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KAFB DAILY BULLETIN jCOLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM DOCUMENTARY: Three members of the Columbia ] Broadcasting System visited the U. S. Air Force Directorate of Nuclear Safety, a tenant unit at Kirtland, Wednesday (16 March) to obtain information and shoot film relating to a forth coming television documentary about the recent accident in Spain. The national documentary will be shown locally over Channel 13, KGGM-TV, on Tuesday, 22 March, at 2100. The CBS) | personnel, received,.a briefing from Col W. E. Gernert, Director of Nuclear Safety for the Air Force. He presented the Air Force Nuclear Safety precautionary measures which prevent I unintended nuclear detonations. fn Wake of Air Mishap Over Spain, S. Nuclear Headache Is ■headache that began for the ■United States two months ago, land a jet tanker collided and (crashed, has finally eased. The last major pain was rellieved with finding of the Other aches from the trag- (radioactivity by the bursting ling damage claims by Span iards affected by this con- (ucts of the crash, and ruffled (Spaniards were exposed to I dangers of the nuclear age. Maj. Gen. Delmar Wilson, (Air Force in Spain, and his I Spanish counterpart, Air Force (Gen. Antonio Montel, tried to 1 apply common sense to the I Spanish residents of this Icdastal area have praisedthe ments for their handling of the “terrible thing which could have been many times The ' people of Palbmares and nearby communities with Sunday in a community gath ering—and a concert by the 16th Air Force Band based near Madrid—to observe the virtual closedown of the search camp here. Gen. Wilson said the last should be completed by this| Tedinicians of both t h el ergy commissions have con-J firmed that no trace of radio-| activity remains in the area( One unit will remain be-| phased out. This is a claims| office, established in a build-| ing outside the camp zone.I filled with radioactive earth cras“' and vegetation skimmed from contaminated areas. These are being put onto a U. S. freighter for transfer to the wanted nuclear materials Ferried to Ship The drums, once f ill e d, Refuse to Say Officials refused to say how] many claims were received] or the likely total cost. An official Air Force inves-| tigation into the accident it-| were both welded and bandedhave gone t0 headquarter. It is known that the crash, (in which 7 of the 11 crew-L 1 Eight more V..S. airmen (crashed into a mountain peak, (miss i o n for the, nuclear