The (essence of Civil Defense is survival!.y\n enemy attack

The (essence of Civil Defense is survival!.y\n enemy attack first of all would mean we would be with* out outside communication or commerce for a period of seventy-two hours. local Civil Defense organization with a plan of operation will make survival easier. Not just survival! among ourselves (county population of 5800) but with 11,* 500 addiional evacuees from the Washington, D. C. southern Maryland areas. During this 72 hour period we must live upon re* sources available locally and depending |upon the degree of evacuation advance warning allows, our local resources will be furtho^

strained; by necessities of people seeking (refuge in the county-.

^ ItmiEhrhe said' Ae fhiJotiaplqr ‘of Civil Defense b GovernmentIndustry and people operating in an emrigency. Our plan will be disigtied to do three things; save lives, reorient people, and restore goods and services. Civil Defense is non military; it is a coordinated; effort n make use of resources and govirrmnent which already exy? ist. It isj the inherent responsibility of local

government, our Board of Supervisors, to preserve lives and property! . - V'"

Your Board of Supervisors appointed your County Agent as Coordinator-Director of Civil Defense in | Rappahannock * a big responsibility that could become colossal. A job that will require a large staff. All of us hare a lot to leam-knowledge which we hope we’ll never have to use, yet knowledge we must have to save fives and proboty, to ward off panic and marsnal law. Those already having taken the oath, as Civil Defense workers are: Jack PriceLegal; Mrs. Dorothy Davis. Ground Observer Corps; Mrs. Frances TjjQrnton - ’Health Radiological Srrvice; Raymond Johason Wardens Service; J. W. CritzerPofice 'Service;- Ray Cannon, G. M. Bhwi and Emory RussellFire ServireSFrank Huff-Rescue; Welfare Servirey Mrs. Elizabeth

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