HomeMy WebLinkAboutDisplay Ideas on Preparation for Disaster1964 DISPLAY IDEAS
1. Your County (or City) Prepares to Protect Its People
Use a large scale map of your locality. Show emergency hospitals, mass care
centers, emergency routes, etc. Mark them with symbols, acetate overlays, or
paint. This will:
(a) Show the people that your civil defense planning is advancing.
(b) Help to educate them as to locations they should know.
2. Make Up Sample Kits of Home Medical Supplies; Home Shelter Needs; Home Fire
Equipment; Emergency Food Shelves.
3. Me, My Family, My Community, My County, My Area, My State, My Country.
The "pebble in the pool" motif.
4. Your Fire May be One of Thousands. Learn to Put it Out.
Show home fire fighting equipment; a mannequin working with stirrup pump,
etc. Get cooperation of local Fire Company which will give additional ideas.
5. The Family Becomes a Team Again.
Double display. One side of display portrays father aiming musket, child
holding bullets, wife loading a spare gun, or similar scene to indicate a family
banded together to ward off danger. Other side of c'isplay shows a family pre-
paring shelter area, etc. Same thought can furnish basis for dramatic skit for
schools, clubs, or organizations.
6. It's Not Our Scenery They'll Want.
Show production, assembly lines and the like, that must keep going. Local
industries can perhaps provide photographic blowups.
7. Every Area Will Have a Part to Play.
Use a relief model of the State or County. Use toy figures from the five
and ten cent store to show teams of firemen, nurses, steam shovel, and the like,
coming from outlying sections to help the stricken area; cars, ambulances, etc.,
streaming from target section into outlying parts.
S. There is Now a Fourth Arm to National Service, Army, Navy, Air -- Civil.
Use mannequins, dressed in military uniform, greeting a housewife in an
apron, with a civil defense armband on her arm.
9. No City Will be Wiped Out. Know the Job You Must Do After Attack, if It Comes.
Use a large map as a background, with a bomb burst marked on it showing
how relatively small a part of the locality will be directly under the bomb.
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Have a mannequin seated in a comfortable chair, bridge lamp behind his
chair, etc. He is reading "How to Survive an Atomic Bomb." On the floor or
the table beside him, is the Red Cross "First Aid Booklet," Civil Defense
supplement. Volunteer blanks used by your local Recruiting Division should be
plainly visible.
10. Will it be This:
Everyone running wildly, not knowing what to do or where to go.
Or This:
Everyone with a job to do and busily doing it; teams forming, etc.
Note: This makes a good poster subject for school art classes, high
school poster contests, etc. Also basis for a skit.
11. Home Industry is the Mainstay of the Fighting Services. Civil Defense Must
Keep It Going.
Toy trains (from local toy store) filled with materials running to docks,
air fields, army camps. Use toy cranes, etc., to give height. Superimpose the
whole on a map or drawing of Texas.
12. We Know the Bomb Can Do Its Job. Will You Do Yours?
An easy display to produce. A figure stands with his back to the audience
looking at a huge chart on which are listed all the jobs for which volunteers
are needed Police reserves, wardens, ground observers, firefighters, can-
teen workers, nurses' aides, litter bearers, rescue workers, and the like. It
is far more effective if it is possible to have photographs or drawings showing
people engaged in each activity by each listing.
13. Specific Windows on Needed Services, Such as Police, Fire Auxiliaries, etc.
Mannequin dressed as policeman with his hand out in welcome to a man and
woman. We need your help; will you join our Reserves?
14. After a Bomb, There Will be Two Kinds of People; Those WHO CAN Help; Those WHO
NEED Help.
Except under a direct hit, the choice is largely yours -- but you must make
it now, while there is time to protect yourself and your family.
15. For First Aid Training and Recruiting
Show classroom, filled with classroom chairs; blackboard across the back
of the window.
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One of two mannequins seated; the rest of the chairs empty. Instructor,
dressed as a Red Cross worker, peering out of the display, "Where's the rest
of my class ?"
Facts about the need for one First Aider in each family; number of volun-
teers needed for ambulance service in your locality, etc., should be clearly
written on the blackboard.
16. See ARS Special Report 22 -55, Radioactive Fallout in Time of Emergency, for
ideas for other exhibits - pages:
10 - Exhibit of Monitoring Equipment
12 - Chart Showing Decay in Radioactivity is Related to Time
14 - What is Meant by Half -Value Layers?
14 - Exhibit Showing Relative Thickness of Different Materials Required
to Give the Same Protection from Radiation.
15 - Models of Houses and Barns Showing the Relative Protection of
Different Types.
17 - Exhibit Using Child's Toy Barn and Farm Set to Show Protection as in
Figure 9.
17. See H&G Bulletin, No. 77, "Family Food Stockpile for Survival," for Exhibit
of Foods Needed in a Shelter.
18. Automated Exhibit Available from Agricultural Engineers Extension Showing Food,
Feed, and Water do not Become Radioactive. Suitable for Meetings, Fairs, Dis-
play, and Schools.
19. Bureau of Civil Defense Table -top Display - Available to all County Agricul-
tural Extension Offices.
20. Background for Emergency Food Listing Three Menus for Use with Heat and Three
Menus for Use Without Heat. Background Measures 34 by 88 Inches in Two (2)
Sections Available from Agricultural Extension Office.
Mr. T. G. Hollmig
Miss Bobye J. Riney
March 18, 1964
Texas Agricultural Extension Service