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Modem Poul Reveres Use Huge Trailer Convoys to Alert America on the Need for Adequate Civil DefensePALL RIVER, MASS. (NBA)— The president of a folding bank in Fall River rushed to a position oustide a labyrinth cf partitions, clicking a counting apparatus in his hand as people entered a aeries of Civil Defense exhibits.For half an hour he carefully clicked off the entry of men, wo-12CARROLL TIMES HERALD Thursday, May 1* HS2men and children, until relieved by a member of the local Civil Defense organization of which he was chairman.The enthusiasm which put ahank president in the humble as-QUICBy Kan Reynoldssignment of admission-tabulator is what's making a success of the 1952 version of Paul Revere’s ride: the touring “Alert America” convoys.Trailmobiles rolling across the country in three convoys are carrying defense expositions to stir the countryside to prepare as the Minute Men of 1775 did against hostile attack/in 70 cities, local Civil Defense organizations are preparing to meet and man the displays, in order to sign new volunteers for community protection.Dramatic dioramas and illu-* • •mmated displays, which fill the floor of an armory or auditorium, are compressed for rapid travel in 10 vehicles in each convoy. The convoy can close a showing in Kansas City on Wednesday and reopen in Indianapolis' on the following Sunday.In leas than three months, managers of the .three convoys estimate, the mobile expositions have been viewed by upwards of 300,000 people in three dozen cities. Reports show that volunteers have signed for civil defense duties at the rate of one for every 10 men, women and children viewing the displays. As a result more cities are demanding a place on the show's’ itinerary. ,Staged by the non-profit Valley Forge Foundation at the behest of the Federal Civil Defense Administration, the exhibits show the damage a foe can inflict on the average unprepared city and what can be done to lessen the damage.The arrival of an “Alert America” convoy is itself a test of the local defense preparedness. Once the 10 carriers roll into the community with the properties, it’s a local show.The Army has detailed an officer and 16 enlisted men to each convoy, to keep them rolling. The Valley Forge Foundation provides a show manager and four maintenance men to superviseAll work and its plagiarism talcs a dull television program.• lsetting up the exhibits—and to handle delicate electrical and electronic devices. Aside from traveling crews who operate and explain the subsidiary Air Force and telephone company exhibitsthe rest is up to local commit-1 results,” says Brandan Byrne,, people out to see the showio*— i tees. Valley Forge Foundation’s Vice- • * ■('President. | one-fifth of the population. Tbs -“When the convoy spent two and a half days there, Brayton and his committee got 14,000 unteers it needed.An enthusiastic Civil Defense chief with top stature in the community, like banker John Brayton in Fall River, is the key todefense program got the new vol»CHRIS WELKIN, PlaneteerMan With SteamBY RUSS WINTERBOTHAMPRISCILLA'S POPDark VictoryBY AL VERMEERFIRST __________________UGHTLYL THEM SOAK HIM OVERNIGHT IN PAINT-REMOVER
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Carroll Daily Times Herald
Carroll, Iowa, US
Thu, May 01, 1952
Page 12
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