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Show LJ . ."-.' V. 1 - j Mis" if' u . " i. ' ri r.-'f '.r I - " J WOMEN'S GROUP is shown the fundamentals of civil defense during an illustrated talk given by Robert S. Ritz (at projector), a training officer for the Illinois Civil Defense Agency. Ritz was hired recently under a new Federal program to split 50-50 with State and local civil defense agencies agen-cies the costs of enlarging their staffs to accelerate acceler-ate nuclear-age survival measures. (OCDM Photo) TOOLS OF SURVIVAL are checked over by Robert S. Ritz, new training officer for the Illinois Civil Defense Agency, who joined the staff under a new law permitting the States and the Federal Government to share equally the cost of additional civil defense staff employes. Purpose of the law is to build up undermanned State and local civil defense units to meet their responsibilities in preparing the public for survival from nuclear attack. One of Ritz's duties is to develop new training courses in cooperation with specialists in the various civil defense fields to indoctrinate CD workers and the public on survival measures. (OCDM Photo) Added help tor hard-pressed State and local civil defense staffs Is being provided under a new federally-aided program to build up the nation's non-military forces. The result, Civil and Defense Mobilization Director Frank B. ifU j .n-;: ! I 1 1 " 1 - u t V1 " ' , - - I , i : ' . ! 1 xv . .Ew ..asfeaaaiisisiiii&a&sssi , Hiiiis points, out, will ee Better preparation for civilians to survive sur-vive enemy attack. Ellis added: "I am asking the governors and all other city and county officials of every State to impress upon their people that they have a spiritual obligation obli-gation to prepare for their survival sur-vival and for the survival of others." A typical new employe under the program is Lt. Col. Robert S. Ritz, 42, who retired after 20 years in the Army and now serves as training officer for the Illinois Civil Defense Agency in Chicago. He went to work Feb. : 1, 1961. j His varied Army career included includ-ed radiological training which would help qualify him to instruct in-struct civil defense radiological defense courses. RITZ WAS HIRED under an Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization Mo-bilization grant to Illinois of $240,000. This is part of $6 million authorized under Public Law 85-606 and made available by Congress starting Jan. 1, 1961. The program now enables State and Federal governments govern-ments to split 50-50 the cost of hiring additional staff members, and their added . operating expenses such as travel, office space, communications, com-munications, and similar items. Hitherto, State and local governments received no Federal financial aid to help cover civil defense administrative ad-ministrative or salary costs. One of the principal require- RESCUE DEMONSTRATION Is put on by the Chicago Civil Defense Fire find Rescue Service for Robert S, Ritz (left) , new Illinois Civil Defense Agency training officer,, who Is gathering material for a new civil defense rescue course. The demonstration dem-onstration shows how a man caught under a heavy object can be rescued. With Ritz Is Charles J. j Johnson, volunteer chief of the Fire and Rescui Service, which is on call 24 hours a day. The CD workers frequently go into action with the Chicago Chi-cago Fire Department. Ritz's salary is paid 50-50 by the Illinois and Federal governments under a new program to strengthen State and local civil defense for greater effectiveness. (OCDM Photo) ROBERT S. RITZ New career in civil defense. , ments under the program is that States and localities must expand their civil defense capabilities, and not merely shift to the Federal Fed-eral Government some of the costs of maintaining the status quo of local civil defense. IN AUTHORIZING OCDM to go ahead with the program, Congress Con-gress also stipulated that funds be allocated, only to those civil defense organizations with merit system personnel policies. Among improvements foreseen fore-seen under the shared-cost program pro-gram are improved readiness of State and local governments to deal with enemy attack, and a more coordinated and unified civil defense under national guidance.. t tr--r--v:' i 1 RADIOLOGICAL MONITORING is one of the principal courses stressed today by most civil defense de-fense organizations as a preparation for saving life from radioactive fallout which could follow a nuclear attack. A corps of citizen specialists is being trained to measure fallout and forewarn the public. New laws allowing ie Federal Government Gov-ernment to assume half the costs of hiring more State and local civil defense workers are now speeding this and other CD programs. In the top picture, Robert S. Ritz (far right in audience), new Illinois Civil Defense Agency training officer under the shared-cost program, sits In on a monitoring moni-toring course in Evaiston taught by Mrs. Laura Nissen, the. city's training, informaiion and radiological radio-logical defense officer. She also has recently become be-come a paid employe, selected to devote full time to civil defense under the financial aid program. pro-gram. Ritz later worked the material obtained at Evanston Into a similar course at the under ground Du Page County Civil Defense control eenter near Wheaton, III, (bottom), (ocdm photo AUXILIARY RADIO operators are trained at the underground fallout and blast-resistant Du Page County Civil Defense control center near Wheaton, 111. Instructor Robert S. Ritz, a training offi cer for the Illinois Civil Defense Agency, shows one of the trainee operators'how to adjust his transmitter. Ritz was hired recently under a new program which provides Federal funds from tho Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization to pay half the cost of new civil defense employes' salaries. Its purpose la to hniM .... State and local CD to meet a possible attack. (OCDM Photo! i |