Fallout Shelter Survey Teams Underway, Vickburg, Mississippi Part 1

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LR DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 739 OFFICE OF NEWS SERVICES THE PENTAGON, WASHINGTON 25, D.C. - LIBERTY 5-6700 AUDIO-VISUAL DIVISION RADI0-TV-NEWSFILM BRANCH ROOM 2E791 - EXTENSION 75111 (A) - X Release No. 275-61 DUPE NEGATIVE TO: Footage: 500 ft. 35mm FINE GRAIN TO; 28 December 1961 FALLOUT SHELTER SURVEY TEAMS UNNERWAY Tickshing; Mississippi (Official DOD film released by Department of Defense) In this centennial year, commerating the gellant efforts of the man in Blue and Grey, a city rich in heritage and memories of the Civil War is among the first to prepare itself for another more modern type of defense--egainst that of radio- active fallout. Vicksburg, nestled on the banks of the Mississippi, has been participating in the nationwide fallout shelter program by conducting a physical survey of all buildings, mines, tunnels and other structures that might serve as shelters for fifty or more persons. The 93 million dollar survey program is under the direction of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civil Defense, Steuart L. Pittman, who has the responsibility for direct supervision of the surveys resting with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks. This phase of the survey consists of location of shelter areas and an inventory of day and night populations along with a collection of structural data for machine computation of protection factors. It is believed that this survey will identify, through the United States, enough fallout shelter spaces to protect up to one-fourth of the population, about 50 million people. The shalter survey program requires the support of state and local governments as well as individual citizens to make it a success. Jypes 5/18/60 sg NOTE TO EDITORS: PLEASE CREDIT DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN TITLE OR COMMENTARY The fine grain master positive, released to the company designated above, is for duplication and distribution to interested TV and Newsreel pool members. It is then to be returned within 72 hours to the Film Library, Army Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Long Island City 1, New York. The master positive must not be cut in any manner. A dupe negative is also for release to the company designated above for distribution to pool members so desiring for duplication purposes. Within 24 hours it will be delivered to DeLuxe Laboratories, 850 Tenth Avenue, New York, N. Y., telephone Circle 7-3220 where it will be avail- able to non-pool members and other authorized organizations which make satisfactory financial arrangements with DeLuxe Laboratories. The dupe negative must not be cut in any manner. E10575

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