NTS News (Volume X, No. 10 - 05/26/67) Canak Studies Furthered - Public Meeting on Gasbuggy - Bids Out for Gasbuggy Hole

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NTS News Nevada Test Site Electrical & Engineering Co. , Inc . May 26, 1967 Mercury,Nevada Z ion Nat ional Park in Sout hern Utah, fa v or ite summertime rec reat ion spot for NTS families . See page 5. P hotograph by Doc Co lyerBEST AVAILABLE COPYBEST AVAILABLE COPY

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Canal Studies Furthered Scotch No Spree Two representatives of the Republi c of P anama will visit Las Vegas on May 22 and 23 for briefings miss ion ' s Plowshare Program and a to ur of peaceful nuclear explos iv es locations at the Nevada Test Site. The visitors are Dr. Sim on Quiros, Panamanian re pres entati ve to the Atlantic-Pacific Interoceanic Canal Studies, and Dr. Francisco Morales, P anamanian mem ber of the two-man Comm ission for implementing the agre eme nt betw een the Un i ted States and Panama cove ri ng on-site s ur veys in Panama. They will be given information on the AEC' s Plowshare P rogram fo r peace ful applications of nuc lear exp losives, parti cular ly the nuclear excavation program in relation to th e feasi bility of excavating a sea-leve l canal with nuclear explosives. One of several possible routes being studi es for a sea-level c anal by the Stud y Comm issi on is Route 17 part of that Comm issi on ' s ove rall eng ineering feasibility studies, the AEC is conducting nuclear safety feasibility studies, including onsite s ur veys . During their Nevada Test Site vis it on Tuesday, the visitors will view the 1, 280-foot wide Sedan Crate r produced by the first PlowMe rcvry ,N e vodo Publ ished eve ry other Friday by Re ynolds Electr ical & Eng ineering Co ., Inc ., for the personnel of the Atom ic Energy C om• mission ' s Nevada Test Site . Editor: Goy Kauffman Photography : Doc Colye r, Jerry Duncan share P rogram nuclear excavation expe riment and a reas whe re othe r nuc lear and conve nti onal explosive earth-moving expe ri ments have be en cond uct ed . Brie fin g sessions on Monday will be held at the Nevada Operati ons Office in Las Vegas and at the Southwestern Radiological Health Laboratory o n the Nevada Southern Unive rsity campus . Representatives of the AEC ' s Di vision of Peacefu l Nuc lear Explosives, the Nevada Ope rations Office, the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, which has primary technical responsibility for the Plowshare Progr am, the Nuclear Crate ring Group of the Corps of Hea lth Service will discuss nuclear excavat ion technology, engineering characteristics of nuclear cratering, nuclear ope rations and safety progra ms as related to excavat ion of a sea-l evel canal by nuclear ex - felt in Beatty eight seconds after Scotch was detonated at Pahute Mesa May 23. Windows in the E xc hange Club vibrated slightly, and a change Club build in g , which is 60 ye a rs old and cons truct ed of adobe, went out into the street before the 7 a.m. und ergroun d test. As with the Gre eley event last Decembe r, there was some apprehension that the building might not stand up to a shock. Again, the re was no damage and a short time after the blast the club was doing a bo oming business. NTS employees in the com muter buses heard the countdown fo r the intermediate yield test on the radi os in the vehicles. Las Vegas stations KORK and KLA V carried reports by Di xon Stewart from the CP . The wires a l ong the road were seen to swing, but the passeng ers in the moving vehicles felt nothing . Public Meeting on Gasbugg y Proj ect Gasbuggy officials held a public meeting in Farmington, New Mexico , on May 25, at the Elks Lodge to explain the natural gas production stimulation expe ri ment and the related safety program . All inte rested pers ons we re invit ed to attend the meeting, which inc lud ed a qu es tion and answer period and a 30-minute color motion picture on und ergrou nd nuc !ear testing. The joint industry-G ove rnment experiment - which calls for detonation of a 20-ki lot on nuclear explos iv e 4200 feet unde rground in the Pictur ed Cliffs F ormati on of the San Juan Basin - will dete rmine if s uch explosions can inc rease natural gas production by fractu ring the fo rmation in which the gas is tightly t rapped. Proj ect Gas buggy is a cooperative ve ntur e of El Paso Natu ral Gas Company, the Department of the Int erior, and the Atomic Energy Com missi on . Project Manager James E . Reeves, NVOO manager, discuss ed the AEC's expe ri ence in co nducting more than 200 underground nuclear detonations and the public safety pr ecautions that will be take n for Gas buggy. Darr ell Canfield, El Paso Natural Gas Com pany Site Coordinato r for Project Gasbuggy, told about the gene ral purpose of the ex pe riment, and his co mpany's role in t he project. Wade War kins, Director of Petroleum Research of the Depart me nt of Int e rior ' s Bureau of Mines, spoke on the potential uses of nuclear fract uri ng and his agency's role in Gas buggy .

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Arnie L y nn Cunn i ngham rece iv ed the REECa - NSU scho lar sh i p in NSU's Dr. Ben Owen, d i recto r of Student Personnel Serv ice s ; Arni e and Crockett. The first annual REEC o-NSU 3cholarship was awarded to Arnie Lynn Cunningham, daughter of Myrtle and Eldon Cunningham. Already enrolled at Nevada Southern, 4\rnie plans to major in social science with emphasis on courses leading to a possible career i n psyc hology or writin g. group established six ye ars ago . She was a membe r and liason officer of the National Hon or Soci ety and a forme r vice president of the Junior Honor Society. Her main outside interest is s how ing and riding her quarter horses, and she has won mor e t han 200 trophie s in nat i onal, state-w id e and intermo un tain Her fathe r has b een with RE E Co sin ce 1952 as an electrical superintendent and is presently on "loan " Arnie ' s mot her works in the RE EC o personnel department. Her brothe r Mike grad uated from Cal Tec h and is TOP AEC APPOI NTMENTS In annou nc ing maj or orga nizational changes in the operating and regulato ry sta ffs of the AEC conce rnin g international and domestic nuclear safeguards, Chair man Gl enn T. Seabor g named Br igadi er Gene ral Delmar L. Crowson as Dir ector of the Office of Safeguards and Materials Management. Gene ral Crowso n, who F or ce, has be en Dir ect or of the Brigadier General Edward B. Gill er, u. S. Air For ce, succeeds Gene ral Crows on as direct or of the AEC Di vision. At the time of hi s app ointment, General Giller wa s Director of Science and T echnol ogy in t he Office of t he Deputy of Staff for Research and Development, Department of the Ai r F orce . As Di r ector of the Di vision of Military Applicati on, General Gill er' s duti es includ e directi on of programs of research, development, testi ng, production, storage, and readine ss as sur anc e of nuclear weapons; maintaining liaison between the AEC and the Department of D efense on nuclear weapons matter, and administering AEC activities under internati onal agr eements fo r cooperation inv olving nuclear weapons. In his new respo nsibility , Genera l Crowson will repor t administrativ ely t o the AEC general manager and will have direct responsibilit y to the C ommission fo r advice and cou nsel on safeguards matters. He will make peri odic reports on the status of the safeguard s program, both domest i cally is fo r a total of $1000 distributed over the four-year period . Each year a graduating high school senior will be awarded a scholarship . The only requirements are that a parent has worked at REEC o for at least one year and that the student can meet the ent rance requireme nts of the Universi ty . Th e NSU Scholars hip Committee makes the selection on the basis of academic ac com plis hme nt and leadership contributions to sc hool and community. BIDS OUT FOR GASBUGGY HOLE Graduating May 29 from Weste rn High School, she maintained a 3.6 grade point average out of a possibl e 4.0. Arnie was part of an accelerated The AEC's Nevada Ope rations Office has announ ced that bids on the Project Gas bu ggy emplacement hole contr act will be ope n May 25 . T he work will co nsist of fu rnishing all personnel, equipment , materials and transportation f or drilling a 28-inc h minimum diameter hol e to a total depth of 435 0 f eet and installin g 20-inch outside diameter casing t o Work under the contract is ex - pected to start June 7. The ex - pe riment is expected to take place in Octobe r or Nov embe r. 3BEST AVAILABLE COPYBEST AVAILABLE COPY

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Opening of the AEC's fifth annuol Vehicle Safety Check week was noteworthy for the dign itaries, beauty and w i ll ing worke rs attend i ng. Back row from left : Joe Delaney , moderator of the " Open L ine" rad i o program ; Howard H i ll, assistant managing director of the Nevada Safety Council ; Otto H. Roehlk, ch ief of the NTSSO Safety Branch and pres ident of the Nevada Safe t y Counc i l; L ieutenant Governor Ed Fike; Miss Rodeo Helldorado, L inda Lee Brown ; Mayor Oran Gragson ; James E. Reeves, manager AEC Nevada Operations ; Hal Wyr ick of REECo Safety, the Check Lane cha irman ; Les McClendon of REECo, Safety Lane captain; and Assemblyman Aust in Bowler. Front row from left : H. E. Kendrick of NTSSO Safety Branch , the Safety Check cha irman; and Donald Johnson , Walte r Johnson , Jack Mutnick, and Joe Davis, al l of REECo, who checked the Cars coming through the lane set up at NVOO headquarters in Las Vegas . Good plann ing and preparation made Veh icle Safety Check Week successful. Taking part in a preliminary meeting at Mercury were , from the left, Hal Wyrick, representative of the Auto Industry Highway Safety Committee wh i ch sponsors the nat ional vehicle check program , used by NVOO and its assoc i ated federal agencies and contract ors were inspected in t he annual V ehi cle Safety Check at NTS and Las Vegas May 15- 19. T he fre e safety c hecks we re offered also to employees and the ge neral public, and the res ponse kept t he Check L ane worke rs bus y . sai d that the an nual check revealed many mi nor, but i mportant , safety defects . T he chec k cove red br akes, lights, t urn signals . steering . tir es, exhaust system , gla ss, windshi eld wipe rs and washers , rea rview mirrors, horns and saf ety belt s.

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SURE SIGN THAT THE WEATHER WOULD WARM UP SOMETIME was the cleaning and fill ing of the Merc ury swimming pool. It was still cold in early Moy when the swimming pool was scrubbed and san itized and ready for use; then a ll at on c e the weathe r turned hot. Cliff Wr ight of REECo's NTS Recreat i on staff , man ages the pool and he d irect ed the clean ing oper at ion. The REECo -NTS F ire Deportment gave v ita l help in pumping out the pool and fi l ling it when repa irs to the pump for the pool couldn't be mode in time for the opening deadl ine . Now, the summer swimming program is in full swing at the poo l which is one of the best in Nevada. About the cover The tiny Virgin River and its tri bu taries are responsi ble fo r cutting most of scenic Zi on Canyon. Several pages of the earth ' s past histo ry are spread open because the Rio Virgin has incised its way into se diment s and rem oved thousan ds of tons of the material from atop the naked walls. P ersistantly, the river attacks st rata in more recent pages of Southern utah ' s geological story and Zion Canyon moves slowly northward as the "eternal hills " are worn away. Th e P iute Indians called this an arrow quiver." There is ev idence they rai sed corn in the canyon , and the ir ancient trails to the rim can still be seen . The first wh ite man to see the canyon was a Mormon looking fo r sites for settle rs in 1858. He related s uch glowing accounts of the scenic wond ers that the canyon became fi rs t settle r arrived in 1863 and he me aning a place of rest and sec urity. T o him this ca nyon was a special have n, with great temples of stone towe rin g above hi s farm on all sides. On one of his journ eys to the upriver towns , Brigha m Young visited the canyon. Some accounts say the road was so rough he didn't e nj oy th e sce nery; others explai n that he was told that some of the inhabitan ts cultivated tobacco . At any rat e , he called the place " Not Zi on, " and fo r years his more faithful adhe rants But it is truly "Zion" again to the many T es t Site families who spe nd long wee kends or entire vacation periods at the campgrounds besid e Rio Virgin. Afte rac omparatively short 180-mile drive from Las Vegas, they find a haven fo r relaxation. Eve n after many trips, they find stunning new vistas and interesting new trails . 5BEST AVAILABLE COPYBEST AVAILABLE COPY

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Mrs. Wi ll ia m R. Ada ir be a ms s at is fact ion a t th e 30-yeo r ser vi ceawa rd prese nt e d Adair Honor e d fo r 30-Y ea r Fe der al Se rv i ce William …