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Show I ATOM TEST BLAST FELT IN MILFORD Early risers of the area, and those who rose especially early last Tuesday to see the "atom bomb" go off, saw a dim glow over the southwest hills about ! 6:45 and heard the doublo-con-' cussion about 17 or 18 minutes later. Only reported damage in Milford was a shattered window pane at the Steve Clements homo, "and it was loose any-1 way," Mr. Cluments said. "Atom guinea pigs," wearing the little squares of X-ray lilm fcr tests of radio activity in the air felt "a little funny" after the blast when they began to wonder if the films were registering regis-tering any fall-out, but A E C officials said the only fallout reported up to nine hours after the blast was in a narrow sector crossing highway 91-93 about 20 miles northeast 01 Las Vegas and extending only very lightly as far as Crystal. Highest fallout fall-out level reported was adjacent to the highway two miles south of Dry Lake In an uninhabited unin-habited area. The reading was 110 milliroentgen per hour, or the equal of an effective biological bio-logical dose of about 77100 of 0110 roentgen a year. Official observers described the test as "a medium blast und sound. The blast reporting system sys-tem observed blast at Indian Springs Air Force Base possibly pos-sibly strong enough to have broken large windows. Sound In the Las Vegas area was recordable re-cordable only on limtrumrnts." |