Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 88

Oakland Tribune, Sunday, Aug. 2, 1959 I wsr in i7oi? BovmVovm Bay! Monday Only Smiths Oakland Store Only! Broadway at 14tk Shop 'til 9 p.m.! 4 S4 1 V1 7 1 Reg. $1.69 to $2.99 boys' uniT shirts! 3-333 Astd fancy patterns and colors; 6 to 16 tfc C-D Regular $4.99 NOW Vi PRICE GABARDINE DRESS SLACKS Tlylon blend slacks, 6 to 1 2 and 26 to 32. J50 Browns, greys, blues 1 i nil in. Ur- TV TCIIinTCI WHITE COMBED -Olllil I COTTON Nylon-reinforced neckband won't stretch! 6 to 18.

liir i A to vr S' ii 169 fit ii! 1 fli f'K ijljSl! if i frff 1 1'M '-'111 pit i JR. BOYS' REG. $2.29 to $2.99 SPORT SHIRTS! Nice assortment of patterns and colors, sizes 2 to 7. V7 Vose.out buyreak- 9 ttneW these recor -ths VI ,1 BOYS'" POLISHED COTTON IVY PANTS! Popular tan, charcoal, and antelope brown! 6 to 1 2 mr''iT OAKLAND'S ONLY The only "do-it-yourself" lallout shelter known to cml defense offidali In Oakland is this tleel-reinforced concrete structure built by C. H.

McCaslin at bis home. 2737 Humboldt Ave. It can care for 50 people. McCaslin said. IF 'THE BOMB' DROPS Home Defense Plans Held Weakest Link in Security SAVE ON BOYS' DOUBLE KNEE JEANS! 9 939 reinforced at strain Doints: fii Sanforized, reinforced at strain points; 6 to 12, 1.29 pr.

erty evaluation for tax pur poses by $600 to $800. PROSPECTS DIM 199 And, while civil defense officials hold little hope that What's wrong with the nation's civil defense program? "Nothing," say top military experts who have looked over the paper plans of the Federal Government and many of the states, such as California. But America's home defense system is still the weakest link home owners will voluntarily By TOM RILEY material cost of the structure is estimated at $2,500. McCaslin said a son-in-law helped him build it. SURVEY RESULTS The California Disaster Office recently made a survey of probable construction costs for considerably less ingenious types of underground shelters capable of holding a family of five.

Materials plus labor for a construct household shelters, the prospects that any such protection will be afforded to families renting ho'using is 19 SPORT SHIRTS! 1sg sUEvE Newest fall patterns, fine fabrics, sizes 6 to 16. SHORT SLEEVE SPORT SHIRT CLOSE-OUT! Formerly $2.29 to Many wash-wear! 6-16. $595 to 795 CORDUROYS! Specially purchased from a leading Western maker. Sizes 6 to 12, 26 to 32 waist. Last of Four Articles even, more remote.

There is no lack of understanding of the problem, one civil defense official noted, in its national security program, these same experts de minimum structure, they nor are we short of plans on found, amounted to $2,000. what to do about it. Alameda Countv assessor 099 The thing that's wrong with civU defense is the laclt of public determination to demand Russell C. Horstmanii said that, depending upon the actual extent of improvement, such a shelter might increase prop that something be done. DAY SPEGDAB.

A CI AY clare. Why? Harold Robinson, chief of the California Civil Disaster Office, says: "It's like giving definition to a bowl of smoke. "Americans have been conditioned to think positively. HARD TO GRASP "Making preparations for a civil disaster such as would be caused by a surprise hydrogen bomb attack involves negative thought, the kind that most people don't like to entertain." Military experts who have studied California's Civil Disaster Plan claim that it covers nuinm Monday only- tlusl low Price! REG. $13.95 just about every conceivable ViOOL FLAI1IIEL IUY SLACKS! nna contingency.

But its inherent "weakness, Robinson acknowledges, is its Jut Aim dependence upon individual and 9 4iaroMa23i. Initiative to make plans now for bombs that might drop to A Sharp, Cloar Pieturo Evory Tim morrow. STAGGERING COST -i I .1 I I. Tl Classic flap-back style in luxurious all-vool ii flannel; charcoal, grey, brown, tan; 28 to 38 7.95 Orion SWEATER SHIRTS! New contrast-trim shawl collar! Black, red, white, blue, grey, tan; sizes S-M-L Save! $5.95 Wool Orion GAUCHOS! nSn Soft lambswool-and-Orlon blend in good-looking A gauchos with convertible collars! 2 for 7.75 gauchos Font IM A It's unlikely that Congress will ever seriously entertain appropriations estimated at $23 billion to provide an adequate national shelter system. "It is even more unreason able to expect great numbers of our citizens to construct i ONE TO A ft ir.AUH such shelters at their own ex NONE SOLD TQ DEALERS pense under present economic 93 s5.00 IUY SPORT SHIRTS! Wash-wear fabrics in new Foulards, Paisley pi fancy patterns! Sizes S-M-L-XL.

3 for 8.85 2 conditions, Robinson added. Raymond McCormick, chief of Oakland's Civil Defense Organization, says to the best of his knowledge there is only one such "do-it-yourself' shel- tw ssffi Warm-uP fs and IV ter in the entire city. REGULAR $5.00 to $6.95 POLISHED COTTON IVY PANTS! Also cavalry twills; wash and wear; sizes 28 to A99 38 (not all sizes in all colors). JL It's a bizarre, steel-rein it i. forced concrete structure start' 1 11 rnr Ik Camera.

I ed in 1950 by C. H. McCaslin, 61, at his home, 2737 Humboldt Ave. PRIVATE SHELTER Limi ICIV ri mm i SHAWL COLLAR SWEATERS! McCaslin's above -ground SUPPLY shelter, which probably would afford considerable protection Reg. $8.95, lambswool, smart contrast trim! Sizes Zm S-M-L Blue, brown, grey, tan.

Save! against radioactive fallout, reverse contains about 500 square feet of interior space. SORRY-NO PHONE or MAIL ORDERS roCV Equipped with its own gasoline generator electric power system, the shelter receives a more than adequate water sup I 1 i ply from a nearby, carefully sorry no mail, phone, or CO J), orders covered well. FREE PARKING at any Merchant' Lot y2i Not counting an elaborate concrete replica of the Liberty 6 MONTHS TO PAY! HO DOVJtt PAYr.lHOT! Bell which McCaslin has perched atop his shelter, total mil l' 1 1 -5.