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League president stressed the group’s agreement that j Rappahannock County ] needs a plan for dealing with \ both natural and manmade i disasters (such as airplane - crashes). But he asked the i board to rescind its earlier approval of Hie-rmis relocation plan ana initiated series of public hearings so the public can respond to the issue.
“This is one subject I don’t want to even get into,” responded Supervisor H. B. Wood. “If they overshoot (Washington, D.C.) by 50 miles, we won’t have any worries anyway.”
‘We could be in worse shape (than D.C.),” added Supervisor Clarence Baldwin. “It would smother us if that many people came here. We’d have no food, no shelter.”
“If we spent as much time on peace as on war, we’d be better off,” Chairman J. R. Latham maintained. When the board authorized completion of the crisis relocation plan last month, “we were acting on the best advice we had. . .Any plan is better than no plan at all,” he said.
Krebser repeated the Izaak Walton League’s position that the county needs a plan for handling natural and manmade disasters but not for nuclear war. He called crisis relocation “totally absurd” and maintained that it’s a deception to let people think they can prepare for and survive a nuclear attack.
“I don’t think the ones who are making the plans really think they can,” Wood replied.
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