That is a great article by Joe Douglas. Well worth reading.
All back issues of the Journal of Spelean History are available from the History Section for a very nominal fee. They are great reading.
I don't think anybody was paid to do this. I think they just considered it their civic duty before those damn, pinko commies nuked us !!!
Of course, a quick death from an atomic blast might have been better than a slow, cold, hungry death in a muddy cave !!!
Larry E. Matthews
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