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Show ..gw Zcaicnd Hermit Has Perfect Atomic Hideout DUNEDIN, N. Z. Comes the revolution, or an atomic war, there is one human in this world who has an excellent chance of survival. sur-vival. He is Jules Berg, a New Zealand hermit, who has lived on Preservation Preserva-tion Inlet, probably the least susceptible sus-ceptible area on earth to radioactivity, radioac-tivity, for the past 25 years. Preservation Inlet is a fiord In the extreme southwest corner of New Zealand. A deep, narrow arm of the sea, it runs inland for about 20 miles between steep mountain walls which would tend to block radioactive clouds. Its dense rainfall rain-fall would clear death-dealing matter mat-ter out of the atmosphere. Fiord county covers more than 3,000 square miles and has a population popu-lation of eight. The only feasible access to the inlet is by sea. Mr. Berg lives in the remote spot like a comfortable Robinson Crusoe. He has a cottage and extensive ex-tensive -vegetable garden and gets fresh meat from a deer trap in the adjacent forest. He also has a gold mine which he works when he feels like it. As civilization provides little that he needs, however, he usually lets the gold stay where it is. |
