evacuate cities or in dustrial areas quickly e'nough. In areas which escape actual bombing, but which lie in the path of possible deadly radio active fallout, a system of shelt ers will be needed. Yet, evacua-' tion still must be planned for those who are saved by such lighter shelters or even the heavier ones.. People just have to be moved from a radioactive area. There are two basic differ ences in modern shelter design as compared with those in World War II. They have to do with the structure of the shelter and Plane Mechanics To Strike Feb. 8 Miami -UP.) Some 1,000 Na tional Air Lines mechanics have announced they will strike at noon Feb. 8 unless last-minute contract negotiations succeed. The strike would close down the giant airline in the middle of the heavy winter tourist traffic and cost the Miami area alone an estimated $500,000 to $1,000, 000 a day in revenue. The strike date was posted Tuesday in a bulletin put out by District 145 of the International Association of Machinists. the time it probably will be oc cupied. World Wax -II shelters were designed to withstand the blast of ordinary high explosives whose impact was like that of a hammer's blow destructive but of verv short duration. The shelter walls might crack, but remain standing. Force of Locomotive Modern shelters, however, must withstand the "sustained" force of nuclear weapons a force compared to that of a speeding locomotive smashing into a wall. After cracking the wall, energy still pushes for ward, toppling everything it its path. The other dlifference has to I do with the time the shelter I actually is inhabited. World War II shelters were of "short-term" design built for use during the actual bombing attack only, per haps a few minutes or hours. One waited until the last brick fell like waiting for the second shoe to fall on the floor over head. Modern shelters must be de signed for long time use to accommodate numbers of people Kansas is the world's largest producer of hard winter wheat. Oregon Ml. Tunnel May Be Possibility Grants Pass A tunnel through Oregon mountain on Highway 199 between Grants Pass and Crescent City, Calif., "should not be ruled out" as a possible solution to straighten ing the highway, according to California State Highway En gineer Alan S. Hart. According to the Crescent City American, realignment of the Redwood highway from Hiouchi bridge to the Oregon line is third on the supervisors' prior ity list of projects recommend ed by the state highway depart ment in Del Norte county. for days, perhaps a week or more, until radioactivity "de cays'" to a point permitting evacuation. Why not, it may be asked, simply write off as a total loss the destruction of a prime tar get area? The answer is contain ed partially in a statement made by Winston .Churchill. "One plane," he said, "one submarine, the day after an at tack, are worth one hundred the day before. That is why they have selters in Sweden." The survival of a large pro portion of a civilian population is still more important. Tomorrow: Modern home shelters and how Ihey withstand "it." Start the New Year With Your Bills Consolidated and have LOWER PAYMENTS or get the cash you need for any worthwhile purpose. SEE Oregon Finance Co. 45 So. Central Home Owned and Managed Hart told supervisors that aerial mapping is being done and that studies of the project should be completed by July this year. Oregon mountain is regarded s one the most troublesome and dangerous spots on the highway between Grants Pass and Cres cent City. CHESTS EXPANDING New York (U.PJ Ameri can women are busting out of their raincoats, the Almar Man ufacturing Co. reported today. The company said it had in creased the frontal expansion of its medium size raincoats to 40 inches to rectify the situa tion. It surveys shows the aver age American woman's chest measurement is an inch and a half larger than in 1947. 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