Show i CIVIL DEFENSE i Rural Units Must Supplement Metropolitan Defense Groups By Walter A A. Shead Sh ad adI I This ibis is ibe Ih last las in I a serifs series of O five lIds articles on tbt Ih civil tl nu program WHETHER WHETHER YOU LIVE in a city or a small mall town or on a farm in the rural areas of the nation you have haYe an obligation as a citizen interested in saving your own life and the lives of your fellow citizens in the civil defense program Many folks in small towns town or on i the farms may be Inclined to take Ithe the dangers inherent in a scale full war with a grain of salt There are areno areno no barriers to poison polson or nerve gases There are no limits to biological ical lical warfare and the destruction of at ithe the means mean of providing food to our military personnel may be a main Objective of our potential enemy Suppose your neighbors in a near- near Iby city have the most efficient civil defense defense system possible to work workout workout workout out and an enemy attack knocks knock out large numbers of its ita personnel Then It may be the duty of 01 those in surrounding cities and towns and counties to move in as rescue teams team to to care for evacuees to im- im improvise hospitals and many other essentials of 01 defense work There are hundreds of jobs for civilians which must mUt be filled filled air plane spotters apprehension of Saboteurs guarding against water poisoning I 1 or pollution amateur ra- ra radio radio dio dlo operators ambulance drivers I messengers first aid trucks stor stor- storage storage storage age of thousands of items of supply in in medication and food transport food transport engineers housekeeping employees for nursing and dietary depart- depart departments departments departments ments cooks laundresses blood I donors watchmen at plants ties Ues and essential services such as dairies and pasteurization plants immunization of small animals to tot tor t r prevent rabies grave diggers specially dally trained radiation detection teams air raid shelter heIter construe construe- construction and tion tion and dozens of other essential workers I Alert watchfulness on the part of farmers to detect dangerous dis- dis diseases disI I eases In their stock live-stock and pests and plant disease is highly Im- Im The bureau of animal industry in- in industry already has given instruct instruction f t tion to a large number of veterinarians veterinarians rians In the differential di diagnosis Hof of these diseases and at the first suspicion the farmer should call the i f state livestock sanitary officials for j prompt Investigation In many In- In ini instances l i stances large amounts of vaccine must be promptly available and In any any widespread outbreak quarantine quarantine quarantine tine procedure and destruction of i animals and their burial may be beI I Important all to prevent spread Special equipment for disinfecting crews should be Immediately avail Avail- j I able The fihe e same lime watchfulness is Sa essen essen- essential essential Ual in detection of plant pests and andl diseases County C 0 o 0 un u n t y agricultural agents farmers and regional state and federal agricultural agencies will advise which crops crop in their re re- respective re- re respective areas areal are mot most essential for national welfare and therefore more likely to be the th aim of biological teal ical warfare arl re The Th State and local governments i are furnishing approximately hill half halt df da the three billion dollars dollar appropriated appropriated in the national civilian de 1 de de- I tense act to provide for this nation natIon- nationwide natIonwide nationwide wide prograM But in spite of every everything every everything thing thin the federal administrator may maydo maydo maydo do the responsibility of 01 adequate defense rests at each level of local government Including the responsibility responsibility for tor service health-service operations It is up to the state civil defense di director df- df dir rector r to map out his state and to to determine in each locality just what type of organization must be set up A community then would woud find Itself in one of three categories first cities clUes within critical target areas second mutual aid communities and third mobile support j The folks In the small towns and rural areas would find themselves them- them themselves themselves selves in one of the last two cate- cate gorles and their principal function would be to receive casualties fromi from the nearby principal city and to to send service health-service rescue teams teams' teams to Its aid The mobile support communities may be anywhere from 50 to miles mUes from the nearest principal city And while these latter com coin communities communitIes might not ot be the crate erate aim of a bombing attack there Is always the possibility of ot ofa ota a bombers bomber's error as many com communities communities communities in Europe and Asia die ds- covered In the last war warThe The organ organ- organIzation organization of these mobile support communities In rural counties are of greatest Importance to the whole whaler civil defense program The health health service in these communities would be organized to operate as sell con self con tamed teams in such fields as first firs aid and radiological defense Larl Lar Larger Larger ger gee communities with hospitals or sizable clinics would also be pre pre- prepared prepared prepared pared to receive casualties and andi should be able to supply completo complete surgical burn and shock teams toj tc t disaster areas Y r. r r ill |