Show spotlighting UTAH tir now it can be told the secret la Is out the major part utah played in the atom bomb drama after months of strict military secrecy the sto story ry 0 of f wham wha happened in utah during the fall of 1944 and spring of 1945 relative the preparation for the atom bombing of japan Is now told by colonel paul W tibbetts jr colonel coloda tibbetts pioneered the technique of dropping the atom bomb and according to the colonel dropping atom bombs Is highly lilg lily technical stuff colonel tibbetts tib betts organized and secretly trained the composite group super flight experts the only unit in the U S air forces with atomic the pay oft off is this the group was trained in utah over the wendover salt flats and colonel tibbetts was told that what we wa learn in utah may end the war dropping atom bombs la is precision atuf stuffy 1 I and tor for months B flying out of human eye range over the utah salt flats practiced simulated bomb runs and making a fast turn of degrees even the pilots of tl these ese planes know they were practicing to escape the shook shock waves of an atomic bomb explosion they just followed instructions the size gize the shape and the weight of the atom bomb was worked out at the wendover army air base by the colonel and his associates und under erthe the utmost secrecy to camouflage the top secret a buzz comb bomb testing unit was set up at wendover to occupy the attention of the curious an atom bomb the cost of which might exceed cannot be dropped careless continued on last page spotlighting utah continued from page 1 ly tor for a lot of reasons reason they must pan be dropped with aln accuracy and vast waste spaces in n T thoele tooele 0 oele county proved just the place tor for training the crews who flattened japans hiroshima in a saturday evening post story of june ath colonel alb betts tella how his men often drove into salt lake city tor for recreation and where F 13 1 I and secret service men in disguise often attempted to see it the men were talkative relative military affairs all proved strictly faithful to their trusts southeastern utah gets publicity norman of mexican hat san juan county utah Is declared by nell al dark clark saturday evening post writer in the may issue to be the worlds no I 1 fast water man saying a lot in behalf of this utah boatman whose fast water rapid shooting record cannot be equaled As every boy in utah knows or should know norman spends ills his summers taking tourists down the san juan colorado river trip of some miles and so popular are proving the trips that reservations must be made months in advance those who have made the voyage do de claro it to be ba a highlight of a lifetime anyway normans river expeditions are proving a huge success and he la Is putting san an juan county on the map the saturday evening posts article on norman certainly pul pui san juan in the public eye for or the a article is accompanied by be seven vea photos in natural color of little known southeastern er n attractions utah dragons in demand according to the latest information received from the smithsonian institute they would like a couple of the fossilized year old utah dragons they are sending dr 0 L gazin paleontologist to search out the confines 0 of dragon canyon in emery county where just lefore before the war fossilized bones of the queer creatures which sported long claws were found the bones were in such excellent condition it was said that the institution hopes dr gazin will be able to find a couple of ancient lizards so well preserved that they could be removed to the eastern museum the prehistoric dragons were chums of the last of the dinosaurs and were horrible looking fellows in appearance to scientists they are known as dons dragon canyon where dr azia will make his search is located at the bottom of joes valley or the south branch of straight canyon |