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Show Harold S. Walker Speaks at Civil Defense Meeting "The need for a realistic Civil Defense program has received considerable con-siderable emphasis recently, due to the detonation of a series of atomic bonds at Desert Rick Proving Prov-ing Grounds," said Harold Walker Walk-er on the evening of Thursday Mar. 10. Mr. Walker, local Chief Coordinator of Civil Defense, was speaking to a group of Chairman of defense activities, at a meeting at the city hall. The house-jaring shock of what the Desert Rock officials spoke of as a "baby bomb" was sufficient to cause Pleasant Grove residents to do a little serious thinking. Desert Rock is about 375 miles southwest of here, as the crow flies; and the shock recently experienced exper-ienced here, leads one to conjecture conjec-ture just what the result would be if a full scale bomb were dropped at or near Geneva Steel. Reports from several sections of Pleasant Grove area are to the effect that the radio-active "fallout" "fall-out" from the recent Las Vegas blasts was near the top of safety tolerance. At the March 10 meeting of local Civil Defense Council, plans were formulated for a practice alert during the early evening of April 7. Chairmen of the various disaster activities were instructed to make definite plans for the alert. Present at the meeting in addition ad-dition to Mr. Walker, were Marion Adamson, Wesley Shields, Dee Freeman, Ford West, Rae Christ-ensen, Christ-ensen, Dr. B. C. Linebaugh, S. Christensen, Dr. D. C. Jensen, Glen Newman, Karl Banks and Floy Taylor. |