7/12/50 Red Cross Plans Activity Stepup Due to Conflict A special meeting to complete organization and step up activities of the Weber county chapter, American Red Cross disaster serv¬ice, will be held Thursday, July 13, at eight p. m., in the chapter home, 1961 Washington. A. T. Barrett, chairman of the disaster committee, said the service would be organized so that it may go into immediate action in the event it is needed by reason of the present Korea conflict. Meanwhile it was announced by Olin H. Ririe, chairman of the chapter, that all services of the local Red Cross chapter would be placed on a higher operational level. "Although there is no immedi¬ate indication that the local Red Cross will be called upon in the present situation, we intend to be fully prepared for any eventual¬ity," Chairman Ririe stated. Expected to attend the disaster meeting besides Chairman Barrett who will be in charge, are: Sub-committee chairmen, "George Crad- dock, survey; Dr. R. L. Draper, medical; Mrs. Elma Burns, .nurs¬ing; Eden Beutler, rescue; Harmon Barton, transportation; Col, Graves 3. McGary, military; Robert W. jrant, communications; E. R. Buck- ner and L. R. Buckner, shelter; Atwell Wolfer, clothing; Harvey C. Cahill, food, and Leland Shreeves, registration. 6/14/50 Red Cross Girds To Cope With Any Eventuality Girding to meet any eventuality in this area, members of the We¬ber County Red Cross disaster com-mittee Thursday evening charted a program of readiness on a minute- man level, according to Olin H. Ri¬rie, chairman n the chapter. A..T. Barrett, disaster committee chairman, said subcommittee chair¬men of his group have been in-structed to whip staffs into first class condition and to reach full strength in 'every category. , Ririe said action by the local chapter is also being geared to pos- sible cooperation with any civilian defense committee that might be established by the federal govern¬ment. Vice chairman of the disas-ter committee is Claude Armstrong. Another meeting will be held within two weeks, Ririe said, to check on progress of committee branches. ivilian Defense Seen Vital to A'Bomb Attack DETROIT, June 27 (AP) — Civilian defense might be the ^'crucial difference" between sav¬ing or losing America, says W. Stuart Symington. Symington, chairman of the na¬tional security resources board, told the American Red Cross convention Monday night that a surprise atomic attack might deal the nation a blow from which it could not recover. Effective civilian defense, the former air force secretary said, ' could 'cut atomic bond casualties by -50 per cent in a typical Amer¬ican city. But one bomb on one large city, he said, "would require hundreds of thousands of pints, of blood and blood derivatives a week." The reduction in casualties from the availability of such re¬sources, he said "might be the crucial difference between a se¬rious and a fatal attack."