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The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 10

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10 The Salt Lake Tribune, Wednesday, November 8, 19G1 no details were available on what caused the collision although the night was cleaii Flames from the ship could be seen from the gulf freeway several miles inland. Can Survive A-Attack $30 A-Shelter Survives Fire By Aocitcd PrM LOS ANGELES, Nov. 7 Dr. Willard F. Libby, Nobel Prize winning scientist and UCLA professor, was one of many whose home in Bel-Air was destroyed by fire.

a IT WAS AT this home that Dr. Libby built a fallout shelter for $30. The shelter Is a hole In the ground, covered by railroad ties topped with sandbags. The fire left it shrouded in ashes, but otherwise intact Flames Engulf Ship Collision How to Build Shelter for $30 By AwoclaUd Pre HOUSTON. Nov.

7 Two ships slammed together in the Houston ship channel Tuesday night and a tanker loaded with explosives and fats exploded and burst into flames. WE DONT know too much about it right now, but it looks pretty bad, R. J. Marlowe -of the Coast Guard operations office in Galveston said. The Coast Guard said earlier reports indicated there may have been some injuries.

shortly after the collision at 11:15 p.m. The ships met near Beacon 75 in open bay water about 25 miles from the heart of this industrial port city. The. Coast Guard idenified the tanker as the Norwegian motor ship M.S. Berean and the other ship as the cargo vessel Union Reliance, registered in Nationalist China.

Mrs. S. T. Ellis, 41, who lives near Galveston Bay, said she heard several explosions about 11:13. Then there was a later explosion, a bigger one, she said.

"It looks like the ships are burning completely and theres a lot of black smoke. THE GALVESTON Coast Guard sent two 40-foot utility boats equipped with fire-fighting equipment and one 125-foot cutter. Another 40-footer left the Houston Coast Guard Station eri route to the scene of the crash. (Editor Note: Eminent elen-ttt the world over have divergent view on the possibility of survival In an atomic attack. Some ee the end.

of Other, such as Nobel Prize Winner Willard f. Libby, believe million could survive. The Salt Lake Tribune herewith present the third In a series of article. In which Dr. Libby set forth hi point of view.) By Prof.

Willard My $30 fallout shelter con-5 sists of a hole in backyard hill, would provide two ready-made walls with a few feet of dirt or sandbags piled up outside. THEN BUILD walls consisting of sandbags or concrete blocks 1 to 2 feet thick, again with an offset entrance. The roof and upper stories of a house would keep much fallout at a distance, but for sure safety the shelter needs gency shelter could be fashioned by piling concrete blocks op even stacks of books on top and around a heavy table, placed in a basement comer, and getting under the table. An air filter for the shelter is a good idea, but not absolutely necessary. Some radioactive dust might A DTIBTHSMIN Now Many Wear FALSE TEETH With Little Worry Eat, talk, laugh or naeaa without ear of In altpptng bold pie rummy, gooey, pMty tte or reeling Doesn't fear of lnecur faleo tooth droPP2Sf Clipping or wobbling.

FABTEBTHI hold plates tinner and more comfortably. This pleasant powder has no AM faallno I't esuse nausea. Its alkaline (non-acid). Checks "plate odor (denture breethl. Oet FASIEKTH a drug counter everywhere.

No deaths were reported THE COAST GUARD said a bags dirt, and some rail- -th a basement is lucky he could build a shelter more easily, and perhaps mofe 1 cheaply. rf My costswere: An offset at entrance of fallout shelter protects It from radiation, which cannot go around corners that people can. a roof made of beams and blocks ''of concrete or dirt Burlap bags $11.04 Nylon string and needle to sew bags 1.00 Railroad ties 9.00 Trucking In the ties 7.00 Ztno chromate to treat burfap bags 2.00 Total: $30.00 I dug horizontally Into the slope of the hill, and put the dirt in using them to build walls 5 feet high on both sides to make an enclosure of about 4 by 6 feet. Another wall In an offset, provides a door. It's wide open.

Radiation from fallout cannot go around corners but people can to get in or OUt. There Is no limit to Improvisations." C3vil Defense offices can supply excellent plans. seep in, but probably not Jn significant amounts through ordinary air circulation. An essential item is a radiation meter. Unfortunately, effective Ones still cost about $25.

It is needed to tell you if seeping dust is reaching dangerous levels. If so, sweep it out with a broom. Fallout The vital point Is that lethal X-rays from intensive fallout are stopped by two feet of RAILROAD TIES are the roof beams, with a two-foot layer of dirt-filled bags rest- lng-on top. That 7 givesr28 Inches thickness of dirt and wood. A corner-of your basment MAIL THIS COUPON TODAY --i I Please send me the complete booklet on YOU CAN SURVIVE ATOMIC ATTACK (Enclosed is 50 cents) Name 1 11 1 -J 5 Street 11 City Zone State (Mail to The Salt Lake Tribune Home Service De- partment.

Box 867, Salt Lake City, Utah.) HMMHMMMHMMMMMMNMMMMHMHMHHMHHHMMHMMHMMMMMMHAJMf- "MEET ME AT THE IN LOS ANGELES- At th Huh of Hi Frttwty! PHONE OUR SALT LAKE RESERVATION OFFICE DA 8-9114 (HU I MINUTES FIOM Li MTL ill PONT VUNELt-CAN Tl (UN IEUST0P concrete, or anything with equal density or mass. Thus, it takes 10 feet of water or wood to do it, about two to three feet of dirt, but only two to three inches of lead. However, lead Is very expensive. A quick, life-saving emer- eventually becomes dirt But you must avoid or get rid of it while it is radioactive. THE MAN WITH the expensive shelter could unwittingly track radioactive dust into his' shelter on trips in and out, and so concentrate dangerous amounts, unless he know about "The Dermatologists' Report reveals: Kemimgtoitslliavers 'nr 'i combs At 4 jr4 V-1 close shave instrument i lade or A corner of your basement is good Start for shelter." this hazard.

So everyone needs a broom as well as a meter. You should plan to say inside your shelter at least -48 hours. Suppose fallout descends an hour after the burst In seven more hours, It Is only 10 per cent as intense as It was when it first landed. And 49 hours after the burst, or 48 hours after landing, only one per cent of the Initial radioactivity remains. 1 In the next 12 days.

It declines to become only one-tenth of one per cent of the Initial Intensity. This is considered a safe level to permit moving about Forty-eight hours in a small, cramped shelter or hole is no picnic. You might well take sleep-lng pills to help wait out the most critical period of fallout danger. (Thursday: More elaborate shelters.) A.F. to Draw Site 7- TULSA, Nov.

7 (ZP) Army Engineers will turn over to the Air Force Wednesday the last of 12 Atlas Intercontinental ballistic missile-launching sites 'around Altus Air Force Base. The final site is at Fargo. 21 miles south of Altus. The Air Force will start work immediately installing the missile systems. aV fT ARE YOU DISAPPOINTED WITH YOUR EYEGLASS HEARING AID? No one else can really appreciate your disappointment when you finally realize that your eyeglass hearing aid is not providing the improved hearing you hoped for ni paid for I But now, from world famous Aeoustioon, eomes its newest, most powerful eyeglass hearing aid It is absolutely the most powerful eyeglass hearing aid Aeoustieon ha ewer made! It a wonderful new achievement that ean bring new joy and the delightful new feeling of sharper, clearer hearing.

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