Chief Andrew: -i- Pebruary 3, 1950 Since the medical man te do this will be hard to find, it might be a good move for the Governor to request from the California Medical Association the names of five men whem they would recommend for this difficult and responsible position, end stipulate that they be familiar with the field or capable of quickly becoming so, The Universities might be asked for the Pn,Dd. nominces also. The State and local health depariments already have assigrments in the disaster picture so that chceosing a man from the State Health Department is unwise and also does xot have the strategic political value which the above recommendation does, If this man is backed by the State Medical Society, then the county medical men will fall in line in a way which will make any program workable at the county level, and they will then alse cooperate with the lecal health departments more readily. The person who would head the State monitoring training group should be a person with high academic position and bread background and with a good imowledge of the problems of monitoring. This does not necessarily mean that the man should be a physicist. It vould be this mants responsibility to organize and train nen in the universities, colleges and high schools of the State so that they would be able to train smaller groups in their own localities under the county organigations. The effort at the State level would be greatest the first year and then be somewhat less as the communities took over their part. The costs would probably be nearly the same for the two largest metropolitan a4VEAS « Training in the outlying eccunties needs to be less extensive but none the less specific, for they would be the second line of defense in case the cities were destroyed, The first phase has te do, thus, with training and public infcrma- 3 tion. The second phase has to do with setting up of a defense orsanisation in which the radiological safety aspects are integrated in their proper places and is not discussed here because it is too complex. However, it is important that the commiete defense crganization for the State and its smaller rolitical narts be known early so that the trainees may know where they fit into the picture; otherwise, we are left with a group trained in techniques with no rurpose shown. There is plenty of evidence about the nation at this moment of the futility of such a situation. This is no tame for the ‘glamour-seeking carnet bagzers" to be brought into the picture as tney did in the Hopley Group icward the end of that study, There is a 1c5 f£ hard work to be cone and there is nlenty of comminity support and a 4} CS Ae wate san Spee GPA TPOSPrSNNS LI OR os &5 Ae oy whey ws araniedt Ten, ~~ Qo oO 3. Pp fe 3ty : 2 part of this and I am including r > a rough Fae] and wemonlet costs mighh actuelly os. co 2 . <a a » oc You asked me what T thous fet ce widespread desire to see a good, »~ractical joo done, to set up the State's & knowing what Lhe travel bale’ altached is a rough diagrem of / oo Stete Level to the lecel DOB ARCHIVES