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Show IB Community Fallout Shelter Need Backed by U.S. individual Action 'QDDOTtsQll The United States, through the Department of Defense, has launched a major program to provide fallout shelters for Americans as the key element of a greatly expanded civil defense program. The new "Fallout Protection" booklet, prepared by the Defense Department and available to the public through post offices and local civil defense offices, explains that community fallout shelters are now being stressed because: In addition, neighborhood and community groups in various parts of the country are forming tax districts or nonprofit corporations to construct shelters for themselves. A typical example of such a group is in Laketon Township, near Muskegon, Mich., where a The opportune time for seeking to restrain astronomic government spending is now. Members of the Congressional Economy Bloc are convinced that President Kennedy's $92,500,000,-00- 0 record peacetime spending program for the ,19i&3 fiscal year can ibe trimmed substantially without impairing National Defense or any essential government service. 'Economy advocates were provided with valuable ammunition contained in an analysis of Mr Kennedy's budget by the National of Association Manufacturers which recommended a cut of e $5,634,500,000. The government', fiscal situation makes it imperative, ec onomy advocates maintain, that members of Congress be urged in every way .possible to vote against all unessential spending. down Holding government spending as much as possible is essentail, it is contended, in order to protect the nation' fiscal solvency, to fight inflation, to facilitate tax rate reform legislation, to protect the present value of the dollar to lower the national debt, and to restore an international balance of payments. Many Members of Congress are alarmed (becoming increasingly over the present high spending and over the future outlook. Among the causes for concern are these: il. The $92,500,000,000 spending program for 1963, in addition to being tine biggest in peacetime history, has soared by $11,000,-000,0above the total for the 196il fiscal year (which ended Fallout Protection Guide At CD, Post Offices Now last-minu- e easily-adaptabl- ViTy'--P'''':-'- 4-- . JACK'S - Expert service by a Technician trained by DeVry Technical and RCA Institutes. WE SERVICE ALL MAKES, MODELS it Car Radios Home Radio Set r jc Television sets the We when ern not home in in our mod- repair possible well-equipp- shop when ed at the home. 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Each shelter occupant would require the Department of Defense and available at least a quart of water a day, and a galfree to the public through post offices and lon would be better to allow for cleansing. g ""OO" CANUL.Es Radiation meters, now commercially available, include pencillike instruments for measuring amount of radiation per hour and total exposure to radiation, and a charger to eliminate previous readings by returning instruments to zero settings. ng The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give. Eleanor Roosevelt a a Professionals 1 I aat miy fet that k bnda word poiw bat tMcbM jrounfttan bow to think for thaaualvaa. Buy thm copy of W.bit.r't Naw Coll.gi.t. Dictionary, Marriam-Wabtte- r. Look for tha word MarU th. dictionary raqulrad or racoenmandad by almott avary school and tian. ThU Engl-"- Xi ftv-.- I rtVmmm mht batter t V i 111 SUPPLIES 6 TOOLS AND OTHER ITEMS Rice can ibe sity of grown ' on poorer land than other crops, as witness Cuba where soils previously thought too poor to cultivate have been producing rice in abundnce for more than a decade. Few pests and serious diseases bother rice, Dr. Crist says. The grain is a concentrated form of inexpensive calories that keeps well and can easily be shipped. iRice is the staff of life Prosperity and civilization are for more thai! a billion people, far from being synonymous terms many, of course, 4n the Orient. But even jn the US. not conHavelock Ellis sidered a country annual production has tripled in teen-agerthe last 20 years, to nearly three million tons. s Help your do better homework ! INFANT-CAR- I ABaSaaB'ZZi i- MORE RUCE is grown world than wheat. And rice con sumption is inoreasing for a number of reasons, points out Drj oi tne CIVIl DEFENSE INSTRUCTION MATERIAL -- CLOTHING AND BEDDING in the rice-eati- 1 g ' RICE IS STAFF OF UFE FOR A BILLION PEOPLE js. enst (Florida. flAAwV- d non-prof- it 'fcJF CATINO UTENSILS V SERVICE . Icderal civilian employtne&fc is expected to jump to 2,538,S9 for the 1963 fiscal year an Increase of 131,000 over 1981. , don't. The shelter, now entirely covered by earth and nearing completion, will dnclude a community room, kitchen, lavatories, 25 family compartments, deep well, a gasoline-operategenerator and standby generator, and a control room and radio room for' outside communication iMuakeuori Chruniule Photol during an emergency. FALLOUT shelter in Laketon Township, near Muskegon, Mich., under conbasis by men from struction on a most of the families which 'joined in a corporation to pay for the underground shelter. Participants pay $40 per family member if they work on the shelter, and $75 pi r person if they COMMUNITY X-r- RADIO-T- as sound under the Kennedy Administrationwhich means more expenditures not only for salaries bait also or broadened federal activities. Government employee traditionally seek to build their or- - special-Intere- st own bureaucratic empires. vv:. tATING UTENSILS AND FOOD ge steel-maki- "I'm sorry to have to tell you, but you're only hs n dollar." (D-Va- Director Bell. 3. Higher expenditures in the future were clearly indicated by Mr Kennedy's request ..to Con near-instan- SALES non-defen- se last June 30). 2. The Kennedy Administration already is on record as expecting government spending to pass the $100,000,000,000 mark "some time durring the next few years." This forecast came from Budget! non-prof- e non-defen- se 00 How Fallout Endangers U.S. Told in Booklet . Neighbors My I by JAMES W. DOUTHAT 175 x underground concrete block structure is nearly struction talent. The "Fallout Protection" complete for 200 persons (48 booklet also recognizes that families). By methods, the shelter cost has "many families, because of their been cut to $40 per person for location or individual preferthose helping with the work, and ences, will choose family fallout 1. A LARGER than family-siz$75 per person for those unable shelters." Several home fallout group probably would be to work. shelter designs are offered in the better prepared to face a nubooklet, including some which clear attack than a single PROJECT HEAD William could be built on a family, particularly if some Weisner and the group working basis for $150 or less. members should be away from home at the time of an attack. 2. There would be more opportunity to find first aid and other emergency skills in a group, and the risk of radiation exposure after an attack could be more widely shared. 3. Community shelters would provide shelter for persons away from their homes at the time of A pocket-size- d booklet with the most essential, an attack. information for families and individuals on how to survive a nuclear attack is now available to Americans without charge 4. Group shelters could serve from any post office or state or local civil defense office. as a focus for Integrated comyellow-covere- d The booklet, entitled "Fallout Protemunity recovery activities in a to Know ctionWhat and Do About Nuclear Attack," includes post-attac- k period. cific instructions on how to survive fallout, build a fallout shelter 5. Group shelters could serve or improvise a shelter if necessary, stock and venother community purposes, as tilate the shelter, and take sanitary and first aid measures. Special well as offer protection from information for farmers is provided on protecting or decontamifallout following an attack. nating livestock, food and equipment in a fallout zone. The Department of Defense, Office of Civil Defense, produced Group shelters in office buildthe booklet to provide survival infor ings, schools, hospitals, subways mation in one puoucation. Soi and other structures accessible 25 of million the booklets far, to the public will be stocked with have been printed and placed austerity rations of food and in distribution. water for five days, radiation The booklet also points out detection instruments, first aid other ways in which the Detools. and Many necessary kits, fense Department's new civil e structures are defense program will proat community shelters. vide Increasing protection: The National Shelter Sur... vey now under way will identify fallout shelter Spaces in existing structures for about 50 million CRATER 100 ML 5 Ml. 20 Ml STEEL, WORKERS WILL ASK Identification, markpersons. HIGHER WAGES and a shorter and with ing stocking austerity Worts Week in the bargaining food and water rations, first aid session beginning more tihan 4 radiation kits, detection instruments and other essentials will months dn advance of the June cost less $4 than per space. 30th contract deadline. Some exThe proposed Federal Shelperts expect a demand for 0 ter Incentive Program would homes pay for 32 hours work, provide Federal grants of someand most expect strong resistthing less than the cost of conWhat is fallout? ance from an industry that has structing fallout shelters in frequently-discusseThis d and and in other schools, hospitals met three successive annual pay even more frequently misunderinstitutions. Many stood phenomenon of the nuclear increases without advancing' ' the Shelters also would serve a dual age is simply explained in the prices of steel. peace-timfunction. Department of Defense's "Fall- Even 'more heart chilling to The existing National Warn- out Protection" booklet now is steeiworkers . tihan . the prospect ing System being extended available to the public through to t Americans provide of another deadlock and another offices and local civil depost attack warning. fense offices. long strike should (be the stark ', This drawing from the book-1- 1 fact that we are importing more let shows, how fine dust and Where to Get Booklet debris and more finished steel mill prod from a nuclear explosion ucts from low-wacountries ' can be carried downwind from You can obtain your free and exporting 25 times as much the blast, the amount of fallout copy of the Defense Depig iron and scrap for making gradually diminishing with the partment's survival booklet distance. Each dust particle is for all Americans, "Fallout steel as we did a decade ago! like a tiny machine whose costs will Protection," at your local Higher office or your commugamma radiation will penetrate post accelerate this only perilous lighter materials but will disoffice. nity civil defense trend, After April 1, 1962, it will sipate in a relatively short time and do Little harm to those probe available only from civil tected by a sufficient amount of defense offices. dense materials in shelters. !Dn3 00 to Comment III ship setting a meeting time and place to discuss the shelter. Expecting a turnout of about 75, they were overwhelmed by an interested crowd of about 300. Enough signed up to go ahead with the shelter by pooling finances and designing and con- PAGE SEVEN fcr a sound economy. fed- 6. The rapidly increasing new the budget for acItral the and expenditures authority to spend $99,300,000,-O0- 0 tax in that fiscal year and later. companying confiscatory rates seriously limit the availSince the new obligational author of capital required to fty sought Is higher by ?6.8O0,-000,0- ability essential business than the actual spending finance and modernization. proposed for 1963, this portends later. 7. cliiwbinj expenditures Most of the increased federal rp:nding is for 4. The programs proposed in the 1963 budget involve more purposes rather than for defense. 8. The Administration has made federal control over the nation' no effort to curb than other peaceeconomy any spending in order to defray the time budget in history. It is based on the (philosophy cost of higher defense expendithat the people are incapable of tures. 9. Whenever the Administration dealing with local problems and, therefore, the bureaucrats forecasts a reduction in certain in Washington must broaden their expenditures, it uses this as the other domain to include such activities basis for recommending as school construction and teach- pprnding programs to use up the ers' salaries, urban affairs, mass potential savings. In this way, transportation, juvenile delin- the taxpayer gets no (break. '10. The legal debt limit has quency, sewage disposal, parks and playgrounds and a host of been elevated eight times in other things. the last eight years and Mr 5. The Budget is being used as Kennedy now wants it raised to a fiscal tool to manipulate the an unprecedented $308,000,000,-O0- 0. ), of Chairman Byrd economy with official sanction for deliberately-incurre- d deficits the Senate Finance Committee, in a time of business recession. is among those demanding that Such a policy is regarded as ex- th? Administration its prove tremely dangerous by those who case. believe that a balanced budget,! l'l. The number of government whenever possible is essential employees is increasing rapidly gress In JOUBNAIT (Utah) JvTARCH 8, 1962 THURSDAY, with him started the ball rolling by sending a circular to all registered voters of Laketon Town- easily-readabl- HELPER The col-lat- a. Inaiat on Marriam-Wabata- r. THE HELPER JOURNAL ganuina 4iJff THORIT HATCH Lawyer 155 So. Main Helper, Utah Fbone GR MITCHELL FUNERAL HOME I Dick Mitchell t Li - . firibelmer Funeral Director Phone ME Prio Ut JlfjZwf JiL-Jt- SJ Ir1r1 JBizAJ l Family reunions are fun. Traveling isn't always easy. Long distance Pick up your phone and go visiting.... . . tonight ! , . . . . . . lam night fit apply all dtf Sundiy f . mountain - STATES TELEPHONE is. |