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Collection: 00080 - Bismarck Tribune Photograph Collection
Folder: 0042
Item: 01736
Title: Col. Noel Tharalson and Major John F. Warga of the area Civil Defense examine geiger counters with three visiting radiological defense equipment instructors
Date: 08/26/1958
Inscription/Marks: On the back: 0080-Box2-file 17-05 has been replaced with 00080-0042-01736, " Col. Noel Tharalson, Director CD, Bismarck; :Major John F. Warga, Bismarck; Fulton Abercrombie, Battle Creek Michigan, Radiological Defense School; John Turpin, Region Training Officer, Denver, Colorado; George Blincoe, Battle Creek, Michigan, Instructor For School with Civil Defense Geiger Counters. Civil Defense geiger counters, August, 1958", 2 col, 17176, "54" encircled, and the red, dated Tribune stamp.
Summary: Lieutenant Col. Noel F. Tharalson, Director of Bismarck's Civil Defense, and co-worker Major John F. Warga, Bismarck examine a table-full of geiger counters with John Turpin, Regional Training Officer from Denver, Colorado and George Blincoe, instructor from Battle Creek, Michigan's Fulton Abercrombie Radiological Defense School, and an unidentified man. Four men are in civilian dress, only Major Warga is in uniform. Governor Davis had appointed Tharalson to head the state civil defense organization in 1955 during the era of the Cold War.
Red ID: PH_I_145152 Image ID: 106189 Image Notes: 00080-box02-folder17-05

Collection: 00080 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Bismarck Tribune Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1930-1980

Summary: Images used in the Bismarck Tribune newspapers from the 1930s-1970s.

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