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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1957
Page
8
Atomic test at Nevada site produced an exceptionally bright daylight flash that was reported as powerful enough to blow doors from their hinges. Officials described the explosion as the brightest test in recent memory.
Albert Heys watched as Stan Lindberg performed 60 foot dives into a water tank at the Halstead village fair. The act involved a dangerous detonation test from a height, going wrong and resulting in the diver being killed as a plastic ball touched off multiple explosions high above the desert floor in Nevada.
Police responded to a complaint in a residential area about a man attempting to steal a tire from a jeep. He claimed he was called to change tires by the owner. Officers examined the tire, found it had ample tread, and arrested Thurston M. Durham of Oklahoma City on a vagrancy charge. Ark City buildings hit by dynamite blast. A public school auditorium gym and the Ranney-Davis Mercantile Co offices were damaged. 160 panes shattered. motive not yet determined.
A fragmentary report describes a mutiny aiding escape after a blast near Angel's Peak, with witnesses noting a bright fireball and a double mushroom cloud. Fallout readings are expected light at distances toward Utah, while reports of structural damage near the test site surface. In a separate incident, an elderly woman died and three were injured in a two-car collision north of Corydon, with authorities blaming rear-end impact and noting injuries to Dale Bower and others.
Members of the group that included a woman and two children said they were being sailed under guard to work on a Communist military project near Hong Kong. They seized control of the motor junk and sailed it to Hong Kong.
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