Residents Apathetic To Survival Classes (Q104739468)
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Residents Apathetic To Survival Classes. Eight Towns Plan Course Despite Bad Results In 3 Boroughs Last Year. (English)
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19 January 1962
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Can survival be taught in six easy lessons? Three communities in Bergen County tried it last year with indifferent results, but eight others with the help of the State Board of Adult Education are ready to try it again. State Pays. Last year's experiments were in East Paterson, Little Ferry, and Paramus, and attendance was uniformly scant. Officials in charge of the programs agreed that the public didn't seem to care about nuclear survival. The program soon will be offered In New Milford, Fair Lawn, East Rutherford, Hillsdale, Demarest, Oakland, Woodcliff Lake, Montvale, and for the second time, in East Paterson. ... Mrs. Sally Norton, Paramus C. D. coordinator, claimed people need something to wake them up. The two East Paterson teachers, Steir and Dudck, also found some reasons. The federal government, they said, is confusing the public about civil defense, and has no coordinated program. The average resident docs not have a fallout shelter, they continued, so he can't do anything even if he knows how. The current classes will be taught either in six 2-hour sessions or four 3-hour sessions. Copies of the textbook, "Personal Preparedness In the Nuclear Age", will probably be provided by the Department of Defense. Each of the classes, however, must have 25 or more students for the State to pay the cost of the instruction. (English)
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