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."
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Ml UL
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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.
For the shelter survey, mar
keting and stocking program
on which $140 million has al
ready been spent, the admin
istration has requested anoth
er $56 million. Other requests
include:
Shelter in federal buildings
$35 million; warning and de
tecting $46 million; emergen
cy operations $33 million; aid
to states and localities $32
million; management $14 mil
lion; research $17.7 million.
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