Iron County Record | 1955-04-28 | Page 1 | Third Postponement Issued Today in Connection with AEC Show

SURVIVAL CITY SURVIVES Third Postponement Issued Today In Connection with 11 E C Show It's been said before and it can be said again Survival City has been saved for at least 24 hours and possibly three days. For the second successive morning Atomic Energy Commission Com-mission officials, United States Civil Defense officials and newsmen news-men representing every type of media moved to Yucca Flats to view Operation Cue only to be told at the last moment that the blast had been postponed owing to atmospheric conditions. It was the third postponement in the C D open shot which is to be viewed by some 4,000 officials offi-cials Including Morgan Rollo, editor ed-itor o! the Iron County Record. A determined effort by AEC officials to detonate the A-bomb this morning, Thursday, was cancelled can-celled only minutes before blast time. Reason for the last minute postponement, according to Dr. Clinton Powell, AEC monitor here in Cedar City, was that the ex pected path of the fallout would have passed directly over Alamo, Nev. and possibly St. George. Another reason for the stall for time Is that weather officials contemplate at least another 48 hour delay because of approaching approach-ing storms and winds from the coast. According to reports received from Editor Rollo, briefings in Las Vegas, preparatory to the public viewing, have been most informative. He stated that some of the nation's top men In nuclear nu-clear fission have addressed the group. Such men as Dr. Alvin C. Graves, scientific advisor to the test management discussed for the men "Planning and Conducting Con-ducting the Nevada Tests." James E. Reeves, test manager or the AEC, further elaborated on the Nevada tests. Dr. Gordon M. Dunning, division of bioloev and medlce, AEC, decussed "Radiological "Radio-logical and Safety," problems.