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Show the best possible shelter would be. After this information was obtained, it was placed in the hands of the State and local county Civil Defense officers. The Community Shelter Plan was then prepared from this information. in-formation. One of the goals of the plan is to tell every citizen where the best possible available shelter is located. Although most of the public shelter is to be found in heavily constructed buildings downtown, the basement base-ment of a home can offer substantial sub-stantial protection to its residents, more so than was realized even a few years ago. Each of the folders has instructions in-structions on how to use the basement, crawl space, or walls of a home for shelter for those people who do not have community: com-munity: shelter available to them. Also included is a complete com-plete list of supplies that would be needed during a nuclear emergency. Shelter Plans Are On Way for Residents Delivery of the information in the Summit County Community Shelter Plan is to begin and Car-. los Porter, Chairman of the County Commission, has asked the public to be on the lookout for it. Each county plan contains information in-formation about what to do and where to go in case of a nuclear emergency, along with a complete com-plete list of approved public fallout shelters in the area, and directions on how to reach them. There are also instructions and information explaining how to build a shelter in a home should a person be unable to reach a public shelter. Since many residents live outside of downtown city areas, these instructions in-structions are of particular significance, - ' V. The plan also contains general gen-eral information regarding nuclear nu-clear radiation and fallout. While it is hoped that residents will never have to use this information, in-formation, it should be kept in a safe, convenient place. :. Studies indicate that ;in case of a nuclear, attack by an enemy over 100 million lives would be saved by proper fallout shelter. shelt-er. Many people would survive the initial blast but would then be exposed to lethal radiation fallout unless proper shelter was provided. With this in mind, the Department De-partment of Defense conducted surveys to determine where |