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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, May 8, 1968

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday May 8, 1968 in 21 states  Hub a a ii Nill the stars and stripes Page 9 fallout shelter Survey costs $1 a House Washington a the government is spending about or household on a nation Lido Survey of Protection Avail Able in private Homes from a doing the leg work for the office of civil defense in analysing Home fallout shelter potential gave the Cost estimate. Surveys have been completed so far in 21 Stales and two coun ties of new York. Surveys Are now under Way in Delaware Maryland Virginia and the District of Columbia. The project stems from a message sent to Congress i january 1965 in which president Johnson proposed a Survey of private Homes to increase the number of available fallout Shel ters. As part of the project questionnaires have been mailed to residents of the nation s capita land to Many residents in the lunar vehicle crashes this Isth wreckage of a Nasa lunar Landing re search vehicle that crashed and burned monday at Ellington air Force base i Texas. Astronaut Neil a. Armstrong who was simulating a Moon Landing in the Craft ejected from the $2.5 million vehicle and parachuted to safety. He chatted with officials minutes later. A photo s. Viet colonel killed in Saigon Saigon up col. Damian Quy Deputy director of South Vietnam s National police was killed monday night in Street fighting in the City s South West Corner. Government sources  had been acting i circulation office phone numbers _ to Runny Civ 739368 a Civ 453. Mil t8wv ottl08-a Mil Offen Kwh 758 c v 67�17 in no ass a  i Civ 8ai228 Mil 7230-Clv 420779, Mil 28509or cd Athens Civ 989 i 80t u Lla a shorn Civ 83001 a kl"8dom Civ nut Alip a a Cit subscribe now government mowing Only Rector of the police since sunday when Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngocloan the police director was wounded in Cholon leading an As Sault on n Viet Cong position. Quy was formerly the Deputy of the constituent Assembly which Drew up South Vietnam s Constitution. Loan was reported in Good condition in a Saigon Hospital. In was wounded in the shoulder and received a knee injury which required surgery. Quy was the second High rank ing officer to be killed in the last two Days. Col. Luu Kim Cuong com Mander of the Tan son Nhut airbase was killed monday by a rocket outside the base perimeter. Kennedy s Campaign suffers a reverse Indianapolis a the pressure of the Indiana presidential primary got to a typist on sen. Robert f. Kennedy s stuff. A news release supposed to Bear the usual Kennedy for president heading came out Reading president for Kenne  6 climbers trapped by blizzard 5 saved Timberline Lodge Ore. J Low the top of the 11,245-foot up Rescue workers monday Mountain. Other three states now being surveyed. The remaining House holds will be visited by census workers. Answers to the question asked about each House will be fed through the Bureau s computers and each household will receive a confidential reply list ing a Protection Factor for the owner of his House which could be used As a shelter. A Protection Factor of 40 i considered the minimum. This Means a person would receive one Fortieth As much radiation As he would receive if completely unprotected. For houses with a rating Les than 40, the Bureau will Send a Booklet explaining How the Shel Ter area can be raised to the minimum safety level. First Survey in 1966 the first Survey in Rhode is land began in april 1966 and the government had spent $11.2million on the project through last Jan. 1. It surveyed 11.2 Mil lion households and received re ports from 10 million of them or 88.9 per cent. Probable Cost of the four sur Veys now under Way is $1.4 Mil lion total and includes 1.4 Mil lion households the bureaus id. Costs include mailing person Nel use of the computer and materials. Only one two an three family units Are being surveyed. Only upon request the Bureau explained that state can be surveyed Only upon the request of the governor a Dafter clearance by the office of civil defense which pays the costs. Fallout shelters have already been surveyed in Large buildings throughout the country but the government said these Public shelters Are often inaccessible to children housewives and eld Erly persons during the Day an most of the population at night. Surveys have been completed in Rhode Island Minnesota j Maine Wyoming Vermont new Hampshire Idaho Wisconsin Washington state Montana Alaska North Dakota South Dakota Michigan Oregon Nebraska Iowa Utah Kansas West Virginia Colorado and Nassau and Suffolk counties inner York. Brought the body of one Man and five survivors Down fro m the Snow and ice near the Peak Oft. Hood where the weekend hikers had been trapped for two Days and nights in a blizzard. Ground parties found the five survivors three men and two women huddled in a Cave of Snow and ice about 700 feet be the dead Man. Robert e. Pat unison 32, was the Only one of the six who had not previously climbed the Peak Oregon s  survivors Are Jerry Simonitch 27 his wife also 27dave Skinner 27 his wife pain and another Man Terry  Are from Portland Ore. Archaeology fostered new York a the Ford foundation has announced a $1.5-million program to train advanced archaeology students at 19u.s. And Canadian universities including Field training at More than 75 excavation Sites in Europe. Africa the Middle East Southeast Asia and latin America. Fatal shootings negroes act to Calm angry crowd Birmingham Ala. A three negro men stepped into an angry crowd and brought Calm sunday after a policeman fatally shot a negro Man. The three were civil defens capt. James e. Lay the Rev. C. W. Woods and Paul White a radio disc jockey and newsman. Lay took a Bull Horn an walked among the gathering crowd at the scene Clearing the Street for emergency vehicles and trying to quiet  the crowd grew and re mors spread. Woods asked for Calm and led a prayer for the shooting victim and for his wife who was then in surgery in a  crowd was still murmur ing when White arrived and stopped the rumours telling the crowd the officer fired in theline of duty. The officer told the Man to come out of the House and motioned to him White said. When the Man came out of the House he lunged at the police Man and the policeman shot  Deputy Coroner Harry free Man said mrs. Clarence Hill 28, was shot As she left the Zion Star Baptist Church. She ran to a car and her 28-year-old estranged husband shot her again Freeman said. She later died of .22 Caliper pistol wounds in the head. Officers located Hill in Ahouse near the Church and he was shot twice in the Chest when he lunged at an officer Freeman said. Hill was dead on arrival at a Hospital  
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