The Michigan Daily-Thursday, May 13, 1982-Page9
City creates nuclear evacuation plan
LOS ANGELES (UPI) - In the event 'I fully accept the fact that the suggested plan is the survivors.
of a nuclear attack, only healthy and Kingsbury, 58, said he based his
useful citizens would be saved in a very unpalatable and truthfully rather sickening comments on 23 years of military ser-
"Noah's Ark" evacuation plan while to think about, but I think it is realistic. ' vice. The department he heads does not
the sick and elderly must be left to cer- have responsibility for civil defense
tain death, a county oficial said yester- -Robert Kingsbury planning.
"The fistpioit oudbetogt h ajor "We'd be livinig, following a nudler
day"The first priority would be to get the strike, in what would almost be a
people out who can contribute to sur- who recently requested that Kingsbury is realistic." primeval world," he said in the inter-
vival after a nuclear strike," Robert and other department heads evaluate IN HIS OFFICIAL report to Hahn, view. "Certainly survivors - and there
Kingsbury, head of the Los Angeles the federal Crisis Relocation Plan for the retired Army officer defined "High would be survivors under any circum-
County Department of Military and California, said through an aide that the priority" citizens as the young, the stances - would benefit most by having
Veterans Affairs, said in an interview. "Noah's Ark" plan underscores the un- physically fit, skilled specialists of all those with skills available to start
KINGSBURY, a retired Army major, feasibility of evacuating all 17 million sciences, trades and occupations and a rebuilding a new civilization."
suggested in his "Noah's Ark" plan that residents of Los Angeles County in the well-balanced labor force. While conceding his self-described
"priorities for people must be event of nuclear attack." "Low priority" citizens, he said, ii- "Noah's Ark" plan may seem cruel,
established with those holding highest "I fully accept the fact that the cluded the elderly, the infirm, the un- Kingsbury maintained the "overriding
priority being evacuated to the crisis suggested plan is very unpalatable and skilled, the unessential, and any others concern must be to continue life and
relocation area first." truthfully rather sickening to think whose presence in the relocation area national survival following nuclear
County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn, about," Kingsbury said. "But I think it would serve only to place a burden on strife."