THE WASHINGTON POST and TIMES HERALD Thursday, June 16, 1955 TWO YEAR OLD Reed Glassman struggles to open his half pint of milk given out in the New Market School gymnasium. He was one of 354 persons leaving Bethesda yesterday in a mock evacuation. With him is his mother, Sharlene Glassman. 354 Join Suburban Alert By Laurence Stern A 60 CAR MOTORCADE sped 354 Bethesda men, women and children away from a hypothetical H bomb blast yesterday. One of the youngest to participate in the exercise, organized by the Ayrlawn Citizens Association, was 6 month old Mary Agnes Stake, daughter of Mrs. Mary Stake, 6010 Johnson ave., Bethesda. Little Mary was accompanied by an older sister, Nancy, 6, and brother, Danny, 3. The 130 adults and 224 children were greeted at the New Market School in Frederick County, Md., by officials of the Farmers Emergency Civil Defense Committee, an organization created five years ago to meet problems of fleeing city dwellers. New Market Mayor William F. Smith welcomed members of the Ayrlawn group. Speeches of other town officials were nearly drowned out in the excited chatter of children who romped about the school auditorium after the 75 minute drive. THE MOTORCADE nearly got misrouted but finally wound up at its destination well ahead of schedule. The mix up occurred just just south of the Montgomery County line when the automobile procession started up Route 80 instead of Route 27 as planned by Frederick County Divil Defense officials. But a Frederick County Deputy Sheriffs car appeared to steer the fleeing group in the right direction. Phe, said Dr. Lewis Branscomb, Civil Defense Chairman of the Ayrlawn Citizens Association. We would have It was nearly a catastro just kept going until someone stopped us. Members of the Citizens group started on their 40 mile mock evacuation route at 1220 p.m., 15 minutes after the alert siren sounded. Montgomery County Deputy Civil Defense Director G. Roy Hartwig said yesterdays emergency programs went quite well throughout the county. We discovered some bugs in our communications setup and other operational procedure, Mr. Hartwig pointed out. For one thing we discovered that our control center at Rockville was not large enough. There were too many people milling around and a big noise level in there, he said. AYRLAWN RESIDENTS, who left Bethesday after mock H bomb attack, arrive at New Market School in Frederick County.