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Show Ofy, sdmk jm k tmfsmii-vjkk grferf Civil defense alert at 2 p.m.; all asked to cooperate in test Springville will join in a country-wide exercise, "Operation Alert," Friday afternoon when schools will be evacuated and everyone in town will set under cover. The operation is being requested on a nationwide nation-wide basis to determine the time necessary for students to get home and for the general population to take to cover in case of an emergency. In charge of arrangements in Springville is Dave Friel, civil defense director. Supt. Russell Stansfield of Nebo School district said Wednesday the schools in Nebo district will cooperate 100 percent, per-cent, although two major events had been scheduled including in-cluding the Springville Art Unveiling which has been changed to the forenoon and the Music Festival which was to be held in Payson, would be postponed to Monday. The schools have been asked to distribute a blank ,to each of the students with the time to be listed when the evacuation evacua-tion began, the time evacuation evacua-tion was completed, number of students involved and the name of the school. Mr. Friel said that at 2 p.m., there will be a long blast of the fire siren to notify the schools and the public to be in the alert and be ready to evacuate. At 2:30 the danger signal, long and short, long and short, siren will notify everyone of the actual evacuation evacua-tion and every student will be asked to get home as quickly as possible and to make note of the time it takes. From 2 until 2:30 p.m., radio ra-dio stations will be silent except ex-cept CONELR AD 640 or 1240 on the dials, which will give instructions concerning the emergency. Throughout the emergency period from 2 until 2:30 p.m., there will be police and other designated cars patrolling the streets and those who disregard the instructions set forth by the civil defense officers, will be picked up. Especially will a check be made of students, who may be found loitering on the streets after the danger signal sig-nal sounds. While civil defense officials are not anticipating any danger dan-ger from bombs in this particular par-ticular area, there is danger of fall-out in case of bombings in other parts of the state, Mr. Friel said Wednesday. There are also other emergencies emer-gencies other than bombings (Continued on Page 2, Col. 5) City, schools join in defense alert (Continued from Page One.) which may also arise at any time, and the nation, the state, the county and the cities are taking precautions in providing provid-ing safety measures for everyone, every-one, it was stated, and cooperation cooper-ation of everyone in the city, whether or not they are converted con-verted to the measures being taken, is requested, according to officers in charge. |