Vol. 13 Falmer, Alaska. December 29. 19c0 N0.5O
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Civil Defense Director, ’-Valter E.
Huntley called a meeting ^n Wednes
day evening, of interested citizens
to meet Major Griffith and Lieuten
ant Taylor of Fort. Richardson, who
pave addresses on the propesed act
ivities nf the local civil defense
organization. Major Griffith is 5r
charre of civilian defense activi
ties for the southern part of A
laska for the Army and Air Force.
Lieutenant Taylor is in charre of
defense against Atomic bombs, bio
logical warfare and. chemical war
fare, for the same district.
Major Griffith pave a talk on
civil defense and as to it’s possi
ble needs. He expressed the opin
ion that a well organized local de
fense unit would be of ^rest value
to the loc91 citizens in the event
that war came to Alaska.He rutted
the enemy would drop any Atomic
Fombs on the Valley because they
cost from four to five million
collars each, and he felt that
there were many more rood targets,
he also doubted that any paratroops
would be landed here because of the
difficulty of supplying them. He
doubted that air raids would be
made from carriers, as the enemy
has very few ships of this type.
It appears then, that the Army
feels that about the only probable
attack would, be large bombers, and
that radar should pick them up in
time to give the people sufficient
warning to enable them to retire to
comparatively safe places; that is
underground quarters, mines, cell
conft. .next col.__
ars and caves. Lieutenant Taylor
stated, that it was doubtful If.
there would be any Atomic Bombs or
Biological warfare, but that we
would have very good protection in
underground rooms from injury by
fire or eas.
Both Army men stated that it
w-uld be advisable for local citi
aens to r*et, organized and prepare
to take care of themselves, as it
would probably require all the
Army's personel and equipment to
carry on Defense requirements in
purely military matters. However,
b~th agreed that them would be a
vailable f^r any advice that might
be useful to the community organ
ization. Major Griffith stated that
he believed the Anchorage organiza
tion had been very well conducted
and suro-ested close cooperation,
con't on Pace 3
MR WRECK FATAL
Darrel McKechnie, twenty-three
year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Loren
McKechnie, and Husband of Q-ecrgena,
was instantly killed early Sunday
morning, ^ hen the pick-up in which
he was a passanoer, left the road
and over-turned, pinning him be
neath.
Darrel and Jerry Yohn, life-l^ng
friends, were returning to Palmer
from Alpine Inn, where they had
spent the evening, when the acci
dent occurred.
Jerry, who was driving the ill
con't. on pace 3 __