Show H Civil Defense Leader Outlines CD Programs Here ere Tuesday i The purpose of the Civil De Defense Defense De- De program on national state and local levels were outlined Tuesday evening by Leonard HiggIns Higgins Higgins Hig- Hig gins Salt Lake City Utah director director direct direct- or or of Civil Defense at a meeting held in the high school auditorium sponsored by Red Rock squadron Civil Air Patrol Civil Defense is a program set setup setup setup up to take care of civilians Inthe in inthe inthe the case of war its main purpose being to designate people to do specific Jobs and to prepare all aU citizenry for orderly action in the event of such disaster Mr HIggins Higgins Hig- Hig gins said He pointed out that most of the deaths at Hiroshima and Nagasaki when the atom bomb was dropped were due to and chaos and not from blast or exposure to harmful rays The efforts and knowledge of people trained to take care of such would greatly diminish the death dealIng deal deal- Ing aftermath of an atomic bomb bomb- ing Mr HIggins also told the audience of the need for trained personnel to assist In evacuation and also as might be expected in this area to take care of the masses of people who would come from coastal and larger cities Another nother speaker Colonel Glenn Marston Salt Lake City Ground Observation Corps gave warnIng warning warn warn- ing that a war with Russia was more than a possibility He said it appeared to him that either there would be a war between Communistic Russia and Democratic Demo cratic countries or the communistic countries would have to give give up their aggressive beliefs and practices Colonel Marston stated that in the event of a war we would have to fight with what we had as there would be no time In which to prepare after a war had started as was wasso wasso wasso so during World War I II Following the discussion by Mr HIggins and Colonel Marston Captain A. A M. M Swenson commander com corn mander of or the Red Rock squadron squad squad- ron expressed the need for a better Civil Defense organization in Moab He opened the discussion discussion discus discus- sion slon to the audience and following following follow follow- ing this It was decided that the Red Rock squadron would be the proper agency to spearhead an organization movement Captain Swenson agreed to go ahead with witha a procedure Also on the program during the meeting were Major Holger Sell Sell- ing United States Air Alt Force lla- lla son officer to the Civil Air Patrol Utah Wing and Sergeant Clarence Clarence Clarence Clar Clar- ence Haskett of the Air Force A film on purposes of Civil Air Patrol was shown by Sergeant Haskett A vocal solo was presented pre pre pre- seated by Arils ArUs Irish |