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Show SURVIVAL 'HARDWARV FCDA Stockpiles Would Aid U. S. After Huge Attach The cities of Easton, Strouds-burg, Strouds-burg, and Scranton, Pa., depended de-pended on emergency pumps and purifiers for their city water in August 1955. FCDA medical supplies and 600 cots alleviated human suffering in Marysville and Yuba City, Calif., in December De-cember 1955, while pumps bailed out inundated Tuba City. One of the world I largest "hardware dealers" sells no merchandise, mer-chandise, has an 80,000-ton "inventory" "in-ventory" which is constantly increasing, in-creasing, and hopes that none of the "hardware" will ever be used. This vast stockpile of machinery machin-ery and supplies, housed in 65 warehouses across the nation, is the Federal Civil Defense Administration's Ad-ministration's store of Items which would be urgently and immediately needed if the United States were ever attacked. IT INCLUDES such widely diverse items as medical supplies sup-plies and blood "expanders" (chemicals which augment whole Blood), portable emergency hospitals, hos-pitals, gasoline-operated pumps, generators and water purifiers, , and radiological "survey meters" for detecting fallout. FCDA warehouses of all types are located from 20 to ' 100 miles from most major target areas in the nation, the size of the stockpile depending de-pending on the size and potential need of the target city. While FCDA styckpiles are primarily pri-marily for man-made disaster, they have also played a vital role i some recent floods. |
