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...True, which sprays concrete. A wire-tying gun enables workmen simply to aim at the joint where steel reinforcing rods need to be lashed, pull the trigger, and the job is done. For do-it-yourself fans, Chicago's Wonder Building Corp. has brought out fallout-bomb-shelter kits: backyard model for $1,200, smaller basement shelter...
...price of an underground school, Standhardt found it would cost only about 10% more than a building above ground. Civil defense officials offered to make up the difference. Artesians had no objections: their houses seldom have basements, and the city (pop. 11,939) has no public buildings suitable for shelter. Artesia is perhaps more mindful of the nuclear age than most cities, being 40 miles from the missile pads of Roswell and 230 miles from Los Alamos...
Everything about Abo School will have a dual function. Designed for 540 children, it will readily shelter 2,000 persons. Flush with the ground, the 18-in. concrete roof will be a basketball court and a fallout filter. The two wells used for air conditioners can supply emergency drinking water. The lunch room will be stocked with a 14-day food supply, and cupboards throughout the 18-classroom building will contain 970 cots. Abo will also have a two-way radio, underground phone lines, radiation-measuring instruments, provisions for fire fighting, garbage disposal and a morgue...
...airfield. I think it could have been Bahrein.") His briefing from Shelton was short-an hour and a half in which "I barely had time to study my maps." Powers claimed no knowledge of two unmarked survivor maps and the plea in 14 languages ("I need food and shelter; you will be rewarded") that the Russians claimed to have found in his flight suit. Said he: "Someone must have stuck them in my pockets...
Last week a few Full Gospelers had come up to take their chances with the rest of the U.S., but most were still underground. One man emerged with two of his seven children; the other five and his wife insisted on staying below. Another Gospeler who left his shelter was Allen J. Harvey, 14, of Columbus, Ohio, who had come to Benson to see his girl, was assigned to a different shelter, and spent a month underground without seeing her. "We pray a lot," said Harvey. "The rest won't come up until the Lord tells them...