Survival (Contd.)

With Nikita Khrushchev's megatomic boasts and bombs still echoing around the globe, U.S. interest in survival techniques continues to mushroom. Items:

> President Kennedy said last week that he is giving serious consideration to a plan for building large fallout shelters in populous areas along the federal interstate highway routes now under construction. The plan, proposed by Kentucky's Republican Senator Thruston B. Morton, would make use of the holes highway crews dig to gather fill; it would save money by utilizing the heavy earth-moving equipment already on the potential shelter sites.

>New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, defeated in 1960 when he proposed compulsory home fallout shelters, offered a new plan that has bipartisan support and should win speedy approval in a special session of the legislature opening next week. Under it, the state would help finance shelters to protect all 4,063,000 students and staff members of New York's schools and colleges, both public and private. The state would fully finance shelters for its own 115,000 employees. Homeowners would get no state money, but would get help in securing bank loans to build shelters, and legal protection from shoddy, fly-by-night contractors. The plan's cost is not yet known.

> The Rabbinical Council of America asked all Orthodox Jewish congregations planning new synagogues to include fallout shelters, open them to everyone regardless of creed. Representing 800 rabbis with 1,500,000 followers, the council also urged that community shelters be built throughout the nation.

> International Business Machines Corp. Chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr. offered IBM's 60,000 employees loans pf $1,000 each to build home shelters. They can pay back the loans in three years by payroll deductions. IBM also will sell shelter supplies at cost to its employees.

> Chicago's O'Hare Inn, a convention-attracting motel near O'Hare Airport, has started work on a $45,000 shelter under a new addition. The 60-ft. by 100-ft. shelter will protect 500 guests.

> School officials of Norwalk, Conn., announced an $8,500,000 plan to build shelters under each of its 25 public school playgrounds. Each would hold 3,000 people, thus care for the city's full 67,000 population. The shelters would have independent power plants, cafeterias, showers and toilets, even individual compartments for families.

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