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DFPA Follout Shelters Commended By CD Chief
The Douglas Fir Plywood Association has received a letter of commendation from the Department of Defense for its two-year research project in low-cost family fallout shelters.
The association recently announced the availability of plans for three basic versions of its shelter, to be built underground, above ground and in existing basements.
The commendation came from Steuart L. Pittman, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civil Defense. In a letter to DFPA Executive Vice President W. E. Difford. Pittman wrote that the association "is to be commended for its outstanding efforts, which we are certain will help in a signficant way to emphasize and accelerate the fallout shelter program that is such a vital part of civil defense."
Pittman also expressed appreciation for what he termed "the opportunity to assist you in the development" of fallout shelters his office described as "equal or superior to any designs presently available."
The association's shelters are made of easily-available plywood and lumber in standard sizes. The underground version is made of pressure-treated material.
In answer to questions about the durability of this type of construction,
R. M. Lindgren, chief of the division of wood oreservation for the Forest Products -Laboratory of the Department of Agriculture, wrote to the association that:
"A shelter of this type . . should remain serviceable for periods exceeding 20 to 25 years." His opinion was based on tests under the most hostile conditions to durability. In states outside the humid South, the life of treated wood is almost indefinite.
