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E.D. Director Says Harvard Larders Bare

The University has refused to allow of its seventy designated fall-out to be stocked with survival shipment, according to Charles F. , Cambridge's Civil Defense director.

Donohoe claimed in an interview that had been told the University would be stock any more of its shelters until whether any shelters at M.I.T. would be stocked. According to Donohoe, owns thirty-five buildings designed as suitable for shelters. Donohoe he has not yet been permitted to any of them.

Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president of the University, insisted Wednesday that there is no connection between what Harvard is doing about shelter and what M.I.T. is doing. He said that Harvard had already compiled with most the Civil Defense Office's requests.

The Harvard and M.I.T. shelters, which useful only against fallout, are parts existing buildings designated by a sur two years ago as suitable for group Shelters. Donohoe has received permission stock twenty shelters at Harvard, in the basements of Dunster, Elliot, Quincy Houses.

A. Roberts, director of Buildings Grounds, said yesterday that stock any more buildings might mean sacrificing needed University space. He also be felt there was already enough rival equipment at the University for a number of people who would be able it.

The Harvard shelters which are now asked could accommodate 12,000 people, many of whom would be Cambridge residents Donohoe said that with the shelters he has thus far stocked throughout City he can accommodate only 76 per cent of the population.

If I had the proper cooperation from these property owners," Donohoe said. I have enough shelters stocked today. Old the Pentagon that I'd need the prestige of their office to influence M.I.T."

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