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Big Fourth of July blast set at Tuttle Creek Dam
Manhattan Kansas AP reports a large TNT charge will divert the Blue River into Tuttle Creek Dam on July 4 for the first time, with a simulated atomic bomb burst. Gov Docking will trigger the blast, drawing thousands to the dam site five miles north of Manhattan for a major ceremony led by Maj Gen Itschner.
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Manhattan
Kas
Tuttle Creek
Blue River
George Docking
Ft. Riley
Kansas
E. C. Itschner
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
Turtle Creek
Andrew F. Schoeppel
Frank Carlson
William H. Avery
Corps of Engineers
Midwest
Jack Goldstein
Manhattan Arrangements Committee
Big Blue River