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Show Civil Defense Program to Undergo Preparedness Test on June 20 On Saturday, June 20, Utah will join with eight western states, Alaska, Hawaii, British Columbia Co-lumbia and Alberta Provinces in Canada in the nation's most expansive ex-pansive test exercise yet attempted attempt-ed in Civil Defense. Hypothetical situations of enemy attack have Deen prepared ana pianteu throughout the area which will tax the ingenuity of local State and Federal Civil Defense forces to come up with solutions to the multiple problems that will develop. de-velop. Civil Defense agencies at local. State and Federal regional levels will go into action in the early morning and will be manned throughout the day, picking up the troubled spots as they are revealed re-vealed at specific times during the day by the "planted" situations. situa-tions. Haldow E. Christensen, Iron County Civil Defense chairman, has called a meeting of key personnel per-sonnel in the county civil defense de-fense organization, to discuss various phases of "Operation Beware", Be-ware", to take place Saturday. While no information as to what situation may develop In Cedar City or any other part of Iron County will be known until Sat urday morning, Mr. Christensen will discuss various possibilities with his committee workers, in order that they may be alerted to any possible "situation". Every county in the State and the three major cities will be faced with two or more attack problems. The extent of operations, opera-tions, movement rf personnel, etc. will be determined by the local Civil Defense director in each case. The problems will involve in-volve such emergencies as: city-wide city-wide fire storms, industrial plant stoppages and sabotage, refugee migrations and their accompanying accompany-ing shelter, food and medical care problems, atom bombing, biological warfare by secret agents, traffic and law enforcement enforce-ment problems, and many other disturbances that could and would logically occur under attack at-tack conditions. Some areas will have all-out action involving the public and industry; others will be confined to staff operation of Civil Defense personnel only. The mystic enemy Is to be known as "Aggressor" and his secret agents, saboteurs and agitators agi-tators are "Circle Trigon" or "CT". |
