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THURSDAY, JULY 19. 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Public Interest in Fallout Shelters Expected To Show Increase This Fall ." Editor's not: "When lh ikies are clear, no one if inler 'ested In civil defense. Sudden ly, then, when the clouds 'com after all. and we have 'no assurance that they will 'not come, then everyone want! to find out why more -hai not been done about it." -: President Kennedy at his July ;6 news conference. ; By DARREL1 GARWOOD :' Washington OJPIt The tall, lean, 43-year-old Yale gradu ate who heads the nation's civil defense program is will ing to gamble that interest in fallout shelters will pick up this fall. I Assistant Defense Secre tary Stuart L. Pittman be lieves, furthermore, that the resurgence of Interest will not reflect a rise in international tensions. The reasons, he thinks, will be closer to the family hearth. When Pittman left his .Washington law practice to take the civil defense job last Sept. 21, the Berlin crisis was tat its height and the big shel ter program was the apple of .the administration's eye. ; Now he is faced with monu mental indifference in Con - gross and a pall of apathy on .the subject throughout the .country. But he Isn'f discour aged. iMore Intensive Action I "I think we're at a low point," he said in an Inter "view. "I think public interest 'will pick up when we get -more Intensive action at the -local level. And that will be toon." : Pittman has purchased $33 .million worth of food and .equipment which is scheduled "to start moving next fall Into well-marked public shelters. "He made clear he expected :EI Paso Citizens Due Settlement In Border Dispute . EI Paso, Tex. - IUPII - Mayor Hnlph Scitsinger says that American property owners in El Paso will get about $35 mil lion indemnity in the settle ment of a border dispute be tween the U.S. and Mexico. He said he has been told of plans for changes in the U.S. Mexico boundary but could not disclose them at this lime. "The new boundary will provide a beautiful new fron tier for El Paso and the Unit ed States," Scitsinger said. President Kennedy and Mexican President Adolfo Lopez Matcos discussed the question during Kennedy's visit to Mexico June 29-July I T. The United Slates promised I to press for an amicable : settlement. Good for U.S. I . "While the change may hurt tome people in the area it will be to the over-all good of the United States," Seit tingcr said. "The indemnity that will be paid to American property owners in the dis puted area will amount to ap proximately $35 million. , "This will come back into the El Paso economy in new buildings and Improvements, thereby aiding the city." Earlier, Scitsinger said he had no information that any definite agreement had been reached. "There has been a designat ed area discussed and Ihoy (officials) are determining the possibility of an agreeable land transaction," he said. Major Industry A meal packing plant is the only major industry in the disputed area. Scitsinger said the plant would be offered a new site in or near El Paso. The area also includes four rlemcnlary schools, one high school and a government housing project. Lopez Matcos told Kennedy that Mexico's national pride was more of an Issue than the 630 acres which was left on the U. S. side when the Rio Grande changed course In 1864. In 1911, an Impartial boundary commission recom mended that the land be turn ed back to Mexico. The Unilcd Stales refused to accept the recommendation. this to perk up public interest. He conceded that it is diffi cult to stir enthusiasm for dis tributing umbrellas when it isn't raining, and that nation al interest In homefiont pro tection seldom runs high when diplomatic waters are calm. But," he said, "when you come hard up against decid ing who is to get what shelter space, and under what circum stances you should bring the baby's bottle, such small ques tions in total may have a strong if less spectacular hold on the public interest." rtv Ml UL rW.-'V It A DIFFERENT RIDE The Glllis family who traveled In a horse drawn wagon from Providence Forge, Va., to Cali fornia enjoy a different kind of ride after 294 days on the road. They are shown taking a thrill ride on the "Sea Shell" at Pacific Ocean Park at Santa Monica, Calif. From left, they are Alan, 17; Carol, 15; Janet, 10; father Leon Gillis, George, 7; Mrs. Ivone Gillis, Lee Ann, 18, and Barbara, 14. (UPI) Pittman said there are sev eral misconceptions about the shelter program, and listed them as follows: That Congress is about to scuttle the whole shelter proj ect. It's true, he conceded, that Congress has scheduled no hearings and seems un likely to act favorably on the $460 million "shelter incen tive program," but 135 million shelter spaces are planned un der other programs and 60 million already have been se lected. Without the incentive money, civil defense still should have about $235 mil lion for the fiscal year begun July 1, or about the same as last year. That studies have shown fallout shelters would save many lives in a nuclear war. On the contrary, Pittman said, the trend is toward a po tential war situation in which shelters would be increasingly effective. He pointed out that more and more intercontinen tal missiles are being placed in underground launching si los, and that attempts to knock these out would re quire ground nuclear bursts - the kind that create fallout. That people are no long er concerned about fallout and are opposed to shelters. This apparently confuses apathy with a change of opinion, he said. Pittman said a study just completed for the Defense De partment by the University of Michigan indicates that 71 per cent of the population still favors the government's shel ter program as far as it goes. This, he said, includes 26 per cent who think it doesn't go far enough. Horrible Prospects "I can't believe people are no longer concerned about fallout, when it poses some of the most horrible prospects ever contemplated by man," Pittman said. "Just imagine," he continu ed, "a situation in which a series of ground nuclear bursts has scooped up mil lions upon millions of tons of fallout, and millions or tens of millions of people without shelters have suffered a lethal dose of radioactivity in the first half hour or hour after the fallout begins. "But they will not die for about two weeks. The man who thinks he is going to ba' e his breast for a quick death in the nuclear war should think about those possible two weeks of living death." While Pittman did not men tion the fact, the recent trend in nuclear strategic thinking as well as in weapons deploy ed underground has suggested to many that increased im portance should be given to shelters. Incentive To Spare Cities Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, in an Ann Arbor, Mich., speech, said the U.S. nuclear force is sufficiently strong to permit a strategy in which only Russian military targets would be attacked in war. This, he said, would give the Soviets the "strongest pos sible incentive" to spare American cities. The shelters admittedly could not save people within blast range of attacks on cities. But if the attacks could be confined to military tar gets they would have a good chance of saving civilians from the long-distance effect of fallout. None of the civil defense money for the current fiscal year has been voted at yet, but all of the serious objec tions voiced so far apply to the incentive or subsidy money. 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