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Show - SPOTLIGHTING S P 0 T L I GH TJ N SPOTLIGHTINGUTAH UTAHNow UTAH Now It Can be ToldThe ToldThe Told ToldThe The secret is out-the out the out - the maJor maJorpart majorpart majorpart part Utah played in the atom atombomb atombomb atombomb bomb drama After Alter months of ofstrIct ofstrict ofstrict strIct military mlhtary secrecy the story storyof storyof storyof of what happened in m Utah dur durIng during during Ing the fall of 1944 and sprIng sprIngof springof springof of 1945 relative to the prepara preparation preparahon hon tion for the atom bombing bombmg of Ja Japan Japan Japan pan is now told by Col Paul W WTIbbetts WIibbetts TIbbetts TIbbettsTr TrCol JrCol \ Hr \Tr Tr Jr HrCol Col Tibbetts pioneered the thetechmque theLechnique thetechnique techmque Lechnique of dropping droppmg the atom atombomband atombomb bomb--and bomb and bomb-and - - and according accordmg to the Col Cob ColDnel Cobonel Colanel Dnel onel dropping droppmg atom bombs IS ishighly isiighly rllghly highly technical technlcal stuff Col Till Tlb Tib ! belts betts secretlytrained organized orgamzed and secretly tramed trained the 509th ComposIte CompositeGroup ComposIteGroupsuper CompositerGroupsuper rGroup-super rGroup super [ Group-super Group super expertsthe - - super flight fhght experts- experts experts - , the only unit umt in m the Ti US S aIr aIrforces airforces airforces forces with atomic know how howThe howThe howThe The pay ' off 'Off is 1S thIs-the thIs the this - - the group groupwas groupwas groupwas was trained in Utah-over Utah over Utah - over the theWendover theWendover theWendover Wendover salt flats and Col Cal ColTIbbetts CalTibbetts ColTibbetts TIbbetts was told that ' "what what 'what " ' we welearn welearn welearn learn in Utah may end the warDroPPing warDropping war Dropping atom bombs is pre preClSlon precision precision ClSlon cision stuff and for months monthsB B 29 s flying flymg out of human eye eyerange eyerange eyerange range over the Utah salt flats flatspractIced flatspracticed flatspracticed practIced s mulated bomb runs runsand runsand runs.and runsand . and making makmg a fast turn of 150 150degrees 150degrees 150degrees degrees Even the pilots of these theseplanes theseplanes theseplanes planes dldn didn didnt t know they were werepractlcmg werepracticing werepracticing practlcmg practicing to escape the shock shockwavs shockways shockwavs wavs ways of an atomic bomb explo exploSlon explosion expiosion Slon sion They just followed mstruc instruc mstructlons instructions instruclions instruclionsThe tlons tions tlonsThe tionsThe The size the shape and the theweIght theweight theweight weIght of the atom bomb was wasworked wasworked wasworked worked out at the Wendover Wendoverarmy Wendoverarmy Wendoverarmy army air base ! by Col Cob TIbbetts TIbbettsand Tibbettsand Tibbettsand and his associates under the ut utmost utmost utmost most secrecy To camouflage the thetop thetop thetop top secret a buzz bomb testmg testing testmgUnit testingunit testingunit ] Unit was set up at Wend Wendover over to tooccupy tooccupy tooccupy occupy the attention of the cur cur10US curious curious 10US ious An atom bomb the cost of ofwhIch ofwhich ofwhich whIch might exceed $25 25 $ 000 000 000cannot 000cannot 000cannot cannot be dropped carelessly for fora fora fora a lot of reasons they must be bedropped bedropped bedropped dropped with pin pm point pomt accu accuracy accuracy accuracy racy and Utah s vast waste wastespaces wastespaces wastespaces spaces in m Tooele county proved provedJust provedjust provedjust Just the place for training trammg the theI thecrews thecrews thecrews I , crews who flattened Japan s sHiroshima sHiroshima , HIroshIma HiroshimaIn In a Saturday Evening Evenmg Post Poststory Poststory Istory PostIstory story of June 8 Col Tibbetis Tibbetistells Tibbettstells tells how his men drove mto into mtoSalt intoSalt intoSalt Salt Lake City ! ior for recreahon recreation recreahonand recreationand recreationand and where FBI rBI I'BI IBI ' and secret ser serVIce service service VIce men in m disguise often at attempted attempted attempted tempted to see if the men were weretalkative weretalkative talkative relative to military af affairs affairs ItalkatIVe fairs [ aIrs All proved strictly stnctly faithful faithfulto faithfulto to their trustsUtah trusts trustsUtah Utah Dragons in DemandAccordmg DemandAccording Demand DemandAccording According Accordmg to the latest mfor infor mformatlon information information matlon mation received from Irom the Smith Smithsoman Smithsonian Smithsonian soman sonian Institute they would like likeja likea ja a couple of fossilized 120000 120 000 000000 1000 000 year old Utah dragons Theare The Theare are sending sendmg Dr C L Gazin Gazm pa paleontologlst paleontologist paleontologist leontologlst leontologist to search out the theconfmes theconfines theconfines confmes confines of Dragon canyon In InEmery inEmery mEmery Emery count county ) where just before beforethe beforethe beforethe the war fossifized fosSlflzed ! toones bones of the thequeer thequeer thequeer queer creatures which sported sportedlong sportedlong sportedlong long claws weie wele weze found The Thebones Thebones Thebones bones were in such excellent excellentcondItion excellentcondition excellentcondition condItion it was said that the themstltute theinstitute theinstitute mstltute institute hopes Dr Gazin Gazm wIll wIllbe willbe willbe be able to find fmd a couple of an ancient lizards so well preserved that they could be removed to tothe tothe tothe the eastern museum intact mtact The TheprehIstorIc Theprehistoric Theprehistoric prehIstorIc dragons were churns chums churnsof chumsof chumsof of the last of the dinosaurs dmosaurs and andwere andwere andwere were hornble horuble hormible looking lookmg fellows mn mnappearance inappearance appearance To scientists they theyare theyare theyare are known as polyglyphana polyglyphanadons polyglyphanadons polyglyphanadons dons Dragon can ) or on- on 0l1 onwhere ' - where Dr DrGazm DrGazin DrGazin Gazm Gazin will make his search is 10 ho 10ca hoca loca ca ed at the bottom of Joe s val Va1 valley Va1icy valley ley icy or the south branch of ofStraIght ofStraight ofStraight StraIght canyonSoutheast canyon Southeast Utah 1Jtah PubhcItyNorman PublicityNorman Publicity PubhcIty PublicityNorman Norman Nevills of MexIcan MexIcanHat MexicanHat MexicanHat Hat San Juan county is declar declared declared declared ed by Neil Nell M dark Clark Saturday Saturdayrvenmg SaturdayEvening SaturdayEvening rvenmg Evening : Post writer m in the May May18 18 issue to be the theworld -world world warld - s No NoI 1 fastwater man That Thats s saymg saying sayinga saymga a lot in behalf of this Utah Utab hoat boat hoatman boatman boatman man whose ! ifastwater fastwater rapId rapIdshootmg rapidshooting rapidshooting shootmg shooting record cannot be equal equalled equalled led ledAs | As every boy m In Utah knows knowsor or should know Norman NevIUs Nevills NevIUsspends Nevillsspends Nevillsspends spends his summers taking takmg tour I I Ists . , sts down the San Juan river riverfrom riverfrom riveri-trom riveri trom - from Mexican Hat Utah to Lee Lec . s sFerrv sFerry sFerrv Ferrv Ferry Anz Ariz a San Juan Colora Cobra Colorado Cobrado Colorado do river nver trip tnp of some 200 mIles mIlesAnd milesAnd milesAnd And so popular are the tr ps psproving psproving psproving proving that reservations must mustbe mustbe mustbe be m-lde m lde m"lde mlde mide " - months in m 1.dvance 1dvance idvance 1.dvanceThose . idvanceThose idvanceThose Those who have made the voy voyage voyage voyage age declare it to be a hlghhght highlight highlightof hlghhghtof of a lifetime Anyway Nor Norman Norman Norman I man s river expeditions are areprovm areproving areproving provm proving a huge success and he heIS heis heis IS putting puttmg San Juan county on onthe onthe onthe the mapThe mapThe map The Saturday Evening Evenmg Post Postarticle Postarticle Postarticle article on Norman certainly certamly put putSan putSan putSan , San Juan Jum : in m the public pubhc eye for forthe forthe forthe I the art dc cle is accompanied by byseven byseven byseven seven photos in m natural color ofUtah ofUtah of Utah Utahs s little known southeastern southeasternattractIOns southeasternattractions southeasternattractions [ attractIOns |