The Georgia alert, 1956 - 1958

THE GEORGIA

Department of Defense, Civil Defense Division, George J. Hearn, Stat

01. 6,- No. I

January, 1956

~~Big Voice" from Sky

May Warn of Attack

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THE DIRECTOR
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I wish to commend the merican Legion for its continued support of the Civil Defense Program.
In one of its most positive actions, the American Legion National Convention in Miami, Florida, October 10-13, 1955, adopted unanimous ly a 10-point report of the Committee on Civil Defense of the
ational Security Commiss ion. In calling upon the Congress, the Administration, State and Local Governments, and the Legion itself for active support of Civil Defense at all levels, members urged that the
ation move immediately toward adequacy in home survival measures.
The Committee concluded its report with the added recommendation that "consideration be given to include the American Legion Auxiliary Civil Defense Committee in future pre-convention briefings," in view of the fact that Civil Defense is of equal interest to Auxiliary members.

A "big voice" from the sky may some day provide the warning and information which will save families in rural America from the effects of nuclear attack.
o farmer in the fields, or housewife shopping, or child on the way home from school would be beyond danger warnings with an airplane mounted transitor amplifier now under development by sound specialists and the Federal Civil Defense Administration.
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NUKE mE ,the flying public address systems would not only warn of impend ing danger, but could be used to give directions on how to protect against it. For example, deadly radioactive fallout drifting downwind from a blasted target city could be charted. People in its path could be warned to evacuate or stay clear of any danger area.
The voice warning system would be effective in alerting people quickly to the complex dangers of biological warfare. It would be ideal to spread the word of an approaching tornado, flash flood or similar localized Tlatural hazard.
Airborne Paul Reveres with "big voice" equipment also would help to overc ome the I imitations of Cone lrad, the system of emergency radio broadcasting which, of course, cannot alert those oeyond the reach of a rad io rece iver or in areas where Conelrad stations do not provide coverage.

FCtJA officials are quick to add, however, that both sirens and Conelrad are basic warning devices.
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LFHED P. ~lILLER, director of the FCDA Warning and Communications Office, points out that "the siren still gives more sound per dollar than any other system." A voice warning system, however, provides voice information not obtainable with sirens, but essential in any evacuation of people.
Conelrad also is extremely valuable, .\liller says, because radio gives a degree of blanket coverage unobtainable at such low cost with any other system.
In addition to airplane-mounted units, portable loudspeakers could be installed on trucks, at key intersections or downtown areas to route evacuation traffic and pedestrians to safety. Battery-operated megaphones would. be used extensively by civil defense workers.
Fixed P systems also would be installed in rural reception areas near large cities to give instructions to the vast number of evacuees from target cities.
To find out exactly how many units of each type of PA equipment are needed in different types of cities and how much it would cost, FCDA is planning application studies next year in a predominantly industrial city and a residential-business type

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THE GEORGIA ALERT
Published monthly by the
CIVIL DEFENSE DIVISION
959 E. Confederate Ave., S.E.
GEORGE J. HEARN Di rector
FRM~K A. KOPF Deputy Director CHARLES T. WHITE Public Informotion Officer MRS. JOHN G. LEWIS Coordinator, Women's Activities JACK L. GRANTHAM Communications Officer KELSO HEARN Administrative Aide JERRY CAUBLE Northern Area Di rector A. MACK DODD Central Area Director HARRY U. JACKSON Southwestern Area 0 irector HOYLE R. YANDLE Southeastern Area Director
CD STAFF COLLEGE COURSE TO BE HELD
There will be a five-day Civil Defense Staff College Course held at the University of Georgia, February 6-10, 1956. This course is being sponsored by the State Civil Defense Division in cooperation with the Federal Civil Defense Administration and the University of Georgia.
Any person interested in civil defense is cordially invited to attend this course. You should contact Mr. Larry Walker, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, for details concerning registration, lodging, etc.
Each of the civil defense services will be discussed at length by a group of specialists with experience in that service. Some of the subjects to be studied are "Effects of Wartime Weapons," "Civil Defense Analysis," "Operation and Organization in Support Areas," "Peacetime Disaster Control and Its Relation to Civil Defense," "Civil Defense in Schools and Colleges."
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Hoke J. Duncan
EDITOR'S NOTE
THIS IS THE FIRST I A SERIES OF AH.TICLES ON THE STATE DISASTER ET RADIO OFFICERS, WHO FOit A PERIOD OF THREE YEARS, HAVE RE OERED A MAG-
IFICE T SERVICE DURI G DRILLS A I) IN ATURAL DISASTER WOH.K.
A visitor to the Dalton, Georgia Civil Defense Control Center any Monday evening is bound to meet Hoke J. Duncan, Deputy Director and Assistant Communications Officer of Da lton. Hoke has a perfect attendance record on the Disaster
et for the past 62 weeks. He has not missed a drill night on the Disaster et since Dalton has been on the air. He has also been on the air every time the Disaster et has been called into session for tornado alerts and storm warnings.
He holds a General Class amateur radio license with the Call Letters K4CC5.
In addition to his duties as Deputy Director of Dalton Civil Defense and Assistant Communications Officer, he has been Ground Observer Corps Supervisor at the Dalton post for more than two years. Mr. Duncan served two years in the Army Signal Corps, is a graduate of Piedmont College with an AB Degree and a graduate of Vanderbilt College with a BS Degree. He is employed as sanitarian of the Whitfie ld County Health Clinic where he has worked for the last eight years.
Under Mr. Duncan's direction and with the cooperation of Mr. Julian Longley, Dalton's Communications

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NEW RADIO SERIES STARTS
ON MUTUAL BROADCASTING
SYSTEM
new half-hour dramatic and news show on civil defense, "By The People," will be broadcast weekly by the Mutual Broadcasting System starting January 1-
The show, written and produced by top professional talent working in close cooperation with the Federal Civil Defense Administration, has an unusual format. The first 25 minutes are devoted to a dramatic portrayal of the experiences of a small town newspaper editor as he works to interest his community in building a sound civil defense program. The last five minutes cons ist of a summary of civil defense news. The format is so arranged that local MBS stations may use the news from the Mutual network, or cut in with local civil defense news.
FARMER APPOINTED RURAL
CONSULTANT FOR CD
William L. Shaffer, a Greeley, Colorado, farmer with extensive civil defense experience, has been named Rural Consultant to Federal Civil Defense Administrator Val Peterson and assigned to FCDA's Tactical Operations Office in Battle Creek, Michigan.
Shaffer, with a background of 18 years of farming and livestock feeding in the Rocky Mountain area, planned and directed "Operation Welcome," the first successful test of rural care for evacuees, held in Weld County, Colorado, last year.
As deputy civil defense director of eld County, haffer originated and directed the organization of a countywide rural civil defense considered to be a model for the nation. Seven thousand farm families were organized under a three-point program of food prod uction, care for evacuees and assessing food supplies.
Officer, and Irs. Marion Sims, the Director, a volunteer crew of women operators has been recruited and trained and are ready to meet any emergency that may occur in the Dalton area.
JANUARY, 1956

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TENT AliVE EVACUAliON INSTRUCTIONS
The Columbus-Muscogee County Civil Defense Organization is preparing complete EVACUATION AND SURVIVAL PLANS. Until then, follow these instructions:
If an Air Raid Alert should occur (announced by Siren. Radio, or otherwise) _

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ESCAPE ROUTES

a. KEEP CALM - Do not Ret excited.
b. DRIVE OUT the nearest one of these Escape Routes Drive Carefully. Speed 40 mph. Keep four car lenRths between cars. Follow these instructions and all vehicles can be cleared within 2 hours.

RIVER ROAD HMfiLTON ROAD WARM PRlNGS ROAD MACON ROAD

c. DO NOT CROSS any of these escape roads. NO CROSS TRAFFIC can be permitted.

BUENA VISTA ROAD

d. ALL TRAFFIC will be OUTBOUND on all roads. except as noted for Victory HiRh_y.

CU ETA ROAD - Benning Blvd. - Traffic Circle, Then follow VlCTORY HI G H -

e. ONE LANE ONLY on RIVER ROAD. All others, two lanes. STAY IN

WAY.

e YOUR OWN LANE.
f. HELP YOUR NEIGHBOR. Fill your car. Pick up anyone wbo has no ride.

KEEP TInS CAlID IN YOUR CAR.

Dixon Wadsworth,
Director

VlCTORY IDGHWAY - Use ORrn LANES (left lanes)
I ONLY to Traffic Circle.
Keep ourn LANES (right lan",,) OPE FOR TROOP

KEEP YOUR GAS TANK AT LEAST HALF FULL AT ALL TIME

MO\F.~rE:\l if required.

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The t.:ivil Defense Office of Columbus has printed 30,000 of the above Tentative Evacuation Instructions Cards and they are being distributed through the Sheriff's Office, issuing one with each automobile Or truck tag which is
p urcha sed.

1300 RADIO STATIONS
TO RECEIVE CONELRAD
AWARDS
The Federal Civil Defense Administration announced that 1300 of the ation's radio stations will receive special joint awards from FCDA, the Air Force, and the Federal Communications Commission, "in recognition of public service to the people of the United States through participation in the Conelrad system of emergency broadcasting."
Upon receipt of an alert, all broadcast stations go off the air. FM and TV stations remain off the air while the standard AM stations that are part of the Conelrad system change their transmitting frequency to either 640 or 1240 kilocycles and return to the air to broadcast emergency messages.

7 WEATHER BUREAU MEN
ASSIGNED FCDA REGIONS
The Federal Civil Defense Administration has recently announced that seven U.S. Weather Bureau meteorologists will be assigned to FCDA's RegionaI Offices throughout the ation
- Concurrent with transfer of the meteorologists, FCOA's Regional Offices will begin receiving by teletype all Weather Bureau observations in the
nited States. The circuit will provide weather alerts, warnings and twice daily fallout forecasts.
ssignment of the meteorologists is in line with the recent delegation by the President to the Department of Commerce of res pons ibility "to prepare and issue currently, as well as during emergency forecasts and estimates of areas likely to be covered by fallout as a result of enemy attack on the United States."

JANUARY, 1956

THE ALERT
RADIOLOGICAL; TEAMS WOULD
BE CIVIL DEFENSE
'FIRST LINE'
The first line of civil defense after a nuclear attack would be a comparative handful of "detectives" ranging over the nation's towns and farms in search of invisible but deadly "culprits. "
Armed with rad iation survey meters, these scientific operatives would be looking for dangerously radioactive areas where the deadly fallout particles had landed as far as 200 miles downwind from H-bomb explosions.
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ESSE TIALLY, Their job would be to take readings in areas suspected of radiation contamination, and plot those readings on a map. These results could then be used in doublechecking the Federal Civil Defense Administration's national fallout plot, based on Weather Bureau wind forecasts.
Until advised otherwise, no farmer or city evacuee should stir outside of shelter in possibly contaminated rural areas.
Some of the radiological monitoring teams now train with airplanes, which would be vital for faster radiological scanning of vast rural areas. Another advantage of airborne units is that they could fly over dangerously radioactive fallout areas that they wouldn't dare approach on the ground, where radiation intensity would be so much greater.
USI G MATHEMATICAL formula, airborne monitors can apply the weaker aerial radiation readings to figuring the fallout inte ns ity on the ground below them.
Already the technique has received considerable testing, including the scanning of FCDA's "Survival City" after it was blasted during Operation Cue last May at the Atomic Energy Commission's evada Test Site.
On the shoulders of the radiological monitoring teams around the nation would fall the grave responsibility of being the "eyes" and "ears" of civil defense in searching for the invisible and silent alpha and beta particles and gamma rays.
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COMMUNICAliONS DRILL
The State Civil Defense HACES Communications et was called into session on an unscheduled drill Sunday morning to determine how many radio operators could be contacted without prior notice and they, in turn, were to contact the local Civil Defense Directors and deliver a season's greetings message from State Headquarters.
The drill was said to be highly successful by Jack Grantham, State Communications Coordinator and Jack Farr, State RACES Radio Officer. Of 139 RACES operators, 75 were contacted within one hour delivering 56 messages and rece iving 26 answers within the hour. These messages, in turn, were relayed through the alternate State RACES station to General Hearn, State Civil Defense Director in Atlanta.
General Hearn stated at the close of the drill that through the cooperation of the amateur radio operators it is felt that even during an attack we could expect amateur communications to function to a satisfactory degree throughout the State. The General likewise extended congratulations to the amateurs for their fine work.
The Civil Defense Dipision extends its deepest sympathy to Mr. Jack L. Grantham, our Communications Coordinator, in the loss of his Father, who passed away on
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city amonp; others.
PRELIMI AllY ST DIES indicate the cost of a voice-sound system would run about 20 to 30 cents per person. Federal money is available now on a matching fund basis to install such equipment when cities and towns request it.
The aerial "big voice" still awaits additional development of a practical loudspeaker system likely employing transitors instead of vacuum tubes.
ix different firms are now working with FCDA on this project.
FCDA officials point out that transitor speaker systems eventually would be cheaper to build and maintain, more adaptable to weather and last longer.
Because of their much lighter weight and lower power consumption, they could be used on helicopters or light planes, which are cheaper to buy and operate, and are able to fly closer to the ground for greater audibility.
SPECIAL CD COURSE
FOR CLERGY
Special civil defense courses for clergymen will be offered by the FCDA Staff College at Battle Creek, ~lichigan, ay 29 through June 1, 1956, and August 24 through 27, 1956.
o tuition fee is charged for this instruction and the cost of transportation, food and housing will be borne by the clergymen or sponsoring organization.
Enrollment and registration for this course can be made through the Civil Defense Division, 959 E. Confederate Ave., S.E., Atlanta 16, Ga.

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Some of the ten points ~dopted
were: "To extend the Legion's utmost
assistance to Civil Defense at all leve Is by participation in all phases of CD, particularly in education of the public for "self-help" in CD emergency and in recruitment and training of personne I; and further that the FCDA recommend, after study, a standard individual first-aid subsistence food-pack to be included in the Legion's "self-help" educational program."
"To provide that each Legion Post establish a rescue team for disaster relief and CD emergency and to aid in acquiring the necessary rescue equipment; this in view of the fact that national CD requirements call for at least 10,000 active rescue teams, with only 2,000 units now established, including 1,000 Legion rescue teams."
"The American Legion proffer the services of its organization and membership to take an active role in such a program, and Legion Posts throughout the ation be urged to support this project for life and survival, as well as God and country,"
"Pledge the support of all Departments, Posts and Districts and of the ir officers to give assistance and encouragement to the Civil Defense Program."
The Federal Civil Defense Administration has published a six page Technical Bulletin (TB-16-3, dated December 1955) titled "Industry Defense -Sources of Reference and guidance."

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THE GEORGIA

Department of Defense, Civil Defense Division,

01. 6, No. 2

Atlanta, Ga.

MARCH 1956

CIVIL DEFENSE IN THE

PRESIDENT'S BUDGET MESSAGE

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George J. Hearn
THE DIRECTOR
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Lets Be Frank!
Can our home commumties really be attacked? Yes, our cities can be destroyed because there is no absolute defense against atomic weapons. All right, how are we going to live with this thing? For live with it we must, and will-just as all other nations now must live with it.
I can best answer that question by asking you another. How do you live under constant threat of death, on the highway, in the polio ward, or in a tuberculosis sanitarium, in a heart disease clinic, on the operating table, at the hands of prowlers or in the blazing ruins of your home?
Those are dangers that beset us every day of our lives. Yet we have learned to live with them because we have set up protecti" e services in our communities to control the
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President Eisenhower, in his Budget Message to Congress January 16,1956, requested 123,200,000 for the Federal Civil Defense Administration for the fiscal year 1957, beginning July 1,1956.
In line with the President's stateme nt thatthe re ques t is "a s tren gth ened effort on the part of the Federal government to assist the States and cities in devising the most effective common defense," the proposed budget, in comparison with funds voted this fiscal year by the Congress, carries increases ranging from about 40 per cent to over 100 per cent in funds earmarked for State and local civil defense programs. These funds are covered under the
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sections on Operations; Federal Contributions; Emergency Supplies and Equipment; Surveys, Plans and Hesearch; and Civil Defense Functions of Federal Agencies.
The fund request represents an over-all increase of nearly 80 per cent over the amount Congress appropria ted for civil defense this fiscal year, when the final appropriation totaled 68,675,000.
The President had this to say about civil defense:
"The key to our civil defense is the expanded continental defense program, including the distant early warning system. Additional progress has been made in the civil defense program under the Federal Civil Defense Administration. Comprehensive studies are being conducted jointly

by the Federal Civil Defense dministration, the States and critical target cities to determine the best procedures that can be adopted in case of an atomic attack. Such planning has vital national importance and parallels the necessity for maintaining a strong military establishment.
"This budget provides for a strengthened effort on the part of the Federal government to assist the States and cities in devising the most effective common defense. It includes funds to extend civil defense preparations in more metropolitan target zones in accordance with recent recommendations of a special committee on civil defense. Funds also are included to accelerate procurement of field-type emergency hospitals and increase stockpiles of medical and rarliological supplies. "
COLONEL FORD NOW
AT 35TH AIR DIVISION
Colonel Charles 1. (Charlie) Ford, Jr., formerly Health and Welfare
ervices Coordinator, Atlanta Mettropolitan Area of Civil Defense and later serving as Assistant Senior Attack Warning Officer, Headquarters, 26th Air Di vision (Defense) Roslyn, ew York, has been transferred back to Atlanta as Assistant Senior Attack Warning Officer, Headquarters, 35th Air Division (Defens e) Dobbins Air Force Gase, Marietta, Georgia.

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THE GEORGIA ALERT
Published monthly by the
CIVIL DEFENSE DIVISION 959 E. Confederate Ave., S.E.
GEORGE J. HEARN Director
FRANK A. KOPF Deputy Director CHARLES T. WHITE Public Information Officer MRS. JOHN G. LEWIS Coordinator, Women's Activities JACK L. GRANTHAM Commu.,ications OHi cer KELSO HEARN Administrative Aide JERRY CAUBLE Northern Area Director A. MACK DODD Central Area Director HARRY U. JACKSON Southwestern Area 0 irector
WOMEN TO HOLD REGIONAL
MEETING IN CHARLOTTE
On May 9-10, 1956, in Charlotte, . C., the Women in Civil Defense in tbe seven Southeastern States comprising Region III of tbe Federal
Civil Defense Administration wil.l
meet to hear the latest findings on hazards of radio-active fallout and bow present evacuation planning will affect not only the larger target areas but rural population as well.
"Women in Civil Defense" means every woman, not a group of individuals or an organization. You as a borne maker, teacher, business 01 professional woman are a "Woman in Civil Defense" and it is for you that tbis meeting is being planned.
Part of the program will be directed toward showing you how to evolve a basic survival plan for yourself and family in the event of enemy-caused or natural disaster. Part of the program will concern new, silOrt Clivil Defense training courses
from 2Y. to 12 hours in length. All of
these lIUly be incorporated into the year's work of any organized women's group, permitting the members to take Civil Defense training without having to attend those " extra" meetings it is so difficult to find time for.
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EDITOR'S NOTE
THIS IS THE SEC 0 D IN A SERIES OF STORIES 0 THE RADIO OFFICEHS IN THE STATE DISASTER RADIO ET.
Recently Atlanta's Hadio Amateur Communications Emergency Service Plan (RACES) was approved by FCOA and the FCC. This is the first city RACES plan to be approved in the State. The man "behind the gun" in this was William Clifford Lundquist, better known as "C liff. h He is the Atlanta Metropolitan Area Civil Defense Hadio Officer.
Cliff's first radio contact was back in the good old' 'spark" days, while he was in school. His room mate was Dr. H. F. Olson, Director of RCA Acoustical Labs. Dr. Olson's accomplishments in "Hi-Fi," and other electronic audio devices probably exceed that of any other living man today. One of Cliff's great accomplishments was the opportunity to operate a commercial Poulson 5 KW arc transmitter.
Amateur Radio Licenses are issued for five years each. Cliff is now working on his third license. From 1943 until the end of World War II, he was active in the War Emergency Service. He was also privileged to use the first "Audion"

radio tube wbich was produced on a
production basis. Only noo of these
tubes were manufactured and prior to World War I.
While living in Olds, Iowa, Cliff and some friends built their first crystal set. His first spark code signals were picked up from the Great Lakes aval Station, .seve~~ boats cruising on the Great Lakes, and by other amateurs. Encouraged by this response, the boys constructed spark transmitters from Model T automobile spark coils. They found that they could send messages for a distance of 50 miles. Today? We II, you name the part of the World you wisb to talk to, Cliff bas probably already done so.
Cliff received his first amateur license in 1920. In 1926, he graduated from the University of Iowa. He is employed by the American Associated Insurance Companies as Engineering Supervisor in Atlanta. He is married, has a son, Kenneth, who is now in the Air Corps taking pilot training at Bryan Air Force Base in Texas.
"Civil Defense is and will continue to be a very important part of our community's existence," states Cliff, who believes that the public has yet to be educated to the organization's true value.
March, 1956

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NATIONAL LEADERS DRAFT RURAL CD PROGRAM

Picturedabove isthe first all-women radiological monitoring team in ueorgia. These ladies belong to the Ladies Auxiliary to Stanford Ellington Post No. 6447 at Thomaston, Georgia. This VFW Post purchased a Geiger Counter through the State Civil Defense Matching-fund program. Left to right, standing, Irma Cook, Junior Vice President; Angelo Mallory, Secretary; Lucille Daniel, President; Jettie Hawkins; Carri" Jenkins; Seated, left to right, Na-
omi Chapman; Eddie Conley (Gold Star Mother).

Groundwork for a new rural civil defense program, designed to strengthen the preparedness of the 55,000,000 persons who live in rural America, was laid at a conference in Washington, February 2 and 3.
The ational Advisory Council for Rural Civil Defense was organized at this meeting. The Federal Civil Defense Administration extended invitations to 14 national rural leaders. These incl ude the heads of the four major farm organizations, representing6,000,000 farmers in 30,OOOlocals.
Federal Civil Defense Administrator Val Peterson is the chairman. The U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, and Health, Education and Welfare are represented on the Council.
The chief function of the Council will be to help map the vital support role which those who live in areas far removed from the nation's potential target cities should be expected to play in any civil defense emergency.

VFW POSTS PROCURING RADIOLOGICAL MONITORINb INSTRUMENTS FOT LOCAL CIVIL DEFENSE

At the last encampment of the VFW, this fine patriotic organization resolved to help the Georgia Civil Defense Program at the local level.
One program that they embarked upon was the procurement of radiological monitoring instruments for local civil defense use. They are also furnishing the personnel to make up radiological monitoring teams.
The following VFW Posts have already procured instruments:

Post- 8579 - Atlanta Post 6449 - Fairburn Post 5376 - Calhoun Post 3200 - Augusta Post 6447 - Thomaston Post 6442 - Oglethorpe Post 9709 - Macon Post 5374 -Jackson Post 3027 - Atlanta Post 2872 - Athens Post 6688 - Summerville

Post Post Post Post Post Post Post Post Post Post

5290 - Metter 5893- McRae 4472 - Baxley 4904 - Bainbridge 6447 - Thomaston (Auxiliary) 5646 - Sandersville 2588 - Brunswick 4629 -LaGrange 4985 - Dalton 4382 - Waycross

These radiological monitoring instruments are available through the State Civil Defense Office on a matching-fund basis.
The above-listed VFW Posts are to be commended on their active interest in Civil Defense.

CD PLANNING TO USE
TRAILERS IN RURAL ARE AS
House trai lers may become rolling hospitals and portable rural reception centers for city evacuees during a civil defense emergency under a program being worked out by the trailer industry and the Federal Civil Defense Administration.
FCOA evacuation specialists say the use ()f trailers would take some of the load off farm areas and small towns which would be jammed with urban evacuees if major American target cities were attacked.
Trailer industry officials point out that each trailer has sleeping accommodations for a minimum of four persons. They estimated that most city dealers have at least 70 trailers in stock at all times. Under the plan, these would be made available for public use during an emergency.

March, 1956

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worst of them, and we constantly strive to minimize or eliminate them.
Disease and accident, sorrow and death, are no strangers to us. We have learned to muster great spiritual reserves against the suffering
they entai 1. They do not and cannot
destroy us because we have ways to fight back at them, to overcome them, and finally to rise above them.
And so I say that this is a time for courage not confusion; for effort not apathy; for calm rational readiness, for anything that might come, rather than resignation. We will not be destroyed-indeed, we cannot be destroyed-once we face up to the fact that there are ways to guard ourselves against even the most terrible weapons.
Ours is a big country-a very big country - with big hands and big hearts and a will to win over any hazard to our homes. In the fight to do just that, someone must lead and since our families must survive if our nation is just to survive, each one of us must face up to our own res ponsibilities.
The home front answer to the threat of atomic warfare and the threats of aggressor nations or natural disaster is civil defense. In simplest terms civil defense can be described as a means for survival rather than death. It comprises all measures which can be taken to help people, communities, industrial plants and installations in anyemergency.
When you are trained and prepared through civil defense, to protect your home and loved ones, you are shouldering your big share of

Civil Defense volunteer rescue work ers are shown at PI easant Grave school which suffered about$10,OOO damage in a storm which struck the Dalton area an 18 FeLruary. From left: Graver Cline, Jake Duncan, W. E. Burch, Fire Chief Luther 3roome, Mrs. I. arion Sims, CD director, Hoke Duncan and Albert Davi s, superintendent a f County
Schools. (Photo by Frank Painter)

DALTON CD RESCUE UNIT CALLED INTO FIRST OPERATION

Dalton's Civil Defense rescue unit was called into action for the first time on the 18th of February because of tornadic winds which struck that area.
The mobile unit and equil-ment, purchased last year by the Dalton American Legion Post No. 112, was manned by several volunteer workers for two days after the storm struck.
Mrs. Marion Sims, local CD Director, in reviewing the first actual operation of the unit, said she was well pleased with the work. Volunteer crews were assembled and ready to go into the storm area 30 minutes after the call for them went out.
On Saturday, the work was directed by Fire Chief Luther Broome, and on Sunday by Hoke Duncan, local health sanitarian and chairman of the CD Communications committee.
Mrs. Sims said citizens who may be victims of future storms should call Civil Defense for assistance, pointing out that CD's purpose is to function in time of natural disaster as well as enemy attack.
"We are on call 24-hours a day, offering free service," she added.

the responsibiht} I:or national defense.
To the citizens of Georgia who are making our civil defense program a success, I salute you.

The last training month of all British military draftees is devoted to CiviI Defense.

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THE GEORGIA UNIVERSITY OfGEORGIA \ MAY 11 1956'

Department of Defense, Civil Defense Division, George J. Hearn, State Director

Vol. 6, No. 3

Atl ant a, Ga.

May, 1956

George J. Hearn
THE DIRECTOR
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It is most gratifying to note the increased interest in all quarters in Civil Defense.
Starting from the Federal level, where all departments have now been told the part they will play in Civil Defense, down to the man on the street, Civil Defense is coming into its own. People are beginning to realize that it is a way of life - a national insurance policy.
Three months ago we held a Civil Defense Staff College at the University of Georgia and had over fifty patriotic citizens in attendance. This is more than three times the number of students at our last Staff College which was held six months ago.
Talking with the various Local Oirec tors as I travel around the State, they tell me that it is easier now to get people to participate in
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OPERATION ALERT 1956

Operation Alert 1956, the annual national civil defense test exercise, has been scheduled this year beginning July 20 to 26.
Operation Alert 1956, is intended to bring into action civil defense of the United States. It is primarily Ii training exercise to advance the continuing efforts of the Federal, State and local governments to bring a total ci vil defense into being.
In the assumed attack, two targets in Georgia will be struck. These will be Savannah and the Savannah River. Savannah will receive an assumed attack with a one megaton weapon, surface burst, and the Savannah River the same. Therefore, it is expected that for this exercise the full civil defense forces of the Citie~ of Augusta aml Savannah will go into operation with all other parts of the State acting in support.
Plans are proceeding for the provisions of adequate communications and all cities throughout the State are urged to begin planning now for their part in this exercise.
The purposes of this civil defense exercise are: rehearsal of operational procedures; the testing of civil defense air raid warnings; the testing of coordination of emergency plans of the local agencies in the use of resources; increasing the education and training of the public in civil defense actions and procedures at all levels; the determi-

radiological fallout pattern predictions and dissemination of data; reception and care of displaced and injured persons; assessment of damage and determination of recovery requirements; adequate flow of essential data between all levels of civil defense; effective utilization of available resources, including Federal agency support; essential civil defense operations for recovery from attack and/or for support to attacked areas, including radiological fallout problems; prompt and effective dissemination of civil defense information and instructions at the State and local levels, and proper coordination of civil defense and other information at the national level, to produce a balanced picture of what is happening and to maintain public morale and will-to-win; determination of assistance the attacked and support areas can expect from military sources, under the condi tions of this exercise.
This alert will be conducted in four phases. Local levels may close after completing phase one. That will take two days. State levels will close 'after completing phase two. That will take three days. However, State and local levels are requested to continue activity with regional and national levels during phases one, two, and three. This will take four days.

nation of the effectiveness of civil defense policies, procedures, and operational plans to include; tactical evacuation and application of

The frequencies for Con elrod, the Civil Defense emergency system of broadcasting, are 640 and 7240 kilocycles.

THE ALERT
THE GEORGIA ALERT
published by th.
DE:PARTMENT OF DEFE:NSE
CIVIL DEFENSE DIVISION
959 E:. Confederate Ave., S.E:.
GEORGE J. HEARN D ir.ctor
FRANK A. KOPF Deputy Direetor CHARLES T. WHITE Public Information Ollicer MRS. JOHN G. LEWIS Coordinator, Women's Activities JACK L. GRANTHAM Communications Ollicer KELSO HEARN A dministrative Aid. JERRY CAUBLE Northern Area Director A. MACK DODD Central Area D ireetor HARRY U. JACKSON Southern Area Director ELIZABETH W. PIPER Area Director at Large REBECCA R. UNGAR
Welfare Chief
200 BED HOSPITAL
ON DISPLAY HERE
People of Atlanta will have an opportunity to se e one of the 200 bed emergency hospitals used by Civil Defense on May 15 and 16. The annual meeting of the Medical Association of Georgia will be held here during that week, and one of the exhibits to be set up will be the hospital, and also one of the Mobile First Aid Stations recommended by the FCDA.
The display will be held in the First Baptist Church which has kindly donated space to the Civil Defense for this purpose. E:ntrance will be on Cypress St. which runs parallel to Peachtree back of the Elks Club.
Anyone interested in Civil Defense is urged to visit the exhibit. TIle Federal Civil Defense Administration plans to have more than 500 of these hospitals in storage at various places in the country for use in emergencies, either natural or enemy caused.
The Women's Auxiliary of the
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MRS. MAURICE A. CAMERON
Mrs. Maurice A. Cameron of McRae, Georgia, has been appointed Vice-Chairman of the Georgia Women's Advisory Committee for Civil Defense.
Mrs. Cameron is widely known throughout Georgia for her untiring work in civic affairs. She has been for many years prominently connected with the Auxiliary to the American Legion.
RURAL FAMILY DEFENSE
Many of our organizations, whose membership is made up of rural citizens, have been requesting information concerning activities which they can carryon in order to make a contribution to the civil defense effort in our State.
These groups, as well as our Civil Defense Directors will be interested to know that there is a new pamphlet available called Rural Family Defense.
ledical Association will act as guides and demonstrators in this project, and they will be assisted by at least one member from every PTA group in the city.
Later in May, Dr. E:dgar M. Dunstan, head ...of the Medical Services for Georgia CD will have the PTA in Decatur hold a practice exercise in setting up a 200 bed hospital in the high school.

MRS. ELIZABETH W. PlPER
. Area Director at Large
Mrs. Elizabeth W. Piper of Conyers, Georgia, has been appointed Area Director at Large with the Civil Defense Division, State of Georgia.
She has just returned from the Federal Civil Defense Staff College, UniversityofOhio, and has assumed her duties. Her area includes the entire State of Georgia.
Mrs. Piper is well known throughout Georgia for her tireless work in civic affairs. She has been for many years prominently connected with the Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Mrs. Piper's primary duties will be working with the local director in getting a good civil defense program started in his community.
Amateur radio operators ("hams") have often provided the only communi. cations link with the outside world in areas cut all by floods or other civil defense disasters.
In a nuclear attock, an allto ",auld serve as a good family shelter because, in addition to shelter from the weather, it would provide fairly good shelter against fallout, a means of getting out of a dangerous fallout area, a storage space for food and water, and a means o~ receiving civil defense instructions by radio.

MAY, 1956

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TORNADO
SAFETY RULES

......lTHE ALERT

TO KNOW WHAT TO DO WHEN AWARNING IS RECEIVED, OR A TQRNADO IS OBSERVED, MAY MEAN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
LIFE AND DEATH ! !

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There is no universal protection against tornadoes except caves or underground excavations. When time permits, ~o to a tornado cellar, cave, or underground excavation which should have an air outlet to help equalize the air pressure. It should be kept fit for use, free from water, gas, or debris; and preferably equipped with pick and shovel.'

1. Move at right angles to the tornado's path. Tornadoes usually move ahead at about 25 to 40 miles per hour.
2. U there is no time to escape, lie flat in the nearest depression such as a ditch or ravine.

1. Seek inside shelter, preferably in a steel reinforced building. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!
2. In homes: The southwest corner of the lowest floor or in the basement offers greatest saIety. People living in brick or stone houses should seek other shelter, preferably in a storm cellar or the basement of a frame house. U time permits, electricity and fuel lines should be shut off. Windows on the north and east sides of the house Olav also be opened to help reduce damue to the building.
3. Standing against the inside walls on the lower floors of an office bulldlng offers some protection.

In city areas: Especially if school building is of good steel reinforced construction, stay inside, away from windows, remain near an Inside wall on the lower floors when possible. AVOID AUDITORIUMS AND GYMNASIUMS with large, poorly-supported roofs!
2. In rural schools that do not have reinforced construction - remove children and teachers to a ravine or ditch if storm shelter Is not available.

On rpcel\,IlU: a tornado w3.rning, a lookout should be posted to keep saIety oflicials advised of the tornado's approach. Advance preparation should be made for shutting off electrical circuits and fuel lines if the tornadc approaches the plant. Workers should be moved to sections of the plant offering
the greatest protection.

Keep calm! It will not help to get excited. People have been killed by running out into streets and by turning back into the path of a tornado. Even though a warning is issued, chances of a tornado striking one's home or location are very slight. Tornadoes cover such a small zone, as a rule, that relatively only 3. few places in a warned area are directly affected. You should know about tornadoes though,
t~ Vl'r "just in case" See other side for details. Keep tWled to your radio station for latest tornado advisory information. Do not call the Weather Bureau, except to relXlrt a tornado, as your individual request may tie up telephone lines urgently needed to receive special reports or to relay advisories to radio stations for dissemination to thousands in the critical J.rea.

~AY, 1956

By - UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

3

Weather Bureau

Howard 13. Stephens, Sr.

EDITOR'S NOTE

at this time, and as the hours tolled

(This is the third in a series of stories on the Radio Officers in the State Dis-
aster Radio Net)

away, messages from Savannah to the State Civil Defense Headquarters told of how communications had been established from the Civil

It was a bad night, back in Sep Defense Director, the Red Cross,

tember of 1955; heavy black clouds the Coast Guard, and the Civil De-

were rolling into Atlanta from the fense forces.

northeast, but the operators in the

As these messages were coming

radio room of the State Civil De- in, the State Director was ordering

fense Control Center were unaware rescue trucks and other equipment

of what was going on in the clouds to proceed toward Savannah and

above Atlanta. They were concerned rendezvous somewhere out of dan-

with one area in much greater dan- ger, ready to move in immediately

ger at that moment.

to assistthe area if it were hit. The

Through the crackle of static in State Director and part of his staff

the radio receiver came the call began preparations to move to Sa-

they had been waiting for, "W4TJS vannah to assist if needed. "W4TJS,

from W4DJW," and the familiar an- this is W4DJW. The Civil Defense

swer, "This is W4TJS. Go ahead Director, after having a conference

W4DJW." Contact had been made with the Red Cross, the Weather

with the Savannah, Georgia Civil Bureau, and the Coast Guard, has

Defense Radio Officer.

ordered Savannah Beach evacuated

A severe hurricane named "lone" for tonigh t. "

V:as pointing straight for Savannah

Vital information was being trans-

THE UIRECTOR SAYS:
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their local Civil Defense program. The tremendous service which
Civil Defense, as a volunteer organization, has performed in many natural disasters, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, blizzards, and especially here in Georgia in droughts and water shortages we have had during the past two years, have made our citizens keenly aware of the peacetime importance of Civil Defense.
President Eisenhower said recently: "A good Civil Defense corps, like a good bombing squadron, lessens the chances of war and might well mean the difference between victory and defeat if war does come "
So, to the citizens of Georgia who Me making our Civil Defense Program a success, I salute you!
mitted that night, and the man at the mike in Savannah was Howard B. Stephens, Sr., W4DJW, Savannah Civil Defense Radio Officer, better known to his friends as Steve.
He is a member of the Savannah Amateur Radio Club and holds one Public Service Award. He has assisted many times in disaster communication. Steve, also a member of the Georgia Cracker Amateur et and the Civil Defense RACES et, served as et Control Station of the Cracker et during 1954 and 1955.
He was Coordinator and Net Control during the Savannah Civil Defense School Evacuation, 25 May 1954, where, with the members of his Communication Service, he proved, without a shadow of doubt, the importance of amateur radio in civil defense.

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Department of Defense, Civil Defense Division, George J. Hearn, State Director

Vol. 6, No. 4

Atlanta, Ga.

July, 1956

FCDA SIGNS FOR

FALLOUT DEFENSE STUDY

Defense against radioactive fall-

out, the greatest nuclear menace to

rural areas, will come under the in-

tensive scrutiny of University of

California scientists under a new

Federal Civil Defense Administra-

tion contract just signed.

A $591,600 contract, largest sin-

gle research agreement ever entered

into by FCDA, aims at laying rhe

George J. Hearn

basic framework for a national sys-

tem of defense against fallout that
THE DIRECTOR could result from a nuclear attack on the 'nited tates.

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\\ hat the study finds could spell the difference between life and death

Honorable Marvin Griffin, Governor of Georgia, has issued a femorandum to all Department Heads, State Government, concerning civil defense and "Operation Alert 1956," which I believe is a big step in making the civ il defense organization in Georgia one of the best in the nation.
Following is the Governor's memorandum:

for millions of rural residents. Federal Civil Defense Adminis-
trator Val Peterson, who announced the one-year research project, said the study should show "how the nation stands now on radiological defense, what we need to do to improve our defense, and indicate the most logical ways to do it."
He added that a nationwide fallout defense system is urgently needed "not only to increase the chances

State of Georgia Executive Department
Atlanta
2 July 1956

of survival under nuclear attack,

but also to strengthen our national

defense armament as a deterrent to

attack. "



MEMORANDUM FROM THE GOVERNOR

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Gl- D D I the-a as of study

To: All Department Heads, State Government

are: 1. The shelter-evacuation pro-
gram, stressing way s to use existing

"The historic American way of life, with its emphasis on peace and ,productivity

cover to shelter evacuees and displaced persons from fallout.

2. Review and analysis of programs for selecting, buying and distributing radiation detection instruments.
3. Communication systems to control radiological defense operations.
4. Large-scale radiological decontamination to make safer those areas where people must work and live.
5. 1edical diagnosis and treatment of radiation cases, including the hazards of internal radiation created by breathing and swallowing radioactive materials.
6. How to improve the national system for predicting potent~al fallout patterns by charting wind movements.
7. Tests and experiments on radiological defense that can be carried out during nuclear weapons tests.
MAIL' TRUCKS AVAILABLE
fa CD IN EMERGENCY
Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield has directed that Civil Defense decals be posted on both sides of the Posr Office Department's 25,000 mail trucks. Each decal carries the slogan - "This is a Unit of Your Civil Defense" - a reminder that mail trucks are to be made available for Civil Defense use in any national emergency.

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THE ALERT

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THE GEORGIA ALERT
Published by the
l)epartment of Defense
CIVIL DEFENSE DIVISIO
. 959 E. Confederate Ave., S.E GEORGE J. HEARN Director
CHARLES T. WHITE Public Information Officer
MRS. JOHN G. LEWIS Coordinator, Women's Activities
JACK L. GRANTHAM Communications Officer
KELSO HEARN Administrative Aide
JERRY CAUBLE Northern Area Director
A. MACK DODD Central Area Director
HARRY U. JACKSO Southern Area Director ELIZABETH W. PIPER Area Director at Large
REBECCA R. UNGAR Welfare Chief
IAJOR FORREST L. WAREHIME Ground Observer Corps Coordinator
NORTHERN AREA NEWS
Jerry Cauble, Director
New Civil Defense Directors since the last issue of the Alert are:
Howard Henderson - Acworth Palmer G. Edenfield - Wadley H. C. Stewart - Lincolnton W. Harvey Roughton - Sandersville John Tinney - Dallas Leonard ~hitlow - Royston Three cities in my ar"ea held CD school evacuation drills in the past few weeks. They were: Toccoa, with 2,800 children from three schools participating. They had a walk-out drill. Douglasville, with 3. ~oo children from seven schools had a ride-out drill. Atlanta, with 24,421 children from 168 schools had a ride-out drill. The below listed cities have procured First Aid Chest which will be available for any emergency in
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This attractive float was sponsored by the VFW and Auxiliary Post Number 4985 of Dalton, Georgia, for the Armed Forces Day parade. These patriotic ladies are enrolled in a Nurses Aid Training Course and will become a vital part of the Civil
Defense Organization of Whitfield County.

their community: Washington, Toccoa, Elberton, Gainesville, Cedartown, Calhoun, Dalton, Griffin, Clarke~... ille, and Cornelia.
Cities which have a civil defense identification tag program under way are: Toccoa, Cartersville, Rome, Washington, and Elberton.
HATS OFF TO:
Mrs. A. . Jay, President of PTA in Douglasville, for developing and putting into operation the evacu' ation drill for Douglas County.
Mrs. Marion Sims, Civil Defense Director of Dalton, for initiating and writing the first Nurses Aid Training Program in the State of this size and scope. This group of ladies will have their own uniforms and will be assigned to the Whitfield County CD program.
Mrs. Peggy Carter, Civil Defense Director of Toccoa, for carrying out her school evacuation drill in a splendid manner under most adverse conditions.
Mrs. Anne Fligg of the Atlanta Civil Defense Office for the outstanding contribution in making the Atlanta School evacuation test a success.
Mrs. Ephriam Moss of the Amer-

ican Legion Auxiliary of Cartersville, on her community leadership in having the Auxiliary sponsor the Welfare Service for the local CD office.
Orchids to the following CIVIC organizations for sponsoring a service in their local civil defense organization:
Athens Jaycees - sponsoring Warden Service. Griffin Jaycees - sponsoring Warden Service. Cartersville - American Legion Auxiliary - Welfare Service Kennesaw Jaycees - sponsoring Ground Observer Corps Toccoa Veterans of Foreign Warssponsoring Warden Service. Monroe Pilot Club - sponsoring Welfare Service Dekalb County Jaycees - sponsoring Auxiliary Police Service
Twenty-two cities in my area have participated in matching-funds program for communications equipment.
Ten members of the East Point Civil Defense Organization received certificates from The Third Army for having completed a course in Explosive Ordnance Reconnaissance.
JUL Y, 1956

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Ground Observer Corps Post Foxtrot Echo 5213 Block is located at Cumming, Georgia. Pictured from left to right are Mrs. Evelyn G. Tribble and Mrs. Katie H. Chancey, who have been members of this post for four years. The Alert is proud of the many patriotic Georgians who have given so many hours to this important program.

CENTRAL GEORGIA NEWS
By - A. Mack Dodd
Directors recent!y appoinred in the Cenrral Georgia Area are:
Col. R. R. Coursey, Vidalia, and D. E. Medders, Pembroke. Bothof these gentlemen have indicated interest in the Civil Defense program and we are expecting considerable activity in these communities in the future.
There is much interest throughout the Area in "Operation Alert 1956" and those contacted thus far, who have Ham radio stations in their setups, indicating that they will playa part in the exercise are:
Thomaston, Claxton, Baxley and Lyons.
While in Savannah on June 20, attending a meeting of Director Charles Musante and his staff concerning "Operation Alert 1956," I learned that the Rescue Service of the Savannah organization wenr into action on the evening before, under the direction of Rescue Chief Sam Rahal. During a heavy rainfall on the 19th certain sections of the city

JAYCEE DISASTER KIT GOES TO 3,000 LOCAL CHAPTERS
The U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce has distributed copies of a ..Jaycee Disaster Preparedness Project Kit to its 3,000 local chapters.
The kit implements a program of disaster preparedness adopted by the Jaycee parent organization, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, as a year long national community service project for 1956.
A full plan of organization and operation for a disaster organization is set forth in five pamphlets in the kit. Jaycee units are urged to establish civil defense agencies in areas which lack such a program.
were flooded and a large number of negro children were marooned. The Rescue Service was called into action at 8:00 p.m. and rescued 75 negro children. They were placed in boats and dispatched to safe territory. Orchids to the Savannah organization for being ready and performing this fine deed.

GEORGIA NEWS
By Elizabeth W. Piper
Area Director at Large
Congratulations and welcome to Mr. John H. Tinney, newly appointed Civil Defense Director of Dallas, Georgia, and sincere appreciation of Mayor H. J. Cooper's fine cooperative spirit.

Hats Off - to Mr. Homer Pharr, Civil Defense Director of Cherokee County and the City of Canton for your tireless work in reorganization.

A thank you Mayor H. J. Mickle for your interest in a local civil defense program for your County of Heard to include your City of Franklin.

A thank you to Mayor J. D. Kicklighter of Glennville and Mayor Wilton Hill of Reidsville for their splendid cooperation in developing your Civil Defense local program and the ideas passed along to me and a thank you for the helpfulness of your Civil Defense Directors, Mr. F. E. Phillips, of Glennville and Mr. B. B. Watkins d Reidsville. NOTE: Watch with interest these two cities and the County of Tattnall.

To Mr. Murray A. Chappel- a Silver Star - watch him and his City of Dublin and County of Laurens - before long he may have a gold star.

We lcome to Me. J. W. Minnier newly appointed GOC Supervisor for the GOC Post of Glennville.
Most cars today go about 250 miles on a tankful of gasoline, and get greatest gasoline economy between between 30 and 40 miles per hour. Every extra mile your car could go would help to carry your family farther out of danger in an attack emergency.

JUL Y, 1956

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J~LERT

AN AIR RAID ALERT WAS STAGED in Toccoa on May 2, in both city schools by the
Georgia Civil Defense under the direction of General George J. learn, Director of Ci-
vil Defense in the state. The drill was pronounced a complete success with the white school emptying 600 students in the rain in two and one-half minutes. This group witnessed the demonstration. Left to right, FIRST ROW: Warren Bishop, Cartersville; Fred Weldon, Lavonia; Lt. Marvin Dunson and Capt. Edwin Stowe of the Toccoa National Guard; General Hearn, Mrs. Peggy Carter, Toccoa Civil Defense
Director; Mrs. J. R. Reeves, Clarkesville. 2nd ROW: E. F. Lyon, Homer; C. W. Will-
iams, Supt. of Clarkesville Schools; Mayor 8. W. Crowe of Cornelia, Mayor Ammo Lee Graves of Clarkesville; Mrs. Spurgeon Davis, Cornelia; Mrs. Teel Smith, Cornelia; Mrs. Z. B. Lane, Clarkesvi lie. BACK ROW: Fred May, Clayton; Leonard Ellard, Cornelia; Jerry Cauble, North Georgia Area Director for Civil Defense; Miss Gladys
Holcomb and Mrs. Grady Carroll of Clarkesville.

SERVICE STATIONS WILL
BECOME "CD LIFE-SAVING STATIONS" IN EMERGENCY
The American Petroleum Institute, through its Service Station Advisory Committee, recently offered the assistance of 250,000 gasoline service stations throughout the Nation for Civil Defense.
Service Stations, because of their construction and geographical locations, are good sites for Civil Defense activities in the event of

emergency. Various civil defense activities which would be assisted by use of service station facilities are, first-aid stations, traffic c ontrol points, collection and transfer points, information centers, radiological training centers, amateur (RACES) radio stations and ground observer posts.
It is suggested that all Georgia civil defense organizations initiate steps to incorporate gasoline service stations in their civil defense planning.

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THE UIHb:CTOll AYS:
Continued from Page 1 and its repugnance for war and destruction, is threatened by forces whose objective is the destruction of free institutions and the enslavement of man throughout the world.
As we must be strong militarily, so that we may not faU easy victim to our powerful adversary, so we must gird ourselves for the protection of our homes, our people, and our productive reSources.
This we shall do through our Civil Defense Organization in Georgia and throughout the nation.
During the period July 20-22, 1956, Georgia's Civil Defense Division will participate in "Operation Alert 1956." This test exercise is based on an assumed nuclear assault on 76 American cities. The Air Force Base at Savannah and the Savannah River Project at Augusta have been designated target sites for this exercise.
Since each Department Head has been placed in charge of a Civil Defense service, 1 hereby direct you and members of your Staff to actively participate in this important test exercise.
As Governor of Georgia, and the official responsible under law for the organization of' its civil defense, I call upon each department head to acquaint each employee under his jurisdiction with this new and v ital subject
Civil Defense is a continuing program and we will need it as long a s we need military defense. Until our military establishment is able to guarantee that an enemy cannot make an attack on this country, we will need civil defense.
Therefore, I call upon all State employees to tender whatever contribution they are best qualified to make, regardless of the personal sacrifice that may be required, to ensure our continued existence as a free people in a free nation. "
A basic Civil Defense training course may save your life.

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Department of Defense, Civi I Defense Division,

.rector

Vol. 6, No. 5

Atlanta, Ga.

SFP

September, 1956

NATIONA

DE ENSE

WEEK SET FOR SEPTEMBER 9-15

September 9 through September 15,

1956, has been designated by the

President of the United States as

America's first Civil Defense Week.

The Federal Civil Defense Adminis-

trarion, with the cooperation of State

and City civil defense organizations,

are endeavoring to make Civil Defense

Week an outstanding milestone of

George J. Hearn

American civil defense progress.

THE DIRECTOR The purpose of Civil Defense Week is to pay tribute to the civil defense

SAYS- - -

workers and organizations for their efforts in behalf of our nation. Also, it provides the opportunity to promote

Our schools, universities and colleges have now reopened for the 1956-
57 terms. Realizing that civil defense is a
new dimension in community thought and service, our first job is to create an understanding of this new dimension and its implications for our survival, individually and as members of a community.
We look naturally to our American institutions for leadership in this task. We must look to our educators from the kindergarten to the univer: sity level, to pioneer in helping us bui ld into the educational thought and practices the substance of this new dimension.

public interest in and understanding of civil defense as a means of protecting our people, safeguarding our freedom and constructing an enduring peace.
National attention was focused on Civil Defense Week by the issuance of a Presidential proclamation, and by a special hour-long star studded television program on Sunday, September 9, which featured the appearance of President Eisenhower.
Civil Defense Week is a grand op portuniry for indoctrinating 166,000,000 ,Americans to the urgent compulsion for developing a civil defense capable of insuring national survival under the most devastating attack an enemy

What is education's role in the couId launch. It also provides the oc-

development of the national civil casion for presenting civil defense in

defense program?

its dynamic concept as a positive

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force for peace. This can be accomplished by creating public awareness that the chances of enemy attack will be reduced in direct ratio to the increased knowledge on the part of potential enemies that America has a civil defense strong enough to insure that the nation cannot be demoralized by attack.
In connection with Civil Defense Week the Boy Scouts of America will distribute nearly 1,500,000 civil defense posters. In addition, 40,000 posters were placed in post offices allover the country, and postal trucks are carrying a decal with the words "This is a unit of your civil defense" to point up one of their roles in a civil defense emergency.
GEORGIA DISASTER RADIO NET TO RESUME DRILLS
The G.eorgia Civil Defense Disaster Radio Net will resume weekly drills on September 10th for the 1956-57 season.
This radio network is comprised of seventeen of the larger cities in Georgia. These seventeen cities are responsible for their surrounding area which gives a complete coverage of Georgia.
These weekly drills will be under the supervision of Mr. Jack Grantham, Communication and Training Officer for Georgia civil defense.

THE ALERT

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THE GEORGIA ALERT
Published by the
Department of Defense
. CIVIL DEFENSE DIVISION
959 E. Confederate Ave., S.E .
GEORGE J. HEARN Director
CHARLES T. WHITE Public Information Officer
MRS. JOH G. LEWIS Coordinator, Women's Activities
JACK L. GRANTHAM Communications Officer
KELSO HEARN Administrative Aide
JERRY CAUBLE Northern Area Director
A. MACK DODD Central Area Director
HARRY U. JACKSON Southern Area Director ELIZABETH W. PIPER Area Director at Large
REBECCA R. U GAR Welfare Chief
MAJOR FORREST L. WAREHIME Ground Observer Corps Coordinator
POST OFFICE AND FCDA HAVE JOI T PROJECT
Preliminary plans for a project which' should prove of great value in maintaining the morale of the American people in the event of a National civil defense emergency have been approved by Val Peterson, FCDA Administrator and the Honorable Arthur E. Summerfield, Postmaster General.
The project which employs existing governmental machinery on a cooperative basis provides that the FCDA will assist in distribution of the Post Office's "Emergency Change of Address" cards, through civil defense welfare facilities, to victims of attack who have been evacuated or cannot be reached at their former homes; see that the cards are properly completed and returned to the Post Office.
The Post Office Department will
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Governor Marvin Griffin and Major General George J. Hearn, State Civil
Defense Director, are shown conversing with Mr. Jack Grantham, State CD Communications Officer, during Operation Alert 1956. Governor Griffin came to the State Control Center upon receiving warning "Lemon Juice." When the exercise began he issued a proclamation declaring an emergency in Georgia. The Governor remained at the Control Center for several hOUTS and was pleased with Georgia's participation in the test exercise.

assist the Civil Defense Welfare Services by accepting for delivery F ederal Civil Defense Administration "Saf ety Notification" cards, postage free. The safety notification card will be used by evacuees and others to advise their friends and relatives of their safety and new address.
Information will be provided to local civil defense organizations in the near future, regarding the availability, use and submission of official "Safety Notification" and "Emergency Change of Address" card and the obtaining of official information on available postal services in the event of enemy atta'Ck.

A good farmer who checks his crops and livestock frequently for disease is one of the nation's best defenses against biological warfare.
If you are ever exposed to radioactive fallout after a nuclear attack, you may save your life by removing contaminated clothing and washing yourself with soap and water.
The hydrogen bomb which was touched off during Operation Ivy in November, 1952, dug a crater 17 stories deep and obliterated an entire island. That is why target cities must be evacuated.

SEPTEMBER, J956

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EW CIVIL DEFE SE FILM
A motion picture entitled"ALERT TODAY - ALIVE TOMORROW" will be released by film exchanges of RKO Radio Pictures throughout the country on September 7.
The film is being released through the courtesy of RKO Radio Pictures on that date to insure its availability for initial showings in theaters during National Civil Defense Week.
This two-reel subject, which dramatically portrays the activities of civil defense volunteers in an American community, was made with the cooperation of the Federal Civil Defense Administration.
Local civil defense directors are urged to request theater manage-rs in their areas to obtain this short for showing beginning the week of September 9. Local directors are also urged to publicize this impressive documentary in every suitable manner.
Because only a limited number of prints will be available, bookings in some theaters probably cannot be arranged during Civil Defense week. The picture is so designed, however, that its use is in no way re stricted to Civil Defense Week programming, and it will continue to be available for showing indefinitely through the RKO exchanges.
SPECIAL FCDA STAFF COLLEGE FOR NURSES SET FOR SEPTEMBER
A special Civil Defense Health Services Course for Nurses will be conducted Sept. 24-28, 1956, by the FCDA Staff College in cGoperation with the Health Office, Technical Advisory Services, ar the Federal Civil Defense Administration Headquarters in Battle Creek, Michigan.
The study program will cover the principles of civil defense and, with specific emphasis on aspects of the Health Services, the orgainzation, administration and operation of civil defense programs in the U.S. Special emphasis also will be given to the educational and training programs for nurses in civil defense.
Nurses wishing to attend this course should request application forms from the State Civil Defense office.
SEPTEMBER,7956

HURRICANE SAFETY PRECA UTIONS
The following safety precautions have been listed by the Weather Bureau for residents of an area for which hurricane warnings have been issued:
1. Keep your radio or television on and listen for latest Weather Bureau warnings and advisories. If power fails, use your car radio.
2. Pay no attention to rumors. Be
Calm. Your ability to meet e;;;:
ergencies will inspire and help others. 3. Get away from low-lying beaches or other locations which may be swept by high tides or storm waves. If passage to high ground is over a road likely to be ununder water, leave early. Don't run the risk of being marooned. Be alert for high water in areas where streams or rivers may
flood after heavy rains. 4. If your house is out of danger
from high tides and is well built, then it is probably the best place to wearher the storm. Board up, put on storm shutters, tape or otherwise protect window s. Danger to small windows is mainly from flying debris while larger windows may be broken by wind pressure. Be sure that a window or door can be opened on the lea side of the house, or the side opposite the one facing the wind. 5. Get in extra food, especially things which can be eaten without cooking or with very little preparation. Remember that electric power may be off and you may be without refrigeration. If emergency cooking faciliti es are necessary, be sure they are in working order.
6. Sterilize the bathtub, jugs, bot-
tles, cooking utensils, and fill with drinking water, as city water service may be interrupted. 7. Have flasWights and/or other emergency lights in workinR condition and keep them handy. Be sure to have gasoline in your car. If electric power is off, filling starions may not be able to operare pumps for several days.

NORTHERN AREA NEWS by
Jerry Cauble New Civil Defense Directors appointed during the last two months in my Area are: J. Virgil Jenkins of Trenton; Richard B. Sims, Jr., of Canton; and, Albert Flynt of Sparta. HATS OFF TO: Mayor Otto Terrell, City Manager Bill Sharman, Post Supervisor Bob Slack, and Mrs. Peggy Carter, Civil Defense Director of Toccoa, fo.r the excellent GOC post dedication. Palmer G. Edenfield, Jr., Civil Defense Director of Wadley, for developing an excellent civic organization to sponsor CD in his community. Mrs. Beverley Dubuc and her col.legues in Smyrna for the outstanding civil defense meeting they arranged last month. The following civic clubs are helping to develop a civil defense program in their communities: Lions Club of Sparta; Rotary Club of Canton; Pilot Club of Winder; Rotary Club of Decatur. The follow ing women in my area were appointed to the Georgia Civil Defense Women's Advisory Committee during the past two months: Mrs. Hugh Butler of Carrollton; Miss Sydney L. Jolly of Cartersville; Mrs. Roy Pope of Chickamauga; Mrs. Pherson McCarter of CIar kesville; Mrs. Mildred Gilbertof East Point; Mrs. G.H. Whitley, Jr., of Griffin; Mrs. E.G. Harper of Griffin; Miss Joyce Blocker of Millen; Mrs. Michael Mansour of Newnan; Mrs. Glena Marie Hale of Rome; Mrs. Beverley Dubuc of Smyrna; and, Mrs. Alera Harrison of Toccoa.
8. "Check on everything that might blow away Qr be torn loose. Garbage cans, garden tools, toys, signs, porch furniture, awnings and other objects become weapons of destruction in hurricane winds. Store them all inside if possible.
Y. If the center or "eye" of the storm passes directly ave, there will be a lull in the wind lasting from a few minutes to half an hour or more. Stay in a safe place.

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G o GI COM U ICATIONS
o ATION ALERT 1956

House fires, auto collisions, wing tank falling off airplanes, and electrical storms all added fO the excitement of the ational Civil Defense Exercise Operation Alert 1956.
Upon receipt of the warning' 'Lemon Juice", the Georgia Civil Defense RACES Radio officer, Jack Farr, W4TJS, immediately called the RACES Net into action upon direction of the State Director, Adjutant General George J. Hearn.
Pre-planning had established four alternate State Control Stations in the State, whi ch had been divided into operational areas. These stations were manned by 4ACH, W4PMJ, W4BKK, and W4 UM, with W4YEK alternating relief at State Control. W4PIM direrted activities on the C.W. Net, which was operated from the State CD. mobile communications unit stationed near the Control Center. Additional operators to man the many shifts at the concrol centers were recruited from the RACES members throughout the State.
Although weather conditions caused considerable interference at times, there was no failures within the Georgia RACES et. Approximately 2500 messages were handled. The Net, which was using the frequency of 3995 kc, bogged down early in the exercise primarily from two causes. One was inexperience on the patt of a good many civil defense workers in composing messages (length); and two, severe weather conditions across middle Georgia caused all Savannah

traffic to be relayed during first 12

hours.

There are 173 members in the Geor-

gia RACES etwork; practically all of

them worked in Operation Alert.

The Operation was in progress for

three days and during that period one

amateur gave an account of a house

burning near the Control Center at the

State Office. Another report of an auto

collision where two youths were killed

was transmitted. Information of an

actual bomb drop from a. plane near

Savannah caused considerable excite-

ment until it was determined that it

was a jettisoned gasoline wing tank.

The night before the Operation began,

a severe thunderstorm forced Savannah

to begin the Operation on emergency

power. During the Operation, several

antennas were blown down by severe

storms. One such incident founa

W4BKK 40 feet up in a pecan tree at

4:00 a.m. replacing his antenna. Many

of the amateurs worked the entire ex-

ercise with no relief.

General Hearn, the State Director,

said, "Such devotion to duty by the

volunteer radio amateurs gives us the

hope, faith, and courage to carryon,

sometimes in the face of se~mingly

unsurmountable odds. May God bless

them all."

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Civildefense officials advise that every family should be prepared to manage its own food, water and sanitation problems for at least seven days during a major emergency.

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THE DIRECTOR SAYS: Continued from Page 1 It falls into two broad cat~gories: (1) effective leadership at the community level, and (2) participation in civil defense educational and training programs. The educator, whether he be an administrator or teacher, has long been looked upon as a community leader. He sets an example for others to follow in civic affairs. In civil defense, community leadership is the most important element in the enlistment and training of volunteer civil defense corps. Don't wait until others volunteer for civil defense. Enlist in your local civil defense programs now and encourage others to do so. Offer your individual services for the big training job that must be done.
U.S. CIVIL DEFENSE COUNCIL TO HOLD ANNUAL CONFERENCE
The United States Civil Defense Council will hold its Fifth Annual Conference at the Biltmore Hotel , Atlanta, Georgia, October 8-12 .
The U.S. CD. Council is comprised of local civil defense directors throughout the nation and more than 1,500 delegates are expected to attend.
An elaborate program has been arranged with dignitaries and civil defense experts from throughout the United States participating. Among some of the speakers will be Mr. Ellsworth Bunker, President of the American Red Cross; Congressman Chet Holifield of California; Governor Val Peterson, The Federal Civil Defense Administrator; and Mayor Frank P. Zeidler of Milwaukee.

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Vol. 6, No.6

Deportment of Defense, Civil Defense Division, George J. Hearn, State Director

Atlanta, Ga.

November, 1956

FIRST UNIFORM FOR CIVIL

DEFENSE WOMEN APPROVED

GRAY-BLUE CHOSEN FOR THREE OUTFITS

George J. Hearn
THE DIRECTOR
SAYS- - -
Blood is as much a weapon of defense as guns, tanks, planes. It is as vital to national strength as aluminum or steel. Unlike weapons, it cannot be manufactured. It cannot be mined or fabricated. It must come as a free donation from the veins of men and women of good will.
Civil Defense has received a real challenge from the American Red Cross to aid in obtaining four million pints of whole blood, over the next fifteen months, to promote the establishment of a "Civil Defense Disaster Blood Reserve."
The new program, which went into effect on 1 October, 1956, is an extension of the previously-existing responsibility of the Red Cross for the entire blood collection program for Civil Defense at all levels. Quotas established under the new program are in addition to quotas imposed for

Women Civil Defense workers soon will be identified by attractive new uniforms in Civil Defense Blue, a soft shade of gray-blue.
Arrangements have been completed for the manufacture and purchase by volunteer and staff workers of a two-piece suit with matching hat and slacks, a blouse, coat-dress and a coverall.
The suit, worn with a soft wine-colored jersey blouse, is made of palm beach fabric. It has flattering lines for the mature as well as the youthful figure, and it features interesting pocket detail. The sleeves have two-button side openings which can be turned back while working.
The Straight Skirt has inset slant pockets and two large pleats in the back for easy movement. The design f"r the suit was presented to FCDA as a public service by Louis Tabak, president of the California Apparel Manufacturers Association.
A Coat-Dress' which may serve as a secondary choice in place of the suit is made of ciella jersey and features three-quarter sleeves bloused softly into button cuffs. It has slim, smooth lines with a side-opening skirt. Both dress and blouse are washable and can be drip-dried without ironing.
Sally Victor, famed milliner for Mrs. Eisenhower, presented the hat design to FCDA. Made of palm beach fabric matching the suit, it has a softly bloused sectional crown and a visor dipping jauntily over the right eye.
The coverall, especially designed for women, is made of heavy-duty cotton poplin of high tensile strength. The material is light, the coverall is wearable in all climates. It contains a full-length zipper opening in front and side zip per. There are four large pockets with button flap~. The small round collar has a small flap underneath, providing tight closure for protection against dust.
It is not required that civil defense volunteers wear uniforms. However, FCDA has received so many requests for uniforms that these designs have been officially established.
Ground Observer Corps volunteers, working with the Air Force, may wear the uniforms. They will use a shoulder patch which designates their service as a Civil Defense GOC volunteer.
Uniforms may be purchased direct from the manufactures who have been designated as authorized manufacturers. Each order must be place through the Civil Defense Director, and approved by him.

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THE ALERT
THE GEORGIA ALERT
Published by the Department of Defense CIVIL DEF ENSE DIVISION 959 E. Confederate Ave., S. E.
GEORGEJ.HEARN Director
CHARLES T. WHITE. Public Information Officer
MRS. JOHN G. LEWIS Coordinator, Women's Activities
JACK L. GRANTHAM Communications Officer
KELSO HEARN Administrative Aide
JERRY CAUBLE Northern Area Director
A. MACK DODD Central Area Director HARRY U. JACKSON Southern Area Director ELIZABETH W. PIPER Area Director At Large MAJOR FORREST L. WAREHIME Ground Observer Corps Coordinator
AREA DIRECTOR RECOVERING
Harry U. Jackson, Civil Defense Area Director of Southwest Georgia is convalescing at his home in Cuthbert, Georgia, following a serious operation.
Harry states that he is feeling fine and hopes to be back in harness by the first of December.

Pictured here is the presentation of a Radiological Survey Meter to the Civil Defense Organization of Athens and Clarke County by Frank E. Mitchell, Post 2872, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Athens.
From left to right are Albert D. Seagraves, Past Post Commander and present Quartermaster-Ad;utant; Roscoe A. Hansford, Post Commander; W. T. "Terry" Wingfield, Executive Director of Civil Defense for Athens and Clarke County; Mayor Pro Tem Guy 11'. Smith, City of Athens; and Grady Pittard, Jr., Department Community Service Chairman for the VFW in Georgia.
The survey meter will be retained at the Post Home on Sunset Drive, where it will be available for use whenever needed. Members of the Post have volunteered to receive training in its use, as part of the Post's contribution to the Civil Defense effort in the area. Mayor Jack R. Wells, who was out of the city at the time of the presentation, has stated that full use will be made of the Meter, and that various City employees will also be trained in its use. Training classes will include city policemen and firemen, other city employees, members of the VFW and any other civil defense volunteers who wish to attend. Classes will be held at the VFW Post Home.

NEW CIVIL DEFENSE RADIO PROGRAM
All radio stations in the country will be offered a new transcribed series entitiled "Stars for Defense," on a request basis. The weekly program will feature a main star who will deliver a central civil defense me ssage, in addition to entertaining with songs. The first six programs have been recorded and are ready for distribution. These programs feature Frankie Laine; Kay Armen, Johnny Mercer; The Chordettes; Sammy Davis, Jr.; and Edie Gorme.
It is suggested that all local Civil Defense Directors contact their radio stations and suggest that they avail themselves of this transcribed program.

SURPLUS PROPERTY FOR CIVIL DEFENSE
The Congress has passed a law permitting surplus U.S. property to be used for civil defense purposes. The basic authority and plan is explained in FCDA Advisory Bulletin No. 202. Plans for implementing the obtaining of surplus property by Civil Defense Organizations are being developed by FCDA, State CD and other government agencies.
Details of methods of requesting and utilizing surplus property will be disseminated to Local Civil Defense Directors in Georgia, as soon as they are completed.
No community which does not have an effective Civil Defense organization will be eligible for donation of Surplus Property.

CIVIL DEFENSE WORKERS ENTERTAINED
Mrs. Sue Byars, Civil Defense Director of Griffin, entertained a group of civil defense workers with a buffet dinner at her home near Griffin recently.
Among those present were Mr. & Mrs. Elmer George; Col. and Mrs. George Shivers; Mr. and Mrs. Carl Pruitt; Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Smith; Mr. and Mrs. Jim New; Mr. and Mrs. Jack Whitley; Dr. and Mrs. Virgil Williams; Mr. and Mrs. Reid Childers; Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Thomas; Mr. and Mrs. George Patrick; Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Moore; Mrs. Elizabeth Hasty; Mr. Roland Richardson; Captain Ellis Simonton; Captain Leo Blackwell; Mr. Kenneth Williams: Miss Sarah
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Blood Means Life
Yours Is Needed

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CD STAFF COLLf!GE COURSE TO BE HELD
There will be a five-day Civil Defense Staff College Course held at the University of Georgia, January 20 - 25, 1957. This course is being sponsored by the State Civil Defense Division in cooperation with the Federal Civil Defense Administration and the University of Georgia.
Any person interested in civil defense is cordially invited to attend this course. You should contact the State Civil Defense Office for details concerning registration, lodging, etc. There is no registration fee.
Each of the civil defense services will be discussed at length by a group of specialists with vast experience in that service. Some of the subjects to be studied are "Effects of Wartime Weapons," "Civil Defense Analysis," "Operation and Organization in support Areas," "Peacetime Disaster and Its Relation to Civil Defense," and "Civil Defense in Schools and Colleges. "

If medical requirements for whole blood are to be met during the coming year, one out of every 20 people in the nation will be needed as a blood donor. The use of blood and blood fractions in medical practice will continue to grow as new discoveries are made. Every healthy man or woman can safely donate blood five times a year. Giving blood is safe and easy. Receiving blood means life to thousands each year. Make it a habit to donate blood regularly - give the ill and injured an extra chance for life.
Call your Red Cross chapter to learn when and where you can give blood.

STOCKPILE OF MERCY
Packed away without fanfare in strategically-placed warehouses around the nation is the Federal Civil Defense Administration's mercy stock~ pile, which some day may spell life or death for millions of people.
It consists of 200 of FCDA's selfcontained emergency hospitals in the federal stockpile, plus 76 others owned by the States. FCDA has ordered an additional 731 hospitals, and the States six.
Set up in outlying schools, churches and other buildings, the hospitals would provide working facilities for doctors and nurses evacuated from the l,aOO r~ular hospitals in critical target areas.
The $22,500 emergency hospital, complete with X-ray and operating room equipment, 2 generators, 200 cots and supplies, can be loaded in two large vans, and be in use 5 hours after arrival.
Your Civil Defense can provide families with information on how to prepare self-survival programs for use in major disaster.
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NORTHERN AREA NEWS
by Jerry Cauble A series of Basic Civil Defense Courses, prepared and taught by the State CD Staff, are being held. One
of the first communities in my area to participate in this program was Smyrna with the leadership of tayor
J.E. Quarles and his CD staff.
Other communities in my area to receive this course, in conjunction with the Women's Advisory Committee meetings, were Rome, Griffin and Elberton. The City Managers of these respective cities greatly assisted by offering their facilities and personnel. They are: Mr. Sam King, Rome; Mr. Elmer George, Griffin; and Mr. George Aull, Elberton.
New CD Directors in my area appointed since the last issue of The
Alert are: Mr. J.E. Keivey, Adairs-
ville; Mrs. Anna Laura Reid, Covington; Mr. William C. Rogers, Waynesboro. HATS OFF TO:
Mayor E. . Landrum of Adairsville for his quick action in setting up his CD organization, the passing of his city ordinance and the selection of his director and staff.
Mayor M.G. Pound and CD Director Flynt of Sparta for the splendid cooperation they are getting from the County Commissioners and other community leaders in building their CD program.
Miss Joyce Blocker, County Home Demonstration Agent, and CD Direc-
tor J.T. Evans of Millen for the successful County CD meeting held for their Home Demonstration Clubs.
CD Director Tom Veasey of \rarrenton for the distribution of the Home

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Mr. Frank Miller of the Lockheed Security Staff for the development of the excellent Disaster Plan for his company and its employees. This plan is now in the final stages of being edited and should be finished before the first of the year.
I would like to convey my appreciation to the following persons for making arrangements for the Women's Advisory Committee Meetings: Mrs. Elizabeth Hasty, Griffin; Mrs. Glenna Marie Hale, Rome; and Mr. T.M. Martin, Elberton.
Several communities are in the process of evaluating the potentialities of procuring Light Rescue Equipment on the federal matching funds program. I would like to encourage all communities to contact me in regard to obtaining this valuable CD vehicle, to be used in all types of dtsaster.

THE DIRECTOR SAYS: Continued from Page 1
blood collection for normal, daily requirements. As soon as initial collection~ of blood under the Civil Defense
Red Cross campaign have been made, blood will be processed at existing laboratories and will be placed
i.!t reserve at strategic locations
throughout the ation to strengthen the medical programs of Civil Defense.
I urge each reader of "The Alert" to actively and personally participate in this most important blood-collection program and to do all in your power to encourage all people to donate blood in the interest of national security. Be sure to coordinate your activities in this vital undertaking with your local or county chapters of the American Red Cross.
The ational Blood Program is a total blood program, designed to benefit the entire population. Therefore, all eligible, partriotic citizens of our State must rise to the need and give of their blood to the end that we can save lives and thus be more certain of our survival as a nation.
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Frances Whatley; Miss Mattie Myri Statham; and, Mr. Al Hill, all from Griffin. Those from the State Civil Defense Office attending were Major General George J. Hearn; Colonel Glades T. White; Mr. Kelso Hearn; Mr. Jack Grantham; Major Jack Warehime; Mr. Jerry Cauble; and, Lt. P.c. Peacock.
This enthusiastic group of volunteer civil defense workers is the reason for Griffin having one of the finest civil defense orgainzations in the State.

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WORKSHOPS FOR W(}IIEN lFADERS
We have now completed the 11 Workshops for Women Leaders and thought you would be interested to know that we registered!&1. from 84 towns, that 45 of our women's organizations were represented, that 35 local civil defense organizations sent either the director or deputy and that 534 training certificates for the Basic Civil Defense Course were presented.
We wish to say a special "Thank You" to those of you who notified your local units and members of these meetings. Also a special word of appreciation to Mrs. Maurice A. Cameron who presided in Moultrie, Cairo and Swainsboro, Mrs. Helen K. Smothers in Americus, r.Jrs. Ralph W. Fowler in Rome, f1ln. G. W. Freiberg in Elberton, f,lrs. Charles Hatcher in Baxley, flirs. E. J. Ennis in Lyons, Mrs. Bruce Schaeffer in Cochran and Mrs. Charlie Morgan in Warner Robins. Your chairman had the privilege of presiding at Griffin.
ffiORGIA CIVIL DEFEI'SE S'mFF COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF GBQlGlA, JANUARY 20-25. 1951
We hope you will plan to enroll for our State Staff College which will be held January 20-25, 1951 in the new Georgia Center For Continuing Education Building on the University of Georgia Campus in Athens. Ther.e is no charge for tui tion, approximately fifty dollan ($50) will cover room and board. f.iay we suggest that, in addition to attending yourself, you arrange for your organization to send your Civil Defense Chairman or whatever Chairman has responsibility in this field. If you are set up by districts, each district should be representeG and we hope you will encourage your local units to be represented also. Local
women's groups should see that the civi! defense director and his chiefs QL
services attend along with the director ~ women's activities.
SO YOO ARE THE CHAIRMAN OF CIVIL DEFE[I5E
We are passing on to you suggestions for civil defense chairmen and committees which were distributed at the National Women's Advisory Committee Meeting. This information will be helpful to you as an individual and you may wish to pass it on to the local units of your organizations.
ALERT T(DAY ALIVE T<lnORR<M
Please help us publicize Civil Defense by using the enclosed seals on your letters particularly in mailings to your organizational units and members.
mANK YCU - r.1ERRY CHRIS TMAS - HAPPY NBiI YEAR
We appreciate the inte~est and coope~ation you have given to the Civil Defense p~ogram in 1956 and we look forwa~d to even greater work during 1951.
We wish for you a Safe and Sacred Christmas and a P~osperous and Prepared New Year.

so Yoo ARE 1JiE CHAIRfiU\N OF CIVIL DEFooE :~
You have the impo~tant post in you~ o~ganization of Chai~man of Civil Defense. You know it is impo~tant because upon you~ efforts may well depend the su~vival of many of your co-wo~ke~s. That is a se~ious ~esponsibi1ity, so you want to know what you should do to caay it out with st~ength and conviction.
Ee~e a~e a few suggestions to gUide you in your year's Ieadetship:
1. Appoint o~ ask to have appointed a strong, wo~k-willing committee.
2. Be well info~med yourself. Find out what the Civil Defense program is in your community. Read available mate~ial, such as Home Protection EXe~cises, G~andma's Pantry. CD Household First Aid Kit. Atomic Blast Creates Fi~ef What to do now about Emergency Sanitation at Home. Facts about Fallout,
3. Be prepared yourself. You are in a much better position to advise preparedness if you have your own home prepared for emergencies.
4, Attend all open Civil Defense meetings. Not only will you learn more yourself, but you will make known that your organization is represented.
5. Participate in local planning. If there is a women's Civil Defense Advisory Committee. join it and help. Your individual participation and your organization's support are essential to successful local planning.
6, Plan at least one program meeting of your organization on disaster preparedness during the year, Meeting suggestions: a. Buzz Session, A buzz session is a good way to ascertain what members know and what they want to know about home preparedness, school preparedness. and the over-all Civil Defense and disaster program. b. Movies. Both Civil Defense and Red Cross have excellent 10" - 30ft sound films on disaster. c, Speakers. Check with local Civil Defense office and committee as well as with the district and State chairmen in your organization. d. Panels. Try a panel made up of chairmen of the various committees of your own organization <Health and Safety, School, Public Affairs, Leglislative, Community Service, etc.), stating the relationship of each to the problems of disaster preparedness. f. Demonstrations, First Aid, Home Care of the Sick, Fire Fighting, Water purification lend themselves well to interesting demonstrations.
7. Keep your group informed by brief announcements at ea~h meeting, dist~ibution of pamphlets, displays of survival kits and eme~gency food supplies.
8. A~range, especially for your membership, training courses in borne care of the sick, first aid, light rescue, mass feeding.
9. Tell both your membership and the general pUblic through all media (newspaper features, ~adio inte~views, TV skits, club bulletins, etc.) what YOUR o~ganization is doing about disaster p~epa~edness.
10. CARE ENOUGH TO DO ENOUG1

THE GEORGIA

Department of Defense, Civil Defense Division, George J. Hearn, State Director

Vol. 7, No.1

Atlanta, Ga.

January, 1957

RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE

HOLIFIELD COMMITTEE

Because of the wide- spread inter- for the expenditure of the funds Con-

est in the recent Holifield Committee gress authorized and appropriated for

we are presenting the recommenda- this purpose. A local or regional sur-

tions made by this Committee:

vi val pI an study should be cone erned

1. Federal civil defense legisla- only with the adaptation and applica-

tion should be redrafted to vest the tion of the national plan and of basic

basic responsibility for ci viI defense studies to a local situation.

in the Federal Government with the

6. The Department of Civil De-

George J. Hearn

States and local un its of government fense should be authorized to finance

having an important supporting role.

the construction of shelters in all tar-

THE DIRECTOR 2. The new legislation should cre- get areas, with the cooperation of ate a permanent Departm ent of G viI Scate and local authorities.

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Defense, combining the civil defense functions (broadly defined) of the Office of Defense Mobilization and

7. Th e Dep artmen t of Ci vil Defense should be authorized to institute all other measures necessaty to

A publication entitled "Education those of the Federal Civil Defense establish an integrated nationwide

for National Survival --- A Handbook Administration.

ci viI defense sy stem, and to utilize

on Civil Defense for Schools" has

3. The Department of Civil Defense toward thi s end such available re-

just been issued.

should consult with the Department sources and facili tie s of the Federal

This is one of the finest booklets I have seen on Ci viI Defense. It

of Defense and be required to formulate a master plan for nationwide civil

departments necessary.

and agencies asare

urges the nation's schools to develop defense. Plans for each target area

8. The Department of Civil Defense

strong ei viI defense programs that should be made and protective mea- should be authorized to strengthen

will serve to enlighten pupils and sure s initiated after caref ul determin- State and local civi I defense organiza-

adul t s alike on the need for being ation of their respective priority tions by contributing equipment, sup-

prepared to meet and minimize the importance to national defense and plies and funds for administration,

ser ious consequences of natural survival.

trainin~, stockpiles and other neces-

disaster or enemy attack on the

4. The master plan for civil defen- sarycivildefenseuses, subject to the

Vnited States.

se should be pointed toward the es- supervision, inspection and approval,

The foreword says that education tablishment of an integrated nation- by the Secretary of Civil Defense, of

is the most important element in an wide ci vil defen se sy stem based on the civil defen se programs of State and

effective civil defense effort, and the need for including ci vii defense

the key ci viI defense measure of local authorities.

shelter protection against the blast,

9. The Secretary of Defense, in

measures as one of the responsibi- heat, and radiati"n effects of nuclear consultation with the Secretary of

lities of our school s should be made explosions.

Civil Defense, should establish and

clear to school administrators,

5. Studies under the survival plan- implement an effective program of

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teachers, pupils and parents.

ning contracts should be suspended, training active and reserve military

It also points out that a strong civil pending a reformulation of the criteria personnel in civil defense duties as a

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THE ALERT
THE GEORGIA ALERT
Published by the Department of Defense CIVIL DEFENSE DlVISIO 959 E. Confederate Ave., S. E. GEORGEJ.HEARN
Director CHARLES T. WHITE Public Information Officer MRS. JOHN G. LEWIS Coordinator, Women's Activities JACK L. GRANTHAM Communications Officer
KELSO HEARN Administrative Aide
JERRY CAUBLE Northern Area Director
A. MACK DODD Central Area Director HARR Y U. JACKSON Southern Area Director ELIZABETH W. PIPER Area Director At Large MAJOR FORREST L. WAREHIME Ground Observer Corps Coordinator
CENTRAL AREA NEWS
by Mack Dodd
Macon Lodge #1455, Loyal Order of Moose, is sponsoring the purchase of an International Jr. Rescue Unit on matching funds basis. This very fine organization will provide twenty of their members to be trained for serving as rescue teams to man this unit in the City of Macon Civil Defense program. This is, indeed, a fine gesture in the direction of assisting in perfecting the Macon Civil Defense organization.
New Civil Defense Directors app anted in the Central Georgia Area during the past few months include: William B. Akins, City of Barnesville; Col. CH.S. Russell, Ciry of Blackshear and Pierce County; Julian E. Dutton, City of Glennville; John Lane, City of Brunswick and Glynn County; D. V. Childs, Jr., City of Gray and Jones County; Frank Reiger, City of Helena; LeRoy Fairman, City of Hinesville; Max Lockwood, City of Statesboro; F.F. Talkington, City of Sylvania, and William A. Pharr, City of Thomasto... and Upson County.
Also those who have been serving as city directors and have recently received appointments as county dir-
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ectors include: Clyde W. Hill, City of Cochran and Bleckley County; Edwin Hodges, City of Eatonton and Putnam County; J. W. Cleary, City of Fitzgerald and Ben Hill County; Otis Waldrep, Jr., Ciry of Forsyth and Monroe County; B. Stafford Rooks, City of Fort Valley and Peach County; Paul Wasmer, City of Hawkinsville and Pulaski County; Ronald E. Widener, City of Lyons and Toombs County and D.E. Medders, City of Pembroke and Bryan County; and James C Wilkinson, CityofClayton and Evans County.
The City of Baxley and Appling County, under Civil Defense Director Donald R. Harrell recently completed their operational plan, which is being used as a model by many of the communities in the Central Georgia Area and probably in other parts of the state. Also the City of Eatonton and Putnam Counry, under the direction of Director Edwin Hodges, and the City of Fitzgerald and Ben Hill County, under the direction of Director J. W. Cleary, have recently completed and filed with Geotgia Civil Defense Headquarters their operational plans.
There are orchids due to many of the people in the Central Georgia Area for their outstanding accomplishments and efforts during the year 1956, but they are too numerous to list in the limited space. I will just say thanks to everyone for the fine cooperation accorded the department and me during this year.
Many of the directors and their staffs are hard at work completing their operational plans, getting the City Councils in their respective communities to adopt a Civil Defense Ordinance and filling any vacancies that might exist in the service heads of their local organizations. I would like to request that you add an amendment to your New Year's resolutions for me to the effect "I promise to see that my City Council has a Civil DefenseOrdinance'; that I will promptly complete my own Civil Defense Organization, and that I will complete and file with the State Civil Defense Di vi sion the operational plan for my community without further delay" .

FCDA ANNOUNCES PROGRAM FOR STOCKPILING MEDICAL
SUPPLIES
The Federal Civil Defense Administration stated it was augmenting its medical storage program in order to stockpile across the nation medical stores that in the event of an enemy attack could be used for the treatment of casualties in any critical target area or in regions contaminated by radioactive fallout.
To make this possible, FCDA has established an emergency supply support program that provides for three types of warehouses to give "distribution in depth" to its system for making available medical supplies.
In the front line of this warehouse program will be small, minor storage locations -- 10,000 to 20,000 square feet of floor space -- adjacent to or within the nation's critical target areas. They will contain medical supplies and instruments for detecting radioactive fallout resulting from nuclear attack.
The second type is a major storage warehouse -- 40,000 to 50,000 or more square feet of floor space -- and may be located underground. It is designed to supply one or more critical target areas.
The third type is a large, general reserve storage location -- capable of supplying every possible kind of medical material to large geographic regions. These warehouses may be located underground. It is planned to have several of these warehouses spotted strategically in secure locations around the country.
Prior to development of this emergency supply support program, FCDA stockpiled medical supplies in warehouses usually located some distance from critical target areas.
Because nearly half the nation's hospital beds are located in target areas, hospital s must be prepared to move their personnel and patients on short notice civil defense authorities agree.
The Ground Observer Corps needs Civilian Volunteers. Get out today and do your part.

JANUARY, 7957

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NORTHERNbyAR,_EA NEWS
Jerry Carlble

Miss Margaret Murray is leading discussion in what schools, children, and teachers can do for civil defense. This eigthth grade class of the Brown Elementary School in Smyma displays excellent coordination between city and
county CD planning.

TAX DEDUCTIONS FOR CIVI L DEFENSE VOLUNTEERS
Two Federal tax rulings made last Fall make volunteer Civil Defense and Red Cross workers eligible for special income tax deductions.
The Internal Revenue Service, in two separate decisions ruled that Civil Defense volunteers may deduct certain out-of-pocket expenses incurred in the course of their dun es.
These items include traveling expenses to watch atomic bomb tests, the expense of attending state meetings of CD volunteers to other expenses directly connected with and solely attributable to the rendition of such volunteer services.
Wher~ expenses come OUL of the volunteer's pocket, the Internal Revenue Service considers them contributions or gifts and therefore deductible.
The other ruling permits similar deductions for Red Cross volunteers, such as costs of going to and from local churches and hospitals to do Red Cross work.
All volunteers also may deduct the cost of special uniforms if the uniforms are not used for other work. The cost of meals, if paid for while away overnight on special duty, also are deductible.
JANUARY, 1957

HATS OFF
To 1ayor A. C. Graves of Clarkesville for coordinating the developm ent of the first aid chest program in his County.
To Mayor Gordon Mays of Millen for his leadership in his area for spearheading the drive for a close coordinating effort of his Civil Defense St aff development and plans.
To Civil Defense Director Thomson of Douglasville for the excellent m~lDer in which he and his staff prepared his Civil Defense plans and training program.
To Bill Rogers, the new Civil Defense Director of Waynesboro for his fast action in developing his Civil Defense Staff and enlisting 70 volunteer staff members. This is indeed unusual for a city to develop at this rate of speed.
To Garden Hills School Faculty and P. T.A. President Mrs. J. W. Veatch for the development of Civil Defense skit "Tale of Two Families". The group of 8th graders will present thi s program before the Staff College in January in Athens.
To Mrs. Anna Laura Reid, Newton County Director, for her diligent efforts in developing their county plan.

Many communities in the North Geargia Area are developing Civil Defense plans and training with great enthusiasm. One of the most outstanding cities is Augusta. Mrs. G. W. Freiberg has trained over 500 persons in First Aid with the Basic Ci vil Defense Course gi ven to all. Some 40 persons have been given Basic Civil Defense Course and one of the most recent co urses is the Traffic and Rescue Course for 21 persons.
Mrs. Foster, Director of Marietta and Cobb County, has coordinared several plans and trainiIlg programs in her area. The most recent one was the excellent job Mrs. Carl Balding developed in the East Side Elementary School. Twelve persons were given the completed Home Nursing Course. Also thirty-one persons received the Basic Course in Soute Cobb, ten persons in Mountai n View, and twenty-one persons from East Side.
Mrs. A. C. Kotchian in the Cobb County Area has been appointed to the Women's Advisory Committee. She brought to our stare a fullrounded knowledge of the Civil Defense problems.
I would like to take this opportunity to convey my appreciation to three of my friends, Mrs. Peggy Carter of Toccoa, Palmer Edenfield of Wadley and Bob Carmichael of Hampton for
the splendid cooperation given to me by these former Civil Defense Directors. The above directors resigned because of expanded business obligations, but during their time as directors in their respective cities, they gl\ve the utmost consideration to the active part they played in their communities development program by having one of the most active Civil Defense staffs. Your colleagues will miss you, and thanks again for a job well done.
New Civil Defense Directors in my area are: O.H. Carson, Commerce; Allyn Robb, Watkinsville; Alba J. Dover, Ellijay.
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Continued from Page 1 defined part of regular military training.
10. The Secretary of Civi I Defense, in behalfofthe President, should have defined statutory powers to act in an emergency and to mobilize all civilian resources for minimi zing the effects of enemy-caused disaster upon the national economy and the people of the United States.
11. The Secretary of Civil Defense, in behalfofthe President, should have statutory authority to carry out plans and operations in peacetime, under preattack situations, particularly before declarations of emergency have been made, in order to minimize the effects of enemy-caused disaster upon the national economy and the people of the United States.
12. The role of the military force s in civil defense should be clearly defined. State andlocal officials should be fully informed as to the terms and condi tions under whi ch mili tary as sistance to civil defense authorities will be rendered in the event of widespread disaster and the breakdown of civil government.
13. The studiesof martial law conducted by the Attorney General, the Department of the Army, and other Federal agencies should be made public promptly upon completion, to assist the Congress and the public in understanding the contemplated rol e of th e military force s in civil defense.
Every family is advised to be prepared to manage its own food, water and sanitation problems for at least 7 day s during a major emergency.

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NEW SAGE COMPUTER JOINS DEFENSE NETWORK
The first large-scale computer for the nation's vast new electronic air warning network is now being installed.
Our growi ng con tinen tal air defen se system, known as the Semi-Automati c Ground Environment (SAGE) system, combines the abilities of an electronic computer to receive information, to memorize, to calculate, and to record answers with the perspective and display talents of radar to present an instantaneous graphic picture of the location, speed, and direction of all planes within radar range. With a knowledge of flight plans of friendly pi anes available in the computer, hostile planes can be identified immediately and the most effective defense action taken -- again on the basis of computer information and instruction.
The SAGE system starts with a radar ring -- on land, on Navy picket ships at sea, on offshore Texas Towers, and on airborne early warning planes ranging far out over the ocean. These radars are linked by telephone lines or ultrahigh-frequency radio directly to the high speed computer. Informacion about aircraft anywhere within the radar area is relayed continuously and automatically to an IBM computer. This equipment, the AN/FSQ-7, digests all of this information plus Ground Observer reports, flight plans, and weather information as fast as it is received and translates it into an over-all picture of th e air si tuation.

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defense will serve as a deterrent to attack and stre ss that Ameri can s must be informed on how they can help themselves and others in the event of an emergency. This is obvious because well-organized protective measures cannot be formulated and placed into operation after a disaster strikes. Every individual, should be taught in advance the civil defense knowledge, skills and fundam en tal s of behavior needed during emergencies.
Because 25 percent of our population, every fourth American, is associated with schools --- as student, teacher or administrator --- the nation's elementary, secondary and higher institutions of learning serve as one of the best means of disseminating chil defense information for personal and family survival, the foreword de clare s.
If, the foreword continues, school s organize effective programs for students and, at the same time, become neighborhood centers for the education of adults, general civil defense knowledge and skills c an thereby be effecti vely transmitted to a large segment of the total population.
I urge every person to read this informative booklet.
In event of a major attack ell the United States, farmers and small town dwellers would be expected to take care of target city evacuees and aid in .:estoring the damaged area, according to the Federal Ovil Defense Administration.

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UNIVERSITY OF GE RC/A
MAR:L 0 '57

Vol. 7 No.2

Department of Defense, Civil Defense Division, George J. Hearn, State Director Atlanta, Ga.

MARCH, 1957

C. D. IN THE PRESIDENT'S BUDGET MESSAGE

President Eisenhower's Budget

Message for the fiscal year 1958,

which begins July 1, 1957, was

transmitted to Congress on January

sixteeLth.

The President "Recommended new

obligational authority for 1958 for

Civil Defense" of 180 millions.

"Estimated et Budget Expenditures"

were 95 millions.

George J. Hearn

The following is the section on

"Civil Defense" in the President's
THE DIRECTOR Budget Message, as follows:

.. ALL LEVELS OF GOVERN-

SAYS- - -

1E T have made encouraging progress in preparing tor civil

Today the American way of life provides the highest standard of living ever enjoyed by any people in all history. But all of us are prone to take the things we have and the conditions under which we

defense since the Federal Civil Defense Act was approved in 1951. These gains have been partly offset by the increasingly destructive capabilities of nuclear weapons. In the light of these developments,

live for granted.

the Administration will transmit

We forget that people in many other countries would look upon

to the Congress the recommendations for amendment of the Federal

our everyday conveniences as fabu-

Government better to meet its

lous luxuries. We forget that the

responsibilities. To achieve maxi-

average American makes and pos-

mum results, Civil Defense must

sesses more than ten times as much

continue to be a cooperative ef-

of the world's goods as the average

fort with state and local govern-

non-American.

ments. Individual and hcal initia-

America has only one-sixteenth

tive and resourcefulness must be

of the world's population and about

our ultimate reliance during an

the same proportion of land and natural resources. But, America has more than one-half of the world's telephone, telegraph and radio net-

initial recovery period. "This budget provides under
existing legislation for extending Civil Defense programs for public

works - more than one-third of the

education, information and train-

ing and for a larger Federal staft to give assistance to the states and cities. Appropriations are included for an attack warning system which will quickly transmit warnings from the Air Force to certain key areas. Stockpiling of emergency hospital equipment and radiological detection equipment will be continued; and a substantial program of research on radiological defense, on shelter design and on bomb-damage assessment will be carried forward.
"Funds for Civil Defense activties are included in the commerce and housing section of the analysis. "
SURPLUS PROPERTY PROGRAM GETS UNDERWAY
IN GEORGIA
Sixty-four communities in Georgia have ~een certified as eligible to participate in the surplus property program.
During the first two weeks of this program, twenty-two cities procured $15,279.51 of material at a cost to them of $1,021.50.
As this program progresses it is believed that every community in the State will take advantage of this very fine opportunity to procure surplus property for their civil defense organization at an extremely low cost.

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THE GEORGIA ALERT
Published by the Department of Defense CIVIL DEF ENSE DIVISION 959 E. Confederate Ave., S.E. GEORGE J. HEARN
Director CHARLES T. WHITE Public Information Officer
KELSO HEARN Administrative Aide J ACK.L. GRANTHAM Communications Officer
JERRY CAUBLE Training Officer MRS. JOHN G. LEWIS Coordinator, Women's Activities ELIZABETH W. PIPER Coordinator. Area Directors A. MACK DODD Central Area Director HARRY U. JACKSON Southern Area Director ALICE GLOVER Northern Area Director MAJ. FORREST L. WAREHIME, JR. Ground Observer Corps Coordinator
HEALTH SERVICES PLANNING COURSE
The Federal Civil Defense Administrati on Staff College of Battle Creek, Michigan, will conduct in Atlanta at the Fulton County Medical Society Building, 875 West Peachtree Street, N.E., on April 15-19, 1957, the third of a series of courses on the conduct of health services in civil defense. Enrollment is open to physicians, dentists, nurses, hospital administrators, sanitary engineers, pharmacists and associated professional groups.
The course will cover the principles of civil defense, the organization, administration, and operation of health services. The general theme will stress the importance and inter-related teamwork between medical and para-medical groups and other related services in multitudinous operational phases.
All individuals desiring to attend the course should forward a letter to Dr. Lester Petrie, Deputy Director, Georgia Civil Defense Health Services, Department of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia, requesting enrollment.
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NORTHERN AREA NEWS
by Jerry Cauble The new Civil Defense Directors in North Georgia Area are: G. David Newton, Gainesville; William L. Berry, Villa Rica; T.L. Asbury, Crawfordville, Bob Sexton, Cornelia. The most outstanding community project in Civil Defense in my area during the last several months was ~he Rome Welfare Emergency Feeding Course. This was a jointly sponsored effort on the part of local Civil Defense, FCDA, and the Red Cross. This was the first course of this type to be held in the Southeastern Area. The following cities have met their qualifications for the Surplus Property Program: Marietta, Richmond County, Whitfield County, Griffin, Monroe, Smyrna, Crawfordville, Taliaferro County, Burke County, Waynesboro Calhoun, Canton, Cherokee County, East Point, Clarkesville, Adairsville, Commerce, Gainesville, Hall County, Villa Rica, Douglasville, Carroll County. HATS OFF To Bob Sexton for his expediting the section of his Civil Defense Advisory Group in the prompt and successful action taken on the writing of his Civil Defense Plan. To Tom David, Civil Defense Director, Calhoun, for a successful development of his Rescue Program. He will soon secure a new rescue unit which was bought jointly by the city and other civic groups. He will began his first training on March 12. To W.J. Wilcox, Lockheed, Frank Miller, Lockheed, and Mrs. J .M. Foster, for the splendid development of their Civil Defense Plan. To Mrs. Helen Bose, President of the Georgia Dietetic Association, for cooperating with her group and deve loping for the plans for her association to assist in Civil Defense Program throughout the State. To Stanley Hastings, Civil
Defense Director, Decatur and Dekalb County, for developing with County Commissioners their proposed Civil Defense Plan and the cooperation of the communities in his county in connection with thi~ program.

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FCDA TO PURCHASE 1,000 MORE EMERGENCY HOSPITALS
The Federal Civil Defense Administration continues to add to its medical stockpile of 20o-bed emergency hospital assemblies, anticipating an urgent need for such facilities by millions of Americans should this nation ever suffer thermonuclear attack.
FCDA recently initiated purchase of 1,000 additional hospital assemblies under this program. When delivery is completed, by the end of the fiscal year ending June 30, the total number will have reached 1,932. At present, 743 hospitals have been delivered to the Federal stockpile, 200 ate in process of assembly and 76 others are owned by the States, having been purchased under the Federal Contributions program.
Some of these assemblies, complete with X-ray and operating room equipment, portable generators, 200 cots and medical supplies, are stored in strategically placed warehouses near critical target areas around the nation.
Others are being issued to States for training and familiarization. Many also are being stored in local areas in a special prepositioning program at places where they actually would be used during an emergency.
10 an emergency, the hospitals would be set up in outlying schools, churches and other buildings to provide working facilities for doctors and nurses evacuated from the 1,800 regular hospitals in the nation's critical target areas.
The emergency hospital, when set up, occupies about 15,000 square feet of floor space. The packaged unit can be loaded into one large truck and transported where needed. The hospital can be assembled, ready for use, in a few hours.
Accompanying each hospital unit supplies, such as drugs, medicines and dressings, for 36 to 48 hours' operations.
A regular staff of 306, including 16 medical officers, 33 nurses, 173 trained aides, and assorted technicians, clerks and untrained workers, is needed for each hospital.
MARCH, 1957

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CENTRAL AREA NEWS
by
A. Mack Dodd
The Rescue Truck which is being secured on Federal Matching Funds Basis through funds provided by Macon Lodge o. 1455, Loyal Order of Moose, will be officially presented to Mayor B.F. Merritt, Jr., by Governor Joe Pompei of Macon Lodge on Monday evening, March 4. Macon Lodge No. 1455 expects to get underway with its rescue training program soon, with lodge members making up the necessary rescue teams to man this rescue truck. Maj. B.L. Kersey, of the Georgia ational Guard and a member of Macon Lodge, who is a graduate of the CD Rescue at Olney, Md., will assist in the rescue training program.
Jos. N. Neel Post o. 3, of The American Legion, Macon, is in the process of raising funds at the present time with which to purchase the second Rescue Truck for the City of Macon. Commander Ben Chatfield, of Post No.3, advises that they should be in position to deliver their truck in the near future.
The Macon-Bibb County PTA Council sponsored a Civil Defense Workshop at the Army Training Center, in Macon, on Wednesdlly, February 20, at which there was a total of 170 people in attendance, including B.F. Merritt, Jr., Mayor of Macon, Bill Hunt, Director, and Bill White, Asst. Director, Macon Civil Defense, Ben Chatfield, Personnel Director, City of Macon, Kemp Harrison, Mayor, and
Ed Nobles, CD Director, Warner Robins, R.M. Byington, CD Director, Gordon, W.E. Hunter, CD Director, Oglethorpe, some others from surrounding territory and members of the PTA Units. Maj. Gen. Geo. J. Hearn made the principal address and a full basic course was taught by members of the State Staff. Certificates were presented to all who completed the basic course. This meeting was under the direction of Mrs. David Kalish, President, and Mrs. Leo Thomas, Chairman CD Committee, of the Council. At the end of this meeting Mrs. Kalish called on Macon and Bibb County to

provide a full time Director of Civil Defense with the view of having an active CD organization and program.
Words cannot express the appreciation due the Moose, The American Legion and the Macon-Bibb County PTA Council for their intense interest in and active support of the Civil Defense program and I am sure that their efforts will bear fruit.
The following communities have completed all of their eligibility requirements and have been cleared to participate in the Federal Surplus Property Program:
Baxley & Appling County, Donald R. Harrell, Director; Jeffersonville & Twiggs County, DeWitt Harrell, Director; Eatonton & Putnam County, e.E. Hodges Director; Lyons & Toombs County, Ronald E. Widener, Director; Fitzgerald & Ben Hill County, J .W. Cleary, Director; Thomaston & Upson County, W.e. Cochran, Director; Warner Robins, Ed Nobles, Director; Unadilla, Ralph Daemmer, Directo;; Mc-RaeHelena & Telfair County, T.L. Rhodes and Frank Reiger, Directors, Folkston & Charlton County, Jack R. Mays, Director and Batnesville & Lamar County, William B. Akins, Director. There are numerous other communities in the Central Georgia Area who have about completed all of their requirements and will become eligible to participate in this program soon. I might state right here that the main requirements are; First, a community must have a Civil Defense organization; second, for the city there must be a CD ordinance adopted by City Council and a CD resolution adopted by the County Commissioners; third, there must be adopted a Operational Plan showing the operation of the organization in time of emergency, and finally certain forms must be filled in and mailed to State Headquarters, Civil Defense Division, Atlanta, along with copies of the ordinance, resol~tion and operational plan. It is hoped that all communities will soon complete the necessary requirements.
JOIN G.O.C. NOW

MASS FEEDING "ON DISASTER BASIS" HELD
More than two hundred "victims" of a supposed disaster were fed with a hot meal on Febuaty 20th at the Rome City Clubhouse in the first southeastern demonstration of a joint Red Cross - Civil Defense program.
All the victims received their nourishing food with dispatch - 120 were served in 15 minutes. The meal consisted of steming Irish stew, bread, coffee and candy bars, providing them with some 2,500 calories.
It was prepared for the purpose of bringing back the morale of a group of panic-stricken casualties, as the first effort to restore order and calm following any disaster.
The mass feeding concluded a three-day course sponsored by the Civil Def ense and the Red Cross. Thirty-six women successfully completed the new training program.
Ted Donath, director of Civil Oefense in Floyd County, and Gordon Anderson, Red Cross disaster chairman, expressed themselves as gratified over the outcome of this first joint mass feeding effort.
AMATEUR RADIO GROUP COMMENDED
Gordon Walker, Civil Defense Radio Officer, at Valdosta, Georgia while riding in his cat January 11, received a call by Amateur Radio that his assistance was needed 12 miles from Valdosta where the victim in a water accident had drowned.
Twenty-five minutes later, 2 radio operators and 4 technicians were on the scen.e providing boat to shore communications.
The recovery of the body required 8 hours and the Valdosta Radiomen were in operation for the duration.
This is another example of the fine cooperative spirit of the Amateur Radio Group and again points out that Civil Defense workers do not have to wait for an attack upon our country for their training to be useful.
Our hats are off to Gordon Walker, N.N. Langdale, Jr., the Civil Defense Director and the fine Civil Defense Organization at Valdosta.

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DECFOEUNRSSEE _INMIANYDU2S0T, R1Y957

The 7th Industry Defense Course

is scheduled to be held by the FCDA

Staff College, Battle Creek, Michigan, May 20 to 25, 1957.
This Course is designed to serve as a forum and clearing house for

information pertaining to emergency planning, disaster control, and civil

defense preparedness in and among plants, companies, and various industries.

Civil defense coordinators from

industrial plants, institutions and
other large facilities are invited to attend.

. To insure the widest exchange of

VIews, the Course welcomes discussion by the students and includes

workshops, panel discussions, and lectures. Individuals enrolling are

encouraged to discuss the emergency plans of the companies which they represent and are urged to bring

copies of company brochures or other
printed material pertinent to industry defense.

Requests for enrollment in the 7th Industry Defense Course may be sent

through the State Civil Defense Dir-

ector to the Director, Staff College,

Feder al Civil Defense Administra-

tion, Battle Creek, Michigan. Enroll-

ment is accepted on a first-come

first-served basis.

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A simple underground shelter would provide almost complete protection from radioactive fallout while a regular frame or brick home would provide some protection, the Federal Civil Defense Administration reports.

PARTICIPATION IN CIVIL
DEFENSE The Salvation Army has offered to make its resources available to civil defense in case of enemy attack. In some cases, the organization already has made appropriate arrangements with local civil defense agencies to assist in an emergency. In welcoming the Salvation Army' s participation in civil defense, FCDA recognizes that its many and varied activities for human betterment constitute a substantial resource poten tial in building communiry readiness for warcaused emergency. The Salva-
tion Army is prepared, where local capabilities exist, to provide the following kinds of service to community civil defense organizations
1. Personnel, facilities and equi pment for the emergency care of people.
2. Counselling and morale building services.
3. Participation at the operating level in the planning of mass
emergency care. 4. Promoting an increase aware-
ness of and participation in civil d.efense within its own organition and among its constituents. In view of the critical need for mass care facilities and experienced personnel on the operating level in a war-caused emergency, local civil defense directors are urged to initiate and facilitate cooperation with the Salvation Army.
Civil Defense Training is Life Saving Training.

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railways - about three-fourths of the automobiles - almost one-half of the
radJiuo~st. what is it that has given
AmerIcans the highest income - the most goods - the best quality - and the lowest pr ices on earth? It is free enterprise - the one system in which men are free to take business risks; free to make a profit; free to expand; free to change jobs; free to keep pace with the wants and needs of people.
These freedoms have fostered the spirit. and created the labor-saving machmes through which we Americans produce so much faster for every hour we work. Thus we earn more and can buy more.
The wonderful American way of life described above is mentioned only to bring out the point that we can lose it! We can lose the next war if we are not prepared on the home front. The only way we can defend our American way of life is through an adequate civil defense force. Civil Defense is everybody's business.
Old-fashioned root cellars and "cyclone" cellars are two of the best type shelters against the modern-day hazard of radioactive fallout, civil defense officials advise.
The organized reporting and detection of low-flying aircraft in the United States under the Ground Observer Corps is a joint Civil Defense - Air Force program.

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THE GEORGIA UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
LIBRARIES

"Vol. 7 No.3

Department of Defense, Civil Defense Division, George J. Hearn, State Director
Atlanta, Ga.

MAY, 1957

TORNADOES HIT GEORGIA

April's Tornadic Winds rending nel and equipment to meet these tragic

destruction 10 these many years experiences and I want to urge every

across our great State have finally local Civil Defense Director and

met some organized resistance in the Mayors to call the State Headquarters

form of Civil Defense Rescue Squads. when you have been hit, so we can

Half way through the month, more send you help. I also want to urge

than 15 counties had felt the blast you to train rescue squads and get

of terrifying tornadoes or damaging you some equipment, you never know

winds. Georgia Civil Defense Rescue when you will need it. My staff will

and Communications Units answered help with your training program, just

calls in the counties of Gordon, call on us."

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Richmond, Chatham, Bibb, Twiggs,

George J. Hearn

Peach, Macon, Schley, Telfair, Ware,

THE DIRECTOR Lamar, and McDuffie. On March 30, the Savannah Rescue

OPERATION ALERT 1957
Operation Alert 1957, the Nation's

SAYS- - -

Squad was called to assist the Lyons Rescue Squad in the recovery of a drowned body in the Altamaha River.

fourth annual Civil Defense exercise, has been scheduled this year beginning July 12 ~o 14.

Since more tornadoes occur during

Again on April 3, the Savannah

Operation Alert 1957, is intended

this season of the year in Georgia,

Rescue Squad was called to the to bring into action Civil Defense of

I am devoting my column to a few tornado safety rules.
To know what to do when a warn-

Memorial Bridge at Thunderbolt after a towboat damaged the bridge. Floodlights on the Rescue Truck were used

the United States. It is primarily a training exercise to advance the continuing efforts of the Federal,

ing is received, or a tornado is ob-

while seven of the squad members State and local governments to bring

served, may mean the difference

assisted the State Highway Mainten- a total Civil Defense into being.

between life and death.

ance Department in clearing this

The total 1957 exercise will be

There is no universal protection

emergency for traffic. During the five conducted in several phases. One

against tornadoes except caves or

hours period of work, one spectator will deal with Civil Defense plan-

underground excavations. When time

who had fainted was administered ning and actions preparatory to the

permits, go to a t.ornru:lo cellar, cave,

first aid by the squad and sent to the opening of the exercise. This will

or underground excavation which

hospital.

be followed by the theoretical nu-

should have an air outlet to help

Following the Tornado at Calho'lD, clear attack and the exercise will

equalize the air pressure. It should Georgia on April 8, the Dalton Rescue close with government officials work-

be kept fit for use, free from water, Squad made a record run to Calhoun ing on problems of survival and

gas, or debris; and preferably equip- to assist the Calhoun Squad which has recovery.

,

p~d with pick and shovel. If you are in open country, move

just procured a new rescue vehicle.

Operation Alert 1957 will provide

The State Civil Defense Director, the most realistic national Civil

at right angles to the tornado's path.

Adj. Gen. George J. Hearn, paid high Defense exercise yet held. It. will

Tornadoes usually move ahead at praise to the rescue squads and their provide all Civil Defense with the

about 25 to 40 miles per hour. If activity and said, "We are now begin- greate st training opportunity to date.

there is no time to escape, lie flat ning to get sufficient trained person- Realism is the keynote.

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THE ALERT

THE GEORGIA ALERT
Published by the Department of Defens e CIVIL 0 FEN E DI I 10. 959 B. Con/ederate Ave., S.B.
GEORGE J. HEAR J Director
CHARLE T. WHITE
Public In/ormatton a/licer
KELSO HEAR Administrative Aide J ACK.L. GRANTHA~I
Communications a//icer
JERRY CA BLE Training O//icer MRS. JOH G. LEWI Coordinator, Women's Activities ELIZABETH \1:'. PIPER Coordinator, Area Directors A. lACK DODD Central Area Director HARRY . J ACKSO Southern Area Director ALICE GLO ER orthern Area Director ~lAJ. FORRE T L. WAREHI~lE, JR. Ground Observer Corps Coordinator
ATOMIC TESTS AT NEVADA PROVING GROUND
A new series of low-yield nuclear tests at rhe evada proving ground for "knockout" weapons of concentrated punch but reduced poisonous fallout was announced recently by the Atomic Energy Commission.
A limited number of Civil Defense observers will be present at rhe series of tesr, with the southeastern states being invired to one of the first test in mid-May.
The Commission said a major objective of the tests -- sixth to be held at the evada Proving ground -will be rhe development of weapons for defense against atrack. Mindful of some fears about radiation effects, the Commission also stated rhat "an extensive radiation monitoring network will again be used during the series." The Defense Department and FCDA will participare in the new tests and will make studies of weapons effects in order to improve U. defenses against atomic attack.
The evada tesrs will be known as "Operation Plumb Bob."

Senior Girl Scout Troup No. 12, 0/ Smyrna, under the leadership of Mrs. Hazel
Padgett, Scout Leader, and Mrs. Jane Culpepper, Assistant Scout Leader, have completed the Basic Civil De/ense Course. The course was presented in three sessions by Mrs. George Dubuc, Training Director, Smyrna Civil Defense, and included a field trip to the Georgia State Civil Defense Headquarters Control Center. Diplomas were presented to the girls upon completion of the course on farch 18th. Shown here is Mrs. George Dubuc presenting diploma to Bunny Belsky. Left to right are: Susan Sammons, Trina Hoepner, Jeri Hamby, Sue Yarbrough, Kay Mills, frs. Hazel Padgett, Leader, Sherrie Robin son, Mrs. Jane Culpepper, Assistant Leader, Carol Austin, Edith Colston,
Ann Konigsmark, Ann Cobb, and Elizabeth Black.

CENTRAL AREA NEWS
by A. Mack Dodd
ew CD Directors appointed 10 Central Georgia Area are: Byron C. Glisson, Director, City of Rincon and M. D. Waters, Director, City of Reidsville.
The following additional comunities have completed all of their eligibility requirements and have been cleared to p:lrticipate in rhe Federal Surplus Property Program: Forsyth & Monroe County, Otis Waldrep, J r., Director; Savannah & Chatham County, Charles J. Musante, Director; Claxton & Evans County, James Wilkinson, Director; Pembroke & Bryan County, D. E. fedders, Director; and Douglas, \l;'. K. Meeks, Director. There are others who have qualified, but official notice has not been received by the writer.
~fany of those who have become

qualified have availed themselves of the opportunity to secure materials under this program and the surplus sales slips which have come to me show that much good equipment and serviceable supplies have been received. Those communities that have not yet qualified ar e urged to speed up the organizational process and get themselves qualified without futher undue delay.
The Savannah-Chatham County Council of Defense has organized an Explosive Ordnance Reconnaissance Service, which is to be part of their Police Service. Eleven men have completed a ten hour course and have been presented Certificates of Training by rhe Third Army. They are: Wm. M. Wallace, Wyatt L. Wilson, E. E. Price, J. C. Riner, Carl Richrer, Charles E. Ogden, Hail L. Clark, JamesJ. Connolly, W. C. Fleetwood, Malcolm E. Kendrich and Clinton J. 1urphy.

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NORTHERN AREA NEWS
by Miss Alice Glover

Shown here is the delivery of a Rescue Truck being made by officers and members of Macon Lodge No. 1455. Loyal Order of Moose to Mayor B. F. Merritt, Jr.
Those in the photograph, reading' from left to rigbt. are: George J. Fay, Treasurer, Dr. Joe Pompei, Governor. Charles C. Gregorie, Mayor B. F. Merritt, Jr., David L. Bowman. Trustee. Maj. B. L. Kersey. of Ga. National Guard and graduate of the Rescue School at Olney. Md. and A. Mack Dodd. Trustee of the lodge and Central Georgia Area Director.
This rescue truck will be located at Headquarters, Fire Department. in Macon, and will be manned by teams taken from members of the Macon Moose Lodge. who will receive instructions from Ma;or Kersey.

Suggested Pantry
I\ULK: One package of powdered. non-fat dry milk, and two 14'12 oz. cans of evaporated milk.
FRUITS: One 1 lb. 14 oz. can each of two varieties of canned x:uits. and 1 lb. of dried fruits.
JUICES: Three cans of approximately 1 qt. 14 oz. each of fruit or vegetable juice.
VEGETABLES: Six cans (approximately 1 lb. each) of vegetables.
SOUPS: Four 10'12 oz. cans. MEATS AND MEAT SUBSTITUTES: Four cans (approximately 1 lb. each) of your favorite items. Include cheese or peanut butter if desired. CEREALS: Seven individual-service packages of ready-to-eat variety. BREAD: The canned varieties. CRACKERS-COOKIES: One box. BEVERAGES: One small jar of instant coffee, one of instant tea, or a 1 lb. package of instant cocoa, whichever your family prefers. SOFT DRINKS: Twelve bottles. SUPPLEMENTARY ITEMS: Sugar, salt, seasonings, candy (types that store well), chewing gum, and cigarettes and tobacco. CAUTION: Store these items llke Grandma did-in a dry, cool basement or storeroom within a tempera ture range of 35 to 50 degrees for best results. Check ~'our "pantry" preferably weekly but at least monthly and
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In Civil Defense, a steady siren wail for three to five minutes is an alert signal. It means you should turn your radio to 640 or 1240 kilocycles for emergency instructions. A series of short siren blasts total ling three minutes means to take cover.
Shelters have been designed by the Federal Civil Defense Administration which can reduc e radioactive fallout to l/S,OOOth of the exposure to a person in the open. Plans for the easily constructed shelters are a~ail able through local Civil Defense.
Common household items may be used to make an improvised stretcher in a Civil Defense or other emergency, Possibilities include an ironing board, the leaf of a dining table, a door or a window shutter.

Since last issue of the Alert, considerable progress ha s been shown in the following communities who have qualified for Surplus Property Program: Cornelia, College Park, Conyers, Sparta and Hancock County, Lawrenceville and Gwinnett County, Elber ton and Elbert County, and Stockbridge.
Several new directors have been appointed and they are as follows: Col. John Kimsey, Sandersville; Mr. L. J. Broome, Grantville; Mr. L. D. Culbreth, Zebulon and Pike County; Me. H. L. Phillips, Tallapoosa; and Mr. L. H. Bacon, Stockbridge. HATS OFF
To Bob Sexton, Civil Defense Director, Cornelia, agair. for his outstanding alertness in regard to the young boy who was dying of leukemia in Cairo. It was through his efforts that the young mans request of a rocking-horse was received the nex.t day after the published story in the Atlanta Journal.
To Mrs. Jeanette Gregory, Civil Defense Welfare Office, for her splendid cooperation in planning for the Atlanta School Evacuation.
To Mrs. Jean Goslee and Sara
Sorrells of the Atlanta Office for their prompt and efficient way in which they coordinated the support area of the Atlanta Evacuation Program.
To Mrs, J er e Field, of Monroe, for development of their Civil Defense Program and Staff.
To Mrs. Marion Sims, of Dalton, ~or the effective way in which all phases of her training program have progress~d during the past months, especially the splendid response to her Nurses Assistance Courses.
To Mrs. J. M. Foster for establishing two training course s within a months time, Auxiliary Police Training and Emergency Welfare Feeding.
To the Calhoun Civil Defense Director, Me. David and members of, the Rescue Staff, for initial assistance in the recent storm area in their County.

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Mayor J. G. Stith of East Point and Mrs. Lois W. Braswell, Civil Defense
Director of that city are shown inspecting an "evacuation route" sign. East Point is one of the first cities in the state to install these signs within the city limits.
Mayor Stith stated he is very proud of the fine Civil Defense Organization East Point has and of the good work Mrs. Braswell is doing.

Continu~d from Poge 3
To Mr. J. C. Dover, Civil Defense
Director, Buford; Mr. Warner Bishop and Mr. John Green, of Lawrenceville; for their contribution in coordinating the planning program for the Atlanta Evacuation.
To the many Civil Defense Directors and Mayors who have made it easy for me in my initial visits as Area Director, "thank you."
Hot water heaters are a good source of uncontaminated water for families forced to remain in a basement after a nuclear attack.

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Mr. Charles J. Musante, Director of
the Savannah-Chatham County Council of Defense has just recently returned from Battle Creek, Michigan. He was invited to come to FCDA Headquarters, at Battle Creek, by Governor Val Peterson to brief the FCDA Staff on the Savannah Civil Defense Story, which he did on April 5. This certainly indicate s the high regard Governor Peterson has for the Savannah-Chatham Council of Defense. Congratulations for the fine job being done there.

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THE DIRECTOR SAYS: Continued from Page 1 in the nearest depression sucb as a ditch or ravine. If you are in a city or town, seek inside shelter, preferably a steel reinforced building. ST AY A WA Y FROM WINDOWSI In homes the southwest corner of the lowest floor or in the basement offers greatest safety. People living in brick or stone houses should seek other shelter, preferably in a storm cellar or the basement of a frame house. If time permits, electricity and fuel lines should be shut off. Windows on the north and east sides of the huuse may also be opened to help reduce damage to the building. Standing against the inside walls on the lower floors of an office building offers some protection. In schools in city areas, especially if school building is of good steel reinforced construction, stay inside, away from windows, and remain near an inside wall on the lowel floors when possible. Avoid auditoriums and gymnasiums with large, poorlysupported roofs. If in rural schools tha t do not have reinforced construction, remove children and teachers to a ravine or ditch jf storm shelter is not available. I pray that we are not hit with any more tornadoes this year, but by learning these simple rules, you enhance the chances of surviving in the event of a storm.
The first wartime atomic blast at Hiroshima destroyed 62,000 of 90,000 buildings, and irreparably damaged 6,000 onore. Today atomic weapons are many times more powerful.

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Department of Defense, Civil Defense Division, Charlie F. Camp, State Director

VOL. 7, NO.4

Atlanta, Ga.

JULY, 1957

150,000 ATLANTA SCHOOL

CHILDREN EVACUATED

More than 150,000 school boys and Metropolitan area. They were among

girls in the Atlanta metropolitan the largest ever held in the nation

area were given an insight on April and drew deleg-ations of official

30 into what would happen in a observers from as far away as

national emergency such as an enemy Philadelphia.

bombing raid.

DR. FREDERICK BELLINGER

About 54,000 weat through a simu- NEW PROJECT OFFICER FOR

lated evacuation by railroad or motor

SURVIVAL PLAN PROGRAM

vehicle. A remaining 100,000 or so

The appointment of Dr. Frederick

Charlie F. Camp

marched out to loading areas a t the

Bellinger, of 2148 East Lake Road,

schools, returned to their classrooms

Atlanta, Georgia, as State Project

THE DIRECTOR and heard a 3D-minute instruction broadcast by a network of 15 radio

Offic er for the Federal Civil Defense Administration's Survival Plan Pro-

SAYS- - -
Civil Defense is more than a plan and an organization. It is an aware-

stations. About 15,000 went to railroad
landing areas just as they would in a real emergency. Some 300 from the Decatur High School actually board-

ject Program, was announced last month by Major General George J. Hearn, the former State Director.
This project is a federally-financ-

ness upon the part of the entire civilian population, that is emergencies, both in war and in peace, our safety depends a great deal upon how much we help ourselves and our neighbors.
The great destructive power of the

ed a box car on the Georgia Railroad about a block from the school.
The majority of 38,500 evacuated by motor vehicles rode only to turnaround points in or outside the city

ed study of Civil Defense problems in the State of Georgia.
Dr. Bellinger is on leave from Georgia Institute of Technology where he is Assistant Director (Industries and Servic es) Engine er-

atom bomb and the hydrogen bomb area and returned. But 1,500 continu-

ing Experiment State and Professor,

might temporarily paralyze an entire ed in groups to Buford, Cartersville,

SchooL of Chemical Engineering.

community. Aid then would have to' come from neighboring communities.

Tucker and Jonesboro. There they were served lunch at emergency

During 1955-56, Dr. Bellinger was with the United Nations Educational,

Too much stress cannot be placed upon mutual aid between neighbors

welfare reception areas set up for the drill.
Also participating were 6,300

Scientific and Cultural Organization as a Expert in Scientific Research

for rescue work and for housing and feeding the homeless. If bombs fall

drivers, most of them mothers or Parent-Teacher leaders. So well

at the National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt.

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on America, everybody, everywhere in the untouched areas can look upon these homeless and injured and say to himself, 'There but for the grace

planned and executed were the maneuvers that not a single accident had been reported at noon.

Other members of the newly-formed Staff for this Project are: Malcolm G. Little, Jr., Chief Planner; Richard C. Williams, Engineer; Thomas W.

of God, go 1'.

The evacuation exercises were

Turbiville, Planner; Harold L. Bac-

The military forces are using every directed by Elliott Jackson, Civil

cus, Administrative Officer; and,

device known to modern science to Defense Director of the Atlanta

William J. Hudson, Draftsman.

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THE ALERT
THE GEORGIA ALERT
Published by the Department of Defense CIVIL DEFENSE DIVISION 959 E. Confederate Ave., S.E. CHARLIE F. CAMP
State Director KELSO HEARN Administrative Aide ] ACK L. GRANTHAM Communications Officer ]ERRY CAUBLE Training Officer MRS. ]OH G. LEWIS Coordinator, Women's Activities ELIZABETH W. PIPER Coordinator, Area Directors A. MACK OODD Central Area Director HARRY U. ]ACKSO Southern Area Director ALICE GLOVER Northern Area Director MA]. FORREST L. WAREHIME, JR. Ground Observer Corps Coordinator
FCDA DEVELOPS KIT FOR USE IN DETECTING WAR GASES
The Federal Civil Defense Administration announced development of a new chemical agent detector kit for detecting dangerous concentrations of war gases such as might be used by an enemy in an attack on the United States.
The kit is designed for use by Civil Defense personnel in detecting the presence of such gases as nerve, mustard and nitrogen-mustard.
FCDA adapted the kit from an original design by the Army Chemical Corps for the avy. Weighing only 14 ounces, the rectangular-shaped kit can be carried by the user on his belt. The kit opens from back to front and holds a l-Y2-ounce rubber aspirator bulb equipped with a short piece of detachable cord, making it available for wrist wear.
The kit contains a pIa stic springtype detector tube dispenser and small dropper bottles for resting gases, plus a supply of solid reagents for preparing nerve and mustard gas solutions, and a set of instructions.
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Civil Defense in Public Health Meeting Held in Albany
Sixty-four persons attended the two-day course on "Public Health in Civil Defense" in Albany, Georgia, April 24 and 25. The registrants were medical, nursing, sanitation, clerical and Civil Defense pr.rsonnel from twenty-eight Georgia counties.
Conducted by the Southwestern Health Region of the Georgia Department of Public Health, under the direction of F. C. Pickron, Regional Engineer, the program featured lectures and demonstrations by persons prominent in the field of Civil Defense.
The staff of instructors included members of the State Health Department; Sgt. lC Robert B. Chaney, Thi d Army Chemical Section, Ft. McPherson; Harry U. ] ackson, Area Director in Civil Defense; W.]. McAnally, ]r., M. D., Health Officer, FCDA, Region III, Thomasville; ] oseph L. Minkin, Training Officer, Civil Defense Training Section, USPHS, Atlanta; Major E. E. McDermott, Third Army Chemical Section, Ft. McPherson; Major Forrest E. Warehime, ]r., Ground Observer Corps Co-ordinator, Georgia Civil Defense, Atlanta; C. P. Whiting, Civil Defense Director, Albany and Dougherty County.
SURPLUS PROPERTY WORTH $247,844.22 CLAINED DURING
FIRST FOUR MONTHS
The State surplus property warehouse was opened w qualified Civil Defense units for the first time 1 March, 1957.
During the past four months supplies and equipment ha ving an original acqui sinon cost of almost onequarter million dollars were acquired by fifty-one local Civil Def ense offices.
The service charges to these local Civil Defense units receiving this property were $8,569.22.
This is a grand opporrunity for all local Civil Defense organizations to get hundreds of items such as trucks, radio and electrical equipment, generators, medical supplies and office supplies at a fraction of their original cost.

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NORTHERN AREA NEWS

by

Miss Alice Glover

Dear Folks:

It has been a pleasure working with

you these past two months, and I

want you to know how much I appre-

ciate the courteous reception each of

you have given me. More than that, I

am happy over the progress that many

of you have made in your Civil De-

fense Organizations.

A number of new directors have

been appointed, and they are:

Fields Whatley...Cedartown and Polk

County

Ashley ] ewell, IV

Chickamauga

Ray Bolick

Ellijay and Gilmer

County

George S. Summers Heard County

Charles W. Gwyn

LaFayette and

Walker County

T.P. Lawrence

Mansfield

Laurie Pritchett..Newnan and Coweta

County

Ralph Astin

Palmetto

Randolrh Medlock Srone Mounrain

] oe Grooms, ] r. Dr. C. Roy Williams

Midville Wadley

O. D. Strother

Wrightsville and

] ohnson County

The following communities have

qualified for the Surplus Property

Program:

Zebulon and Pike County, Chicka-

mauga, Homer and Banks County,

Dahlonega and Lumpkin County,

] efferson, Millen and] enkins County,

Tallapoosa, Mansfield, Covington

and Newton County.

I hope as many of you that can will participate in "Operation Alert 1957:'

This exercise will give you valuable

experience. I will be listening In

for your reports.

Remember, if any of you need me

at anytime, please don't hesitate to

call on me.

Sincerely,

Q...t....1t.L ~.1.~~.

Food protected by a cellophane wrapper, a refrigerator or deep freeze would likely remain uncontaminated even in an area otherwise contaminated by radioactive fallout, Civil Defense officals report.
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Certificates for completion of a special course as auxiliary policemen (police service) were awarded by the Civil Defense Division of the State of Georgia, Department of Defense in Monroe recently. The following were photographed, left to right, front row: lIerbert Allen, Daniel Yearwood, Mayor Nimrod Preston,
Jere Field, head of the local unit, Jerry Cauble of the State Department, who conducted the course, Home Stephens, Albert L. Hegwood, G. L. Bray and J. E. Jordan; second row, Truman Reeves, Raymond Head, Tramel Aycock and Joe IV. Bowers; third row, lVinfred Rowe, Hoyt Adams, George Ozburn,
Bill Yarbrough and J. B. Underwood. Mr. Field made the presentation of
certificates.

CALHOUN CD CONDUCTS RESCUE COURSE
Twenty-one members of Calhoun Civil Defense organization recently completed a rescue course.
A practical demonstration of a mock bomb attack climaxed three months of study. It was their final test before presentation of certificates.
Those receiving certificates were A.E.Cook, Jr., Clay Stephens, J. C. Burgess, Jr., George K. Hayes, Rufus Strickland, Solie Wilson, Paul V. Stephens, Calvin Brumlow, E. W. (Buck) Prather, Alton L. Defoor, John Crawford Neal, Winfred B. Gray, Lamar Henderson, Jack H. Bell, Trammell Robinson, Clem Holland, James E. Buttrum, Jack Holland, Don Gentry, James Noles and G. S. Edwards. This group will meet monthly for refresher tactics.
Another course, light duty rescue work, is planned for the near future.
Following an enemy attack there will be two kinds of people. Those who NEED help and those who CAN help.

Shown here are some of the members of the Calhoun Civil Defense organization who recently completed a rescue course. Left to right are: J. C. Burgess, Acle Cook, Sam Edwards; stretcher, Clay Stephens. (Photo by
James H. Hobgood.)
There are 172 standard metropolitan target areas in the continental United States. Cities in these areas are assumed by Civil Defense to be among the possible targets for nuclear attack because they contain major concentrations of population and industry.

CENTRAL A'REA NEWS
by A. Mack Dodd Mr. T. L. Rhodes has been appointed CD Director for Telfair County. He is, and has been for a long period, the director for City of McRae, Mr. J. E. Mooney has recently been appointed to serve as Director for the City of Glennville. Mrs. James Maxey has been appointed to serve as Director for the City of Montezuma. Mr. Ed M. Nobles has been appointed to serve as Director for Houston County. He is also the Director for the City of Warner Robins. The Warner Robins CD organization is making strides in its training program. Recently a group were sworn in by Mayor Kemp Harrison to serve in the Auxiliary Police Service. These men are employed at service stations throughout the city and give a good coverage. Mr. W. R. Harvey, Training Officer, is doing a fine job in training his own organization and is almost constantly speaking to groups of the general public in connection with the program. During a recent visit to Thomaston, inspected some of the surplus equipment secured by Director W. C. Cochran. One of the items was a generator, which has been installed at the City Water Works and is a standby capable of operating the entire filter system in the event of a power failure. The City and County governments at Barnesville have agreed to supply Director William B. Akins any necessary funds for the use of the CD organization for Barnesville and Lamar County. Mr. Akins is busy with his plans and I am sure he will have an active efficient organization. At regular meetio.g on May 28, members of the Joseph N. Neel, Jr. Post No. 3 authorized the purchase of a Junior Rescue Unit and formation of Rescue Team to man the unit. Commander Ben Chatfield advises me that the City of Macon has filed application for the purchase of this unit on Matching Funds Basis and that the application is in the process at this time.

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THE DIRECTOR SAYS: Continued from Page 1
strengthen the country's defense, but no system is infallible. We, as ci viHans, must be ready too. A community that is prepared will keep the loss of life to a minimum and will dig itself out systematically and without the disastrous effect of panic after the blow has fallen.
Thjs is not a short term measure. Until peace again reigns throughout the world, the pattern of American life must include a readiness upon the part of modern minute men to meet whatever comes and meet it squarely.

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Shown above are school children from Cobb and Fulton County being regis-
tered at an emergency welfare reception center in Cartersville after being
evacuated during the recent Civil Defense drill. Mr. Warner Bishop, CD Director of Cartersville and Mrs. Marie Vaugh, CD Welfare Chief were in charge
of this operation and did an outstanding ;ob.

FCDA ADMINISTRATOR VAL PETERSON NAMED AMBASSADOR TO DENMARK
The President has forwarded to the Senate for confirmation the name of Governor Val Petersro to become
Ambassador to Denmark.
Simultaneously, he nominated for confirmation to the post of Administrator of the Federal Civil Defense
Administration, former Governor of
Iowa, Leo A. Hoegh. Governor Hoegh was educated at
the Uni ver sity of Iowa and holds
B.A. and J.D. degrees. He served as
Attorney General in the State of Iowa in 1953 and 1954, and was elected

The Federal Civil Defense Administration has disaster relief materials and equipment stockpiled in 43 medical warehouses and 32 engineering storage sites in the continental United States.
The Ground Observer Corps needs Civilian Volunteers. Get out today and do your parr.
Governor, serving from January 1955 to 1957. During his encumbency as Governor, he served as a member of the Civil Defense Committee of the Governors' Conference during 1956-57.

ALBANY CIVIL DEFENSE TO HOLD FIRE TRAINING SCHOOL
The Albany Fire Department, under the direction of Chief E. E. Moody and Assistant Chief Carl Callaway, will ~tart a Fire Training School for all members of the Albany Civil Defense Fire Service, according to C. P. Whiting, Civil Defense Director of Albany.
Instruction periods will start Tuesday June 25th at 7:30 pm and will continue each Tuesday evening for the first month and then will be held every two weeks thereafter. Sessions will last about 2 hours per night.
All Mutual Aid cities are offered this training school at no cost other than transportation to and from Albany. This should offer a great op portunity to those cities who rely on volunteer help.
All sessions will be held at Fire Station No.2 at 8th and Palmyra Rd. unless otherwise announced. Those interested are asked to report on time and to wear old clothes for hard work.

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Department of Defense, Civil Defense Division, Charlie F. Camp, State Director

Atlanta, Ga.

SEPTEMBER,