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Show County Marked As Defense Area Utah County will be one of the areas in the state to receive re-ceive intensive study as part of Utah's Survival Plan Project Pro-ject according to Harold Brown, Salt Lake City, director of the project. Speaking last week to a regional, gathering of mayors and Civil Defense chiefs in Provo, Mr. Brown said the federal fed-eral government considers Utah County a potential target area. "We need to take a good, hard look at how our society is put together and at how our government would operate in a read emergency," he declared. de-clared. Civilian volunteers are not needed, Mr. Brown asserted, to create a vast Civil Defense army, but rather to augment existing governmental services. "We're operating on the premise pre-mise that no Civil Defense superman is going to swoop down and take care of things in event of a disaster. We need to know what we're going go-ing to do to save lives with existing facilities and personnel," person-nel," Mr. Brown explained. On an appropriation of $65,-000 $65,-000 from the federal government govern-ment the State Civil Defense Corps is conducting the study project to develop operational plans for evacuation, reception recep-tion of evacuees, shelter, or support of other struck areas in a disaster. Leonard Higgins, state C. D. director, said Utahns especially especial-ly isolated farmers and ranchers ranch-ers ought to have radiological radiologi-cal monitoring devices and know how to use them. Air force personnel urged volunteer support of the Ground Observer Corps and predicted that aircraft will be the dominant offensive and defensive de-fensive until 1970. |