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Show Saints Claimed Well Prepared For Atom War The stockpiles provided by the Mormon church welfare program would enable Mormons to hold out even if an atomic war cut off sources of supply. A 2,500-word report on the program, published in the December De-cember issue of Country Gentleman Gentle-man makes this assertion: "Even if atomic warfare should come, these 840,000 Mormons. ; unless blasted from the face of thc.:r lovely valleys, could hold out for .several years without a harvest. They would be healthy and warm, too, for not only food but vast quantities of fuel, drug?, clothing, bedding, furniture and construction materials tower to the high ceilings of 110 different differ-ent storehouses throughout Mormon Mor-mon territory." Other parts of the report, which is titled "They Take Care of Their Own," describes how the welfare program has been insuring in-suring Mormons against fire, flood and crop failure for the past 16 years. The Columbia river flood was. the welfare's greatest test in ' 1948. Within hours after a call for help came from 50 Mormon families in the disaster area there were 20 tons of supplies on their way from welfare warehouses in Salt Lake City, the report adds. |